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Fabulous Fruit

Solution

Mr. Madison picked 80 pieces of fruit on Thursday.

Explanation

Step 1

Find out how many trees of each kind he had.

14	fruit trees in all
1	apricot tree
− 1	pear tree
12	trees left, including apple, peach, and plum

The apple, peach and plum trees are evenly divided, so:
12 ÷ 3 = 4
There are 4 apple trees.
There are 4 peach trees.
There are 4 plum trees.

Step 2

Use the clues to figure out how many pieces of fruit he picked from each tree.

Kind of tree	Number of trees	How many pieces of fruit he picked from each tree	Number sentence to show how many pieces of fruit he picked	How many in all
Apricot	1	0
Pear	1	4
Apple	4	6
Peach	4	3
Plum	4	10
Total	14

Step 3

Write a number sentence to show how many pieces of fruit he picked.

Multiply.

Kind of tree	Number of trees	How many pieces of fruit he picked from each tree	Number sentence to show how many pieces of fruit he picked	How many in all
Apricot	1	0	1 tree x 0 apricot = 0	0
Pear	1	4	1 tree x 4 pears = 4 pears	4
Apple	4	6	4 trees x 6 apples = 24 apples	24
Peach	4	3	4 trees x 3 peaches = 12 peaches	12
Plum	4	10	4 trees x 10 plums = 40 plums	40
Total	14			80

Step 4

Add the number of fruit of each kind to see how many pieces of fruit he picked in all.

This is another way to set up the chart.

	Apricot	Pear	Apple	Peach	Plum	Total
How many trees	1	1	4	4	4	does not matter
How many fruits	0	4	6	3	10	does not matter
Multiply: trees x fruit	1 x 0   0	1 x 4   4	4 x 6   24	4 x 3   12	4 x 10   40	does not matter
Total of each kind of fruit	0	4	24	12	40	80

Add.

0

4

24

12

+ 40

80

Solve.

Mr. Madison picked 80 pieces of fruit on Thursday.