Profit and Loss Questions

The list price of an article was ₹735. Ravi sold it after giving a 20% discount on its list price and still made a profit of 47%. What was the cost price (in ₹) of the article?

Anju sold an article to her friend Rakesh at 14% loss. If Rakesh sold it for ₹2,537 and made a profit of 18%, then the original cost price (in ₹) of the article for Anju was:

A bought an item for ₹1,100 and sold it to B at a loss of 5%. B sold the item to C at a profit of k% for ₹1,254. Find the value of k.

A shopkeeper sold 6 shirts of company A for ₹4,290 at 10% profit and 8 shirts of company B for ₹6,156 at 14% profit. What was his profit percentage (correct to 2 decimal places)?

Suraj bought 90 articles at ₹12.50 per article. He sold 60% of them at ₹15 per article and 50% of the remaining at ₹10.50 per article. At what price (in ₹) per article should he sell the remaining articles to get 20% profit in the entire transaction?

A shopkeeper sold sarees at ₹529 each after giving an 8% discount on their marked price. Had he not given the discount, he would have earned a profit of 15% on their cost. What was the cost price (in ₹) of each saree?

A shopkeeper bought a sofa-set, a centre table and a dining table for ₹15,000, ₹3,000 and ₹7,000, respectively. He sold the sofa-set at 20% profit and the centre table at 15% profit. At what profit percentage should he sell the dining table to earn 18% on the whole transaction?

P sells a Laptop to Q at a loss of 25% and Q sells the laptop to R at a profit of 20%. If R purchased the laptop for ₹22,500, then what was the cost (in ₹) of the laptop for P?

Shyam bought a chair for ₹1,563 and spent ₹350 on its repairing. He sold it for ₹2,398. Find his profit percentage (correct to two places of decimals).

A used two-wheeler-dealer sells a scooter for $\text{₹}460$ and makes some loss. If he had sold it for $\text{₹}580$, his profit would have been double of his loss. What was the cost price of the scooter?

If the selling price is tripled, the profit becomes 5 times. What is the profit percent?

The selling price of y items is equal to the cost price of 540 items. If the profit made is 44%, then find the value of y.

The list price of an article is ₹ 80. A customer pays ₹ 30 for it. He was given 2 successive discounts, one of them being 50%. What was the other discount?

By selling a car for $\text{₹}6,400$, Mr. Rao lost $20\%$. Then the cost price of the car is:

A manufacturer undertakes to supply $2000$ pieces of a particular component at $\text{₹}50$ per piece. According to his estimates, even if $5\%$ components fail to pass the quality test, then he will make a profit of $25\%$. However, as it turned out, $50\%$ of the components were rejected. Then what is the loss to the manufacturer?

A shopkeeper offers the following three schemes:
I. Buy 9 get 1 free
II. Buy 7 get 8
III. Two successive discounts of 20% and 15%

Which scheme has the lowest discount percentage (all articles have the same marked price)?

The difference between the cost price and the selling price of a table lamp is ₹540. If the profit is 30%, then the selling price (in ₹) is:

A chair is bought for ₹600 and sold for ₹750. Find the profit percentage.

The marked price of a commodity was given as ₹425 per kg. After two successive discounts of 5% and y%, respectively, the retailer purchased it for ₹323 per kg. What was the value of y?

The marked price of an item was ₹12,500. Two successive discounts of 12% each was offered on its sale. What was the selling price (in ₹) of the item?

In what ratio must the two types of tea at $\text{₹}180\text{/kg}$ and $\text{₹}280\text{/kg}$ respectively be mixed so that the obtained mixture sold at $\text{₹}320\text{/kg}$ earns a profit of $20\%$?

The annual profit percentage earned by a telephone company during the period 2015-2020 is given in the following table. The profit percentage is calculated by the difference between income and expenditure over expenditure. Study the table and answer the question that follows.

The increase in the price of a certain item was $25\%$. Then the price was decreased by $20\%$ and then again increased by $10\%$. What is the resultant increase in the price?

A man sells a cow for Rs. 22,000 and gains 10%. At what price should he sell the same cow, in order to gain 14%?

A shopkeeper sells goods at 82% loss on cost price but uses 28% less weight. What is his percentage profit or loss?

The cost price of 10 apples is equal to the selling price of 20 apples. Find the loss or gain percentage.

An item costs Rs. 15,000. A customer can choose either 30% discount or the "buy two get one free" offer. Jeevan chose the first offer and Rakshit chose the second offer. Find the difference in their payment for a single item.

A tradesman marked his goods at 26% above its cost price and then allowed a discount of 13%. His gain (in %) is:

A person bought bananas at 6 for ₹12 and sold them at 8for₹10. Find his gain or loss percentage?

A store is running a scheme for offering a discount of 12% if the customer pays instantly, and a discount of 6% if purchased through credit card. The benefit of the scheme may be split on the amount of payment, however only one discount shall be given on one item. There is no discount on any other type of transaction. Ankur purchased a shirt from the store, whose marked price was ₹2,200, through credit card and paid instantly for the purchase of a coat marked at ₹7,500. What was the total amount (in ₹) billed?

The percentage profit earned by selling an article for ₹1,910 is equal to the percentage loss incurred by selling the same article for ₹1,690. At what price (in ₹) should the article be sold to make a 12% profit?