1. Profit and Loss

2. A publisher sells books to a retail dealer at Rs
A publisher sells books to a retail dealer at Rs. 5 a copy but allows 25 copies to count as 24. If the retailer sells each of the 25 copies at Rs. 6, the profit percent made by him is:
25%
20%
30%
None of these

3. 2. If I sell a TV for Rs. 3100 and a cycle for Rs
2. If I sell a TV for Rs and a cycle for Rs , I gain 10% on the original cost of both; but if I sell the TV for Rs and the cycle for its original price, I lose 10% on the whole. Find the original cost of each respectively.
Rs. 3500; Rs. 500
Rs. 3550; Rs. 450
Rs. 2770; Rs. 1230
Rs. 2800; Rs. 1200

4. 3. I buy 2 machines X and Y. X costs Rs. 500 more than Y
3. I buy 2 machines X and Y. X costs Rs. 500 more than Y. I sell X at a profit of 16% and Y at a profit of 7%. My total gain is Rs The cost of the machine X is:
Rs. 4000
Rs. 5500
Rs. 4500
Rs. 5000

5. 4. A man who makes a profit of 25% by selling sugar at Rs. 12
4. A man who makes a profit of 25% by selling sugar at Rs a kg lowers his price so as to gain only 51 paise per kg. In what ratio must his sales increase so that his total profit may be the same as before?
3 : 1
4 : 1
5 : 1
6 : 1

6. 5. A retailer buys a machine at a discount of 15% and sells it for Rs
5. A retailer buys a machine at a discount of 15% and sells it for Rs Thus, he makes a profit of 15%. The discount is:
Rs. 300
Rs. 290
Rs. 260
Rs. 250

7. 6. By selling a colour TV for Rs. 23520, a dealer suffers a loss of 4%
6. By selling a colour TV for Rs , a dealer suffers a loss of 4%. At what price should he sell it to gain 8%?
26460
24660
22564
28460

8. 7. There were two articles and the sum of cost prices of these articles is Rs One of them was sold at a profit of 20% and another at a loss of 20%. Besides if the selling prices of both the articles were same. Find the overall loss in Rs. 25 22 18 20

9. 8. By selling 18 chocolates, a vendor loses the selling price of 2 chocolates. Find his loss per cent. 8%
12%
20%
10%

10. 9. A retailer bought 20 kg tea at a discount of 10%
9. A retailer bought 20 kg tea at a discount of 10%. Besides 1 kg tea was freely offered to him by the wholesaler at the purchase of 20 kg tea. Now the retailer sells all the tea at the marked price of wholesaler to a customer. What is the profit percentage of retailer?
30%
12%
16.66%
None of these

11. 10. A shopkeeper sold 12 cameras at a profit of 20% and 8 cameras at a profit of 10%. If he had sold all the 20 cameras at a profit of 15%, then his profit would have been reduced by Rs.36. What is the cost price of each camera?
100
150
180
220

12. 11. A company instead of raising the mark-up by 20% discounted the cost price by 20% while stitching the price tag on its product. Further the company offers a discount of 6.25% to its customer. In this process company incurs a loss of Rs on a single article. What is the selling price of that article?
417.5
112.5
365.5
None of these

13. 12. At style cloth emporium the shopkeeper measures 20% less for every metre of cloth also he marks-up goods by 20%. What is the profit percentage?
50%
80%
75%
None of these

14. 13. A trader mixes 25% kerosene with petrol and then he sells the whole mixture at the price of petrol. If the cost price of kerosene be 50% of the cost price of petrol, what is the net profit percentage?
11 1/9%
12 1/9%
9 1/11%
20%

15. 14. Anna sold his car to Boney at a profit of 20% and Boney sold it to Chakori at a profit of 10%. Chakori sold it to a mechanic at a loss of 9.09%. Mechanic spent 10% of his purchasing price and then sold it at a profit of 8.33% to Anna once again. What is the loss of Anna?
23%
29%
50%
40%

16. 15. Anjuli, Bhoomika and Chawla went to market to purchase the rings whose costs were same. But each ring was available with two successive discounts. Anjuli availed two successive discounts of 5% and 20%. Bhoomika availed two successive discounts 10% and 15% while Chawla availed two successive discounts of 12% and 13%. Who gets the maximum discount?
Anjuli
Bhoomika
Chawla
All of these