Percentage Practice Test 3 with solutions

Question : 28 of 40

Marks: +1, -0

The price of tea increases from Rs. 8 per kg to Rs. 950 per kg. How much consumption of tea should be reduced by a house wife so that the expenditure on it may not increased?

$14 4 /5 %$
15%
$15 15/ 19 %$
16%

Validate

Solution:

Increase%

{9.50-8}/8×100

=1.50/8×100=75/4%

Required percentage of reduction

={75/4}/{100+75/4}×100

=75/475×100=15 15/19%

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