Question

organisers of an essay competition decide that winner in the competition get a price of hundred rupees and a participant who does not win gets a price of 25 rupees a total prize money distribution is 3000 find the number of winners; if the total number of participants is 63. what is the answer of this question?

Answer 1

let the number of winners equals to X & total number of runners is equals to 63 - x and the sum of their price money of them equal to 3000 100(x) +25(63_x) =3000 & 100 x + 1575-25x=3000 & 75x =1425 = 19 the no.of winners =19