A tourist with 300, calculating that he could spend $ x everyday on his holidays. He spent $ {x + 10) per day and had nothing left 5 days before the end of his holidays. Calculate 'x'.

A fruit vendor buys some oranges at the rate of Rs 5 per orange. He also buys an equal number of bananans at the rate of Rs 2 per banana. He makes a 20% profit on orange and a 15% profit on bananas. At the end of the day, all the fruit is sold out. His total profit is Rs 390. Find the number of oranges purchased.

Change the following statements using expression into statements in ordinary language. Tony puts x marbles on the table. He has 5x marbles in his box.

A boy was asked to find the L.C.M. of 3, 5, 12, and another number. But while calculating, he wrote 21 instead of 12 and yet came with the correct answer. ... We will assume the fourth number to be x. First, we will write down the given numbers as a product of their prime factors.

One day in the morning, Ramesh filled up 1/3 bucket of hot water from geyser, to take bath. Remaining 2.3 was to be filled by cold water (at room temperature) to bring mixture to a comfortable temperature. Suddenly Ramesh had to attend to something which would take some time say 5 - 10 minutes before he could take bath. Now the he had two options: (i) fill the remaining bucket completely by cold water and then attend to the work, (ii) first attend to the work and fill the remaining bucket just before taking bath. Which option do you think would have kept water warmer ? Explain.

A factory has three machines X,Y and Z producing 1000, 2000 and 3000 bolts per day respectively. The machine X produces 1% defective bolts, Y produces 1.5% and Z produces 2% defective bolts. At the end of a day, a bolt is drawn at random and is found defective. what is the probability that the defective bolt is produced by the machine X?

A taxi- driver filled his car petrol tank with 40 litres of petrol on Mondy.The next day,he filled the tank with 50 litres of petrol.If the petrol costs Rs.44 per litre,how much did he spend in all on petrol?