Charity or Party? (Posted on 2003-03-23)

	Submitted by Ravi Raja
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Given, 5 Writers spent as much as 4 Doctors, 12 Doctors spent as much as 9 Dentists and 6 Dentists spent as much as 8 Bank Employees. From this information, we can find the proportion in which each of them spent their part of money, thus giving us the following relation: Writers : Doctors : Dentists : Bank Employees = 5 : 4 : 3 : 4 Also, it is given that 25 Writers, 20 Doctors, 18 Dentists and 12 Bank Employees together contribute Rupees 1330. Now, from the above relations, we can easily calculate that: 20 Doctors = 25 Writers, 18 Dentists = 30 Writers and 12 Bank Employees = 15 Writers. Thus giving us the following: The amount paid by each Writer = 14 Rupees. Therefore, the total amount paid by 25 Writers = (14 x 25) = 350 Rupees and from here we can calculate the remaining figures that are required. Thus, we have the following conclusion: The Writers spent Rupees 350, the Doctors also spent Rupees 350, the Dentists spent Rupees 420 and the Bank Employees spent Rupees 210. Thus they spent altogether Rupees 1330.

	Subject	Author	Date
	puzzle solution	K Sengupta	2007-11-29 04:51:01
	re(2): Q	RandyOrton	2004-11-23 16:33:49
	re: Q	Fernando	2003-03-26 14:17:43
	Q	silvis	2003-03-26 14:01:03
	re: solution	Charlie	2003-03-24 05:28:52
	No Subject	DJ	2003-03-23 10:33:16
	solution	Charlie	2003-03-23 06:07:48