Practice Profit and loss Questions and Answers

• Marked price of an article is Rs.800 more than the cost price. When the same article is sold at a discount of Rs.400, the profit percent earned is 25%. To ...
• Marked price of an article is Rs.1000 more than the cost price. When the same article is sold at a discount of Rs.100, the profit percent earned is 15%. To...
• Marked price of an article is Rs.1250 more than the cost price. When the same article is sold at a discount of Rs.500, the profit percent earned is 25%. To...
• If an article is marked 60% above the cost price. If discount of x% is given on the marked price of the article then final profit of 12% is obtained. Now i...
• Selling price of an article after a discount of 25% is Rs 450. If cost price is Rs 320 then marked price is what percent more than cost price of article?
• A shopkeeper marks the price of the article in such a way that after allowing 28% discount, he wants a gain of 12%. If the marked price is ₹224. then the...
• Cost of 4 pens, 6 note books and 9 files is Rs 305. Cost of 3 pens, 4 notebooks and 2 files is Rs 145. What is the cost (in Rs) of 5 pens, 8 notebooks and ...
• A and B started a partnership business investing in the ratio of 3 : 8. C joined them after 4 months with an amount equal to 3/4th of B. What was their pro...
• A and B invest in a business in the ratio 4 : 5. After 10 months B leaves the business after withdrawing his investment. In the first year the business mad...
• Oil equal to 20% of the weight of ground nut is extracted in a mill. The matter left after extraction is sold as cattle feed at the rate of Rs 12.5/kg. The...
• If a vendor sells a coconut at Rs 14.4 he makes 10% loss. If he wants to make 25% profit, then at what price (in Rs) should he sell?
• On a certain item profit is 150%. If the cost price increases by 25% what will be the new profit margin (in %)?
• On selling an article for ₹. 123.40, the gain is 20% more than the amount of loss incurred on selling it for Rs.108. If the article is sold for ₹.120.7...
• Remi earns a profit of 20% on selling an article at a certain price. If she sells the articles for ₹. 8 more, she will gain 30%. What is the original cos...
• A sold a watch to B at a profit of 20%. B sold it to C at 30% profit. C sold it to D at 10% loss. If B's profit is ₹.80  more than that of A, then D...
• A, B and C started a business. Twice the investment of A is equal to thrice the investment of B and also five times the investment of C. If the total profi...
• Shashi sells two articles for Rs.25000 each with no loss and no profit in the overall transaction. If one article is sold at 16(2/3)% loss, then the other ...
• When a person sold an article, his profit% is 40% of the selling price. If the cost price is increased by 50% and the selling price remains the same, then ...
• When a person sold an article, his profit% is 65% of the selling price. If the cost price is increased by 80% and the selling price remains the same, then ...
• When a person sold an article, his profit% is 45% of the selling price. If the cost price is increased by 60% and the selling price remains the same, then ...
• When a person sold an article, his profit% is 70% of the selling price. If the cost price is increased by 80% and the selling price remains the same, then ...
• A costs twice as much as B. A is sold at a loss of 15% and B is sold at 5/4th of its price. If selling price of A is Rs. 1350 more than selling price of B,...
• A costs thrice as much as B. A is sold at a loss of 15% and B is sold at 7/5th of its price. If selling price of A is Rs. 2300 more than selling price of B...
• On selling 21 bottles at Rs. 1620, there is a profit equal to the cost price of 6 bottles. The cost price of a bottle is
• If an article is sold at 25% discount at mark-price then loss percent is 10%. If the article is sold at marked price then what will be profit or loss perce...
• When the printer is sold for Rs. 34000, the owner loses 15%. At what price must that printer be sold in order to gain 15%?
• A shopkeeper gives 2 article free on the purchase of every 7 article he also allows a discount of 10% to customer and still earns 26% profit. Find the rati...
• A person buys 12 eggs for Rs.15 and sells them at 10 for Rs14. What does he gain or loss%?
•   A man purchases some number of apples at the rate of 36 apple for Rs. 1. How many for a rupee did he sell to gain 12.5%.
• The profit earned when article is sold for Rs. 1280 is 23 times of the loss incurred when it is sold for Rs. 800.Find the CP?
• A shopkeeper marks his goods 60% above the CP and gives 25% discount to customer. At the time of selling the goods he uses 800gm weight instead of 1 kg and...
•   A person bought an article and sold it at a loss of 15%. If he had bought it for 20% less and sold it for Rs114 more he would have had profit of 30%...
•   A man purchases some number of articles at Rs.729000 and he sells  4/9th  of them at 7.5% loss.  what profit % did he sell the remain...
• By selling 72 articles, a loss equal to the selling price of 8 articles was incurred. What is the loss percentage?
• The marked price of an article is ₹600. After allowing a discount of 25% on the marked price, there was a loss of ₹30. The loss percentage is:
• If the ratio of marked price and selling price of an article is 13:10. Shopkeeper earned 25% profit. If the difference between marked price and cost price ...
• A shopkeeper marked up of a shirt 60% above the cost price and sold at the discount of 25%, and made a profit of Rs.950. If the cost price of pant is 40% m...
• A and B started a business with investments in the ratio 11:10 respectively. After 10 months, C joined them with an investment 40% more than the investment...
• ‘A’ invested Rs. 6600 for ‘x’ months while ‘B’ invested Rs. 1100 less amount than ‘A’ for (x + 3) months. I...