Percentages, Profit & Loss
Varun Gupta
1) Sachin’s salary is 20 % more than Sehwag’s salary. By what percent is Sehwag’s salary less than Sachin’s salary.
2) An amount was first reduced by 10% and then further reduced by 20% and Rs10 800 were left. What was the original amount?
3) In an examination a candidate who scores 20 % of the total marks fail by 40 marks and a candidate who scores 40 % of the total marks pass by 120 marks. Find total marks and passing marks.
4) A manufacture estimates that on inspection 12% of the articles he produces will be rejected. He accepts an order to supply 22000 articles at Rs 7.50each.he estimates the profit on his outlay including the manufacturing of rejected articles to be 20%. Find the cost of manufacturing each article.
5)
In order to maintain the price
line a trader allows a discount of 10% on the marked
price of goods in his shop. However, he still makes a gross profit of
17% on the cost price. Find the profit percent he would have made on the
selling price had he sold at the
marked price.
6)
A shopkeeper sells sugar in
such a way that the selling price of 950gn is the same
as the cost price of 1kg.Find his gain percent?
7) A dealer buys eggs at Rs 36 per gross .He sells the egg at a profit of 12(1/2)% on the cost price What is the selling price per egg(Approximately)
8)
On selling tea at Rs 40 per
kg a loss of 10% is incurred. Calculate the amount of
tea (in kg) sold if the total loss incurred is Rs 80.
9)
A merchant bought two
transistor which together cost him Rs 480.He sold one of them at a loss of 15%
and other at a gain of 19%.If the selling price of both the
transistor are equal. Find the cost of lower price transistor.
10) A manufacture makes a profit of 15% by selling a color TV for Rs
5750.if the cost of
manufacturing increase by 30% and the price paid by the retailer is
increased by 20%. Find the profit percent made by manufacture.
11) A reduction is the price of petrol by 10% enables a motorist to
buy 5gallons more for
$180.Find the original price of petrol.
12) The cost price of a pair of shoes is increased by
18%. A trader who revised the selling price of the pair of shoes to maintain
the same profit percentage noted that he got Rs. 9 more than the earlier profit
by selling one pair of shoes. What was the earlier profit?
1. Rs.36
2. Rs.45
3. Rs.50
4. Rs.54
13) A shopkeeper bought certain no articles at 1200 rupees and sold 1/4th at loss of 10%. what should be the profit percentage of remaining stock to earn 10% profit on overall articles?
Ujjwal mishra
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Sagarika Bharadwaj
Can I have the solution of the last question as I got the ans = 16.67%
