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Question from Bronwen, a student: Tim sells 6 times as many oranges as apples. If he sell 490 in total one morning, how many of each type were sold? |
Hi Bronwen,
If you had all 490 pieces of fruit that Tim sold you could organize them in piles, each pile having 6 oranges and 1 apple. Each pile would then have 7 pieces of fruit. How many piles would you have? How many apples? How many oranges?
Penny
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