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Sharing fruit and vegetables

This task is about equal sharing.
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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 Kūmara.
     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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