Friday, September 24, 2010

To celebrate a colleague's retirement....

To celebrate a colleague's retirement, the T coworkers in an office agreed to share equally the cost of a catered lunch. If the lunch costs a total of x dollars and S of the coworkers fail to pay their share, which of the following represents the additional ammount, in dollars, that each of the remaining coworkers would have to contribute so that the cost of the lunch is completely paid?
A) x/T B) x/T-S C) Sx/T-S D) SX/T(T-S) E) x(T-S)/T




Initaily each has to pay - X/T,Now with S workers backing out - X/T-S
Additional pay - (X/T-S) - (X/T) -
Ans : D

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