Question

Tanay and Vihaan together have 50 sweets. Both of them ate up 5 sweets
each, and the product of the number of sweets they now have is 351.
We need to find out how many sweets each of them had to start with?
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Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation:

let Tanay have (x) sweets in the beginning. and Vihaan have (y) sweets.

since they both ate up 5 sweets each, x+y = 40

now, the product of number of sweets is 351

factors of 351

x 1 3 9 27

y 351 117 39 13

x = 27 and y = 13 after they ate up

originally they had 32 and 18 sweets.