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Essex_Dad
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Hello fellow parents...

I have come across a question in one of the papers which I am finding difficult to work out - can someone please assist. The problem question is:

Zainab has £5 more than David
David has £1.50 more than Maria
Altogether Zainab, David and Maria have £13.10

How much money has Maria got?

It would also help if you could explain the calculation...

Thanking you in advance
Tulip
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Post by Tulip »

If the answer is 2.20 then I will explain...
Please let me know

:lol:
tiredmum
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Post by tiredmum »

Not sure that correct as if maria has 2.20
david has 1.50 more = 3.70
and then Zainab 5.00 more than david = 8.70

Not adding up to 13.10 :wink:
Essex_Dad
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Post by Essex_Dad »

Sorry Tulip... although I do not know the answer as there was no answer pack with the exam paper, your answer cannot be right...

Any other ideas please?
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Post by tiredmum »

think maria has 1.70 :?:
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Post by LuluQueen »

Not very good at explanations but I'll give it a try:

Let z, d and m replace the names
From the question, we get:
z = d + 5 Equation One
d = m + 1.5 Equation Two
z + d + m = 13.1 Equation Three
We want to find out how much Maria has, so every equation has to include "m".
We can replace the "d" in Equation One with its equivalent "m + 1.5", so equation one now reads: z = m + 1.5 + 5

Now we know that "m" is in each of the equations, we can replace it in Equation Three, so:

m + 1.5 + 5 + m + 1.5 + m = 13.1
Instead of:
z + d + m = 13.1

If you work that out, it comes to:

3m + 8 = 13.1 which can be solved like a normal equation:

3m + 8 = 13.1
3m = 5.1 (minus 8)
m = 1.7 (divide by 3)

So the answer is Maria has £1.70. (Of course, if you wanted to know how much the others had, just work it out some more)

Rather long winded, but gets to the point.
Hope it helps!
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Post by Essex_Dad »

Thanks...thats brilliant.

Please explain how you worked it out if you do not mind...
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How I worked it out? Isn't that what I just posted?? :shock: Confused.
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Post by tiredmum »

LuluQueen wrote:How I worked it out? Isn't that what I just posted?? :shock: Confused.
:D think he means me lulu. I nipped in with the answer just before you :D
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Post by Essex_Dad »

Apologies. Was responding to Tiredmum.
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