there are more than 501 students in a school such that 20% of them exactly took physics and 28% of them exactly took math. What could be the least possible no of students in the school?
A
550
B
570
C
600
D
700
E
none of these
Correct answer: E
Explanation
20% means 1/5 and 28% means 7/25,taking the lcm of the denominators 5 and 25 we get 25,the least multiple of 25 which is greater than 501 is 525. So, answer is none
Source: Algebra word problems from the AQuA-RAT dataset (Ling et al., 2017), published by Google DeepMind under the Apache License 2.0.
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