Profit and Loss

ABC26GN2736 · A dealer sold an article at a loss of 2 1/2%. Had he sold it for ₹ 100 more, he would have gained 7 1/2%. To gain 12 1/2%, he should sell…

ABC26GN2737 · A man sells a book at a profit of 20%. If he had bought it at 20% less and sold it for ₹ 18 less, he would have gained 25%. The cost price… · 2009

ABC26GN2738 · A bookseller sells a book at a profit of 10%. If he had bought it at 4% less and sold it for ₹ 6 more, he would have gained 18 3/4%. The… · 2007

ABC26GN2739 · A watch is sold at a profit of 20%. If both the cost price and the selling price of the watch are decreased by ₹ 100, the profit would be… · 2010

ABC26GN2740 · An article is sold at a profit of 20%. If the cost price is increased by 10% and the sale price by ₹ 26, then the percentage of profit… · 2005

ABC26GN2741 · The difference between the cost price and sale price of an article is ₹ 240. If the profit is 20%, the selling price is

ABC26GN2742 · The cash difference between the selling prices of an article at a profit of 4% and 6% is ₹ 3. The ratio of the two selling prices is · 2003

ABC26GN2743 · Shailja earns 15 percent on an investment but loses 10 percent on another investment. If the ratio of the two investments is 3 : 5, then… · 2006

ABC26GN2744 · A shopkeeper bought three watches w1, w2 and w3 from a dealer and sold them to three different customers. The ratio of the selling prices…

ABC26GN2745 · A man sells two articles for ₹ 240 each. On one he gains 20% and on the other he loses 20%. What is the gain or loss percent in the entire… · 2005

ABC26GN2746 · A shopkeeper sells two watches for ₹ 308 each. On one he gets 12% profit and on the other 12% loss. His profit or loss in the entire… · 2007

ABC26GN2747 · A man sells two flats at the rate of ₹ 1.995 lakhs each. On one he gains 5% and on the other, he loses 5%. His gain or loss percent in the…

ABC26GN2748 · A man sells two commodities for ₹ 4000 each, neither losing nor gaining in the deal. If he sold one commodity at a gain of 25%, the other…

ABC26GN2749 · A house and a shop were sold for ₹ 1 lakh each. In this transaction, the house sale resulted into 20% loss whereas the shop sale resulted…

ABC26GN2750 · A man sells two articles at ₹ 99 each. He gains 10% on one and loses 10% on the other. Then on overall basis he · 2006

ABC26GN2751 · A man sold two steel chairs for ₹ 500 each. On one, he gains 20% and on the other, he loses 12%. How much does he gain or lose in the whole… · 2006

ABC26GN2752 · Ranjan purchased 120 tables at a price of ₹ 110 per table. He sold 30 tables at a profit of ₹ 12 per table and 75 tables at a profit of ₹…

ABC26GN2753 · Hemant sold 10 sarees for a total profit of ₹ 460 and 12 sarees for a total profit of ₹ 144. At what profit per saree should he sell the…

ABC26GN2754 · Sanket purchased 20 dozen notebooks at ₹ 48 per dozen. He sold 8 dozen at 10% profit and the remaining 12 dozen with 20% profit. What is…

ABC26GN2755 · In a shop, 80% of the articles are sold at a profit of 10% and the remaining at a loss of 40%. What is the overall profit/loss? · 2009

ABC26GN2756 · If a person makes a profit of 10% on one-fourth of the quantity sold and a loss of 20% on the rest, then what is the average percent profit… · 2004

ABC26GN2757 · I purchased 120 exercise books at the rate of ₹ 3 each and sold 1/3 of them at the rate of ₹ 4 each, 1/2 of them at the rate of ₹ 5 each… · 2006

ABC26GN2758 · A departmental store receives a shipment of 1000 pens, for which it pays ₹ 9000. The store sells the pens at a price 80 percent above cost…

ABC26GN2759 · If a shopkeeper sells 1/3 of his goods at a profit of 14%, 3/5 of the goods at a profit of 17.5% and the remaining at a profit of 20%, then…

