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Question
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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Solution
\[\text { He sells 950gm pulses and gets a gain of 50gm } . \]
\[\text { If he sells 100gm of pulses, he will gain }= \frac{50}{950} \times 100\]
\[ = \frac{5000}{950}\]
\[ = 5\frac{5}{19}\]%
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