SOLUTION: Mary spent 0.7 of her money on 15 mangoes and 5 oranges, if each orange cost half as much as a mango, how many oranges could she buy with the rest of her money?

Question 1186268: Mary spent 0.7 of her money on 15 mangoes
and 5 oranges, if each orange cost half as much
as a mango, how many oranges could she buy
with the rest of her money?
Found 2 solutions by ikleyn, josgarithmetic:
Answer by ikleyn(52797) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Mary spent 0.7 of her money on 15 mangoes and 5 oranges,
if each orange cost half as much as a mango,
how many oranges could she buy with the rest of her money?
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According to the condition, each mango costs as much as two oranges. THEREFORE, 15 mango and 5 oranges cost as much as 2*15 + 5 = 30 + 5 = 35 oranges. HENCE, each orange costs = 0.02 of the total Mary's money. On the rest of her money she can buy = = 15 oranges. ANSWER. On the rest of her money Mary can buy 15 oranges.

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Answer by josgarithmetic(39618) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Mary spent 0.7 of her money on 15 mangoes
and 5 oranges, if each orange cost half as much
as a mango, how many oranges could she buy
with the rest of her money?
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M amount of money
n, price of 1 Orange
2n, price of 1 mango

------------price of 1 orange
--------------price for 1 mango
--------------amount of money Mary has after the first described purchase.

The question:
Amount of oranges she can buy using the remaining 0.3M of money:

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