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A person has money to buy 25 cycles worth Rs. 500 each. How many cycles he will be able to buy if each cycle is costing Rs. 125 more?

Let the number of cycles be


Increased cost of one cycles is = 500 + 125 = Rs 625














Cost (Rs)



500



625



Number of cycles



25



x






Therefore the number of cycles is 20


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