Profit And Loss Questions

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

If a person sells a pen drive for Rs. 3192, making a profit of 33%, then the cost price (in Rs.) of the pen drive is:

A shopkeeper earns a profit of 15% on selling a book at 15% discount on the printed price. The ratio of the cost price and the printed price of the book is:

A trader marks his goods at 35% above the cost price. He sells 80% of the goods at the marked price and rest, he sells by allowing 35% discount on the marked price. His profit percent is:

A machine was sold at ₹27,300 at a loss of 9%. Find the loss (in ₹).

A bought a cycle and sold it to B at a profit of ₹1,000. B sold it to C at 5% loss. C sold it to D for ₹10,450 at 10% profit. If D had bought the cycle directly from where A had bought, then how much amount (in ₹) would he have saved?

By selling an article for ₹507.40, a person makes a profit of 18%. At what price (in ₹) should he sell it to make a profit of 24%?

The successive discounts of 40%, 25% and 20%, respectively, on the marked price of a chair, are equal to a single discount of ₹960. The marked price (in ₹) of the chair is:

A tradesman marks his goods at $15\%$ above the cost price and allows purchasers a discount of $10\%$ for cash. What profit percentage does he make?

An article is listed at $\text{Rs. }900$. A customer pays $\text{Rs. }726.75$ for it after getting two successive discounts. If the rate of first discount is $15\%$, the rate of the second discount is ______.

A silver puja thali set marked at Rs. 10,000 is sold with two successive discounts of 10% and 5%. An additional 5% discount is offered if the payment is made in cash mode. Find the selling price of the article on cash payment.

A dealer professes to sell his goods at cost price but uses a false weight and thus earns $25\%$ profit. For weighing a kilogram, he uses a false weight of ______.

A table is bought for $\text{Rs. }500$ and sold for $\text{Rs. }650$. Find the profit percentage.

After giving two successive discounts of 30% and 40% on the marked price, an article is sold for Rs. 420. Find the marked price of the article.

If a shopkeeper sold one-third of his goods at a loss of 20%, then at what gain % should the remainder be sold to gain 25% on the whole transaction?

A book is sold at a discount of 32% and an additional discount of 25% is allowed on cash payment. If Ramesh purchased the book by paying Rs. 2,550 in cash, find the marked price of the book.

A dishonest shopkeeper professes to sell grains at cost price, but he uses a weight of 935g for 1kg weight. Find his gain percentage.

Mukesh sells almonds at the cost price but uses a false weight and thus gains a 23% profit. How many grams of almonds is he giving for 3.075kg?

A man buys two books for a total of Rs. $410$ and sells both at the exact same price. One gives him a profit of $15\%$ and another a loss of $10\%$. The cost price of both books is

The ratio of cost price and selling price is $5:4$ then loss percentage is:

The cost price of 21 articles is equal to the selling price of 15 articles. Find the gain or loss percentage.

A sells an article to B at a gain of 16%, B sells it to C at a loss of 15%, and C sells it to D at a gain of 20%. If the difference between the profits earned by C and A is Rs. 248, then the loss (in Rs.) incurred by B is:

A salesman sold an article at three-fifth of the marked price. By doing so, he gained 20%. The ratio of the marked price and the cost price of the article is:

A vendor bought 15 kg of rice at a certain rate per kg. After a week, he sold 6 kg of the rice at 20% profit, 6 kg at neither profit nor loss and 3 kg at 10% loss. In this transaction, what is his profit percentage?

A person bought a laptop for $\text{Rs. }40,000$ and sold it at a profit of $15\%$. What is the selling price of the laptop?

A number is first increased by $20\%$ and then decreased by $20\%$. What is the net percentage change?

A shopkeeper marks his goods at $160\%$ above the cost price and offers a discount of $25\%$ on the marked price. What is his profit percentage?

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:

By selling 80 notebooks, Amrita loses an amount equal to the selling price of 10 notebooks. What is her loss per cent (to the nearest integer)?

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?

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 sells a dozen pair of socks whose marked price is Rs. 600 at 20% discount. How many pairs of socks can be bought for Rs. 320?

A shopkeeper bought an item for Rs. 4,500 and sold it at a loss of 5%. From this money, he bought another item and sold it at a profit of 10%. What is his overall profit?

By selling an item for Rs. 3,750 a shopkeeper earned 25% profit. If the item had been sold for Rs. 300 more, then what would have been the profit percentage of the shopkeeper?

A dealer allows his customers a discount of 20% and still gains 20%. If the cost price of an article is Rs. 960, what is its marked price (in Rs.)?

