Question

Each member of a picnic party contributed twice as many rupees as the total number of members and the total collection was ₹3042. The number of members present in the party was??

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Answer 1

let the no. of people be x,
so they contributed
2x+ 2x.........=(2x)x
2x
$2 {x}^{2} = 3042 \\ x = \sqrt{1521} = 39$