Cluster · Dishonest Weights and Profit Calculation
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Ravi sells his goods at a 25% loss on cost price but uses 45% less weight. What is his percentage profit or loss? pipeline-1112411
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up_police | percentage | intermediate | |
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S buys sugar for Rs 40 per kg and sells at Rs x per kg. Due to a fault in the weighing machine, it shows 1 kg when the actual eight is 800 gm. What is the value of x per kg if his profit percentage is 30%? pipeline-1114874
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up_police | — | intermediate | |
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A dishonest dealer professes to sell his goods at a profit of 20% and also weighs 800 gm in place of a kg. Find his actual gain percentage. pipeline-1170701
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up_police | — | intermediate | |
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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? pipeline-1170039
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up_police | — | intermediate | |
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The cost price of 1 kg of sugar is Rs.50. A shopkeeper sells it at Rs.55 per kg. To raise his profit, the shopkeeper weighs only 900 grams in place of 1 kg. Determine the percentage profit (Approximate) earned by the shopkeeper. pipeline-1116090
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up_police | percentage | intermediate | |
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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: pipeline-1131714
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up_police | — | intermediate | |
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A dealer professes to sell his goods at a loss of 16%, but weights 750 gm in place of a kg weight. Find his total profit percentage. pipeline-1114961
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up_police | — | intermediate | |
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A shopkeeper cheats to the extent of 30% while buying and selling, by using false weights. Find his total gain. pipeline-654549
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rpf | — | intermediate | |
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A dishonest shopkeeper gives a discount of 10% after marking up the prices by 20%. However, he only gives 800g instead of 1 kg while selling. What is the net profit percentage of the shopkeeper? pipeline-612819
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rpf | percentage | intermediate | |
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A dishonest shopkeeper uses 800g instead of a kg. Vikas bought one kg of rice for Rs 40. He gave a Rs 50 note and forgot to take the change. What is the loss for Vikas compared to what he bought from an honest shopkeeper(in Rs)? pipeline-591070
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rpf | — | intermediate | |
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A dishonest shopkeeper promises to sell his product on cost price but he misappropriates 40% while weighing. Find his profit %. pipeline-578109
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rpf | — | intermediate | |
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A dishonest shopkeeper misleads while using weigh machine, makes a profit of 20% while buying as well as while selling his goods. Find his actual gain% in the whole process. pipeline-484324
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rpf | — | intermediate | |
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A dishonest shopkeeper gives a discount of 10% after marking up the prices by 20%. However, he only gives 800g instead of 1 kg while selling. What is the net profit percentage of the shopkeeper? pipeline-693704
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rpf | percentage | intermediate | |
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If a shopkeeper sells goods at a 4% loss on cost price and he uses 940 grams instead of 1 kilogram, then find his actual profit or loss if the purchase price of the item is Rs 650. pipeline-645989
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rpf | profit_loss | intermediate | |
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A shopkeeper had tough times due to the pandemic so he made a new provision to mark up the prices of all the products by 25%. He uses a weight of 850 g instead of 1 kg. What is the cost price of an article that he sold at Rs. 2940? (approx.) pipeline-539533
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rpf | — | intermediate | |
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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. pipeline-590938
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rpf | — | intermediate | |
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A dishonest iron dealer pretends to sell at the cost price but he earns a profit of 25% by underweighting. What weight he must be using per quintal? pipeline-539535
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rpf | — | intermediate | |
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A dishonest shopkeeper uses a weight of 905 gm instead of 1 kg and sells rice at its cost price. What will be his profit percentage on selling 8 kg rice? pipeline-539534
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rpf | — | intermediate | |
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A dishonest dealer claims to sell goods at cost price, but he uses a weight of 910 grams for the 1 kg weight. Find his gain percent. pipeline-563824
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rpf | — | intermediate | |
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The maximum retail price of a 1 kg salt packet is Rs. 33 which is fixed so that the shopkeeper gets 50% profit. The shopkeeper sells it for Rs. 27.5 but removes 250 g from each packet. What is the effective profit (%) he makes? pipeline-492585
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rpf | — | intermediate | |
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A retailer bought 30 kg tea at a discount of 20%. Besides 2 kg tea was free offered to him by the wholesaler at the purchase of 30 kg tea. Now he he sells all the tea at the marked price to a customer. What is profit percentage of retailer? pipeline-496699
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rpf | percentage | intermediate | |
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A salesman sells ground nuts at a rate of Rs. 18 per kilogram. The MRP of the ground nut is Rs. 16 per kg. As he was not happy with this he tries to multiply his profit by removing 200 gm from each packet. What is the salesman’s new gain percentage? pipeline-503310
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rpf | — | intermediate | |
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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? pipeline-492586
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rpf | — | intermediate | |
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A dishonest shopkeeper delivers only 800 grams for 1 kg of the product ordered. If he claims to get 35% profit, what is the original percentage of profit he earns? pipeline-492601
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rpf | percentage | intermediate | |
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A dishonest shopkeeper offers a 15% discount on a new variety of tea. But later it was found, that he weighed only 700 gm instead of 1 kg. Find his gain or loss percentage. pipeline-490307
