{"id":164387,"date":"2024-03-14T14:56:30","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T09:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=164387"},"modified":"2024-03-14T14:56:33","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T09:26:33","slug":"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","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/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\/","title":{"rendered":"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"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> 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%?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(a) 350<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>(b) 400<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(c) 450<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(d) 500<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sol:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2000g\u00d7100\/125=1600g<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2000-1600=400g<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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%? (a) 350 (b) 400 (c) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":164388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5139],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-164387","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\/164387","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=164387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164389,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164387\/revisions\/164389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164387"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=164387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}