Lizzy: Chang's Garden has two kinds of apples. Sweet ones and sour ones. He can sell the sweet ones for $.5 an apple. The sour ones sell for $.1 an apple. 75% of the apples he gets are sweet and the rest are sour. If he earns $40, how many apples did his trees give him?.
Me: Hmmm, let me think. I think this is the detailed solution:
25% of the apples are sour because 100 - 75 = 25. The average price of an apple sold is $.4 because .75(.5) + .25(.1) = .4. He got 100 apples because 40 / .4 = 100. Final answer: 100.