A bag of dozen oranges was selling for $3. The manager of the store decided to add some oranges to the bag, but not to change th

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A bag of dozen oranges was selling for $3. The manager of the store decided to add some oranges to the bag, but not to change th

e $3 sticker price on the bag. Now the price of the oranges was actually $2 a dozen. How many oranges were added to the bag

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Kitty [74] · Answer 1 · 2023-02-22T20:27:08+03:00

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A fruit seller buys some oranges and by selling 40% of them he realizes the cost price of all the oranges. As the oranges being to grow over-ripe, he reduces the price and sells 80% of the remaining oranges at half the previous rate of profit.

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