Question
Which of the following is most often used in the food
industry as a chemical leavening agent in baked foods such as cakes, muffins and cookies?Solution
In bakeries, sodium bicarbonate (also known as baking soda) is used in the preparation of cakes or cookies. Adding baking soda in these items cause the batter to rise when baked.
A shopkeeper mixes 40 kg sugar worth Rs.15 per kg with 160 kg sugar worth Rs. 25 per kg. At what rate should he sell the mixture per kg to gain a profit...
A dishonest shopkeeper pretends to sell his goods at cost price but uses false weights and gains 25%. For a weight of 1 kg he uses:
The profit earned when a blanket is sold at Rs. 4032 is 1.25 times of the loss incurred when the same blanket is sold at Rs. 2822.4. What will be the se...
- A shopkeeper offered two back-to-back discounts of x% and sold an article for Rs. 1800. The marked price was Rs. 3200. What was the percentage of each disc...
A shopkeeper buys toffees at the rate of 14 for 1 rupee. At what rate (how many toffees per rupee) should he sell them to earn a 40% profit?
A man purchases some number of apples at the rate of 36 apple for Rs. 1. How many for a rupee did he sell to gain 12.5%.
A shop owner bought merchandise for Rs. 'u'. He then marked the price up by Rs. 2,800 above the purchase price and sold it after applying two sequential...
A shopkeeper priced an item at Rs. 640 above its original cost and then sold it at a 25% discount, resulting in a 35% profit. Calculate the cost price o...
'A' sold an article whose cost price is Rs. 'Z', at a profit of 30% to 'B'. 'B' marked the price of the article 30% above the price at which he bought i...
- A shopkeeper cheats his customer by using faulty weight and earns profit percent of 12% after selling. How much less the shopkeeper will sell when the cust...
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