A box had twice as many grapes as a basket. Once 2 kg of grapes were added to the basket, it contained 0.5 kg more than the box. How many kilograms of grapes are in the basket now?

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Kailey Jackson

Mathematics

5 June, 13:59

A box had twice as many grapes as a basket. Once 2 kg of grapes were added to the basket, it contained 0.5 kg more than the box. How many kilograms of grapes are in the basket now?

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Alan Ponce · Answer 1

Let us suppose that the number of grapes in the box is x and the number of grapes in the basket is y.

It means that the weight of the grapes in the box is x kg and that of basket is y kg.

It has been given that the box had twice as many grapes as a basket. Therefore, we have

Now when we add 2 kg to the basket then the weight of the basket is y+2 and the weight of box will remain same.

Now, we have been given that after 2 kilograms were added to the basket it contained 0.5 kilograms more than the box. Hence, we have

Substituting the value x=2y in the equation, we get

Therefore, the basket contains 1.5 kilograms of grapes.

Sarge · Answer 2

there are now 3.5 kilograms of grapes in the basket (the mystery number is 1.5)