Question

A dishonest shopkeeper professes to sell suger at his cost price , but uses a 950 g for 1 kg . Find his profit percent .

Answer 1

Let cost price of 1g sugar be Rs.1

Assume he sells 1000g sugar.

Since he uses false weight he actually sells only 950 g sugar.

Therefore actual cost price for him is Rs.950.

Selling price =Rs.1000.

Profit percentage=$\frac{(1000-950)}{950}\times 100$

$=\frac{100}{19}$%