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GMAT Prep No. Percentage

by taneja.niks » Sun Oct 24, 2010 1:01 am
A city with population 132000 is to be divided into 11 voting districts, and no district is to have a population that is more than 10% greater than population of any other district. What is minimum possible population of the least populated district?

a) 10700
b) 10800
c) 10900
d) 11000
e) 11100

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by NKB » Sun Oct 24, 2010 1:16 am
The minimum population that a town can have is x (say)
Any other town can at the max have 1.1x
Now as we need to minimize the x so we can assume that the other 10 town have 1.1x population

So total = x + 10*1.1*x
= 12x
And from question we have total population = 132000

==> 132000= 12x
==> x= 11000
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