Question
A shopkeeper allows a discount of 10% on the marked
price and still makes a profit of 20%. If the marked price of the article is Rs. 1,500, find the cost price of the article.Solution
Let the cost price be C. Selling price = 90% of marked price = 0.90 × 1,500 = Rs. 1,350 Profit = 20%, so selling price = 1.20 × cost price 1,350 = 1.20 × C C = 1,350 / 1.20 = Rs. 1,125
A sum is distributed among A, B and C is the ratio 8: 4: 3 and A divides its part between D and E in the ratio 9: 7, then what is the ratio of part of C...
A starts a business with Rs. 75,000 and B joins the business 5 months later with an investment of Rs. 80,000. After 1 year, they earn a profit of Rs. 4,...
Ratio between two numbers is 8:11 and their difference is 39. Find the sum of the given two numbers.
A bag contains certain number of coins of different denominations. The ratio of the number of Rs. 1 coins to Rs. 2 coins is 4 : 5, respectively and the...
In an institute, the average score on an IBACIO Scholarship test for 52 aspirants is 51. Excluding the scores of the top 5 performers, the average score...
The ratio of the two numbers is 7:15. 120% of the first number is equal to the 70% of the second number. Find the sum of both the numbers.
The ratio of the distances covered by Mohit, Soham, and Ramesh is 6:4:3 respectively. Ayush covers 12 meters less than Mohit. If the difference between ...
Two numbers are in the ratio 7:5. After adding 2 and 4 to them respectively the ratio becomes 2:3. Find the bigger number.
The number of students in a school is 3247. If the ratio between boys to girls is (x+3) : (x+4), then find the value of x.
The ratio of A’s salary to B’s salary is 3 : 5. If B’s salary is Rs 20,000, what is A’s salary?
Relevant for Exams:
