Profit And Loss Questions

Ramanna purchased raw materials for a certain price to manufacture a product. However, owing to shortage of labour, $22.5\%$ of the raw materials could not be utilised and got wasted. $80\%$ of the cost of raw materials used was added as the cost of manufacturing. If Ramanna could sell his product at a price to earn an overall profit of $20\%$ after offering a discount of $20\%$, how many times of the total cost of the raw materials purchased was the marked price of the product?

A shopkeeper offers $3$ schemes of discounts to his customers. Which of the following schemes will fetch the minimum discount percentage?
* Scheme A: Two successive discounts of $24\%$ and $27\%$.
* Scheme B: Buy $5$ get $3$ free.
* Scheme C: Buy $6$ and get $10$.

Find a single discount rate percentage equivalent to the successive discounts of $10\%$, $20\%$, and $20\%$.

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

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)

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?