A shopkeeper professes to sell his goods at cost price but uses a weight of 800, g instead of kilogr

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7.Profit and Loss

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A shopkeeper professes to sell his goods at cost price but uses a weight of $800\, g$ instead of kilogram weight. Thus, he makes a profit of

$20$

$16 \frac{2}{3}$

$25$

None of these

Solution

Profit $\%=\frac{\text { True weight } \sim \text { False weight }}{\text { True weight }} \times 100 \%=\frac{1000 g -800 g }{800 g } \times 100 \%=25 \%$

Standard 13

Quantitative Aptitude

Three successive discounts of $10 \%, 12 \%$ and $15 \%$ will amount to a single discount of in $\%$?

medium

A trader mixes three varieties of groundnuts costing $Rs. \,50, Rs.\, 20$ and $Rs.\, 30$ per $k g$ in the ratio $2: 4: 3$ in terms of weight and sells the mixture at $Rs.\, 33$ per $kg .$ What percentage of profit does he make?

medium

The cost of an article including the sales tax is $Rs.\, 616$. The rate of sales tax is $10 \%$, if the shopkeeper has made a profit of $12 \%$, then the cost price of the article is in $Rs.$?

hard

The cost price of $20$ articles is the same as the selling price of $x$ articles. If the profit is $25 \%$, then the value of $x$ is in $Rs.$

medium

A shopkeeper sold an article for $Rs.\, 400$ after giving $20 \%$ discount on the labelled price and made $30 \%$ profit on the cost price. What would have been the percentage profit, had he not given the discount?

medium

A shopkeeper professes to sell his goods at cost price but uses a weight of $800\, g$ instead of kilogram weight. Thus, he makes a profit of

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