What is the son's share.
Jim bequeathed his share of money equally amongst all his sons. Each son received exactly dollar 50000. Jim had an equal number of daughters as well whom he forgot to include while calculating his son's share of his wealth.Jim now recalculated and found out that each of his children would receive x dollars each. What is the value of x
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1 solution
Let n be the number of sons.
So total amount that Jim has = 50000 * n.
Let the new amount per child be equal to x. As he has an equal number of daughters , total number of children = 2n Therefore 2n * x = 50000 *n implies that x = 25,000.
So each child now gets USD 25,000.