Question

A shopkeeper earns a profit of 1 rupees by selling one pen and incurs loss of 40 paise per pencils of her stock. In particular month she incurs loss of 5 rupees.In this period ,she sold 45 pens in this period.In the nextmonth

Answer 1

here his profit from pen will be 45
so loss from pencil will be 45+5 = 50
so number of pencils sold=50÷0.4=125