Q1. An item is sold for Rs. 1,050 resulting in a 25% profit.

If the shopkeeper wants to sell it

at a profit of 30% after giving a discount of 20%, find the price at which the shopkeeper
should mark the product.
a. Rs. 150
b. Rs. 1,240
c. Rs. 1,325
d. Rs. 1,365
Q2. Rama bought a micro oven and paid 10% less than the original price. He sold it with
30% profit on the price he had paid. What percentage of profit did Rama earn on the
original price?
a. 17%
b. 20%
c. 27%
d. 32%
Q3. The cash difference between the selling prices of an article at a profit of 4% and 6% is
Rs. 3. The ratio of the two selling price is
a. 51 : 52
b. 52 : 53
c. 51 : 53
d. 52 : 55
Q4. Rama had a stock of goods worth Rs.50,000. He sold 10% of the goods at 15% profit
and 40% of the goods at 10% profit. 25% of the goods were damaged by fire and the
remaining goods were sold back to manufacturing company at a loss of 10%. What is the
total profit/loss earned by Rama?
a. Rs. 11,000 loss
b. Rs. 875 profit
c. Rs. 12,500 profit
d. Rs. 500 loss
Q5. By Selling 60meters of cloth, a merchant gains the selling price of 10 meters, the gain
percentage is
a. 25%
b. 20%
c. 15%
d. 16.66%
Q6. A milk vendor purchases milk at the rate of Rs. 8 per liter. He mixes one-fourth liter of
water for every liter of milk. Find his profit percentage if he sells the diluted milk at Rs. 10
per liter.
a. 50%
b. 75%
c. 66.66%
d. 56.25%
Q7. An article was sold for Rs. 144. If the percentage of profit was numerically equal to the
cost price, the cost of the article was :
a. Rs. 72
b. Rs. 80
c. Rs. 90
d. Rs. 100
Q8. A man sells two commodities for Rs. 4000 each, neither losing nor gaining in the deal.
If he sold one commodity at a gaining in the deal. If he sold one commodity at a gain of
25%, the other commodity is sold at a loss of
a. 16.66%
b. 18. 22%
c. 25%
d. None of these

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Q1. A dishonest dealer professes to sell his goods at cost price, but uses a weight of 875
grams for a kilogram. What is his gain percentage?
a. 20%
b. 25%
c. 14.28%
d. None of these
Q2. A trader sells goods to a customer at a profit of k% over the cost price, besides he
cheats his customer by giving 800 g only instead of 1 kg. Thus his overall profit
percentage is 25%. Find the value of k?
a. 8.33%
b. 8.25%
c. 10%
d. 12.5%
Q3. A box seller marks his shoes 20% above the cost price but allowed 20% discount on
account of Diwali Festival. How much does he lose or gain on a pair of shoes for which the
changes Rs. 120?
a. Rs. 10 loss
b. Rs. 10 profit
c. Rs. 5 loss
d. Rs. 5 profit
Q4. The meter scale of a cloth merchant increases in length by 10% every summer. Before
the summer season, the cloth merchant increases the selling price by an amount equal to
x% of the cost price. If the profit percentage before summer is 20% and during summer it
is 10%, then what is the value of x?
a. 1%
b. 10%
c. 9.09%
d. None of these
Q5. By Selling 50 meters of cloth, a merchant gains the cost of 10 meters. Find the gain
percentage.
a. 25%
b. 33.33%
c. 20%
d. 15%
Q6. A man sells one third of a sugar at Rs. 3/kg and loses 20% and sells another kind of
sugar at Rs. 5/kg and gains 25%. He mixed the two in equal proportion and sells the
mixture at rs. 6/kg find his gain % ?
a. 52.33%
b. 54.83%
c. 56.67%
d. None of these
Q7. A, B and C invest in the ratio 3 : 4 : 5. The percentage of return on their investments
are in the ratio 6 : 5 : 4. Find the total earnings, if B earns Rs. 250 more than A:
a. Rs. 6000
b. Rs. 7520
c. Rs. 5000
d. None of these

