Question

By selling 50 pens, a shopkeeper lost the amount equal to the selling price of 10 pens. His loss percent is

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Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation:

Selling price is 50x

Loss is10x

Therefore, cost price = S.P. +Loss

=50x+10x=60x

loss%=loss/C.P.*100

=10x/60x*100

=100/6 or50/3

=16.67%

Answer 2

The amount of loss per cent incurred is 16.67%.

Step-by-step explanation:

Let the cost of each pen be x.

Then, the cost of 50 pens = 50x

It is given that the amount lost is equal to the SP of ten pens

So,

CP=SP+ Loss

CP= 50x+ 10x

CP= 60x

Now, we need to find his loss per cent on the pens:

Loss per cent = loss amount×100÷CP

Loss per cent = 10x× 100÷60x

Loss per cent =  100÷6

= 16.67%

Result:

Thus, the amount of loss per cent incurred is 16.67%.

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