Maharashtra Board Solutions for Exercise 3: Practice Set 39

Suresh and Ramesh together invested $₹144000$ in the ratio $4:5$ and bought a plot of land. After some years they sold it at a profit of $20\%$. What is the profit each of them got ?

Virat and Samrat together invested $₹50000$ and $₹120000$ to start a business. They suffered a loss of $20\%$. How much loss did each of them incur?

Shweta, Piyush and Nachiket together invested $₹80000$ and started a business of selling sheets and towels from Solapur. Shweta’s share of the capital was $₹30000$ and Piyush’s $₹12000$. At the end of the year they had made a profit of $24\%$. What was Nachiket’s investment and what was his share of the profit?

$A$ and $B$ shared a profit of $₹24500$ in the proportion $3:7$. Each of them gave $2\%$ of his share of the profit to the Soldiers’ Welfare Fund. What was the actual amount given to the Fund by each of them?

Jaya, Seema, Nikhil and Neelesh put in altogether $₹360000$ to form a partnership, with their investments being in the proportion $3:4:7:6$. What was Jaya’s actual share in the capital? They made a profit of $12\%$. How much profit did Nikhil make?