If a basket is capable of holding 40 fruit altogether, and there are 3 times as many apples as oranges, how many oranges are there?
Since the ratio of apples to oranges is 3:1, that means for every 3 apples there is 1 orange. The size of this group is therefore 3+1=
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We then divide this group size into the total amount of fruit the basket is holding at this time, which is 40. This means there are 40/4=
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10 of these groups in total.
Since there are 10 of these groups in total, that means there are 10*1=
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10 oranges in the basket.

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