Santa mistake on Christmas puzzle
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Santa distributes 2 gifts to every child in the street at the Christmas evening. He mistakenly gives 4 gifts to some children. If he distributed 50 gifts to 21 children.
How many children got 4 gifts?
Here every child gets at least 2 gifts.
So 21 children gets 21*2= 42 gifts.
Remaining 8 gifts.
So 4 of the 21 children gets 4 gifts each.
Answer: 4 children
suppose ‘x’ no of children having 2 gifts
and (21-x)having 4 gifts
then equation become
x*2+(21-x)*4=50
solving equation
we get
x=17
21-x=4
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