In a village ,60% of the population is engaged in harvesting paddy and out of that 70% are women - PSA - Quantitative Reasoning

Question

In a village ,60% of the population is engaged in harvesting
paddy and out of that 70% are women Of the village population ,
what is approximate percentage of female population engaged in
harvesting?

Ajanta Trivedi · Accepted Answer

let the population be 100
out of 100, 60 are engaged in harvesting
70% of 60 are women
then number of women engaged in harvesting = 60*70100=42
thus % women engaged in harvesting = 42100*100=42%

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In a village ,60% of the population is engaged in harvesting paddy and out of that 70% are women .Of the village population , what is approximate percentage of female population engaged in harvesting?