Profit & Loss

SSC

57 Questions 42 Easy 15 Medium

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#1
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Siddhi sold her scooter for ₹24318 gaining 1/6th of the selling price. Find the gain percentage....

#2
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A shopkeeper has a fault of 100 g in a 3 kg weight. He sold 3 kg of potatoes to Charu using the same faulty weight for ₹...

#3
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Siddhi sold her scooter for ₹31902, gaining 1/6th of the selling price. Find her gain percentage....

#4
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Akshay purchased pens and notebooks from a shop for a total sum of ₹180.![Screenshot 2025-05-05 212754.png](https://res....

#5
Easy MCQ

Priya sold her scooter for ₹42564, gaining 1/6th of the selling price as profit. What is her gain percentage?...

#6
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Madhav purchased an item for ₹42,000 and sold it at a loss of 20%. With that amount, he purchased another item and sold ...

#7
Easy MCQ

Ramesh sells rice at ₹36 per kg, which he purchased for ₹30 per kg. Moreover, he gives only 800 g of rice instead of 1 k...

#8
Easy MCQ

A shopkeeper marked an article at ₹5,000. The shopkeeper allows successive discounts of 20%, 15%, and 10%. What is the s...

#9
Easy MCQ

An article marked for ₹275 is sold at 5% discount. The seller still gains 4.5%. What did he pay for it?...

#10
Medium MCQ

A shopkeeper sells rice at the rate of ₹44 per kg whose cost price is ₹40 per kg. Not satisfied with this, he tries to i...

#11
Medium MCQ

A vendor started selling vegetables at ₹10 per kg, but couldn’t find buyers at this rate. So he reduced the price to ₹7....

#12
Easy MCQ

If the selling price of an article is ₹1,792 after a 20% discount, then what is the marked price of the article?...

#13
Easy MCQ

The following pie chart below shows the expenditure in book publishing by a publisher under various heads. ![image.png]...

#14
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From the given data, find the ratio of the cost prices of a shirt and a trouser. ![image.png](https://res.cloudinary.co...

#15
Easy MCQ

Siddhi sold her scooter for ₹ 71785 gaining 1/5th of the selling price. Find the gain percentage....

#16
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A shopkeeper sold 5/8 of his articles at a gain of 20% and the remaining at the cost price. What is his gain percentage ...

#17
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The marked price of a TV set is ₹18,500. If the dealer allows two successive discounts of 20% and 5%, for how much is th...

#18
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An article passing through two hands is sold at a total profit of 40% of the original cost price. If the first dealer ma...

#19
Medium MCQ

A shopkeeper sells sugar at ₹44.8 per kg and makes a 12% profit. Due to water seepage, 1/5 of the sugar is damaged. What...

#20
Easy MCQ

A shopkeeper sold the following items to Arushi earning profit on it. How much total profit (in ₹) did he earn on the ba...

#21
Easy MCQ

A shopkeeper marked the price 20% more than its cost price. If he allows a discount of 30%, then find his loss percent....

#22
Medium MCQ

A dishonest fruit-seller sells fruits at a 20% profit but uses a 950 gm weight instead of 1 kg. What is his actual profi...

#23
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A manufacturer announces a trade discount of 30% on his products for his dealers. One of the dealers purchased 6 smart p...

#24
Easy MCQ

An article is sold at a profit of 250%. What is the ratio of its cost price to selling price?...

#25
Medium MCQ

The profit gained on selling a certain product is 320% of the cost. If the cost increases by 10% but the selling price r...

#26
Easy MCQ

The marked price (MP) of an article was Rs.180 and it was sold at a discount of 15%. What is the discount amount in Rs.?...

#27
Easy MCQ

A shopkeeper marked an article at ₹5,000. The shopkeeper allows successive discounts of 20%, 15%, and 10%. What is the s...

#28
Medium MCQ

If Ram purchases a fan, he gets 8% discount, however, if he purchases three fans he gets 6% on the first, 10% on the sec...

#29
Medium MCQ

Naman bought a certain number of apples for ₹720. After negotiating, the shopkeeper reduced the price by ₹2 per apple, a...

#30
Easy MCQ

The cost price of a bat is 75% of the marked price. Calculate the gain percentage after allowing a discount of 15%....

#31
Medium MCQ

A dishonest merchant sells his grocery using weights that are 12% less than the true weights and makes a profit of 10%. ...

#32
Easy MCQ

A shopkeeper allows a discount of 20% on the marked price of an item and thus gains 10%. What is the ratio of the cost p...

#33
Easy MCQ

A bronze article with a marked price of ₹1,000 is sold during a festive season sale after three successive discounts of ...

#34
Easy MCQ

Two successive discounts of 40% and 30% are given on a product. What is the equivalent single discount percentage?...

#35
Medium MCQ

A merchant has 1000 kg of sugar, part of which he sells at a 10% profit and the rest at a 40% profit. He gains 20% on th...

#36
Medium MCQ

Ramesh purchased items worth ₹9,800 on 10 November 2019 and items worth ₹5,480 on 19 November 2019 from a dealer. The de...

#37
Easy MCQ

A dishonest shopkeeper claims to sell salt at a rate of ₹25/kg. The cost price of the salt is ₹25/kg. He removes 200 gm ...

#38
Medium MCQ

The marked price of an article is 26% more than its cost price. If a discount of 32% is given, what will be the loss per...

#39
Medium MCQ

The marked price of 55 items was equal to the cost price of 99 items. The selling price of 56 items was equal to the mar...

#40
Medium MCQ

A person purchased a table and a sofa for ₹28,000. He sold the sofa at a profit of 10% and the table at a profit of 15.2...

#41
Easy MCQ

Aditi sold her scooter for ₹40620 gaining 1/5th of the selling price. Find the gain percentage....

#42
Easy MCQ

Raman fixes the sale price of his goods at 16% above the cost price. He sells his goods at 12% less than the fixed price...

#43
Easy MCQ

An article costs ₹1,000 for a salesman. He fixes its marked price as ₹1,500. He sells it to a customer at a discount of ...

#44
Medium MCQ

Amit and Bilal buy goods for ₹1,500 and ₹2,000, respectively. Amit marks his goods up by y%, while Bilal marks his goods...

#45
Easy MCQ

Anubha sold her scooter for ₹23358 gaining 1/6th of the selling price. Find the gain percentage....

#46
Easy MCQ

What is the income (in crore ₹) of Company C in the year 2003? ![image.png](https://res.cloudinary.com/aptidude/image/u...

#47
Medium MCQ

A seller sold 19 cookies for ₹95 instead of 20 cookies in one kg, cheating a customer. What is the gain (in ₹) if the se...

#48
Easy MCQ

The marked price of a revolving chair is ₹15,000. It is available on two successive discounts of 20% and 12%. What is it...

#49
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Three people, A, B and C, invest in a business in the ratio 2 : 3 : 5. It was decided that 9% of the profits will go to ...

#50
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If books bought at prices ranging from ₹200 to ₹260 are sold at prices ranging from ₹250 to ₹300, what is the greatest p...

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