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Profit And Loss
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Q361

A shopkeeper sells a badminton racket, whose marked price is Rs. 30, at a discount of 15% and gives a shuttle cock costing Rs. 1.50 free with each racket. Even then he makes a profit of 20% . His cost price per racket is.

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Q362

A trader purchased a gift box for Rs. 150. What should be the marked price on the gift box so that after allowing a discount of 10% , he makes a profit of 10% ?

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Q363

A shopkeeper purchases two items for Rs. 520. One of them is sold gaining 16% and the other at a loss of 10%, thus making no profit or loss. What is the selling price of the item sold at loss ?

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Q364

A dishonest dealer professes to sell his goods at cost price but uses a weight of 875 gms for the kilogram weight. His gain in the percentage is = ?

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Q365

A shopkeeper sold an air - conditioner for Rs. 25935 with a discount of 9% and earned a profit of 3.74%. What would have been the percentage of profit if no discount were offered?

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Q366

A shopkeeper sells 25 articles at Rs. 45 per article after giving 10% discount and earns 50% profit. If the discount is not given, the profit gained is = ?

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Q367

At what percentage above the cost price must an article be marked so as to gain 33% after allowing a customer a discount of 5% ?

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Q368

A dealer allows a discount of 15%. A customer pays an amount of Rs. 318.75 for an article. At what price is the article listed ?

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Q369

A man bought 25 crates of oranges for 10000. He lost 5 crates. In order to earn a total profit of 25% of the total cost, he would have to sell each of the remaining crates at = ?

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Q370

The marked price of a shirt and trousers are in the ratio 1 : 2. The shopkeeper gives 40% discount on the shirt. If the total discount on the set of the shirt and trousers is 30%, the discount offered on the trousers is = ?

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Q371

A shopkeeper sold an article offering a discount of 5% and earned a profit of 23.5% . What would have been the percentage of profit earned if no discount was offered ?

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Q372

A dishonest shopkeeper professes to sell goods at his cost price but uses a false weight of 950 gms, for each kilogram. His gain percentage is = ?

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Q373

The selling price of 6 bananas is equal to the cost price of 8 bananas. Then the percentage of profit is = ?

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Q374

A fan listed at Rs. 150 with a discount of 20%. What additional discount must be offered to the customer to bring the net price to Rs. 108 ?

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Q375

A merchant marks his goods at 25% above the cost price. Due to a slump in the market, his cost reduces by 5%. He thus offers a discount of 8% due to which the sales go up by 25%. Compute the change in the merchant's profit = ?

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Q376

Aditya, a trader, sells an item to a retailer at 20% discount, but charges 10% on the discounted price, for delivery and packaging. The retailer sells it for Rs. 2046 more, thereby earning a profit of 25%. At what price had the trader marked the item ?

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Q377

Cost price of 28 articles is equal to selling price of 21 articles, then percentage of profit is = ?

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Q378

If the ratio of cost price and selling price be 10 : 11 then find the profit percent ?

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Q379

If the cost price of 25 pens is equal to the selling price of 20 pens, then profit percent is = ?

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Q380

A box is bought of Rs. 75 and sold at a gain of 8%. Find its selling price = ?

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