Wednesday, October 12, 2016

P4 maths!

18 students in a party. Each boy eats 5 sweets and each girl eats 3 sweets. In total, boys eat 42 more sweets than girls. How many more boys are in the party?
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  1. Eric HoOctober 12, 2016 at 1:09 PM

    Solution:

    Let x be the sweets-student unit.

    48x = 144 (18*8)
    x=3

    Boy has 2 more sweets. So 3*2=6.

    There are 6 more boys than girls.

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