Profit-Percentage and Loss-Percentage

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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

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The average height of 74 students in a class is 168 cm, out of which 42 students have an average height of 170 cm. Find the average height of the remaining 32 students.

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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?

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A man bought a horse and a carriage for  40000. He sold the horse at a gain of 10% and the carriage at a loss of 5%. He gained 1% on his whole transaction. The cost price of the horse was:

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If the selling price of 500 items is the same as the cost price of 600 items, then find the percentage profit/loss?

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A man purchased a table and a chair for 1300. He sold the table at a profit of 20% and the chair at a profit of 15%. so in this way his total profit was 23 13%. Then Find the cost price of the table in  ?

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Find the profit or loss percent:

SP= 755.50 and CP= 530

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Sudhir bought an almirah for 13600 and spent 400 on its transportation. He sold it for 16800. Find his gain per cent.

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By selling a wall clock of a loss of 20% a shopkeeper makes a loss of 80. Find its cost price and selling price.

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A dishonest shopkeeper markup the price of his goods by 20% and gives a discount of 10% to the customer. Besides, he also cheats both his supplier and his buyer by 120grams while buying or selling 1kilogram. Then, find the percentage profit earned by the shopkeeper?

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An unscrupulous businessman marks his goods up by 30% and gives a discount of 5%. Apart from this, he cheats his customers by 100 grams. What is his net profit/loss in percentage?

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When an article is sold for 720, there is a profit of x%. When the same article is sold for 750, profit is x+5%. What is the value of is the value of x?

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Sudha sold an article to Renu for 576 at a loss of 20%. Renu spent a sum of 224 on its transportation and sold it to Raghu at a price which would have given Sudha a profit of 24%. The percentage of gain for Renu is:

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A shopkeeper bought 80 kg of rice at a discount of 10%. Besides 1 kg rice was offered free to him on the purchase of every 20 kg rice. If he sells the rice at a marked price, his profit percentage will be :

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Ram bought 60 pieces of mangoes at the rate of 18 each. He sold 20 mangoes at the rate of 24 each, another 20 pieces at the rate of 20 each and finally 20 last mangoes at the rate of 14 each. Find his overall profit or loss.

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A dealer sold 6 sewing machines for Rs.63000 with a profit of 5%. For how much should he sell 8 machines if he intends to earn 15% profit?

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A shopkeeper given 4 Consecutive discount of 5%, 10%, 15% and 20% On a watch, after which the sell the product at a profit if 12% On the C.P then the percentage of profit the shopkeeper would have earned it he has given the discount of. 11% and 12% Only.

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The profit earned by selling an article for 730/- is double the loss incurred when the same article is sold for 265/-. What would be the selling price of the article if it is sold at 15% profit?

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

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An article is bought for Rs.800 and sold for Rs.900. The gain percent is?

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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.