Quantitative Aptitude - MCQ Practice Questions

A merchant marks his goods 50% higher than cost price. What discount percent should he offer to gain 20% profit?

A shopkeeper buys goods for ₹2,400 and sells $\frac{2}{3}$ of it at 20% profit and remaining at 10% loss. What is his overall profit/loss?

A trader buys 100 items for ₹500. He sells 80 items at ₹8 per item and remaining 20 items at ₹3 per item. What is his profit/loss percentage?

A person sells two watches for ₹1,200 each. On one he gains 20% and on the other he loses 20%. What is his overall profit/loss?

An item is sold for ₹300 at a loss of 25%. What should be its selling price to gain 25% profit?

A dealer purchases goods worth ₹5,000 and incurs ₹500 as transportation cost. He marks the cost price 40% above total cost and allows 20% discount. What is profit percentage?

A shopkeeper allows successive discounts of 15% and 10% on marked price. If selling price is ₹459, what is the marked price?

By selling 45 articles, a shopkeeper gains an amount equal to the selling price of 9 articles. What is the gain percentage?

A shopkeeper sells goods at 15% profit. If he had bought them at 10% less and sold for ₹4 less, he would gain 30%. What is the cost price?

A merchant bought goods and marked them 45% above cost price. He then offers two successive discounts of 15% and 10%. What is his net profit/loss percentage?

Two articles are sold for ₹1,000 each. One at 25% profit and the other at 25% loss. What is the overall profit/loss percentage?

A shopkeeper gives two successive discounts of 20% and 30% on marked price. If cost price is ₹840 and marked price is ₹2000, what is the profit percentage?

A shopkeeper buys 120 articles for ₹2000. He sells 100 at ₹18 each and the remaining at ₹16 each. What is the profit percentage?

A merchant bought goods for ₹10,000. He sold them at 20% profit. What is the average cost if he later bought more goods for ₹15,000 at a 10% loss?