Elephant competitions are of great entertainment in south india.In one such competition held in cochin,200 elephants participated.Each elephant eas given equal amount of milk to drink for a certain time period.Whichever elephant could drink the maximum would be the winner.One of the elephants named Garru could drink 1/3 of the amount of milk offered.Another elephant named Marta could drink only 1/20 of the amount of milk offered,but it was better than Thorny which could drink 2/45 of the amount of milk offered.Amazingly Darru could drink 6 litres more than 1/4 of the amount of milk offered,where as Malar could drink 2/15 of the amount of milk offered.If the amount of milk left over by the elephants GARRU and Darru were same,then calculate the total amount of milk offered to each elephant.
a)73.00 litres
b)71.00 litres
c)12.00 litres
d)72.00 litres

• let total amt of milk = x lit
  garru milk = darru milk
  acc to condition
  x/3=x/4+6
  x/3-x/4=6
  x/12=6
  x=72
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• amount of milk left by Darru= x-(6+x/4)
  amount of milk left by Garru=x-x/3
  these 2 equations are equal accornding to question. therefore solving we get the answer is 72.00 litres. so option D is correct
  
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