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This section includes 3305 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Arithmetic Ability knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 1301. |
Cost price of 28 articles is equal to selling price of 21 articles, then percentage of profit is = ? |
| A. | 2% |
| B. | $33\frac{1}{3}$$% |
| C. | 0% |
| D. | 2% |
| Answer» C. 0% | |
| 1302. |
Aditya, a trader, sells an item to a retailer at 20% discount, but charges 10% on the discounted price, for delivery and packaging. The retailer sells it for Rs. 2046 more, thereby earning a profit of 25%. At what price had the trader marked the item ? |
| A. | s. 9400 |
| B. | s. 9000 |
| C. | s. 8000 |
| D. | s. 9300 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 1303. |
The marked price of a shirt and trousers are in the ratio 1 : 2. The shopkeeper gives 40% discount on the shirt. If the total discount on the set of the shirt and trousers is 30%, the discount offered on the trousers is = ? |
| A. | 5% |
| B. | 0% |
| C. | 5% |
| D. | 0% |
| Answer» D. 0% | |
| 1304. |
A man bought 25 crates of oranges for 10000. He lost 5 crates. In order to earn a total profit of 25% of the total cost, he would have to sell each of the remaining crates at = ? |
| A. | s. 650 |
| B. | s. 625 |
| C. | s. 600 |
| D. | s. 575 |
| Answer» C. s. 600 | |
| 1305. |
A dealer allows a discount of 15%. A customer pays an amount of Rs. 318.75 for an article. At what price is the article listed ? |
| A. | s. 366.50 |
| B. | s. 375.00 |
| C. | s. 350.00 |
| D. | s. 431.25 |
| Answer» C. s. 350.00 | |
| 1306. |
At what percentage above the cost price must an article be marked so as to gain 33% after allowing a customer a discount of 5% ? |
| A. | 0% |
| B. | 5% |
| C. | 5% |
| D. | 7% |
| Answer» B. 5% | |
| 1307. |
A shopkeeper sells 25 articles at Rs. 45 per article after giving 10% discount and earns 50% profit. If the discount is not given, the profit gained is = ? |
| A. | 0% |
| B. | $60\frac{2}{3}$$% |
| C. | 6% |
| D. | $66\frac{2}{3}$$% |
| E. | one of these |
| Answer» E. one of these | |
| 1308. |
A shopkeeper sold an air - conditioner for Rs. 25935 with a discount of 9% and earned a profit of 3.74%. What would have been the percentage of profit if no discount were offered? |
| A. | 2.3% |
| B. | 5.6% |
| C. | 6% |
| D. | one of these |
| Answer» E. | |
| 1309. |
A dishonest dealer professes to sell his goods at cost price but uses a weight of 875 gms for the kilogram weight. His gain in the percentage is = ? |
| A. | 7% |
| B. | $4\frac{5}{7}$$% |
| C. | $14\frac{2}{7}$$% |
| D. | 4% |
| Answer» D. 4% | |
| 1310. |
A shopkeeper purchases two items for Rs. 520. One of them is sold gaining 16%and the other at a loss of 10%, thus making no profit or loss. What is the selling price of the item sold at loss ? |
| A. | s. 288 |
| B. | s. 232 |
| C. | s. 320 |
| D. | s. 200 |
| Answer» B. s. 232 | |
| 1311. |
A trader purchased a gift box for Rs. 150. What should be the marked price on the gift box so that after allowing a discount of 10% , he makes a profit of 10% ? |
| A. | s. 180 |
| B. | s. 183.30 |
| C. | s. 186.60 |
| D. | s. 190 |
| Answer» C. s. 186.60 | |
| 1312. |
A shopkeeper sells a badminton racket, whose marked price is Rs. 30, at a discount of 15% and gives a shuttle cock costing Rs. 1.50 free with each racket. Even then he makes a profit of 20% . His cost price per racket is. |
| A. | s. 19.75 |
| B. | s. 20 |
| C. | s. 21 |
| D. | s. 21.25 |
| Answer» C. s. 21 | |
| 1313. |
