CAT 2025 Profit & Loss Question (Hard)

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A shopkeeper offers a discount of 22 on the marked price of each chair, and gives 13 chairs to a customer for the discounted price of 12 chairs to earn a profit of 26 on the transaction. If the cost price of each chair is Rs 100, then the marked price, in rupees, of each chair is

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Cost price of each chair 100 For 13 chairs, total cost 13 times 100 1300 Profit 26 , so total revenue 1.26 times 1300 1638 We were told that this amount is equal to the discounted price of 12 chairs. So the discounted selling price per chair _ 12 136.5 Discount offered 22 , so MP 0.78 175

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CAT 2025

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Profit & Loss

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