Question
A sports shop earns profit equivalent to cost price of 4 cricket bats on selling of 20 cricket bats. Calculate its percentage.
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CUET PG 2026 Agri-Business Management Question Paper (25-Mar-2026) (Shift 2)
The correct answer is
20%
Calculating Profit Percentage on Cricket Bats
Here's how to determine the profit percentage:
- Let the Cost Price (CP) of one cricket bat be $C$.
- The shop sells 20 cricket bats. The total cost price for these 20 bats is $20 \times C$.
- The profit earned is stated as the cost price of 4 cricket bats. So, Profit = $4 \times C$.
- The formula for Profit Percentage is: $ \text{Profit \%} = \frac{\text{Profit}}{\text{Total Cost Price}} \times 100 $
- Substitute the values: $ \text{Profit \%} = \frac{4 \times C}{20 \times C} \times 100 $
- Simplify the expression: $ \text{Profit \%} = \frac{4}{20} \times 100 $ $ \text{Profit \%} = \frac{1}{5} \times 100 $ $ \text{Profit \%} = 20\% $
The profit percentage is 20%.
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