Mike made a fruit basket of the total fruit 5 were apples 5/8 were bananas and 1/4 were oranges, how many pieces of fruit did mike use?

5 7/8

Step-by-step explanation: 5 + 5/8 + 1/4= 5 7/8

in problems involving proportions, we can use cross products to test whether two ratios are equal and form a proportion. to find the cross products of a proportion, we multiply the outer terms, called the extremes, and the middle terms, called the means.

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