Question

5. A shopkeeper earns a profit of 3 per pen sold and a loss of 1 per pencil sold.
(a) The shopkeeper sells 52 pens and 23 pencils in a day. What is his profit or loss
(b) What is the number of pens he must sell so as to have neither profit nor lows if the number pencils sold are 102​

Answer 1

Answer:

profit =102

Step-by-step explanation:

The profit of the shopkeeper =

52 x  3=  156

the profit of shopkeeper=

23 x 1 =23

n =102 profit =102