The perimeter of a rectangular swimming pool is 154 m. Its length is 2 m more than twice its breadth. What are the length and the breadth of the pool?
The base of an isosceles triangle is cm. The perimeter of the triangle is . What is the length of either of the remaining equal sides?
Three consecutive integers are such that when they are taken in increasing order and multiplied by 2, 3 and 4 respectively, they add up to 74. Find these numbers.
The ages of Rahul and Haroon are in the ratio 5 : 7. Four years later the sum of their ages will be 56 years. What are their present ages?
Since, ages of Rahul and Harron are in the ratio of 5:7.
Let their present ages are: 5x and 7x.
∴ 4 years later:    Age of Rahul = (5x + 4) years
                     Age of Haroon = (7x + 4 ) years
 According to the condition, we have
    (5x + 4) + (7x + 4) = 56
or       5x + 4 + 7x + 4 = 56
or             12x + 8 = 56
  Transposing 8 to RHS, we have
                                 12x = 56 - 8 = 48
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Dividing both sides by 12, we have
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∴    Present age of Rahul = 5x = 5 4 = 20 years
      Present age of Haroon = 7x = 7 4 = 28 years
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The number of boys and girls in a class are in the ratio 7 : 5. The number of boys is 8 more than the number of girls. What is the total class strength?