On a school’s Annual day sweets were to be equally distributed amongst 112 children. But on that particular day, 32 children were absent. Thus the remaining children got 6 extra sweets. How many sweets was each child originally supposed to get?

Options
(1) 24
(2) 18
(3) 15
(4) Cannot be determined

• Optn 3
  32 chidrn r absent so 112-32=80
  So,dey mentn dat bcz of absent children get 6 extra. Den
  80*6= 480
  By distributing 480 sweets equally to 32 we can find easily
  
  480/32= 15
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• x/112 = (x/(112-32))+6
  x=1680
  1680/112=15
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• number of sweets originally=112*x
  32 were absent ,numbers of students =80
  they got 6 extra sweets ,number of sweets=80*(x+6)
  112x=80x+480
  x=15
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