Profit And Loss Problems
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Profit And Loss Problems
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1. Nikky bought an article for Rs.1750 and sold it for Rs.1680. Find her gain or loss percent.
2. A man brought some chocolates at 3 for a rupee. How many for a rupee should he sell to make a profit 50%?
3. By selling 33 meter of cloth, one gains the selling price of 11 meters. Find the gain percent.
4. An article is sold by X to Y at a loss of 20%, Y to Z at a gain of 15%, Z to W at a loss of 5% and W to V at a profit of 10%. If v had to pay Rs 500, how much X paid for it?
5. A retailer buys 40 pens at the market price of 36 pens from a wholesaler ,if he sells these pens giving a eO discount of 1% ,what is the profit % ?
6. Dipa bought 6 oranges for Rs 10 and sold them at 4 for Rs 6. Find his loss or gain percent.
7. Ruby bought a laptop for Rs.8,000 and spent Rs.500 on its spares. Later she sold it for Rs.9,500. Find her gain or loss percent.
8. The marked price of a shirt and trousers are in the proportion 1:2. The shopkeeper gives 40% discount on the shirt. If the total discount received on both is 30%, then discount received on on trousers is:
9. Anumita purchases some items at the rate of Rs.100 per item. She decided to sell the first item for Rs. 2, second one for Rs. 4, third for Rs. 6…and so on. She wants to make an overall profit of at least 40%, what is the minimum number of items she should sell?
10. Ruby bought an article for Rs.120 is sold for Rs.150. Find the gain or loss percent.
11. Rajat sells bananas at a profit of 20%. If he increases the selling price of each banana by 25 paisa, he earns a profit of 45%. Find the initial selling price of each banana and also its cost price.
12. Rohit sees that if he doubles the selling price of an article, then he gets triple profit as of orignal profit. Then initial profit percent is:
13. Murari marks theS.P.of an article at a profit of 20%. Considering the demand of the article, he further increases the price by 10%. Find the final profit %.
14. A shopkeeper bought chocolates at 6 for Rs.10 and sold them at Rs.4 for Rs.6 .Find his profit or loss percent .
15. Meghana buys a calculator for Rs 600 and sells it to Vikash at 10% profit. Vikash sells it to Chandana for 5 % profit. Chandana after using it for certain time, sells it to Dinesh at a loss of 20%. For how much Chandana sell the calculator to Dinesh.
16. Shekhar bought a bicycle for Rs.600 and sold it for Rs.550. Find profit or loss percent.
17. A 10% hike in the price of wheat forces Rajkumar to purchase 2 kg less for Rs 110. Find the original price of the wheat.
18. At what percentage above the cost price must an article be marked so as to gain 33% after allowing a discount of 5%?
19. Mukesh when could not find buyers for his vegetable at Rs 10/kg, reduced the rate to Rs 8.10 per kg but uses a faulty weight of 900 gm in place of 1 kg weight. Find the percent change in the actual price or loss.
20. Priyanka sold an article for Rs. 48, and loses 20%. On what price should she sell it to make a profit of 2 20%?
21. Anish marks all his goods at 50% above the cost price and thinking that he will still make 25% profit,offers a discount of 25% on the marked price.what is the actual profit or loss?
22. Rahul buys rice for Rs 1600. He had to sell 1/4th at a loss of 20%. If he is to make an overall gain of 10%, what percentage of profit he needs to make out of the remaining stock of rice?
23. Tripti sold an article at 5 % profit instead of selling at a loss of 5%, So she got 5 Rs more. What was the cost price of the article?
24. Pratap sold an item for Rs 4600 and thus makes a 15% profit. Find the profit or loss % if it was sold for Rs 3600.
25. When Priyanka sold an article for Rs 540, she made a loss of 10%. At what price should she sell it, so that she incurs a loss of only 5%.

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