Teacher distributes ‘N’ chocolates to ‘3x’ students. Find the value of x.
A. If he distributes 6 chocolates to each student, then teacher left with 24 chocolates.
B. If number of students were 1/3rd of original number, then no chocolate was left with teacher.
C. 30 < number of students < 40 and 200 < number of chocolates < 300.
Correct Answer :
None of the given statements can answer the question
Solution :
To find the value of (and hence the number of students, which is ), let us analyze the information given in the question and the statements.
Let the total number of chocolates be .
Let the total number of students be , where is an integer.
Let's evaluate each statement individually and then in combination:
Statement A: "If he distributes 6 chocolates to each student, then teacher left with 24 chocolates."
This gives the equation:
Here, we have two variables ( and ) and only one equation. Statement A alone is not sufficient.
Statement B: "If number of students were 1/3rd of original number, then no chocolate was left with teacher."
The new number of students is .
Let be the number of chocolates each of these students receives. Then:
(where is some positive integer).
Since is unknown, Statement B alone is not sufficient.
Statement C: "30 < number of students < 40 and 200 < number of chocolates < 300."
This gives the ranges:
which simplifies to .
Since is an integer, could be 11, 12, or 13. Thus, the number of students could be 33, 36, or 39.
Also, .
Statement C alone is clearly not sufficient to find a unique value for .
Combining Statements A and C:
From Statement A, we have .
From Statement C, the possible values for are 11, 12, or 13.
- If , then (which is between 200 and 300).
- If , then (which is between 200 and 300).
- If , then (which is between 200 and 300).
Since we have multiple valid pairs for , namely , , and , Statements A and C together are not sufficient.
Combining Statements B and C:
From B, where is an integer.
From C, and .
This gives many possibilities for and , so B and C together are not sufficient.
Combining Statements A, B, and C:
We have:
1)
2) (meaning is a multiple of )
3) and .
Let us test the possible values of :
- If , then . We check if 222 is divisible by 11: (not an integer). So is not possible.
- If , then . We check if 240 is divisible by 12: (which is an integer). So is a possible solution.
- If , then . We check if 258 is divisible by 13: (not an integer). So is not possible.
However, the options provided only combine at most two statements together (e.g., "Either A & B together or B & C together", "Any two of them", etc.). Since no combination of two statements is sufficient to find a unique value for , none of the options representing combinations of two statements can answer the question.
Therefore, the correct choice is: None of the given statements can answer the question.
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