Question

A shopkeeper has certain no of eggs of which 5% are to be broken. he sells 93% of the remainder and still has 266 eggs left.how many eggs did he originally had

Answer 1

total eggs=x
broken 5%
5% of x = 5/100*x=x/20;
total=x-x/20=>19x/20;
acc. to qu..
7% of 19x/20 =266
on solving eqn you get 4000

Answer 2

The shopkeeper has originally 4000 eggs.

• Let the number of eggs the shopkeeper originally has be x.
• 5% of the eggs are broken that is 0.05x are broken.
• The remaining eggs left are x-0.05x = 0.95x.
• Now he sells 93% of the remaining eggs.
• That means remaining eggs left with the shopkeeper which are unsold are 7%.
• 7% of 0.95x eggs is equal to 266.

0.07 × 0.95x = 266

x = 4000

• The total number of eggs with the shopkeeper are 4000.