Profit and loss questions for TET Exam

Profit and loss For Ctet Exams

Question 1: A man sold a fan for Rs 465. Find the cost price , if he incurred a loss of 7%.

Options
32.55
520
500
515 





Question 2:In a transaction the profit % is 80%. If the cost further increases by 20% but selling price remains the same, how much is the decrease in profit %?

Options
10%
30%
20%
40% 



Question 3:A man bought some toys at rate of 10 for Rs 40 and sold at 8 for Rs 35. Find his gain or loss %

Options
9.375%
6.135%
8.215%
7.235%






Question 4:If Sp is 1.5 times the cp, find profit %.

Options 
50%
25%
16.66%
20%




Question 5:If cp of 10 articles is equal to selling price of 12 articles, find profit % or loss %.

Options
12.5%
20%
16.66%
14.28%


Question 6:A shopkeeper sold a TV set for Rs 17,940 with a discount of 8% and gained 19.6%. If no discount is allowed , then what will be his gain percent?


Options
30%

40%
25%
16.66% 

Question 7:A trader sells two bullocks for RS 8400 each, neither selling nor gaining in total. If he sold one of them at a gain o 20%, the other was sold at loss of ??

Options
16.66%
12.5%
20%
14.28%



Question 8:A sold an article to B at a profit of 20% to B. 
B sold it to C at loss of 20%
C sold it to D at profit of 40%.
If D paid Rs 252 for the article, Find how much did A pay for it?

Options
180Rs
200 Rs

150RS
250RS 

Question 9:A sold an article to B at profit of 25%.
B sold it to C at loss of 10%
If c paid Rs 90 for the article, Find how much did A pay for it?

Options
Rs80
Rs 50
Rs 150
Rs 100



Question 10: Roman purchased a bike for Rs 5400. He sold it for loss of 8%
With that money he again purchased another bike and sold it at profit of 10%.What is his overall Loss/profit?


Options
Rs 648 loss
Rs 540 loss
Rs 648 gain
Rs 657 gain


Question 11: By selling an article at 80% of the marked price, a merchant makes a loss of 12%. What will be profit % or loss % made by merchant if he sells the article at 95% of the marked price?

Options
4.5%

5.5%
6.5%
7.5%


Question 12:A machine is sold at profit of 10%. Id the machine were sold at Rs 40 less, there would have been a loss of 10%.
What was the cost price?

Options
200 Rs

150 Rs
250 Rs
500 Rs


Question 13: I sold two hens for Rs 105 each. On one  i lost 25% and on second I gained 50%.
What is my overall gain/loss percentage?

Options
25% loss
33% profit
10% profit
no profit no loss


Question 14: Aman sold a watch at profit of 20%. Had she bought it at 10% less and sold it at Rs 30 less, she would still have gained 20%. Find the C.P of the watch.

Options 
180 Rs

250 Rs
220 Rs
360 Rs

Question 15: Amar bought eggs at rate of 5 for Rs 7, and sold at rate of 7 for Rs 10, and made Rs 2450.
How many eggs did he deal in?

Options
85,750

75,450
65,870
45,210






Question 16:A shop's prices are 25% above the cost price. but it allows 12% discount on the amount on the bill. What is the profit % made?

Options
16.66%
14.28%
25%
10%



Question 17:A person sold two articles for same Selling price. On the first one he got 12.5% loss and on the other he gained 37.5%. If the total profit is Rs 110, Find the difference b/w cp of both the articles?

Options
545
240
352182


Question 18:A shopkeeper bought 80 kg of sugar at rate of Rs 13.50 /kg and mixed it with 120 kg sugar costing Rs 16/kg. In order to make a profit of 20%, he must sell the mixture at?

Options
Rs 15/kg
Rs 18/Kg

Rs 20/kg
Rs 23/kg



Question 19: A bicycle marked at Rs 2000 is sold with two successive discounts of 20% and 10%. An additional discount of 5% is given at the cash payment.  THe sp of the bicycle at cash payment is?

Options
Rs 1368

Rs 1245
Rs 1140
Rs 2320

Question 20:Half of 100 articles were sold at profit of 20% and the rest at profit of 40%.
If all the articles had been sold at profit of Rs 25%, the total profit would have been Rs 1000  less than earlier profit.
The C.P of the each article was ?

Options
Rs 10
Rs 15
Rs 20
Rs 25

Answers

1. Rs 500
2. 30%
3. 9.375%
4. 50%
5. 16.66%
6. 30% profit
7. 14.28% loss
8. 200 rs
9. Rs 80
10. Rs 648 profit
11. 4.5% profit
12. Rs 200
13. no profit no loss
14. Rs 250
15. 85750
16. 10%
17. Rs 352
18. Rs 18/kg
19. Rs 1368
20. Rs 20