Question

75 unfinished articles of the same kind were bought for Rupees 1275 and 3 rupees per article was spent on their finishing find the profit percent if one third of these articles were sold at 26 rupees each and the remaining at 22 rupees

Answer 1

Let the cost of one article he x then cost of one article =
1275/75=17rs
Cost of finishing =rs
3
So cost price of each article is rs20
25 articles are sold@26 each
So selling price =25×26=650 _1

Cost price =25×20=500
Selling price of rest 50 is 50×22=1100
Cost price=20 ×50=1000
Profit percent= selling price-costprice/costprice×100
=1100+650-(1000+500)/1500×100
=16.6%