Profit, Loss and Discount

Aparna marked the price of an item to 50% above its cost price. What percent of discount (approximately) should be allowed to gain 10%?

Mohan earns a profit of 20% on selling a pair of jeans at 15% discount on the printed price. The ratio of the cost price to the printed price of the par of jeans is

Ritesh sold a pen for Rs. 36 with a profit of 20%. If it were sold for Rs. 33, then what could be the percentage of profit or loss?

A milkman purchases milk at Rs. x per litre and sells it at Rs. 2x per litre. Still, he mixes 1 litre water with every 5 litres of pure milk. What is the profit percentage?

Shyam is a shopkeeper and he has two kinds of sugar - one costs him Rs. 36/kg and the other costs him Rs. 24/kg. He mixes them in equal quantity and after selling it, he earns 40% profit. What is the selling price of mixture?

Yogita sold a plasma TV at a gain of 20% to Shyamla. Shyamla sold it to Deepa at a profit of 10%. If Deepa had to pay Rs. 33,000 for the plasma TV, find its cost price for Yogita.

Priya bought one dozen eggs for Rs. 7. She sold half a dozen eggs for Rs. 9. Find the profit or loss percentage on one egg. (Rounded to the nearest whole number)

If a person sells a basketball for Rs. 260, he will make a profit equal to one-tenth of the selling price. Find the percentage gain he will make if its sold for Rs. 280.

A shopkeeper offered a discount of 10% on a mixture grinder. Sohan bought it during a clearance sale at 6% discount over the already discounted price at Rs. 4230. What was the original marked price of the mixture grinder?

By selling sugar at Rs. 17 per kg, a tradesman calculates that he will make a profit of 15%. But through faulty scales, he sells 1 kg, which is actually 0.8 kg. What profit/loss percent does he actually get?

Dhara sold her newly bought crockery set at Rs. 900 and earned a profit. The profit earned by her is the same as the loss suffered if she had sold the crockery set at Rs. 850. Find the cost price of the crockery set.

An article is sold at a profit of 32%. If the cost price is increased by 20% and the sale price remains the same, then the profit percentage becomes

A person marks his goods x% above the cost price and allows a discount of 30% on the marked price. If his profit is 5%, then the value of x will be

Anu sold an article for Rs. 480 at some profit. Had she sold it for Rs. 400, then there would have been a loss equal to one third of the initial profit. What was the cost price of the article?