Profit and Loss-Test 3

If a person reduce his selling price of an article by rs40 then the suggested profit of
33(1/3)% convert into loss of 20%. Find the cost price?

The price of an article increase by 20% and a man now get 10kg less, if he also reduce
his consumption by 20%, then find how much kg of article he used to purchase in
normal price?

A shopkeeper sell his goods at 25% loss but he uses false weight of 30%. Find the
loss or profit of shopkeeper in this whole process?

A shopkeeper sells an article at 25% profit. Had he bought it for 10% loss and sold it
for rs16 less, he would have earned 30% profit. What is the actual cost price?

A dishonest milkman sells milk at cost price but he mixes water and earns 14(2/7)%. Find the ratio of mixture and milk in the mixture?

A man sells his two articles at Rs1200. At one he gains 25% and at another he gains 16(2/3)%. Overall he gains 20%. Find the cost price of first article?

A sold an article to B at the profit of 25%, B sold it to C at loss of 10% and C sold it
to D at the profit of 20%. If D paid rs27, then how much A paid to buy this article?

A man buys some toffees at 5 toffee in 3rupee and same number of toffee at 5 toffee in rs4. He sold all of them at 5 toffee in 4 rupee. Find his overall gain or loss percent?

By selling 144 hens Mahesh suffer a loss equal to the selling price of 6 hens. Find his
loss percent?

If a man wants to gain 33(1/3)% after allowing a discount of 16(2/3)%. Then find
how much percent he has to increase his C.P to make M.P ?

A shopkeeper sold a T.V set for Rs17,940 with a discount of 12.5% and Gained 5%.
If no discount is allowed then what will be his gain percent?

If 8kg of tea price costing Rs56/kg is blended with 32kg of tea of Rs69/kg and
25kg of Rs75/kg and the mixture is sold at 20% profit. Find the selling price (in rupees) of mixture?

If the price of an article increased by 25% and his expenditure increases by 15%, a
person gets 4kg less article. Find the original quantity of article (in kg).

An article is sold at 25% profit. Had it been sold at Rs30 less then there would have
been a loss of 25%. What was the cost price (in Rupees)?

Even after reducing the marked price of a fan by Rs64, a shopkeeper makes a profit
of 15%. If the cost price of fan is Rs640 what percent of profit would have been made if he had sold the fan at the market price?

A man gets a profit of 28% after allowing discount of 11(1/9)%. Find how
much percent the cost price should be increased to make this Mark Price?

The sale price of an article including the sales tax is Rs560. The rate of sales tax is
16(2/3)%. If the shopkeeper has made a profit of 14(2/7)% then find the cost price
(in rupees)?

A horse and a cow were sold for Rs49,500 each. The horse was sold at a loss 10% and
cow at a gain of 10%. The entire transaction resulted in?

A manufacturer of a certain item can sell all items that he can produce at the selling
price of Rs50 each. It cost him Rs30 in materials and labour to produce each item
and he has overhead expenses of Rs5000 per week in order to operate the plant. The
number of units he should produce and sell in order to make a profit of at least Rs3000
per week?

A shopkeeper sold his article at cost price but he uses false weight and gives 400gm
instead of 600 gm. Find his loss or profit percent?

An article is sold at 33(1/3)% profit. If it had been sold at a profit of 40%,it would
have fetched Rs 50 more. Find cost price of article?

The percentage of loss when an article is sold at Rs60 is same as that of profit, when
it is sold at Rs80. The above mention profit or loss on the article is?

A businessman sells a commodity at 10% profit. If he had bought it 10% less and sold
it for rs2 less, then he would have gained 16(2/3)%. What is the cost price of the
commodity?

A dishonest shopkeeper sells milk at 20% gain and also he add water in the ratio 4:1
in it. What is his total profit?

The price of coal is increased by 20%. By what percent a family should decrease its
consumption so that expenditure remains same?