Question

An employer finds that if he increases the weekly wages of each worker by Rs. 5 and employs five workers less, he increases his weekly wage bill from Rs. 3150 to Rs. 3250. Taking the original weekly wage of each worker as Rs. x; obtain an equation in x and then solve it to find the weekly wages of each worker.

Answer 1

Original weekly wage of each worker = Rs x

Original weekly wage bill of employer = Rs 3150

Number of workers = 3150/x

New weekly wage of each worker = Rs (x + 5)

New weekly wage bill of employer = Rs 3250

Since, wage cannot be negative, x = 45.

Thus, the original weekly wage of each worker is Rs 45.