Question

A shopkeeper bought some pencils at rupees 120 per dozen one day poor boy came to the shopkeeper to by 2 pencil but he had only rupees 16 shopkeeper gave him to pencil for rupees 16 find the selling price of the one pencil grinder cost price of one pencil find the shopkeeper loss and loss by the answers. And write answer line by line

Answer 1

price of 1 dozen pencil is 120

price of 1 pencil is 120/12=10

1 dozen = 12

the poor boy buy 2 pencil for 16 rupee

and 1 pencil for 16/2=8

cost price of 2 pencil is 20

selling price of 2 pencil is 16

cost price > selling price = Loss

shopkeeper has a loss of 20-16=4rupees

loss percentage = number / total × 100

4 / 20 × 100 = 20 percentage