A chocolate shop owner announced a buy-back scheme which allows children to purchase a chocolate in exchange of five wrappers of chocolate. Tom consumed 77 chocolates in a month and decided to use the wrappers to buy back chocolates. How many chocolates Tom can buy using the scheme?
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Let the number of chocolates that can be eaten in total be x .
The number of chocolates that can be bought by wrappers is 5 x .
x = 5 x + 7 7
5 4 x = 7 7
5 x = 4 7 7
According to the question, we are looking for 5 x .
So,the number of chocolates that can be bought by wrappers is 19, upon taking the integer value of 4 7 7
Isn't it amazing!
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77 wrappers may be split into 15 packs of 5 wrappers, and 2 wrappers off-pack . Here, you will get 15 wrappers . Then, from the 15 wrappers, it may be split into 3 packs of 5 wrappers, which give you 3 more wrappers . 3 wrappers is not sufficient by its own, so you combine it with 2 wrappers off-pack to redeem one more chocolate . Therefore, you will get a total of 15+3+1 = 19 chocolates with that 77 wrappers.