A merchant marks his goods at 25% above the cost price. Due to a slump in the market, his cost reduces by 5%. He thus offers a discount of 8% due to which the sales go up by 25%. Compute the change in the merchant's profit = ? |
| A. | % higher |
| B. | $7\frac{1}{2}$$% higher |
| C. | % lower |
| D. | nchanged |
| Answer» E. | |
| 1314. |
A fan listed at Rs. 150 with a discount of 20%. What additional discount must be offered to the customer to bring the net price to Rs. 108 ? |
| A. | $11\frac{1}{9}$$% |
| B. | 5% |
| C. | % |
| D. | one of these |
| Answer» E. | |
| 1315. |
The selling price of 6 bananas is equal to the cost price of 8 bananas. Then the percentage of profit is = ? |
| A. | 0% |
| B. | $33\frac{1}{3}$$% |
| C. | 5% |
| D. | 0% |
| Answer» C. 5% | |
| 1316. |
A dishonest shopkeeper professes to sell goods at his cost price but uses a false weight of 950 gms, for each kilogram. His gain percentage is = ? |
| A. | $11\frac{1}{9}\% $$ |
| B. | $9\frac{1}{{11}}\% $$ |
| C. | $10\% $$ |
| D. | $\frac{{100}}{{19}}\% $$ |
| Answer» E. | |
| 1317. |
A shopkeeper sold an article offering a discount of 5%and earned a profit of 23.5% . What would have been the percentage of profit earned if no discount was offered ? |
| A. | 4.5% |
| B. | 8.5% |
| C. | 0% |
| D. | ata inadequate |
| E. | one of these |
| Answer» D. ata inadequate | |
| 1318. |
A product when sold with 10% rebate on the listed price gave a profit of Rs. 70. What was its cost price ? |
| A. | s. 200 |
| B. | s. 350 |
| C. | s. 700 |
| D. | annot be determined |
| E. | one of these |
| Answer» E. one of these | |
| 1319. |
A shopkeeper gains 21% after allowing a discount of 12% on the marked price of an article. Find his profit percent, if the article is sold at marked price allowing no discount = ? |
| A. | 0% |
| B. | 5% |
| C. | 7.50% |
| D. | 1.50% |
| Answer» D. 1.50% | |
| 1320. |
A merchant marks an article 20% above cost price. Then he sells it at a discount of 20% . The sale gives him ? |
| A. | o loss or gain |
| B. | % loss |
| C. | % gain |
| D. | % gain |
| Answer» C. % gain | |
| 1321. |
The selling price of 8 articles is same as the cost price of 10 articles. What is profit % ? |
| A. | 5% |
| B. | 0% |
| C. | 2% |
| D. | 3% |
| Answer» B. 0% | |
| 1322. |
A trader markedhisgoods at 20% above the cost price. He sold half the stock at the marked price,one quarter at a discount of 20% on the marked price and the rest at a discount of 40% on the marked price. His total gain is - |
| A. | % |
| B. | .5% |
| C. | 3.5% |
| D. | 5% |
| Answer» B. .5% | |
| 1323. |
A shopkeeper offered a discount of 15% on the labelled price. By selling an article for Rs. 340 after giving discount he earned a profit of $$13\frac{1}{3}$$% . What would have been the percent profit earned if no discount was offered? |
| A. | 7 |
| B. | $28\frac{1}{3}$$ |
| C. | $30\frac{1}{3}$$ |
| D. | $33\frac{1}{3}$$ |
| E. | one of these. |
| Answer» E. one of these. | |
| 1324. |
The price of an article is first increased by 20% and later on decreased by 25% due to reduction in sales. Find the net percentage change in final price of the article? |
| A. | 0% |
| B. | 8% |
| C. | 8% |
| D. | one of these |
| Answer» E. | |
| 1325. |
Supriya sold a washing machine for Rs. 8500. She incurred a loss of 15% in this transaction. At what price had she bought the washing machine ? |
| A. | s. 10000 |
| B. | s. 1200 |
| C. | s. 11000 |
| D. | s. 10500 |
| Answer» B. s. 1200 | |
| 1326. |
