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One year payment to the servant is Rs. 200 plus one shirt.

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One year payment to the servant is Rs. 200 plus one shirt. [#permalink] New post   21 Nov 2003, 14:21
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One year payment to the servant is Rs. 200 plus one shirt. The servant leaves after 9 months and recieves Rs. 120 and a shirt. Then find the price of the shirt.

(1) Rs. 80 (2) Rs. 100
(3) Rs. 120 (4) Cannot be determined



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Re: One year payment to the servant is Rs. 200 plus one shirt. [#permalink] New post   21 Nov 2003, 14:29
now this is like:

a bear falls down from the pole of height 5m in 1 sec. what's the color of the bear?

shubhangi, there must a solution, but I couldn't get it :wink:
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Re: One year payment to the servant is Rs. 200 plus one shirt. [#permalink] New post   21 Nov 2003, 14:38
Price of the shirt = 120?

Good question... well, if the answer isn't "cannot be determined"! :-D
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Re: One year payment to the servant is Rs. 200 plus one shirt. [#permalink] New post   21 Nov 2003, 14:44
I'm so sick of wonder_gmat and shubhangi fighting!!!
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Re: One year payment to the servant is Rs. 200 plus one shirt. [#permalink] New post   21 Nov 2003, 14:50
One year payment to the servant is Rs. 200 plus one shirt. The servant leaves after 9 months and recieves Rs. 120 and a shirt. Then find the price of the shirt.

.75(200+x)=120+x
150+.75x=120+x
30=.25x
x=120.

Foreign currency, and servants to boot!
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Re: One year payment to the servant is Rs. 200 plus one shirt. [#permalink] New post   21 Nov 2003, 14:57
ahhh..! this question made me look upside down.. may be I am boged-down b/c of the busy friday.
or, may be bear didn't jump off the pole :wink:

anyways, good one...easy but good..!
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Re: One year payment to the servant is Rs. 200 plus one shirt. [#permalink] New post   21 Nov 2003, 15:11
Answer is 120.. and i guess..stoolfi's method was quite easy and understandable.....
wonder_gmat.....try to give your way of solving the problem ..so that others can get diff/easy way of solutions.
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Re: One year payment to the servant is Rs. 200 plus one shirt. [#permalink] New post   21 Nov 2003, 18:00
How I did it:

Monthly salary should turn out to be the same in both cases otherwise we'd be fleecing the servant! :shock: So let's be fair and do the following:
x = price of the shirt

(200 + x) / 12 = (120 + x) / 9
600 + 3x = 480 + 4x
x = 120

Fair and square. No decimals, no long calculations. I think the hardest part is to acknowledge that fact that monthly salary would be the same in both cases and price of the shirt should be included when counting for the annual salary.


stoolfi,
Yea, I'm sick of that dude wonder_gmat and shubhangi fighting too. But you know on the second thought I think they're just talking. But thanks for the concern for fellow members! :lol:
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Re: One year payment to the servant is Rs. 200 plus one shirt. [#permalink] New post   21 Nov 2003, 18:01
shubhangi wrote:
Answer is 120.. and i guess..stoolfi's method was quite easy and understandable.....
wonder_gmat.....try to give your way of solving the problem ..so that others can get diff/easy way of solutions.

I don't show my calculation when I happen to be one of the first ones to answer because I want to give other a chance to work on their own. Buf you guys want the calculation then sure I'll post it. ...well unless I'm in hurry yet eager to post the answer first! :-D 8-)
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Re: One year payment to the servant is Rs. 200 plus one shirt. [#permalink] New post   22 Nov 2003, 15:57
Hey, wonder_gmat,

I was being sarcastic. The internet, as everyone knows, does not do sarcasm very well...
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Re: One year payment to the servant is Rs. 200 plus one shirt. [#permalink] New post   22 Nov 2003, 16:00
wonder_gmat,

On another reading, perhaps you, too, were being sarcastic. Aww, crap.

From the Simpsons:
Teen1: Oh, here comes that cannonball guy. He's cool.
Teen2: Are you being sarcastic, dude?
Teen1: I don't even know anymore.
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Re: One year payment to the servant is Rs. 200 plus one shirt. [#permalink] New post   25 Nov 2003, 05:50
I used a proportion:

1/0.75=(200+S)/(120+S)
S=120



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