IBM Profit And Loss Quiz -1

A shopkeeper gives two successive discounts of 10% and 20% 

on the market price of 5000 of a bicycle, he

had to give a further discount equal to 20% of his cost price 

on his new selling price, as a result of which he

made neither a profit nor a loss. Find the cost price of .

the bicycle?

A salesperson sold an average of 7 computers per week for

the first 44 weeks of this year. Last year this salesperson

sold a tota

of 24440 computers.To equal last year’s performance, 

how many computers must the salesperson sell per week in the

remaining weeks of the year?

A set of 7 pens, 9 erasers, and 11 sharpeners costs Rs 79 

and 2 pens, 5 erasers and 8sharpeners cost Rs 42. Find 

the total cost of one sharpener, one eraser, and one pen.

A man sold a book at the loss of 10%.Had he sold it for 

104rs more, he would have earned a profit of 10 %. 

Find the cost price of the book?

A trader allows a discount of 5 percent to his customers. 

What price should he mark on a article the cost price of 

which is Rs 800 so as to make a clear profit of 25 percent 

on his outlay?

A company invests $0.33 on raw,$4.92 on manufacturing, 

$3.34 on adv. if the company decided to sell the product

$8.61. What is the net profit to get 50000 profit?

If a cost college Rs0.70 a company to produce a program for the

homecoming football game.if Rs 15000 was received for 

advertisement in the program, how many copies rs 0.50 a copy 

must be sold to make a profit of Rs 8000?

A tape manufacturer reduces the price of his heavy duty tape 

from Rs.30/- to Rs.28/- a reel and the price of a regular 

tape from Rs.24/- to Rs.23/- a reel. A computing centre 

normally spends Rs.1440/- a month for tapes and 3/4 of this 

is for heavy duty tapes. How much will they save a month under

the new prices?

A shopkeeper sells an article gets a profit of 20% had he 

bought it for 20% less and sold it for Rs 120 less he would 

have still bought profit of 20% what is the cost price of

 the article ?

A man spends $2.6 for parking and $34.4 for petrol to travel

from the car from monday to friday.if he travel by public 

transport it costs $1.06, find the percentage of savings?