Question

To increase the sales of ball pens, a shopkeeper sells a packet of ball pens at ₹ $224$ which is $64\%$ of its original price. Find the original cost of a packet of ball pens

Answer 1

Given:

To increase the sales of ball pens, a shopkeeper sells a packet of ball pens at ₹ 224 which is 64% of its original price.

To find:

The original cost of a packet of ball pens

Solution:

Let "x" represents the original cost of the packet of ball pens.

The selling price of the packet of ball pens = ₹ 224

According to the question, we get

64% of the original price = selling price of the packet of ball pens

i.e., $64\% \:of \:x = 224$

⇒ $\frac{64}{100} \times x = 224$

⇒ $x = \frac{224 \times 100}{64}$

⇒ $x = \frac{22400}{64}$

⇒ $\bold{x = 350}$

Thus, the original cost of a packet of ball pens is → ₹ 350.

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