A shopping cart contains only apples, oranges, and pears. If there are four 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?  Options.
A) 1/2  B) 1/4  C) 1/8  D) 1/16  E) 1/32
O = 4A   P = 4O = 16A   A = P/16   The answer is 1/16.
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A shopping cart contains only apples, oranges, and pears. If there are four 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?