Question

A shopkeeper earns a profit of rs. 2 by selling one pencil and incurs a loss of rs 1 per eraser while selling erasers of her old stock. In a particular week she incurs a loss of rs 50. In this period, she sold 45 pencils. How many erasers did she sell in this period

Answer 1

Answer:

if he will sold 45 pencils then he will earn 2×45=90 rupee profit

whereas he incurs the loss of rs50 that means all the profit of rs90 that he gain from selling on pencil goes in vain thus total loss will be 50+90=rs140

Step-by-step explanation:

on each eraser he incurs 1 rupee loss thus 140÷1=140..thus 140 penicls he sold