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A local bus is carrying 40 passengers some with 50 Paise tickets and the remaining with rupee 1.50 tickets. If the total receipts from these passengers is Rs. 32. Find the number of passengers with 50 Paise tickets.

Let the number of passengers with 50 Paise tickets be x.

Then, number of passengers with 1.50 Rupee tickets would be (40 – x)


According to the question,







∴ Number of passengers with 50 Paise tickets is 28.


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