Question

А fruit
He sells
sellen had some apple
40% apple and still has 4208
he has.
apple. Inotially apple,​

Answer 1

Let’s find what will be the percentage of apples left with the shopkeeper, then we assume that the number of apples the shopkeeper originally had is x. After that we apply a percentage formula to find the number of apples left and then compare that with the given value of apples left. This will be the efficient way to find the value of x.

Complete step-by-step answer:

Let the original number of apple shopkeepers be x.

Then as we know that it is given in the question that the shopkeeper had sold 40% apples.

So, this means that he was left with 60% of the original number of apples.

And it is given that the shopkeeper had still 420 apples.

So, 420 = 60% of x.

Now as we know that according to percentage formula A% of B is y.

Then y = A100×B

.

So, applying the percentage formula. We get,

420 = 60100×(x)

So, now we have to solve the above equation to get the value of x.

So, multiplying both sides of the above equation by 10060

. We get,

x = 420*10060

= 700

So, the original number of apples the shopkeeper had will be equal to 700.