Question

A fruit-seller had some apples.He sells 40% of them and still has 420 apples.Find the number of apples he had originally.

Answer 1

Total no. of Apple's are 700
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Answer 2

Fruit seller sells 40% of them.

So , he has 60% of them.

420 apples are 60% of the total apples .

We usually use the above formula to find the percentage .

$percent = \frac{no. \: of \: apples \times 100}{total}$

$60 = \frac{420 \times 100}{total}$

$total = \frac{42000}{60}$

$total \: apples = 700$
Therefore,
The total number of apples are 700.

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