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A fruit seller had some apples. He sells 40% apples and still has 420 apples. Originally, he had: (a) 588 apples (b) 600 apples (c) 672 apples (d) 700 apples

Sunil
08 Jul
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Sahil
08 Jul

let the number of apples a fruit seller initially has= x;
Since according to the question after selling 40 percent of apples he is left with 420 apples therefore:
x-(40/100)*x=420; eqn 1
Now by solving eqn 1 we get the value of x equal to 700 which is the total amount of apples he initially has therefore the total number of apples he originally had is equal to 700.