SOLUTION: I can buy two apples for a banana and a peach of a banana. I have four apples. How many peaches equivalent to?

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Question 821788: I can buy two apples for a banana and a peach of a banana. I have four apples. How many peaches equivalent to?
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I can buy two apples for a banana
a = 2b
and
a peach for a banana.
p = b
:
I have four apples. How many peaches equivalent to?
4a = 8p
b = p, therefore
4a = 8b