Disha's mother orders N boxes of sweets for christmas. Each box contains 10 sweets. In one of the boxes, all the sweets are found to be spoilt. Also s sweets are found crushed in the remaining boxes and cannot be offered to guests. How many sweets can Disha's mother give two her guests.
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A sweet manufacturer has decided to design some gift boxes for a new kind of sweet.
Each box is to contain 36 sweets placed in lines in a single layer in a geometric shape without gaps or fillers.
How many different shaped boxes can you design?
The sweets come in 4 colours, 9 of each colour.
Arrange the sweets so that no sweets of the same colour are adjacent to (that is 'next to') each other in any direction. In the picture below, none of the squares marked x can have a red sweet in them.
Arrange the sweets in some of the boxes you have drawn.
Now try making boxes of 36 sweets in 2, 3 or 4 layers.
Can you arrange the sweets, 9 each of 4 colours, so that none of the same colour are on top of each other as well as not adjacent to each other in any direction?
See if you can invent a good way of showing your arrangement.
Try different numbers of sweets such as 24 or 60 in each box.
Answer:
Disha's mother orders N boxes of sweets for christmas. Each box contains 10 sweets. In one of the boxes, all the sweets are found to be spoilt. Also s sweets are found crushed in the remaining boxes and cannot be offered to guests. How many sweets can Disha's mother give two her guests.
Step-by-step explanation:
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