Finding SP without Finding Discount Percentage

Q.

A shopkeeper marks his goods at 30 percent above the cost price and then gives a discount of 10 percent. Find his gain percent.

Q. A person sells 36 oranges per rupee and incurs a loss of $4\%$. Fine how many oranges per rupee to be sold to have a gain of $8\%$?

1. 32
2. 34
3. 30
4. 28

Q.

Every year before the festive season, a shopkeeper increases the product by $35\%$ and then introduce two successive discount of $10\%and15\%$ respectively. What is percentage loss and percentage gain?

Q.

An article is marked for Rs.1, 300 and is sold for Rs.1, 144. Find the discount percent.

Q. A shopkeeper offers 15% season discount to the customers and still makes a profit of 19%. What is the cost price for the shopkeeper on a saree marked at Rs 2, 240 ?

Q. A fan is listed at Rs. 1500 and a discount of 20% is offered on the list price.What additional discount must be offered to the customer to bring the net price to Rs.1104.

1. $8\%$
2. $15\%$
3. $12\%$
4. $10\%$

Q. A shopkeeper offers his customers $10\%$ discount and still makes a profit of $26\%$. What is the actual cost of an article marked Rs. 280? [4 MARKS]

Q.

The cost of an article is decreased by 15%. If the original cost is Rs. 80, find the decreased cost.

1. Rs. 56

2. Rs. 68

3. Rs. 84

4. Rs. 87

Q. The population of a city is 155625. For every 1000 men, there are 1075 women.If $40\%$ of men and $24\%$ of women are literate, then what is the percentage of literate people in the city?

1. $30\%$
2. $32\%$
3. $32\frac{10}{15}\%$
4. $32\frac{59}{83}\%$

Q. In a candy store, a jar of candy worth ₹ 50 is labelled, "$50\%$ off." What is the selling price of the jar of candy?

1. ₹ 100

2. ₹ 25

3. ₹ 20
4. ₹35

Q. If Sam owes Rs. 2, 700 on a credit card, and his minimum payment is 10%, how much must he pay?

1. Rs. 297
2. Rs. 243
3. Rs. 270
4. Rs. 540

Q. A dealer allows $25\%$ discount on the marked price of articles and earns a profit of $20\%$ on them. What is the marked price of the article on which he gains $\text{Rs.}800$ ?

1. Rs.$6000$
2. Rs.$6400$
3. Rs.$7200$
4. Rs.$7000$

Q. A large watermelon weighs 20 kg with 96% of its weight being water.It is allowed to stand in the sun and due to water evaporation, only 95%, of its weight is water. Its reduced weight of the watermelon will be :

1. 18 kg
2. 17 kg
3. 16.5 kg
4. 16 kg

Q. Find which of the following discount series is better for the customer :
$\left(i\right)30\%,20\%,$ and $10\%;$
$\left(ii\right)25\%,20\%,$ and $15\%.$

Q. Successive discount of $10\%,12\%$ and $15\%$ amount to a single discount of:

1. $32.68\%$
2. $35.28\%$
3. $36.68\%$
4. $Noneofthese$

Q. Simple interest on a principal of Rs. 5, 000 at the rate of 20% for 4 years is__

1. Rs. 1, 000
2. Rs. 2, 000
3. Rs. 3, 000
4. Rs. 4, 000

Q. A shopkeeper sold an article for Rs. 6750 after giving a discount of 10% on the labelled price. He would have earned a profit of 50% had there been no discount. What was the actual percentage of profit earned?

1. $36\%$
2. $40\%$
3. $44\%$
4. $35\%$

Q. A shopkeeper allows a discount of $25\%$ on the marked price and earns a profit of $20\%$ on the cost price.Its marked price on which shop earns ₹40 is ____.

1. ₹300
2. ₹ 320
3. ₹ 280
4. ₹340

Q. The marked prices of an articles is $Rs.500$. The shopkeeper gives a discount of $5\%$ and still $m$ makes a profit of $25\%$. Find the cost prices of the article.

Q. A shopkeeper was selling all his items at $25\%$ discount. During the off season, he offered $30\%$ discount over and above the existing discount. If Pragya bought a skirt which was marked for $Rs.1200$, how much did she pay for it?

Q. At a simple rate of interest of 4% a sum of Rs.600 in 5 years amounts to

1. Rs.720
2. Rs.624
3. Rs.620
4. Rs.630

Q. Simple interest on a certain sum amounts to Rs. 8.25 in 2 years at 5%. Find the sum

1. Rs. 72.50
2. Rs. 83.50
3. Rs. 82.50
4. Rs. 85.50

Q. An agent makes a profit of 20% even after a discount of 10% on the advertised price. If he makes a profit of Rs. 900 on the sale of a scooter, then the advertised price is

1. Rs. 4, 000
2. Rs. 6, 000
3. Rs. 5, 050
4. Rs. 4, 500

Q. Find the discount and the amount actually paid if:
A shirt having a price tag of $Rs.600$ is sold at $15$% discount.

Q. The marked price of a watch is Rs 800. A customer gets two successive discounts on the marked price, the first being 10%. What is the second discount if the customer pays Rs 612 for it?

1. 15%
2. 14%
3. 17%
4. 18%

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The shopkeeper shows a bill of ₹ 551.50. He says there is a discount of 10%. What is the approximate amount that I should pay?

1. ₹439

2. ₹346

3. ₹496

4. ₹450

Q. After selling an article a man gains 25%. Also he uses a false weight of 10%. Find the total profit % earned by him?

Q. A survey was made to find the type of music that a certain group of young people liked in a city. Adjoining pie chart shows the findings of this survey.
From this pie chart answer the following:
(i) If $20$ people liked classical music, how many young people were surveyed?
(ii) Which type of music is liked by the maximum number of people?
(iii) If a cassette company were to make $1000$ CDs, how many of each type would they make?

Q. Find the amount of bill for the following intra-state transaction of goods/services. The GST rate is 5%.

Q. Rs.1, 000 invested in the bank at a rate 7 percent will give a sum of ______ after one year

1. Rs. 1, 050
2. Rs. 1, 100
3. Rs. 1, 070
4. Rs. 1, 090