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Maths Puzzle
A person bought a certain number of oranges for Rs. 70. If the price of each orange was Rs. 2 less, he would have bought 4 more oranges for the same amount. What is the number of oranges he bought originally?
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- answer=10
if no. of orange=n
1 orange @ x rs
nx=70.......(1)
nx-n(x-2)=4(x-2).....(2)
solving n=10 - 11 years agoHelpfull: Yes(2) No(0)
- let number of orange be x.
and price of each orange be n
then
nx=70.....(1)
and from question
nx-x(n-2)=4(n-2)...(2)
after solving equation 1 & 2 we get
number of orange i.e. x=10 - 11 years agoHelpfull: Yes(1) No(0)
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