Question

A woman bought a bag of oranges at the cost of 50 cents each and sold them at 60 cents each and made a profit of $3.05.If all the oranges were sold,calaulate the number of oranges

Answer 1

Answer:

a woman made a profit of 60-50= 10 cents from each orange she sold. first convert the profit into cents which is 305 cents. then divide the total profit by profit per orange.

305/10=30.5

therefore the no of oranges were 30.5