SOLUTION: Some children are sharing oranges among themselves.If each gets 9 orange, no orange will be left. If each gets 6, then 18 will be left over. How many children are there?
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Question 648723: Some children are sharing oranges among themselves.If each gets 9 orange, no orange will be left. If each gets 6, then 18 will be left over. How many children are there? Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! It isn't stated exactly, but there must be a fixed
number of oranges that are being shared.
Let = the number of children
With each one getting 9 oranges, there are oranges in all.
and If each child gets 6 oranges, there are oranges in all.
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In both cases, the number of oranges hasn't
changed, so
There are 6 children
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check:
If each gets 9 oranges, that is
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If each gets 6 with 18 left over, that is
OK
