How much is the loss?

[gaurang08]

I don't understand how do you guys seperates 1000 & 800 as different transaction.
Lady gives 1000 to seller, He gets the change from other guy and gives 800 to that lady. After found the note is fake. He had to give back the 1000 to the other guy ( thats a monetary loss) + The 200 worth of item given to that lady + % of profit in that 200. So the total loss should be approx 1250 ...

Mate he gives the lady 800 rs + the product ( worth 200 rs ) so = 1000
The other shopkeeper who gave him change takes back 1000 from him as note given by lady is fake .. so another 1000 ..
so total loss for shopkeeper will be 2000 ...

 

[DNA_Uncut]

^ Right, i missed that 800. It seems 2000 is the convincing answer ...

 

[Sushubh]

1000 is my new answer
lady takes 200 rupee stuff and 800 rupee cash.
shopkeeper's friend does not lose anything.
shopkeeper lose 1000 bucks.

 

[ashish]

1200 should be the correct answer.
if 1000 is taken as the correct answer, then the cost price of goods sold is taken as nil, but in the question it is clearly mentioned that there is no profit or loss. so the cost price of the goods is rs 200 unless the goods he got is for free or as gift, then it should have been mentioned in the question.
So 1200 is the correct answer to the question originally asked

1000 is my new answer
lady takes 200 rupee stuff and 800 rupee cash.
shopkeeper's friend does not lose anything.
shopkeeper lose 1000 bucks.

bhai muft ka maal nahin mila hain. uski jeb se 200 rupay gaye hain maal ke liye

 

[Sushubh]

let's remove the fake note completely as it is irrelevant.
lady takes 1000 rupees. that's clear.
the guy takes a loan of 1000 rupees. give 800 rupees to lady. keeps 200 rupees with himself. (+200)
he gives back 1000 rupees. so he loses 1000 rupees. (-1000)
he loses 200 rupees worth of stuff. (-200)
hopefully i am not messing up again.

 

[DNA_Uncut]

^ I was right. (approx 1250). Why do you guys don't take profit margin into the account ...

 

[ashish]

Coz it's clearly mentioned in the question NO PROFIT MARGIN

 

[DNA_Uncut]

^ Okay! Bad, I missed that too.

 

[Navjot Singh]

I have another proposal for a solution. Let's start with a random amount he has with him in the morning. Let's say he starts his day with Rs 5000. He buys a product worth Rs 200 which he intends to sell at the same rate. So now he has Rs 4800 with him + the product.
After the transaction with the lady he is again left with Rs 5000 with the product gone. So he is back to the same state which he was at in the morning.
Now when the other shopkeeper comes shouting and takes him with 1000 rs, our protagonist is left with just Rs 4000.
So net loss is just Rs 1000 whereas that product was just introduced to spread confusion. Hope this makes it clear.

 

[ashish]

the problem with your proposal is that the whole amount should be equivalent to the denomination of the transaction note then it could be equated to the original question