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AQuA-RAT train #18454 · Arithmetic · Decimals & percentages

In a hostel, the number of students decreased by 15% and the…

In a hostel, the number of students decreased by 15% and the price of food increased by 20% over the previous year. If each student consumes the same amount of food then By how much should the consumption of food be cut short by every student, so that the total cost of the food remains the same as that of the previous year?

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AQuA-RAT — Algebra Question Answering with Rationales (Ling et al., DeepMind, 2017) · train #18454

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