I got a calendar with a new mensa puzzle each day - today's puzzle:
Samik owns 35 t-shirts whose colours are red, black & white.
He has 3 times as many black t-shirts as white t-shirts
The number of red t-shirts he owns is five greater than the number of white t-shirts
How many t-shirts of each colour does Samik have ??
4 comments:
Oh I'm sorry ... were you waiting for one of us to answer that?
I was waiting for you ...
:)
I did work it out - will share the answer if you ask.
I'm finding that I do better at the math related problems than the language ones
Asking.
But I want to know HOW you figured it out. I'm never sure where to start with those ones.
black shirts represented by B
red shirts represented by R
white shirts represented by W
B + R + W = 35
there are 3 times more B than W so
B = 3W
there are 5 more R than there is W so
R = W+5
so 3W + W + 5 + W = 35
5W + 5 = 35
5W = 35 - 5
W = 6
so there are
18 red
11 black
6 white
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