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Class Exercise-6
Profit and Loss

1. When the selling price of an article is Rs.280, the loss 5. A man buys 25 chairs for Rs.375 and sells them at a
percentage is 20%. What is the loss or gain percentage, profit equal to the selling price of 5 chairs. What is the
if the selling price is increased to Rs.380? selling price of one chair?
4 5 (a) Rs.18.75 (b) Rs.14.50
(a) 8 % profit (b) 4 % loss
7 7 (c) Rs.15.20 (d) Rs.17.20

50 9 6. A grocer purchased 80 kg of rice at Rs.13.50 per

(c) % profit (d) 4 % profit kilogram and mixed it with 120 kg of rice at Rs.16 per
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kilogram. At what rate per kilogram should he sell the
2. Ajeet calculates his profit percentage as a percentage mixture to gain 16%.
of selling price. He sells an item for Rs.150 and
(a) Rs.14.50 (b) Rs.17.40
calculates his profit percentage to be 20% What is the
true profit percentage? (c) Rs.11.50 (d) Rs.9.50
(a) 20% (b) 25% 7. The cost price of 9 articles is equal to the selling price
of 11 articles. Find the loss percentage.
(c) 22.5% (d) 15%
3. Profit earned by selling an article for Rs.1060 is 20% 2 9
(a) 18 % (b) 2 %
more than the loss incurred by selling the article for 11 11
Rs.950. At what price should the article be sold to earn
20% profit? 1 1
(c) 15 % (d) 16 %
(a) Rs.1000 (b) Rs.1150 2 2

(c) 1250 (d) Rs.1200 8. A cloth merchant claims to sell his material at cost price
but uses a scale which reads 1 m for 95 cm. Find his
4. A trade man marks his goods at 20% above the CP gain percentage.
and gives a discount of 10% for cash payments. What
profit percentage does he make? (a) 5.26% (b) 6.2%
(a) 8% (b) 6% (c) 6.5% (d) 7.5%
(c) 10% (d) 12% 9. If a man reduce the selling price of a fan from Rs.400
to Rs.380, his loss increases from x% to (x + 4)%.
What is the cost price of the fan?
(a) Rs.420 (b) Rs.550
(c) Rs.500 (d) Rs.400

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10. A dishonest seller uses a weight of 800g in place of 1 (c) 25% (d) 30%
kg and adds 20% impurities in sugar. What would be 17. If a selling price of Rs.24 results in a 20% discount of
his profit percentage if he claims to sell the goods at the list price, the selling price that would result in a
the cost price?
30% discount of the list price is
(a) 50% (b) 40% (a) Rs.16 (b) Rs.21
(c) 25% (d) 45.5% (c) Rs.25 (d) Rs.31
11. If the cost price of 36 books is equal to the selling price 18. A man sells two articles for the same price for Rs.640.
of 30 books, then the gain percentage is He earns 20% profit on the first and 10% profit on the
second. Find the over all percent profit.
4 (a) 14.78% (b) 14.08%
(a) 20% (b) 16 %
6 (c) 14.58% (d) None of these
2 19. If a commission of 10% is given on the marked price
(c) 16% (d) 8 %
6 of an article, the gain is 25%. Find the gain percent if
12. A man buys 6 dozen eggs for Rs.10.80 and 12 eggs commission is increased to 20%.
are found rotten and the rest are sold at 5 eggs per 1
rupee. Find his gain or loss percentage. (a) 11 % (b) 12%
9
1 1 100 50
(a) 11 % gain (b) 11 % loss (c) % (d) %
9 9 3 3
20. A trader marks his goods 20% above the cost price
1 1 and allows a discount of 15% on it. Find his gain percent
(c) 9 % gain (d) 9 % loss
11 11 (a) 4% (b) 5%
13. A businessman marked the price of his goods 30% more (c) 1% (d) 2%
than his cost price. He then sells 1/4 of his stock at a 21. By selling 33 metres of cloth, one gains the selling price
discount of 15% and half of the stock at the marked of 11 metres. Find the gain percent
price, and rest at a discount of 30%. Find his gain (a) 20% (b) 40%
percentage. (c) 50% (d) 22%
22. A person incurrs a loss of 10% by selling a toy for
3 Rs.10.80. At what price he should sell the same to earn
(a) 16.5% (b) 15 %
8 a profit of 20%?
(c) 14.20% (d) 13.37% (a) Rs.12 (b) Rs.12.96
(c) Rs.14.40 (d) None of these
14. A shopkeeper bought some pencils at 2 for Re.1, and 23. A man sold 250 chairs and had a gain equal to the
an equal number at 3 for Rs.2. He sold the entire lot at
selling price of 50 chairs. His profit percent is
5 for Re3. Find out his gain or loss percentage.
(a) 5% (b) 10%
6 6 (c) 25% (d) 50%
(a) 2 % loss (b) 3 % gain 24. By selling 110 mangoes, the CP of 120 mangoes is
7 7
realised. What is the gain percentage?
6
(c) 2 % gain (d) None of these 1 1
7 (a) 11 % (b) 9 %
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15. If an article is sold at 8% profit instead of 8% loss, it
would have brought Rs.12 more. Find the cost price of 10 1
(c) 10
% (d) 9 %
the article 11 11
(a) Rs.75 (b) Rs.72 25. A man buys oranges at Rs.5 a dozen and an equal
(c) Rs. 70 (d) Rs.60 number at Rs.4 a dozen. He sells them at Rs.5.50 a
16. Sunanda is making a profit of 25% on his selling price, dozen and makes a profit of Rs.50. How many oranges
what is her actual profit percentage? does he buy?
(a) 30 dozens (b) 40 dozens
100 (c) 50 dozens (d) 60 dozens
(a) % (b) 20%
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A SET Mat hemat ics ( Class -6)

AMITY INSTITUTE
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Ph: 0120-4392463, 9110115040, 9818750084.

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(Amity University, Noida)
Class Exercise-6
Profit and Loss

ANSWER
26. (a) 27. (b) 28. (d) 29. (a) 30. (a)

31. (b) 32. (a) 33. (a) 34. (c) 35. (a)

36. (a) 37. (a) 38. (b) 39. (c) 40. (a)

41. (a) 42. (b) 43. (a) 44. (a) 45. (d)

46. (c) 47. (c) 48. (c) 49. (d) 50. (c)

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