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A survey of magazine reading habits of the people living in five cities P, Q, R, S and T is summarised in a table given below. The column I in the table gives percentage of magazine-readers in each city who read only magazine a week. The column II gives the total number of magazine-readers who read two or more magazine a week. Read the table and then answer these questions

  City

     I

   II

    P

75

6000

   Q

80

3500

   R

60

3000

   S

55

2700

   T

25

4200

The highest number of magazine-readers in any city is

 

(a)

17500

(b)

18000

(c)

24000

(d)

30000



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A survey of magazine reading habits of the people living in five cities P, Q, R, S and T is summarised in a table given below. The column I in the table gives percentage of magazine-readers in each city who read only magazine a week. The column II gives the total number of magazine-readers who read two or more magazine a week. Read the table and then answer these questions

  City

     I

   II

    P

75

6000

   Q

80

3500

   R

60

3000

   S

55

2700

   T

25

4200

The highest number of magazine-readers in any city is

 

(a)

17500

(b)

18000

(c)

24000

(d)

30000

1 Answer
127 votes
Answer Key / Explanation : (c) -

Let the number of  magazine-readers in the city P if

Then,  of

Number of readers in P, reading only one magazine a week =

Similarly we can find these values in other cases. Thus, we have that following table:

       City

No. of          

 magazine-readers

   No. of reading only one magazine a week

       P

    24000

    18000

       Q

    17500

    14000

       R

    7500

    4500

       S

    6000

    3300

       T

    5600

    1400

The highest number of magazine-readers is 24000.

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