Practice Profit and loss Questions and Answers

• A laptop costs 20 times the cost of a headphone. On the laptop there is a profit of 10% while the total profit on selling the headphone and the laptop is 2...
• A dishonest milkman purchases some milk at Rs 20 per litre and mixes 6 litres water in it. By selling the mixture at the rate Rs 20 per litre, he earns a p...
• Kiran sold an article at a certain price. Had she sold the article 1/5th of the price she had actually sold, she would have incurred a loss of 74%. Find th...
• The profit percentage of M and N are the same on selling the articles at Rs. 2800 each but M calculates his profit on the selling price while N calculates ...
• A sum is lent at 20% pa compound interest. What is the ratio of increase in the amount in the 4th year to that in the 5th year?
• A shopkeeper earns a profit of 30% by selling an article. What would be the approximate percent change in the profit percent, if he had paid 20% less and s...
• What will be the percentage profit after selling an article at a certain price if there is a loss of 30% if the article is sold at 1/4th of the previous se...
• A salesman is allowed 32% commission on the total sales by him and a bonus of 3% on the sales over Rs. 15000. If the total earnings of a salesman is Rs. 79...
• The cost price of two dozen bananas is Rs. 96. After selling 18 bananas at the rate of Rs. 36 per dozen, the shopkeeper reduced the rate to Rs. 24 per doze...
• If Mohit purchased some goods for Rs. 1240 and sold one-fourth of these goods at a loss of 12% then at what gain per cent should the remainder goods be sol...
• Axe and Wye purchases the Bikes at same price and later on Zed purchase both the bikes at the same price of Rs. 72000. But the profit % of Axe was A% while...
• The cost price of two dozen bananas is Rs. 48 after selling 18 bananas at the rate of Rs. 18 per dozen, the shopkeeper reduced to rate of Rs. 12 per dozen....
• Raman marks an item 25% above the cost price and 10% discount to customer. If Customer pays Rs 1980 for the item, what is it cost price of this For Raman?
• Rahul purchased a car for Rs 1,30,000 and spent Rs 6000 on transportation and 15% of its cost on repair. At what price should he sell it so as to earn an o...
• A seller sold a vehicle for Rs. 81,000 with the loss of 10%. At what price be sold to earn 10% profit?
• A dishonest seller, at the time of selling and purchasing uses weight 22% less and 30% more per kg respectively. Find the approx. percent profit earned by ...
• Axe and Wye purchases the Bikes at same price and later on Zed purchase both the bikes at the same price of Rs. 72000. But the profit % of Axe was A% while...
• A person bought an article and sold it at a loss of 20%. If he had bought it at 10% loss and sold it for 74 more, he would have gained 30%. Find the profit...
• A dishonest shopkeeper pretends to sell his goods at cost price but uses false weights and gains 25%. For a weight of 1 kg he uses:
• A shopkeeper planned to sell 200 shirts each priced at Rs 2,240 in a particular year. Each shirt, if it had been sold at the mentioned price would have bee...
• The cost price of 15 articles is the same as the selling price x of  articles. If the profit is 25%, then find the the value of   x?
• The list price of an Article is Rs. 200 and a customer buys is for Rs. 153 after two successive discounts. If the first discount is 10%. Find the other one...
• A person bought an article and sold it at a loss of 25%. If he had bought it at 5% loss and sold it for 78 more, he would have gained 20%. Find the profit ...
• 58 notebooks have been purchased at the rate of 1 Rs. How many notebooks should be sold at the rate of Rs 1 to earn 45% profit?
• Ram sold a copy at a profit of 15%. Had he sold it for Rs 48 more, 21% would have been gained. Find the cost price?
• A shopkeeper announces successive discounts of 25% and 30%. Find the equivalent percent discount. 
• A sells an article to B making a profit of 1/4 of his outlay. B sells it to C, losing 10%. If C sells it for Rs.1260 and incurs a profit of 2/5 of his outl...
• If a man purchases 15 tables for Rs. 25 and sells 25 tables for Rs.15. How much profit or loss percent does he make?
• In a certain store, the profit is 280% of the cost. If the cost increases by 40% but the sale price remains constant, then the approximate percentage prof...
• If the cost price is 64% of the selling price, then what is the profit percent?
• If the cost price is 66% of the selling price, then what is the profit percent?
• The CP of 38 pencils is equal to SP of 32 pencils. Find the gain percent.
• The CP of 53 stickers is equal to SP of 50 stickers. Find the gain percent.
• By selling 52 metres of rope, one gain the selling price of 27 metres. Find the gain percent.
• A person incurs 6% loss by selling a charger for Rs. 1410. At what price should the same charger be sold to earn 14% profit?
• 9% more is gained by selling a ring for Rs. 3588 than by selling it for Rs. 2814. Find the cost price of the ring.
• 12% more is gained by selling a shirt for Rs. 4190 than by selling it for Rs. 3782. Find the cost price of the shirt.
• 14% more is gained by selling a spectacles for Rs. 4288 than by selling it for Rs. 4113. Find the cost price of the spectacles.
• A man purchased refrigerator and got 10% happy hour discount but paid 1.5% CGST and 1.5% SGST on the discounted rate. Had he got Rs 600 as discount and the...
• The wheel of an engine 5 (1/9) meters  in circumference makes five revolutions in 4 seconds. Find the speed of the train in km per hour.