A sells a watch to B and makes a loss of 12%. B makes a profit of $$12\frac{1}{2}$$% by selling the watch to C. If A sells the watch to be at the cost of which C purchased it, then the percentage of loss or profit of A will be = ? |
| A. | % loss |
| B. | % profit |
| C. | % loss |
| D. | % profit |
| Answer» B. % profit | |
| 1327. |
Ramesh sold a book at a loss of 30%. If he has sold it for Rs. 140 more, he would have made a profit of 40%. The cost price of the book is = ? |
| A. | s. 280 |
| B. | s. 200 |
| C. | s. 260 |
| D. | s. 300 |
| Answer» C. s. 260 | |
| 1328. |
Meena Kumari goes to a shop and buys a saree, costing Rs. 5225, including sales tax of 12%. The shopkeeper gives her a discount, so that the price is decreased by an amount equivalent to sales tax. The price is decreased by ( nearest value) ? |
| A. | s. 615 |
| B. | s. 650 |
| C. | s. 560 |
| D. | s. 580 |
| Answer» D. s. 580 | |
| 1329. |
Srinivas sold an article for Rs. 6800 and incurred a loss. Had he sold the article foe Rs. 7850, his gain would have been equal to half of the amount of loss that he incurred. At what price should he sell the article to have 20% profit = ? |
| A. | s. 7500 |
| B. | s. 9000 |
| C. | s. 10680 |
| D. | s. 9600 |
| Answer» C. s. 10680 | |
| 1330. |
The profit earned by a shopkeeper by selling a bucket at a gain of 8% is Rs. 28 more than when he sells it at a loss of 8%. The cost price (in Rupees) of the bucket is = ? |
| A. | s. 170 |
| B. | s. 190 |
| C. | s. 175 |
| D. | s. 165 |
| Answer» D. s. 165 | |
| 1331. |
Mr. Kapur purchased two toy cycles for Rs. 750 each. He sold these cycles, gaining 6% on one and losing 4% on the other. The gain or loss percent in the whole transaction is = ? |
| A. | % loss |
| B. | % gain |
| C. | .5% loss |
| D. | .5% gain |
| Answer» C. .5% loss | |
| 1332. |
Raza purchased a bicycle for Rs. 6810. He had paid a VAT of 13.5%. The list price of the bicycle was = ? |
| A. | s. 6696.50 |
| B. | s. 6140 |
| C. | s. 5970.50 |
| D. | s. 6000 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 1333. |
The sale price of an article including the sales tax is Rs. 1232. The rate of sales tax is 10%. If the shopkeeper has made a profit of 12%, then the cost price of the article is = ? |
| A. | s. 900 |
| B. | s. 950 |
| C. | s. 1000 |
| D. | s. 1120 |
| Answer» D. s. 1120 | |
| 1334. |
By what fraction selling price must be multiplied to get the cost price, if the loss is 20% = ? |
| A. | $\frac{4}{5}$$ |
| B. | $\frac{8}{5}$$ |
| C. | $\frac{5}{4}$$ |
| D. | $\frac{6}{5}$$ |
| Answer» D. $\frac{6}{5}$$ | |
| 1335. |
A shopkeeper increases the price of an object by 40% and then sells it at 25% discount on the marked price. If the selling price of such an object be Rs. 2100, its cost price for the shopkeeper was? |
| A. | s. 3000 |
| B. | s. 1500 |
| C. | s. 1750 |
| D. | s. 2000 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 1336. |
A book seller allowed 10% discount on printed price. He gets 30% commission from publisher. His profit in percent will be? |
| A. | 0% |
| B. | $28\frac{4}{7}$$% |
| C. | 5% |
| D. | $28\frac{3}{7}$$% |
| Answer» C. 5% | |
| 1337. |
Sanjay made a profit of 8% by selling a shirt after offering a discount of 12%. If the marked price of the shirt is Rs. 1080, find cost price = ? |
| A. | s. 890 |
| B. | s. 780 |
| C. | s. 880 |
| D. | s. 900 |
| Answer» D. s. 900 | |
| 1338. |
A shopkeeper fixes the marked price of an item 35% above its cost price. The percentage of discount allowed to gain 8% is = ? |
| A. | 0% |
| B. | 7% |
| C. | 1% |
| D. | 3% |
| Answer» B. 7% | |
| 1339. |
