GMAT Quantitative Reasoning Practice Test 2

Question : 78 of 100

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A confectioner decides to sell all of his pastry due to the coming holiday. His pastry goods are equally divided among a group of 28 regular customers. If only 49 customers come to the bakery, each one will receive 6 less pastry goods. How much pastry does the confectioner needs to sell?

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Solution:

You can use the answers to back-solve the question or you could write the equations.
Take 392 pastry goods and divide them by 28 customers, each one will receive 14 products.
If there were 49 customers, each one would receive

({ }^{392} \/ 49=8)

, which is 6 less.

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