Question 14

A shopkeeper claims to sell rice at cost price. He uses a false weight with the intention of selling rice at 25% profit. After selling Rice to a customer, he realizes that the customer has paid 10% less than what he should have paid. What is the actual profit percentage made by the shopkeeper?

Name: A shopkeeper claims to sell rice at cost price. He uses a false weight with the intention of selling rice at 25% profit. After selling Rice to a customer, he realizes that the customer has paid 10% less than what he should have paid. What is the actual profit percentage made by the shopkeeper?
Uploaded: 2022-01-03T14:04:02.661578+05:30
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Description: A shopkeeper claims to sell rice at cost price. He uses a false weight with the intention of selling rice at 25% profit. After selling Rice to a customer, he realizes that the customer has paid 10% less than what he should have paid. What is the actual profit percentage made by the shopkeeper?

Solution

Let cost price be 1000 per Kg of rice
Now to make 25% profit at 1000
He will sell 800 gm of rice
Now C.P of 800 gm of rice = 800
Now he sold at 10% less than 1000 so S.P = 900
Now therefore profit = $$\frac{900-800}{800}\times\ 100\ =\ \frac{100}{8}=12.5\ \%$$

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