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  1. February 5th 2010, 05:22 AM #1
    lebanon
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    Thumbs down Percentage reduction in original and selling prices.

    An article is worth 495 euros
    After reduction its cost will be 396 euros
    what is the percentage of reduction with respect to
    1)Its original price
    2) selling price
    Last edited by mr fantastic; February 5th 2010 at 12:19 PM. Reason: Changed post title
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  2. February 5th 2010, 02:14 PM #2
    TKHunny
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    What is the reduction?

    Once you have that, you are down to two division problems and you are done.
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