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A dishonest shopkeeper professes to sell pulses at the cost price, but he uses a false weight of 950gm. for a kg. His gain is____%.

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5.3 % Explanation: He sells 950 grams of pulses and gains 50 grams.If he sells 100 grams of pulses then he will gain (50 / 950) *100 = 5.26. 5% bcoz for 1000gms he is gaining 50gms.for 100 gms of pulses he wil gain about (50/1000)*100=5 Answered By: santosh    Date: 7/30/2007 5% is the right answer Answered By: Rajjev    Date: 8/14/2007 i think 5% is the right answer. (50/1000)*100=5 Answered By: s.siva shankar    Date: 9/21/2007 i believe 5% is the right answer bcoz for 1000g(1 kg) he sells 950g gain 50 grm for 100g he sells 95grm gain 5 g therefore % gain 5. Answered By: swapnesh     Date: 12/26/2007 he see 950gm instead of 1000gm. so % of selling ammount=(950/1ooo)*100=95% answer=(100-95)%=5% Answered By: puneet kumar swarnakar    Date: 2/16/2008 Let x be the costprice for 1gm pulses, then (50x/1000x)*100 = 5% I think 5% is the correct answer Answered By: shobana    Date: 5/5/2008 am conferm that answer is 5.26% bcoz he sales only 950gm material and and save 50gm material so 50/950*100=5.26 Answered By: deepak    Date: 6/3/2008 © NewInterviewQuestions.com

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