what will be the percentage profit of selling one litre milk.?
statement 1) 16 litre of milk is sold at cost price after adding 20% water to it.

statement 2) the cost price of one litre milk is Rs.16.

• Ans is a.
  see
  16 ltr milk let per letr price x then 16x is cost price befor adding water
  after adding 20% water milk+ water =19.2 ltr let the x is per ltr cost then 19.2x
  so
  (19.2x-16x)/16x=20%
  let me know if wrong
• 8 years agoHelpfull: Yes(33) No(7)
• 20% water..so milk =80% of 16=12.8 lit is milk
  12.8 l is sold at 16/lit..
  so..16 l is sold at (16*16)/12.8=20
  ..gain=sp-cp=20-16=4
  gain%=(4/16)*100=25%
• 8 years agoHelpfull: Yes(8) No(8)
• 1st statement alone is sufficient to answer this question
• 8 years agoHelpfull: Yes(5) No(1)
• A will be answer
  
• 8 years agoHelpfull: Yes(4) No(0)
• the way u guys are solving is wrong.. in 16 litre of milk 20% water is being added. so there will be 12.8 litre milk... solution provided by SHIPRA SHARIN is quite good.. so the answer of this question will be using both the statements it can be solved..
  from the first statement we will have S.P of one litre milk and in second statement C.P is given.
• 8 years agoHelpfull: Yes(4) No(3)
• 20% water added to 16ltr of milk that means 3.2 ltr water..total solution 19.2 ltr
  so as per question,milk has to sell in cost price i.e. 16/itr.
  
  selling price of milk is =19.2*16=307.2
  original price of milk=16*16=256
  profit =307.2-256=51.2
  percentage of profit=51.2/256*100=20%
• 8 years agoHelpfull: Yes(2) No(1)
• may be using both statements it can be solved.
• 8 years agoHelpfull: Yes(1) No(0)
• i think the ans will be 25%.
• 8 years agoHelpfull: Yes(1) No(2)
• 25 % profit
  
  200gm*100/800gm = 25%
• 8 years agoHelpfull: Yes(0) No(1)
• Admin solution boliye?
• 8 years agoHelpfull: Yes(0) No(0)
• Statement 1 only sufficient to answer the question
  Let 1 ltr milk is of 10 rupees
  the 16 ltr milk costs 16*10=160 rupees
  adding 20% water
  total milk=16+16*20/100=18.2
  then 18.2 ltr milk costs 18.2*10=182 rupees
  profit=22
  profit percentage=(22/160)*100=13.75
• 8 years agoHelpfull: Yes(0) No(2)
• 25%
  16litres milk+20%water(4litres)=20liters mixture
  profit=sp - cp=20*16 -16*16=64
  %profit=(profit/c.p)*100=(64/256)*100=25%
  
• 8 years agoHelpfull: Yes(0) No(2)
• first thing, it is a data sufficiency problem. u have to answer that using which statement this questn can be solved. either a or b, using both or neither of them.
• 8 years agoHelpfull: Yes(0) No(1)
• the way u guys are solving is wrong.. in 16 litre of milk 20% water is being added. so there will be 12.8 litre milk... solution provided by SHIPRA SHARIN is quite good.. so the answer of this question will be using both the statements it can be solved..
  from the first statement we will have S.P of one litre milk and in second statement C.P is given.
• 8 years agoHelpfull: Yes(0) No(2)
• the way u guys are solving is wrong.. in 16 litre of milk 20% water is being added. so there will be 12.8 litre milk... solution provided by SHIPRA SHARIN is quite good.. so the answer of this question will be using both the statements it can be solved..
  from the first statement we will have S.P of one litre milk and in second statement C.P is given.
• 8 years agoHelpfull: Yes(0) No(1)
• u can easily solve this problem by line method which gives the result 25%
• 8 years agoHelpfull: Yes(0) No(0)
• how stmnt 1 can be only sufficient to give the answer ..dilip yadav has also failed to prove it.his equation is meaningless as x got cancelled .without knowing the cost price gain% cant ever be derived..both are required to give the solution.
• 8 years agoHelpfull: Yes(0) No(8)
• only statement 1 is sufficient to answer the question because we can take the cp as x ...and solve by taking one variable and 1 equation.....if we will add 20% water then the total solution will be 19.2 then
  (19.2x-16x)/16x
  20%
  where x is the cp
• 8 years agoHelpfull: Yes(0) No(0)
• Correct answer is: A
  Considering statement 1 ,
  let there be 100 litres of milk and cost is x.
  After adding 20 litres of milk to it Cost price becomes: (x/120)
  So, C.P. of 16 litres is: (x/120)*16.
  S.P is (x/100)*16
  .
  . . Profit is: (SP -CP)/CP *100= (16x/100-16x/120)/16x/120 *100=20%
  
  Statement 2 is not sufficient to answer this question.
• 6 years agoHelpfull: Yes(0) No(0)
• statement 1 is sufficient to answer the above question
  
  http://www.campusgate.co.in/2015/11/elitmus-previous-paper-explanations-4.html
• 6 years agoHelpfull: Yes(0) No(0)