Question

10. Hanif scored $48$ runs. If he scored $20\%$more runs than Roy, how many runs did Roy score?

Answer 1

Finding the runs scored by Roy

Let Roy scored X,

According to the question,

$X+20\%ofX=48$

$X+\frac{20}{100}\times X=48\Rightarrow X+\frac{X}{5}=48\Rightarrow \frac{5X+X}{5}=48$

$\frac{6X}{5}=48\Rightarrow 6X=240\Rightarrow X=40$

Hence, Roy scored $40$ runs