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In a school 50% of the students like apples, 45% like oranges and 25% neither like apples nor oranges. What is the percent of the students like both the fruits?
Asked by parveenk_chaudhary | 19 Dec, 2018, 11:29: AM
answered-by-expert Expert Answer
Let x % of students like both fruits.
Hence (50-x)% of students like only apple and (45-x)% of students like only orange.
 
Hence we have,  (50-x)+x+(45-x)+25 = 100 
if we solve the above equation for x, we get x = 20. Hence 20% of students like both fruits
Answered by Thiyagarajan K | 19 Dec, 2018, 12:13: PM
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