Question

The price of mangoes has increased by 25 percentage. By what percent the consumption needs to be reduced so that the expense on mangoes remains the same?

Answer 1

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Let the price earlier be 100 Rs.
Increase in price =25%OF 100
=25/100×100
= 25Rs.

percentage Decrease in consumption = Increase in price /100+percent increase ×100
=25/100+25×100
= 25/125×100
=20%

So decrease in the consumption should be 20%.

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Answer 2

Price increase by 25%, i.e., if the price was 100 it increase to 125.

Now,  to find the percentof  the consumption that needs to be reduced, such that expence remains equal,

= (125-100) * 100 / 125  %

=20%