Abhijit Guha Solutions for Chapter: Profit, Loss and Discount, Exercise 2: Practice Problems Level 2

A person sells _____ apples per rupee and suffers a loss of $4$ per cent. He sells $32$ apples per rupee and suffers a profit of _____ per cent

A trader gives an additional concession of $35$ per cent on an article which is already get discounted by $20$ per cent on the marked price. If the buyer pays an amount of $1,300$ for the whole, then the marked price is

An article is marked up $40$ per cent higher than CP but it was sold $\mathrm{x}$ per cent on discount. The shopkeeper thus gains $12$ per cent. What would be the SP of the article with CP $₹ 120$ and sold on $\mathrm{x}$ per cent profit?

Ratio between marked price of two mobile phones $\mathrm{A}$ and $\mathrm{B}$ is $4:5$. The shopkeeper allowed $\mathrm{d}$ per cent discount on $\mathrm{A}$ and $(\mathrm{d}+18)$ per cent discount on $\mathrm{B}$, so selling price of both the phones becomes equal. If the shopkeeper made a profit of $20$ per cent on $\mathrm{A}$ and $25$ per cent on $\mathrm{B}$, the profit made on $\mathrm{B}$ is $₹ 384$ more than that of $\mathrm{A}$, then find the cost price of $\mathrm{A}$ and $\mathrm{B}$ is?

A man bought a scooter and a car. He sold both of them at $30$ per cent profit. The scooter was sold at $10$ per cent profit. Cost price of the scooter is $\frac{1}{10}$ of the cost of the car. Marked price of a car is $₹ 4,50,000$. If he bought the scooter at a discount of $10$ per cent on marked price, then what will be the ratio of marked price of the scooter to the selling price of the car?

Dhaniram is a bread seller who marked up price of each bread packet by $150$ per cent above and allowed a discount of $40$ per cent and made a profit of $₹ 30$ on each bread packet. If he allows $37.5$ per cent discount on each packet, then find how much profit he gets on selling $75$ bread packets.

CP of two books is the same. One is sold at $15$ per cent profit and the other for $₹ 4,800$ more than the first. If the net profit is $20$ per cent, then find the CP of each book is

A manufacturer makes TV s for earning a profit of $50$ per cent by selling each TV at its marked price. But while transporting to the showroom, $20$ per cent of the TV was completely broken and could not be sold. $20$ per cent of the TV was slightly damaged and could be sold at $90$ per cent of the cost price. The remaining $60$ per cent of the TV was sold at the marked price. What is the percentage profit in the whole consignment?