A Bowl of Fruit

Can you work out how many apples there are in this fruit bowl if you know what fraction there are?
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Problem



Here is a bowl of fruit.

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A Bowl of Fruit


Half of the pieces of fruit in the bowl are apples. There are also $3$ oranges, $2$ pears and a banana.

How many apples are there in the bowl?

If, instead, one quarter were apples and one quarter were oranges and there were also $4$ bananas, $3$ pears and $3$ plums how many would be apples?