Question 1

Nalini has received a total of 600 WhatsApp messages from four friends Anita, Bina, Chaitra and Divya. Bina and Divya have respectively sent 30% and 20% of these messages, while Anita has sent an equal number of messages as Chaitra. Moreover, Nalini finds that of Anita’s, Bina’s, Chaitra’s and Divya’s messages, 60%, 40%, 80% and 50% respectively are jokes. What percentage of the jokes, received by Nalini, have been sent neither by Divya nor by Bina?

Solution

Let four friends Anita, Bina, Chaitra and Divya be represented as A,B,C,D respectively. 

From the given information, Messages sent by A are 150 out of which 90 are Jokes

Messages sent by B are 180 out of which 72 are Jokes

Messages sent by C are 150 out of which 120 are Jokes

Messages sent by D are 120 out of which 60 are Jokes

.'. Percentage of jokes that were neither sent by D or B is 210*100/342=61.4

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