Profit and Loss Exercise 2

Five kg of butter was bought by a shopkeeper for Rs 300. One kg becomes unsalable. He sells the remaining in such a way that on the whole he incurs a loss of 10%. At what price per kg was the butter sold?

A trader wants 10% profit on the selling price of a product whereas his expenses amount to 15% on sales. What should be his rate of mark up on an article costing Rs 9?

If a merchant estimates his profit as 20% of the selling price, what is his real profit per cent?

A man sells his car for Rs 5000 and loses something. Had he sold it for Rs 5600, his gain would have been double the former loss. Find the cost price.

A manufacturer of a certain item can sell all he can produce at the selling price of Rs 60 each. It costs him Rs 40 in materials and labour to produce each item and he has overhead expenses of Rs 3,000 per week in order to operate that plant. The number of units he should produce and sell in order to make a profit of at least Rs 1,000 per week is

A milkman buys milk contained in 10 vessels of equal size. If he sells his milk at Rs 5 a litre, he loses Rs 200; if he sells it at Rs 6 a litre, he would gain Rs 150 on the whole. Find the number of litres contained in each vessel.

A firm of readymade garments makes both men’s and women’s shirts. Its profit average is 6% of sales. Its profits in men’s shirts average 8% of sales and women’s shirts comprise 60% of output. The average profit per sales rupee in women’s shirts is :

The price of a jewel, passing through three hands, rises on the whole by 65%. If the first and the second sellers earned 20% and 25% profit respectively, find the percentage profit earned by the third seller.

A man sold his book for Rs 891, thereby gaining ¹⁄₁₀ of its cost price. Find his cost price.

A man sells an article at 5% profit. If he had bought it at 5% less and sold it for Re 1 less, he would have gained 10%. The cost price of the article is :

A manufacturer sells goods to an agent at a profit of 20%. The agent’s wholesale price to a shopkeeper is at a profit of 10% and the shopkeeper retails his goods at a profit of 12%. Find the retailer’s price of an article which had cost the manufacturer Rs 25.

A business man sells lot of shirts at a profit of 12½% and invests the proceeds to buy lot of pants, which he sells at a profit of 20%. If he makes a net profit of Rs 2700, the cost of the shirts was

A manufacturer sells a pair of glasses to a wholesale dealer at a profit of 18%. The wholesaler sells the same to a retailer at a profit of 20%. The retailer in turn sells them to a customer for Rs. 30.09, thereby earning a profit of 25%. The cost price of the manufacturer is

A shopkeeper sells a pair of sunglasses at a profit of 25%. If he has bought it at 25% less and sold it for Rs 10 less, then he would have gained 40%. Determine the cost price of the pair of sunglasses.

If by selling twelve note-books, the seller earns profit equal to the selling price of two note-books, what is his percentage profit?

A man sold 10 eggs for 5 rupees and gained 20%.How many eggs did he buy for 5 rupees?

A person sells 36 oranges per rupee and suffers a loss of 4%. Find how many oranges per rupee to be sold to have a gain of 8%?

Coconuts were purchased at Rs 150 per hundred and sold at Rs 2 per coconut. If 2000 coconuts were sold, what was the total profit made?

If 15 oranges are bought for a rupee, how many must be sold for a rupee to gain 25%?

The cost price of 20 articles is equal to the selling price of 25 articles. The loss percent in the transaction is

By selling 66 metres of cloth a person gains the cost price of 22 metres. Find the gain per cent.