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Q1. A trader marks his goods such that he can make 32% profit after giving 12% discount.
However a customer availed 20% discount instead of 12%. What is the new profit
percentage of trader?
a. 20%
b. 44%
c. 30%
d. 28.8%
Q2. The ratio of selling price of 3 articles A,B and C is 8 : 9 : 5 and the ratio of percentage
of profit is 8 : 7 : 14 respectively. If the profit percentage of A is 14.28% and the cost price
of B is 400, what is the overall percentage gain?
a. 14.28%
b. 14.87%
c. 16.66%
d. None of these
Q3. When the discount of 10% is given on an item being sold at a profit of 20% on cost
prce, the sale volume trebles. What is the ratio of new profit to original profit?
a. 8 : 3
b. 4 : 3
c. 3 : 4
d. None of these
Q4. Tom purchased a radio for Rs. 300 and sold it to dick at 25% gain. Dick sold to Harry at
a loss of 10%. For how much did Harry buy it?
a. 337
b. 337.5
c. 338
d. 338.5
Q5. If 3 apples, 4 oranges and 5 bananas cost Rs. 22, and 2 apples, 3 oranges and 4
bananas cost Rs. 16, then how much will 1 orange and 2 bananas cost?
a. Rs. 4
b. Rs. 5
c. Rs. 6
d. Cannot be determined
Q6. A dealer offers a cash discount of 20% and still makes a profit of 20%, when he further
allows 16 articles to a dozen to particularly sticky bargainer. How much percentage above
the cost price were his wares listed?
a.100%
b. 80%
c. 75%
d. 66.66%
Q7. A trader maeks his good at 10% excess and sells at 10% rebate. Another gives at 15%
less excess. Who will get more profit.
a. second trader
b. first trader
c. both equal
d. cannot compare
Q8. What is the difference in the percentage profit made by two merchants, who cliam to
sell at cost price, if the first one uses a scale that measures 20% less and the second one
uses a scale that measures 20% more?
a. 40%
b. 36.67%
c. 33.33%
d. 41.67%

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Q1. A man bought an article and sold at a gain of 10%. If he had bought it at 20% less and
sold it for Rs.10 more he would have made a profit of 40% .Find the cost price (CP)
Q2. What price should a trader mark on an article that costs him Rs 918 to gain 20 % after
allowing a discount of 15%?
Q3. A shopkeeper purchases a packet of 50 pens at Rs 10 per pen. He sells a part of the
packet at a profit of 30%. On the remaining part, he incurs a loss of 10%. If his overall
profit on the whole packet is 10%, the number of pens he sold at profit is
a. 25
b. 30
c. 20
d. 15
Q4. For a certain article if discount is 25% the profit is 25%, if the discount is 10% then the
profit is
a. 50%
b. 25%
c. 150%
d. 75%
Q5. Fresh grapes contain 90% water while dry grapes contain 20% water. What is the
weight of dry grapes obtained from 20 kg fresh grapes?
a. 2 kg
b. 2.4 kg
c. 2.5 kg
d. None of these
Q6. A sells an article B at a profit of 10%. B then sells it to C at a loss of 10%, who again
sells it to D at profit of 10%, and D and E at a loss of 10%. If the price at which E bought
the article was Rs. 199 less than A’s cost price, then find the cost price A?
a. Rs. 1,00,000
b. Rs. 2,000
c. Rs. 20,000
d. None of these
Q7. If 7 kg of tea of a price Rs. 72 per kilogram is blended with 33 kg of tea of Rs. 87 per
kilogram, and 35 kg of Rs. 85 per kilogram and the mixture is sold at a 15% profit, then
what is the selling price?
a. Rs. 80.66 per kilogram
b. Rs. 102.33 per kilogram
c. Rs. 91.22 per kilogram
d. Rs. 97.37 per kilogram
Q8. A tradesmen by means of his false balance defrauds to the extent of 20% in buying
potatoes as well as by selling potatoes. What percentage does he gain on his outlay?
a. 22%
b. 20%
c. 44%
d. 50%
Q9. A man makes profit of 25% by selling sugar at Rs. 4.25/kg. He lowers the price so as to
gain only 17 paise/kg. In what ratio must his sales be increased, so that his total profit may
be same as before?
a. 1 : 6
b. 1 : 5
c. 1 : 4
d. 1 : 3
Q10. A music system was sold at a loss of 10%. If it were sold for Rs. 700 more, there
would have been a gain of 4%. Find the cost price of the music system?
a. Rs. 8,500
b. Rs. 6,500
c. Rs. 7,000
d. Rs. 5,000

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