Question

A sum of INR $2800$ is to be used to award four prizes. If each prize is INR $200$ less than the proceeding prize, find the value of each of these prizes.

Answer 1

Let first prize be $x$ then other prices will be $x-200,x-400,x-600$.

Now,

$x+x-200+x-400+x-600=2800$

$4x=2800+1200$

$x=Rs.1000$

Hence, the prizes are $INR1000,INR800,INR600,INR400$.