SOLUTION: The five tyres of a car(4 road tyres and the spare) were each used equally on a car which had travelled 20000 km. The number of kms of use of each tyre was? a. 4000 b. 5000 c.

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Question 949805: The five tyres of a car(4 road tyres and the spare) were each used equally on a car which had travelled 20000 km. The number of kms of use of each tyre was?
a. 4000
b. 5000
c. 16000
d. 20000
Answer by macston(5194) About Me  (Show Source):
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Using 4 tires at a time over 20000km there were 4 tires*20000km=80000 "tire-km"
Spreading this over 5 tires, 80000 tire-km/5 tires=16000 km ANSWER Each tire was used for 16000 km. Answer C is correct.