Help plss my math thinking are going away and plss explain:A fruit salad consists of blueberries, raspberries, grapes, and cherries. The fruit salad has a total of 280 pieces of fruit. There are twice as many raspberries as blueberries, three times as many grapes as cherries, and four times as many cherries as raspberries. How many cherries are there in the fruit salad?

40

Step-by-step explanation:

Let's call blueberries, raspberries, grapes and cherries b, r, g, and c respectively. We can write:

b + r + g + c = 280 (1)

r = 2b (2)

g = 3c (3)

c = 4r (4)

We can plug (2) into (1) to get b + 2b + g + c = 280. Then, we can re-write (4) into r = c / 4 and plug that into (2) which gets us c / 4 = 2b, and when we re-write that we get c = 8b (5). Let's plug that into (1) to get b + 2b + g + 8b = 280. Next, we'll re-write (3) to get g / 3 = c, and we can plug that into (5) to get g / 3 = 8b so then g = 24b and plug that into (1) to get b + 2b + 24b + 8b = 280 → 35b = 280 → b = 8. We can plug this into (5) to get c = 8 * 5 = 40. Hope this helps!