SOLUTION: Last year, after Ariel, Ollie and Eden went trick or treating, they combined all their candy together and sorted it. They found that 1/3 was chocolate candy, 1/4 was hard candy, 1/

Question 999366: Last year, after Ariel, Ollie and Eden went trick or treating, they combined all their candy together and sorted it. They found that 1/3 was chocolate candy, 1/4 was hard candy, 1/5 was candy corn and the rest were fruit chews. If they had a 180 pieces of candy total, how many pieces were fruit chews?
Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Last year, after Ariel, Ollie and Eden went trick or treating, they combined all their candy together and sorted it. They found that 1/3 was chocolate candy, 1/4 was hard candy, 1/5 was candy corn and the rest were fruit chews. If they had a 180 pieces of candy total, how many pieces were fruit chews?
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Find the fractional quantity of fruit chews::
1-(1/3 + 1/4 + 1/5) = 1 - (20 + 15 + 12)/60 = 1-(47/60) = 13/60
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Find the # of pieces of fruit chews::
Ans: (13/60)180 = 3*13 = 39 pieces of fruit chews
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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