Quiz Discussion

If selling price is doubled, the profit triples. Find the profit percent.

• 1]

  66*2/3

• 2]

  100

• 3]

  105*1/3

• 4]

  120

A man buys a cycle for Rs. 1400 and sells it at a loss of 15%. What is the selling price of the cycle?

• 1]

  Rs. 1090

• 2]

  Rs. 1060

• 3]

  Rs. 1190

• 4]

  Rs. 1202

A man buys an article for 10% less than its value and sells it for 10% more than its value. His gain or loss percent is:

• 1]

  no profit, no loss

• 2]

  20% profit

• 3]

  less than 20% profit

• 4]

  more than 20% profit

A shopkeeper expects a gain of 22.5% on his cost price. If in a week, his sale was of Rs. 392, what was his profit?

• 1]

  Rs. 18.20

• 2]

  Rs. 70

• 3]

  Rs. 72

• 4]

  Rs. 88.25

A person purchases 90 clocks and sells 40 clocks at a gain of 10% and 50 clocks at a gain of 20%. If he sold all of them at a uniform profit of 15%, then he would have got Rs. 40 less. The cost price of each clock is 

• 1]

  Rs. 50

• 2]

  Rs. 60

• 3]

  Rs. 80

• 4]

  Rs. 90

A businessman sold two cars for Rs. 9900 each, making 10% profit on one and losing 10% on the other. His gain or loss per cent on the two cars is:

• 1]

  No gain, No Loss

• 2]

  Loss of 1%

• 3]

  Gain of 1.5%

• 4]

  Gain of 2%

A shopkeeper gives 12% additional discount on the discounted price, after giving an initial discount of 20% on the labelled price of a radio. If the final sale price of the radio is Rs. 704, then what is its labelled price?

• 1]

  Rs 844.80

• 2]

  Rs 929.28

• 3]

  Rs 1000

• 4]

  Rs 1044.8

If the cost price of 12 pens is equal to the selling price of 8 pens, the gain percent is : 

• 1]

  25%

• 2]

  33*1/3 %

• 3]

  50%

• 4]

  66*2/3 %

Some articles were bought at 6 articles for Rs. 5 and sold at 5 articles for Rs. 6. Gain percent is:

• 1]

  30%

• 2]

  33*1/3 %

• 3]

  35%

• 4]

  44%

The percentage profit earned by selling an article for Rs. 1920 is equal to the percentage loss incurred by selling the same article for Rs. 1280. At what price should the article be sold to make 25% profit?

• 1]

  Rs. 2000

• 2]

  Rs. 2200

• 3]

  Rs. 2400

• 4]

  Data inadequate