Arithmetic

Profit & Loss

Medium

The price of a jewel, passing through three sellers, rises on the whole by 65%. If the first and the second sellers earned 20% and 25% profit respectively. The percentage profit earned by third seller is?

5 %

10 %

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20 %

✅ Correct Option: 2

Successive rises multiply, so $1.20 \times 1.25 \times (1+r) = 1.65$ . Since $1.20 \times 1.25 = 1.50$ , we get $1+r = \frac{1.65}{1.50} = 1.10$ , so the third seller's profit is $10\%$ .

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