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About 45 of every 300 apples picked at the Newbeen Apple Orchard are rotten. If 3560 apples were picked one week, about how many apples are rotten?

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  • 7 years ago

    45:300...this can be reduced by a factor of 15 to 3:20

    3:20

    x:3560

    20x = 10680

    x = 10680/20

    x = 534 rotten apples!

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