Q5 of 52 Page 117

Through publicity of road-safety programme, the street accidents in Purulia district are decreased by 10% in comparison to its previous year. If the number of street accidents in this year be 8748, let us write by calculating, the number of street accidents 3 years before in the district.

Let the number of street accidents 3 years before in the district be x.


At present the number of street accidents in that district


By the condition,




x = 12000


The number of street accidents 3 years before in the district was 12000.


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