Quiz Discussion

By selling 12 oranges for a rupee, a man loses 20%. How many for a rupee should he sell to get a gain of 20%?

• 1]

  5

• 2]

  8

• 3]

  10

• 4]

  15

A person purchases 90 clocks and sells 40 clocks at a gain of 10% and 50 clocks at a gain of 20%. If he sold all of them at a uniform profit of 15%, then he would have got Rs. 40 less. The cost price of each clock is 

• 1]

  Rs. 50

• 2]

  Rs. 60

• 3]

  Rs. 80

• 4]

  Rs. 90

A shopkeeper sells two watches for Rs. 308 each. On one he gets 12% profit and on the other 12 % loss. His profit or loss in the entire transaction was :

• 1]

  Neither Profit , Nor Loss

• 2]

  11/25 % Loss

• 3]

  1* 11/25 % Profit

• 4]

  3* 2/25 % Loss

If selling price is doubled, the profit triples. Find the profit percent.

• 1]

  66*2/3

• 2]

  100

• 3]

  105*1/3

• 4]

  120

The percentage profit earned by selling an article for Rs. 1920 is equal to the percentage loss incurred by selling the same article for Rs. 1280. At what price should the article be sold to make 25% profit?

• 1]

  Rs. 2000

• 2]

  Rs. 2200

• 3]

  Rs. 2400

• 4]

  Data inadequate

A shopkeeper expects a gain of 22.5% on his cost price. If in a week, his sale was of Rs. 392, what was his profit?

• 1]

  Rs. 18.20

• 2]

  Rs. 70

• 3]

  Rs. 72

• 4]

  Rs. 88.25

If the cost price of 12 pens is equal to the selling price of 8 pens, the gain percent is : 

• 1]

  25%

• 2]

  33*1/3 %

• 3]

  50%

• 4]

  66*2/3 %

100 oranges are bought at the rate of Rs.350 and sold at the rate of Rs.48 per dozen. The percentage of profit or loss is:

• 1]

  14 * 2/7 % gain

• 2]

  15% gain

• 3]

  14 * 2/7 % loss

• 4]

  15% loss

Sam purchased 20 dozens of toys at the rate of Rs. 375 per dozen. He sold each one of them at the rate of Rs. 33. What was his percentage profit?

• 1]

  3.5

• 2]

  4.5

• 3]

  5.6

• 4]

  6.5

A man gains 20% by selling an article for a certain price. If he sells it at double the price, the percentage of profit will be

• 1]

  130%

• 2]

  140%

• 3]

  150%

• 4]

  160%