CAT (QA) PYQs

Bina incurs 19% loss when she sells a product at Rs. 4860 to Shyam, who in turn sells this product to Hari. If Bina would have sold this product to Shyam at the purchase price of Hari, she would have obtained 17% profit. Then, the profit, in rupees, made by Shyam is

Ankita buys $4 \mathrm{~kg}$ cashews, $14 \mathrm{~kg}$ peanuts and $6 \mathrm{~kg}$ almonds when the cost of $7 \mathrm{~kg}$ cashews is the same as that of $30 \mathrm{~kg}$ peanuts or $9 \mathrm{~kg}$ almonds. She mixes all the three nuts and marks a price for the mixture in order to make a profit of Rs.1752. She sells $4$ kg of the mixture at this marked price and the remaining at a $20 \%$ discount on the marked price, thus making a total profit of Rs. 744. Then the amount, in rupees, that she had spent in buying almonds is

A shopkeeper sells two tables, each procured at cost price $p$, to Amal and Asim at a profit of $20\%$ and at a loss of $20\%$, respectively. Amal sells his table to Bimal at a profit of $30\%$, while Asim sells his table to Barun at a loss of $30\%$. If the amounts paid by Bimal and Barun are $x$ and $y$, respectively, then $(x -y) / p$ equals