Question

By selling 45 orange a man loses of sum equal to the selling price of three orange find his loss percent

Answer 1

Answer:

loss percent will be 6.25%

Answer 2

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$\red{ \textsf{Loss percentage = \orange{6.25 \% }}}$

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$\red{ \textsf{Let x be the price of an orange . }}$

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$\red { \textsf{Cost Price = 45x+3x = 48x}}$

$\red{ \textsf{Selling Price=45x}}$

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

$\red{\mathsf{Loss \: Percentage = \frac{3 \cancel{x}}{48 \cancel{x}} \times 100}}$

$\red{\mathsf{Loss \: Percentage = \frac{100}{16} }}$

$\red{ \colorbox{yellow}{\boxed{\mathsf{Loss \: Percentage = 6.25\%}}}}$