Profit, Loss and Discount

Directions: In this problem, a question is followed by three statements, labelled as (A), (B) and (C). Read the statements carefully and determine which of them is/are sufficient/necessary to answer the question. What is the labelled price of an HP laptop? (A) Selling price after offering a 4% discount on the labelled price is Rs. 48,000. (B) If no discount were offered, then profit earned would have been 25%. (C) The cost price of the HP laptop is Rs. 40,000.

Directions : Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below. Roger went to a supermarket to buy fruits. He has been forced with a constraint that he has to buy at least 15 each of oranges, apples, and guavas. Also the number of apples should be more than the number of oranges, and number of oranges should be more than the number of guavas. Roger buys a total of 50 fruits. Cost price per apple is Rs.4, per orange is Rs.2, and per guava is Rs.3. He sold off everything he bought at a profit of Rs.19. Find out his total selling price(in Rs.), if Roger buys 17 oranges.

Directions: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below. Emmu, a shopkeeper, has seven items – P, Q, R, S, T, U and V – in his shops. The cost prices of items are Rs. 80, Rs. 90, Rs. 120, Rs. 100, Rs. 75, Rs. 60 and R 125, not necessarily in the same order. The selling prices (in binary system) of the given items are Rs. 111100, Rs. 10010110, Rs. 1001011, Rs. 1111101, Rs 10101111, Rs. 1100100 and Rs. 110000, not necessarily in the same order. It is also known that: (i) The cost price of T, which is sold at a profit less than 30%, is equal to the average of the cost price of Q and that of V. (ii) The profit made on one of the items is twice the amount of profit made on exactly two other items. (iii) The selling price of the item on which the shopkeeper incurs a loss of 16.67% is 40% less than the cost price of P. (iv) The profit made on the item that is sold at Rs. 150 is 25%. (v) The profit (in base 8) on the item that is sold at Rs.175 is Rs. 62. (vi) The cost price of item R is 50% more than the cost price of U. (vii) All the given numbers are in decimal system unless otherwise is mentioned. What is the cost price of S?

Directions: Each question is followed by two statements. Mark [1], if the question can be answered by one of the statements alone but not by the other. Mark [2], if the question can be answered by using either of the statements alone. Mark [3], if the question can be answered by using both statements together but not by either statement alone. Mark [4], if the question cannot be answered, even by using both statements together. A person wants to sell his goods and earn a net profit of 8%. He hires an agent for the job and gives him some commission on the selling price. How much percent higher than the cost price must he sell his goods at? I. The cost price of the goods is Rs.13000. II. The agent gets 1% on the transaction.

DIRECTIONS : Type in your answer in the input box provided below the question. Pavan operates a taco stall outside a shopping mall. On any day, the first 50 tacos that he sells are sold at a price of Rs. 17 per taco. From the 51st taco to the 60th taco that he sells, he sells each taco at a price of Rs. 19. Similarly, for every subsequent batch of 10 tacos that he sells, he increases his selling price by Rs. 2 per taco, as compared to the selling price of the previous batch. Further, it costs Pavan Rs.10 for making each taco. He incurs no other cost in making and selling each taco. The profit that he makes is defined as the total revenue earned from sales minus the total cost incurred. If the average selling price of each taco that Pavan sold on a particular day was more than Rs. 18, what is the minimum number of tacos that he would have sold on that day?

DIRECTIONS : Answer these questions on the basis of the information given below. Pavan operates a taco stall outside a shopping mall. On any day, the first 50 tacos that he sells are sold at a price of Rs. 17 per taco. From the 51st taco to the 60th taco that he sells, he sells each taco at a price of Rs. 19. Similarly, for every subsequent batch of 10 tacos that he sells, he increases his selling price by Rs. 2 per taco, as compared to the selling price of the previous batch. Further, it costs Pavan Rs.10 for making each taco. He incurs no other cost in making and selling each taco. The profit that he makes is defined as the total revenue earned from sales minus the total cost incurred. During the first quarter of a year, Pavan offered a discount of 10% to any customer who purchased tacos worth at least Rs. 950. If the total revenue that he generated during that period was Rs. 73746, what is the maximum number of tacos that he would have sold?

At a bookstore, readers who buy 2 novels are charged the full price for the first book and a concession price for the second book. The bookstore's profit from selling 2 books equals the profit it makes from selling 1 book at the standard price. For a reader purchasing 2 books, what is the concession price of the second book? (1) The regular price of each of the 2 novels a customer purchases at the bookstore is \$10. (2) The cost to the bookstore for each of the 2 novels the customer buys is \$6.

Directions: In the following problem, a question is followed by three statements numbered (I), (II), and (III). Read the statements carefully and determine which of the given statements is/are sufficient/necessary to answer the question. Ajay purchased 144 eggs to sell at his shop. What was his gain percentage? I. Cost price of eggs was Rs. 15 per dozen and selling price was Rs. 1.50 per egg. II. Out of 144 eggs, 10 eggs broke during handling. III. He sold every egg at a price Rs. 0.25 more than the cost price.