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Algebra Level 3

Tom saves 10% more than his expenditure and Jerry spends 10% more than her savings. If Tom's savings is 10% more than Jerry's expenditure. What is the ratio of the total incomes of Tom and Jerry?

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1 solution

Sandeep Bhardwaj
Aug 24, 2015

Let's take the following assumptions to simplify the problem:

Tom's savings=x and Tom's total income=X

Jerry's expenditure=y and Jerry's total income=Y

Now according to the problem, Tom saves 10% more than his expenditure. Mathematically, ( X x ) + ( X x ) × 10 % = y ( X x ) 11 10 = x X = 21 x 11 (X-x)+(X-x) \times 10 \text{\%}=y \Rightarrow \dfrac{(X-x)11}{10}=x \Rightarrow X=\dfrac{21x}{11} ---(1)

And Jerry spends 10% more than his savings. So mathematically,

( Y y ) + ( Y y ) × 10 % = y ( Y y ) 11 10 = y Y = 21 y 11 (Y-y)+(Y-y) \times 10 \text{\%}=y \Rightarrow \dfrac{(Y-y)11}{10}=y \Rightarrow Y=\dfrac{21y}{11} ---(2)

And also given that Tom's savings is 10% more than Jerry's expenditure. So,

y + y × 10 % = x 11 y 10 = x x y = 11 10 y+y \times 10 \text{\%}=x \Rightarrow \dfrac{11y}{10}=x \Rightarrow \dfrac xy=\dfrac{11}{10} ---(3)

Now lets enter into the simplifying part : :-

Dividing (1) by (2) we get

X Y = ( 21 x 11 ) ( 21 y 11 ) = x y \dfrac XY=\dfrac{ \left( \dfrac{21x}{11} \right) }{\left( \dfrac{21y}{11} \right) }=\dfrac{x}{y}

From the equation (3), we can substitute the value of x y \dfrac xy into the above equation and we will get

X Y = 11 10 \dfrac XY=\dfrac{11}{10}

Hence the ratio of the total incomes of Tom and Jerry is 11 : 10. 11:10 .\square

enjoy!

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Simple standard approach.

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