Problema Solution
Sharing fruit. Apples are collected in a basket for six people. One third, one fourth, one eighth, and one fifth of the apples are given to four people, respectively. The fifth person gets ten apples, and one apple remains for the sixth person. Find the original number of apples in the basket.
Answer provided by our tutors
let there be x apples.
so x/3+ x/4 + x/8 + x/5 +10+1=x
solving we get x= 120