Profit and Loss Maths Online Quiz Test

1. A dishonest shopkeeper uses false balance and cheats a customer by giving 20% less quantity of food. His profit is:

2. Arshad sold a watch to Rahim at a gain of 5% and Arshad sold it to Rashid at a gain of 4%. If Rashid paid Rs. 1092 for it, the price paid by Arshad is:

3. A bookseller sold a book for Rs. 40.00 to make a profit of 15% percent. I order to run a profit of 20%. he should have sold it for:

4. A shopkeeper buys 300 identical articles at a total cost of Rs. 1500. He fixing the selling price of each article at 20% above the cost price and sells 260 articles at this price. As for the remaining articles, he sells them at 50% of the selling price. Caculate the shopkeeper's total profit.

5. A trader bought a stereo at 20% discount on its original price. He sold with it a 40% increase on the price he bought. His percentage of profit on on original price is:

6. A man buys a computer for Rs. 7000 and sells it for Rs. 11,500. The percentage profit is nearly percent:

7. The selling price of an article is Rs. 118 and the profit earned is 50%. The cost price of the article is:

8. If sweet be bought at the rate of 14 for a rupee. How many must be sold for a rupee to gain 40 percent profit.

9. A dealer purchase 22 pencils for Rs. 20 and sells them at the rate of 10 pencils for Rs 11. His profit percent is:

10. By selling a ceiling fan for Rs. 475, a dealer loses 5%. To get a gain of 5%, he should sell the fan for:

11. How much I would have to pay for a book which cost Rs. 72 to produce, if the printing company sold it to a bookseller at 20% profit and in return the bookseller sold it to me at a profit of 25%?

12. A camera was sold at a loss of 10%. If it was sold for Rs. 70 more, three could have been a gain of 4% . The camera was sold for:

13. An article is sold for Rs. 45 for a loss of 10%. If it is sold at sold at Rs. 65, the gain percent is:

14. A man bought 400 dozen pencils at Rs. 8.00a dozen. He sold half of them at Rs. 10.50 a dozen and the rest at Rs. 7.50 a dozen. Find his profit.

15. By selling a book for Rs. 50, a man lost 4%. Find what would have been his gain or loss % if it had been sold for Rs. 60?