Question

The present population of a town is 20,0000 it's population increases by 10% in the first year and 15% in second year find the population of the town at the end of the two years .

I have solved this question my answer is 253000 but in the book the answer is 25300.
Kindly solve this query.

Answer 1

Because in book , they took population = 20,000 (20 thousands not two lacs).