CAT Arithmetic > Profit & Loss PYQs

The monthly sales of a product from January to April were 120, 135, 150 and 165 units, respectively. The cost price of the product was Rs. 240 per unit, and a fixed marked price was used for the product in all the four months. Discounts of 20%, 10% and 5% were given on the marked price per unit in January, February and March, respectively, while no discounts were given in April. If the total profit from January to April was Rs. 138825, then the marked price per unit, in rupees, was

An item with a cost price of Rs. 1650 is sold at a certain discount on a fixed marked price to earn a profit of 20% on the cost price. If the discount was doubled, the profit would have been Rs. 110. The rate of discount, in percentage, at which the profit percentage would be equal to the rate of discount, is nearest to

A shopkeeper offers a discount of 22% on the marked price of each chair, and gives 13 chairs to a customer for the discounted price of 12 chairs to earn a profit of 26% on the transaction. If the cost price of each chair is Rs 100, then the marked price, in rupees, of each chair is

Gopi marks a price on a product in order to make 20% profit. Ravi gets 10% discount on that marked price, and thus saves Rs 15. Then, the profit, in rupees, made by Gopi by selling the product to Ravi, is

A fruit seller has a stock of mangoes, bananas and apples with at least one fruit of each type. At the beginning of a day, the number of mangoes make up 40% of his stock. That day, he sells half of the mangoes, 96 bananas and 40% of the apples. At the end of the day, he ends up selling 50% of the fruits. The smallest possible total number of fruits in the stock at the beginning of the day is

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

The selling price of a product is fixed to ensure 40% profit. If the product had cost 40% less and had been sold for 5 rupees less, then the resulting profit would have been 50%. The original selling price, in rupees, of the product is

A merchant purchases a cloth at a rate of Rs. $100$ per meter and receives $5 \mathrm{~cm}$ length of cloth free for every $100 \mathrm{~cm}$ length of cloth purchased by him. He sells the same cloth at a rate of Rs. $110$ per meter but cheats his customers by giving $95 \mathrm{~cm}$ length of cloth for every $100 \mathrm{~cm}$ length of cloth purchased by the customers. If the merchant provides a $5 \%$ discount, the resulting profit earned by him is

Minu purchases a pair of sunglasses at Rs. $1000$ and sells to Kanu at $20 \%$ profit. Then, Kanu sells it back to Minu at $20 \%$ loss. Finally, Minu sells the same pair of sunglasses to Tanu. If the total profit made by Minu from all her transactions is Rs. $500$, then the percentage of profit made by Minu when she sold the pair of sunglasses to Tanu is

Jayant bought a certain number of white shirts at the rate of Rs $1000$ per piece and a certain number of blue shirts at the rate of Rs $1125$ per piece. For each shirt, he then set a fixed market price which was $25 \%$ higher than the average cost of all the shirts. He sold all the shirts at a discount of $10 \%$ and made a total profit of Rs $51000$. If he bought both colors of shirts, then the maximum possible total number of shirts that he could have bought is

Gita sells two objects $A$ and $B$ at the same price such that she makes a profit of $20 \%$ on object $A$ and $a$ loss of $10 \%$ on object $B$. If she increases the selling price such that objects $A$ and $B$ are still sold at an equal price and a profit of $10 \%$ is made on object $B$, then the profit made on object A will be nearest to

Amal buys $110 \mathrm{~kg}$ of syrup and $120 \mathrm{~kg}$ of juice, syrup being 20\% less costly than juice, per kg. He sells $10 \mathrm{~kg}$ of syrup at 10\% profit and $20 \mathrm{~kg}$ of juice at $20 \%$ profit. Mixing the remaining juice and syrup, Amal sells the mixture at Rs. $308.32$ per kg and makes an overall profit of $64 \%$. Then, Amal's cost price for syrup, in rupees per kg, 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

One part of a hostel's monthly expenses is fixed, and the other part is proportional to the number of its boarders. The hostel collects $1600$ per month from each boarder. When the number of boarders is $50$, the profit of the hostel is $200$ per boarder, and when the number of boarders is $75$, the profit of the hostel is $250$ per boarder. When the number of boarders is $80$, the total profit of the hostel, in INR, will be

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

Identical chocolate pieces are sold in boxes of two sizes, small and large. The large box is sold for twice the price of the small box. If the selling price per gram of chocolate in the large box is $12 \%$ less than that in the small box, then the percentage by which the weight of chocolate in the large box exceeds that in the small box is nearest to

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

Anil buys $12$ toys and labels each with the same selling price. He sells $8$ toys initially at $20 \%$ discount on the labeled price. Then he sells the remaining $4$ toys at an additional $25 \%$ discount on the discounted price. Thus, he gets a total of Rs $2112,$ and makes a $10\%$ profit. With no discounts, his percentage of profit would have been

A person spent Rs $50000$ to purchase a desktop computer and a laptop computer. He sold the desktop at $20%$ profit and the laptop at $10%$ loss. If overall he made a $2%$ profit then the purchase price, in rupees, of the desktop is

Mukesh purchased $10$ bicycles in $2017$, all at the same price. He sold six of these at a profit of $25 \%$ and the remaining four at a loss of $25 \%$. If he made a total profit of Rs. $2000,$ then his purchase price of a bicycle, in Rupees, was

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

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?

Two types of tea, $A$ and $B$, are mixed and then sold at Rs. $40$ per kg. The profit is $10 \%$ if A and B are mixed in the ratio $3: 2$, and $5 \%$ if this ratio is $2: 3$. The cost prices, per kg , of $A$ and $B$ are in the ratio

A wholesaler bought walnuts and peanuts, the price of walnut per kg being thrice that of peanut per kg . He then sold $8 \mathrm{~kg}$ of peanuts at a profit of $10 \%$ and $16 \mathrm{~kg}$ of walnuts at a profit of $20 \%$ to a shopkeeper. However, the shopkeeper lost $5 \mathrm{~kg}$ of walnuts and $3 \mathrm{~kg}$ of peanuts in transit. He then mixed the remaining nuts and sold the mixture at Rs. $166$ per kg, thus making an overall profit of $25 \%$. At what price, in Rs. per kg, did the wholesaler buy the walnuts?

The manufacturer of a table sells it to a wholesale dealer at a profit of $10 \%$. The wholesale dealer sells the table to a retailer at a profit of $30\%$. Finally, the retailer sells it to a customer at a profit of $50\%$. If the customer pays Rs $4290$ for the table, then its manufacturing cost (in Rs) is

Mayank buys some candies for Rs $15$ a dozen and an equal number of different candies for Rs $12$ a dozen. He sells all for Rs $16.50$ a dozen and makes a profit of Rs $150$. How many dozens of candies did he buy altogether?

If a seller gives a discount of $15 \%$ on retail price, she still makes a profit of $2 \%$. Which of the following ensures that she makes a profit of $20\%$?

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

If Fatima sells $60$ identical toys at a $40\%$ discount on the printed price, then she makes $20\%$ profit. Ten of these toys are destroyed in a fire. While selling the rest, how much discount$\%$ should be given on the printed price so that she can make the same amount of profit?