You and your friends decide to have a pizza. Upon reading the menu, you find out that you have to pay a specific amount to add additional toppings. Following are the prices:
Olives & Black Pepper $7
Red Pepper & Jalapeno $6
Pineapple & Capsicum $2
Corn & Black Pepper $5
Mushrooms & Pineapple $4
Capsicum & Corn $3
Jalapeno & Pineapple $5
Now, you can see that the prices are given in pair. Can you find out the price of each topping separately if you know that the prices are not in fractions and are an increment of a full dollar?
Solution:
As we have been informed that the prices are a full dollar increment, this eases out the situation.
If we look at the price of pineapple and capsicum, we can easily make out that both of them are priced $1.
This is because the price has to be at least $1 and since both of them costs $2 together, they must cost $1 separately.
Solving the rest of the question is child’s play. You have to use simple mathematics.
For an instance:
Jalapeno + Pineapple = $5
Now, we know that pineapple costs $1. Thus,
Jalapeno + $1 = $5
Jalapeno = $4
You can find out the price for each one of the toppings in a similar fashion.
Capsicum $1
Pineapple $1
Mushrooms $3
Corn $2
Jalapeno $4
Red Pepper $2
Black Pepper $3
Olives $4