at a contest with 2000 participants , 1 / 2 of the people are aged 16 to 18 . next year , the number of people aged 16 to 18 will increase by 1 / 4 . after this change , what percentage of the total 2000 people will the 16 - to 18 - year - olds represent ?
i just wanted to mention a couple of things here : * this is a pure ratio question ; the number 2000 is completely irrelevant , and you can ignore it if you like . when we increase something by 1 / 4 , we are multiplying it by 1 + 1 / 4 = 5 / 4 , so the answer here must be ( 1 / 2 ) * ( 5 / 4 ) = 5 / 8 = 62.50 % . answer : a
multiply(divide(multiply(divide(2000, const_2), add(const_1, divide(1, 4))), 2000), const_100)