Question

After harvest a company ships 100 bushels of apples to a grocery store and keeps the remaining up to make cider and desserts the remaining our previous 1/3 are used for Seiter 2/3 are used for desserts what does the expression 1/3 parentheses X -100 represent in this situation

Answer 1

Answer: the number of apples used for cider.

Explanation:

If 100 apples are shipped then out of an initial quantity X of apples, there are only left:

$x-100$

Out of this x-100 apples 1/3 are used for making cider, and 2/3 are used for desserts.

When we multiply 1/3 by (x-100) we will get the number of apples used for cider.

And when we multiply 2/3 by (x-100) we will get the number of apples used for desserts.

In this case we are asked for what does the following expression represent:

$\frac{1}{3}(x-100)$

This, for the reason previously stated, is the number of apples used for cider.