PROFIT AND LOSS

A cycle is bought for Rs.900 and sold for Rs.1080, find the gain percent?

• 16 2/3%

• 20%

• 18%

• 25%

An article is bought for Rs.600 and sold for Rs.500, find the loss percent?

• 16 4/3%

• 100/3%

• 16%

• 16 2/3%

A watch was sold at a loss of 10%. If it was sold for Rs.140 more, there would have been a gain of 4%. What is the cost price?

• Rs.1000

• Rs.1140

• Rs.860

• 760

The sale price of sarees listed for Rs.400 after successive discount is 10% and 5% is?

• Rs.357

• Rs.340

• Rs.342

• Rs.338

The list price of an article is Rs.65. A customer pays Rs. 56.16 for it. He was given two successive discounts, one of them being 10%. The other discount is?

• 3%

• 4%

• 5%

• 6%

A single discount equivalent to the discount series of 20%, 10% and 5% is?

• 25%

• 30%

• 31.6%

• 33.5%

A trader bought a car at 20% discount on its original price. He sold it at a 40% increase on the price he bought it. What percent of profit did he make on the original price?

• 10%

• 11%

• 12%

• 15%

By selling a house for Rs.45000, it was found that 1/8 of the outlay was gained, what should have been the selling to price in order to have lost 5%?

• 38750

• 38000

• 4000

• 42000

If a man lost 4% by selling oranges at the rate of 12 a rupee at how many a rupee must he sell them to gain 44%?

• 7

• 8

• 9

• 10

By selling 150 mangoes, a fruit-seller gains the selling price of 30 mangoes. Find the gain percent?

• 20%

• 25%

• 18%

• 30%