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Rohan sells two articles. The cost price of the first article is equal to the selling price of the second article. The first article is sold at a profit of 40% and the second article is sold at a loss of 40%. What is the ratio of the selling price of the first article to the cost price of the second article?

Correct Answer: 21 : 25 \
  A) 21 : 25  

A man sells two articles. The cost price of the first article is equal to the selling price of the second article. The first article is sold at a profit of 20% and the second articles is sold at a loss of 20%. What is the ratio of the selling price of the first article and the cost price of the second article?

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 = ?

Mukesh sells two shirts. The cost price of the first shirt is equal to the selling price of the second shirt. The first shirt is sold at a profit of 30% and the second shirt is sold at a loss of 30%. What is the ratio of the selling price of the first shirt to the cost price of the second shirt?

Profit on selling 10 candles equals selling price of 3 bulbs. While loss on selling 10 bulbs equal selling price of 4 candles. Also profit percentage equals to the loss percentage and cost of a candle is half of the cost of a bulb. What is the ratio of selling price of candles to the selling price of a bulb?

The first 3 articles were sold at a profit of 50%, the next 5 articles were sold at a loss of 25% and the final 2 articles were sold at a profit of 100%. Find the profit percentage on the whole transaction.

A merchant buys two articles for Rs.600. He sells one of them at a profit of 22% and the other at a loss of 8% and makes no profit or loss in the end. What is the selling price of the article that he sold at a loss ?

An article is sold at 20% less than its cost price. If the selling cost is 50 rupees and the selling cost is 5% of the selling price, find the loss. (Selling cost here is the expense occurred to sell the article, it is levied on the seller)

"S produces and sells one product, P, for which the data are as follows:
Selling price Rs 28
Variable cost Rs 16
Fixed cost Rs 4
The fixed costs are based on a budgeted production and sales level of 25,000 units for the next period. Due to market changes both the selling price and the variable cost are expected to increase above the budgeted level in the next period. If the selling price and variable cost per unit increase by 10% and 8% respectively, by how much must sales volume change, compared with the original budgeted level, in order to achieve the original budgeted profit for the period?"

A shop keeper sells an article at a loss of 8%, but when he increases the selling price of the article by Rs. 164 he earns a profit of 2.25% on the cost price. If he sells the same article at Rs. 1760, what is his profit percentage?

Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below it. There are 6 persons in a family - three males and three females. Out of these, there are two married couples and two persons who are unmarried. Each one of them likes different colour, viz. Blue, Red, Pink, Green, Yellow and white. Seema, who likes Red colour, is Anitha's mother-in-law and Anitha is Raja's wife. Dinesh is Rohan's father and he does not like the blue colour or white colour. Bavya likes the yellow colour and is Rohan's sister, who likes Pink colour, Raja does not use White colour. How is Rohan related to Seema?