He recipe for a batch of applesauce uses 2 and one-half pounds of apples. If Michael wants to make Three-fourths of a batch of applesauce, how many pounds of apples will he need?

Given :

Recipe for a batch of applesauce uses 2 and one-half pounds of apples.

To Find :

The amount of apples needed to make three-fourths of a batch of applesauce.

Solution :

1 batch applesauce uses 2.5 pounds of apple .

Let , x be the amount of apple required to prepare of a batch of applesauce.

So ,

Therefore, apple required is 1.875 pounds.

Hence, this is the required solution.

answer

d. 10

explanation

the distance from point y to wx is the height of the triangle.

using pythagoras theorem,

group similar terms to get,

this implies that,

take positive square root of both sides to get,

this implies that,