{"id":18522,"date":"2026-05-03T17:14:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T11:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/use-algebra-with-percent-change-154\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T17:14:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T11:14:23","slug":"use-algebra-with-percent-change-154","status":"publish","type":"mcq","link":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/use-algebra-with-percent-change-154\/","title":{"rendered":"Use Algebra With Percent Change 154"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A quantity increases by 25% and becomes 100. What was the original quantity?<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"quiz-options wp-block-list\">\n<li>75<\/li>\n<li>50<\/li>\n<li>80<\/li>\n<li>400<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","topic":[2705,2706,2727],"subject":[1425],"education_level":[1894],"class_list":["post-18522","mcq","type-mcq","status-publish","hentry","topic-algebra","topic-linear-equations","topic-percent","subject-mathematics","education_level-grade-8"],"mcq_note":"Let the original quantity be x. After a 25% increase, the new value is 125% of x, so 1.25x = 100. Dividing gives x = 80.","mcq_options":[{"right":"no","answer":"75"},{"right":"no","answer":"50"},{"right":"yes","answer":"80"},{"right":"no","answer":"400"}],"multi_answers":"no","subject_terms":[{"id":1425,"title":"Mathematics","slug":"mathematics"}],"topic_terms":[{"id":2705,"title":"Algebra","slug":"algebra"},{"id":2706,"title":"Linear Equations","slug":"linear-equations"},{"id":2727,"title":"Percent","slug":"percent"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq\/18522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mcq"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=18522"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=18522"},{"taxonomy":"education_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/education_level?post=18522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}