Question

Adults made up $\frac{5}{12}$ of the crowd of people at a concert. After a bus carrying $50$ more people arrived, adults made up $\frac{11}{25}$ of the people at the concert. Find the minimum number of adults who could have been at the concert after the bus arrived.

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Solution:

Let the original crowd have $12k$ people, of whom $5k$ are adults. After the bus arrives there are $12k + 50$ people, and the number of adults is $\frac{11}{25}(12k + 50).$ For this to be an integer, $25$ must divide $12k + 50,$ so $25 \mid 12k,$ and since $\gcd(12, 25) = 1$ this means $k$ is a multiple of $25.$

The adult count $\frac{11}{25}(12k + 50)$ increases with $k,$ so the minimum occurs at $k = 25:$ the new total is $350$ and the number of adults is $\frac{11}{25} \cdot 350 = 154.$ This is achievable, for example if the bus carries $29$ adults and $21$ non-adults, so the answer is $154.$

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