After discarding 15% of apples, a basket has 1,700 apples. Hence, there were apples initially in the basket.

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The correct option is A 2,000
$15 %$ of the apples were discarded.
$\Rightarrow$ $100 - 15 = 85 %$ of the apples are remaining in the basket.

Let the initial number of apples in the basket be $x$ .
$∴ 85 % of x = 1700$
$\Rightarrow \frac{85}{100} \times x = 1700 \Rightarrow x = \frac{170000}{85} \Rightarrow x = 2000$

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After discarding 15% of apples, a basket has 1,700 apples. Hence, there were apples initially in the basket.

The correct option is A 2,00015% of the apples were discarded. ⇒ 100−15=85% of the apples are remaining in the basket. Let the initial number of apples in the basket be x. ∴85% of x=1700 ⇒85100×x=1700⇒x=17000085⇒x=2000