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

A shopkeeper buys an article for Rs 180. After allowing a discount of 10% on his marked price, he wants to earn a profit of 20%. His marked price must be

Rs 210
Rs 240
Rs 270
Rs 300

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Multiple choice

After, allowing a discount of $26\%$ on the marked price of an article, it is sold at Rs. $444$. Find its marked price

Rs. $500$
Rs. $550$
Rs. $640$
Rs. $600$

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Multiple choice

Ashok buys a car at $12\%$ discount of its value and sells it for $20\%$ more than its value. What will be his profit percentage?

$40\%$
$50\%$
$66$ $\dfrac {2}{3}\%$
$20\%$

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Multiple choice

The gain or loss percent when a carriage, which cost Rs. $4000$, is sold for Rs. $5000$ is:

$10$ $\%$ loss
$25$ $\%$ loss
$25$ $\%$ profit
$35$ $\%$ profit

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Multiple choice

The selling price when goods which cost Rs. $65$ are sold at a loss of $10$% is:

Rs. $71.50$
Rs. $58.50$
Rs. $59.75$
Rs. $66.50$

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Multiple choice

A trader marks his goods at $25\%$ above his cost price and allows a discount of $\displaystyle12 \frac{1}{2}$ $\%$ on purchases for cash payment. The profit percent he makes is:

$\displaystyle9 \frac{3}{8}$ $\%$
$\displaystyle11 \frac{2}{3}$ $\%$
$\displaystyle7 \frac{1}{3}$ $\%$
$\displaystyle4 \frac{1}{11}$ $\%$

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Multiple choice

Ravi sold an article to Sudhir at a profit of 6% who in turn sold that to Gopal at a loss of 5%. If Gopal paid Rs. 2,014 for the article, find the cost price of the article for Ravi.

Rs. 2,020
Rs. 2,000
Rs. 1,900
Rs. 2,011

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Multiple choice

A producer blends two qualities of rice. One costing Rs. $12.50 $ per kg and the other costing Rs. $14$ per kg in the ratio 4: 5. Find his profit percent if he sells the mixture at the rate of Rs. $16$ per kg.

$25$%
$15$%
$20$%
$10$%

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Multiple choice

The selling price and cost price of an article differ by Rs. $240$. If the profit percentage is $20$, then selling price is:

Rs. $1440$
Rs. $1200$
Rs.$1420$
None of these

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Multiple choice

By selling $20$ mangoes a person recovers price of $25$ mangoes. Then profit percentage is:

$20$ $\%$
$25$ $\%$
$27.5$ $\%$
$22.5$ $\%$

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Multiple choice

The selling price of $4$ articles is same as the C.P of $5$ articles. Then profit percent is ____

$25\%$
$20\%$
$18\%$
None of these

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Multiple choice

A shopkeeper allows a discount of 10% on the marked price. How much above the cost price must he mark his goods to gain 8%?

20%
100%
80%
None of these

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Multiple choice

A man sells two articles for the same price for Rs. $640$. He earns $20\%$ profit on the first and $10\%$ profit on the second. Find the over all percent profit.

$14.78\%$
$14.08\%$
$14.58\%$
$14.68\%$

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Multiple choice

The cost price of $9$ articles is equal to the selling price of $11$ articles. Then the loss percentage is

$\displaystyle18\frac{2}{11}$%
$\displaystyle2\frac{9}{11}$%
$\displaystyle15\frac{1}{2}$%
$\displaystyle16\frac{1}{2}$%

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Multiple choice

If I would have purchased $11$ articles for Rs. $10$ and sold all the articles at the rate of Rs. $11$ for $10$ the profit percent would have been

$10\%$
$11\%$
$21\%$
$100\%$

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