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Petrol costing 80p a litre has a price increase of 20%. What is the cost per litre now? Help!!!

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Answer:


So new price of per liter petrol is 96 p

Explanation:

Given:

Price of Petrol = 80p

Increase in price = 20%

To find :

Cost per liter = ?

Solution:

As it is given that old price of petrol is 80p

Increase in price = 20 % of Old Price

New Price = Old price + Increase in price

Now first we will find increase in price

Increase in price = 20 % of 80

It could be written as

=
(20)/(100)*80

=
(1600)/(100)

Increase in price = 16 p

New price = old price + original price

= 80 p + 16 p

= 96 p

So new price of per liter petrol is 96 p

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