Sharing fruit and vegetables
This task is about equal sharing.
Mr Tetau sorted out the fruit he had picked. He had:
50 mandarins 20 lemons 38 oranges
He sorted them into 9 bags of mixed fruit. Each bag had the same number of fruit in it.
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a) How many pieces of fruit were in each bag?
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b) Mr Tetau shared all the 50 mandarins as evenly as he could between the 9 bags.
What was the greatest
whole
number of mandarins in a bag?
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c) Mr Tetau also had 60 potatoes and 28 KÅ«mara.
He divided these into 9 bags so each bag had an equal number of vegetables in them.
How many vegetables were left over?
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