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A wine seller earned £532 in a day. Red wine costs three times as much as white wine. Of the 140 bottles sold, only one quarter were red. How much would 5 bottles of red wine cost?
£38
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Incidentally it’s mathematically impossible for what you have written to be accurate .
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What do you mean mafia?
Correct answer though
Well breaking it down , if 140 bottles were sold and a quarter were red then obviously 105 were white and 35 were red. As we know red costs 3 times the amount of it’s white counterpart so we know 35 red bottles were sold for £266 which is the same for the 105 white bottles being 3 times the cost. Therefore 105 white bottles would cost a total of £266 meaning 5 bottles would be priced at £12. 6666666667 which is a monetary impossibility .
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Yes..i have found that with this particular quiz book i have.The compilers, authors whatever haven’t considered like what you say, money impossibilities even though the puzzles can be worked out. Actually, just looking, it’s compiled by Victor Serebriakoff. One of the world’s great puzzle Masters and honorary president of International Menza. Perhaps in the older days ( this book was written in 1992) the compilers didn’t feel the necessity to have realistic monetary values as long as the puzzles made sense…who knows?
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Asda sell 18 cans of magners for £11 I’m buying cans from the lcbo (where they sell beer in Toronto) and it’s $80 for 24. Big ouch !!
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Wow somer! thats almost £61.50! Thats £2.56 per can compared to the Asda price of £0.61 per can! Almost a difference of £2.00 per can.
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