Saturday, February 12, 2011

How much did I Purchase

It costs Rs 1.75 to buy a Candy and Rs 2.00 to buy Toffee. I bought 10 of them all together and the total cost was Rs 18.50. How many candies and toffee's did I buy?

2 comments:

  1. Long Cut
    X+Y=10(number of items)
    Also
    1.75x+2.00y=18.50(cost of each toffee and candy)

    Where x=candy's and y= number of toffee's

    Solve these x=6 so y=10-6=4 becoz (x+y=10)
    Involves much calculation See next Post for Short Cut.

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  2. Shortcut

    If I had bought 10 toffees it would have cost me Rs 20.00 in total. Since 10 × Rs 2.00 = Rs 20.00.

    I only spent Rs 18.50 and therefore spent Rs 1.50 less. Each candy is Rs 0.25 less than toffee.

    Therefore I need to adjust my difference with difference of them

    So I bought 6 candies since Rs 1.50/Rs 0.25 = 6

    Therefore the other 4 items were toffees.
    So I bought 4 toffees and 6 candies.

    You can check it
    6*1.75+4*2.00=Rs 18.50

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