Question

a local bus is carrying 40 passengers some with 50 paise tickets and remaining with rupees 1.50 tickets. if the total receipts from these passengers is rupees 32, find the number of passengers with 50 paise tickets.

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Answer 1

 Let the number of passengers with 50 Paise (0.5 Rupee) tickets be x. Then, number of passengers with 1.50 Rupee tickets would be (40 - x)  According to question, 0.5x + 1.5(40 - x) = 32 ⇒ 0.5x + 60 - 1.5x = 32 ⇒ -x + 60 = 32 ⇒ x = 28 ∴ Number of passengers with 50 Paise tickets is 28.

Answer 2

Answer:

the answer is 28 passengers have 50 paise ticket

here are the steps:

total no: of passengers=40

total amount=Rs 32 or 3200 paise

denominations                 no: of tickets             total amount

50 paise                                      x                             50x

Rs1.5 or 150paise                  40-x                         150(40-x)

 required equation

50x+150(40-x)=3200

50x+6000-150x=3200

-100x=3200-6000

-100x=-2800

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x=2800/100

x=28