A salesman sold twice as much pears in the afternoon than in the morning. If he sold 360 kilograms of pears that day, how many kilograms did he sell in the morning and how many in the afternoon?
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A salesman sold twice as much pears in the afternoon than in the morning. If he sold 360 kilograms of pears that day, how many kilograms did he sell in the morning and how many in the afternoon?
Let the number of pears the salesman sold in the morning be
, since he sold twice of what he sold in the morning in the afternoon, the number of pears he sold in the afternoon is 
. And the total amount of pears he sold that day is 
.
Given that he sold 360 kilograms of pears that day, thus
.
Dividing both sides by 3 gives
.
Therefore, he sold 120 pears in the morning and
pears in the afternoon.