SOLUTION: A gentleman was going into garden for walking, saw some young ladies and greeted them, Good morning to you ten young ladies’
‘uncle, you have mistaken’ answered one of them ‘we a
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‘uncle, you have mistaken’ answered one of them ‘we a
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Question 983815: A gentleman was going into garden for walking, saw some young ladies and greeted them, Good morning to you ten young ladies’
‘uncle, you have mistaken’ answered one of them ‘we are not 10, but if we were twice as many more as we are, we should be as many above 10 as we are now under’.
How many were they?
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x=number of young ladies
3x="twice as many more as we are"
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10-x=3x-10
20=4x
5=x
ANSWER: There are five young ladies.
