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WorksheetsProfit and Loss Quiz
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 13mins
If the cost price of an item is `4,500 and its selling price is `3,500 then the loss percentage is :
2 44 % 9
2 55 % 9
2 22 % 9
2 33 % 9
By selling an item for `222 a person incurs a loss of `48. What is the percentage of loss incurred in the transaction?
7 17 % 9
23 21 % 37
7 16 % 18
8 18 % 9
The selling price of 32 items is equal to the cost price of 38 items. Find the profit percentage.
16.25%
15.79%
18.75%
19.25%
The initial profit percentage on the sale of an item was 74%. If the cost price of the item went up by 50%, but the selling price remained the same, what would be the new profit percentage?
8%
16%
13%
24%
By selling an article for ` 211.20 a trader loses 12%. If he sells it for ` 248.40, then his loss gain percent is:
Loss, 2.5%
Loss, 5%
Gain, 5.5%
Gain, 3.5%
A person sells his goods at 30 % profit. If the cost price increases by 25%, and the selling price increases by 10% then what is his new profit percentage?
16.4%
13.5%
14.4%
15.6%
A retailer would have made a profit of 18% if he sold an article at its marked price. If he allowed a discount of 10% on the market price, what would his actual profit on that article have been?
6.2%
5.5%
7.1%
4.6%
A person sells a sofa at a certain price. If he sold it at 60% of this price, then there will be a loss of 20%. The percentage profit when sofa was sold at the original selling price is :
12%
1 333%
1 152%
1 122%
A dealer claims to sell his goods at cost price but uses a weight that actually weights 800 gm though 1 kg is written on it. Find his gain percentage.
25%
18%
20%
15%
A shopkeeper sells wheat at `20/kg that he purchased at `18/kg and he gives only 900 gm of wheat instead of 1 kg while selling. The actual percentage profit of the shopkeeper is:
22.45 %
24.45 %
23.45 %
20.45 %
Atulit buys an old bicycle for Rs. 4,000 and spends Rs. 400 for its repairs. If he sells the bicycle for Rs. 5,000, his percentage gain is:
13 712%
13 711%
1 1311%
7 1311%
The selling price of 9 articles is equal to the cost price of 15 articles. In this transaction there is a:
The selling price of 9 articles is equal to the cost price of 15 articles. In this transaction there is a:
loss of 40%
gain of 66.6% nearly
loss of 66.6% nearly
gain of 40%
The ratio of the marked price to the cost price of an article is 5 : 3. If the selling price of that article is `3645 and the shopkeeper gave two successive discounts of 25% and 10% on the marked price, then what is the profit or loss percent during this transaction?
12.5% Profit
10% Profit
15% Loss
15.5% Loss
A woman buys a car at 24% discount of the printed price and sells it a 20% higher of printed price. Her percentage gain is:
17 7 % 19
17 57 % 19
7 57 % 19
17 5 % 19
Paras can complete 40% of the work in 8 days while Deepti & Paras together can complete 10% of the work in a day. Find the time taken by Deepti alone to complete the work.
23 days
21 days
22 days
20 days
Namita alone completes 1 33 % 3 of a work in 16 days and the remaining work is completed by bobby alone. The whole work is completed in total 28 days. In how many days Namita and Bobby working together can complete 11 16 th of the original work?
6 days
9 days
12 days
8 days
A and B together can complete a work in 12 days. A alone can complete it in 20 days. If B does not work only for the first half of the day daily, then in how many days will A and B together complete the work?
15 days
43 2 days
40 3 days
22 3 days
A and B can do a work alone in 30 days and 40 days, respectively. In how many days will the work be completed if they work on alternate days, starting with B on the first day?
1 177 days
1 173 days
1 343 days
2 343 days
A can do a piece of work in 15 day and B can do the same work in 20 days. The time taken by them working together to do the same work is:
4 77 days
4 107 days
4 87 days
4 97 days
