profit and loss test 4

1. A man bought 5 cows and 13 buffalo. for Rs. 51,000 He sold cows at 15% profit and buffalos at 10% loss. In this way he got a profit of Rs. 1150. Find the cost price of 2 cows and 3 buffaloss.

2. If I sell a horse for Rs. 6200 and a cow for Rs.2600 than I got 10% profit on the cost of both. if I sell the horse for Rs. 6000 and the cow at its cost price than I get a profit of 12 1 2 % find the cost price of both the horse and the cow.

3. A man annouces 25% discount on the marked price of a bicycle and still makes a profit of 20% . If he had bought it for Rs.1200. Find the marked price of bi-cycle -

4. A trader sells one type of sugar at 10 rupees per kg. and suffered a loss of 20%. While he sells the other type of sugar at Rs.15 per kg. and makes a profit of 25%. Now he mixes both type of sugar in equal proportion and sells the mixture at 18 rupees per kg. Find his profit and loss now -

5. A shopkeeper bought 25 metres cloth for RS .20 and he sold 20 metres cloth for RS .25. Find the profit or less percentage.

6. A machine when was sold at 1230 the seller incurred a loss of 18%. If he wants to make a profit of 6 1 % 4 at what rate he must sell the machine ?

7. A cow was sold at 15% profit. If it was sold for `1200 less the seller incurred a loss of 5%. If he want to make a profit of 12 1/2 % at what rate he must sell it?

8. The list price of t.v is 6400 rupees and is sold to a retailer at two successive discount of 25% and 15% respectively. The retailer wants to print a price at the t.v in such a way that after allowing a discount of 10% at new marked price he can earn 20% profit. Find the new marked price.

9. A person bought a horse and a cart for 5000 rupees. He sold horse at 20% profit while the cart at 10% loss in all he was able to make a profit of 2%. Find the difference of cost price of the horse and cart.

10. A man sold a watch at 20% profit. Had he bought at 10% less and sold it at 75 rupees less, he would have earned 1/6 of the new cost price. If the wants to make a profit of 40% at initial cost price then find the selling price of the watch.

11. Bhuvnesh sold a radio at 8% loss. Had he bought it at 10% less and sold at 20% profit, he would have gained 5120 rupees more than before. Find the initial cost price of the radio.

12. A company gives a 25% discount on the list price of its products and made a 25% profit. Sometime later company increases its poduction cost by 10% and issuse a new list price which is 25% more than the previous one. If the company continues to allow the discount as before, find the profit percentage at new cost

13. A man bought 40 liters milk at 12 rupee per litre. He spent 20 rupees and got made 8 kg. cream and 36 litres toned milk. He sold cream at 60 rupees per kg and toned milk at 6 rupees per litre. Find his profit percentage .

14. A trader calculates his profit on C.P. while the second calculates on S.P. They both sold their commodities at 3760 rupees each and both claim 17 1 2 % profit. Find the difference of the actual profit earned by them.

15. If a person sells an article at 10% profit instead of 5% loss he gets Rs. 75 more find the cost price of the article.

16. A man sold two horses for Rs. 32500 each. He earned a profit of 15% an the first horse while incured a 15% loss on the second horse. find his total loss or profit percentage during whole transaction.

17. A fruitseller bought some bananas at the rate of 6 for Rs. 15 and sold all at the rate of 4 for Rs. 12. Find his profit or loss percentage.

18. A sold an article to B at 15% profit and B Sold it to C at 10% loss . If C has paid Rs. 517.50 for the article. Find the cost at which A bought it ?

19. The profit made on an article selling at 900 is double than the loss incurred when the article is sold for Rs. 600. find the cost price of the article

20. out of total 100 articles half were sold at 20% profit and the remaining were sold at 40% profit. Had all articles were sold at 25% profit, there would have a profit of Rs. 100 less than before. Find cost price of each article.