Question

Peter and angad win some money and share it in the ratio 4:1 Peter gets £28 how much did they win in total

Answer 1

£35

Explanation:

the ratio

4:1

between Peter and Angad

means Peter wins 4 times more than angad (if Angad wins £1 , Peter wins £4)

we can represent this as follows:

Peter Angad Total

£4 ⇒ £1 ⇒ £5

Since we knoe the information about Peter and we need the total, we only take the first and third column:

Peter Total

£4 ⇒ £5

if we know that Peter has £28 and we represent the total by x:

Peter Total

£4 ⇒ £5

£28 ⇒ x

we can solve this by rule of three: multiply cross quantities (5 and 28)and divide by 4:

x = 5*28/4

x = 140/4

x = 35

They win £35 in total

Answer 2

Find out the how much did they win in total .

To prove

As given

Peter and angad win some money and share it in the ratio 4:1 .

Peter gets £28 .

Let us assume that x be the scalar multiple of the Peter and angad wins money.

Than

Peters money = 4x

Angad money = x

Than the equation

4x = 28

`x = (28)/(4)`

x = 7

Thus

Angad money = x

= £7

The total money peter and angad wins = Peters wins + angad win

= £28 + £7

= £35

Therefore the total cost of the peter and angad wins be £35.