A dealer professes to sell his goods at cost price. If by using false weights he gain \(5 {5{} \over 19}\)%, then find the error in weight of 1 kg.

A dishonest dealer announces selling his articles with 22% loss, but uses 35% lighter weights. What is the percentage of his profit or loss?

A seller professes to sell his fruits at cost price but still gains \(5\frac{5}{19}\)%. How much does he give for 1 kg?

A dishonest shopkeeper professes to sell grains at the cost price, but he uses a weight of 920 gm for 1 kg weight. Find his gain percentage (round up to two decimal places).

A grocer claims that he is selling sugar at ₹48/kg, which costs him ₹50/kg, but he is giving 900 g instead of 1000 g. What will be the approximate percentage profit?

A dishonest dealer marks up his goods by 50% and then gives a discount of 20% on the marked price. Apart from this, he uses a faulty balance which reads 1kg for 900 gm. What is his net profit percentage (rounded off to the nearest integer)?

The cost price and selling price of rice are the same. Due to a faulty weighing machine, the seller earns a 15% profit. If Rs, x is the cost price of 1000 gm of rice and the machine is changed to show 1000 gm instead of 950 gm, what should be the selling price (in RS) now to get the same percentage of profit?

A dealer sells his goods at 10% loss on the cost price but uses 25% less weight. What is his profit percentage?

A shopkeeper sells sugar at ₹40 per kg, which he purchased at ₹36 per kg. His weighing machine is faulty and it weighs only 800 gm while selling. His percentage profit (correct to 2 decimal places) is:

A tailor buy lining clothes for a wholesale mechant and cheats him by using a measurement tape which is 5 cm longer than the normal tape. The tailor offers the customers at cost price while stitching different garments and uses measuring tape, which is 5 cm shorter than normal tape. The gain per cent is:

Sohan sells sugar at the cost price but uses false weights, thus gaining 28% profit. How many grams of sugar is he giving for 3.2 kg of sugar?

Mahesh agreed to sell rice with 24% loss, as the rice got rotten. However, he cheated customers and gave only 19 gm of rice in place of 50 gm of rice. What is the percentage of his profit or loss?

A shopkeeper professes to sell sugar costing 40 Rs/kg at 42 R/kg but gives only 550 grams of sugar in place of 600 grams using the faulty weighing machine. His profit percentage (correct to 2 decimal places) is:

A shopkeeper earns 20% profit on his goods. He lost 20% of his goods during a theft. What is his profit or loss percent?

A dishonest dealer sells his goods at 20% loss on the cost price but uses a faulty weight that weighs 25% less. His profit or loss percentage (rounded off to 2 decimal places) is:

Ravi sells his goods at a 25% loss on cost price but uses 45% less weight. What is his percentage profit or loss?

A shopkeeper marks up the price of the oil by 40% and uses a faulty machine which measures 15% less. If the shopkeeper gives a discount of 32%, the profit/loss percentage is:

A dishonest dealer professes to sell his goods at cost price but uses a false weight of 950 grams instead of 1 kilogram. His gain percentage is:

B purchased 15 kg apples at the rate of ₹180 per kg from a wholesaler who uses a weight of 950 grams for the kg weight. B sold all these apples at ₹180 per kg but used a weight of 750 grams for the kg weight. Find the percentage profit earned by B in the transaction (correct to 2 places of decimal).

A dishonest shopkeeper sells the mangoes x% above the cost price but uses 980 grams weight instead of 1 kg. If he earns 17% profit by selling the mangoes, find the value of x.

The cost price of 1 kg sugar is Rs. 35. The shopkeeper makes a profit of 20% on sales on sugar. Moreover, he is dishonest as he weighs only 91% of the requested quantity. A customer came to buy 7 kg of Sugar, what is the profit earned by the shopkeeper?

Rahul went to a grocery store to buy some pulses. The shopkeeper had a reputation for being dishonest. Rahul ordered 2 kg of lentils, but the shopkeeper cleverly manipulated the scale. The shopkeeper's scale showed 2 kg, but it was only 1.5 kg. If the actual price of lentils is Rs. 120 per kg, and the shopkeeper offers a 10% discount, how much extra money Rahul paid to the dishonest shopkeeper?

A seller promises to sell their article at the cost price. During weighting, he used a faulty weight machine and gained 17% profit on this article. find the actual weight (in grams) that was used by the seller at the place of 1 kg?

A shopkeeper announced to sell his article at the cost price but he gives 900 gm instead of 1000 gm and he takes 1.1 kg instead of 1 kg also during the purchasing. Find the total profit of the shopkeeper.

A shopkeeper challenges the customer to sell his article on the cost price. But he used faulty weight machine and give 930g at the place of 1000g. Find the profit percentage of shopkeepers.

