Ian picked 5 times as many strawberries as michelle. joe picked 7 times as many strawberries as michelle. ian and joe picked a total of 192 strawberries. how many strawberries did joe pick?

Joe picked 112 strawberries

Step-by-step explanation:

If Ian picked 5 times as many strawberries as Michelle, and Joe picked 7 times as many as Michelle.  Together, Ian and Joe picked a total 192 strawberries.

If we want to find out how many strawberries Joe picked, we need to work with the proportions we are given.

Let's denote Michelle's strawberries as x

Ian picked five times that many: 5x

Joe picked 7 times that many: 7x

Ian and Joe together picked 192 strawberries

192 = 5x + 7x              combine like terms

192 = 12x                     divide both sides by 12 to isolate x

x = 16

If Joe's strawberries are represented by 7x and x is 16 strawberries, then

7 (16) = Joe's strawberries

Joe picked 112 strawberries

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