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rpf | — | intermediate | |
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A merchant agrees to give a product at a discount of 20% over its cost price. But the merchant has a tampered weighing machine, which measures 1 kg when only 500 g of product is placed. What is the profit (%) he earns? pipeline-481712
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rpf | — | intermediate | |
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A vendor started selling vegetables at ₹10 per kg, but couldn’t find buyers at this rate. So he reduced the price to ₹7.2 per kg, but uses a faulty weight of 900 g instead of 1 kg. Find the percentage change in the actual price. pipeline-481713
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rpf | — | intermediate | |
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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? pipeline-1254205
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banking | — | intermediate | |
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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. pipeline-1254211
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banking | percentage | intermediate | |
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A grocer claims to sell sugar at cost price but uses a faulty weighing machine that shows 1 kg even though it actually weighs only 940 gm. Find his actual profit percentage. pipeline-1244395
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banking | — | intermediate | |
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A shopkeeper claims to sell his goods at x% profit but he uses a faulty weight which weighs y gm for 1 kg therefore his actual profit comes out to be 10%. Find the possible values of y. pipeline-1244578
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banking | — | intermediate | |
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A shopkeeper cheats to the extent of 20% while both buying and selling by using a faulty weight. He sells his goods at 6.25% less than cost price. Find his actual profit%. pipeline-1244491
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banking | — | intermediate | |
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A retailer bought 30 kg tea at a discount of 20%. Besides 2 kg tea was offered free to him by the wholesaler on the purchase of 30 kg tea. Now, he sells the whole tea at the marked price to a customer. What is the approximate profit percentage of the retailer? pipeline-1244115
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banking | percentage | intermediate | |
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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? pipeline-1252808
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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. pipeline-1036978
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banking | percentage | intermediate | |
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Ranjeet buys 1 kg of potatoes for 20 and sells them for ₹25. He also uses a weight of 800 gm in place of 1 kg. What is Ranjeet's actual profit percentage on the sale of 1 kg of potatoes? pipeline-1305328
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defence | percentage | intermediate | |
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A man sells rice at 8% profit and uses a weight 25% less than the actual measure. What is his percentage profit? pipeline-1263617
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ib | percentage | intermediate | |
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A dishonest dealer announces selling his articles with 22% loss, but uses 35% lighter weights. What is the percentage of his profit or loss? pipeline-1251835
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ib | percentage | intermediate | |
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A merchant purchases a cloth at a rate of ₹100 per meter and receives 5 cm length of cloth free for every 100 cm length of cloth purchased by him. He sells the same cloth at a rate of ₹110 per meter but cheats his customers by giving 95 cm of cloth for every 100 cm of length of cloth purchased by the customers. If the merchant provides a 5% discount, the resulting profit earned by him is: pipeline-1263498
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ib | — | intermediate | |
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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: pipeline-1252509
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ib | — | intermediate | |
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A vegetable vendor does his sales using a weight that is 12% less than the actual weight and earns a profit of 32% on the cost price. Find the total profit percentage. pipeline-1134488
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delhi_police | profit_loss | intermediate | |
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What is the faulty weight used by a dishonest shopkeeper instead of the original weight of 1 kg to get a profit of 25%? pipeline-1139192
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delhi_police | — | intermediate | |
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S buys sugar for Rs 40 per kg and sells at Rs x per kg. Due to a fault in the weighing machine, it shows 1 kg when the actual eight is 800 gm. What is the value of x per kg if his profit percentage is 30%? pipeline-1108886
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delhi_police | — | intermediate | |
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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: pipeline-1094623
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delhi_police | — | intermediate | |
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A dealer professes to sell his goods at a loss of 16%, but weights 750 gm in place of a kg weight. Find his total profit percentage. pipeline-1243545
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delhi_police | — | intermediate | |
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A vendor started selling vegetables at ₹10 per kg, but couldn’t find buyers at this rate. So he reduced the price to ₹7.2 per kg, but uses a faulty weight of 900 g instead of 1 kg. Find the percentage change in the actual price. pipeline-1173155
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delhi_police | — | intermediate | |
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A dishonest shopkeeper gives a discount of 10% after marking up the prices by 20%. However, he only gives 800g instead of 1 kg while selling. What is the net profit percentage of the shopkeeper? pipeline-1094412
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delhi_police | percentage | intermediate | |
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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: pipeline-1200725
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delhi_police | — | intermediate | |
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A shopkeeper has a fault of 100 g in a 3 kg weight. He sold 3 kg of potatoes to Charu using the same faulty weight for ₹46. The cost price of the potatoes for the seller was ₹12 per kg. How much profit (in ₹) did he earn on the potatoes? pipeline-1157930
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delhi_police | — | intermediate | |
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A dealer sells his goods at 10% loss on the cost price but uses 25% less weight. What is his profit percentage? pipeline-1133741
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delhi_police | profit_loss | intermediate |