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Cost price of 36 articles is selling price of 24 articles. How many more articles can be bought with the profit obtained from selling these articles.
1) 12 2) 24 3) 36 4) 6

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Ans. 1) 12
cp of 36 article is x
cp of 1 article is x/36
sp of 1 article is x/24
after getting cp profit we get is x/3
so no. of article we bought with this price is (x/3)/(x/36) = 12.
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