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 writer bought $20$ articles for $450$ rupees and sold it for $200$ rupees. What is the loss percentage?

$55.55\%$
$54.23\%$
$56.12\%$
$57.12\%$

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Multiple choice

Sumeet bought an item at Rs.$100$ and sells it at the loss of $30$ percent. What is SP of that item?

$70$
$80$
$30$
$100$

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Multiple choice

Ram buys a wrist watch for Rs. 250 and spend Rs. 50 on its repairs. If he sells same for Rs. 450, find his profit percent.

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Multiple choice

Jack, a shopkeeper in Chennai, buys some goods for Rs. $5650$ from Calcutta and spends Rs. $350$ on his traveling and transportations of the goods purchased. If in Chennai, he is able to sell all these goods for Rs. $5700$; find the loss suffered by Jack and express it as percent.

$43\%$
$54\%$
$53\%$
$57\%$

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Multiple choice

A trader at Trichy buys a television for Rs. 7000 from chennai and sells it in Trichy for Rs. 7600. If his overhead expenses amount to Rs. 1000; find his profit or loss in this transaction and express it as percent.

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Multiple choice

Arun buys an old machine for Rs. 2640 and spends Rs. 295 on its repairs. Find his gain or loss if he sells the machine for Rs. 3228. Also, express the gain or loss made as percent.

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Multiple choice

Sunita is making a profit of $25$% on her selling price. What is her actual profit percentage?

$\dfrac { 100 }{ 3 } $%
$20$%
$25$%
$30$%

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Multiple choice

If S.P. of an article is $\dfrac {4}{3}$ of its C.P. What is the profit percentage in the transaction?

$\dfrac {1}{3}$%
$20\dfrac {1}{2}$%
$33\dfrac {1}{3}$%
$25\dfrac {1}{2}$%

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Multiple choice

A shop keeper marks his goods $20$% above the cost price, but allows $30$% discount for cash. Find his net loss.

$8$%
$10$%
$16$%
$20$%

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Multiple choice

Rajesh bought an arm-chair for Rs. $2200$ and sold it for Rs. $2420$. Find his profit percent.

$5\%$
$10\%$
$12\%$
$15\%$

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Multiple choice

If an item is purchased at $ $150$ and sold at $ $165$, what percent of the original cost is the profit?

$110$ percent
$89$ percent
$100$ percent
$9$ percent
$10$ percent

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Multiple choice

A man sold two watches, each for Rs. $495$. If he gained $10\%$ on one watch and suffered a loss of $10\%$ on the other, then what is the loss or gain percentage in the transaction?

$1\%$ gain
$1\%$ loss
$\dfrac {100}{99}\%$ loss
No gain no loss

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Multiple choice

Renu sold an article at a loss of $8$ percent. Had she bought it at $10$% less and sold for Rs. $36$ more; she would have gained $20$%. Find the cost price of the article.

Rs. $265$
Rs. $235$
Rs. $215$
Rs. $225$

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Multiple choice

A dealer sold two T.V. sets for Rs 2,400 each, gaining 20% on one set and losing 20% on the other set. Find gain or loss percentage.

loss $\% = 4.5\%$
loss $\% = 2\%$
loss $\% = 3\%$
loss $\% = 4\%$

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Multiple choice

A tradesman fixed the selling prices of goods at 30% above the cost price. He sells half of the stock at this price, one-quarter of his stock at a discount of 15% on the original selling price, and the rest at a discount of 30% on the original selling price. Find the gain per cent altogether.

$\displaystyle 5\frac{1}{8}$%
$\displaystyle 9\frac{3}{5}$%
$\displaystyle 12\frac{1}{5}$%
$\displaystyle 15\frac{3}{8}$%

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