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At the end of year X, automobile installment credit accounted for 36% of all outstanding consumer installment credit. At that time automobile finance companies extended $57 billion of credit, or 1/3 of the automobile installment credit. How many billion dollars of consumer installment credit was outstanding at that time?
A. 62
B. 171
C. 475
D. 513
E. 684
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CROSS MULTIPLY
Let all outstanding consumer installment credit = 100
automobile installment credit = 36% of 100
= 36
1/3rd of automobile credit= ( 1/3 ) * 36 = 12
Now as given,
= 57 billion = 1/3rd of automobile credit= ( 1/3 ) * 36 = 12
automobile credit outstanding consumer installment credit
12 100
57 X
X= (57 * 100)/12
= 475
ANSWER C