Question

the ratio of the cost price to selling price is 8:9 . If the cost price of the power generator is 8500 what is the selling price?

Answer 1

`\begin{gathered} LetCP=8x \\ andSP=9x \\ Ga\in=9x-8x=1x \\ Ga\in\text{ in percentage=}1x*(100)/(8x) \\ =12.5\text{\%} \\ Ga\in=((sp-cp))/(cp) \\ 12.5=(sp-8500)/(8500) \\ 106250=sp-8500 \\ sp=114750 \end{gathered}`