How would you have handled the situation?
My friend Shuba works in a post office and she sells stamps. One day a man walked in and kept seventy five paise on the counter and requested, Please give me some 2 paise stamps, six times as many as one paisa stamps, and for the rest of the amount give me 5 paise stamps.The bewildered Shuba thought for a few moments and finally she handed over the exact requirementof the order to the man with a smile.
How would you have handled the situation?
I do not know about you, but I would have handed over 5 two paise stamps, 30 one paisa stamps and 7 five paise stamps.
Let X be the number of 2 paise stamps so 6X is the number of 1 paisa stamps. But the amount of money paid for them will be 2*x+6*x =8X so 75-8X must be a number that can be divided by 5 with no remainder. So the only solution is 5 stamps of 2 paise, 30 stamps of 1 paise and 7 stamps of 5 paise
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