SOLUTION: Please Help with my Maths Problem,I cannot seem to understand. Mary lives in the middle of a large garden. One day she decides to cut as many flowers as her age in years. Then e

Question 567933: Please Help with my Maths Problem,I cannot seem to understand.
Mary lives in the middle of a large garden. One day she decides to cut as many flowers as her age in years. Then each day, she cuts as many flowers as the day before. On the fifth day, following the same rule, she prepares a huge bouquet that has many flowers as her grandma's age in years. Mary's grandma is 60 years older than Mary.
How many flowers as Mary cut altogether.
Please show all workings as Maths equation.
My work out:
Marys age is x
Day 1: we assumed she cut 2 flowers and multiplied it by two each day which gave us 62 and subtracted it by 60 to give her age 2.
Thank you.
Answer by mananth(16946) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
let mary's age be x years
On 5 days she cuts x flowers and makes a bouquet
she cut 5x flowers
5x = 60
/5
x= 12
Here age is 12 years
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