Practice Profit and loss Questions and Answers

• 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...