Monday, March 10, 2008

A confused bank teller transposed the dollars and cents when he cashed a check for Ms Smith, giving her dollars instead of cents and cents instead of dollars. After buying a newspaper for 50 cents, Ms Smith noticed that she had left exactly three times as much as the original check. What was the amount of the check? (Note: 1 dollar = 100 cents.)

4 comments:

  1. Amol Sir, how do we proceed for this one?

    Actually, I assumed original amount to be x dollars and y cents.
    And then got the equation as:

    100y+(x-50)=3(100x+y)

    Multiplied by 100 as 1 dollar equals to 100 cents. Then unable to procedd furthur :(.

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