JIPMAT 2025 (QA) - Cost price of article A is ₹ 200 more than the cost price of article B. Article A was sold at 10% loss and article B was sold at 25% profit. If the overall profit earned after selling both the articles is 4%, then what is the cost price of article B? | PYQs + Solutions

JIPMAT 2025

Arithmetic

Profit & Loss

Easy

Cost price of article A is ₹ 200 more than the cost price of article B. Article A was sold at 10% loss and article B was sold at 25% profit. If the overall profit earned after selling both the articles is 4%, then what is the cost price of article B?

₹ 300

₹ 400

₹ 450

₹ 500

✅ Correct Option: 2

Let the cost price of article B be

x

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Then, the cost price of article A is

(x +200)

Article A is sold at

10\%

loss, so Seling Price of A

= (x+200) \times 0.90 = 0.9x + 180

\newline

Article B is sold at

25 \%

profit, so Selling Price of B

= 1.25x

The total cost price

= x+(x+200)=2 x+200

Total selling price

= 0.9x + 180 +1.25x

Also, overall profit is

4 \%

, so total selling price =

(2 x+ 200) \times 1.04

Thus, we get Selling Price:

0.9x + 180+1.25 x=1.04(2 x+200)

\newline

180+2.15 x=2.08x + 208

\newline

0.07x = 28

\newline

x = 400

Hence, the correct answer is Option 2.

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JIPMAT 2025 (QA) PYQs

Cost price of article A is ₹ 200 more than the cost price of article B. Article A was sold at 10% loss and article B was sold at 25% profit. If the overall profit earned after selling both the articles is 4%, then what is the cost price of article B?

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