A shopping cart contains only apples, oranges, and pears. If there are three times as many oranges as apples, and four times as many pears as oranges, then the apples are equivalent to what fraction of the pears?  Choose the correct option:
A) 1/6	B) 1/8	C) 1/12	D) 1/4	E) 3/4
O = 3A   P = 4O = 12A   A = P/12   The answer is 1/12.
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A shopping cart contains only apples, oranges, and pears. If there are three times as many oranges as apples, and four times as many pears as oranges, then the apples are equivalent to what fraction of the pears?