Question

In a family, the father took 1/4 of the cake and he had 3 times as much as each of the other members had. The total number of family members is
A. 3 B. 7
C. 10 D. 12

Answer 1

@Tally5667

Answer 2

@electrokid

Answer 3

How please say.

Answer 4

Let there be x members other than the father.
Father has 1/4 th share of the cake so, remaining 3/4 cake is with the x members, it's equally divided between them so each has \(\frac{3}{4x}\) cake, do you get this ?

Answer 5

ya something like this.

Answer 6

And hey I can now solve it :) Thanks anyways

Answer 7

Great :)