a shopekeeper earns a profit of rs. 2 by selling a pen and incurs a loss of 25 paise per pencil while selling his old stock . if he sells 50 pens and their is neither profit nor loss , find the number of pencil he sold?
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if he sells 50 pens
his profit= 50×2= 100Rs.
{1Rs. = 100p
100Rs. = 10000p}
loss on selling 1 pencil = 25p
then
the loss of 10000p
will be on
selling 10000/25 =400 pencils.
answer = he sold 400 pencils.
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