Question

A bouquet With 3 roses, 3 tulips and 5 daisies cost 15.50; a bouquet with 5 roses, 5 tulips and 3 daisies costs 16.50. What would be the cost of a bouquet containing 6 roses, 6 tulips and 4 daisies

Answer 1

The answer to this question is 3.

Answer 2

The answer is 3.

Step-by-step explanation:

• Let x be the total number of flowers.
• When the problem says that all but two of the flowers are of one kind, it means there are n−2 flowers of that kind.
• Therefore, x−2 of them are roses, x−2 of them are tulips and x−2 of them are daisies.

• Assuming that this exhausts the list of flowers,
• we can write x−2+x−2+x−2=x

• which gives n=3

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