Question

In a garden there are some bees and flowers. If one bee sits on each flower then one bee will be left. If two bees sit on each flower, one flower will be left. Find the number of bees and number of flowers:

Answer 1

let no. of bees be $x$ and no of flowers be $y$

from the given conditions ,

$x-y=1$ and $y-\frac{x}{2}=1$

solving both the equations ,we will get $x=4,y=3$

No. of bees $=4$

No. of flowers $=3$