A dishonest shopkeeper marked his items at 30% above cost price and also he sells them using a false weight which is 20% less than the actual weight. Find the actual profit of the shopkeeper.

Nishchay buys 100m length of cloth from a wholesaler. The length of the meter scale of the wholesaler shrunk to 90cm over time. Nishchay marked up the price of 1m cloth 8.33% above the cost price and he sold the cloth with the help of a meter scale which expanded to 110cm, find the loss percentage of Nishchay.

A seller is cheated by a company by 20% so he also cheats on his customer by 50%. If he offers a scheme of buy 2 gets 1 free, then what is the profit percent earned by the seller?

A dishonest shopkeeper sells the sugar and claims that he selling the sugar at Rs 65 which costs him Rs 60/kg. But he gave 900 gm instead of 1kg. Find the profit or loss percentage got by the seller.

A shopkeeper sells rice at Rs. 25 per kg. A customer buys 10 kgs of rice but the shopkeeper uses a faulty weighing machine that measures only 90% of the desired weight. The shopkeeper gains 12% profit in this whole transaction. Find the profit earned by the shopkeeper. (approx.)

A dishonest shopkeeper first marked up the tea 10% above the cost price and then gave only 980 gm tea instead of 1 kg by using a faulty weight. Find the approximate profit percentage of the shopkeeper.

A dishonest shopkeeper cheats 10% to the wholesaler during purchasing goods and he also cheats to the customer 10% during selling. Find the total profit of the shopkeeper.

A dishonest dealer gives Rs. 30 less to purchase the article and 3% dishonesty at the time of selling. Find the profit percentage of the shopkeeper.

Quantity A :  Simmer bought an article at 20% discount on marked price and claims to sell at 10% profit on marked price. If he also cheats his customer by returning him 12.5 rupees instead of 22.5 rupees when his customer gave him rupees 50, then find his profit %.

Quantity B : A manufacturer of electric bulbs want to earn a profit of 25% on his manufacturing cost after giving a discount of 23.33% on the marked price of his bulbs. If 25% of the bulbs are defected and now he gives a discount of 6.66%, then find his profit %

The cost of wheat was Rs 20 per kg. If the shopkeeper cheated his customer in such a way that he gave only 800 grams of wheat for the purchase of 1 kg, if the customer wishes to purchase 15 kg of wheat then what is the profit amount earned by him?

Bhati, a dishonest shopkeeper sells the goods at 30% profit, and while during the transaction he uses a weight that is 30% less. Find the overall profit in the transaction.

A shopkeeper sells a cube of precious metal. He deems to be selling at 62% profit. But he dishonestly reduces the edge of the cube by 10% before selling. What is the original profit (%) he earns?

A shopkeeper normally makes a profit of 20% in a certain transaction; he weighed 900 gm instead of 1 kg due to an error in the weighing machine. If he charges 15% less than what he normally charges, then what is his actual profit or loss percentage? (Selection Post Higher Secondary level)

A seller uses faulty weight in place of a 2 kg weight and earns a 25% profit. He claims that he is selling on the cost price in front of the customers but uses a faulty weight. How much error is there in the 2 kg weight to gain 25%? (SICPO Paper I 2022)

A grocer claims that he is selling sugar at ₹48/kg, which costs him ₹50/kg, but he is giving 900 g instead of 1000 g. What will be the approximate percentage profit? 

A dishonest dealer professes to sell his goods at the cost price but uses a false weight and thus gains 25%. How much quantity of grains does he give for a kilogram?

A dishonest dealer sells his goods at 20% loss on the cost price but uses a faulty weight that weighs 25% less. His profit or loss percentage (rounded off to 2 decimal places) is:

A shopkeeper sells goods at a profit of 12% and uses a weight which is 15% less than the original weight. Find his total percentage gain. (Correct to 2 decimal places)

A dishonest merchant sells his groceries using weights that are 12% less than the true weights and makes a profit of 10%. Find his total gain percentage.

Mohan sells fruits at their cost price but uses a weight of 850 g in place of 1 kg. What is his profit percentage?

A shopkeeper professes to sell sugar costing 40 Rs/kg at 42 Rs/kg but gives only 550 grams of sugar in place of 600 grams using the faulty weighing machine. His profit percentage (correct to 2 decimal places) is:

Subir claimed to sell his items at only 5% above the cost of production, but used a weight that had 1 kg written on it, though it actually weighed 960 grams. What was the actual profit percentage earned by Subir?

A grocer sells rice at a profit of 15% and uses weights that are 20% less than the market weights. The total profit earned by him will be:

A shopkeeper sells an item at a profit of 25% and dishonestly uses a weight that is 30% less than the actual weight. Find his total profits.