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Practice Chain Rule – Find the day of the week on 15th September 1995.

Practice Calendar – A dealer professing to sell his goods at cost price, uses a 900 gm weight for a kilogram. His gain percent is

Practice Calendar – The manufacturer of a certain item can sell all he can produce at the selling price of Rs. 60 each. If costs him Rs. 40 in materials and labour to produce each item and he has overhead expenses of Rs. 3000 per week in order to operate the plant. The number of units he should produce and sell in order to make a profit of at least Rs. 1000 per week, is :

Practice Calendar – A wholesaler allows a discount of 20 % on the list price to the retailer. The retailer sells at 5% below the list price. If the customer pays Rs.19 for an article what profit is made by the retailer on it?

Practice Calendar – Spores of a fungus, called late blight, grow and spread infection rapidly. These pathogens were responsible for the Irish potato famine of the mid-19th century. These seem to have attacked the tomato crops in England this year. The tomato crops have reduced and the price of the crop has risen up. The price has already gone up to $45 a box from $27 a box a month ago. How much more would a vegetable vendor need to pay to buy 27 boxes this month over what he would have paid last month?

Practice Calendar – In case of a transaction, there was a loss of 18.75%. What was the ratio of the cost price to the selling price?

Practice Calendar – A retailer gives a discount of 20% on an item, and yet makes a profit of 10%. What is the ratio of the cost price to the list price?

Practice Calendar – Anil buys cashews and raisins from a farmer, the per kg price of cashews being four times that of raisins. He sells 8 kg cashews at 20% profit, and 12 kg raisins at 30% profit to Sunil. Now, Sunil sells 5 kg of cashews at ?120 per kg, and then mixes the remaining cashews and raisins and sells this mixture at ?95 per kg. If Sunil makes a total profit of 25% the price, in ? per kg, paid by Anil for cashews is:

Practice Calendar – A store is selling a jacket on sale at 30% off the marked price. A matching pair of pants is on sale at 40% off the marked price. If the marked price of the pants is Rs. 8500 less than the marked price of the jacket and the total sale price of both items is Rs. 23500, then what is the marked price of the jacket?

Practice Calendar – The value of a scooter depreciates in such a way that its value of the end of each year is 3/4 of its value of the beginning of the same year. If the initial value of the scooter is Rs.40,000, what is the value at the end of 3 years ?

Practice Calendar – A man decides to buy a nice horse. He pays $60 for it, and he is very content with the strong animal. After a year, the value of the horse has increased to $70 and he decides to sell the horse . But after a few days later he regrets his decision to sell the beautiful horse, and he buys it again. Unfortunately he has to pay $80 to get it back, so he loses $10. After another year of owing the horse, he finally decides to sell the horse for $90. What is the overall profit the man makes?

Practice Calendar – A fan was sold for Rs 3600 at a loss of 4 % . What would be the gain or loss percent if it was sold for Rs 4,200 ?

Practice Calendar – The S.P. Of a washing machine is 1 1/3 of its C.P. Find the gain percent.

Practice Calendar – A shopkeeper purchases an artefact and marks its price up by 40%. He sells the artefact to a customer at a certain discount, thereby making a profit of 5% on the whole transaction. What is the discount % given by the shopkeeper ?

Practice Calendar – If sum of investment of A in both schemes and total profit obtained by A from both scheme is invested at compound interest at the rate of 20% p.a. then find the total compound interest obtained in 2 years ?