There are $3$ bags of flour. Bag $B$ weighs thrice as much as bag $A$ and bag $C$ weighs $4$ kg less than bag $B$ . If bag $A$ weighs $6$ kg, how heavy is bag $C$ ?

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Solution

The correct option is A $14$ kg
Weight of Bag $B = 3 \times$ Weight of Bag $A$
$W_{B} = 3 W_{A}$
Weight of Bag $C$ =Weight of Bag $B -$ kg$
$W_{C} = W_{B} - 4$
$W_{C} = 3 W_{A} - 4$
Given: $W_{A} = 6$
$W_{L} = 3 (6) - 4$
$= 14 k g$

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