Question

After selling one third of his apple crop, a farmer sold the remainder at the same price per bushel for $600. What is the value of the crop?

Answer 1

300. if you sold a third. then 2/3 would be left. you can then infer each is 300

Answer 2

$900.

Explanation:

Let x represent value of bushels of apples.

We have been that after selling one third of his apple crop, a farmer sold the remainder at the same price per bushel for $600.

Since farmer had sold 1/3 of apples, so amount of left apples would be 2/3.

We can represent this information in an equation as:

`(2)/(3)x=600`

Let us solve for x.

`(3)/(2)*(2)/(3)x=(3)/(2)*600`

`x=3*300`

`x=900`

Therefore, the value of the crop is $900.