{"id":164851,"date":"2024-03-19T14:42:41","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T09:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=164851"},"modified":"2024-03-19T14:42:42","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T09:12:42","slug":"a-shopkeeper-claims-to-sell-his-articles-at-20-per-kg-which-cost-him-23-per-kg-but-while-selling-he-uses-a-false-weight-and-gives-only-800-gm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/a-shopkeeper-claims-to-sell-his-articles-at-20-per-kg-which-cost-him-23-per-kg-but-while-selling-he-uses-a-false-weight-and-gives-only-800-gm\/","title":{"rendered":"A shopkeeper claims to sell his articles at 20 per kg which cost him 23 per kg. But while selling, he uses a false weight and gives only 800 gm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A shopkeeper claims to sell his articles at 20 per kg which cost him 23 per kg. But while selling, he uses a false weight and gives only 800 gm instead of 1 kg. What is his profit percentage?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sol:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shopkeeper claims to sell at Rs. 20 per kg,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He buys it for Rs. 23 per kg&nbsp; Actual weight he sells at Rs. 20 is 800g.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Calculations:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u21d2 Selling price of 800 gm article = Rs. 20&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2234 Selling price of 1 kg article = 20 \u00d7 (1000\/800) = Rs. 25&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u21d2 Cost price of 1 kg article = Rs 23<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"182\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-150-1024x182.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-164852\" style=\"width:387px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-150-1024x182.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-150-300x53.png 300w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-150-767x136.png 767w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-150-1536x273.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-150-2048x363.png 2048w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-150-845x150.png 845w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-150-100x18.png 100w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-150-1973x350.png 1973w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-150-788x139.png 788w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-150.png 434w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A shopkeeper claims to sell his articles at 20 per kg which cost him 23 per kg. But while selling, he uses a false weight and gives only 800 gm instead of 1 kg. What is his profit percentage? Sol: Shopkeeper claims to sell at Rs. 20 per kg,&nbsp; He buys it for Rs. 23 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":164853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5139],"class_list":["post-164851","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\/164851","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=164851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164854,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164851\/revisions\/164854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}