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Question 1069004: Hello!can you please help me with this question:
Out of 200 mangoes in a basket, 40 were found rotten. find the rate of
(i) good mangoes to the total number of mangoes.
(ii) rotten mangoes to the number of good mangoes.

Answer by addingup(3677) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Ratio:
Out of 200 mangoes in a basket, 40 were found rotten
40/200 simplify, divide both by 40: 1/5 or 1:5. So 1 out of 5 were rotten.
The rest is easy to do, try it. If you have problems send me an email and I'll help you out cyboy002@juno.com
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John