On a school’s Annual day sweets were to be equally distributed amongst 112 children. But on that particular day, 32 children were absent. Thus the remaining children got 6 extra sweets. How many sweets was each child originally supposed to get ?
Let 'K' be the total number of sweets. Given total number of students = 112 If sweets are distributed among 112 children, Let number of sweets each student gets = 'L'
=> K/112 = L ....(1) But on that day students absent = 32 => remaining = 112 - 32 = 80 Then, each student gets '6' sweets extra.
=> K/80 = L + 6 ....(2) from (1) K = 112L substitute in (2), we get 112L = 80L + 480 32L = 480 L = 15
Therefore, 15 sweets were each student originally supposed to get.