Profit and Loss DIPAYAN SIR

1. Find the CP when SP is rs. 630 and profit percentage is 12.5 %?

2. Find the SP when article is sold at 25 % profit , if SP is rs.1470 with a profit
percentahe of 16(2/3)%
3. A person sell his article at 16(2/3)% profit but it was calculated on SP. Find his
actual profit % ?
4. A person sell his article at 8(1/3)%profit but it was calculated on SP. Find his
actual profit % ?
5. When a article is sold at 7/8 th of its SP , there is a loss of 37 % , what will be the
profit% when the same article is sold at 19/12 th of its selling price?
6. Renu bought an article for rs 1443456.78 rs and sold it at a loss of 25 % , with
this amount she bought another article and sold it at a gain of 40 % . her overall %
of profit ?
7. CP of 16 article is equals to the SP of 14 articles .find the profit or loss %?
8. CP of 2750 articles is equals to SP of 2500 articles . find the profit or loss% ?
9. After selling 72 articles a man losses the SP of 9 articles find the loss % ?
10.After selling 72 articles a man earns profit of SP of 9 articles find the profit % ?
11. After selling 72 articles a man earns a profit of CP of 9 articles find the loss % ?

12. CP of 12 is equals to SP of 9 while the discount on 10 is equals to the profit

earns on 5. Find the difference between profit % and Discount % ?
13. CP of 12 is equals to SP of 9 while the discount on 8is equals to the profit earns
on 6. Find the difference between profit % and Discount % ?
14. The profit earned when the article is sold for rs 800 is 20 times the loss
incurred when it is sold for rs 275. Find the Sp when profit % is 10 % ?
15. Profit after selling an article for 717 is 11(1/9)% more than the loss incurred
when it is sold for rs 527 . Find the SP when it is sold at 10 % profit ?
16. A man purchase some number of orange at the rate of 11 oranges for 1 rs. How
many for a rupee did he sell to gain 10% ?
17. A man purchase some number of oranges @250 oranges for 1000 rs . How
many oranges for 1000rs did he sell to gain 25 % ?
18. By selling 32 oranges for a rupee a man losses 40 % . How many for a rupee
does he sell to earn 20 % Profit ?
19. By selling 12 oranges for a rupee a man losses 20 %. How many for a rupee
does he sell to earn 20% profit ?
20. BY selling 90 pens for 80 rs , a man losses 20 % . what should the selling price
of 75 pens at the rate of 20% profit ?

21. By selling 96 articles for rs 144 , there is a loss of 35%.how many articles
should he sell for rs 108 to get gain % of 17 % ?
22. By selling 70 articles for rs 160 a person incurred a loss of 20 % .how many
article he should sell for 96 rs to earn 20% profit ?
23. By selling 5 article for a rupee a person incurred a loss of 4%if he sold it 4
article for 1 rs . what would be the profit %?
24. A shopkeeper sells his article 9 % loss had he sold it for 750 more he would
gain 6 % . what is SP when it is old at 20% profit ?
25. A shopkeeper sells his goods at 7% profit had he sold it for 4248 more he would
gain 13% . what is the CP ?
26. A shopkeeper sells his goods at 20% profit .Had he purchased it for 10% less
and sold it for 18 rs less he would gain 30% . find initial CP ?
27. A man sells his goods at 10% profit had he purchased it for 20% less and sold it
for 20 rs more he would gain 40% . what is the SP when it is sold at 10% profit?
28. Even after reducing the marked price of a pen by 32 rs , a shopkeeper makes a
profit of 15% .if CP is 160 rs . What profit % does he make it when the pen is sold at
marked price ?
29. Ram makes 750 articles at the cost of 60 paisa per article . he fixed the SP
such that if only 600 articles are sold he would have made a profit of 40% on the
outlay. However 120 articles got spoiled and he was able to sell 630 articles at this
price . find the actual profit % ?
30. Ram makes 720articles at the cost of 1.50 paisa per article . he fixed the SP
such that if only 400 articles are sold he would have made a profit of 20% on the
outlay. However 220 articles got spoiled and he was able to sell 500 articles at this
price . find the actual profit % ?
31. a dishonest shopkeeper promised to sell his goods at CP but he uses a false
weight of 900 grams instead of 1 kg weight . what is the profit %?
32. A dishonest shopkeeper promise to sell his good at cp but he uses a 30% less
weight find the profit % ?
33. A shopkeeper promise to sell his goods at 44% loss but but he uses 30% less
weight . what is his profit /loss % ?
34. A shopkeeper promise to sell his goods at 10% profit but he uses 20% less
weight . find the profit % ?
35. A shopkeeper promise to sell his goods at X% profit but he uses 20% less
weight thus he gains 37.5% . find the value of X ?
36. A shop keeper promise to sell his goods at X% loss . but he uses 25% less
weight , thus he gains 20% . Find the value of X ?
37. A dishonest shopkeeper makes a cheating of 20% at the time of buying the
goods , and 40 % cheating at the time of selling the goods . he promise to sell his
goods at 10 % loss . Find his actual profit % ?

