Question

If selling price of 10 note books is same as cost price of 5 note books, then
find the loss%.​

Answer 1

Answer:

33.33%

Let cost of one notebook is x and selling price of one notebook is y. Then according to the condition of the question,

10x=15y

y = 2x/3

So the loss is x-y per notebook.

The percentage loss is given by

percentage loss = loss/cost × 100

= \frac{x-y}{x}

x

x−y

×100

= \frac{x-\frac{2x}{3} }{x}

x

x−

3

2x

×100

= 100/3 = 33.33