CAT QUANT PROFIT & LOSS 4

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Question 1:

A dishonest dealer pretends to sell at the cost price but earns a profit of 25% by under weighing. What weight must he be using for 1 kg?

Question 2:

A man buys two goats at Rs.120 each. He sells one at 25% gain and the other at 25% loss. How much is his profit or loss?

Question 3:

What is the cost price of an article, if a loss of 16% is incurred by selling it for Rs.168?

Question 4:

An increase, in the cost price of an article, by 22% leads to the value of Rs.61. What was the original cost price of the article?

Question 5:

By what percent should the cost price of an article be marked up such that even after allowing a discount of 50%, a profit of 50% is made?

Question 6:

A dealer offers three successive discounts of 50%, 20% and 10% on an article. What is the single effective discount rate?

Question 7:

When certain quantity of sugar is sold at Rs.11 per kg, the gain is 10%. If the total gain is Rs.50, what is the quantity of sugar sold?

Question 8:

A person sold his watch for Rs.75 and got a percentage of profit equal to the cost price. The cost price of the watch is

Question 9:

‘ A’ sold a house to Bat a gain of 10% and B sold it to Cat a gain of 20%. If C paid Rs.264000 for it, at what price must A have purchased it

Question 10:

Two successive discounts of 30% and 25% are equivalent to a single discount of
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