Question

A truck can carry either 48 gunny bags or 36 drums of oil.how many gunny bags can the truck carry with 12 oil drums?

Answer 1

let weight of
one gun bag =m
one oil drum=M
48gun bag weight equal to 36 oil drums
48m=36M..............(1)
let truck can carry x gun bags with 12 drums so
12M+xm=36M
( net weight must be either eq to 48 bags or 36 drums)
xm=24M..........(2)
divide 2 by 1 and get the ans x=32