SOLUTION: Each fruit basket comes with A apple, P pears, and B bananas. Wendi orders four fruit baskets and gets 84 pieces of fruit. Write an equation that represents this order. I have tri

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Question 997590: Each fruit basket comes with A apple, P pears, and B bananas. Wendi orders four fruit baskets and gets 84 pieces of fruit. Write an equation that represents this order.
I have tried many things but they never work could you please help me understand this better.

Answer by fractalier(6550) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Well if one basket has all three fruits, then it can be expressed as
A + P + B
Four baskets would be
4(A + P + B)=84