Question

A man suffers a loss of 25% by selling articles at the rate of Rs. 432 per dozen. The cost price of the article per dozen was

Answer 1

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$$\begin{gathered} Costpriceofarticles=\left(\frac{100}{100-Loss\%}\right)\times S.P \\ =\left(\frac{100}{100-25}\right)432 \\ =\frac{100}{75}\times 432 \\ =\frac{4}{3}\times 432 \\ =4\times 144 \\ =Rs576 \\ Therefore,CostpriceofarticlesperdozenisRs576 \end{gathered}$$
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