At a market, a vendor has a basket of apples, bananas, and cherries. If the ratio of apples to bananas is 3:2 and cherries double the total number of bananas, how many bananas are there if there are 30 apples?
Category: Math · Difficulty: expert
Hint: Use the ratio to calculate the number of bananas directly from the number of apples.
Answer
20
Explanation
If 30 apples correspond to 3 parts, then each part is 10, meaning there are 20 bananas (2 parts).
This is a expert math riddle — one of the harder riddles here. The answer is 20.
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