Question

A fruit- seller sells 8 banana for a rupee gaining 25%. How banana did he buy for a rupee .

Answer 1

A fruit - seller sells 8 banana for a rupee and gained 25% profit

It means that a rupee is 125 % of his cost

125% = one rupees (1)

Then 1 % is

1 % = 1 ÷ 125

Then 100 % equal is

100 % = 1 × 100 ÷ 125

100 % = 0.80

It means cost price is 0.80 rupees


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