Sunny marks up his goods by 40% and gives a discount of 10%. Apart fro...
Since he sells the goods at a discount the selling price will be (40% - 10%) = 30% profit.
The profit is 30%.
Lets take the buying price as x.
The profit on the 1000g rather 1 kg will be 30% of x.
This gives us 0.3x
In reality this is the profit for 800 g.
The profit he gets for 1000g will be :
1000/800 × 0.3x = 0.375x
To change this to percentage it becomes :
0.375x/x × 100% = 37.5
The overall percentage profit gained by the seller will be given as : 37.5%
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Sunny marks up his goods by 40% and gives a discount of 10%. Apart fro...
Marking up on cost price and discount is on marked price
cp = c
mp = 1.4c
d= 0.1mp = 0.14c
sp = mp-d = 1.26c, which is for 800g
For 1000g it is 1000*1.26c/0.8 = 1.575c = actual sp
profit % = sp - cp /cp = 57.5
Sunny marks up his goods by 40% and gives a discount of 10%. Apart fro...
Given:
- Sunny marks up his goods by 40%
- He gives a discount of 10%
- He uses a faulty balance which reads 800 gms for 1000 gms
To find: Net profit/loss percentage
Solution:
Let's assume the cost price of the goods to be Rs. 100
- Sunny marks up his goods by 40%, so the selling price becomes Rs. 140
- He gives a discount of 10%, so the selling price becomes Rs. 126
- Now, Sunny uses a faulty balance which reads 800 gms for 1000 gms, so effectively he is selling only 800 gms of goods for Rs. 126
- So, the selling price for 1000 gms of goods becomes Rs. 157.5 (126/800*1000)
- Therefore, Sunny's profit becomes Rs. 57.5 (157.5 - 100)
- Net profit percentage = (Profit/Cost price) * 100 = (57.5/100) * 100 = 57.5%
However, this is not the final answer as we need to consider the effect of the faulty balance. Since Sunny is selling only 800 gms of goods instead of 1000 gms, his profit percentage will decrease.
Let's calculate the actual profit percentage:
- Sunny's profit for 800 gms of goods becomes Rs. 46 (126/800*800 - 100)
- Net profit percentage = (Profit/Cost price) * 100 = (46/100) * 100 = 46%
But we need to calculate the net profit/loss percentage, which takes into account the effect of both the markup and the faulty balance.
To calculate the net profit/loss percentage, we need to use the following formula:
Net profit/loss percentage = [(Selling price with markup - cost price with faulty balance)/cost price with faulty balance] * 100
Plugging in the values, we get:
Net profit/loss percentage = [(157.5 - 100)/100] * 100 = 57.5%
Therefore, the final answer is option A) 37.5%.