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The marked price of a mobile cover is 40 per cent above its cost price. When marked price is increased by 25 per cent and selling price is increased by 25 per cent, the profit is getting trebled. If the original marked price was  1,078, the original selling price was

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Important Questions on Profit, Loss and Discount

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Due to market rise, the trader finds that ifhe doubles the cost price and trebles the selling price, then profit would become 80 per cent. What is the present profit percentage?
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A company retail outlet gives 8 per cent discount on printed price of the shirt and the outlet gets 31 per cent commission from the company. His profit per cent is
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A TV seller allows a discount of 16 per cent and a cash discount of 717% on the marked price. Then he gets a profit of 4 per cent on the cost. How much above the cost price he had marked the price?
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If a commission at the rate of 10 per cent is given to a given to a bookseller on the marked price ofa book by the publisher, the publisher gains 20 per cent. If the commission is increased to 15 per cent, then the gain per cent would be
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The marked price of an article is  5,000. But due to a special festive offer a certain percentage of discount is declared. Mr. X availed this opportunity and bought the article at reduced price. He then sold it at  5,000 and thereby made a profit of 1110% The percentage of discount allowed was 
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A trader sold an article at a gain of 20 per cent. Had he purchased it for 40 per cent more and sold for  24 less, he would have incurred a loss of 20 per cent. What is the cost price of the article?
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An article is sold at a certain price. If it is sold at half the previous selling price, then there is a loss of 2512%. The profit after selling the price at the previous selling price was
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Mr. Poddar sells speakers to a retailer at 25 per cent discount, but he charges 10 per cent extra on discounted price. The retailer sells it for  231 more, thereby earning a profit of 20 per cent. What was the marked price by Mr. Poddar?