0 votes 0 votes A candidate was asked to find $7/8$th of a positive number; he found $7/18$th of the same by mistake. If his answer was $770$ less than the correct one, then the original given number was $1260$ $6160$ $1584$ None of these Quantitative Aptitude cat1997 quantitative-aptitude + – makhdoom ghaya asked May 30, 2017 makhdoom ghaya 8.1k points 556 views answer comment Share See all 0 reply Please log in or register to add a comment.
0 votes 0 votes Let the number be 72x 7/18 of the number will be 28x 7/8 of the number will be 63x It is given that 63x - 28x = 770 which gives x = 770/35 = 22 Original number is 72*22 = 1584 (Option C) mudit23june answered Jun 27, 2017 mudit23june 346 points comment Share See all 0 reply Please log in or register to add a comment.