Q. There are two types of boxes containing mangoes. Each box of the larger type contains 4 more mangoes than the number of mangoes contained in 8 boxes of the smaller type. Each larger box contains 100 mangoes. Find the number of mangoes contained in the smaller box?
Let the number of mangoes in the smaller box be n.
Then, according to the question, we have:
or
or
Hence, the number of mangoes in the smaller box is 12.
There are 23 boxes of mangoes, and each box contains 20 mangoes. If we open boxes and pile mangoes. What will be the total number of mangoes in that heap? How many heaps of 10 mangoes each can be made?