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How many biscuits had it eaten on the first day?

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Gauri's puppy was growing fast. In the first five days since she got it it had eaten 100 dog biscuits. If each day it had eaten 6 more than the previous day .
How many biscuits had it eaten on the first day?

posted May 22, 2014 by Mishthy Mukherjee

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Let a be the # of Biscuits eaten 1st day.

So.

a + (a+6) + (a+6+6) + (a+6+6+6) + (a+6+6+6+6) = 100
5a + 60 = 100

Thus,

a =  8 Biscuits.

Answer is 8 Biscuits

answer May 22, 2014 by Kunal Shah
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....................8...............

answer Dec 19, 2014 by Shashi Kant



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