Question

the selling price of an item is 19 times the loss. what is the percentage of loss?

Answer 1

• Let the loss be Rs. x .
• So SP = 19 x.
• CP = SP +Loss

Loss  =  19 x + x = 20 x .

Loss  %  = x/20x × 100 % = 5.

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Answer 2

The percentage of loss is 5 percent

Let loss in the whole process be x.

Then selling price according to question is 19 times of loss .

So SP will be 19 ×loss=19x

We know that loss=CP-SP

Where CP is cost price and SP is selling price.

So x=CP-19x

CP=20x

Loss%=loss/CP×100

Loss%=x/20x×100

=1/20×100=5

So loss percentage of given problem is 5%.