In a competitive examination in a state A, 10% candidates got selected from the total appeared candidates. State B had an equal number of candidates appeared and 12% candidates got selected with 100 more candidates got selected than A. What was the number of candidates appeared from each state?
Answers.
A) 4000	B) 5000	C) 5500	D) 6500	E) 4200
Let the number of candidates appeared be x   then, 12% of x - 10% of x = 100   2% of x = 100   x = 100*100/2= 
<gadget id="calculator">100*100/2</gadget>
<output>5_000</output>
5000   Answer is 5000
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In a competitive examination in a state A, 10% candidates got selected from the total appeared candidates. State B had an equal number of candidates appeared and 12% candidates got selected with 100 more candidates got selected than A. What was the number of candidates appeared from each state?