Question

A basket contains four types of fruits weighing 20 kg in all. If 19/4 kg of these are apples, 37/6 kg are oranges, 27/5 pears and the rest are papayas. What is the weight of the papayas in the basket?

Answer 1

given that total weight of the basket =20 kg
which is the total weight of the apples,orange,pears and pappaya
to get the weight of the pappaya
weight of pappaya =total weight of the basket -weight of other fruits
= 20-(19/4+37/6+27/5)
=20-(19*6+37*4/6*4 +27/5)
= 20-(262/24+27/5)
=20-(262*5+24*7/5*24)
=20-(1478/120)
= 20-(12.33)
=7.67 kg

=$\frac{461}{60}$ kg