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A fruit salad is made up of cantaloupe, strawberries, and bananas. If a salad weighing 40 ounces contains three ounces of bananas for every ounce of strawberr
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A fruit salad is made up of cantaloupe, strawberries, and bananas. If a salad weighing 40 ounces contains three ounces of bananas for every ounce of strawberries and has the same number of ounces of cantaloupe as strawberries, how many ounces of bananas are in the salad? Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! = ounces of cantaloupe in salad = ounces of strawberry in salad = ounces of banana in salad
given:
and
rewriting the 1st equation: oz
and oz
and, since
There are 24 ounces of bananas in the salad
check:
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