Profit and Loss Practice Test 3

Question : 14 of 40

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The price of sugar is increased by 25%. If afamily wants to keep its expenses on sugar unaltered, then the family will have to reduce the consumption of sugar by:

Validate

Solution:

Price	Quantity	Expenditure
x	y	xy
${5x}/4$	$y-{yz }/100$	xy

({5x}/4)(y-{yz}/100)=xy

5/4xy-{5xyz}/{400}=xy

5/4-z/80=1

z=20%

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