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Q41The difference between CP and SP of a table fan is Rs.175 when it gives the profit of 14%. What is the selling price of that fan?MediumSolve →Q42Vikas bought an article at Rs. 150 and sold it at a profit of 20%. What would have been the increase in the profit percent if it was sold for Rs. 195?MediumSolve →Q43Even after a discount of q% on marked price a trader gains by p% what is the markup percentage over the cost price?MediumSolve →Q44A dealer sold two TV sets for Rs. 9600 each, gaining 20% on one and losing 20% on the other set. Find his net gain or net loss.MediumSolve →Q45A trader mixes 25% kerosene to his petrol and then he sells the whole mixture at the price of petrol. If the cost price of kerosene is 50% of the cost price of petrol, what is the net profit percentage?MediumSolve →Q46A man sells an article at 10% above its cost price. If he had bought it at 15% less than what he paid for it and sold it for Rs. 33 less, he would have gained 10%. Find the cost price of the article.MediumSolve →Q47Two dealers P and Q selling the same model of TV set mark them under the same selling prices. P gives successive discounts of 20% and 15% and Q gives successive discounts of 18% and 17%. From whom is it more profitable to purchase the TV set?MediumSolve →Q48A firm dealing in furniture allows a 5% discount on the marked price of each item. What price must be marked on a dining table that costs Rs.2000 to assemble, so as to make a profit of 14%?MediumSolve →Q49Mithilesh makes 750 articles at a cost of 60 paise per article. He fixes the selling price such that if only 600 articles are sold, he would have made a profit of 40% on the outlay. However, 120 articles got spoiled and he was able to sell 630 articles at this price. Find his actual profit percent as the percentage of total outlay assuming that the unsold articles are useless.MediumSolve →Q50When a bicycle manufacturer reduced its selling price by 50%, the number of bicycles sold radically increased by 600%. Initially the manufacturer was getting only 140% profit. What is the percentage increase of his profit?MediumSolve →
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