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Thursday, January 9, 2020

QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE - PROFIT AND LOSS SET 03

PROFIT AND LOSS

1. Reema buys dress for 10% less than its value and sells it for 10% more than its value. His gain or loss percent is:
A. no profit, no loss        B. 20% profit        C. less than 20% profit        D. more than 20% profit

2. A retailer buys 40 pens at the marked price of 36 pens from a wholesaler. If he sells these pens giving a discount of 1%, what is the profit percent?
A. 10%        B. 22%        C. 25%        D. 26%
 
3. Jimmy bought 25 apples for Rs.10 and sold them at the rate of 24 apples for Rs.12. What is the percentage of profit made by him?
A. 25%        B. 70%        C. 60%        D. 100%

4. 60% loss on cost price is what percent loss on selling price?
A. 28%        B. 38 %        C. 40%        D. 150%

5. A person, by selling an article at half of the list price incurs a loss of 20%. Find the profit percentage if he sells at the list price?
A. 25%        B. 60%        C. 5%        D. 30 %

6. The marked price of a sofa is 11,500 . The shopkeeper sold it by allowing 18% discount on the market price and earned 15% profit. What is the cost price of the sofa ?
A)8000        B)8100        C)8200        D)8400

7. The ratio of the cost price to the marked price of the furniture is 3:5 and ratio of percentage profit to the percentage discount is 5:3.What is the discount percentage?
A)    3.33        B)6.66        C)15.15        D)9.99

8. A shopkeeper expects the gain of 19% on his cost price. If in a week his sale was of Rs.462 , What was his profit ?
A)73        B)73.77        C)73.50        D)74

9. Prakash  bought a bike at 20% discount on its original price. He sold it with 30% increase on the price he bought it. The new sale price is by what percent more than the original price?
A)4%        B)5%        C)10%        D)22%

10. Shopkeeper marked the selling price of an article at 12% above the cost price . At the time of selling , he allow certain discount and suffer a loss of 2%.Find the discount percentage
A)12%        B)12.25%        C)12.5%    D)13%

Answer Keys:
1. D
2. A
3. A
4. D
5. B
6. C
7. D
8. B
9. A
10. C


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