SOLUTION: A house wife bought 8 tubers of yam and 29 measure of rice for 1200 naira another woman who paid the same unit price bought 4 tubers of yam and 30 measures for 1500 naira find the

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Question 1179682: A house wife bought 8 tubers of yam and 29 measure of rice for 1200 naira another woman who paid the same unit price bought 4 tubers of yam and 30 measures for 1500 naira find the cost of 1 tubers and 1 measure of rice
Found 4 solutions by josgarithmetic, mananth, ikleyn, MathTherapy:
Answer by josgarithmetic(39792)   (Show Source):
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y price for yam
r price for "measure" of rice

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y would be negative value.
Recheck original problem description.

Answer by mananth(16949)   (Show Source):
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wrong data pl check

Answer by ikleyn(53751)   (Show Source):
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A house wife bought 8 tubers of yam and 29 measure of rice for 1200 naira another woman who paid the same unit price
bought 4 tubers of yam and 30 measures for 1500 naira find the cost of 1 tubers and 1 measure of rice
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There is no solution in positive real numbers --- the posed problem is a FAKE.

Answer by MathTherapy(10806)   (Show Source):
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A house wife bought 8 tubers of yam and 29 measure of rice for 1200 naira another woman who paid the same unit price bought 4 tubers of yam and 30 measures for 1500 naira find the cost of 1 tubers and 1 measure of rice

It would be extremely fulfilling to find out how one of these persons got this ====> selecting simple, neat values and ,
when it's clear as DAYLIGHT that at least one of the values is NEGATIVE.
It would be nice to know where these people are getting these RIDICULOUSLY INCORRECT answers from.