Arihant Expert Team Solutions for Exercise 1: Practice Questions

Sunanda is making a profit of $25\%$ on her selling price, what is her actual profit percentage?

If a commission of $10\%$ given on the marked price of an article, the gain is $25\%$. Find the gain percent, if commission is increased to $20\%$.

The cost price of an article is $40\%$ of the selling price. The percent that the selling price is of cost price is:

A shopkeeper has a certain number of eggs of which $5\%$ are found to be broken. He sells $93\%$ of the remainder and still $266$ eggs left. How many eggs did he originally have?

A dishhonest dealer marks his goods $20\%$ above the cost price. He also makes a profit by using a false weight of $900 \mathrm{gm}$ in place of $1 \mathrm{kg}$ while selling. Find the percentage profit earned by the shopkeeper?

Mukul bought $80 \mathrm{kg}$ of rice for $Rs. 1200$ and sold it at a loss of as much money as he received for $20 \mathrm{kg}$ rice. At what price per $\mathrm{kg}$ did he sell the rice?

A furniture shop allows $20\%$ discount on the marked price of each item, what price must be marked on a table costing $Rs. 560$, so as to make a profit of $25\%$?

A shopkeeper allows a discount of $12.5\%$ on the marked price of a certain article and makes a profit of $20\%$. If the article costs the shopkeeper $Rs. 210$, what price must be marked on the article?