Question

A farmer harvested \[30\] bags of paddy. He sold \[20\] bags for $Rs\,400$ per bag. He later sold the remaining paddy for $Rs\,350$ per bag. How much money did the farmer get in all?

Answer 1

Hint:The given question revolves around the topic and concepts of arithmetic. The farmer harvested a certain number of bags of paddy and then sells portions of that at different prices and booking an overall profit of on the whole transaction. We have to find the total money that the farmer got. So, we will first find the amount paid for each portion of paddy harvest and then add them to find the total amount.

Complete step by step answer:
So, the number of bags of paddy harvested by the farmer is \[30\]. Now, the farmer sold some bags at a lower price and some at a higher price. So, we will calculate the cumulative amount for which the farmer sold the harvest by adding the amounts of both portions of the harvest.

So, the number of bags of paddy sold for $Rs\,400$ $ = 20$
Therefore, the money farmer got by selling these twenty bags of paddy $ = 20 \times Rs\,400 = Rs\,8000$
The remaining bags are sold for $Rs\,350$.
Now, number of bags of paddy sold for $Rs\,350$$ = 10$
Money farmer got by selling these ten bags of paddy $ = 10 \times Rs\,350 = Rs\,3500$
So, the total money that farmer got is the sum of both the amounts.
Hence, total amount $ = Rs\,3500 + Rs\,8000 = Rs\,11500$

Therefore, total amount earned by farmer is $Rs\,11500$,

Note:The money that farmer got in total should be calculated after we have calculated the separate earnings of the farmer on selling both the portions of the harvest. To calculate the money the farmer got, the selling price of each bag should be multiplied with the number of bags. The BODMAS rule should be applied so that the cost of individual transactions is calculated first using multiplication and then the total amount is found using addition.