Word Problems 1
Problem 1 : Rs 49 were divided among 150 children, each girl has 50 pasisas and each boy 25 pasas. How many boys were there?
a) 100 b) 104 c) 50 d) 70
Solution:
We first convert amount in rupees to paisas. Since there are 100 paisas in 1 Re, so ;
Each boy gets 25 paisas and each girl gets 50 paisas. Now let’s suppose there are ‘x’ boys and ‘y’ girls – so, total children are x+y which is equale to 150 (given);
Data can be arranged as;
so, we can get two equations from there;
Total paisas;
Total children
Multiply eq 2 by 50 from both sides, we get;
subtracting eq (1) from (3)
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So, there were 104 boys