Dishonest dealer/Dishonest shopkeeper/False weights/Cheating in weights Profit and loss questions

1.A dishonest dealer marks up the price of his goods by 20% and gives a discount of 10% to the customer. Besides, he also cheats both his supplier and his buyer by 100 grams while buying or selling 1 kilogram. Find the percentage profit earned by the shopkeeper?
Ans 32 percent

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2.
A dishonest dealer marks up the price of his goods by 60% and gives a discount of 25% to the customer. Besides, he also cheats both his supplier and his buyer by 100 grams while buying or selling 1 kilogram. Find the percentage profit earned by the shopkeeper?
Ans 46.66 percent


3

A dishonest shopkeeper professes to sell pulses at the cost price, but he uses a false weight of $950$ gm for a kg. his gain is ...%?
Ans 5.26 percent

4

A dishonest shopkeeper uses false balance and cheats a customer by giving 20% less quantity of food . His profit is 

Ans 25%

5

A shopkeeper professes to sell his goods at cost price but uses a weight of 800 gm instead of kilogram weight.Thus, he makes a profit of

Ans 25%