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Two ants, Arthur and Amy, have discovered a picnic and are b [#permalink]
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17 Aug 2013, 09:20
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Two ants, Arthur and Amy, have discovered a picnic and are bringing crumbs back to the anthill. Amy makes twice as many trips and carries one and a half times as many crumbs per trip as Arthur. If Arthur carries a total of x crumbs to the anthill, how many crumbs will Amy bring to the anthill, in terms of x?
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17 Aug 2013, 09:57
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Stiv wrote:
Two ants, Arthur and Amy, have discovered a picnic and are bringing crumbs back to the anthill. Amy makes twice as many trips and carries one and a half times as many crumbs per trip as Arthur. If Arthur carries a total of x crumbs to the anthill, how many crumbs will Amy bring to the anthill, in terms of x? A x/2 B x C 3x/2 D 2x E 3x
LETARTHUR total trip = \(T\) and number of crumbs per trip = \(C\) Therefore total crumbs =\(C*T\) ..which is given equal to \(X\) So \(CT = X\)
now AMY makes twice trips therefore = \(2T\)....CRUMBS per trip = \(1.5\) times arthurs = \(1.5C\) therefore total crumbs = \(1.5C*2T = 3CT\)
now \(CT = X\)there fore \(3CT = 3X\)
THEREFORE number of crumbs Amy will bring to the anthill = \(3X\)
hence = E _________________
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17 Aug 2013, 10:15
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Stiv wrote:
Two ants, Arthur and Amy, have discovered a picnic and are bringing crumbs back to the anthill. Amy makes twice as many trips and carries one and a half times as many crumbs per trip as Arthur. If Arthur carries a total of x crumbs to the anthill, how many crumbs will Amy bring to the anthill, in terms of x? A x/2 B x C 3x/2 D 2x E 3x
Amy..................................Arthur 2p........................................ p = Trips 3/2 c ................................... c = crumbs
Now, Arthur , pc = x so, Amy , 2p × 3/2 c =3pc = 3x
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Re: Two ants, Arthur and Amy, have discovered a picnic and are b [#permalink]
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25 Sep 2013, 11:22
Stiv wrote:
Two ants, Arthur and Amy, have discovered a picnic and are bringing crumbs back to the anthill. Amy makes twice as many trips and carries one and a half times as many crumbs per trip as Arthur. If Arthur carries a total of x crumbs to the anthill, how many crumbs will Amy bring to the anthill, in terms of x? A x/2 B x C 3x/2 D 2x E 3x
Lets do it by picking up numbers. Let Arthur carry 2 crumbs per trip, this means Amy carries 3 crumbs per trip. Also let Arthur make 2 trips and so Amy makes 4 trips.
Thus total crumbs carried by Arthur (x) = 2 x 2 = 4, total crumbs carried by Amy = 3 x 4 = 12. 12 is 3 times 4, so E
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23 Aug 2015, 11:52
HOW DO YOU KNOW than Amy returns back to make a second trip? Nothing in the problem makes you decide this.
What is given is that Amy will reach the anthouse when Arthur will still be halfway and she will be sitting still there waiting for the poor Arthur and having brought just exactly 1,5x, because she cannot carry more and she is not going back to picknick site.
Either crumbs are out or Amy is too tired to make a second trip.
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