{"id":165447,"date":"2024-03-27T14:26:30","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T08:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=165447"},"modified":"2024-03-27T14:26:32","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T08:56:32","slug":"a-shopkeeper-sells-his-items-using-a-faulty-balance-which-measures-25-less-he-then-marks-up-his-items-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/a-shopkeeper-sells-his-items-using-a-faulty-balance-which-measures-25-less-he-then-marks-up-his-items-15\/","title":{"rendered":"A shopkeeper sells his items using a faulty balance which measures 25% less. He then marks up his items 15%"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A shopkeeper sells his items using a faulty balance which measures 25% less. He then marks up his items 15% above the cost price. If he also gives a discount of 10%, then find his net profit percentage on 1 kg items.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>a) 33%<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>b) 38%<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>c) 30%<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>d) 45%<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sol:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"486\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-264-1024x486.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-165448\" style=\"width:402px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-264-1024x486.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-264-300x142.png 300w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-264-767x364.png 767w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-264-1536x729.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-264-2048x972.png 2048w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-264-316x150.png 316w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-264-100x47.png 100w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-264-738x350.png 738w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-264-788x373.png 788w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-264.png 588w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A shopkeeper sells his items using a faulty balance which measures 25% less. He then marks up his items 15% above the cost price. If he also gives a discount of 10%, then find his net profit percentage on 1 kg items. a) 33% b) 38% c) 30% d) 45% Sol:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":165449,"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-165447","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\/165447","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=165447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165450,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165447\/revisions\/165450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}