Adhiambo travels part of her journey by bus and the rest by Nissan

      

Adhiambo travels part of her journey by bus and the rest by Nissan. She paid Shs. 400 as fare in Total. On the return journey, the Nissan fare was hiked a quarter of what she paid during the on ward journey and thus she paid sh. 440 in total. Find the bus fare.

  

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John
Let bus fare be x and Nissan fare

be y

x + y = 400

x + $\frac{5}{4}y$ = 440

Multiply eqn. (i) by 4 and eqn. (ii)

by 4

4x + 4y = 1 600

4x + 5y = 1 760

-y =-160

y = 160

but x + y = 400

x + 160 = 400;

x = sh 240

The bus fare is sh 240
johnmulu answered the question on June 8, 2017 at 11:16


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