Profit and Loss

A shopkeeper labeled the price of his articles so as to earn a profit of $30\%$ on the cost price. He then sold the articles by offering a discount of $10\%$ on the labeled price. What is the actual profit percent earned in the deal?

Read the following information and answer the given question.

The price of gold increased by $25$% from Jan $1$ to Feb $1$. On March $1$, it stood at $10$% less than Feb $1$. On March $1$, Bina came across a scheme having ${\frac{1}{8}}^{\mathrm{th}}$ gram of gold free for every gram of gold bought. Bina bought $\frac{80}{9}$ grams of gold, and got the specified quantity free. On April $1$, the price of gold stood at $33.33$% higher than March $1$ and Bina sold all the gold that she had. On May $1$, the price of gold reduced by $33.33$% and stood at Rs. $5000$ for $10$ grams.

What was Bina's profit percent after selling the gold?

A shopkeeper marks his goods  $30\%$ above his cost price but allows a discount of  $10\%$ at the time of sale. His gain is:

If the cost price of $20$articles is equal to the selling price of $16$articles, what is the percentage profit or loss made by the merchant?

Some articles were bought at $6$articles for Rs. $5$and sold at $5$articles for Rs. $6$. Gain percent is:

Simplification :

b - [b -(a+b) - {b - (b - a+b)} + 2a] = $?$

Arvind purchased a wrist watch with $30\%$ discount on the marked price. He sold it with $40\%$ profit on the price he bought. What was his percent loss on marked price?

Break-even analysis can be used for:

A shopkeeper sells notebooks at the rate of $₹45$ each and earns a commission of $4\%$. He also sells pencil boxes at the rate of $₹80$ each and earns a commission of $20\%$. How much amount of commission will he earn in two weeks if he sells $10$ notebooks and $6$ pencil boxes a day?

A shopkeeper buys $106 \mathrm{kg}$ and $94 \mathrm{kg}$ of two kinds of tea at the rate of $₹25.50 \mathrm{per} \mathrm{kg}$ and $₹30.50 \mathrm{per} \mathrm{kg}$. He mixes both kinds of tea and sells the mixture at $₹33.42 \mathrm{per} \mathrm{kg}$. What is his gain percent?

A dishonest trader claims that his selling price is equal to his cost price but weights $900$ gms. instead of $1$ kg. then his profit percent is -

By selling an article for $₹826$ merchant has a profit of $18\%$. But due to a fall in demand, he sells it at only $\frac{2}{3}$ of the profit per cent. Find his selling price.

Two vessels $A$ and $B$ contain spirit and water in the ratio $5:2$ and $7:6$ respectively. Find the ratio in which these mixtures can be mixed to obtain a new mixture in vessel $C$ containing spirit and water in the ratio $8:5$.

The cost of 5 kg of apple is equal to the cost of 12 kg of rice. The cost of 3 kg of flour is equal to one kg of rice. The cost of one kg. of flour is RS 17.50. What is the total cost of 3 kg of apple, 2 kg of rice and 4 kg of flour together ?

A car dealer sells a SUV for $\$39,000$ which represents a $25\%$ profit over the cost. What was the cost of the SUV to the dealer?

Raju purchased an item for $₹4,500$ and sold it at the gain of $15\%$. From that amount, he purchased another item and sold it at a loss of $10\%$. What is his overall gain/loss?

Which of the following numbers will completely divide$(3^{19} + 3^{20} + 3^{21} + 3^{22}) ?$

Veer calculates his profit percentage on the selling price, whereas Vipin calculates his profit percentage on the cost price. They find that the difference of their profits is $₹100$. If the selling price of both of them are the same and both of them get 20% profit, find their selling price?

The ratio of the cost price to the selling price of an article is $5:7$ and the ratio of marked price to the selling price of the same article is $4:3$. A shopkeeper marked $32$ units of such articles at the rate of $₹140$ each. If all the articles were sold out, how much profit (in ₹) did he earn?

Ram has a watch whose cost price is $₹900$; he marked his watch at a certain price and gave a certain discount. If the profit $\%$ and the discount $\%$ of the watch were equal and the marked price of the watch to be $₹1100$, then find the profit of the watch?