Question

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?

Answer 1

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.

Number of students	24	20
Number of sweets	5	x

If the number of students is lesser, then each student will get more number of sweets.
Since this is a case of inverse proportion,
$24 × 5 = 20 × x$
$x= \frac{24 × 5}{20}$
Hence, each student will get 6 sweets.