RPH Editorial Team Solutions for Exercise 1: EXERCISE

If an article is sold at a loss of $34.8\%$ instead of at a loss of $17.8\%$ then the seller gets $19.50$ less. The $\mathrm{CP}$ of article is _____.

A motorcycle is sold at a gain of $18\%$. If it had been sold for $490$ more, $23\%$ would have been gained. The cost of price of the motor cycle is _____.

A man buys two horses for $Rs. 1350,$ he sells one as to lose $6\%$ and the other so as to gain $7.5\%$ on the whole he neither gains nor loses. What is the cost of first and second horse respectively?

$\mathrm{K}$ sells a book to $\mathrm{L}$ at a gain of $20\%$, $\mathrm{L}$ sells it to $\mathrm{M}$ at a gain of $10\%$ and $\mathrm{M}$ sells it to $\mathrm{N}$ at a gain of $12.5\%$ If $\mathrm{N}$ pays $\mathrm{Rs}. 14.85,$ then what is the selling price of this book for $\mathrm{K}$ ?

Each of the two cars is sold at the same price. A profit of $10\%$ is made on the first and loss of $7\%$ is made on the second. What is the combined loss or gain?

A man purchased two cows for $\mathrm{Rs}.500$. He sells the first $12\%$ loss and the second at $8\%$ gain. In this bargain, he neither gains nor losses. Find the selling price of each cow.

An article is marked for sale at $\mathrm{Rs}. 275$ The shopkeeper allows a discount of $5\%$ on the marked price. His net profit is $4.5\%$. What did the shopkeeper pay for the article?

A shopkeeper bought $15 \mathrm{kg}$ rice at the rate of $\mathrm{Rs}. 9.50$ per $\mathrm{kg}$ and $25 \mathrm{kg}$ rice at the rate of $\mathrm{Rs}. 7.25$ per $kg$. He sold mixture of both types of rice at the rate $Rs. 10.50$ per $kg$. In this transaction his profit is _____.