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The document contains 25 word problems related to profit and loss calculations in business transactions. It provides the cost price and selling price of various goods like cricket balls, leg pads, gloves, bats, radios, mangoes, oranges, pens, tables, chairs, books, etc. and asks the reader to calculate profit percentages, loss percentages, breakeven points, and optimal selling prices to earn a target profit. The problems involve concepts like profit percentage, loss percentage, cost price, selling price, and calculations to determine unknown values based on the other given amounts.

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The document contains 25 word problems related to profit and loss calculations in business transactions. It provides the cost price and selling price of various goods like cricket balls, leg pads, gloves, bats, radios, mangoes, oranges, pens, tables, chairs, books, etc. and asks the reader to calculate profit percentages, loss percentages, breakeven points, and optimal selling prices to earn a target profit. The problems involve concepts like profit percentage, loss percentage, cost price, selling price, and calculations to determine unknown values based on the other given amounts.

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PROFIT & LOSS

1. Cost of 3 cricket balls = cost of 2 pairs of leg pads


cost of 3 pairs of leg pads = cost of 2 pars of glovers
cost of 3 pairs of glovers=cost of 2 cricket bat
if a cricket bat costs Rs.54, what is the cost of a cricket ball?

Rs.16

2. If by selling an article for RS.100, a man gains Rs.15 then his gain percent is
Ans 17 11/17%
3. What is the loss percent if a man loses Rs.10 on selling and article for Rs.100?
4. A shopkeeper sold an article for Rs.2564.36. Approximately what was his profit
percent if the cost price of the article was Rs.2400?
5. When a commodity is sold for Rs.34.80 there is a loss of 25% what is the cost
price of the cost price of the commodity? Ans 7
6. A man sold an article for Rs.247.50, thereby gaining 12 ½% . The cost of the
article was. Rs.220
7. A retailer buys a radio for Rs.225. His overhead expenses are Rs.15 he sells the
radio for Rs.300. The profit percent of the retailer is ……….Ans25
8. A shopkeeper bought an article for Rs.319.60. Approximately at what price
should he sell the article to make 25% profit ans Rs.400
9. If the selling price of an article is 4/3 times its cost price, the profit percent is
ans…. 33 1/3
10. There would be 10% loss if a to is sold at RS.10.80 per piece. At what price
should it be sold to earn a profit of 20% ans…Rs.14.40
11. By selling an article for Rs.19.50 a dealer makes a profit of 30% by how much
should he increase his selling price so as to make a profit of 40% ans….Rs.1.50
12. Rahim buys mangoes at the rate of 3kg for Rs.21 and sells them at 5kg for Rs.50.
To earn Rs.102 as profit, he must sell. Ans 34kg
13. If books bought at prices ranging from Rs.200 to Rs.350 are sold at prices ranging
from Rs.300 to Rs.425, what is the greatest possible profit that might be made in
selling eight books ? ans Rs.1800
14. The cost price of 20 articles is the same as selling price of 15 articles. The profit
percent in the transaction is ans : 33 1/3
15. A amn sells 320 mangoes at the cost price of 400 mangoes. His gain perecent is
Ans, 25%
16. If the cost price of 12 tables is equal to the selling price of 16 tables, the loss
percent is ans 25%
17. If the selling price of 18 articles is equal to the CP of 21 articles the loss or gain
percent ans: 16 2/3 % loss
18. A man sold 250 chairs and had a gain equal to selling price of 50 chairs. His profit
percent is ans: 25%
19. If by selling 100 mangoes the CP of 120 mangoes is realized the gain percent is
ans 6 1/11%
20. A vendor loses the SP of 4 oranges on selling 36 oranges. His loss percent is Ans:

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21. By selling a pen for Rs.15, a man loses one sixteenth of what it costs him. The
cost of the pen is Rs.16
22. By selling an article, sheetal earned a profit equal to 1/4th of the price he bought it.
If he sold it for Rs.375 what was the cost price ans RS.300
23. A shopkeeper on selling a pen for Rs.10, loses 1/11 of what it costs him. His cost
price is ans 11.
24. A fruit seller purchases oranges at the rate of 3 for Rs.5 and sells them at 2 for
Rs.4. His profit in the transaction is ans 20%
25. If I purchased 11 books for Rs.10 and sold all the books at the rate of 10 books for
Rs.11, the profit percent is ans 21%

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