Question

A grocery store sells pre-cut fruit. Bowls of one type of fruit are 4 dollars. Bowls of assorted fruit are 6 dollars. In one month, Benjamin paid 56 dollars for 12 bowls of fruit. How many assorted fruit bowls did he buy?

4

5

6

7

Answer 1

@SolomonZelman

Answer 2

I came up with 4

Answer 3

let the number of bowl of assorted fruits be s, and let the number of bowls of the other type of fruit (the one that is $4 for bowl) be f.

So,
` 4f+6s=56 `
` f+s=12 `