Apples
Written on 1:36 am by Vja Students
Two boys sell apples. Each sells thirty apples a day. The first boy sells his apples at two for five rupees (and therefore earns Rs 75 per day). The second boy sells his apples at three for five rupees (and therefore earns Rs 50 per day). The total received by both boys each day is therefore Rs 125.
One day, the first boy is sick, and the second boy takes over his apple selling duties. To accommodate the differing rates, the boy sells the sixty apples at five for Rs 10. But selling sixty apples at five for Rs 10 yields only Rs 120 earnings at the end of the day. What happened to the other 5 rupees?
Ans: After ten sales of five apples, all the three-for-Rs 5 apples are sold; the remainder is still sold at five for Rs 10 when they should be sold at two for Rs 5.
Each boy sells 30 apples in the first case.But on the second case the boy sells over all 24 apples at Rs 5 ( for two apples ) 36 apples at Rs 5 ( for three apples ). so only there is a differnce of Rs.5