Shyam Saraf and Abhilasha Swarup Solutions for Exercise 1: EXERCISE

A man gains 20% on selling the snick at some price. Find his profit percentage if he increases his S.P. by 50%.

A shopkeeper purchases goods at a discount of $50\%$ on the MP. What is the maximum discount that he can offer to a customer on the MP if he wants to make a profit of $20\%$?

A shopkeeper sells goods by marking the price $20\%$ more than his rate of purchase. He also uses a balance which is faulty, and thus he makes a profit of $44\%$. What will the balance read if a weight of $800 g$ is placed on it?

The loss incurred by selling an article at $₹900$ is $37.5\%$ of the profit earned by selling the article at $₹1,120$. Find the C.P. of the article.

Articles are purchased at a rate of five articles for $Rs. 6$ but sold at $Rs. 5$ per four articles. Find the profit percentage.

A trader sold one-third of his goods at a profit percentage of $20\%$ and the rest at a profit percentage of $15\%$. Find his overall profit percentage.

Sweta sold two purses for $\mathrm{Rs}. 9,100$ each. She sells one at a profit of $30\%$ and sells the other at a loss of $30\%$. Find her overall loss.

Sweta sells two purses for $₹7200$ each. She sells one for a profit of $20\%$ and the other at a loss of $10\%$. Find her overall loss (in $₹$).