The price of sugar increases by 20%, by what % should a housewife reduce the consumption of sugar so that expenditure on sugar can be same as before ?



The price of sugar increases by 20%, by what % should a housewife reduce the consumption of sugar so..

Answer / Dheeran Singh

The housewife should reduce the consumption of sugar by 16.67%.

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