R. S. Aggarwal Solutions for Chapter: Profit and Loss, Exercise 1: EXERCISE 11A

A man buys an article and sells it at a loss of $10\%$. If he would have bought it for $20\%$ less and sold it for $₹55$ more, he would gain $40\%$. The cost price of the article is:
 

The cost prices of two types of tea are $₹ 180$ per kg and $₹ 200$ per kg respectively. On mixing them in the ratio $5 : 3$ the mixture is sold at $₹ 210$ per kg. In the whole transaction, the gain percent is :

By using a false weight, a dealer defrauds his customers by $10\%$ in the purchase and $10\%$ in selling. His gain per cent is :

A dealer professing to sell his goods at cost price, uses $900 \mathrm{gm}$ weight for $1 \mathrm{kg}$. His gain per cent is:

The price of an article was decreased by $25\%$ and its sale was increased by $30\%$. The change in the money obtained on its daily sale was:

The rate of sugar is increased by $25\%$. If a family wants to keep its expenditure the same as before, then by what percent its consumption has to be decreased ?

On an article, the manufacturer gains $10\%$, the wholesale dealer $15\%$, and the retailer $25\%$. If its retail price is $₹1265$, what is the cost of its production ?

A sold a watch to B at $20\%$ gain, B sold it to C at a loss of $10\%$. If C bought the watch for $₹216$, at what price did A purchase it ?