Abhijit Guha Solutions for Chapter: Profit, Loss and Discount, Exercise 1: Practice Problems Level 1

The cost price of $4$ pens and $5$ calculators is $₹ 330$. If the pens are sold at $25$ per cent loss and calculators at $25$ per cent profit, the total selling price is $₹ 372.50$. Find the CP of each pen

Some toffees are bought at the rate of $11$ for $Rs 10$and the same number at the rate of $9$ for $Rs 10.$ If the lot is sold at one rupee per toffee, find the gain or loss percent on the whole transaction. (in percentage)

Ramya purchased an item for $₹ 46,000$ and sold it at a loss of $12$ per cent. With that amount she purchased another item and sold it at a gain of $12$ per cent. What was her overall gain/loss?

A shopkeeper sells shirts at the rate of $₹ 400$ per shirt and allows a discount of $10$ per cent to all customers buying by full cash payment and for the customers buying $10$ shirts at a time he gives $2$ free. If a customer is willing to take both the discounts, what net effective discount can he avail?

The cost price of a calculator is $5$ times of its profit. If the shopkeeper earns $25$ per cent profit by selling the thing at $₹ 401.25$, then find the original profit in rupees.

A man sells two clocks for $₹ 1,900$. Cost price of the first clock is equal to the selling price of the second clock.If the first is sold at $10$ per cent loss and the second is sold at $25$ per cent gain, what is his total loss or gain in rupees?

A dishonest trader professes to sell rice at cost price using false weights, but he gains $30$ per cent. What does he use for $1 \mathrm{kg}$ weight?

In place of $18$ per cent profit an article is sold at $32$ per cent profit and the seller gets $₹ 112$ more. Find the selling price of the article if it were sold at $25$ per cent profit.