{"id":165542,"date":"2024-03-27T15:36:05","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T10:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=165542"},"modified":"2024-03-27T15:36:07","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T10:06:07","slug":"pihu-has-to-do-a-multiplication-instead-of-taking-32-as-one-of-the-multipliers-he-took-23-as-a-result-the-product-went","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/pihu-has-to-do-a-multiplication-instead-of-taking-32-as-one-of-the-multipliers-he-took-23-as-a-result-the-product-went\/","title":{"rendered":"Pihu has to do a multiplication. Instead of taking 32 as one of the multipliers, he took 23. As a result the product went"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> <p class=\"MsoNormal\">Pihu has to do a multiplication. Instead of taking 32 as one of the multipliers, he took 23. As a result the product went down by 72. What is the sum of the digits of the new product?<\/p> <p class=\"MsoNormal\">a)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 15<\/p> <p class=\"MsoNormal\">b)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 14<\/p> <p class=\"MsoNormal\"><b>c)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 13<\/b><\/p> <p class=\"MsoNormal\">d)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 12<\/p> <p class=\"MsoNormal\">Sol:<\/p> <p class=\"MsoNormal\">Number = y <\/p> <p class=\"MsoNormal\">Decrease in number = 32y \u2013 23y<\/p> <p class=\"MsoNormal\">= 9y <\/p> <p class=\"MsoNormal\">9y = 72 <\/p> <p class=\"MsoNormal\">y = 8<\/p> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"236\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-284-1024x236.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-165543\" style=\"width:208px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-284-1024x236.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-284-300x69.png 300w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-284-767x177.png 767w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-284-1536x354.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-284-2048x473.png 2048w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-284-650x150.png 650w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-284-100x23.png 100w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-284-1517x350.png 1517w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-284-788x181.png 788w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-284.png 247w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pihu has to do a multiplication. Instead of taking 32 as one of the multipliers, he took 23. As a result the product went down by 72. What is the sum of the digits of the new product? a)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 15 b)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 14 c)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 13 d)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 12 Sol: Number = y Decrease in number = 32y [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":165544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5139],"class_list":["post-165542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quantitative-aptitude","tag-quantitative-aptitude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165545,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165542\/revisions\/165545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}