Profit and Loss

1.		A man sells two articles at the same price. On one, he makes a profit of 10% and on the other he suffers a loss of 10%. His loss percent on the whole transaction is:

No profit no loss

1

2

5

2.		Due to reduction of 25% in price of lemons, a customer can purchase 4 lemons more for Rs. 16. what is original price of a lemon?

Re 1

Rs 1.33

Rs 1.5

Rs 1.6

3.		If the cost price of 12 articles is equal to the selling price of 8 articles, the gain percent is ?

12%

30%

50%

60%

4.		By selling an article at 80% of its marked price, a merchant makes a loss of 12%. What will be the percent profit made by the merchant if he sells the article at 95% of its marked price?

5%

4%

5.5%

4.5%

5.		A dishonest merchant sells his grocery using weights 10% less than the true weights and claims a profit of 20%. Find his actual gain percentage.

33.33%

30%

40%

50%

6.		A man bought some toys at the rate of 10 for Rs. 40 and sold them at 8 for Rs. 36. Find his gain or loss percent.

10% profit

12% loss

12.5% profit

12.5% loss

7.		A trader mixes 26 kg of sugar at Rs. 20 per kg with 30 kg of sugar of other variety at Rs. 36 per kg and sells the mixture at Rs. 30 per kg. His profit percent is:

No profit, No loss

5%

8%

10%

8.		The cost price of 20 articles is the same as the selling price of x articles. If the profit is 25%, then the value of x is:

15

16

18

25

9.		If the cost price of 50 oranges is equal to the selling price of 40 oranges, then the profit per cent is

20

33.33

15

25

10.		A man bought an article and sold it at a gain of 5 %. If he had bought it at 5% less and sold it for Re 1 less, he would have made a profit of 10%. The CP of the article was:

Rs 100

Rs 150

Rs 200

Rs 250