There would be a loss of 10% if an article is sold for 43.20. At what price should it be sold to gain 10% ? |
| A. | s. 48.80 |
| B. | s. 52.80 |
| C. | s. 56.20 |
| D. | s. 56.80 |
| Answer» C. s. 56.20 | |
| 1340. |
James and Vaibhav are gamblers. Last year, the ratio between money lost by James and Vaibhav was 4 : 5. The ratios of their individual losses of the last year and present year are 3 : 5 and 2 : 3 respectively. If total loss incurred to both of them this year is Rs. 357000 the present loss of James is = ? |
| A. | s. 170000 |
| B. | s. 159000 |
| C. | s. 168000 |
| D. | s. 137000 |
| Answer» D. s. 137000 | |
| 1341. |
A shopkeeper has 11 books of same cost price. He sells the first book at certain price, then he sells second book at a price which is Rs. 1 less than the selling price of first book and then he sells third book at a price which is Rs. 1, less than the selling price of second book. Following this pattern, he sold all 11 books. If he sells sixth book at its cost price. Find the over-all percent profit or loss on selling all 11 books = ? |
| A. | 0% |
| B. | 0% |
| C. | $\frac{1}{{11}}$$% |
| D. | o profit no loss |
| Answer» E. | |
| 1342. |
A tradesman gives 4% discount on the marked price and gives 1 article free for buying every 15 articles and thus gains 35%. The marked price is above the cost price by - |
| A. | 0% |
| B. | 9% |
| C. | 0% |
| D. | 0% |
| Answer» E. | |
| 1343. |
A person first increases the price of a commodity by 10% and then he announces a discount of 15%. The actual discount on the original price is - |
| A. | % |
| B. | .5% |
| C. | .5% |
| D. | 2.5% |
| Answer» C. .5% | |
| 1344. |
A person bought 50 pens for Rs. 50 each. He sold 40 of them at a loss of 5%. He wants to gain 10% on the whole. Then his gain percent on the remaining pens should be = ? |
| A. | 5% |
| B. | 0% |
| C. | 0% |
| D. | 0% |
| Answer» E. | |
| 1345. |
A person sold a TV for Rs. 9400 then he lost a particular amount. When he sold another TV of the same type at Rs. 10600, his gain was double the former loss. What was the cost price of each TV? |
| A. | s. 9800 |
| B. | s. 10000 |
| C. | s. 10200 |
| D. | s. 10400 |
| Answer» B. s. 10000 | |
| 1346. |
If a man estimates his loss as 20% of the selling price, then his loss percent is= ? |
| A. | 0% |
| B. | 5% |
| C. | $\frac{{40}}{3}$$% |
| D. | $\frac{{50}}{3}$$% |
| Answer» E. | |
| 1347. |
A shopkeeper purchased 150 identical pieces of calculators at the rate of Rs. 250 each. He spent an amount of Rs. 2500 on transport and packing. He fixed the labelled price of each calculator at Rs. 320. However, he decided to give a discount of 5% on labelled price. What is the percentage profit earned by him ? |
| A. | 4% |
| B. | 5% |
| C. | 6% |
| D. | 0% |
| E. | one of these |
| Answer» B. 5% | |
| 1348. |
On a Rs. 10000 payment order, a person has choice between 3 successive discounts of 10%, 10% and 30%, and 3 successive discounts of 40%, 5% and 5%. By choosing the better one he can save (in rupees) |
| A. | 00 |
| B. | 55 |
| C. | 00 |
| D. | 33 |
| Answer» C. 00 | |
| 1349. |
A company offers three types of successive discountsi. 25% and 15%ii. 30% and 10%iii. 35% and 5%Which offer is the best for a customer ? |
| A. | irst offer |
| B. | econd offer |
| C. | hird offer |
| D. | ny one,all are equally good |
| Answer» D. ny one,all are equally good | |
| 1350. |
If by selling an article for Rs. 390 a shopkeeper gains 20%, then the cost is = ? |
| A. | s. 370 |
| B. | s. 325 |
| C. | s. 350 |
| D. | s. 300 |
| Answer» C. s. 350 | |