Question 57
Pankaj fires 6 shots, to Sameer's 2 but Pankaj can hit the balloon only once in 4 shots, while Sameer can hit the balloon once in 2 shots. When Sameer has missed 24 times, how many balloons were hit by Pankaj?
Solution
Sameer can hit the balloon once in 2 shots which implies that if Sameer shot the balloon 24 times, he must have fired 48 times.
If Sameer fired 48 times, then Pankaj fired $$\frac{6}{2}\times\ 48=144$$ times.
As Pankaj has a success rate of once for every 4 shots fired, the number of balloons hit by him are 144/4 = 36.
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