Steven and Deborah have six daughters, Each of the daughters had a brother, If it costs Deborah £15 a week to feed each child,£15 a week to feed herself, and £18 a week to feed steven, What is her weekly shopping bill?
2007-01-09 08:20:01 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
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2007-01-09 08:36:21 · update #1
Yes I am the son I was the second born child and I have nothing to do with them anymore,I feed myself.
2007-01-09 13:57:59 · update #2
£1000 pounds
2007-01-09 09:37:46 · answer #1 · answered by brainlady 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2017-01-20 12:44:26 · answer #2 · answered by burrough 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The trick here is that each daughter has ONE brother, which means there is only 1 son. So six daughters and one son is 7 children
7*15 + 15 for Deborah + 18 for Steven = $138
2007-01-09 08:27:02 · answer #3 · answered by hunneebee22 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
mmm... trick question eh....depending on how you read the question there could be two answers...
answer 1.
there are six daughters and one son making ....7 x 15
Deborah 1 x 15
steven 1 x18 ( greedy guts )
weekly bill of 138 pounds
answer 2.
reading the question it states that each of the daughters HAD a brother in the past tense so they dont have one now
making
six daughters 6 x 15
deborah 1 x15
steven 1 x 18 ( still a greedy guts )
weekly bill of 123 pounds
2007-01-09 12:26:11 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The thing about this question you must remember if they each have a brother they all have the SAME brother.
So there is one mother = 15 dollars to find herself
1 father = 18 dollars to feed himself
6 daughters = 15 dollars to feed each kid(6 kids) = 90 dollars to feed all the daughters
1 son = 15 dollars to feed him
so the total is :
15
+18
+90
+15
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138 to feed the family a week
2007-01-09 08:29:52 · answer #5 · answered by googooslide2000 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Steven and Deborah has 7 kids, 6 daughters and 1 son.
(Hopefully you caught that)
15*7+15+18= 35+33= 68
68
2007-01-09 08:25:06 · answer #6 · answered by ccjcjl 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
15 pounds x 12 children = 180 pound +15 pound +18 pound = a weekly shopping bill of 213 pounds.
2007-01-09 08:43:43 · answer #7 · answered by KING CHAV 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
£213 based on each daughter having a brother each or £138 if there is only one son
2007-01-09 09:30:38 · answer #8 · answered by trout 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
good solution, except 15*7 is not 35, it's 105
2007-01-09 08:26:46 · answer #9 · answered by bequalming 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
138 or 123 if their brother really died.
2007-01-09 08:25:24 · answer #10 · answered by bulldognn 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