The price of sugar is reduced by $2$ %. How many kg of sugar now be bought for the money which was sufficient to buy $49 k g$ of sugar earlier?

1 k g

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2 k g

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2 k g

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Solution

The correct option is B $1 k g$ more
Let the price of sugar be $x$ and the price for $49 k g$ sugar is $49 x$ . The new price of sugar is $(1 - 0.02) x = 0.98 x$ . the total amount sugar for new price is $49 x / 0.98 x = 50 k g$ . $1 k g$ more can be bought with new price.
Option B gives correct answer

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