English

An agent sold a car and charged 3% commission on sale value. If the owner of the car received ₹ 48,500, find the sale value of the car. If the agent charged 2% from the buyer, find his total - Mathematics and Statistics

Advertisements
Advertisements

Question

An agent sold a car and charged 3% commission on sale value. If the owner of the car received ₹ 48,500, find the sale value of the car. If the agent charged 2% from the buyer, find his total remuneration

Sum
Advertisements

Solution

Let sale value of the car be ₹ x.

Since, agent charged 3% commission on the sale value

∴ Agent’s commission from seller = 3% of sale value

= 3% of x = `3/100 xx x`

= `(3x)/100`

Amount received by the owner = Sale value of the car − Agent′s commission

∴  48,500 = `x - (3x)/100`

∴ 48,500 = `(97x)/100`

∴ x = `(48,500 xx 100)/97`

∴ x = ₹ 50,000

∴ Sale value of the car is ₹ 50,000

∴ Agent's commission from seller = 3% of sale value

= 3% of ₹ 50,000

= `(3 xx 50,000)/100`

= ₹ 1,500

Also, he charged 2% commission to the buyer.

∴ Agent’s commission from buyer = 2% of sale value

= 2% of 50,000

= `2/10 xx 50,000`

= ₹ 1,000

∴ Agent's total remuneration = Commission from seller + commission from buyer

= 1,500 + 1,000

= ₹ 2,500

∴ Sale value of car is ₹ 50,000 and total remuneration of the agent is ₹  2,500.

shaalaa.com
Commission and Brokerage Agent
  Is there an error in this question or solution?
Chapter 2.1: Commission, Brokerage and Discount - Q.4

APPEARS IN

SCERT Maharashtra Mathematics and Statistics (Commerce) [English] 12 Standard HSC
Chapter 2.1 Commission, Brokerage and Discount
Q.4 | Q 4

RELATED QUESTIONS

An agent charges 12% commission on the sales. What does he earn if the total sale amounts to ₹ 48,000? What does the seller get?


Ms. Saraswati was paid ₹ 88,000 as a commission on the sale of computers at the rate of 12.5%. If the price of each computer was ₹ 32,000, how many computers did she sell?


Priya gets a salary of ₹ 15,000 per month and commission at 8% on the sales over ₹ 50,000. If she gets ₹ 17,400 in a certain month, find the sales made by her in that month.


Mr. Pavan is paid a fixed weekly salary plus commission based on a percentage of sales made by him. If on the sale of ₹ 68,000 and ₹ 73,000 in two successive weeks, he received in all ₹ 9,880 and ₹ 10,180, find his weekly salary and the rate of commission paid to him.


An agent is paid a commission of 7% on cash sales and 5% on credit sales made by him. If on the sale ₹ 1,02,000 the agent claims a total commission of ₹ 6,420, find his cash sales and credit sales.


Three cars were sold through an agent for
₹ 2,40,000, ₹ 2,22,000 and ₹ 2,25,000 respectively. The rates of commission were 17.5% on the first, 12.5% on the second. If the agent overall received 14% commission on the total sales, find the rate of commission paid on the third car.


A book seller ₹ 1,530 as 15% commission on list price. Find list price of the books.


A retailer sold a suit for ₹ 8,832 after allowing 8% discount on marked price and further 4% cash discount. If he made 38% profit, find the cost price and the marked price of the suit.


An agent charges 10% commission plus 2% delcreder. If he sells goods worth ₹ 37,200, find his total earnings.


An agent who gives a guarantee to his principal that the party will pay the sale price of goods is called ______.


Choose the correct alternative.

An agent who is given the possession of goods to be sold is known as


The date on which the period of the bill expires is called


The payment date after adding 3 days of grace period is known as ______.


Fill in the Blank.

A _______ is an agent who brings together the buyer and the seller.


Broker is an agent who gives a guarantee to seller that the buyer will pay the sale price of goods.


A merchant gives 5% commission and 1.5% del credere to his agent. If the agent sells goods worth ₹ 30,600 how much does he get? How much does the merchant receive?


A shop is sold at 30% profit, the amount of brokerage at the rate of `3/4`% amounts to
₹ 73,125. Find cost of the shop


The present worth of ₹ 11,660 due 9 months hence is ₹ 11,000. Find the rate of interest.


Choose the correct alternative:

The present worth of ₹ 11,660 due 9 months hence is ₹ 11,000. The True discount is ______


The buyer is legally allowed ______ days grace period


When transactions like sale, purchase, auction etc. are done through some middlemen, such middlemen are called ______


State whether the following statement is True or False:

The trade discount is first calculated on the catalogue (list) price


Ananya gets salary of ₹ 15,000 per month and commission at 8% on the sales over ₹ 50,000. If she gets ₹ 17,400 in a certain month, Find the sales made by her in that month


Mr. Pavan is paid a fixed weekly salary plus commission based on percentage of sales made by him. If on the sale of ₹68,000 and ₹73,000 in two successive weeks, he received in all ₹9880 and ₹10, 180. Complete the following activity to find his weekly salary and the rate of commission paid to him.

Solution: Income of Mr. Pavan = Weekly salary + Commission on sales

Salary + Commission on ₹68,000 = ₹9880      ... (1)

Salary+ Commission on ₹73,000 = ₹10,180     ... (2)

Subtracting (1) from (2), we get

Commission on ₹5000 = ₹ `square`

∴ the rate of commission = `square/5000 xx 100` = 6%

Commission on ₹68,000 at 6% = ₹`68000 xx6/100 = square`

From (1) and (3), we get Salary = ₹(9880 - 4080) = `square`

Hence, fixed weekly salary is ₹5800 and the rate of commission is 6%.


Share
Notifications

Englishहिंदीमराठी


      Forgot password?
Use app×