Quiz Discussion

When a commodity is sold Rs. 34.80, there is a loss of 25%. What is the cost price?

• 1]

  36.20

• 2]

  43.40

• 3]

  56.60

• 4]

  46.40

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

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%

On selling 17 balls at Rs. 720, there is a loss equal to the cost price of 5 balls. The cost price of a ball is:

• 1]

  Rs. 45

• 2]

  Rs. 50

• 3]

  Rs. 55

• 4]

  Rs. 60

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

Sam purchased 20 dozens of toys at the rate of Rs. 375 per dozen. He sold each one of them at the rate of Rs. 33. What was his percentage profit?

• 1]

  3.5

• 2]

  4.5

• 3]

  5.6

• 4]

  6.5

A shopkeeper sells two watches for Rs. 308 each. On one he gets 12% profit and on the other 12 % loss. His profit or loss in the entire transaction was :

• 1]

  Neither Profit , Nor Loss

• 2]

  11/25 % Loss

• 3]

  1* 11/25 % Profit

• 4]

  3* 2/25 % Loss

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 trader mixes 26 kg of rice at Rs. 20 per kg with 30 kg of rice of other variety at Rs. 36 per kg and sells the mixture at Rs. 30 per kg. His profit percent is:

• 1]

  No profit, no loss

• 2]

  5%

• 3]

  8%

• 4]

  10%