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A Dishonest Shopkeeper Professes to Sell Pulses at His Cost Price but Uses a False Weight of 950 Gm for Each Kilogram. Find His Gain Percent.

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A dishonest shopkeeper professes to sell pulses at his cost price but uses a false weight of 950 gm for each kilogram. Find his gain percent.

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\[\text { He sells 950gm pulses and gets a gain of 50gm } . \]

\[\text { If he sells 100gm of pulses, he will gain  }= \frac{50}{950} \times 100\]

\[ = \frac{5000}{950}\]

\[ = 5\frac{5}{19}\]%

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