Profit-Percentage and Loss-Percentage
Profit-Percentage and Loss-Percentage: Overview
This topic explains concepts such as Profit or Loss as a Percentage, etc.
Important Questions on Profit-Percentage and Loss-Percentage
The average height of students in a class is , out of which students have an average height of . Find the average height of the remaining students.

A trader faces 20 percent loss if he sells his commodity for ₹ 480. If he wants to accure 20 percent profit, then at what price he should sell it?

A man bought a horse and a carriage for . He sold the horse at a gain of and the carriage at a loss of . He gained on his whole transaction. The cost price of the horse was:

If the selling price of items is the same as the cost price of items, then find the percentage profit/loss?

A man purchased a table and a chair for . He sold the table at a profit of and the chair at a profit of . so in this way his total profit was . Then Find the cost price of the table in ?

Find the profit or loss percent:
and

Sudhir bought an almirah for and spent on its transportation. He sold it for . Find his gain per cent.

By selling a wall clock of a loss of a shopkeeper makes a loss of . Find its cost price and selling price.

A dishonest shopkeeper markup the price of his goods by and gives a discount of to the customer. Besides, he also cheats both his supplier and his buyer by grams while buying or selling kilogram. Then, find the percentage profit earned by the shopkeeper?

An unscrupulous businessman marks his goods up by and gives a discount of. Apart from this, he cheats his customers by grams. What is his net profit/loss in percentage?

When an article is sold for , there is a profit of . When the same article is sold for , profit is . What is the value of is the value of ?

Sudha sold an article to Renu for at a loss of . Renu spent a sum of on its transportation and sold it to Raghu at a price which would have given Sudha a profit of . The percentage of gain for Renu is:

A shopkeeper bought of rice at a discount of . Besides rice was offered free to him on the purchase of every rice. If he sells the rice at a marked price, his profit percentage will be :

Ram bought pieces of mangoes at the rate of each. He sold mangoes at the rate of each, another pieces at the rate of each and finally last mangoes at the rate of each. Find his overall profit or loss.

A dealer sold sewing machines for with a profit of For how much should he sell 8 machines if he intends to earn profit?

A shopkeeper given Consecutive discount of On a watch, after which the sell the product at a profit if On the C.P then the percentage of profit the shopkeeper would have earned it he has given the discount of. and Only.

The profit earned by selling an article for is double the loss incurred when the same article is sold for . What would be the selling price of the article if it is sold at profit?

In terms of percentage profit, which among the following is the best transaction?

An article is bought for and sold for . The gain percent is?

A shopkeeper marked the price of an article at 50% above the cost price and give a discount of 25% on the marked price. Find the approximate difference between profit percent calculated on cost price and selling price.
