In a certain department store, which has four sizes of a
specific shirt, there are 1/3 as many small shirts as medium
shirts, and 1/2 as many large shirts as small shirts. If
there are as many x-large shirts as large shirts, what
percent of the shirts in the store are medium?
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Answer / navneet
Correct answer is :
S=1/3M
L=1/2S
x=L
this leads to 1/3M + 1/3 M + M =100
....
M=60%
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Answer / ashish
as per my undersanding
S=1/3M
L=1/2S
X=L
so total percentage of M size shirt:
1/3M+M+1/6M+1/6M=100
1/3M+M+1/3M=100
5/3M=100
M=60%
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Answer / karthik
guess small shirts as 30
then medium shirts will be= 1/3=10
then large shirts will be= 1/2=5
then x-large shirts will be =5
so the total no. of shirts in store is= 30+10+5+5=50
therefore percent of the shirts in the store
are medium is = 30/50=60%
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Answer / vishwajeet
ANSWER IS 66.6%
S=1/3M
L=1/2S
X=L
WRITING ALL SHIRTS IN TERMS OF MEDIUM SHIRT WE HAVE-
1/3M+M+1/6M =100 (L=1/2S=1/2*1/3M=1/6M)
M=66.6%
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