Question

Last week at a festival, a man sold 3 times as many tie-dyed t shirts as silk screened shirts. He sold 156 shirts altogether. How many tie-dyed shirts did he sale? The number of tie-dyed shirts is ?

Answer 1

Let us consider that the man sold x screened shirts.

Accordingly, he sold 3 times as many tie-dyed t shirts as silk screened shirts and he sold 156 shirts together.

Therefore,

$\begin{gathered} 3x+x=156 \\ 4x=156 \\ x=39 \end{gathered}$

Therefore, the number of silk screened shirts sold is 39.

So, the number of tie dyed shirts is

$39\times3=117$

Hence, The number of tie-dyed shirts is 117.