Question

Aruna cut a cake into two halves and cuts one half into smaller pieces of equal size. Each of the small pieces is twenty grams in weight. If she has seven pieces of the cake in all with her, how heavy was the original cake ?
1) 240 gm
2) 220 gm
3) 225 gm
4) 250 gm

Answer 1

1) 240 gm.
If she has 7 pieces totally, it means that one of those pieces is the uncut half, and the other half is cut into 6 pieces. Each of those 6 pieces has a weight of 20 gm which totally weighs 6*20= 120gm. If one half is 120 gm, then so is the other. Therefore the total weight of the cake is 120*2= 240 gm.
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