If a box of sweets is divided among 24 children, they will get 5 sweets each. How many would each get, if the number of the children is reduced by 4?

∵Each child gets = 5sweets
Therefore, 24 children will get 24 x 5 = 120 sweets Total number of sweets =120
If the number of children is reduced by 4, then children left = 24 – 4 =20
Now each child will get sweets = 120/20=6 sweets

Number of remaining children = 24 − 4 = 20

Let the number of sweets which each of the 20 students will get, be x.

The following table is obtained.

If the number of students is lesser, then each student will get more number of sweets.

Since this is a case of inverse proportion,

24 × 5 = 20 × x

x = (24 x 5)/20 = 6

Hence, each student will get 6 sweets.

let each child will get sweets`=x`
Acc to question
`24*5 = x*20`
`x = 120/20 = 6`sweets
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