Subject: General Aptitude · Chapter: Profit and Loss · Exam: · Marks: · Difficulty:
A publisher sells copies of books to a retail dealer at ` 5 per copy but allows 24 copies to be counted as 24. If the retailer sells each of the 25 copies at ` 6, his profit per cent is [DMRC—Jr. Engineer (Electronics) Exam, 2016]
(a)20%
(b)24%
(c)25%
(d)40%
Answer
Answer (as printed): C
Explanation
C.P. of each copy = ` 5 C.P. of 24 copies = ` (24 × 5) = ` 120 S.P. of 25 copies = ` (25 × 6) = ` 150 Profit = ` (150 – 120) = ` 30 30 Profit per cent = × 100 = 25% 120
Explanation as extracted from the printed page; notation may be imperfect.