Profit and Loss Questions for Competitive Exams

A house and a shop were sold for Rs. 1 lakh each, In this transaction, the house sale resulted into 20 % loss whereas the shop sale into 20 % profit. The entire transaction resulted in:

Cost of 24 bats and 32 sticks is Rs 5600. What is the price of 3 bats and 4 sticks?

If a chair sold for Rs. 600 at the profit of 20%, then the original price of the chair is:

If a man estimates his loss as 20% of the selling price, then his loss percent is:

A trader bought 10 kg of apples for Rs. 405 out of which 1 kg of apples were found to be rotten. If he wishes to make a profit of 10 % at what rate should he sell the remaining apples per kg? 

A trader had 2000 kgs of rice. He sold a part of it at 10 % profit and the rest at 16 % profit so that he made a total profit of 14.2%. How much rice (in kg) did he sell at 10 % profit? 

An oil refinery buys oil at Rs 3600 per barrel. There is 10 % wastage. If the refinery wants to earn 5% profit then at what price should it sell including 8 % tax on selling price? (in Rs per barrel) 

By selling a pen for Rs 105 there is a loss of 30%. At what price (in Rs) the pen must be sold in order to gain 30%?

By selling an article for Rs. 700 a man lost 30 %. At what price should he have sold it to gain 30%? 

If an article is sold at 200 % profit then the ratio of its cost price to its selling price will be