SOLUTION: The price of a can of beans was increased by 25%. How many cans can be purchased for the amount of money that was previously used to buy 500 cans?

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Question 884159: The price of a can of beans was increased by 25%. How many cans can be purchased for the amount of money that was previously used to buy 500 cans?
Answer by Fombitz(32388) About Me  (Show Source):
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Previously it cost 500X to buy 500 cans.
Now that the price is 0.75X 500 cans only cost, 500%280.75%29X=375X
So you have 500X-375X=125X left over.
Then you can buy an extra Y cans.
Y=125X%2F%280.75X%29=166.7 cans.
Since you can only buy an integer number of cans, you can buy an extra 166 cans which makes a total of 666 cans.