One batch of fruit salad has equal amount of which kinds of fruit? explain how you decided

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The batch of fruit salad has an equal amount of apples and cherries. This is because there are 1 1/2 c of apples and 1 2/4 c of cherries. the 1 1/2 is already simplified but the 1 2/4 is not. 1 2/4 is the same as 1 1/2, therefore apples and cherries have equal amounts.

in problems involving proportions, we can use cross products to test whether two ratios are equal and form a proportion. to find the cross products of a proportion, we multiply the outer terms, called the extremes, and the middle terms, called the means.

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