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Two articles A and B with the same marked price were sold at 15% and 12% discounts, respectively. Percentage of the profit earned on articles A and B was 6.25% and 20%, respectively. The cost price of article B was 160 less than the cost price of article A. Find the marked price of each article?

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Important Questions on Profit and Loss

MEDIUM

Vinod purchased a Maruti van for 196000. Rate of fall of price per year of this van is 1427%. What will be its price after two years?

EASY
A man buys a cycle for Rs.1400 and sells it at a loss of 15%. What is the selling price of the cycle?
MEDIUM
Nita sold an article for Rs. 220 and earned a profit of 10%. At what cost should she sell to earn a profit of 30%?
EASY

A farmer purchased a piece of land for Rs. 18 lakh and spent Rs. 3 lakh for registration, fencing etc. He sold it for Rs. 24.57 lakh. Find his profit in percentage.

1. 15%
2. 14.15%
3. 16.5%
4. 17%

MEDIUM
A trader marks up his goods by 50%. However, he can sell only-third of his stock at this price. The half of the remaining stock is sold at a discount of 7.14% and the remaining at a discount of 16.67%. Find the overall profit percentage of the trader.
EASY

A person purchased a table for 11000 and sold it for 13500. What is his gain percentage?

1. 19.8%
2. 20.6%
3. 22.7%
4. 22%

MEDIUM
A seller sold 34th of his goods at 24% profit. He sold the rest of the goods at cost price. What is percentage of his profit ?
EASY

Successive discounts of 20% and 10% are given on an item marked at Rs.700. Find the selling price.

MEDIUM
The cost price of the two articles is the same, a trade man got profit of 40% on the first article, the selling price of the second article is 25% less than the first article, then find overall profit per cent.  
MEDIUM
A shopkeeper sold an article at 20% discount and earned a profit of 4%. By what percent is the marked price of the article more than the cost price of the article?
EASY
Shyam sold a bag for Rs. 598.9 at a gain of 13%. What was its cost price?
EASY

A shopkeeper bought a table marked at 200 at successive discounts of 10% and 15% respectively. He spent 7 on transport and sold the table for 208. What will be his profit percentage?

EASY
A T.V. is bought for Rs. 42,000 and sold for Rs. 49,140. What is the gain percent?
MEDIUM

Karan purchased one dozen pens for 120 and sold a pack of $3$ pens for Rs. 35 each. What is his gain? 

1.16.67%
2. 20%
3.15%
4.33.33%

MEDIUM
A shopkeeper sold a shirt for Rs. 728 at a loss of 9%. If he had sold for Rs. 792, what would have been the gain/loss percent?
MEDIUM
Pankaj sells a trouser at a loss of 10%. If he buys it for 20% less price and sells it for Rs.9 more, he gains 15%. What is the cost price (in Rs) of the trouser? 
EASY
By selling a bicycle for 2,850, a shopkeeper gains 14%. If the profit is reduced to 8%, then the selling price will be _____.
EASY
A shopkeeper bought 30 kg of wheat at the rate of 45 per kg. He sold 40% of the total quantity at the rate of 50 per kg. Approximately, at what price per kg should he sell the remaining quantity to make 25% overall profit?
EASY
A trader sells two cows for 8400 each, neither losing nor gaining in total. If he sold one of the cows at a gain of 20%, the other is sold at a loss of _____.
MEDIUM
'A' bought a certain quantity of oranges at a total cost of Rs.1200. He sold 13rd of those oranges at 20% loss. If A earns at overall profits of 10%, at what profit percent did A sell the rest of the oranges?