Profit, Loss and Discount

A trader used to make 5% profit on an item selling at usual marked price. One day, he trebled the marked price of the item and finally offered a discount of 30%. Find the percentage profit he made on the item that day.

The cost price of two bicycles sold by Shahid are 1,500 and 2,000 respectively. On selling the first he made a profit of 10% while on the second he suffered a loss of 10%. Find his total loss or profit in the entire transaction.

After giving a discount of 30%, an article was sold at Rs.2,800. If the shopkeeper still made a profit of 40%, find the markup percentage?

A retailer cheats by 10% to each of his wholesaler and consumer while buying and selling of sugar respectively. Find the profit percentage made by the retailer in the entire transaction.

Aman buys an article and sells it at a profit of 37.5%. Had he bought the article at Rs.90 less, he would have been able to make a profit of 60% by selling at the same selling price. Find the cost at which the Aman bought the article.

Mr. X bought 10 identical chocolates. He ate 2 chocolates and sold the remaining 8 chocolates for Rs.60 making a net profit of 32%. Find the profit percent had he eaten 6 chocolates and sold the remaining 4 chocolates for Rs.48.

The marked price of a bicycle was Rs. 950. A man bought the same for Rs. 668.80 after getting two successive discounts, the 2nd being 20%. What was the 1st discount?

The manufacturing cost of an article was Rs. 1,230. The trader wants to gain 35% after giving a discount of 18%. The marked price should be?

Sumit buys a radio with 50% discount on its marked price. He makes a profit of 10% by selling it at the price of Rs. 550/-. The marked price (in Rs.) of the radio is?

A shopkeeper marks the prices of his goods at 25% higher than the original price. After that, he allows a discount of 12%. What profit or loss does he get? (a) 10% profit (b) 15% profit (c) 10% loss (d) 15% loss

Mr Verma sold his scooter for Rs 10,500 at a gain of 5%. Find the cost price of the scooter. (a) Rs 10,300 (b) Rs 10,700 (c) Rs 10,000 (d) None of these

Chikli sold 2/3 of his stock at a gain of 20% profit, and the rest at a gain of 14%. The overall percentage of gain to the Chikli is: (a) 12% (b)17% (c) 18% (d) 20%

If the cost price of 25 watches is equal to the selling price of 20 of them, what will be the gain or loss percent, in this transaction? (a) 25 % profit (b) 25 % loss (c) 20 % profit (d) 20 % loss