Profit, Loss and Discount Questions
Practise questions that combine marked price, selling price, discounts, and profit or loss. Understand how successive calculations affect the final price and learn reliable methods for solving retail-based arithmetic problems.
27 questions
- A pharmacy earns 25% profit on marked price after offering a 20% discount. What is the cost price if the marked price is ₹400?
- Two items sold at ₹500 each. One at 25% gain, other at 25% loss. What is the overall result?
- A shopkeeper marks a shirt at ₹1200 and offers a discount of 15%. He marks a pair of trousers at ₹2000 and offers a discount of 25%. If a customer…
- A product is sold for ₹8,800 after a 20% discount on its marked price y. Find y.
- A manufacturer sells an item to a wholesale dealer at a profit of 10%. The wholesaler sells it to a retailer at a profit of 20%. If the retailer pays…
- A textile trader invested ₹1,00,000: half in designer sarees (sold at 20% profit) and half in casual wear (sold at 10% loss) during a festive season to clear inventory. What…
- A shopkeeper bought 5 watches for ₹6000. He sold each at ₹1100. Find the overall profit or loss percentage.
- A tin of cheese is marked at ₹1050 and is offered at an 11% discount. A tin of butter is marked at ₹1750 and is offered at a 32% discount.…
- An item with a marked price of ₹x was sold for ₹4,400 after a discount of 12%. Find the value of x.
- Given that the cost price of 20 items equals the selling price of x items, and the profit percentage is 25%, determine the value of x.
- X and Y started a business with investments in the ratio 5: 4. After 8 months, X withdrew his entire amount. If the profit at the end of the year…
- After deducting 25% from the marked price, the item's selling price is ₹7,200. If the discount is raised to 30%, what will the selling price be?
- If a person purchases items worth ₹2,050 at a discount rate of 26%, what will be the total savings?
- If the original price of the items is ₹2,050 and the discount is 26%, what will be the final price after the discount?
- A shopkeeper marks up his goods by 20% and then offers a discount of 10%. If the cost price is ₹500, what is the selling price?
- The marked prices of a pen and pencil are in the ratio of 5:6. The shopkeeper gives an 18% discount on the pen. If the total discount on both the…
- A shopkeeper sells an article at a discount of 12%. Had he given only a 5% discount, he would have earned ₹504 more as profit. If the cost price of…
- A seller marks his goods 32% above their cost price but allows a 16% discount for cash payment. His percentage of profit when sold in cash is:
- A vase has a marked price of Rs. 550. Simran pays Rs. 350 for it because she got 2 successive discounts, one of 20% and the other of:
- A trader sells two articles at ₹960 each. On one, he gains 20%, and on the other, he loses 20%. What is his overall profit or loss percentage?
- A trader buys 200 mixed stationery boxes at a rate of ₹120 each. He spends ₹1,800 on transportation and packaging. He sells 100 boxes at ₹150 each and the remaining…
- An item is marked at 20% more than its cost price by the retailer. He then offers a 10% discount. Determine the shopkeeper's percentage of profit.
- The difference between the selling price and the cost price of an article is ₹500. If the profit percentage is 25%, what is the selling price of the article?
- In a sale, a shopkeeper offers a 15% discount on clothes if you buy more than two items. Priya buys four shirts for ₹2040. If the shopkeeper still makes a…
- A bicycle is sold for ₹1800 at a loss of 10%. At what price should it be sold to gain 15%?