Profit and Loss Set 1

A vendor buys bananas at 9 for Rs 8 and sells at 8 for Rs 9. What will be the profit or loss (in %)?

• 13.28% profit

• 26.56% loss

• 26.56% profit

• 13.28% loss

A shopman bought pens at the rate of 7 for Rs 10 and sold them at a profit of 40%. How many pens would a customer get for Rs 10?

• 6

• 4

• 5

• 3

By selling 12 oranges for Rs 60, a man loses 25%. The number of oranges he has to sell for Rs 100, so as to gain 25% is

• 10

• 11

• 12

• 15

A man sold 20 apples for Rs 100 and gained 20%. How many apples did he buy for Rs 100? 

• 20

• 22

• 24

• 25

A man purchased some eggs at 3 for Rs 5 and sold them at 5 for Rs 12. Thus he gained Rs 143 in all. The number of eggs he bought is

• 210

• 200

• 195

• 190

A man bought oranges at the rate of 8 for Rs 34 and sold them at the rate of 12 for Rs 57. How many oranges should be sold to earn a net profit of Rs 45?

• 90

• 100

• 135

• 150

A person bought 50 pens for Rs 50 each. He sold 40 of them at a loss of 5%. He wants to gain 10% on the whole. Then his gain percent on the remaining pens should be

• 15%

• 40%

• 50%

• 70%

An item costing Rs 200 is being sold at 10%. If the price is further reduced by 5%, the selling price will be

• Rs 170

• Rs 171

• Rs 175

• Rs 179

Two toys are sold at Rs 504 each. One toy brings the dealer a gain of 12% and the other at a loss percent by selling both the toys is

• 3¶5/13% profit

• 4¶5/13% profit

• 5¶1/13% profit

• 2¶3/13% loss

A sold a horse to B for Rs 4800 by losing 20%. B sells it to C at a price which would have gain A a profit of 15%. B's gain is

• Rs 1800

• Rs 1900

• Rs 2000

• Rs 2100