Embibe Experts Solutions for Chapter: Arithmetic, Exercise 5: Exercise 5

A tradesman gives $4\%$ discount on the marked price and gives$1$ article free for buying every $15$ articles and thus gains $35\%$. The marked price is increased above the cost price by _____

Half of $100$ articles were sold at a profit of$20\%$ and the rest at a profit of $40\%$. If all the articles had been sold at a profit of $25\%$, the total profit would have been $₹ 100$ less than earlier profit. The cost price of each article was$:$

Gulnaaz bought some bananas at the rate of 6 per rupee. She bought the same number of bananas at the rate of 3 per rupee. She mixes both the types and sells at 10 for Rs. 3. In this business, she bears a profit of Rs. 5. What is the total number of bananas she bought?

By selling $25$ metres of cloth a trader gains the selling price of $5$ meters of cloth. The gain of the trader in % is -

An article is sold at $10\%$ loss had it been sold for $₹30$ more the loss would have been $5\%$only what is the cost price of the article?

A sells an article to B at a profit of$20\%$ . B sells it to C at a profit of $15\%$. C paid $₹190$ more than it cost A. What profit did A make?

By selling $18$ chocolates, a vendor loses the selling price of $2$ chocolates , Find his loss percent ?

A man buys two cycles for a total cost of $₹900$. By selling one cycle at a loss of $20\%$ and the other at a profit of $25\%$, he makes a profit of $₹90$ on the whole transaction. Find the cost price of a cycle which is costlier than the other.