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In the past year, the number of frogs living in a pond has increased by 10% to 528, and the number of newts living there has increased by 15% to 621. How many frogs and how many newts lives in the pond a year ago.

And also this question

An estate agent is a reduced the price of a house by 4%. If the house is now for sale at £192 000, what was the original price.

Reply 1

Muttley79

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Original post by NavyBitz

In the past year, the number of frogs living in a pond has increased by 10% to 528, and the number of newts living there has increased by 15% to 621. How many frogs and how many newts lives in the pond a year ago.

And also this question

An estate agent is a reduced the price of a house by 4%. If the house is now for sale at £192 000, what was the original price.

What have you got so far?

Reply 2

Kallisto

Entertainment Forum Helper

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Original post by NavyBitz

In the past year, the number of frogs living in a pond has increased by 10% to 528, and the number of newts living there has increased by 15% to 621. How many frogs and how many newts lives in the pond a year ago.

And also this question

An estate agent is a reduced the price of a house by 4%. If the house is now for sale at £192 000, what was the original price.

In your tasks you just have to calculate the values before increasing or reducing. Use the percent values to come to those.

For the task above, the values were smaller and for the one below they were bigger before changing by percentage value.