SOLUTION: There are 66 days food available in camp
of 5700 soldiers.If 20 soldiers are killed in
each day,the food will be sufficient
for how many days.
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Question 685061: There are 66 days food available in camp
of 5700 soldiers.If 20 soldiers are killed in
each day,the food will be sufficient
for how many days. Answer by ankor@dixie-net.com(22740) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! There are 66 days food available in camp of 5700 soldiers.
If 20 soldiers are killed in each day, the food will be sufficient for how many days?
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Find the number of man-food days available
5700 * 66 = 376,200 man-food days
let d = no. of days until food runs out in this situation
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d(5700-20d) = 376200
5700d - 20d^2 = 376200
A quadratic equation
-20d^2 + 5700d - 376200 = 0
Simplify, divide by -20
d^2 - 285d + 18810 = 0
solve this equation with the quadratic formula
d ~ 104 days
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