A farmer sells 8.7 kilograms of apples and pears at the farmer's market. 3/5 of this weight is apples, and the rest is pears. How many kilograms of pears did she sell at the farmer's market?

Where P represent the kilograms of pears for this case and if we solve for P we got:

And we can check that the total sum is 8.7:

So then the final answer would be 3.48 Kg of pears

Step-by-step explanation:

For this case we know that the total amount sold was 8.7 Kg. And we know in addition that 3/5 of this weight is from apples. So then the rest correspong to pears.

We can set up the following equation:

Where P represent the kilograms of pears for this case and if we solve for P we got:

And we can check that the total sum is 8.7:

So then the final answer would be 3.48 Kg of pears

answer: first option i.e. 'a' is correct.

step-by-step explanation:

since we have given that

number of minutes to wrap a small gift box = 4 minutes

we need to find the number of gifts to be wrapped in 5 minutes

since there is a direct variation, as the number of minutes will increase with   number of gifts to be wrapped.

so, let the number of gifts to be wrapped in 5 minutes be x.

so, it becomes,

hence, first option 'a'   is correct.