Three friends divided some bullets equally. After all of
them shot 4 bullets the total number of bullets remaining is
equal to the bullets each had after division. Find the
original number divided.
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Answer / guest
18
Assume that initial there were 3*X bullets.
So they got X bullets each after division.
All of them shot 4 bullets. So now they have (X - 4) bullets
each.
But it is given that,after they shot 4 bullets each, total
number of bullets remaining is equal to the bullets each had
after division i.e. X
Therefore, the equation is
3 * (X - 4) = X
3 * X - 12 = X
2 * X = 12
X = 6
Therefore the total bullets before division is = 3 * X = 18
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Answer / cincy
I'm confused by this part of the above equation:
3 * X - 12 = X
2 * X = 12
How does the three magically become a two?
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Answer / karthikeya subburaj
Ans is 18.
Let assume original no. of bullets be x.
x - 3(4) = x/3
3x-36=x
2x=36
x=18.
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