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Directions: Read the following information carefully and answer the given question. A shopkeeper has 3 different brands of t-shirts, i.e. A, B and C. He has 20 t-shirts of each brand. The total cost price of shirts of brand A is Rs. 6,000 and he made 15% profit on selling 15 such t-shirts and 12% on selling the remaining. The total profit made by selling t-shirts of brand B is 80% of the total profit made by selling all the t-shirts of brand A. The total profit that he made by selling each t-shirt of brand B is 20%. The ratio of total selling price of t-shirts of brand B and the total selling price of t-shirts of brand C is 4 : 5, respectively. The profit made by selling each t-shirt of brand C is th of the profit made by selling each t-shirt of brand B.

The selling price of 16 t-shirts of brand C is what percent of the cost price of t-shirts of brand A which yielded 15% profit to the shopkeeper?

  1. 92.2%

  2. 91.6%

  3. 91.2%

  4. 91.1%

  5. 90.2%
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C Correct answer
Explanation

The cost price of the 15 brand A shirts is 15/20 × 6000 = Rs. 4500. Their selling price is Rs. 5175, so the total profit on all brand A shirts is Rs. 855, making brand B's total profit Rs. 684. Using the 4:5 selling-price ratio gives brand C's total selling price as Rs. 5130, so 16 shirts cost Rs. 4104 in selling price, which is 4104/4500 × 100 = 91.2%.

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