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Out of 200 newly inducted personals by a Multinational company, 25% were IIT engineers and the rest were engineers from other colleges, 60 were smokers and 30% of the non-smokers were from IIT. What is the number of persons from IIT who were smokers as well?

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8
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10
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12
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13
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Solution

The correct option is A 8
solution:
(25 % of 200 are iitians ) =50
number of smokers = 60
number of non smokers = 140
30% of 140 = iitans non smokers = 42
iitian which are smokers = total iitians - total iitian which are non smokers = 50 -42 = 8
hence the correct option: A

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