A shopkeeper marks his goods 40% above their cost price. He sells 60% of the goods at the marked price and the remaining at 65% discount on the marked price. His gain/loss in the whole transaction is:

On selling an article for Rs. 984, Arun loses 18%. In order to gain 15%, he must sell it for:

Jagat Singh sold an article for Rs. 6,000 and incurred a loss. Had he sold it for Rs. 7,400, his profit would have been
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of the amount of loss that he incurred. At what price should he sell it to gain 25% profit?

An article was sold for Rs. 1,215 after giving a discount of 19%. If a discount of 17.5% is given, then for how much (in Rs.) should the article be sold?

After getting two successive discounts, Seema got a shirt at Rs. 153, for which the marked price was Rs. 200. If the second discount was 15%, the first discount was:

A man sold 30 articles for Rs. 100 and gained 20%. The number of articles he bought for Rs. 100 was:

Rent payable to a partner is a/an:

If the ratio of cost price and selling price is $15:14$, then the loss percent is

A tradesman gives a $4\%$ discount on the marked price and gives an article free for buying every 15 articles and thus gains $35\%$. Find out by what percentage the marked price is above the cost price.

A reduction of $20\%$ in the price of rice enables a customer to purchase $125\text{ kg}$ more for $\text{ formulations }₹8,000$. What is the original price of rice per kg?

A trader sells an item for Rs. 516.60 after offering a discount of 18% on its list price. Had he not given the discount, he would have earned a profit of 26%. What is the cost price (in Rs.) of the item?

A watch is sold at a profit of 25%. If both the cost price and the selling price of the watch are decreased by Rs. 75, then the profit would be 30%. The original selling price (in Rs.) of the watch is:

A man buys 120 toys each at the same cost price. He sells 45% of the toys at 40% profit, one-third of the remaining at 20% profit, and the remaining at a loss which is equal to the cost price of 14 toys. His profit per cent in the entire transaction is:

A shopkeeper bought a television for ₹ $15,400$ and sold it for ₹ $18,060$. Calculate the profit and profit percentage.

A shopkeeper sets the marked price of his goods at $25\%$ above the cost price. To attract customers, he offers a discount of $10\%$ on the marked price. Calculate the percentage of profit the shopkeeper makes on selling the goods after allowing the discount.

A merchant buys an article for ₹ $18,960$ and sells it at a $15\%$ loss. What is the selling price of the article?

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 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)?

An article is sold for Rs. x. If it is sold at 66
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% of this price, there is a loss of 20%. What is the percentage profit when it is sold for Rs. x?

If a shopkeeper gives two successive discounts of 50% and 20% on a mattress, whose marked price is ₹72,580, what would be its selling price (in ₹) and the discount (in ₹), respectively?

A TV manufacturer sells an item to a wholesaler at a profit of $8\%$. The wholesaler sells it to a retailer at a profit of $10\%$. The retailer in turn sells it to the customer for ₹$11,050$ making a profit of $15\%$. What is the manufacturer's purchasing price? (Assume only whole numbers)

A shopkeeper gives a discount of $25\%$ on the marked price of an article. If the selling price of the article is ₹$150$, find its marked price.

A businessman bought two types of rice at the rate of Rs. $120/\text{kg}$ and Rs. $220/\text{kg}$. How much rice (in kg) of the first type should be mixed with $72\text{kg}$ of rice of the second type so that the resulting mixture can be sold at Rs. $280/\text{kg}$ to earn a profit of $40\%$?

A store announces a discount scheme "Buy $1$ shampoo bottle and get $60\%$ discount on another shampoo of the same quality, size and same price." If the cost price of each shampoo bottle is $60\%$ less than the marked price then what is the profit percentage of the store?

By selling $20$ items, a shopkeeper gets a profit equal to the selling price of $5$ items. What is his profit percentage?

A shopkeeper is buying goods from a wholesaler. The wholesaler sells $1265$ units of the goods to the shopkeeper, earning a profit equal to the selling price of $165$ units of the goods. Find the profit percentage of the wholesaler.

If the selling price of 45 articles is equal to the cost price of 50 articles, the loss or gain percentage is:

An article is sold at $20\%$ profit. If its cost price is increased by Rs. $50$ and at the same time if its selling price is also increased by Rs. $30$, the percentage of profit decreases by $3\frac{1}{3}\%$, then the cost price is

Jatin buys an article for $10\%$ less than its value and sells it for $10\%$ more than its value. His gain is

Jatin buys an article for 10% less than its value and sells it for 10% more than its value. His gain percent is