Question

On a school's Annual Day sweets were to be equally distributed amongst 112 children. But on that particular day, 32 children were absent. Thus the remaining children got 6 extra sweets each. How many sweets was each child originally supposed to get?

• A. 24
• B. 18
• C. 15
• D. Cannot be determined
• E. None of the above

Answer 1

The correct option is C 15

Let, each child get $x$ sweets
$\therefore 112\times x=(112-32)\times (x+6)$
$112x=80\times (x+6)$
$112x=80x+480$
$112x-80x=480$
$32x=480$
$x=15$