Question

In a particular year a company produced 8765435 bicycles. Next year, the number of bicycles produced was 1378689 more than those produced in the preceding year.
How many bicycles were produced during the second year?
How many bicycles were produced during these two years?

Answer 1

Bicycles produced by the company in the first year = 8765435
Bicycles produced by the company in the second year = 8765435 + 1378689
= 10144124
∴ Total number of bicycles produced during these two years = 8765435 + 10144124
= 18909559