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Mixture and Alligation · UPSC CDS/OTA · Question 8 of 54

Mixture and Alligation: Pinku, a dishonest grocer, professes to sell pure butter at cost price, but he mixes it with adulterated fat and thereby gains 25%. Find the percentage of adulterated fat in the mixture assuming that adulterated fat is freely available.

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Mixture and Alligation
Subject
Mathematics
Difficulty
Medium
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45-60 sec

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Pinku, a dishonest grocer, professes to sell pure butter at cost price, but he mixes it with adulterated fat and thereby gains 25%. Find the percentage of adulterated fat in the mixture assuming that adulterated fat is freely available.

TopicMixture and Alligation
Question Typemultiple choice
DifficultyMedium
Marking+1 / −0.33
Test Duration30 min

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