Aptitude - At the fair i bought 6 pineapples and 2 jackfruits for rs.15.if i could have bought 4 more pineapple

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At the fair i bought 6 pineapples and 2 jackfruits for rs.15.if i could have bought 4 more pineapples for rs.14 than jackfruits for rs.9.what would be the price of eax\ch?
can any one give da approach for this?

pineapple cost rs.1.75,
jackfruit costs rs.2.25

Total Answers and Comments: 3

Last Update: July 11, 2006 Asked by: sarayu

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April 22, 2006 03:16:42

rajat panwar

RE: At the fair i bought 6 pineapples and 2 jackfruits...

let

pineapples x

jackfruits y

6x+2y 15...............(1)

10x+2y 23..............(2)

now solving these two we get

x(pineapples) 50 paise

y(jackfruits) Rs.3

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April 27, 2006 10:22:14

Arun

RE: At the fair i bought 6 pineapples and 2 jackfruits...

each pineapple costs 2Rs and each jackfruit costs 1.50Rs

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July 10, 2006 16:54:57

Ravindra

RE: At the fair i bought 6 pineapples and 2 jackfruits...

Hi The correct solution is

6x+2y 15-------------(1)

14/x-9/y 4-----------(2)

by solving these 2 equations we get the right answer.

All the best bye.

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