CAT (QA) PYQs

In a market, the price of medium quality mangoes is half that of good mangoes. A shopkeeper buys $80 \mathrm{~kg}$ good mangoes and $40 \mathrm{~kg}$ medium quality mangoes from the market and then sells all these at a common price which is $10 \%$ less than the price at which he bought the good ones. His overall profit is

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?

Amal purchases some pens at ₹ $8$ each. To sell these, he hires an employee at a fixed wage. He sells $100$ of these pens at $₹ 12$ each. If the remaining pens are sold at $₹ 11$ each, then he makes a net profit of ₹ $300$, while he makes a net loss of ₹ $300$ if the remaining pens are sold at ₹ $9$ each. The wage of the employee, in INR, is