Question

1. A basket contains three types of fruits weighing 58/6 kg in all. If 73/4 kg of these be apples,19/6kg be oranges and the rest pears, what is the weight of the pears in the basket?​

Answer 1

Answer:

well the question is a bit wrong

if it is 58/6 we will get weight of pears in minus and weight cannot be in negative

so the total weight must be 58/3

Step-by-step explanation:

let weight of pears be x

total weight of fruits = sum of weight of all fruits

58/3 = 73/4 + 19/6 + x

58/3 - 19/6 = 73/4 + x          (subtracting 19/6 from both sides)

97/6 - 73/4 = x                     ( subtracting 73/4 from both the sides)

97*2/12 - 73*3/12 = x

( finding LCM 12 and multiplying numerator by respective numbers)

194 - 146 / 12 = x

48/12 kg = x

4 kg = x

hence weight of pears in the basket is 4kg