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By selling 18 chocolates, a vendor loses the selling price of 2 chocolates. Find his loss per cent.

A

11%

B

12%

C

10%

D

15%

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Let the SP of 1 chocolate ₹ 1 SP of 8 chocolate = ₹ 18 and loss = ₹ 2 CP=SP + loss = 18+2= ₹ 20 Percentage loss = `"loss"/(CP)xx100=2/20xx100=10%`
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