Question

Find a possible value of total grocery items on a day given that exactly $75$% of the grocery items were sold on that day.

• A. $150$
• B. $145$
• C. $140$
• D. $130$

Answer 1

Answer: (C)

$140$

Since exactly $75\%$ of the total items were sold on a particular day, if the total items were $x$, the items sold become $\frac{3x}{4}$

$\Rightarrow x$ must be a multiple of $4$ for the items to be an integer.

Only one option, $140$ is divisible by $4$ and hence becomes the answer.