Practice Profit and Loss – A salesman has the liberty to sell a hair dryer in his store at a price between Rs. 300 and Rs. 700. Profit earned by selling the hair dryer for Rs. 650 is twice the loss incurred when it is sold for Rs. 350. What is the cost price of the hair dryer?
Practice Profit and Loss – A television manufacturing company has decided to increase the sale to beat the economic slowdown. It decides to reduce the price of television sets by 25% as a result of which the sales increased by 20%. What is the effect on the total revenue of the company?
Practice Profit and Loss – A supplier supplies cartridge to a newspaper publishing house. He earns a profit of 20% by selling cartridges for Rs. 540. Find the cost price of the cartridges?
Practice Profit and Loss – A street seller bought maize corns for Rs. 20 per kg. In one kg, there are approximately 5 heads of corn. He sells roasted corns for Rs. 8 per piece. How many corns will he have to sell in order to earn a profit of Rs. 200 in a day ?
Practice Profit and Loss – A dishonest shopkeeper claims to sell his goods at cost price , but he uses a weight of 800 grams for 1 kg weight. Find his gain percent.
Practice Profit and Loss – When the price of selling of an article is doubled, then its profit percent triples. Determine the original profit percentage.
Practice Profit and Loss – Cominos, a pizza manufacturing company, sells 1 lakh pizzas in a month. The cost of making one pizza is Rs. 500 and the company invests 25% of the manufacturing cost in advertisement. The cost of delivering pizzas is borne by the company and is approximately 30% of the manufacturing cost. At what price should the pizzas be sold in order to gain 30% overall profit?
Practice Profit and Loss – It cost a college Rs.0.70 a copy to produce a Programme for the homecoming football game. If Rs.15,000/- was received for advertisements in the programme, how many copies at Rs.0.50 a copy must be sold to make a profit of Rs.8000/- ?
Practice Profit and Loss – Cominos, a pizza manufacturing company, sells 1 lakh pizzas in a month. The cost of making one pizza is Rs. 500 and the company invests 25% of the manufacturing cost in advertisement. The cost of delivering pizzas is borne by the company and is approximately 30% of the manufacturing cost. At what price should the pizzas be sold in order to gain 20% overall profit?
Practice Profit and Loss – The price of raw materials has gone up by 15%, labour cost has also increased from 25% of the cost of raw material to 30% of the cost of raw material. By how much percentage should there be a reduction in the usage of raw materials so as to keep the cost same
Practice Profit and Loss – Radha bought a watch for Rs. 144 and got a percentage of profit equal to the cost price of the watch. What is the cost price of the watch?
Practice Profit and Loss – Krishna bought some wheat at Rs. 10 per kilogram. He buys 2 kg wheat from a ration shop at the rate of Rs. 8 per kilogram. He mixes the two and sells at Rs. 11 per kilogram. He makes 25% profit. What is the ratio of non-ration to ration wheat?
Practice Profit and Loss – Two friends bought two bags whose prices were in the ratio of 1 : 3. If they sold them at a loss of 10%, the difference of the money earned by them was Rs. 360. What was the cost price of the costlier bag?
Practice Profit and Loss – Suppose Mr. X works for company A. The company grants 1000 shares to Mr. X in 2008. At that point each share is worth Rs. 100. In 2010, he decides to sell his entire stake and at that point, the value is Rs. 120 per share. The government declares that the tax to be paid is 10% of the entire profit. Due to the inflation, the value of a rupee in 2010 is equivalent to 0.8 of a rupee in 2008. In this scenario, which of the following model indicates the actual tax to be paid by the investor?
Practice Profit and Loss – 45 grinders brought @ 2215/-.transpot expense 2190/-.2760/- on octroi . Find SP/piece to make profit of 20%