Question
At a restaurant, n cups of tea are made by adding t tea bags to hot water. If t n = +2, how many additional tea bags are needed to make each additional cup of tea?
- None
- One
- Two
- Three
The correct answer is: One
Solution :
n = The number of cups of tea
t = The number of tea bags
t = n + 2.
For n = 1,
t= 1 + 2 =3
For n = 2,
t = 2 + 2 = 4
For n = 3,
t = 3 + 2 = 5
And so on.
This follows a pattern. For 1 unit increase in n, t is also increasing by 1.
So we can see for each additional cup of tea, 1 additional tea bag is needed.
Therefore option (B)One is correct.
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