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Answer the following questions on the basis of the data given below.

Jamshedpur Electronics sells Television sets and IPods through three retail outlets located in Bistupur, Sakchi and Kadma. The table below gives the sales figures (in Rupees thousand) of these two products for the months of January, February and March.



Note: Units ordered = Units sold + Ending inventory - Beginning inventory. All other things remain constant, and all Rupee figures are in thousands.

In the period from January to March, Jamshedpur Electronics ordered 7560 units of IPods across all three areas put together. The ending inventory was 6120 units and the beginning inventory was 5760 units. What was the unit sales price of IPods during this period (in Rupees thousand)?

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Use the inventory formula to get units sold first, then divide the total IPods sales value by that number.
Updated On: Jul 10, 2026
  • 14.00
  • 14.65
  • 14.80
  • 13.00
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The Correct Option is A

Solution and Explanation

Rather than dividing $100800$ by $7200$ directly, let's simplify the fraction step by step by cancelling common factors, which makes the arithmetic easier to check by hand.

  1. Units sold: from the inventory rule, units sold = units ordered - ending inventory + beginning inventory = $7560 - 6120 + 5760 = 7200$.
  2. Set up the price fraction: price per unit = $\frac{100800}{7200}$, using the IPods sales total of 100800 (Rupees thousand) worked out from the table.
  3. Cancel in stages: dividing both numerator and denominator by 100 gives $\frac{1008}{72}$. Dividing both by 8 gives $\frac{126}{9}$. Dividing both by 9 gives $\frac{14}{1} = 14$.

Cancelling this way avoids doing one large division in a single step, and it is easy to double check each small division along the way.

Let's summarize:

  • Units sold = 7200, found from the inventory formula.
  • Price per unit = 100800/7200, which simplifies in stages to 14.

So the unit sales price of IPods during this period was Rupees 14 thousand.

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