Given:
35% of your fruit is sold and you have 280 left
Let the total of fruit = x
35% of x = 0.35x
so, left of the fruit =
[tex]x-0.35x=0.65x[/tex]Given the left of fruit = 280
so, we have the equation:
[tex]0.65x=280[/tex]Divide both sides by (0.65):
[tex]x=\frac{280}{0.65}=430.77[/tex]so, the answer will be the start with fruit = 430.77
