Aptitude MCQ Quiz Hub

Aptitude Profit and Loss Set 1

Choose a topic to test your knowledge and improve your Aptitude skills

1. A cycle is bought for Rs.900 and sold for Rs.1080, find the gain percent?




2. An article is bought for Rs.675 and sold for Rs.900, find the gain percent?




3. An article is bought for Rs.600 and sold for Rs.500, find the loss percent?




4. The cost price of a radio is Rs.1500 and it was sold for Rs.1230, find the loss %?




5. A watch was sold at a loss of 10%. If it was sold for Rs.140 more, there would have been a gain of 4%. What is the cost price?




6. The sale price sarees listed for Rs.400 after successive discount is 10% and 5% is?




7. The list price of an article is Rs.65. A customer pays Rs.56.16 for it. He was given two successive discounts, one of them being 10%. The other discount is?




8. A single discount equivalent to the discount series of 20%, 10% and 5% is?




9. What profit percent is made by selling an article at a certain price, if by selling at 2/3rd of that price, there would be a loss of 20%?




10. A trader bought a car at 20% discount on its original price. He sold it at a 40% increase on the price he bought it. What percent of profit did he make on the original price?




11. A man sells a horse for Rs.800 and loses something, if he had sold it for Rs.980, his gain would have been double the former loss. Find the cost price of the horse?




12. By selling a house for Rs.45000, it was found that 1/8 of the outlay was gained, what ought the selling to price to have been in order to have lost 5 p.c?




13. If a man lost 4% by selling oranges at the rate of 12 a rupee at how many a rupee must he sell them to gain 44%?




14. By selling 150 mangoes, a fruit-seller gains the selling price of 30 mangoes. Find the gain percent?




15. The C.P of 10 pens is equal to the S.P of 12 pens. Find his gain % or loss%?




16. The C.P of 15 books is equal to the S.P of 18 books. Find his gain% or loss%?




17. By selling 12 pencils for a rupee a man loses 20%. How many for a rupee should he sell in order to gain 20%?




18. The cost price of 13 articles is equal to the selling price of 11 articles. Find the profit percent?




19. By selling 50 meters of cloth. I gain the selling price of 15 meters. Find the gain percent?




20. Ram sold two bicycles, each for Rs.990. If he made 10% profit on the first and 10% loss on the second, what is the total cost of both bicycles?




21. A tradesman by means of his false balance defrauds to the extent of 20%? in buying goods as well as by selling the goods. What percent does he gain on his outlay?




22. A dishonest dealer professes to sell goods at the cost price but uses a weight of 800 grams per kg, what is his percent?




23. Ram professes to sell his goods at the cost price but he made use of 900 grms instead of a kg, what is the gain percent?




24. A dishonest dealer professes to sell goods at the cost price but uses a false weight and gains 25%. Find his false weight age?




25. A man purchases 8 pens for Rs.9 and sells 9 pens for Rs.8, how much profit or loss does he make?




26. A reduction of 25% in the price of oil enables a house wife to obtain 5kgs more for Rs.800, what is the reduced price for kg?




27. A reduction of 20% in the price of salt enables a lady to obtain 10kgs more for Rs.100, find the original price per kg?




28. A man buys two articles for Rs.1980 each and he gains 10% on the first and loses 10% on the next. Find his total gain or loss percent?




29. A man sells two articles for Rs.3600 each and he gains 30% on the first and loses 30% on the next. Find his total gain or loss?




30. I bought two books; for Rs.480. I sold one at a loss of 15% and other at a gain of 19% and then I found each book was sold at the same price. Find the cost of the book sold at a loss?




31. A man buys an article and sells it at a profit of 20%. If he had bought it at 20% less and sold it for Rs.75 less, he could have gained 25%. What is the cost price?




32. A person bought an article and sold it at a loss of 10%. If he had bought it for 20% less and sold it for Rs.75 less, he could have gained 25%. What is the cost price?




33. If goods be purchased for Rs.840 and one-fourth be sold at a loss of 20% at what gain percent should the remainder be sold so as to gain 20% on the whole transaction?




34. A dealer purchased an article at 3/4 of its list price and sold 50% more than the list price. Find his gain percent?




35. At what price must an article costing Rs.47.50 be marked in order that after deducting 5% from the list price. It may be sold at a profit of 25% on the cost price?




36. At what price must an article costing Rs.47.50 be marked in order that after deducting 5% from the list price. It may be sold at a profit of 25% on the cost price?




37. A trader marked the price of a car 20% above the cost price and allowed the purchaser 5% discount on the marked price there by gained Rs.8400. Find the cost price of the car?




38. A trader marked the price of the T.V. 30% above the cost price of the T.V. and gave the purchaser 10% discount on the marked price, thereby gaining Rs.340. Find the cost price of the T.V?




39. A person buys an article at Rs.500. At what price should he sell the article so as to make a profit of 20%?




40. By selling an article at Rs.600, a profit of 25% is made. Find its cost price?




41. By selling an article at Rs.800, a shopkeeper makes a profit of 25%. At what price should he sell the article so as to make a loss of 25%?




42. A shopkeeper sells two articles at Rs.1000 each, making a profit of 20% on the first article and a loss of 20% on the second article. Find the net profit or loss that he makes?




43. A shopkeeper buys mangoes at the rate of 4 a rupee and sells them at 3 a rupee. Find his net profit or loss percent?




44. A dishonest dealer professes to sell his goods at Cost Price but still gets 20% profit by using a false weight. What weight does he substitute for a kilogram?




45. The owner of a furniture shop charges his customer 24% more than the cost price. If a customer paid Rs. 8339 for a computer table, then what was the cost price of the computer table?




46. A person purchased a TV set for Rs. 16000 and a DVD player for Rs. 6250. He sold both the items together for Rs. 31150. What percentage of profit did he make?




47. Ramu bought an old car for Rs. 42000. He spent Rs. 13000 on repairs and sold it for Rs. 64900. What is his profit percent?




48. A trader sells 85 meters of cloth for Rs. 8925 at the profit of Rs. 15 per metre of cloth. What is the cost price of one metre of cloth?




49. A shopkeeper loses 15%,if an article is sold for Rs. 102. What should be the selling price of the article to gain 20%?




50. A shopkeeper loses 15%,if an article is sold for Rs. 102. What should be the selling price of the article to gain 20%?




51. If an article is sold at 19% profit instead of 12% profit, then the profit would be Rs. 105 more. What is the cost price?




52. Raman mixed 24 kg of butter at Rs. 150 per kg with 36 kg butter at the rate of Rs. 125 per kg. At what price per kg should he sell the mixture to make a profit of 40% in the transaction?




53. Vijay bought 160 shirts at the rate of Rs. 225 per shirt. The transport expenditure was Rs. 1400. He paid an octroi at the rate of Rs. 1.75 per shirt and labour charges were Rs. 320. What should be the selling price of one shirt, if he wants a profit of 20%?