There are 100 wine glasses. I offered my servant to 3 paise for every broken glass to be delivered safely and forfeit 9 paisa for every glass broken. At the end of day. He received rs 2.40. How many glass did he break.
option
a) 20
b) 73
c) 5
d) 8

• 100 wine glasses so,3*100=300.if a glass is broken then 9paisa is deducted + he will also not get the 3paisa he was getting for safe delivery so in total he will loss 9+3=12paisa for 1glass broken. he gets 240paisa i.e. 60paisa loss so,total no. of glass = 60/12 = 5.(ans)
• 11 years agoHelpfull: Yes(103) No(1)
• Let the no. of broken glasses be x,
  Now,as per ques,in paisa
  3*(100-x)-9*x=240
  =>x=5
  therefore,no.of broken glasses=5
• 11 years agoHelpfull: Yes(29) No(5)
• if broken=x
  unbroken=100-x
  so, 3(100-x)-9x=240
  x=5
• 11 years agoHelpfull: Yes(17) No(0)
• let no.of glasses safely reached are x and broken are y so 3x-9y=240
  and we know x+y=100
  by solving we get y=5 so 5 are broken
• 11 years agoHelpfull: Yes(13) No(0)
• Ans is 5
  If he broken 5 glass means he should pay=Rs.0.45 paisa(5*9paisa)
  then remaining are he delivered safely:(100-5)=95 for every glass he receive 3paisa so he got Rs.2.85
  then he final earn=2.85-0.45=2.40
• 11 years agoHelpfull: Yes(3) No(0)
• Thanks rudra happy to help....
• 11 years agoHelpfull: Yes(2) No(0)
• total glass 100.
  95(delivered safely)*3 = 285 paisa(he got)
  5(broken)*9(paisa)=45 paisa(he gave)
  so! 285-45=240 paisa he received.
  ans:5
  so! ans:5.
• 11 years agoHelpfull: Yes(1) No(0)
• @Avisek Well done!!!
• 11 years agoHelpfull: Yes(0) No(0)
• let k be the wine bottle which he delivered safely.so, 100-k will be the wine bottle which is broken.
  so,as he is getting 3 paise for each wine bottle and 9 paise has been deducted for each broken bottle.
  3*k-9*(100-k)=240
  k=95.so,no of broken bottle will be (100-k)=5
• 4 years agoHelpfull: Yes(0) No(0)