SOLUTION: The organisers of an essay competition decide that a winner in the competition gets a prize of $100 and a participant who does not win gets a prize a $25. The total prize money dis

Question 1040470: The organisers of an essay competition decide that a winner in the competition gets a prize of $100 and a participant who does not win gets a prize a $25. The total prize money distributed is $3000. Find the number of winners , if the total number of participants is 63.
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let = the number of winners
= the number of non-winners
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given:

and

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There are 19 winners
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check:

OK
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