{"id":163401,"date":"2024-03-04T14:35:23","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T09:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=163401"},"modified":"2024-03-04T14:35:25","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T09:05:25","slug":"a-seller-bought-x-kg-of-apple-for-rs-2000-and-also-bought-x-5-kg-of-oranges-for-rs-1800-and-the-seller-sold-each-kg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/a-seller-bought-x-kg-of-apple-for-rs-2000-and-also-bought-x-5-kg-of-oranges-for-rs-1800-and-the-seller-sold-each-kg\/","title":{"rendered":"A seller bought x kg of apple for Rs.2000 and also bought (x + 5) kg of oranges for Rs.1800 and the seller sold each kg"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A seller bought x kg of apple for Rs.2000 and also bought (x + 5) kg of oranges for Rs.1800 and the seller sold each kg of apple and orange at a profit of 40% and 25% and the selling price of each kg of orange is Rs.150. Find selling price of (x \u2013 5) kg of apple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>a) Rs.1800<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>b) Rs.1400<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>c) Rs.2500<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>d) Rs.2000<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>e) None of these<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sol:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cost price of each kg of apple = 2000\/x<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cost price of each kg of orange = 1800\/(x + 5)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1800\/(x + 5) * 125\/100 = 150<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1800\/(x + 5) * 5\/4 = 150<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>x + 5 = 15<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>x = 10<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cost price of each kg of apple = 2000\/10 =<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rs.200<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Required selling price = (10 \u2013 5) * 200 * 140\/100<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>= 5 * 200 * 7\/5 = Rs.1400<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A seller bought x kg of apple for Rs.2000 and also bought (x + 5) kg of oranges for Rs.1800 and the seller sold each kg of apple and orange at a profit of 40% and 25% and the selling price of each kg of orange is Rs.150. Find selling price of (x \u2013 5) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":163402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5139],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-163401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quantitative-aptitude","tag-quantitative-aptitude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163403,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163401\/revisions\/163403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163401"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=163401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}