Recent questions tagged profit-loss

Instead of a metre scale, a cloth merchant uses a $120$ cm scale while buying, but uses an 80 cm scale while selling the same cloth. If he offers a discount of $20$ perce...

The cost of a diamond varies directly as the square of its weight. Once, this diamond broke into four pieces with weights in the ratio $1 : 2 : 3 : 4$. When the pieces we...

The price of a Maruti car rises by $30$% while the sales of the car came down by $20$%. What is the percent change in the total revenue?$–4$ $–2$ $+4$ $0$

I sold two watches for Rs. $300$ each, one at a loss of $10$% and the other at a profit of $10$%. What is the percent loss $(–)$ or the percent profit $(+)$ that resulted...

The marked price of coat was $40\%$ less than the suggested retail price. Eesha purchased the coat for half of the marked price at the $15\text{th}$ anniversary sale. Wha...

A dealer buys a product at Rs.1920. he sells at a discount of 20% still he gets the profit of 20%. what is the selling price?534230023042403

A trader buys goods at a 19% discount on the label price. If he wants to make a profit of 20% after allowing a discount of 10%, by what % should his marked price be great...