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‘X’ is a bread seller who marked up price of each bread packet by 150% above and allow discounts of 40% and made a profit of Rs. 30 on each bread packet. If ‘X’ allows 37.5% discount on each packet, then find how much profit he gets on selling 80 bread packets?

Rs 2750
Rs 3200
Rs 2500
Rs 2700

Correct Answer: Rs 2700

Explanation:

Let cost price of each bread packet = a Rs.

So, marked price of each bread packet = 2.5a

And selling price of each bread packet = 2.5a × 60/100 = 1.5a

Given, 1.5a –

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