Question

A fruit seller had some apples. He sells 40% apples and still has 420 apples. Originally, he had how many apples?
(3 marks)

Answer 1

Let he had N apples, originally.

Now, as per the given question, we have;

(100 – 40)% of N = 420
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⇒ ($\frac{60}{100}$) × N = 420
(1 mark)

⇒ N = ($\frac{420\times 100}{60}$) = 700

(1 mark)