Question

[Mischievous Angel]

A box of erasers cost 4 dollars. A box of pencils cost 6 dollars more. Darwin spent 240 dollars on some boxes of erasers and pencils. The ratio of the number of pencil boxes to the number of eraser boxes was 4:5. How many boxes of pencils did he buy?

Answer 1

[Cô Hoàng Huyền]

Hint: Supppose that Darwin bought x eraser boxes, then he bought \(\frac{4}{5}x\) pencil boxs. (\(x\in N,x>0\)

Because Darwin spent 240 dollars so we have equation:

\(4x+\left(4+6\right).\frac{4}{5}x=240\)

\(\Rightarrow12x=240\Rightarrow x=20\)

So Darwin bought 20 eraser boxes and 16 pencil boxes.

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Answer 2

[Tứ Diệp Thảo_TFBoys]

 I don't no