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- Question
A vendor sells a coconut at Rs 24 and suffers 24% loss. If he wants to make 14% profit, then at what price (in Rs) should he sell?
Options- A. 32
- B. 30
- C. 36
- D. 28
- Correct Answer
- 36
- 1. If the selling price is tripled and cost price doubled the profit would become 65%. What is the present profit (in %)?
Options- A. 20
- B. 15
- C. 25
- D. 10 Discuss
- 2. A vendor buys bananas at 9 for Rs 8 and sells at 8 for Rs 9. What will be the profit or loss (in %)?
Options- A. 13.28% profit
- B. 26.56% loss
- C. 26.56% profit
- D. 13.28% loss Discuss
- 3. A trader buys 500 kgs of cotton for Rs 9,000. 10% of this cotton is spoiled due to rain. At what rate (Rs/Kg) should he sell the rest to earn 10% profit?
Options- A. 25
- B. 30
- C. 22
- D. 20 Discuss
- 4. If the ratio of cost price and selling price be 10:11, then the profit percentage is
Options- A. 1%
- B. 10%
- C. 5%
- D. 8% Discuss
- 5. A dealer sold an article at 6% loss. Had he sold it for Rs. 64 more, he would have made a profit of 10%. Then the cost of the article is
Options- A. Rs.400
- B. Rs.200
- C. Rs.164
- D. Rs.464 Discuss
- 6. A villager buys a goat and a sheep together for Rs 14,250. He sold the sheep at a profit of 10% and the goat at a loss of 20%. If he sold both the animals at the same price , then what was the cost price of the cheaper animal?
Options- A. 8250
- B. 6600
- C. 7500
- D. 6000 Discuss
- 7. A wholesaler sells a watch to a retailer at a profit of 8% and the retailer sells it to a customer at a profit of 12%. If the customer pays Rs. 8,448 what had it cost (approximately) to the wholesaler (in Rs)?
Options- A. 6984
- B. 6082
- C. 7120
- D. 7022 Discuss
- 8. A trader had 2000 kgs of rice. He sold a part of it at 10% profit and the rest at 16% profit, so that he made a total profit of 14.2%. How much rice (in kg) did he sell at 10% profit?
Options- A. 1400
- B. 600
- C. 800
- D. 1000 Discuss
- 9. The marked price of an article is 10/7 of the cost price and the selling price of that article is 4/5 of the marked price. What is the profit percentage?
Options- A. 17.24
- B. 16.66
- C. 14.28
- D. 15.42 Discuss
- 10. By selling a used phone for Rs.7260 Sanjan got 34% less than what it cost him to buy it a few years ago.At what price should Sanjan have sold the phone to gain a profit of 5%?
Options- A. ? 11,460
- B. ? 11,480
- C. ? 11,440
- D. None Discuss
Profit and Loss problems
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Correct Answer: 10
Correct Answer: 26.56% profit
Correct Answer: 22
Correct Answer: 10%
Correct Answer: Rs.400
Correct Answer: 6000
Correct Answer: 6984
Correct Answer: 600
Correct Answer: 14.28
Correct Answer: None
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