Profit and Loss Questions

The cost price of a table is \ 6,400$.Amerchantwantstomake$ 25\%$profitbysellingit.Atthetimeofthesale,hedeclaresadiscountof$ 20\%$ on the marked price. Then what is the marked price?

$18$ articles were sold at an average price of $\text{Rs. }15$. The cost price of $12$ articles was $\text{Rs. }16$ each. Find the cost price of each of the remaining $6$ articles if there was no profit/loss in the transaction.

After applying $2$ successive discounts of $20\%$ and $10\%$, an article was sold for $\text{Rs. }954$. Find the marked price of the article.

Some articles were marked $25\%$ above their cost price. One of such articles was sold at $20\%$ profit on the marked price and the other one was sold at $10\%$ loss on the marked price. Find the overall percentage profit.

A shopkeeper allows a discount of $10\%$ on the marked price of a camera. If the cost price of the camera is ₹3,600, find the marked price so that the shopkeeper can earn a profit of $20\%$, after allowing the $10\%$ discount.

After giving a discount of $12\%$ on the marked price of a book, a shopkeeper earns a profit of $21\%$. If he doesn't give this discount, then how much profit would he earn?

If bananas are bought at the rate of $60$ for ₹50 and sold at the rate of $50$ for ₹60, what is the profit percent?

The cost price of $72$ books is equal to the selling price of $60$ books. What is the gain percent?

A $20\%$ reduction in the price of an apple enables a man to buy $10$ apples more for ₹54. Then what is the reduced price of apples per dozen?

If the selling price is tripled and cost price doubled, the profit would become $65\%$. What is the present profit (in $\%$ )?

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 $20\%$?

A shopkeeper marks the price of a book $120\%$ above its cost price. If he gives a discount of $10\%$ on the marked price, then find his profit $\%$.

By selling an item for $\text{₹}198$, Souvik made a loss of $12\%$. By how much should he have raised the price to make a profit of $8\%$?

The discounted price of a toy was $\text{₹}1470$. If the discount offered was $16\%$, what was the marked price of the toy?

The marked price of a toy was ₹ 1800. Two successive discounts of 20% and 15% were offered on it during a sale. What was the selling price of the toy?

The difference between a gain of 15% and a loss of 9% is ₹ 768. What is the cost price of the item under consideration here?

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?

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 $2000\text{ pieces}$ 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?