CAT (QA) PYQs

On selling a pen at $5 \%$ loss and a book at $15 \%$ gain, Karim gains Rs. $7$. If he sells the pen at $5 \%$ gain and the book at $10 \%$ gain, he gains Rs. 13. What is the cost price of the book in Rupees?

A man buys $35$ kg of sugar and sets a marked price in order to make a $20\%$ profit. He sells $5$ kg at this price, and $15$ kg at a $10\%$ discount. Accidentally, $3$ kg of sugar is wasted. He sells the remaining sugar by raising the marked price by $p$ percent so as to make an overall profit of $15\%$. Then $p$ is nearest to

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