At a cost of $60$ paise per article, Sarika produces $750$ articles. She puts the selling price such that if only $600$ articles are sold, she would have made a profit of $40 \%$ on the outlay. However, $120$ articles got spoilt and she was able to sell $630$ articles at this price. Find her actual profit or loss percent as the percentage of total outlay assuming that the unsold articles are useless.
At a cost of $60$ paise per article, Sarika produces $750$ articles. She puts the selling price such that if only $600$ articles are sold, she would have made a profit of $40 \%$ on the outlay. However, $120$ articles got spoilt and she was able to sell $630$ articles at this price. Find her actual profit or loss percent as the percentage of total outlay assuming that the unsold articles are useless.
- A
$47 \%$ profit
- B
$51 \%$ profit
- C
$36 \%$ loss
- D
$28 \%$ loss
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