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

• 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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• c)
  1. 20%
  2. 25% = 200/800
  3. 16.66% = 20/120
  4. 22.22% = 20/90
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• Lst option has to be. 3,1,4,2
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• @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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• the answer should be in the form
  
  iii=i
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• krishna kanth u r ryt..
  i also did the same yesterday.. :)
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• @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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• 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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• are u sure this question is correct??
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• yes it is toatlly correct
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• @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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• @PRANSHU CHAURASIA
  yes, like that only
  
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• answer will be 3
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• @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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• @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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• 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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