Cluster · Profit and Loss Calculations

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Profit and Loss Percentage Problems
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Two-thirds of a certain number of items are sold at 35% profit, 25% of items are sold at 30% loss, and the remaining at 5% loss. What is the overall profit or loss percentage?

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The selling price of a plate is 140% of its cost price . What will be the profit percentage?

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If 75 percent of the total articles are sold at a profit of 20 percent and the remaining articles are sold at a loss of 20 percent, then what will be the overall profit percentage?

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If Naman had purchased 25 articles for Rs. 22 and sold all the articles at the rate of 22 articles for Rs. 25, then find his approximate profit percentage.

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The cost price of two fans is the same. One fan is sold at a loss of 20% and the other fan is sold at a loss of 60%. What will be the overall loss percentage?

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Vijay sold a watch at a loss of 50%. If the loss is ₹2,400, then what is the selling price of the watch?

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By selling 120 mangoes, a shopkeeper gains the selling price of 20 mangoes. Find his profit percentage.

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A retailer sold an item for Rs 1221 at a 12% loss. At what price should he sell the item so that gains a profit of 20%?

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A man buys two watches ‘A’ and ‘B’ at a total cost of Rs. 800. He sells both watches at the same selling price, and earns a profit of 18% on watch ‘A’ and incurs a loss of 22% on watch ‘B’. What are the cost prices of the two watches? (Two-place after the decimal).

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There are two types of hair dryers in the shop, Type A and B. Sum of the cost price of 1 piece of A and B is Rs 900. The first one is sold at a profit of 12% while the second at 18%. A shopkeeper sells 15 hairdryers of Type A and 10 of Type B. Total profit earned from type A hairdryer is Rs 180 more than the profit from type B hairdryers. What is the selling price (in Rs) of Type A hairdryer?

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The cost price of a product is Rs 30 and sold at Rs 33.33 then what is the profit/loss percentage?

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A sold an article to B at 25% profit and B further sold it to C by earning a certain profit. If the cost price of C is 30% more than the cost price of A, then find the profit percentage earned by B.

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A person sold an article at a loss of 12%. Had he sold it at a gain of 10.5%, he would have got Rs. 112.50 more. What is the original selling price (in Rs.) of the article?

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If the selling price of a container is Rs 1650 more than the cost price and the profit is 3%, then find the cost price of the container.

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A retailer sold an item for Rs 1221 at a 12% loss. At what price should he sell the item so that gains a profit of 20%?

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By selling 3 dozen oranges for Rs. 405, a trader loses 25%. How many oranges should he sell for Rs. 288 if he needs to earn a profit of 20% in the transaction?

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What is the cost price of a product , if the gain in selling it for Rs 27,120 is 13% ?

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Divya bought a car for ₹3,50,000 and sold it for ₹4,35,000. What is her percentage profit (correct up to one decimal place)?

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By selling an article for 480, a man incurs a loss of 10%. At what price should he sell it, so that it makes a profit of 20%?

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If the selling price is tripled and cost price doubled, the profit would become 65%. So what is the present profit (in %)?

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On selling a chair at 5% less and a table at 15% gain, a man gains Rs.300. If he sells the chair at 5% gain and the table at 5% gain, he gets 180. The actual cost of the table is:

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By selling an article for ₹211.20, a trader loses 12%. If he sells it for ₹248.40, then his loss/gain percent is:

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Manny bought an AC for ₹ 12000 and paid ₹ 400 for transportation. Then he sold it for ₹14000. Find his profit%.

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The profit earned by selling a jacket for Rs. 9610 is equal to the loss incurred by selling the same jacket for Rs. 7690. What should be the selling price of the jacket to earn a 10 percent profit?

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A person sold an article at a loss of 4%. Had he sold it at a gain of 1%, he would have received Rs. 42.5 more. To gain 18%, what must be his selling price?

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The selling price of x items is equal to the cost price of 32 items and profit percent is 28%. What is the value of x?

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Mayur sold a watch at a profit of 7%. If he had sold it for ₹1,329 more, he would have gained 57%. Find the cost price (in ₹) of the watch.

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Two printers were sold for Rs.12,000 each, one at a gain of 20% and the other at a loss of 20%. Find the loss or gain in the entire transaction.

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A trader sells two LED sets at the same price. There is a gain of 20% on one LED and 20% loss on the second LED. Which of the following statements is true?

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Arun sold his goods at a loss of 10%. If the selling price of the goods had been increased by ₹270, there would have been a gain of 8%. What was the cost price (in ₹) of the goods for Arun?

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An item was sold at 23% more than the cost price. If the selling price is Rs.14022, then find the cost price.

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Janki purchased 10 dozen of corn at the rate of Rs. 180 per dozen. She sold each corn at the rate of Rs. 22. What was her percent profit?

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Pihu buys a chocolate for ₹225 and sells it for ₹300. What will be her gain percentage?  (Rounded off to two decimal places)

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By selling an article at 4/5 of the cost price, there is a loss of Rs 125. Find the selling price of an article.

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A shopkeeper incurs a loss of 20% after selling a machine for ₹4800. In order to gain a profit of 20%, at what price should the shopkeeper sell the same machine?

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A man purchased two bicycles, one for Rs. 1600 and the second for Rs. 1400, and sold them for Rs. 1280 and Rs. 1680, respectively. Find the overall profit or loss.

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If a shopkeeper sells an article for Rs.1600 on which he suffers a loss of 25%. At what price should he sell the article so as to gain a profit of 7%?

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A retailer purchased some goods for ₹1,280 and he sold one-third at a loss of 15%. At what gain percentage should the remaining be sold, so as to gain 15% on the whole transaction?

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A merchant bought two watches for ₹9,000 each. He sold one watch at a loss of 10%. At what price (in ₹) should he sell the other watch to earn a profit of 18% overall?

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If a vendor sells a coconut at Rs 14.4 he makes 10% loss. If he wants to make 25% profit, then at what price (in Rs) should he sell the coconut?

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A shopkeeper sold a cellphone for Rs 12,500. If the ratio of cost price to selling price is 4 : 5, find his profit percentage.

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Aarav owns a watch worth ₹10,000. He sells it to Bhavin at a profit of 15%. After some days, Bhavin sells it back to Aarav at 15% loss. Find the percentage profit or loss faced by Aarav.

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A costs thrice as much as B. A is sold at a loss of 10%, and B is sold at \(\frac{5}{4}\) of its own price. If the selling price of A is ₹5,800 more than the selling price of B, then the cost price of A is:

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The cost price of 36 articles is the same as the selling price of N articles. If the profit is 20%, then the value of N is:

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If the cost price of 2170 articles is equal to the selling price of 1736 articles, then what is the gain percentage?

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If a vendor decides to sell his goods as the selling price of 10 mangoes is equal to the cost price of 12 mangoes, then the profit percentage is:

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A shopkeeper sold goods for $27720 and made a profit of 32% in the process. Find his profit percent if he had sold his goods for $23205.

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Rupa sells a computer to Shilpa at 20% loss. Shilpa sells it to Neelima at 20% profit. If Neelima pays Rs.24,000 for it, then how much did Rupa pay for it?

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The cost price of 19 items is equal to the selling price of 21 items. The loss percentage is:

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Ranveer bought two laptops at the same price. He sells one laptop at a loss of 7% while the other at a profit of 9%. Find the overall loss/profit percentage.

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