A Complete Different Question

[makayla420]

okay well i have a complete different question can someone help me???
Okay the question is: A shop sells apples at 1.00$ each. Each of these apples are wrapped in a special wrapper. you can trade three of these wrappers for one apple?
If you have 15$ how many apples can you get altogether?

 

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You can reason out the answer by purchasing the apples and spending the wrappers in your mind. Use paper and pencil to keep track of the numbers.

If you spend the entire $15, how many wrappers do you get?

Now spend those wrappers. How many free apples do you get?

The wrappers from the free apples can also be spent. How many additional free apples do you get?

If you organize these numbers on your paper, it will be easy to add up all of the apples that you got.

If you're still stuck after trying, please explain what you did or why you're confused. Cheers :cool: