Question

On a School's Annual Day sweets were to be equally
distributed amongst 112 children. But on that particular day, 32 children were absent. Thus the remaining children got 6 extra sweets. How many sweets was each child originally supposed to get?

Answer 1

is this fine?

Answer 2

An order was placed for supply of carpet of breadth 3 metres, and the length of the carpet was 1.44 times of breadth. Subsequently the breadth and length were increased by 25 and 40 per cent respectively. At the rate of Rs 45 per square metre, what would be the increase in the cost of the carpet?