Profit and Loss

1.		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

2.		Two successive discounts of 20% and 15% are equivalent to a single discount of:

35%

32%

33.33%

30%

3.		A Shopkeeper sells two articles at Rs. 2000 each, making a profit of 20% on the first article and a loss of 20% on the other. Find the net Profit or loss that he makes?

4% Profit

4% Loss

No Profit no Loss

2% Loss

4.		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

5.		What is the maximum percentage discount that a merchant can offer on her marked Price so that she ends up selling at no profit or loss, if she had initially marked her goods up by 50%?

50%

20%

25%

33.33%

6.		By selling an article at 2/5 of the marked price, there is a loss of 25 % , The ratio of the marked price and the cost price of the article is:

2 : 5

8 : 15

15 : 8

5 : 2

7.		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

8.		By selling 45 toffees for Rs 40, a man loses 20%. How many should he sell for Rs 24 to gain 20% ?

16

18

20

22

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

12%

30%

50%

60%

10.		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