Question

in a fruit shop 20 percentage of mangoes are rotten and if the number of rotten mangoes is 35 find the total number of mangoes​

Answer 1

Given:

In a fruit shop 20 percentage of mangoes are rotten.

The number rotten mangoes is 35.

To find:

The total number of mangoes.

Solution:

Let x be the number of total mangoes.

It is given that 20% of mangoes are rotten. So, the number of rotten mangoes is 20% of x.

$\dfrac{20}{100}\times x=\dfrac{1}{5}x$

The number rotten mangoes is 35. So,

$\dfrac{1}{5}x=35$

$x=5\times 35$

$x=175$

Therefore, the number of total mangoes is 175.