Money - practice problems - page 5 of 105

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Two articles
A shopkeeper bought two articles each at Rs.800. There was 25% profit on one and 25% loss on the other. Find the total percentage profit or loss in the whole transaction.
A discount 2
A discount of 52.50 dollars is obtained if a discount of 15% is allowed. Find the marked price and the selling price.
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.
Three girls
Rs.1400 is divided among Amla, Bimla, and Simla so that Amla receives half as much as Bimla, and Bimla receives half as much as Simla. Then Simla's share is:
Billy 2
Billy has 3/4 of the money Derek has, and Derek has 7/9 of the Jason has. If they have a total of $680. How much does each person has?
Telephones
The cost of manufacturing x telephones by Josh Mobiles is given by C = 500 + 45x, and the revenue from selling these are given by R = 65x. How many telephones must be produced and sold in order to realize a profit?
A man 20
A man sells an article at successive discounts of 10% and 5% on the listed price. Another man sells the same article at a discount of 15%.If the difference between the two selling prices be Rs 24, find the listed price of the article.
Wheat plus and minus
If the price of wheat is increased by 20% today, at what percent should it be decreased tomorrow, so as to bring down the price back to the original?
Compare offers
Which is the better offer: Three successive discounts of 10%, 10%, and 30% or Three consecutive discounts of 40%,5%, and 5%? Enter the answer as an A or B letter.
Three 262
Three farmers, A, B, and C, hire meadow for Rs 1460. Farmer A puts in 10 cows for 20 days, farmer B 30 cows for 8 days, and farmer C 16 cows for 9 days. Find the rent paid by each one of them.
3 purchases
Joe bought a sweatshirt for $19.95, a T-shirt for $10.75, and a pair of shoes for $65.70. How much did he spend on the three purchases?
Milk with water
How many liters of water are to be mixed in 12 liters of milk costing Rs 40 per liter so that it can be sold at Rs 32 per liter?
Average cost
A man bought 1 dozen banana at Rs 60 and 8 apples at Rs 120 . What is the average cost of each?
A man 19
A man buys apples at a certain price per dozen and sells them at eight times that price per hundred, find his gain or loss percent
A trader
A trader sold two saree at Rs 96 each & it causes the same% of profit and loss to each saree. If, as a whole he gets total loss of 4%, then what is the gain/loss% in the sale?
The price 9
The price of sugar is increased by 25%. Find by how much percent a family must reduce their consumption so that their expenditure may increase only by 10%.
Interest over time
If certain sum at compound interest becomes double in 5 years, then, in how many years, it will be 16 times at the same rate of interest?
Visitors 2
Due to decrease in entry fees by 25% the presentation of visitors is increased by 30% . Find the effect of this on the total entry fee?
An eraser
The cost of an eraser is $ 0.80 and the cost of a pencil is $ 2. What is the ratio of their costs in simplest form?
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.

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