Pearl Sales

It's actually really simple.

• Take the number of pears sold in the morning as $x$

• So, the number of pears sold in the afternoon will be 2 $x$ (since it is said that "twice as many")

• Now, as we know the total number of pears sold (360), we can form a linear equation: $x$ +2 $x$ =360

=> 3 $x$ =360

=> $x$ = $\frac{360}{3}$

=> $x$ =120

Now we can easily find out the numbers of pears:

In the morning = $x$ = 120

In the afternoon = 2 $x$ = 120 x 2 = 240

Hope this helped!

It’s simple. Let the pearls sold in morning be $x$ . Then, the pearls sold in afternoon will be $2x$

$\begin{aligned}x + 2x &= 360 \\ 3x &=360 \\ x &= \boxed{120} \end{aligned}$

Thus he sold 120 pearls in the morning and 240 in the afternoon

You can solve using linear equations, but only $\boxed{120}$ and $\boxed{240}$ add up to $\boxed{360}$ . :)

I am not adding an explanation, but I want to see who can. :)