Get Advice on Live Video Call
Earn $ Cash $ with
consultations on Bissoy App

the price of sugar increases by 32%. A family reduces its consumption so that the expenditure of the sugar is up only by 10%. If the total consumption of the sugar before the price rise was 10 kg per month, then the consumption of sugar per month at present (in kg) is :

Correct Answer: $$8\frac{1}{3}$$
Let the original price of sugar be Rs. 10 per kg
Then, original expenditure = Rs. (10 × 10) = Rs. 100
New expenditure = 110% of Rs. 100 = Rs. 110
New price of sugar = 132% of Rs. 10 = Rs. 13.20
New consumption :
= $$\frac{110}{13.20}$$ kg
= $$\frac{25}{3}$$ kg
= $$8\frac{1}{3}$$ kg

The price of sugar increases by 32%. A family reduces its consumption so that expenditure of the sugar is up by 10% only. If the total consumption of sugar before the price rise was 10 kg per month, then the consumption of sugar per month is approximately-

After the increase of price of oil by 40%, a family decided to reduce its oil consumption so that the expenditure for oil goes up by 26% only. If the total consumption of oil before the price rise was 10 kg per month, then what is the current consumption of oil per month (in kg)?

When the price of whear was increased by 32%, a family reduced its consumption in such a way that the expenditure on wheat was only 10% more than before. If 30 kg per month were consumed before, find the new monthly consumption of family?

Every month a man consumes 25 kg rice and 9 kg wheat. The price of rice is 20% of the price of wheat and thus he spends total Rs. 350 on the rice and wheat per month. If the price of wheat is increased by 20% then what is the percentage reduction of rice consumption for the same expenditure of Rs. 350? Given that the price of rice and consumption of wheat is constant :

If the demand for a good is price elastic, a fall in its price will lead to:
(i) A rise in sales
(ii) A fall in sales
(iii) A rise in total expenditure on the good
(iv) A fall in total expenditure on the good

The price of the sugar rise by 25%. If a family wants to keep their expenses on sugar the same as earlier, the family will have to decrease its consumption of sugar by

If 6 years are subtracted from the present age of Ayush and takes 25% of that then we get the present age of his only son. 4 years ago, his daughters age is 7 years more than his son. Sum of daughters present age and his wifes present age is 10 years more than Ayushs present age then find the present age of Ayush if average of present age of entire family is 30.25 yr?

Mr. Kashem requires 7.50 kg of sugar every month. The price of sugar increased by 20% in the month of Ramadan. What is his consumption of sugar in Ramadan if spends the same amount of money for sugar?

A cam should be designed only using uniform rise and fall within half of the cam, the remaining is dwell period, and without any dwell period in between the rise -fall periods and rise and fall periods should be same. The maximum rise in follower is 30 mm. How much the follower will rise when the follower is 120 degrees from its initial position of a cam?

A cam should be designed only using uniform rise and fall within half of the cam, the remaining is dwell period, and without any dwell period in between the rise-fall periods and rise and fall periods should be same. The maximum rise in follower is 45 mm. How much the follower will rise when the follower is 45 degrees from its initial position of a cam?