Question

Ram purchased 1.5 kgs of tomato for 35 rupees. If 5.6 kg of tomato is required to prepare 5 kg tomato pickle. What is the cost of 1 kg tomato pickle, given that only tomatoes are used for the preparation of the pickle?

Answer 1

Given that
Ram purchased 1.5 kgs of tomato for 35 rupees.

Also, 5.6 kg of tomato is required to prepare 5 kg of tomato pickle.

The first step is to find per kg cost of tomato.

Now, cost of 1 kg of tomato = $\frac{35}{1.5}$ rupees = $\frac{35\times 2}{1.5\times 2}$ = $\frac{70}{3}$ rupees

Given that 5.6 kg of tomato is required to prepare 5 kg tomato pickle

Then tomatoes required for making of 1 kg of pickle = $\frac{5.6}{5}$ kgs = 1.12 kgs

Cost of 1kg of tomato pickle $=\left(1.12\right)\times \frac{70}{3}$ = 26.133 rupees