Question

Bridget, Jim and Krutika share some sweets in the ratio 4:3:1. Bridget gets 45 more sweets than Krutika. How many sweets are there altogether?

Answer 1

Answer:

we are sharing the sweets between some equ... ... ratio 4:5:7. Seth got 18 more sweets than Frank. ... 4 + 5 + 7 = 16, and so there are 16 boxes of sweets ...

Answer 2

Let the number of sweets Bridget got be 4x
Let the number of sweets Jim got be 3x
Let the number of sweets Krutika got be x

It is given that Bridget got 45 sweets more than Krutika
This implies that 4x = x + 45

On solving for x, we get x = 15

Therefore, total number of sweets is
= 4x + 3x + x
= 4*15 + 3*15 + 15
= 60 + 45 + 15
= 120