Question : Direction: Various expenditures incurred by a publishing company for publishing books in 2011 are given below. Study the chart and answer the question.
The royalty of a book is less than the printing cost by:
Option 1: $25\%$
Option 2: $5\%$
Option 3: $33\frac{1}{3}\%$
Option 4: $20\%$
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Correct Answer: $25\%$
Solution :
We have,
Let the cost price be $x$.
The Printing cost of the book = 20% of the cost price = 0.2$x$
The Royalty on the book = 15% of the cost price = 0.15$x$
The required percentage = $\frac{0.20x-0.15x}{0.20x}$ × 100 = 25%
Hence, the correct answer is $25\%$.
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