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A shopkeeper sells an article at a profit of 8(1/3) % of the selling price. Find the actual profit percentage.
A shopkeeper sells an article at a Loss of 20% of the selling price. Find the actual loss percentage.
The purchasing price of 275 articles is equal to the selling price of 250 articles. Find the profit/loss%.
The cost price of 12 articles is equal to the selling price of 9 articles while the discount (D) on 10 articles is equal to the profit (P) on 5 articles. F...
By selling 72 articles, a man suffers a loss of the selling price of 9 articles. Find the loss percentage.
By selling 72 items, a man gets a profit equal to the selling price of 9 items. Find the profit percentage.
By selling two articles for Rs.800, a person gains the cost price of 5 articles. The profit percent is.
A trader bought some orange at 7 for Rs 11. He sold all at 2 for Rs 3. Thereby he losses Rs 30. Find number of oranges sold.
A shopkeeper bought 60 pencils at a rate of 4 for Rs. 5 and another 60pencils at a rate of 2 for Rs.3. He mixed all the pencils and sold them at a rate of ...
'S' purchased two bags of rice for a total of Rs. 2,000. He sold one of the bags at a profit of 32%, and the other at a loss of 12%. If the overall profit ...
Two cycles were sold at 1499 Rs each. First was sold at 25% profit and second at 20% loss. Find the overall profit or loss.
Two cycles were sold at 1499 Rs each. First was sold at 25% profit and second at 25% loss. Find the overall profit or loss.
A shopkeeper sold two items. The selling price of the first item equal the cost price of the second item. He sold the first item at a profit of 20% and the...
By Selling 3 dozen oranges for rupees 405, a trader loses 25%. How many oranges should he sell for 288 if he needs to earn a profit of 20% in the transacti...
By selling 18 table fans for Rs 11,664 a man incurs a loss of 10%. How many fans should be sold for Rs.17,424 to earn 10% profit?
A dishonest shopkeeper promises to sell his goods at 44% loss, but he uses 910g weight instead of 1 kg. Find his actual loss percent?
A person sold a house at 15% Profit. If he had purchased it for 25% less and sold it for Rs 48 less, then there would have been a profit of 32%. Find the c...
A person buys 5 tables and 9 chairs for Rs. 15400.He sells tables at 10% profit and chairs at 20% profit. If his total profit on selling all tables and cha...
The selling price of 15 oranges is equal to the cost price of 12 oranges. Find the loss percent.
A gold ring is sold for Rs.24,400 at a loss of 60%. What is the cost price of the gold ring?
The shopkeeper purchased an article for Rs. "X." He marked the article __________% above its cost price and allowed a ________% discount on the marked pric...
Amit sold an electric-iron for ₹ 2,656 after giving a discount of 17% on the marked price. Had he not given the discount, he would have earned a profit o...
Abhinav bought some pencils for ₹ X. He sold 20% of pencils at 25% loss, one third at 20% profit and the remaining at 25% profit. If the total profit ear...
Burger King applies a fixed charge and an additional fee for each burger ordered. 'Arun' and 'Vicky' placed orders for 180 and 120 burgers, respectively, r...
Tarun and Ajit are wardrobe dealers. The cost of the wardrobe is Rs 44,000. Is. Tarun gives a discount of 18% on the full price, while Ajit gives Rs 38,000...
The combined average cost price of two items, Almonds and Walnuts, is Rs. 450. If Almonds are sold at a profit of 50% and Walnuts at a loss of 25%, resulti...
A digital wall clock is labeled with a price that is 75% higher than its cost price, resulting in the marked price being Rs. 1,800 more than the cost price...
A shopkeeper acquires 24 pens at Rs. 900 each and 12 geometry boxes at Rs. 300 each. Later, he sells 2 pens to each of the 12 students, presenting them wit...
Ratio of cost price of two items P and Q is 2:5. Item P and Item Q are marked 25% above and 30% above their respective cost price. If the ratio of discount...
A marked an article 60% above its cost price and when he allows ‘X’% discount, he makes a profit of ________% and when he allows ‘1.5X’% discount, ...
The marked price of an article in two different shops P and Q is Rs 1200 and Rs X respectively. In shop P the article is available at two successive discou...
A has bought a few items from the interest he earned from the investment in PNB. A has marked up the items by 11(1/9)% above the cost price. Find out the p...
A dealer buys three different fruits A, B & C at the rate of Rs. 50, Rs. 40 and Rs. x per kg respectively. The quantity (by weight) of B bought by him is 2...
A shopkeeper allows two consecutive discounts of 20% and 25% on an article and still he makes a profit of 32% by selling it. He would make Rs.2332 less pro...
On a particular day each of Danny. Edwin and Fahim sold three types of pens from their respective shops. As a coincidence, each of them sold an identical n...
The cost price of 28 articles is the same as the selling price of ‘x’ articles. if the profit is 40%, then find the value of ‘x’.
An article is marked x% (0 < x < 40) above its cost price. It is sold by giving x/2% discount on its marked price. If there is a profit of 10(1/2)%, then w...
A shopkeeper purchased two rice bags, 'Brown Rice' and 'Basmati,' and sold them at identical prices. The bag of 'Brown Rice' was sold with a 20% profit, wh...
An item smartphone is marked 25% above its cost price and sold for Rs. 1,500 after allowing two successive discounts of 20% and 25%, respectively. Find the...
A shop seller offered a discount of Rs. 3500 on the marked price of a rice bag and earned a profit of 40%. If the difference between the cost price and the...

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