Matthew made a fruit salad, in which the ratio of blueberries to red grapes is 8:6. If Matthew used 36 red grapes and the rest were blueberries. How many pieces of fruit are in Matthew's fruit salad? Please add an explanation, thank you :D

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Step-by-step explanation:

84

Step-by-step explanation:

Given : Matthew made a fruit salad, in which the ratio of blueberries to red grapes is 8:6.

It can be written as (1)

Matthew used 36 red grapes and the rest were blueberries.

Let x be the number of blueberries.

Then, the ratio of blueberries to red grapes = (2)

Now, from (1) and (2)

Number of blueberries =48

the number of pieces of fruit are in Matthew’s fruit salad 48+36=84

Hence, number of pieces of fruit are in Matthew’s fruit salad= 8