SOLUTION: Bonjour. I need some help on this please. An apple orchid is selling baskets of MAcintosh And Red apples. The orchid has 8 times as many baskets of Macintosh as Red. The oechid

Question 118150: Bonjour. I need some help on this please.
An apple orchid is selling baskets of MAcintosh And Red apples. The orchid has 8 times as many baskets of Macintosh as Red. The oechid has a total of 153 baskets . How many type of baskets of each type are there.?
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
M - Macintosh apple baskets
R - Red apple baskets
Total number of baskets
Macintosh baskets equals 8 times Red baskets

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136 Macintosh baskets, 17 red baskets.
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