The number of papayas is 4 times as many as the number of pineapples. After buying another 17 papayas and 50 pineapples, the number of papayas is the same as the number of pineapples. What is the number of papayas at first?
| |
Papayas |
Pineapples |
| Before |
4 u |
1 u |
| Change |
+ 17 |
+ 50 |
| After |
4 u + 17 |
1 u + 50 |
The number of papayas and pineapples is the same in the end.
4 u + 17 = 1 u + 50
4 u - 1 u = 50 - 17
3 u = 33
1 u = 33 ÷ 3 = 11
Number of papayas at first
= 4 u
= 4 x 11
= 44
Answer(s): 44
