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By jainsanjiv
@jainsanjiv (29)
India
May 12, 2007 4:12am CST
SOlve this problem
A person started a poultry with 40 chickens and foodings for 5 weeks .But every week he sold 5 chickens so that he had some foodings left even after he had sold off all the chickens .What is the amount as a percentage of the original quantity ?
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@josephperera (2906)
• Sri Lanka
19 May 07
He has 40 chicken and 5 weeks of food. So we can say that he has (40x5) 200 chick weeks of food. If he keeps only 1 chicken he can feed it for 200 weeks. But 2 chicken only for 100 weeks.
Now how many chicken weeks did he spend. He kept selling his chicken, and everyweek the chicken he fed reduced. It was 40,35,30,25,20,15,10,5. This adds up to 180. So he had to spend only 180 chicken weeks of his food.
Now out of 200, 20 is left. It is 10%.