38. An article is sold at a certain price . If it is sold at 33(1/3)%of this price . there is
a loss of 35 % . what is the profit % when it is sold at 60% of the original SP?
39. If Selling price is tripled and and Cost Price is doubled , Profit % is 65% . What
is the original profit % ?
40. If SP is 3 times and CP is 4 times , the profit % is 12.5% . What is the original
profit % ?
41. If CP is 11 times and SP is half , the profit % is 37.5% . what is the original profit
%?
42. The MP of a article is 5000 , due to festive offer a certain % of discount is given ,
Mr. X availed this opportunity and bought the article and sold it for 5000 at
11(1/9)% profit . what is the discount % ?
43. MP is 1500 less than its CP . when discount is 500 rs there is profit % of 25%.
What is the SP when profit % is 30 % ?
44. X and Y both sell the same product. The MP of the product is 2800.. X gives a
discount of 10 % on the whole , But Y gives 12 % discount on 1St 20,000 and 8%
discount on remaining . . what is differencve between their SP ?
45. If SP becomes 4 times , profit % becomes 6 times . what is the actual profit % ?
46. If Sp becomes doubled , profir increases by 300% . Find the initial profit % ?
47. If SP becomes 6 times , the profit increases by 700% . find the initial profit % ?
48. A house and a shop were sold for Rs. 1 lakh each, In this transaction, the house
sale resulted into 20% loss whereas the shop sale into 20% profit. The entire
transaction resulted in :
49. Two horses were sold at Rs 2380 each. First was sold at 20% profit and second
at 25% loss. Find the over all profit or loss %.
50.Two horses were sold at Rs 1710. First was sold at 10% loss and second at 25%
profit. If the cost price of first horse is equal to selling price of second horse. Find
the over all profit or loss in rupees.

51. Two horses were bought at Rs 1600. First was sold at 10% profit and second at
20% profit. If first were sold at 20% profit and second at 10% profit he would get Rs
5 more. Find the difference between the cost price of both the horses

52.A person bought 2 fans for Rs 2160. After selling first fan at 15% profit and
second at 9% loss he neither gains nor looses . Find C.P. of each fan?

53. A person bought a horse and a vehicle for Rs 40,000 he sold horse at 10% profit
and vhicle at 5% loss on whole transection he got profit of 1% . Find C.P. of horse?

54. An article is sold at a profit of 20%. If both the cost price and selling price were
Rs 100 less, the profit would have 4% more. Find the cost price.
55. A man sells a table at 15% profit and a chair at 12% loss and earn 810 as profit.
If he sell the table at 12% loss and chair at 15% profit then he bears no profit no
loss. Find the cost price of chair ?
56. An article is sold at 25 percent loss. If its cost price is doubled and selling price
is increased by Rs.660, then there is a profit of 20 percent. What is the original cost
price of the article?
57. If goods be purchased for Rs.550, and 3/8 be sold at a loss of 7%, at what gain
percent should the remainder be sold so as to gain 23% on the whole transaction?
58. 5/8 of a consignment was sold at a profit of 8% and the rest at a loss of 6 % If
there was an over all profit of Rs.132, find the value of the consignment.
59. One-fourth of a commodity is sold at 12% profit, 1/3 rd is sold at 15% profit and
the rest at 24% profit. If a total profit of Rs.45 is earned, then find the value of the
commodity.
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