Profit and Loss Questions

• Successive discounts, repair, and resale — A dealer buys an item marked ₹ 25,000 with successive discounts of 20% and 5%, spends ₹ 2000 on repairs, and sells it for ₹ 25,000. What is his overall gain or loss percentage?
• Cost build for a cup of coffee — Coffee powder packet costs ₹ 20 and makes 10 cups. Milk costs ₹ 30 per litre; each cup uses 200 ml. If the seller targets a 25% profit on total cost, what should be the selling price per cup?
• Price adjustment scenario — A shopkeeper sells a transistor at 15% above its cost. If instead he had bought it at 5% more than his original cost and also sold it for ₹ 6 more than his original selling price, he would have made 10% profit. What is the (original) cost price of the transistor?
• A merchant has a basket of 80 apples bought for a total cost of ₹240. He wishes to make an overall profit of 20% on the basket. However, he gives one-fourth of the apples (20 apples) to a friend at cost price and sells the remaining 60 apples at a uniform price. At what selling price per apple should he sell those 60 apples so that his overall profit remains 20% on the whole lot?
• A bookseller sells a book at a gain of 10%. If he had bought it at 4% less and sold it for ₹6 more, he would have gained 18 3/4% (recovered assumption for a consistent solvable stem). What is the cost price (CP) of the book?
• A shopkeeper’s profit P is assumed to be a linear function of transportation charge t and quantity q: P = A*q + B*t (no constant term). He makes ₹10,000 by selling 20 units with t = ₹400, and ₹12,000 by selling 25 units with t = ₹600. Find the linear expression P(t, q).
• A person sold a table at a profit of 15%. If he had bought it for 25% less and then sold it for ₹60 less than his original selling price, he would have made a profit of 32%. What was the original cost price of the table?
• Two bicycles together cost ₹1,600. If the first is sold at 10% profit and the second at 20% profit, the seller’s revenue is slightly less than if he had interchanged the profit rates (first at 20%, second at 10%) by ₹5. What is the difference between their cost prices?
• A trader mixes 26 kg of rice at Rs. 20 per kg with 30 kg of rice of other variety at Rs. 36 per kg and sells the mixture at Rs. 30 per kg. His profit percent is:
• By selling 45 lemons for Rs 40, a man loses 20%. How many should he sell for Rs 24 to gain 20% in the transaction ?
• 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:
• If selling price is doubled, the profit triples. Find the profit percent ?
• A shopkeeper cheats to the extent of 10% while buying and selling, by using false weights. His total gain is.
• A milkman purchases the milk at Rs. x per litre and sells it at Rs. 2x per litre still he mixes 2 litres water with every 6 litres of pure milk. What is the profit percentage?
• If books bought at prices ranging from Rs. 200 to Rs. 350 are sold at prices ranging from Rs. 300 to Rs. 425, what is the greatest possible profit that might be made in selling eight books ?
• The percentage profit earned by selling an article for Rs. 1920 is equal to the percentage loss incurred by selling the same article for Rs. 1280. At what price should the article be sold to make 25% profit?
• If the cost price of 12 pens is equal to the selling price of 8 pens, the gain percent is ?
• Tarun got 30% concession on the labelled price of an article and sold it for Rs. 8750 with 25% profit on the price he bought. What was the labelled price ?
• Due to reduction of 25% in price of oranges a customer can purchase 4 oranges more for Rs. 16. what is original price of an orange?
• A man buys oranges at Rs 5 a dozen and an equal number at Rs 4 a dozen. He sells them at Rs 5.50 a dozen and makes a profit of Rs 50. How many oranges does he buy?