A person sells 36 oranges per Rs., 1 and makes a loss of 4 % . Find how many oranges per Rs to be so

English

Gujarati

Hindi

7.Profit and Loss

hard

A person sells $36$ oranges per $Rs.\, 1$ and makes a loss of $4 \% .$ Find how many oranges per $Rs$ to be sold to have a gain of $8 \% ?$

A

$\frac{1}{32}$

B

$5$

C

$\frac{1}{16}$

D

None of these

Solution

We have,

$S.P _{1}=$ Selling price of one orange $=₹ \frac{1}{36}$

$x=-4, y=8$

Using the formula, $\frac{ S.P _{1}}{100+x}=\frac{ S.P _{2}}{100+y}$

we get, $\frac{1 / 36}{100-4}=\frac{ S.P. _{2}}{100+8} \Rightarrow S.P _{2}=\frac{108}{96} \times \frac{1}{36}=\frac{1}{32}$

Standard 13

Quantitative Aptitude

Share

Similar Questions

A man sells an article at $5 \%$ above its cost price. If he had bought it at $5 \%$ less than what he had paid for it and sold it at $Rs.\, 2$ less, he would have gained $10 \% .$ The cost price of the article is (in $Rs.$)

hard

By selling an article for $Rs.\, 102,$ there is a loss of $15 \%$ When the article is sold for $RS.\,134.40,$ the net result in the transaction is

medium

Vijay sold a watch at a gain of $5 \%$. Had he sold it for $Rs.\, 72$ more, he would have gained $13 \%$. Find out the cost price of the watch. (in $Rs.$)

hard

A man buys an article for $Rs.\;27.50$ and sells it for $Rs.\, 28.60.$ Find the gain percent?

easy

On an order of $5$ dozen boxes of a consumer product, a retailer receives an extra dozen free. This is equivalent to allowing him a discount of……..$\%$

easy