Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Passenger Seats

The cost of hiring a private rail carriage is shared equally by all the passengers. The carriage has seats for forty passengers and the total bill amounts to $70.37. How many passenger seats are not occupied?
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  1. jrJuly 13, 2010 at 1:04 PM

    31 divides evenly into $70.37 to yield $2.27. So, there are 31 passengers paying $2.27 per seat. 40-31=9 passenger seats are not occupied.

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