a shopkeeper had 4500 apples and oranges.at the end of the day,the number of apples decrease by30% and the number of oranges decrease by 60%. the shop keeper then found that he had 40% more apples than oranges.how many more oranges than apples did the shopkeeper have at the start of the day?

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The water level in tank A and tank B was 8 cm at first .if all the water from tank B is poured into tank A,the water level in tank A would be 18cm.given that the base area of tank B is 150 cm2 larger than the base area of tank A.what was the volume of water in tank A at first

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WJ,thomas,and judi shared a box of pencils .the number of pencils wj had was 1/2 of the total number of pencils Thomas and judi had.the number of pencils wj and Thomas had was 2/3 of the number of pencils judi had.if Thomas had 80 fewer pencils than wj ,find the total number of pencils in the box.

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6-3=3----->this is the difference between both the times that they ate.

240-60=180
180/3=60
60x6=360
360+60=420
60x3=180

Ans:sharon:420
may:180

Tom started running from point X in an clock wise direction and joan started running from point Y in anti clock wise direction on 400m track. They started running from directly opposite ends of the track at the same time .Tom ran at an average speed of 160m/min while joan ran at an average speed of 200m/min.How far would tom have run by the time they passed each other second time on the track?

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both shops A and B offered 15% discount for the same type of mattress. if Mr kushu were to buy from B he would have paid $38.25 less than the discounted price in shop A.

a)what was the difference in the original price of the mattress between the two shops
b)the original price of the mattress in shop A was $1510.what was the minimum percentage discount it must offer so that the discounted price in shop A would be lower than the discounted price in shop B?
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the tickets for a circus show are priced at $150 and $88. the ratio of the number of $150 tickets to the number of $88 tickets is 2:3. 3/4 of the $150 tickets and all the $88 tickets were sold.the tickets sales amounted to $78240 how much more would have been collected if all the tickets were sold

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john had 20% more stickers than keming .liling had 40% fewer stickers than john. liling lost 25% of her stickers and she had 540 stickers left .keming bought some stickers and the number of stickers that he had increased by10%.how many stickers did the 3 children have in the end?

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but when they exchange 1/4 and 2/5 of their cards not equal plz explain

1/4 of 120=30 and 2/5 of 420=168
so 90+168=258
and 420-168+30=282