SOLUTION: A fruit seller had 2520 apples and oranges. There were 2/3 as many apples as oranges. He threw some rotten apples away and the ratio of apples to oranges became 1:4. How many rotte

Question 1197782: A fruit seller had 2520 apples and oranges. There were 2/3 as many apples as oranges. He threw some rotten apples away and the ratio of apples to oranges became 1:4. How many rotten apple did he throw away?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39613) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

----apples
-
----oranges

He threw some rotten apples...
now p:r is 1:4.

He threw out some x number of rotten apples:
---------------solve this for x.
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