Question

by selling a mixer for $3816, manjula made a profit of 6%.At what price should she be have sold the mixer to make a profit of 9%

Answer 1

Let cp=x
sp=$3816
p=6%of cp=6%of x=6/100*x=3x/50
p=3x/50
sp=cp+p
3816=x+3x/50
3816=53x/50
72=x/50
x=$3600=cp
p=9%of cp=9/100*3600=$324
sp=cp+p
sp=3600+324=$3924.....
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Answer 2

first we need to find the CP and then the SP in the above question