Profit and Loss Questions Practice Question and Answer
8 Q: By Selling 90 pens for Rs. 80 a man loses 20%. What should be the selling price (in Rs.) of 90 pens for 20% profit?
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Answer : 4. "120"
Q: Vinayak bought an item and sold it at a loss of 5%. If he had bought it for 10% less and sold it for Rs.390 more, he would have had a profit of 20%, find the cost price of item.
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Answer : 4. "Rs. 3000"
Q: A shopkeeper bought goods for Rs. 2025. He sold $$ {1\over 5}$$ th of it at 20% profit and the remaining at the profit of 5%, the profit per cent on the whole is
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Answer : 4. "8%"
Q: A person bought some articles at the rate of 5 per rupee and the same number at the rate of 4 per rupee. He mixed both the types and sold at the rate of 9 for 2 rupees. In this business he suffered a loss of Rs. 3. The total number of articles bought by him was
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Answer : 4. "1080 "
Q: The cost price of item B is Rs. 150/- more than the cost price of item A. Item A was sold at a profit of 10% and item B was sold at a loss of 20%. If the respective ratio of selling prices of items A and B is 11 : 12, what is the cost price of item B?
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61cdbab5edcf9307082e58bb- 1Rs. 450/-true
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Answer : 1. "Rs. 450/-"
Q: What is the discount rate of a gift whose selling price is Rs. 420 after a reduction of Rs. 60 on its marked price ?
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Answer : 2. "12.5"
Q: Arun purchased 30 kg. of rice at the rate of Rs. 17.50 per kg. and another Rs. 30 kg. at a certain rate. He mixed the two and sold the entire quantity at the rate Rs. 18.60 per kg. and made 20% overall profit. At what price per kg. did he pruchase the lot of another 30 kg. rice?
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Answer : 4. "Rs.13.50"
Q: The price of 6 pencils is Rs. 30 and that of 12 pens is Rs. 120. What is the average price of 50 pencils and 50 pens?
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