Question 20123
The wooden nutmegs cost 1/4 cent and the real ones cost 4 cents. For every wooden nutmeg sold as a real one he makes an extra 3.75 cents profit. If he made $3.75 as a result of his fraud then he must have had 100 wooden nutmegs. Note this applies regardless of the number of real nutmegs in the mixture and his normal profit margin as the fraud is responsible for the extra 3.75 cents per nutmeg only.