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Aruna cut a cake into two halves and cuts one half into smaller pieces of equal size. Each of the small pieces is twenty grams in weight. If she has seven pieces of the cake in all with her, how heavy was the original cake?

120 grams
140 grams
240 grams
280 grams
None of these

Correct Answer: 240 grams

Explanation:

The seven pieces consist of 6 smaller equal pieces and one half cake piece.

Weight of each small piece = 20 g.

So, total weight of the cake = [2 x (20 x6)]g= 240 g.

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