ABC26GN2760 · A cloth merchant sold half of his cloth at 20% profit, half of the remaining at 20% loss and the rest was sold at the cost price. In the…

ABC26GN2761 · A person purchases 90 clocks and sells 40 clocks at a gain of 10% and 50 clocks at a gain of 20%. If he sold all of them at a uniform…

ABC26GN2762 · A person earns 15% on an investment but loses 10% on another investment. If the ratio of the two investments be 3 : 5, what is the gain or…

ABC26GN2763 · A man bought goods worth ₹ 6000 and sold half of them at a gain of 10%. At what gain percent must he sell the remainder so as to get a gain…

ABC26GN2764 · A merchant has 1000 kg of sugar, part of which he sells at 8% profit and the rest at 18% profit. He gains 14% on the whole. The quantity… · 2007

ABC26GN2765 · A fruitseller has 24 kg of apples. He sells a part of these at a gain of 20% and the balance at a loss of 5%. If on the whole he earns a…

ABC26GN2766 · A man sells two horses for ₹ 1475. The cost price of the first is equal to the selling price of the second. If the first is sold at 20%…

ABC26GN2767 · Two-thirds of a consignment was sold at a profit of 6% and the rest at a loss of 3%. If however there was an overall profit of ₹ 540, the… · 2007

ABC26GN2768 · A trader purchases a watch and a wall clock for ₹ 390. He sells them making a profit of 10% on the watch and 15% on the wall clock. He… · 2005

ABC26GN2769 · Albert buys 4 horses and 9 cows for ₹ 13,400. If he sells the horses at 10% profit and the cows at 20% profit, then he earns a total profit…

ABC26GN2770 · A man purchases two clocks A and B at a total cost of ₹ 650. He sells A with 20% profit and B at a loss of 25% and gets the same selling…

ABC26GN2771 · A farmer sold a cow and an ox for ₹ 800 and got a profit of 20% on the cow and 25% on the ox. If he sells the cow and the ox for ₹ 820 he… · 2005

ABC26GN2772 · The C.P. of two watches taken together is ₹ 840. If by selling one at a profit of 16% and the other at a loss of 12%, there is no loss or…

ABC26GN2773 · On selling a chair at 7% loss and a table at 17% gain, a man gains ₹ 296. If he sells the chair at 7% gain and the table at 12% gain, then…

ABC26GN2774 · A space research company wants to sell its two products A and B. If the product A is sold at 20% loss and the product B at 30% gain, the… · 2009

ABC26GN2775 · A small and medium enterprise imports two components A and B from Taiwan and China respectively and assembles them with other components to… · 2010

ABC26GN2777 · The cost of manufacturing an article rose by 18% as a result of the increase in the cost of raw material. A manufacturer revised the…

ABC26GN2778 · The cost of raw materials of a product increases by 30%, the manufacturing cost increases by 20% and the selling price of the product…

ABC26GN2779 · Previously, the manufacturing cost of a product was thrice the cost of raw material. Now the cost of raw material increases in the ratio 5… · 2007

ABC26GN2780 · A milk vendor mixes water with milk in the ratio 1 : 4. He then measures 800 ml instead of a litre and sells the milk at a nominal profit…

ABC26GN2781 · A shopkeeper offers 2.5% discount on cash purchases. What cash amount would Rohan pay for a cycle, the marked price of which is ₹ 650? · 2003

ABC26GN2782 · If a company sells a car with a marked price of ₹ 2,72,000 and gives a discount of 4% on ₹ 2,00,000 and 2.5% on the remaining amount of ₹…

ABC26GN2783 · Garima purchased a briefcase with an additional 10% discount on the reduced price after deducting 20% on the labelled price. If the…

ABC26GN2784 · A T-shirt bought for ₹ 50 is marked at 8 percent profit and then sold at a 10 percent sales discount on marked price. What is the selling…

ABC26GN2785 · An umbrella marked at ₹ 80 is sold for ₹ 68. The rate of discount is · 2008

ABC26GN2787 · Vanita bought a watch with 25% discount on the selling price. If the watch cost her ₹ 780, what is the original selling price of the watch? · 2009