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  1. Tika Chand has a weighing balance in which there is a technical fault. The right pan of his balance measure always 200 g more than its left pan.Tika Chand as usual misutilise this balance in his business. While purchasing the articles he puts goods in the left pan and weight in the right pan while selling he reverse the order i.e., goods in the right pan and weight in the left pan. He use only 2 kg weight for the measurement and to measure 2n kg weight he measures n times by 2-2 kg but he sells goods at cost price. What is his profit percentage?
    1. 20%
    2. 222/9%
    3. 182/11%
    4. none of these
Correct Option: B

Let the CP and SP of 1g = Re. 1, then
He spends Rs. 2000 and purchase 2200 g
and he charges Rs. 2000 and sells 1800 g

Profit (%) = [goods left / goods sold ] x 100
= [ 400 / 1800 ] x 100
= 22 2/9 %



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