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The population of a town was $84200$ . The population increase by $8 %$ . What is the population now?

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Population of town $= 84200$
Increases by $8$ %
So, population $= 84200 + 84200 \times \frac{8}{100}$
$= 84200 + 6736 = 90936$

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