CAT 2023 Percentages Question (Hard)

Question

The population of a town in 2020 was 100000 . The population decreased by y from the year 2020 to 2021 , and increased by x from the year 2021 to 2022, where x and y are two natural numbers. If population in 2022 was greater than the population in 2020 and the difference between x and y is 10 , then

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Given The population in 2020 is 100000. From 2020 to 2021 the population decreases by , and from 2021 to 2022 it increases by . Here and are natural numbers, , and the population in 2022 is greater than in 2020. Goal Find the lowest possible population in 2021. 1. Express the population in 2021 and

CAT 2023 Percentages — Previous Year Question

CAT 2023

Quantitative

Percentages

Hard

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