Three apples and twice as many oranges add up to one half the number of cherries in a fruit basket. how many cherries are there?

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vanessa
Feb 3, 2018

18 cherries.

Explanation:

If you have twice as many oranges as apples, the number of oranges is 6. 6 +3 is 9, which is the number of apples and oranges. If 9 is half the number of cherries in the basket, then multiply by 2. 2 x 9 = 18, so there are 18 cherries in the basket.

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