Instructions

Ghosh Babu has a certain amount of property consisting of cash, gold coins and silver bars. The cost of a gold coin is Rs. 4000 and the cost of a silver bar is Rs. 1000. Ghosh Babu distributed his property among his daughters equally. He gave to his eldest daughter gold coins worth 20% of the total property and Rs. 25000 in cash. The second daughter was given silver bars worth 20% of the remaining property and Rs. 50000 cash. Among the third and fourth daughters, he distributed the remaining gold and silver bars equally both together accounting each for 20% of the property remaining after the previous distribution. He also gave the third and fourth daughters Rs. 25000 more than what the second daughter had received in cash.

Question 31

If the ratio of the gold to silver bars that Ghosh Babu had is 7:27, the number of silver bars he has is

Solution

Let the number of gold bars be 7a and the number of silver bars be 27a.
The total value of the gold and silver bars is 500000 - 225000 = 275000
Therefore, 4000*7a + 1000*27a = 275000
Or, 55000a = 275000
Or, a = 5

Therefore the number of silver bars with Ghosh Babu is 27a = 135

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