Question

a man sells two articles for 5000 rupees neither losing your gaining if he sold one of them at profit of 25% the article should be sold at a loss of​

Answer 1

Here , SP of each article = $ 5000

at a gain of 25%,

CP of first article = 5000 ×

100

= $ 4000

125

∴ Loss on second article = $ 1000

∴ CP of second article = $ 6000

∴ If the loss percent be y%,

then

6000 × y

= 1000

100