SOLUTION: a certain number of chocolates were distributed among the children of a school.but on that particular day,50 students were absent.thus,each child got 1 extra choclate .how many cho

Question 979848: a certain number of chocolates were distributed among the children of a school.but on that particular day,50 students were absent.thus,each child got 1 extra choclate .how many chocolates did each child get,if the actual strength of the school was 700
Found 2 solutions by josgarithmetic, MathTherapy:
Answer by josgarithmetic(39618) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
x, the number of Xocolots
Planned ratio of chocolates per student was .

Fifty students were absent so 650 students received the equally distributed x chocolates, so this was a ratio of chocolates per student.

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The ratio of chocolates per student with the absence of those 50 students was the planned ratio plus 1.

Review all of that carefully before solving for x, the number of available chocolates.
Answer by MathTherapy(10552) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

a certain number of chocolates were distributed among the children of a school.but on that particular day,50 students were absent.thus,each child got 1 extra choclate .how many chocolates did each child get,if the actual strength of the school was 700

Number of chocolate received by the 650 students:
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