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a sugar seller starts gaining profit as various manners....
1)selling the sugar at 20% more of cost price.
2)use 800gm weight for 1 kg weight and sells it at cp.
3)add 20% impurity and sell it at cp.
4) use 900gm weight for 1 kg weight and sell at 10% more of cp..

if he start noticing total profit in each case for 4 months in increasing manner.
what would be the pattern?

a)1,2,3,4
b)1,4,3,2
c)3,4,1,2
d)4,2,1,2

Asked In Elitmus jitesh bhojwani (9 years ago)

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krishna kanth  (9 years ago)

ANS: 1,4,3,2 (2)
In 1st case it is 20%
2nd case 25% profit i.e 200/800*100
3rd case it is similar to 2nd but here we are adding impurity so am not taking it as free so it is less than 25% but greater than 22.22
4th case assume Rs.100 as cost of 1 kg
am selling 900g for Rs.110 according to the condition
so profit is 20/90=.2222
Therefore order is 1,4,3,2

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shivam asthana  (9 years ago)

c)
1. 20%
2. 25% = 200/800
3. 16.66% = 20/120
4. 22.22% = 20/90

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Niraj Ojha  (9 years ago)

Lst option has to be. 3,1,4,2

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shivam asthana  (9 years ago)

@krishna
let us assume there are 100g sugar and if u mix 20g impurity(cost 0 rs) than total ammount will become 120g.
now cost price of sugar assume 100 rs for 100g
now he will sell the sugar of 100 rs. for 100g.
in 100g (mix + sugar) there will be 83.33g(100*100/120) of pure sugar.
means in 100 rs he sold 83.3g(83.33 rs) sugar and buy 100g(100 rs) of sugar.
gain = 16.66/100= 16.66%

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sumit kumar  (9 years ago)

the answer should be in the form

iii=i

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jitesh bhojwani  (9 years ago)

krishna kanth u r ryt..
i also did the same yesterday.. :)

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Pranshu Chaurasia  (9 years ago)

@Krishna Kanth did you add the cost of impurity in (iii) case???a/c to my calculation if impurity cost is nothing then total profit is around 16.70%.
Plz tell

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sayan kumar nandy  (9 years ago)

it's option c.
because it's been said that increasing order so minimum profit will be placed in 1st placed.. if it would decreasing order then option b would be right!!!

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Prakash Singh  (9 years ago)

are u sure this question is correct??

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jitesh bhojwani  (9 years ago)

yes it is toatlly correct

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krishna kanth  (9 years ago)

@PRANSHU CHAURASIA
if u take impurity cost as Rs.0 then it will be same as 2nd option
i.e. like this
20% of 1kg is impurities i.e. it consist only 800g of pure sugar
so we are selling 800g at cost of 1kg sugar

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krishna kanth  (9 years ago)

@PRANSHU CHAURASIA
yes, like that only

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sumit kumar  (9 years ago)

answer will be 3

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krishna kanth  (9 years ago)

@SHIVAM ASTHANA
according to you
at last step u had taken for 100 instead of 83.33
u has to take like this
16.66/83.33

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shivam asthana  (9 years ago)

@krishna
ya i consider that thing bt it will be actually 20/120(change in weight or item/ sold item or weight) bt to explain you i use this way in which shopkeeper got 16.66 rs on wasting just 100 rs and he will get 16.66% profit.
a/c to me..........two option can't be same....... 20% in both the case 1st n 3rd

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shivam asthana  (9 years ago)

c) option is 3,1,4,2 not 3,4,1,2
and 3=1= 20%
so, right option is c.
i think
i was wrong earlier and the profit in case of 3rd will be same as in 1.

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