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The organisation of an essay competition decide that a winner in the competition gets a price of rupees 100 and a participants who does not wins get the price of rupees 25. the total prize money distributed is rupees 3000 find the number of winners. is the total number of participants is 63.

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Let the number of winners be x.

number of runner ups = 63-x.

AS PER QUESTION

100(X)+25(63-X)=3000

=) 100X+1575-25X =3000

=) 75X + 1575 =3000

=)75X=3000-1575

=) X =1425/75

=) X= 19.

number of winners = 19.

number of runner ups=44.

Total=29+44=63


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