Profit and Loss - 1
1. A merchant bought an article for 8400 and sold for 9600. What is the profit %?
a)12%
b)15% c)14 2/7 % d)20%
2. The cost price of a
camera is 800 and its selling price is 1040.What is the percentage of profit?
a)20%
b)25% c)28% d)30%
3. A shopkeeper bought an article for Rs. 9900 and sold for Rs .8800.What is the loss %?
a)11 1/9 % b)10%
c) 15% d)25%
4. If
an article is sold at 200% profit , then the ratio of its cost price to its
selling price will be
a)1:2
b)2:1 c)1:3 d)3:1
5. A
merchant buys 100 articles for Rs 800 and sells them at the rate of Rs 12.5
each. What is his gain%?
a)50% b)40% c)56 ¼ % d)60%
6. 24
articles were bought for RS 14880 and sold for Rs 18480. How much was the
approximate profit% per article?
a)20% b)24% c)29% d)32%
7. A
merchant bought an article for Rs 2500. He spent Rs 320 on its shipping. He
then sold it for Rs 4089. What was the percent profit he gained in this
transaction?
a)38% b)45% c)46% d)35%
8. A
man bought 100 dozen oranges at Rs 20 a dozen. He spent Rs 500 for
transportation. He sold each orange at Re 2. What is his gain or loss %?
a)1%
gain b)1% loss c)4% gain d)4% loss
9. Raju
bought a piece of cloth for Rs 950 and
spent Rs 300 on designing it. At what
price should he sell it to make 30% profit ?
a)Rs
1550 b)Rs 1575 c)Rs 1625 d)Rs 1650
10. A
shopkeeper purchased 245 articles at Rs 30 per article. He spent Rs980 on
transport and Rs 1470 on packing the articles. He sold the articles at the rate
of Rs 50 per article. What is the profit% he earned?
a)
20% b)22.5% c)25% d)28%
11. The cost price of 12 pens and 6 pencils is Rs
168. What will be the cost price of18 pens and 9 pencils ?
a)Rs
206 b)Rs 252 c)Rs 250 d)Rs
260
12. An article is bought for Rs. 35000 and sold
at a profit of 14 2/7 %. Find the selling price?
a)40000 b)42000 c)45000 d)50000
13. The
cost price of a camera is 6400 and sold at a loss of 6 ¼ %. What is the selling price?
a)6200 b)6100 c)6000 d)5500
14. Mani mixes 15 kgs of sugar purchased at the
rate of Rs 8.00 per kg with 25 kgs of sugar purchased at the rate of Rs 10.00
per kg. At what rate per kg. Should Mani sell the mixture to get a profit of Rs
3 per kg?
a)Rs 10.30
b)Rs 11.00 c)Rs12.00 d)Rs
12.25
15. Ravi bought 120 rims of paper at Rs 80 per
rim. He paid octroi at the rate of 40 paisa per rim and paid RS 72 to the
coolie and spent Rs 280 on transportation. What should be selling price per rim
to get a gain of 8%?
a)Rs
85 b)Rs88 c)Rs 90 d)Rs.95
16. A loss of 5% was suffered by selling a
product for Rs.4750.The cost price of the product was
a)4200 b)4800 c)4900 d)5000
17. A shop
charges his customer 22% more than the cost price. If a customer pays Rs.10,980
for a TV, then what was the cost price of TV?
a)RS
8000 b)Rs 8800 c)Rs 9000 d)Rs 9200
18. A profit of 12 ½ % obtained by selling a
product for Rs.10800.Find the cost price.
a)9600 b)10000 c)10200 d)10500
19. The
difference between the selling price and cost price of an article is Rs 210. If
the profit % is 25, then the selling price of the article is
a)Rs
950 b)Rs 1050 c)Rs 840 d)Rs 1250
20. A merchant
sold some articles at Rs 350 per each article and gained 40% on it. What would
be the selling price of each article to get a gain of 60% ?
a)375
b)390 c)400 d)450
21. A
merchant loses 7% by selling an item for Rs 3100.For how much should he sell
each item so at to gain 5%?
a)Rs
4000 b)Rs 3500 c)Rs 3200 d)Rs 3800
22. If
an article is successively sold at profit of 10% and 17% , difference in two
selling prices is Rs 28. What is the cost price of the article?
a)Rs
300 b)Rs 400 c)Rs 500 c)Rs 600
23. A
shop charges their customers 15% more than the cost price, If a customer paid
Rs 9039 for a sofa set , then find the
cost price of the sofa set ?
a)Rs
7660 b)Rs 7680 c)Rs 7860 d)Rs 7880
24. Raju
purchased an item for Rs 4500 and sold it at the gain of 15%.From that amount,
he purchased another item and sold it at
the loss of 10%.What is his net gain or loss?
a)Rs
152.50 gain b)Rs 157.50 gain
c)Rs
165 loss d) No gain , no loss
25. A
purchases an article for Rs 46000 and sold at a loss of 12%.With that amount,
he purchased another article and sold it at a gain of 12%. Find his total
profit or loss?
a)Rs 662.40 loss b)Rs 662.40 profit
c)Rs
642.80 loss d) Rs 642.80 profit
26. A
bought an article sold it to B at 20% profit and B sold it to C at 30% loss. If
C paid 21000, for how many rupees did A buy it?
a)20000 b)22000 c)25000 d)30000
27. A
bought a ring and sold it to B at 15%
profit , B sold it to C at 33 1/3 % profit and C sold it to D at 30% profit. If
D paid Rs 1, 19,600 .Find the cost price to A ?
a)400000 b)60000 c)800000 d)100000.
28. A
sells an item at 20% profit to B. B sells it to C at 10% profit. C sells it to
D at Rs 116 profit. Difference between the cost price of D and cost price of A
was Rs 500. How much did B pay to A for the item?
a)Rs
1240
b)Rs 1250 c)Rs 1440 d)Rs
1450
29. The
profit obtained by selling an article for Rs 560 is same as loss obtained by
selling it for Rs 420. Find its cost price?
a)
400 b) 460 c) 490 d) 500
30. The
profit earned after seling an article for 1460 is 3 times the loss incurred
after selling the for Rs 500.Find the cost price of the article?
a)600 b)800 c)1080 d)740
