Question

A fruit seller gets profit of Rs. 10 per kg on apples and loss of Rs. 8 per kg on oranges.
a) if he sold 5 kg of apples and 20 kg of oranges in a day, find the total profit or loss.
b) if 15 kg of oranges are sold then to get a profit of Rs. 50 how many kilograms of apples should be sold​

Answer 1

1 kg of apple ( + 10 rupee) and 1 kg of( -8) on orange .

(a) .. profit = 5×(10) --20×(8)

....,. = 50-160 = -110..

the total loss is 110.

(B).15×8= 120. . ... is the loss when it sold the orange .

to get 50 rupees profit we need 50 more profit from the loss.

so, we need 17 kg of apple .

Answer 2

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CP 80 × 25 =2000

SP shoud be 2400 (20% profit)

CP of 30 kgs = 750 . He sold it at a loss of 10% ie for Rs 675

Remaining 50 kgs he should sell for Rs 1725 i.e at Rs 34.50