PROFIT AND LOSS
1. The marked price of a ratio is Rs 300.The shopkeeper allows a discount of 12% and gains
10% ,if no discount is allowed his gain percent is.
2. On allows of 10% discount on an article the shopkeeper gain 20%, If a discount of 20% is
allowed on it. What will be the gain percent?
3. The marked price of an article is 50% above cost price, when marked price is increased
by 20% and selling price is increased by by 20%, the profit doubles, If original marked
price is Rs 300, then the original selling price is.
4. A person bought 50 pens for Rs 50 each He sold 40 of them at a loss of 5%. He wants to
gain 10% on the whole. Then his gain percent on the remaining pens should be.
5. If the profit percent got on selling an article is numerically equal to its cost price in
rupees and the selling price is Rs 39 then cost price will be.
6. A sold a tape -recorder to B for Rs 4860 at a loss of 19% .Again B sold it to C at a price
that would give A a profit of 17% .the gain of B is.
7. One trader calculates the percentage of profit on the buying price and another
calculates on the selling price,When their selling prices are the same, then the
difference of their actual profit is Rs 85 and both claim 20% profit. What is the selling
price of each?
8. A man bought a certain quantity of rice at the rate of 650 per quintal, 20% of the rice
was spoiled. At what rate should he sell the remaining rice to gain 20% on the outlay?
9. A reduction of 20% in the price of rice enables the person to buy 12.5Kg more for Rs 800
(i)
The original price of rice per kg is.
(ii)
After reduction price per kg is
10. A book is listed at Rs 1500 and a discount of 20% is offered on the list price. What
additional discount must be offered to the customer to bring the net price is Rs 1104?
11. A successive discount of 10%.20% and 30% is equivalent to a single discount of.
12. An article is listed at Rs 900 and two successive discounts of 8% and 8% are given on it.
How much would the seller gain or loss. If he gives a single discount of 16% instead of
two discount.
13. A shopkeeper shows 5% loss on an article but uses 900 gms weight instead of 1kg.His
gain or loss percent is.
14. A man sells tea at 10% profit and uses a weight of which is 20% less than the original
measure. His gain percent is.
15. A dealer sells his goods at cost price, uses 900 gms weight for 1kg. His gain percent is.
16. By using a false weight a dealer defrauds his customer by 5% in purchasing and 5% in
selling his gain percent is.
17. The total cost price of two watches is Rs 840; one is sold at a profit of 16% and the other
at a loss of 12%. There is no loss or no profit in the whole transaction. The cost price of
the watch on which the shopkeeper gain.
PROFIT AND LOSS
18. Samir bought a table and a chair for Rs 8000 each. He sells table at 20% profit and chair
at a loss of 20%. His loss or profit percent is.
19. A man sold two pipes at Rs 960 each .On the one he gain 20% and the other loss 20%,
on the whole he got loss or profit is.
20. The selling price of two watches is equal, while the sum of the cost price is Rs 840. One
is sold at 10% profit and the other at 10% loss .The cost price of the article on which the
shopkeeper gain.
21. A businessman bought an article and sold it at a loss of 5%, If he had bought it for 10%
less and sold it for Rs 33 more, he would have profit of 30%.The cost price is.
22. By mixing two brands of tea and selling the mixture at the rate of Rs 177per kg, a
shopkeeper makes a profit of 18%. If to every 2kg of one brand costing Rs is 200 per kg,
3kg of the other brand is added, then how much per kg does the other brand cost?
23. A man buys 2 dozen bananas at Rs 16 per dozen. After selling 18 bananas at the rate of
Rs 12 per dozen, the shopkeeper reduced the rate to Rs 4 per dozen. The percent loss is.
24. A person purchases 90 clocks and sells 40 clocks at a gain of 10% and 50 clocks at a gain
of 20%. If he sold all of them at a uniform of 15% profit, then he would have got Rs 40
less. The cost price of each book is.
25. A shopkeeper sells a badminton racket, whose marked price is Rs30, at a discount of
15% and gives a shuttle cock costing Rs1.50 free with each racket. Even then he makes a
profit of 20%. His cost price per racket is.
26. A trade man gives 4% discount on the marked price and gives 1 article free for buying
every 15 articles and thus gains 35%. The marked price is above the cost price by.
27. A bought a radio set and spend Rs 110 on its repairs, then sold it to B at 20%profit, B
sold it to C at a loss of 10% and C sold it for Rs1188 at a profit of 10%. What is the
amount for which A bought the radio set?
28. A man purchased a bed sheet for Rs 450 and sold it at a gain of 10% calculated on the
selling price. The selling price of the bed sheet was.
29. If on the marked price, the difference of selling prices with a discounts of 30% and two
successive discounts of 20% and 10% is Rs 72, then the marked price is.
30. List price of an article at a showroom is Rs 2000 and it is being sold at successive
discounts of 20% and 10%. Its net selling price will be.