The fruit basket

The fruit basket is five times heavier than the empty basket. Filled is 20kg heavier than empty. Determine the weight of the fruit in the basket.

Correct result:

o =  20 kg

Solution:

k+o=5k k+o=20+k  o=20=20 kg

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