A person expends $240 in the purchase of wheat. If he had paid 20 cents a bushel less he could have obtained 100 bushels more for the same money. How many bushels did he buy?

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beststudent · Answer

@happyvirus Can you help me?

happyvirus · Answer

1200 bushels because 240 divided by .20 is 1200 so that's how many he could get out of the 240$

happyvirus · Answer

i hope that helped.

beststudent · Answer

@happyvirus What is that 100 bushels for?

happyvirus · Answer

the question is confusing by itself so it's hard to explain

happyvirus · Answer

I think it's additional information to confuse you, cause i didn't really need it to find the price.

mathmale · Answer

I disagree with that.  Obviously, if the price is lower, the person with $240 could buy more wheat.

Let x=prince of one bushel of wheat

mathmale · Answer

Then the number of bushels this person could buy for $240 would be $240/x.
In other words:  total price / (price per bushel) = number of bushels that could be purchased.

Now if the price were lower, this person could buy 100 more bushels.  Write this as 

$240/x + 100= $240/(x-20)

Determine whether or not you can solve this for x.  If you can, then x represents the price per bushel.

beststudent · Answer

But Im not trying to find the price of each bushel. Im trying to find how many bushels he can buy?