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 A dealer professing to sell at cost price uses a 900 gms weight for a kilogram. His gain percent is ?

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 A dealer professing to sell at cost price uses a 900 gms weight for a kilogram. His gain percent is ?

A). 1 1/9%

B). 5 1/9%

C). 11 1/9%

D). 17 1/9%


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11 1/9%



Gain% = {Error / (True value - Error)} x 100 %
= (100/900) x 100) % 
= 11 1/9%

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