Sarvesh K Verma Solutions for Chapter: Profit, Loss and Discount, Exercise 3: CAT - Test Questions Helping You Bell the CAT

$6\%$ more is gained by selling a coat for $₹1425$ than by selling it for $₹1353$. The cost price of the coat is :

A reduction of $20\%$in the price of sugar enables a person to purchase$6$$kg$ more for $₹240$. What is the original price per $kg$ of sugar?

A dishonest dealer purchases goods at $20\%$ discount of the cost price of Rs x and also cheats his wholesaler by getting $20\%$ extra through false weighing, per $\mathrm{kg}$. Then, he marks up his goods by $80\%$ of x, but he gives a discount of $25\%$ besides he cheats his customer by weighing $10\%$ less than the required. What is his overall profit percentage?

An egg seller sells his eggs only in the packs of $3$ eggs, $6$eggs, $9$eggs, $12$eggs etc., but the rate is not necessarily uniform. One day Raju (which is not the same egg seller) purchased at the rate of $3$ eggs for a rupee and the next hour he purchased equal number of eggs at the rate of $6$eggs for a rupee. Next day he sold all the eggs at the rate of $9$eggs for ₹ $2$. What is his percentage profit or loss?

A merchant earns $25\%$ profit in general. Once his $25\%$ consignment was abducted forever by some goondas. Trying to compensate his loss he sold the rest amount by increasing his selling price by $20\%$. What is the new percentage profit or loss?

A milkman purchases 10 litres of milk at ₹ $7$per litre and forms a mixture by adding freely available water which constitutes $16.66\%$ of the mixture. Later on he replaced the mixture by some freely available water and thus the ratio of milk is to water is $2: 1$. He then sold the new mixture at cost price of milk and replaced amount of mixture at twice the cost of milk, then what is the profit percentage?

Profit on selling $10$candles equals selling price of $3$bulbs. While loss on selling $10$bulbs equals selling price of $4$candles. Also profit percentage equals to the loss percentage and cost of a candle is half of the cost of a bulb. What is the ratio of selling price of candle to the selling price of a bulb?

Cost price of two motorcycles is same. One is sold at a profit of $15\%$ and the other for ₹ $4800$ more than the first. If the net profit is $20\%$. Find the cost price of each motorcycle: