Question:
Free notebooks were distributed equally among children of a class. The number of notebooks each child got was one-eighth of the number of children. Had the number of children been half, each child would have got 16 notebooks. Total how many notebooks were distributed ?
[A].256
432
512
640
Free notebooks were distributed equally among children of a class. The number of notebooks each child got was one-eighth of the number of children. Had the number of children been half, each child would have got 16 notebooks. Total how many notebooks were distributed ?
[A].
[B].
[C].
[D].
Answer: Option C
Explanation:
Let total number of children be x.
| Then, x x | 1 | x = | x | x 16 x = 64. |
| 8 | 2 |
| Number of notebooks = | 1 | x2 = | 1 | x 64 x 64 | = 512. | ||
| 8 | 8 |