AFCAT II 24 Aug 2019 Paper

Let the price of 1m cloth is ₹ 100.
then selling price of 1 m cloth on 10% loss
=100×(

100–10

100

)=₹‌90.
But, actually he got the profit of 15%
then, length of cloths, he sold in ₹90, to get 15%profit. = 90×

100

100+15

=78.26cm
Hence, length of meter scale is 0.7826m.