Profit & Loss

KUMARESAN C
On selling an article for Rs.400, a man loses 20%. What will be the price of selling
price, if desired profit is 10%?
By Selling 45 lemons for Rs.40, a man loses 20%. How many should he sell for Rs.24,
to gain 20% in the transaction.
In a shop the profit is 220% of the cost price of an article. If the cost price increases by
30% but the selling price remains constant, approximately what percentage of the selling
price is the profit?
The cost price of 21 articles is equal to the selling price of 18 articles. Find the gain or loss
percentage?
A retailer buys goods at 10% discount on its marked price and sells them at 20% more
than its marked price. What is his profit percentage?
A dealer offers a discount of 10% on the marked price of an article and still makes a
profit of 20%. If the marked price of the article is Rs.800, then the cost price of the
article.
What would be the printed price of a watch purchased at Rs.380, so that after giving
5% discount, there is 25% profit?
A person buys 8 oranges for Rs.15 and sells them at 10 for Rs.18. What does he gain or
loss percent?
A man purchased a box full of pencils at the rate of 7 for Rs.9 and sold all of them at the
rate of 8 for Rs.11. in this transaction, he gained Rs.10. How many pencils did the box
contain?
A dishonest dealer fruit vendor professes to sell his goods at cost price but he uses a
weight of 800g for the kg. Find his gain percentage?
A grocer sells rice at a profit of 10% and uses a weight which is 20% less. Find his total
percent gain.
A dishonest dealer sells goods at 6% losses on cost price but uses 900 g instead of one kg.
What is his percentage profit or loss?
The profit earned by selling an article for Rs.832 is equal to the loss incurred by selling the
same article for Rs.448. At what price should the article be sold to make 50% profit?
The profit earned when article is sold for Rs.800 is 20 times the loss incurred, when it
is sold for Rs.275. At what price he sold his goods if he wants to earn 20% Profit.
A reduction of 20% in the price of sugar enables a person to buy 3 kg more for Rs.180,
Find the original price per kg of sugar.
A man sold two articles for Rs.600 each. On selling first, he gains 20% and on the other, he
gains 30%. What is the overall profit percentage in the transaction?
A man sold two articles for Rs.10,000 each. On selling first, he gains 10% and on the other,
he losses 10%. What is the profit or loss percentage in the transaction?
A Shopkeeper marks price of his articles 12% above the cost price and then allow 12%
discount on the marked price. What is the loss percent?
Raja sells a watch at Rs.2508 by giving successive discount of 12% and 5% over the
marked price. Find the marked price of the watch?
Surya sold a Pen drive at a profit of 10%. If he sold it for Rs.120 more, he had gained
20%. Find the cost price of the Pen drive?
The price of a TV is marked at Rs.75,000. If successive discount of 12%, 10% and 8% be
allowed then at what price does a customer buys?
If the difference between the selling price with a discount of 40% and two successive
discounts 25% on a marked price of a fan is Rs.30, then what is the marked price?
Ram sold an article after giving X% discounts and earned a profit 44%, Had he sold the
article after giving 2X% discounts, he would have earned a profit of 28%, The marked
price of article is what percentage more than the cost price of article?
Ravi bought two books, Book 1 at Rs.X and Book 2 at Rs.X+40. He sold Book 1 at 10%
profit and Book 2 at 5% loss, and earned Rs.40 as profit on the whole deal. What is the
profit earned by Ravi on selling Book 1?
The ratio of the cost price of articles A and B is 5:4. Article A was sold at a profit of 30%
and Article B was sold at a profit of 15%. If the total profit earned after selling both the
articles A and B is Rs.630, What is the difference the cost price of articles A and B?
A girl bought two salwar for Rs.1055. She sold one at a loss of 22% and other at a profit of
33%. If each salwar was sold for the same price, the cost price of the salwar, which was
sold at profit, is
A man sells a shoe at a gain of 30%. If he had bought it at 20% less and sold it for Rs.25
more, he would have gained 75%, and then what is the cost price of the shoe?
A man sold a book at 9% profit and a pen at 13% profit. If he sold the book at 13% and a
pen at a 9% profit, he gain Rs.80 more. Find the cost price of book and pen purchased both
at Rs.20,000.
A man sells two articles Rs.1760. He sells 1st on 20%profit and 2nd at 25% profit. Find
profit amount of overall profit or loss if the cost price of 1st articles is equal to the selling
price of 2nd article?
A man can purchased 5 tables and 10 chairs of Rs.10,000. He sells the tables at 15% profit
and chairs sells at 10% loss. Find the cost price of each table, If he earned a total profit of
Rs.375.
A merchant has 100 kg of sugar, part of which he sells at 10% profit and the rest at 18%
profit. He gains 15% on the whole. The quantity sold at 18% profit is
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