Engineering Students Outing
A number engineering students hopeful decided to have an excursion after their licensure examination. They hired a boat for $56. But for some reasons, two of them were not able to join the excursion, so the share of each remaining in the group increased by $3.20. How many were in the original group?
The answer is 7.
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1 solution
lets take total persons = x
original cost on each person =y
so y=56/x
2 persons exits the camp so total persons know are = x-2
56/(x-2)=Y+3.20
on solving the two equations X= 7 or -5
X cant be negative so X=7