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A man 21
A man sells a bicycle at a profit of 25%. Had he bought it at a price less by 25% and sold it at 250 euro less then also he could have made a profit of 25%. Find cost price.
AVR - three friends
$2250 is divided among three friends, Ajay, Vijay, and Raj, in such a way that 1/6th of Ajay's share, 1/4th of Vijay's share, and 2/5th of Raj's share is equal. Find Ajay's share.
Consumption stable
If the price of sugar rises from Rs 6/kg to Rs 7.50/kg. A person having no increase in his expenditure on sugar, will have to reduce his consumption by?
Roland 2
Roland sold his watch at a 15% loss. If he had sold it for 210 USD more, he would have made a profit of 20%. Find the cost of price of the watch.
The profit 6
A man sells an article at a profit of 20%. If he had bought it at 20% less and sold for $5 less, he would have gained 25%. Find the cost price of the article.
A shopkeeper 7
A shopkeeper bought 80 cricket bats for 2.55 euros each. He sells 20 of them at a 5% gain. What must be the gain percentage of the remaining bats to get a 10% gain overall?
Two class train
The ratio of first and second class train fares between two stations is 3:1 and that of the number of passengers travelling between these stations by first and second class is 1:50. If on a particular day USD 1325 be collected, then the amount collected f
Secondary 5
Secondary Middle School has 1200 students. Each student takes 5 classes a day. Each teacher teaches 4 classes. Each class has 30 students and 1 teacher. How many teachers are there at Secondary Middle School?
A mobile
A mobile phone and a tablet were sold at a profit of 10% and a loss of 8% respectively . If the cost price of the mobile is 1.5 times that of the tablet what is the overall percentage earned by selling both the articles?
Chelsea
Chelsea Donahue has a 20-year home mortgage of $74000 at 7.50% interest and will pay a $534 annual insurance premium. Her annual property tax will be $1534. Find her monthly PITI payment.
A town 3
A town with 12,000 people has been growing at a rate of 2.5% per year. How many years ago was the population 8,000?
An apple 2
An apple tree was planted two years ago. It increases at the rate of 20% every year .If at present, the height of the tree is 540 cm, what was it when the tree was planted?
Big school 2
The ratio of the number of boys to the number of girls in a school of 450 pupil is 4 : 5 . When some new boys and girls are admitted, the number of boys increases by 25 and ratio of boys and girls changes to 9 : 13 . Calculate the number of new girls admi
An iron rod
If 22.5 meters of a uniform iron rod weighs 85.5 kg, what will the length of 22.8 kilograms of the same rod?
PC and laptop
A person spent Rs 50000 to purchase a desktop computer and a laptop computer. He sold the desktop at a 20% profit and the laptop at a 10% loss. If, overall, he made a 2% profit, then find the purchase price, in rupees, for the desktop.
Peter 17
Peter ate 9 ounces of chocolate cake which was 75% of the entire cake. Which expression can be used to find the size of the full cake?
An article
An article is sold at 20% profit. If it were sold at a 25% profit, then he could get USD 35 more. Then, find the article's cost price.
An expensive watch
A watch when sold at a profit of 6% yields $ 870 more than when it is sold at a loss of 6% . Find the cost price of the watch.
Write 8
Write an expression for the total cost using the variable x. A bus company charges $35 to rent a bus for the day plus $4.50 for each student.
After 9
After reducing the price by 10%, the dress costs 270 GEL. What was the cost of the dress before it got cheaper?

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