Q.1
A person buys a bag at 25% discount on its original price. After few days, he sells it to his friend at 40% increase on the original price. What is his profit percentage (approx) ?
Q.2
A loss of 20% gets converted into a profit of 15% when the selling price of an article is increased by Rs. 70. Find the cost price of the article = ?
Q.3
By selling an umbrella for Rs. 300, a shopkeeper gains 20%. During a clearance sale, the shopkeeper allows a discount of 10% on the marked price. His gain percent during the sale is -
Q.4
An item costing Rs. 840 was sold by a shopkeeper at a gain of 10% and it was again sold by the new buyer at a loss of 5%. Find selling price of the item is = ?
Q.5
The cost of raw materials of a product increases by 30%, the manufacturing cost increases by 20% and the selling price of the product increases by 60%. The raw material and the manufacturing cost originally formed 40% and 60% of the total cost respectively. If the original profit percentage was one - fourth the original manufacturing cost, find the approximate new profit percentage.
Q.6
Previously, the manufacturing cost of a product was thrice the cost of raw material. Now the cost of raw material increases in the ratio 5 : 12 and manufacturing cost increases in the ratio of 3 : 5. The previous cost of the product was Rs. 8. What should be the present selling price so that 25% profit can be made?
Q.7
A milkman makes 20% profit by selling milk mixed with water at Rs. 9 per litre, if the cost price of 1 litre pure milk is Rs. 10, then the ratio of milk and water in the said mixture is = ?
Q.8
A shopkeeper bought 15 kg of rice at the rate of Rs. 29 per kg and 25 kg of rice at the rate of Rs. 20 per kg. He sold the mixture of both types of rice at the rate of Rs. 27 per kg. His profit in this transaction is = ?
Q.9
On selling 17 balls at Rs. 720 there is a loss equal to the cost price of 5 balls. The cost price of a ball is = ?
Q.10
A small and medium enterprise imports two components A and B from Taiwan and China respectively and assembles them with other components to form a toy. Components A contributes to 10% of production cost while components B contributes to 20% of production cost. Usually the company sells this toy at 20% above the production cost. Due to increase in the raw material and labour cost in both the countries ,component A became 20% costlier and components B became 40% costlier. Owing to these reasons the company increased its selling price by 15%. Considering that cost of other components does not change. What will be the profit percentage if the toy is sold at the new price?
Q.11
When a plot is sold for Rs. 18700, the owner loses 15% . At what price must the plot be sold in order to gain 15% ?
Q.12
A trader sells an article and loses $$12\frac{1}{2}$$%. The ratio of cost price to the selling price is -
Q.13
A firm of readymade garments makes both men's and women's shirts. Its average profit is 6% of the sales. Its profit in men's shirt average 8% of the sales and women's shirts comprise 60% of the output. The average profit per sales rupee in women's shirts is
Q.14
A book seller sells a book at a profit of 10% . If he had bought it at 4% less and sold it for Rs. 6 more. He would have gained $$18\frac{3}{4}$$% . The cost price of the book is = ?
Q.15
A businessman sells a commodity at 10% profit. If he had bought it at 10% less and sold it for Rs. 2 less, then he would have gained $$16\frac{2}{3}$$% . The cost price of the commodity is = ?
Q.16
If the cost price of 18 articles is equal to the selling price of 16 articles, the gain or loss is = ?
Q.17
The price of a refrigerator and a television set are in the ratio 5 : 3. If the refrigerator costs Rs. 5500 more than the television set, then the price of the refrigerator is = ?
Q.18
If books bought at prices from Rs. 150 to Rs. 300 are sold at prices ranging from Rs. 250 to Rs. 350. What is the greatest possible profit that might be made in selling 15 books ?
Q.19
Jacob bought a scooter for a certain sum of money. He spent 10% of the cost on repairs and sold the scooter for a profit of Rs. 1100. How much did he spend on repairs if he made a profit of 20% ?
Q.20
A person sells a table at a profit of 10% . If he had bought the table at 5% less cost and sold for Rs. 80 more, he would have gained 20% . The cost price of the table is = ?
Q.21
A fruit seller sells mangoes at the rate of Rs. 9 per kg and thereby loses 20% . At what price per kg, he should have sold, them to make a profit of 5% ?
Q.22
Raju purchased an item for Rs. 8200 and sold it at a gain of 25% . From that amount he purchased another item and sold it at a loss of 20% . What is his overall gain loss ?
Q.23
A person buys an article for Rs. p and sells it for Rs. q thereby gaining r% . The selling price in terms of cost price may be written as -
Q.24
A radio is sold for Rs. 990 at a profit of 10% . What would have been the actual profit or loss on it had it been sold for Rs. 890 ?
Q.25
A man sells an article at 10% loss. If he had sold it at Rs. 10 more, he would have gained 10% . The cost price of the article is = ?
Q.26
By selling a bicycle for Rs. 2850, a shopkeeper gains 14% . If the profit is reduced to 8% then the selling price will be -
Q.27
Find the difference of amount if 40% discount is given on Rs. 500 and two consecutive discount 30% and 10% are given on the same amount.
Q.28
If an article sold at 200% profit then the ratio of its cost price to his selling price will be = ?
Q.29
The profit earned after selling an article for Rs. 1754 is the same as loss incurred after selling the article for Rs. 1492. What is the cost price of the article?
Q.30
If the cost price of an item is $$\frac{5}{9}$$ of its marked price and the profit is 20% , then the percentage of discount is = ?
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