Question

there are 40 passengers in a bus some with rupees 3 tickets and remaining with rupees 10 tickets the total collection from the passengers is rupees 295 find how many passenger have tickets worth rupees3

Answer 1

let passengers with 10 rupees tickets be x

then passengers with 3 rupees tickets=40-x

total=295

so

   10x+3(40-x)=295

   10x+120-3x=295

   7x=175

   x=25

then passengers with 3 rupees tickets=40-25=15