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191.

A shopkeeper allows a discount of 10% to his customers and still gains 20%. Find the marked price of the article which costs ₹ 450.

  • ₹ 600

  • ₹ 540

  • ₹ 660

  • ₹ 580

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192.

If the cost price of 10 articles is equal to the selling price of 8 articles, then gain per cent is

  • 10%

  • 8%

  • 50%

  • 25%

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193.

An article is marked 40% above the cost price and a discount of 30% is allowed. What is the gain or loss percentage?

  • 10% gain

  • 5% gain

  • 2% loss

  • 12% loss

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194.

A man bought orange at the rate of 8 for ₹ 34 and sold them at the rate of 12 for ₹ 57. How many oranges should be sold to earn a net profit of ₹ 45?

  • 90

  • 100

  • 135

  • 150

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195.

A man sells two articles for ₹ 5000 each neither losing nor gaining in the deal. If he sold one of them at a gain of 25%, the other article is sold at a loss of

  • 15 2 over 3 percent sign

  • 16 2 over 3 percent sign

  • 17 1 third percent sign

  • 18 1 third percent sign

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196.

By selling an article for ₹ 144, a person gained such that the percentage gain equals the cost price of the article. The cost price of the article is

  • ₹ 90

  • ₹ 80

  • ₹ 75

  • ₹ 60


B.

₹ 80

Let the cost price of an article  = ₹ x
According to the question,
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197.

The single discount equal to three consecutive discount of 10%,  12% and 5% is

  • 26.27%

  • 24.76%

  • 9%

  • 11%

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198.

A shopkeeper allows 23% commission on his advertised price and still makes a profit of 10%. If he gains ₹ 56 on one item, his advertised price of the item (in ₹) is

  • 820

  • 780

  • 790

  • 800

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199.

The cost of an apple is twice that of a banana and the cost of banana is 25% less than that of a guava. If the cost of each type of fruit increases by 10%, then the percentage increase in cost of 4 bananas, 2 apples and 3 guavas is

  • 10%

  • 12%

  • 16%

  • 18%

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200.

A reduction of 20% in the price of an apple enables a man to buy 10 apples more for ₹ 54. The reduced price of apple per dozen is

  • ₹ 4.32

  • ₹ 12.96

  • ₹ 10.80

  • ₹ 14.40

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