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If the selling price is less than the cost price, the shopkeeper makes a loss. Loss percentage — just like profit percentage — is always worked out on the cost price.
✓ You passed this lesson’s test.
Still on the cost price — “loss % = loss ÷ cost price × 100”
Use it for: Selling old things, stock that does not sell, and Class 7–8 profit and loss sums.
🧮 Check your own sums with the free Percentage calculator — it shows the working.
Check: 30 ÷ 250 × 100 = 12% ✓
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20 questions. Check each answer, then go to the next one. Get 16 or more right to pass.
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