Question

On her birthday,Ritu distributed ladoos to each child in orphanage. She gave 4 ladoos to each child and 16 ladoos to adults. Taking the number of children as x and ladoos distributed as Y (1) form a linear equation from the above statement (2) if she distributed 140 ladoos, how many children are there in orphanage

Answer 1

let the number of ladoos distributed to children be X
and the number of ladoos distributed to adults be y
X+Y=140
Y =16
X=140 -16
X=124
the number of children = 124/4= 31

Answer 2

Answer:

let the number of ladoos distributed to children be X and the number of ladoos distributed to adults X=140-16

be y

X+Y=140

Y =16

X=124

the number of children = 124/4= 31