At Mumbai University, in the year 2021-22, 49,000 seats were available for admission to different courses at the graduation level. Out of these, 28200 seats were for the students of the general category while 7,400 seats were reserved for SC and 3,700 seats for ST. Find the total percentage of seats available for the students of both the SC category and the ST category.

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21.65%

22.65%

21.55%

22.55%

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From the given data, we have,
The number of seats reserved for the students of the SC category is 7,400.
The number of seats reserved for the students of the ST category is 3,700.
Therefore, the total number of seats reserved for both the students of the SC and ST category

= 7400 + 3700 = 11100.

Now the total number of seats available for admission is 49,000.
Let the total percentage of seats available for the students of both the SC category and ST category is