Salem uncle of our village used
of this savings to buy a house after his retirement from a government job. One day after falling in trouble, he sold his house and got 5% more than his cost price. If he would have taken Rs. 3450 rupees more then he would get 8% more than his cost price. Let’s find the amount of money Salem uncle used to buy his house, and his entire savings.
Let salem uncle savings is x.
� part of savings is
which he used to buy the house.
After selling it he got 5% more than the cost price i.e ![]()
8% more than cost price is e ![]()
According to the question,
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3x = 3450 × 200
3x = 690000
X = Rs 230000
So, the cost of house is ![]()
= Rs 115000
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