If a person walks at 14 km/hr instead of $10$ km/hr, he would have walked $20$ km more. The actual distance traveled by him is :

50 km

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56 km

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Solution

The correct option is A 50 km
Let the actual distance travelled be x km.
Then, $\frac{x}{10} = \frac{x + 20}{14}$

$14 x = 10 x + 200$
$4 x = 200$
$x = 50 k m$

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