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A shopkeeper calculates percentage profit on the buying price and another on the selling price. What will be their difference in profits if both claim a profit of on goods sold for ?
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Important Questions on Profit & Loss
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A pharmaceutical company made strips of tablets at a cost of . The company gave away strips of tablets to doctors as free samples. A discount of was allowed on the printed price. Find the ratio of profit if the price is raised from to per strip and if at the latter price, samples to doctors were done away with. (New profit/old profit)
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A merchant makes a profit of by selling an article. What would be the percentage change in the profit percent had he paid less for it and the customer paid more for it?
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An article costing was marked above the cost price. After two successive discounts of the same percentage, the customer now pays . What would be the percentage change in profit had the price been increased by the same percentage twice successively instead of reducing it?
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Divya goes to buy fruits and after a lot of bargaining is able to get the price of a dozen apples reduced by from the initial price, thereby enabling her to get 1 apple extra for every rupee saved. (Getting no discount on the extra apple). What is the initial price of a dozen apples?
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The accounts of a company show sales of . The primary cost is of sales and trading cost accounts for of the gross profit. Gross profit is arrived at by excluding the primary cost plus the cost of advertising expenses of , director’s salary of per annum plus of annual sales as miscellaneous costs. Find the percentage profit (approx) on a capital investment of ?
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Jonny has two cycles and one rickshaw. The rickshaw is worth . If he sells the rickshaw along with the first cycle, he has an amount double that of the value of the second cycle. But if he decides to sell the rickshaw along with the second cycle, the amount received would be less than the value of first cycle by . What is the value of first cycle?
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David sells his Laptop to Goliath at a loss of who subsequently sells it to Hercules at a profit of . Hercules, after finding some defect in the laptop, returns it to Goliath but could recover only for every he had paid. Find the amount of Hercules’ loss if David had paid lakh for the laptop.
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A dishonest shopkeeper, at the time of selling and purchasing, weighs less and more per kilogram respectively. Find the percentage profit earned by treachery. (Assuming he sells at Cost Price)
