The math club is baking pies for a bake sale. the fruit-pie recipe calls for twice as many peaches as nectarines. if it takes a total of 168 pieces of fruit for all pies, how many nectarines are needed?

56 number of  Nectarines are needed

Step-by-step explanation:

Let  number of Fruit-pie be x and  number of nectarines be y.

Since the fruit pie recipe calls for twice as many peaches as nectarines.

then we have,

It is also given that total of 168 pieces fruit for all pies.

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Substitute x=2y in above equation to solve for y:

  or

3y=168

Divide both sides by 3, we get

Simplify:

y = 56

Therefore, 56 nectarines are needed.

one that is bigger than 3 1/2

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