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Numbers which leave a remainder of 4 when divided by 7 are 4, 11, 18, 25, 32, 39, 46, 53, ...
Only 39 leaves a remainder of 3 when divided by 4.
So, Joshua bought 39 kg of apples.
In our case, the quotients are 5 and 9 respectively, so this does not work.
Because if we were to use algebra, we get this
Eq 1 gives (x - 3) / 4 = whole number
Eq 2 gives (x - 4) / 7 = whole number
Both of which are probably not the same number, so you cannot equate them together.
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