Question

A fruit seller had some apples. He sells 40% apples and still has 420 apples. Originally, he had:

Answer 1

let us keep that there are 100 mangoes becoz of percent.
then if 40% mangoes are sold then out of 100 40 mangoes are sold. then remaining mangoes are 100-40=60. then, if for 100,60 are remaining then for how much are 420 apples remaining?
100:60:x:420
x=100x420/60
=700.
he had 700 mangoes originally.

Answer 2

Given :

A fruit seller had some apples. He sells 4O% apples and still has 320 apples.

To find :

How many apples did he originally have?

Using formula :

★ Number of originally the fruit seller have = Number of apples left/Percentage of apples didn't sell × 100.

Calculations :

We know that, in a sum of overall 100% of apples he sells 40% of apples so we have to find the number of percentage he didn't sold.

→ 100% - 40%

→ 60% [He didn't sell]

Solution :

→ 420/60 × 100

→ 7 × 100

→ 700 apples

Therefore, the number of apples he original have is 700 apples.