SOLUTION: The price of one kilogram sugar is RS.200 this has increased by 25%.What percentage of sugar intake be decreased so that there would be no increase in the expenditure?

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Question 1122114: The price of one kilogram sugar is RS.200 this has increased by 25%.What percentage of sugar intake be decreased so that there would be no increase in the expenditure?
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The price has been multiplied by a factor of 125%, or 1.25, or 5/4.

For the total expenditure to remain the same, the amount purchased must be multiplied by a factor of 4/5, or .80, or 80%.

80% means a reduction of 20%.

Answer: decrease intake by 20%.