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Q1. By selling a stove at 77% of its marked price, a seller makes a loss of 37%. What will be the profit or loss percentage if he sells it at 125% of its previous selling price?
(a) 19.75
(b) 26.35
(c) 22.35
(d) 21.25
Q2. An article is listed at Rs. 1165 and two successive discounts of 7% and 11% are given on it. How much would the seller gain or loss, if he gives a single discount of 18% instead of two discounts?
loss of Rs. 7.79%
Loss of Rs. 8.97%
(c) Gain of Rs. 9.56
(d) Loss of Rs. 8.83
Q3. A retailer bought 3850 Chair and 1848 Bench at the same price. He sells Chair in such a way that he can buy 650 Chair with the sale price of 481 Chair. Again he can buy only 408 Bench with the sale price of 625 Bench. What is the overall percentage profit or loss of the retailer?
(a) 120
(b) 240
(c) 360
(d) Data insufficient
Q4. A Burger king dealer decided the price of its commodities in such a way that even after providing a discount of 10% he makes a profit of 15%. If the dealer buys the commodity for Rs. 720, then the marked price of commodity is
(a) Rs. 920
(b) Rs. 900
(c) Rs. 890
(d) Rs. 950
Q5. 15 l of water is added to a certain quantity of pure chocolate costing Rs. 8 / l. If by selling the mixture at 20% less price as before, a profit of 35% is made, then what is the amount of pure chocolate in the mixture?
Q6. By selling an article at 78% of its marked price, a yogesh makes a loss of 22%. What will be the percent profit or loss made by the yogesh if he sells the article at 97% of its marked price?
(a) 3% loss
(b) 2% loss
(c) 2.43% profit
(d) 1.53% profit
Q7. Tanmay got 30% concession on the labeled price of an article and sold it at Rs. 8750 with 25% profit on the price he bought. What was the labeled price?
(a) Rs. 16000
(b) Rs. 12000
(c) Rs. 10000
(d) Rs. 14000
Q8. A person sold a plasma TV for Rs. 9400 and he lost a particular amount. When he sold another plasma TV of the same type at Rs. 10600, his gain was double the former loss. What was the cost price of each plasma TV?
(a) Rs. 9800
(b) Rs. 10000
(c) Rs. 10200
(d) Rs. 10400
Q9. The percentage of loss when a book is sold at Rs. 73 is the same as that of the profit when it is sold at Rs. 183. The percentage of profit or loss on the book when it is sold at Rs. 143 is.
Q10. Jaikey bought an article with 30% discount on the labeled price. He sold the article with a 17 percent profit on the labeled price. What was his actual profit?
(a) 73.14%
(b) 67.14%
(c) 63.28%
(d) 65.56%
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