Profit and Loss Questions

By selling a table for ₹$330$, a trader gains $10\%$. Find the cost price of the table.

Sabiha purchased $240$ cups for her shop at ₹$8$ each. During transportation, $24$ cups got damaged, and she sold the remaining cups at ₹$12$ each. Find her overall percentage profit.

A multi-store outlet sold 1375 items in a week earning 25% gain. The total gain is also equal to the selling price of 'Q' number of items. What is the value of Q?

A person buys a table fan for Rs. 1,800 and sells it at a loss of 25%. What is the selling price of the table fan?

A 15% discount is allowed by a tradesman. How much above the cost price (in percentage) must he mark his goods so as to gain 19%?

What is the discount on a pair of shoes marked at $475$ and discounted at $15\%$?

A shopkeeper allows a discount of $10\%$ on the marked price of an item but charges a sales tax of $8\%$ on the discounted price. If the customer pays $₹34,020$ as the price including the sales tax, then what is the marked price?

As a result of $25\%$ hike in the price of rice per kg, a person is unable to purchase $6\text{kg}$ more rice for $₹1,200$. What was the original price of rice per kg?

A person sold a horse at a gain of $25\%$. Had he bought it for $35\%$ less and sold it for $₹732$ less, he would have made a profit of $36\%$. The cost price of the horse was :

A trader marks his goods at $225\%$ above the cost price and offers a discount of $55\%$ on the marked price. Find his profit percentage.

A shopkeeper buys $12$ chocolates for ₹ $6$. To gain a $20\%$ profit, how many chocolates should he sell for ₹ $6$?

Reyan purchased a laptop for ₹56,000 and a scanner-cum-printer for ₹22,000. He sold the laptop for a 20% profit and the scanner-cum-printer for a 15% profit. What is his overall profit percentage?

A wrist watch was purchased for ₹3,000 and sold for ₹3,500. Find the profit percentage.

Which of the following schemes will yield maximum discount on purchase of ₹x?
2 successive discounts of 25% and 15%

Single discount of 20%

2 free on purchase of 3 items

3 free on purchase of 7 items