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Mithilesh makes articles at a cost of paise per article. He fixes the selling price such that if only articles are sold, he would have made a profit of on the outlay. However, articles got spoilt and he was able to sell articles at this price. Find his actual profit percent as the percentage of total outlay assuming that the unsold articles are useless.
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A manufacturer estimates that on inspection of the articles he produces will be rejected. He accepts an order to supply articles at each. He estimates the profit on his outlay including the manufacturing of rejected articles, to be . Find the cost of manufacturing each article.
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The cost of setting up the type of a magazine is . The cost of running the printing machine is per copies. The cost of paper, ink and so on is paise per copy. The magazines are sold at each. copies are printed, but only copies are sold. What is the sum to be obtained from advertisements to give a profit of on the cost?
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A tradesman fixed his selling price of goods at above the cost price. He sells half the stock at this price, one-quarter of his stock at a discount of on the original selling price and rest at a discount of on the original selling price. Find the gain percent altogether.
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A tradesman marks an article at more than the cost price. He allows a discount of on the marked price. Find the profit percent if the cost price is .
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A dishonest dealer marks up the price of his goods by and gives a discount of to the customer. He also uses a gram weight instead of a kilogram weight. Find his percentage profit due to these maneuvers.
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A dishonest dealer marks up the price of his goods by and gives a discount of to the customer. Besides, he also cheats both his supplier and his buyer by grams while buying or selling kilogram. Find the percentage profit earned by the shopkeeper.
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A dishonest dealer marks up the price of his goods by and gives a discount of to the customer. Besides, he also cheats both his supplier and his buyer by grams while buying or selling kilogram. If it is known that the shopkeeper takes a discount of from his supplier and he disregards this discount while marking up (i.e. he marks up at the undiscounted price), find the percentage profit for the shopkeeper.
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Cheap and Best, a kirana shop bought some apples at per rupee and an equal number at per rupee. He then sold the entire quantity at for rupees. What is his percentage profit or loss?
