Question

A pharmacist found at the end of the day she had 5/4 as many prescriptions for antibiotics then tranquilizers. She had 18 prescriptions all together. How many did she have for tranquilizers?

Answer 1

16. 5/3

Explanation:

let the no of tranquilizer be x

therefore

5/4 + x =18

x= 18-5/4

= 16 5/3