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Hi braddouglas10

The answer provided by Harshvardhan in this chat is the best answer and explains well. Share your specific doubts if any.

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Since you're an incredible and competent teacher, can you please do your version of this one?
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Should be D, but actually both statements give different answers for X. A gives 22.72 while B gives 25. This should not happen with an official question. Right? Bunuel
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Everything aside, I don't understand how is this question labeled as easy in the DI Review 2024-2025. When I looked it and wrote the equations i was already like 90s in the questions.
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A milk vendor mixes water with milk and sells the mixture at the same price per liter as if it were undiluted milk. The selling price per liter of the mixture is the vendor’s cost per liter of the milk plus a markup of x %. The water costs the vendor nothing. If the vendor gets a 50% profit on the sale of the mixture, what is the value of x ?

(1) If the vendor mixes half the intended quantity of water and sells every liter of the mixture at the cost price per liter of the undiluted milk, the vendor will get a 10% profit.

(2) The concentration of milk in the mixture after adding water is 5/6.­


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Points to Note :
Mixture(M) sold at same price as milk(m)
CP=CP of milk
SP=CP(1+x/100)
P=50%
SP-CP=0.5CP
SP=1.5CP
CP(1+x/100)M=1.5CP*m
m/M=1+x/100 ...... (i)
x = ?

Statement 1
So,
SP=1.1CP
M=2m
CP(1+x/100)2m=1.1CP*m
(1+x/100)2 = 1.1
We can find x from here.
SUFFICIENT.

Statement 2
m=5/6M
If we substitute this in i, we can get x.
SUFFICIENT.

Ans D
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