QUANT QUIZ-18 BASED ON
PROFIT AND LOSS
1. A vendor buys
oranges @ Rs 2 for 3 and sells them at a rupee each. To make a profit of Rs 10
he must sell :
a. 10 oranges
b. 20 oranges
c. 30 oranges
d. 40 oranges
2. A retailer buys 20
kg tea at a discount of 10%. Besides 1 kg tea was freely offered to him by the
wholesaler at the purchased of 20 kg tea. Now he sell the tea at the marked
price to a customer. What is profit of retailer.
a. 30%
b. 12%
c. 16.66%
d. none of these
3. The profit
percentage on the 3 articles A,B,C is 10%, 20%, 25% and the ratio of the cost
price is 1:2:4. Also the ratio of numbers of articles sold of A,B,C is
2:5:2,then overall profit percentage:
a. 18.5
b. 21
c. 75
d. none of these
4. The cost price of an
article ‘Z’ is Rs 1600 and selling price of another article ‘Y’ is 2400 .If the
SP of A will be equal to CP of ‘Y’, then the profit after selling Z is 20%.
What is profit of Y.
a. 16.66%
b.33.33%
c. 25%
d. none of these
5. A shopkeeper
procures 40 books for Rs 3200 and sell them at a profit equal to selling price
of 8 books. What is the SP of one dozen books:
a. 720
b. 960
c. 1200
d. 1440
6. The profit
percentage of two persons is 20% on selling the article at Rs 1800 each but
first person calculate on selling price and second on cost price. What is the
difference of their profit:
a. 360
b. 60
c. 540
d. 450
7. A trader sold an
article at a loss of 5% but when he increased the selling price by 65 he gained
3.33% on the cost price. If he sells the same article at Rs 936.What is the
profit percentage.
a. 15%
b. 16.66%
c. 20%
d. none of these
8. Munish markup the
price of sweets by 30% and he sold only 20% of these at this price. He sells
half of the rest at 16.66% discount and rest at 20% discount. What is the net
profit of Munish:
a. 23.5%
b. 33.33%
c. 11%
d. 16.66%
9. Fresh fruits contain
80% water and dry fruits contains 25% of water. A person sells 20 kg dry fruits
by add water to the dry fruit and rest at C.P. What is the total profit
percentage increased in the proportion of water in fresh fruits:
a. 275%
b. 200%
c. 80%
d. 125%
10. A trader marks up
his good by 80% and gives discount of 25% .Besides it he weight 10% less amount
while selling his goods what is net profit of trader:
a. 50%
b. 35%
c. 45%
d. 55%
ANSWERS
1.C, 2.C, 3.B, 4.C, 5.C, 6.B, 7.C, 8.C, 9.A, 10.A,
