Question

Apples are to be transferred from larger baskets to smaller baskets. When a larger box is emptied, the apples from it fill three smaller baskets and still, $16apples$ remain outside. If the number of apples in a small basket is taken to be $x$, what is the number of apples in the larger basket?

Answer 1

Number of apples in a small basket is taken to be $x$

Number of apples in 3 small baskets is $$\begin{gathered} =(3\times x) \\ =3x \end{gathered}$$

Number of apples remain $=16$

Hence total number of apples in larger basket $=(3x+16)$