1.
Question 1 » If a merchant offers a discount of 40% on the marked price of his goods and thus ends
up selling at cost price, what was the % mark up? Explanatory Answer »
2.
Question 2 » If a merchant offers a discount of 30% on the list price, then she makes a loss of 16%.
What % profit or % loss will she make if she sells at a discount of 10% of the list price? Explanatory
Answer »
3.
Question 3 » A merchant marks his goods up by 60% and then offers a discount on the marked
price. If the final selling price after the discount results in the merchant making no profit or loss, what
was the percentage discount offered by the merchant? Explanatory Answer »
4.
Question 4 » A merchant marks his goods up by 75% above his cost price. What is the maximum %
discount that he can offer so that he ends up selling at no profit or loss?Explanatory Answer »
5.
Question 5 » A merchant marks his goods in such a way that the profit on sale of 50 articles is equal
to the selling price of 25 articles. What is his profit margin? Explanatory Answer »
6.
Question 6 » Two merchants sell, each an article for Rs.1000. If Merchant A computes his profit on
cost price, while Merchant B computes his profit on selling price, they end up making profits of 25%
respectively. By how much is the profit made by Merchant B greater than that of Merchant
A? Explanatory Answer »
7.
Question 7 » One year payment to the servant is Rs. 200 plus one shirt. The servant leaves after 9
months and recieves Rs. 120 and a shirt. Then find the price of the shirt.
8.
Question 8 » If apples are bought at the rate of 30 for a rupee. How many apples must be sold for a
rupee so as to gain 20%?
9.
Question 9 » A trader buys goods at a 19% discount on the label price. If he wants to make a profit
of 20% after allowing a discount of 10%, by what % should his marked price be greater than the
original label price?
10. Question 10 » Rajiv sold an article for Rs.56 which cost him Rs.x. If he had gained x% on his outlay,
what was his cost?
11. Question 11 » A trader professes to sell his goods at a loss of 8% but weights 900 grams in place of
a kg weight. Find his real loss or gain per cent.
12. Question 12 » A merchant buys two articles for Rs.600. He sells one of them at a profit of 22% and
the other at a loss of 8% and makes no profit or loss in the end. What is the selling price of the article
that he sold at a loss?
13. Question 13 » A trader makes a profit equal to the selling price of 75 articles when he sold 100 of the
articles. What % profit did he make in the transaction?
14. Question 14 » If a merchant makes a profit of 20% after giving a 20% discount, what should be his
mark-up?
1. Summi buys a colour T.V set for Rs. 15,200 and sells it at a loss of 20%. What is the selling price of the T.V set?
2. A scooty is sold for Rs. 13,600 and fetches a loss of 15%. Find the cost price of the scooty.
3. The cost price of 11 pens is equal to the selling price of 10 pens. Find the loss or gain percent
4.
By
selling
a
table
for
Rs.
1,320,
a
trader
gains
10%.
Find
the
C.P.
of
the
table.
5. The cost price of 16 note books is equal to the selling price of 12 note books. Find the gain percent.
6. A man sold two articles at Rs. 375 each. On the first article, he gains 25% and on the other, he looses 25%. How
much does he gain or lose in the whole transaction? Also, find the gain or loss percent in the whole transaction.
7. Anbarasan purchased a house for Rs 17,75,000 and spent Rs 1,25,000 on its interior decoration. He sold the
house
to
make
a
profit
of
20%.
Find
the
S.P.
of
the
house.
8. After spending Rupees sixty thousand for remodelling a house, Amla sold a house at a profit of 20%. If the
selling
price
was
Rupees
forty
two
lakhs,
how
much
did
she
spend
to
buy
the
house?
9. Jaikumar bought a plot of land in the outskits of the city for Rs 21,00,000. Hebuilt a wall around it for which
he spent Rs 1,45,000. And then he wants to sell itat Rs 25,00,000 by making an advertisement in the newspaper
which
costs
him
Rs
5,000.
Now,
find
his
profit
percent.
10. A man sold two varieties of his dog for Rs 3,605 each. On one he made a gain of 15% and on the other a loss of
9%.
Find
his
overall
gain
or
loss.
[Hint: Find
C.P.
of
each]
11. A man sells two wrist watches at Rs 594 each. On one he gains 10% and on the other he loses 10%. Find his
gain
or
loss
percent
on
the
whole
12. Raju bought a motorcycle for Rs 36,000 and then bought some extra fittings to make it perfect and good
looking. He sold the bike at a profit of 10% and he got a selling price of Rs.44,000. How much did he spend for
the extra fittings made for the motorcycle?
1. The marked price of a TV is Rs18500. A dealer allows two successive discounts of 20% and 5%. For how much
is the TV available?
2. A jeweler allows a discount of 16%to his customers and still gains 20 %. Find the marked price of a ring which
costs the jeweler Rs1190.
3. After allowing a discount of 8% on a toy, it is sold for Rs216.20. Find the marked price of the toy.
4. How much per cent above the cost price should a shopkeeper mark his goods so that after allowing a discount
of 25 % on the marked price, he gains 20%?
5. The marked price of a ceiling fan is Rs1250and the shopkeeper allows a discount of 6% on it. Find the selling
price of the fan.
6. On selling a table for Rs 987, Ramesh loses 6 % For how much did he purchase it?
7. A grocer bought sugar worth Rs4500. He sold one-third of it at a gain of 10%. At what gain per cent must the
remaining sugar be sold to have a gain of 12% on the whole?
8. 25 % of 120apples have got rotten. How many of them are still good?
9. A trader marks his goods at 40% above the cost price and allows a discount of 25% . What is his gain per
cent?
10. Vinod sold a shirt to Alex at a gain of 12 % and Alex sold it to Sunil at a loss of 5% If Sunil paid Rs1330 for it,
how much did Vinod pay for the shirt?
11. Gurpreet sells two watches for Rs1955each, gaining 15% on one and losing 15% on the other. Find her gain or
loss per cent in the whole transaction.
12. By selling a T-shirt for Rs432, a shopkeeper loses 4%. For how much should he sell it to gain 6%?
13. By selling 33 m of cloth, a draper loses an amount equal to the selling price of 3m of cloth. Find his gain or loss
per cent.
14. Find the single discount equivalent to two successive discounts of 20 % and10%.