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    The price of rice is increased by 20 percent and a person decrease his consumption by 15 percent, so his expenditure on rice is-

     

    increase by 2 percent
     

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    increase by 4 percent
     

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    decrease by 2 percent
     

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    decrease by 4 percent

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    Explanation:

    Let initial price of rice – 100 and new price of rice – 120
    suppose initial consumption is 100kg and new consumption is 85kg
    Initial expenditure = 10000
    New expenditure = 10200
    (200/10000)*100 = 2 percent increase


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