My friend Andrew was throwing a very grand party and wanted to borrow from me 100 wine glasses. I wanted to send them through my neighbour’s servant Harry.

Just to give an incentive to Harry to deliver the glasses intact I offered him 30 paise for every glass delivered safely and threatened to forefeit 90 paise for every glass he broke. On settlement, Harry received 24 Rupees from me.

How many glasses did Harry break ?

( Given: 1 Rupee = 100 Paise )

but  andrew wanted 100 glasses, he did not care how they got there
so harry had to deliver 100 glasses, of which he BROKE 20
of the 120+ glasses you had

Posted by Steve Royer on 2004-04-05 02:28:35