document.write( "Question 854218: Loretta picks apples for her grandfather to make apple cider. She brings him her cart with 420 apples. Her grandfather smile at her and says, \"Thank you Loretta. That is 35% of the apples that we need.\" Use mental math to find how may apples Loretta's grandfather needs. Describe your method. \n" ); document.write( "
Algebra.Com's Answer #514514 by josgarithmetic(39628)\"\" \"About 
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Doing this yourself, maybe with values other than I might use, would be much, much, much better than blindly using what I show here.\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "420 apples being only 35% of what the grandfather needs, if n is how much apples \"needed\", then this makes a proportion:\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "\"420%2Fn=35%2F100\"
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\n" ); document.write( "\"n%2F420=100%2F35\"
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\n" ); document.write( "You want to apply some factor, approximately \"100%2F35\", to the 420, in order to estimate a better quantity of needed apples. what easy and near factor is this? You might have a feeling that \"100%2F35\" is about 3. Maybe do \"420%2A3\" IN YOUR HEAD.
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