Profit and Loss Questions

A tractor manufacturing company sells each tractor for ₹5,00,000. Assuming that KISAN firm buys 50 tractors from them as a part of an annual contract, the company offers a trade discount of 10% to KISAN and an additional 2% discount if the payment is made within 30 days. What will be the amount payable by KISAN within 30 days for the consignment?

A vendor buys 20 laptop bags for ₹13,000 and sells them at 15 for ₹10,125. How many laptop bags should be bought and sold to earn a profit of ₹3,225?

An old HP Deskjet printer was bought for ₹4,800 and ₹500 was spent on its repair. If it was sold for ₹6,360, then its profit percentage is:

A person spends $60\%$ of his income. His income increased by $30\%$ and he increased his expenditure by $20\%$. His percent savings will then be increased by:

A shopkeeper announced a $17\%$ rebate on the marked price of an article. If the selling price of the article is ₹$1,245$, then the marked price (in ₹) of the article is:

A vendor buys $20$ pens for ₹$15$ and sells them at $15$ for ₹$20$. How many pens should be bought and sold to earn a profit of ₹$245$?

A shopkeeper normally makes a profit of $20\%$ in a certain transaction; he weighed $900\text{ gm}$ instead of $1\text{ kg}$ due to an error in the weighing machine. If he charges $15\%$ less than what he normally charges, then what is his actual profit or loss percentage?

A person bought $80\text{m}$ cloth at $\text{₹}110$ per $\text{m}$ and sold $75\%$ of it at a gain of $6\%$. At what gain percent did he sell the remaining cloth, if he gained $10\%$ on his total outlay?

Sukrit purchased an item for ₹650 and sold it at a profit of 26%. At what price (in ₹) did Sukrit sell the item?

Note-books are bought at $16$ for $\text{₹}700$ and sold at $11$ for $\text{₹}500$. How many notebooks should be sold to gain $\text{₹}450$?

A shopkeeper marks the price of an article $25\%$ above its cost price. After allowing a $10\%$ discount on the marked price, the article is sold for $\text{₹}720$. What is the difference (in $\text{₹}$) between the cost price and marked price of the article?

If $20\%$ more would be gained by selling an article for ₹ $93$ than selling it for ₹ $85$, then the cost price of the article is:

At what percentage above the cost price must an article be marked so as to gain $38\%$ after allowing a customer a discount of $8\%$ on the marked price?

A shopkeeper made a profit of $16\%$ on his goods. If the price at which he buys decreases by $20\%$ while he reduces his selling price by $23\%$, what is now his percentage of profit? (correct to one decimal place)

A dealer advertises that he sales his goods at cost price. But he uses 950 gm for 1 kg weight. Find his gain or loss percentage.

The selling price of 80 items is equal to the cost price of 72 items. What is the percentage of loss incurred in the transaction?

During the lockdown, a state government gives 4.5 kg of rice to each person of a family at a cost price of ₹40 per kg. But the distributor uses a false weight of 3.75 kg instead of 4.5 kg and distributes the rice. The accumulated rice was sold in the black market at double the price. He showed the government that he distributed 2700 kg of rice. When caught, he was made to pay a fine of 125% of what he earned in the black market. What was his fine amount?

A dealer buys an article listed at ₹250 and gets successive discounts of 12% and 16%. He spends 10% of the cost price on transportation. At what price should he sell the article to earn a profit of 25%? (Correct to two places of decimal)