Question

28. Some boys were seated around a circular table. A bag of 41 sweets was passed around the table, starting from Ali. Each boy took the same number of sweets. When the bag reached Ali again, there was only I sweet left. If Ali took the last sweet and he had 6 sweets altogether, how many boys were seated around circular table?​

Answer 1

Answer:

8

Step-by-step explanation:

41 sweets
if there was 1 sweet left, we do 41-1=40
40 sweets were shared amongst the boys.

Ali had 6 sweets at the end, and we know that he took a sweet extra, meaning that each boy got 5 sweets.

40/5=8

There are 8 boys

Answer 2

Answer:

8

Step-by-step explanation:

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