Question

By selling 36 bananas a vendor suffers a loss equal to the selling price of 4 bananas.Find his loss percent

Answer 1

Let the cost of 1 banana:-x
A.T.Q—
4x/36x*100%=1/9*100=100/9%=11.11%

Answer 2

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$\red{ \textsf{Loss percentage = \orange{10 \% }}}$

$\huge \purple{ \underline{ \boxed{ \red{ \mathbb{EXPLANATION : }}}}}$

$\red{ \textsf{Let x be the price of a banana . }}$

$\green{ \mathbb{ACCORDING \: TO \: QUESTION :}}$

$\red { \textsf{Cost Price = 36x+4x = 40x}}$

$\red{ \textsf{Selling Price=36x}}$

$\red{\mathsf{Loss \: Percentage = \frac{Cost Price - Selling Price }{Cost Price} \times 100 }}$

$\red{\mathsf{Loss \: Percentage = \frac{4 \cancel{x}}{40 \cancel{x}} \times 100}}$

$\red{\mathsf{Loss \: Percentage = \frac{100}{10} }}$

$\red{ \colorbox{yellow}{\boxed{\mathsf{Loss \: Percentage = 10\%}}}}$