Question

A truck carries apples grapes and blueberries in the ratio of 4:3:4.if the apples weight 160 pounds how much does the total truck weight

Answer 1

Let the number of Apples, Grapes and blueberries be 4x, 3x and 4x respectively.

Weight of 4x apples = 160 pounds

Weight of x Apples = 40 pounds

thus grapes = 3x = 120 pounds

blueberries = 4x = 160 pounds

truck weight =(160 + 120 + 160) pounds

= 440 pounds