Practice Profit and loss Questions and Answers

• A shopkeeper bought an article and marked it at Rs. 560. By selling the article at a discount of 4%, he earns a profit of 20%. Find the cost price of the a...
• A shopkeeper bought an article and marked it at Rs. 650. By selling the article at a discount of 4%, he earns a profit of 20%. Find the cost price of the a...
• A shopkeeper bought an article and marked it at Rs. 250. By selling the article at a discount of 4%, he earns a profit of 20%. Find the cost price of the a...
• A shopkeeper bought an article and marked it at Rs. 350. By selling the article at a discount of 4%, he earns a profit of 20%. Find the cost price of the a...
• By selling an article at a price of Rs 1170 a shopkeeper suffered a loss of 10%, then at what price the shopkeeper must sell the article to get 20% profit?
• A dealer sold an article for Rs. 276.5 after allowing a discount of 30% on its marked price. If the dealer suffered a loss of 21% in this transaction, then...
• Selling price of article ‘A’ when sold at a profit of 32% is Rs. 405 more than its selling price when sold at a loss of 40%. If the cost price of artic...
• Vaibhav brought a pen for Rs.2000. He sold it to Ravi at a loss of 20%. Ravi had to earn some profit, so he sold it to Vikas at 10% profit. If Vikas has to...
• If there is a loss of 20% on selling the article at 12/25 of the original selling price then what will be the percentage profit after selling the article a...
• If there is a loss of 25% on selling the article at 15/28 of the original selling price then what will be the percentage profit after selling the article a...
• If there is a loss of 25% on selling the article at 9/14 of the original selling price then what will be the percentage profit after selling the article at...
• A shopkeeper marked an article 70% above its cost price and made a profit of Rs. 742 when he sold the article after giving a discount of 10%. Find the prof...
• A shopkeeper marked an article 60% above its cost price and made a profit of Rs. 297.6 when he sold the article after giving a discount of 22%. Find the pr...
• A shopkeeper marked his article 40% above its cost price and offered a discount of 50%. If cost price of the article is Rs. 550, then find profit or loss o...
• A shopkeeper sold two articles for Rs. 9516 each. On selling first article he faces a loss of 22%, while on selling second article he gains 22%. Find overa...
• A shopkeeper marked up an article 60% above cost price and sells it at Rs. 960 after allowing discount of 25%. Find marked price of article, if profit of s...
• One article is sold at 10% profit while other is sold at 5% loss such that the difference between their selling prices is Rs. 180. If the cost price of bot...
• One article is sold at 16% profit while other is sold at 5% loss such that the difference between their selling prices is Rs. 126. If the cost price of bot...
• One article is sold at 15% profit while other is sold at 5% loss such that the difference between their selling prices is Rs. 130. If the cost price of bot...
• A shopkeeper sold two articles for Rs. 3588 each. One article is sold at a profit of 15% while another one is sold at a loss of 20%. What will be the sum o...
• A sold a car to B at 8% profit, who later sold it back to A at 6% loss. If initially A purchased the car for Rs. 250000, then find the total profit earned ...
• A sold a car to B at 11% profit, who later sold it back to A at 4% loss. If initially A purchased the car for Rs. 250000, then find the total profit earned...
• A school bag is sold for Rs.540 after giving two successive discounts of 10% and 20%. If school bag is marked up by Rs.400 above its cost price, then find ...
• A school bag is sold for Rs.540 after giving two successive discounts of 10% and 20%. If school bag is marked up by Rs.480 above its cost price, then find ...
• A school bag is sold for Rs.450 after giving two successive discounts of 10% and 20%. If school bag is marked up by Rs.300 above its cost price, then find ...
• A school bag is sold for Rs.630 after giving two successive discounts of 20% and 30%. If school bag is marked up by Rs.600 above its cost price, then find ...
• A school bag is sold for Rs.450 after giving two successive discounts of 20% and 25%. If school bag is marked up by Rs.400 above its cost price, then find ...
• A school bag is sold for Rs.360 after giving two successive discounts of 20% and 25%. If school bag is marked up by Rs.300 above its cost price, then find ...
• A school bag is sold for Rs.540 after giving two successive discounts of 10% and 20%. If school bag is marked up by Rs.500 above its cost price, then find ...
• An article with cost price of Rs. 1600 is marked 44% above its cost price and sold after two successive discounts of 13% and Rs. ‘X’ respectively such ...
• An article with cost price of Rs. 1800 is marked 44% above its cost price and sold after two successive discounts of 20% and Rs. ‘X’ respectively such ...
• A shopkeeper bought an article for Rs. 250. He sold it at profit 20% after allowing a discount of 20%. If instead he had sold it at 12% discount, then find...
• A shopkeeper bought an article for Rs. 180. He sold it at profit 30% after allowing a discount of 40%. If instead he had sold it at 20% discount, then find...
• In a business there are two partners ‘P’ and ‘Q’. ‘P’ started the business with the capital of Rs. 20000 and after 3 months ‘Q’ joined him ...
• A shirt is marked 30% above the cost price and sold after a discount of Rs.200 at Rs.398. Find the cost price of the shirt.
• A shirt is marked 20% above the cost price and sold after a discount of Rs.100 at Rs.476. Find the cost price of the shirt.
• A shirt is marked 40% above the cost price and sold after a discount of Rs.126 at Rs.322. Find the cost price of the shirt.
• A shirt is marked 30% above the cost price and sold after a discount of Rs.103 at Rs.235. Find the cost price of the shirt.
• A shirt is marked 20% above the cost price and sold after a discount of Rs.104 at Rs.400. Find the cost price of the shirt.
• A shirt is marked 35% above the cost price and sold after a discount of Rs.120 at Rs.420. Find the cost price of the shirt.