Question

16.) A school organised an essay competition and decided that a winner in the competition would get a prize
of 1000 and a participant who does not win would get a prize of 200. The total prize money distributed
is 16000. Find the number of winners, if the total number of participants is 40.​

Answer 1

The number of winners are 10.

Basically, let,

x = Winners

y = Losers

We can form two equations from the question,

x + y = 40 and,

1000x + 200y = 16000

On solving the above equations,

We get, x = 10 and y = 30

Since x = 10 is the required value,

Therefore, number of winners = 10.