Tonya has 36 apples. She uses 30 apples and realizes that out of every 5 apples, 1 is infested with maggots. Simplify the fraction 30/5, and then add the remaining apples.

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Hey you, could you please help me??

Answer 1

Out of 5 apples 1 is infested, so out of 6 times as many apples (30 apples) 6 must be in infested.

We take 30 apples out of 36, leaving 6. One may be infested. So we could end up with 7 infested apples.

If we have 7 infested apples out of 36, we are left with 29 good apples out of 36: 24 from the batch of 30 and 5 from the remaining 6 apples.