Math problem .

Question

Carlos owns an orchard. His apple trees produced 315 bushels of apples. Each bushel of apples weighs about 48 pounds. There are about 3 apples in each pound. About how many apples did Carlos’ apple tree produce?

Answer 1

When looking to solve this problem, you want to chunk it into two steps. The end goal of the problem is to find how many TOTAL apples Carlos' apple tree produced.

Step 1: Find how many apples are in each bushel...

There are 3 apples in 1 pound, and there are 48 pounds in 1 bushel. Solve this by writing the equation as:

3 x 48. Then solve using multiplication. The answer for step 1 is 144 apples in each bushel. BUT HANG ON! We are not done yet!

Step 2: Find how many apples are in 315 bushels...

We just found out how many apples are in 1 bushel: 144. Now we want to multiply 144 apples by 315 bushels. Set up your equation like this and multiply: 144 x 315. Now solve for the total amount of apples!

Answer: 45,360 Apples

Work showed-

Step 1: 3 x 48 = 144

Step 2: 144 x 315 = 45,360

Answer 2

315 bushes * 48 pounds/bushel * 3 apples/pound = 45,360 apples