Question

a dishonest shopkeeper profess to sell sugar at its cost price but uses a weight of 980 gram for 1 kg find his profit percent

Answer 1

Answer: profit percent is 6.38%.

Explanation:

Since we have given that a dishonest shopkeeper tries to sell sugar at its cost price but uses a weight of 980 g instead of 1 kg.

So, there is formula for this i.e.

Here, in our question , used weight is 940g

and error is given by

So, our profit percent is given by

Hence, profit percent is 6.38%.