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Solve the following problems:
Susan invited 13 of her friends for her birthday party and created return gift hampers comprising one each of $3, $4, and $5 gift certificates. One of her friends did not turn up and Susan decided to rework her gift hampers such that each of the 12 friends who turned up got $13 worth gift certificates. How many gift hampers did not contain $5 gift certificates in the new configuration?
Total value of initial configeration = 13 hamper × $12 = $156
Again total value of new configeration = 12 hamper × $13=$156
∴The value of gift certificates will not be changed.
Now Susan started with 13 hampers. Susan has 13 piece of $3 worth gift
∴Susan has 13 piece of $4 worth gift ∴Susan has 13 piece of $5 worth gift ∴Possible set {5, 5, 3} {4, 4, 5} , (3, 3, 3, 4) in which $5 contains in first two of them and the total
number is 13.
Now, let Susan creates
x hampers of {3, 3, 3, 4}
y hampers of {4,4,5}
And z hampers of {5, 5, 3}
Number of $3 gift will be, 3x + z =13.....(i)
∴Number of $4 gift will be, x + 2y =13.....(ii)
∴Number of $5 gift will be, y + 2z = 13 Now, multiplying equation (iii) by 2 and subtracting (ii) from (iii) we get ,
2y+4z=26 x+2y=13 - - - 4z-x=13...............(iv)
Again, multiplying equation (i) by 4 and subtracting equation (iv) from (i) we get 12x+4z=52 4z-x=1313x=39 ∴x=3 Here, x is the number of gift hampers without $5 certificates. ∴3 gift hampers did not contain $5 gift certificates.
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