Profit And Loss Quiz for RRB PO & Clerk | Quiz-9

Profit And Loss for RRB PO & Clerk | Quiz-9

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1. A garment company declared 17% discount for wholesale buyers. Mr Sameer, a wholesaler bought garments from the company for Rs. 1660 after getting discount. He fixed up the selling price of garments in such a way that he earned a profit of 7% on original company price. What is the selling price?

(a) Rs. 2130

(b) Rs. 2140

(c) Rs. 2410

(d) Rs. 2310

(e) None of these

2. A dishonest cloth merchant sales cloth at the cost price but uses false scale which measures 80 cm in lieu of 1 m. Find his gain percentage?

(a) 20%

(b) 25%

(c) 15%

(d) 12%

(e) 22%

3. ‘P’ sells his watch at 20% profit to Q while Q sales it to R at a loss of 10%. If R pays Rs. 2160. Find at what price P sold watch to Q?  

(a) Rs. 2000

(b) Rs. 2200

(c) Rs. 2400

(d) Rs. 1800

(e) Rs. 2500

4. A trader gave a discount of 20% on marked price and sold the product at 25% profit. What should be the discount percent on marked price of product if trader wants to earn 40% profit?

(a) 10.4%

(b) 10.8%

(c) 11.2%

(d) 9.6%

(e) 12.4%

5. Price of an article is mark up by 100/3 and after that a discount of 15% given on each article if list price of article is 20 then find the total profit on selling of 17 such articles.  

(a) Rs. 34

(b) Rs. 2

(c) Rs. 12

(d) Rs. 26

(e) Rs. 15

6. A person brought some articles and sold 60% of them for the price he paid for total articles. He sold the remaining articles at 10% profit. Find his total profit percentage.

(a) 50%

(b) 46%

(c) 44%

(d) 10%

(e) 56%

7. The market price of an article was 40% more than its cost price. Rana was going to sell it at market price to a customer, but he showed Rana some defects in the article, due to which Rana gave him a discount of 28.57%. Next day he came again and showed Rana some more defects, hence he gave him another discount that was equal to 12.5% of the cost price. What was the approximate profit/loss to Rana ?

(a) Loss of 12.5%

(b) Profit of 12.5%

(c) Loss of 24.5%

(d) Profit of 22.5%

(e) Loss of 15%

8. John sells his laptop to Mark at a loss of 20% who subsequently sells it to Kevin at a profit of 25%. Kevin after finding some defect in the laptop, returns it to Mark but could recover only Rs.4.50 for every Rs. 5 he had paid. Find the amount of Kevin’s loss if John had paid Rs. 1,75,000 for the laptop?

(a)16500

(b)17500

(c)18500

(d)16550

(e) 18500

9. When an article is sold for Rs. 703, loss incurred is 25% less than the profit earned on selling it at Rs. 836. What is the selling price of the article when it earns a profit of 20%?
   (a) 912

(b) 1576

(c) 1532

(d) 1092

(e) None of these

10. A seller calculated his intended selling price at 6% profit on the cost of a product. However, owing to some mistake while selling, the units and tens digits of the selling price got interchanged. This reduced the profit by Rs. 9 and profit percentage 2.4%. What is the cost price of the product?

(a) Rs. 240

(b) Rs. 250

(c) Rs. 400

(d) Rs. 480

(e)none of these