Four boys Andrej, Bojan, Vasko and Goce are collecting post stamps. Andrej has as many post stamps as Bojan and Vasko have together. Goce has five times less post stamps than Andrej, and Bojan has four times more post stamps than Vasko. If they together have 5016 post stamps, how many post stamps each of the four boys has?
Solution
Let , , and be the numbers of post stamps that Andrej, Bojan, Vasko and Goce have correspondingly. According to the first condition of the problem we obtain , , . Then we have that . But so we get that . Then according to the second condition of the problem we obtain , . Hence , . Now we get that , and . So Andrej has 2280 post stamps, Bojan has 1824 and Vasko and Goce have 456 post stamps each.
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