Quantitative Aptitude

Profit, Loss and Discount

2,604 Questions

All Basic CP/SP Percentage Relationship 874 Marked Price, Markup, and Discount 786 Partial Sales and Multiple Transactions 338 Successive Discounts 218 Cost Price of X = Selling Price of Y 180 Faulty Weight or Measure 126 Equal Profit and Loss Rates 57 Free-item Offers 23 Price and Consumption Variation 1

Profit, Loss and Discount Questions

Multiple choice

The cost price of 19 articles is equal to the selling price of 16 articles. Gain percentage is

$3\frac{9}{17}$ %
$15\frac{15}{19}$ %
$18\frac{3}{4}$ %
$20$ %

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Multiple choice

Sanket purchased 20 dozen notebooks at Rs. 48 per dozen . He sold 8 dozen at 10 % profit and the remaining 12 dozen with 20% profit . What is his profit percentage in the transaction ?

7.68
15
16
19.2

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Multiple choice

The lebelled price of a cupboard is $Rs. 6500$. The shopkeeper sold it by giving $5%$ discount on the labelled price and earned a profit of $15%$. What approximately is the cost price of the cupboard?

$Rs. 5000$
$Rs. 5350$
$Rs. 5600$
$Rs .5800$
$Rs .6000$

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Multiple choice

A dishonest dealer professes to sell his goods at cost price but uses a weight of $960\ gms$ instead of a $Kg$ weight. Find his gain $%$ ?

$\dfrac { 27 }{ 4 }\%$
`$\dfrac { 8 }{ 3 }\%$
$\dfrac { 25 }{ 6 }\%$
$\dfrac { 21 }{ 4 }\%$

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Multiple choice

If the cost price is $96\%$ of the selling price, then what is the profit percent?

$5.72\%$
$3.72\%$
$8.92\%$
$4.17\%$

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Multiple choice

A retailer buys a cooler for Rs. $1200$ and overhead expenses on it are Rs. $40$. If he sells the cooler for Rs. $1550$, determine his profit percent.

$35\%$
$55\%$
$25\%$
None of these

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Multiple choice

A retailer buys a radio for Rs. $225$. His overhead expenses are Rs. $15$. If he sells the radio for Rs. $300$, determine his profit percent.

$85\%$
$25\%$
$65\%$
None of these

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Multiple choice

A man sold two cows at $Rs.1995$ each. On one he lost $10%$ and on the other he gained $10%$. What his gain or loss percent?

$4%$
$2%$
$0.5%$
$1%$

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Multiple choice

Profit earned by selling an article at $Rs. 1630$ is same as the loss incurred by selling the article for $Rs.1320$. Find the cost price.

$Rs.1475$
$Rs.1300$
$Rs.1350$
$Rs.1275$

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Multiple choice

Nutan bought a watch with $24$% discount. If she pays $Rs.779$ for that watch then what is the marked price of watch?

$Rs.950$
$Rs.975$
$Rs.1000$
$Rs.1025$

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Multiple choice

Cost of Dozen Oranges is $15Rs.$ Selling price is $12$ Rs. Find Percent of Loss/Gain

$20$% loss
$36$% profit
$38$% loss
$38$% profit

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Multiple choice

At what prices should a shopkeeper mark a radio that costs him Rs 1200 in order that he may offer a discount of 20% on the marked price and still make a profit of 25%

RS 1675
<ul><li>RS 1875
</li></ul>
RS 1900
RS 2025
None of these

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Multiple choice

A person sold a chair at a profit of $14\% $ . Had he sold it for $Rs.15$ more,$17\%$ would have been gained. Find the cost price.

$Rs.550$
$Rs.650$
$Rs.600$
$Rs.500$

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Multiple choice

A shopkeeper sold an article for Rs. $2090.42$. Approximately, what will be the percentage profit, if he sold that article for Rs. $2602.58 $?

$15\%$
$20\%$
$25\%$
$30\%$

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Multiple choice

A manufacturer marks his goods at $25\%$ above the cost price. He allows a discount of $15\%$ for cash customers and $10\%$ for credit customers. $4/5$ of the goods are sold for cash and the rest on credit. What is the percentage of profit or loss, when all the goods are sold?

$7.5\%$ Profit
$9.2\%$ Profit
$6.3\%$ Loss
$8\%$ Loss

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