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2. A shop keeper bought 80 dozens of oranges for $1200.
(a) If he wents to make a profit of 40%, what is the selling price of each orange?
1200 ÷ 80(12) x ( 1 + 40% )
= 1200 ÷ 960 x 140%
= 1.25 x 140%
= 1.75 //
If he wents to make a profit of 40%, the selling price of each orange is $1.75.
(b) After 800 oranges are sold, he found that the rest of them are rotten.
Find the overall profit per cent or loss per cent.
[(800 x 1.75) - 1200] ÷ 1200 x 100%
= 200 ÷ 1200 x 100%
= 1/6 x 100%
= 50/3 %
= 16.7 % // ( corr.to 3 sig. fig.)
The overall profit per cent is 16.7%