Test: Profit and Loss- 1 - SSC CGL MCQ

A dealer sells a goat for rupees 600 and there by gains 20 percent. He sells another goat at 5 percent loss and on the whole there is no loss no profit. Find the cost price of the second goat

If a discount of 10 percent is given on the marked price of the article then the seller gains 20 percent profit. Find the percent profit if the article is sold at 20 percent discount.

What will be the profit percentage after selling an article at certain price if there is a loss of 40 percent when the same article is sold at 2/5 of the earlier selling price ?

By selling 22 meters of cloth a shopkeeper gains cost price of 4 meter cloth. Find the percent profit/loss occurred by the shopkeeper.

Rohit bought an article at 25 percent discount on labelled price. He again sells the article at 20 percent on labelled price. Find the percent profit earned by rohit in whole transaction

A toys manufacturing company declares 20 percent discount for whole sale buyers. A trader bought toys for rupees 4000 after getting the discount. Now he sells the toys at 15 percent profit on the original price of the company. What is the selling price of the toys?

Raman buys some apples at the rate of four for a rupee and same numbers of oranges at three for a rupee. To make a profit of 25%, Raman should sell a 6 apples for. 

An article is sold for rupees 400 in which the seller fetches 25% profit. If 6 such articles are sold for rupees 2400, then the percent profit/loss incurred by the seller

A trader gives an additional concession of 35% on an article which is already get discounted by 20% on the marked price. If the buyer pays an amount of 1300 for the article, then the marked price is

A shopkeeper bought 120 chairs at the rate of 250 each. He spends 3000 rupees on transportation. He marked the price of each chair at 400 rupee. On the marked price he gives 10% discount, then find the profit incurred by the shopkeeper.

Rahul bought 20kg of rice at rupees 30 per kg and 40 kg of rice at 35 rupees per kg. Now he sold the entire lot at 45 rupees per kg. Find the amount of loss and profit made by rahul.

A trader sold an article for rupees 810 after giving a discount of 10 percent on the labelled price and gain 20% percent. What will be the profit percent when the article is sold at labelled price.

A company declared 20 percent discount on its garments. Rakesh bought garments worth rupees 30000 after getting discount. Now he fixed the selling price of the garments in such a way that he got a profit of 15 percent on the marked price. Find the selling price of the garments.

A shopkeeper sold certain articles at 380 after giving a discount of 5 percent. If the discount is not given he would have been gain 20 percent. What is the cost price of the articles (approx.)

If a discount of 15 percent is given on an article then the shopkeeper make a profit of 5 percent. Find the percent profit made by the seller when a discount of 10 percent is given
 

The marked price of an article is 20% above the cost price. When the selling price of an article is increased by 30% the profit doubles. If the marked price of an article is 480, then original selling price is.
A.531.15
B.537.14
C.571.4
D.582.12
E.None of these

A trader gains 10% while buying the goods and gains 20% while selling the goods. Find the gain percent of the trader.