71. A trader makes a profit equal to the selling price of 75 articles when he sold 100 of the articles. What % profit did he make in the transaction? A. 33.33% B. 75% C. 300% D. 150% Ans : C 72. 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? A. Rs. 404.80 B. Rs. 440 C. Rs. 536.80 D. Rs. 160 Ans : A 73. A trader professes to sell his goods at a loss of 8% but weights 900 grams in place of a kg weight. Find his real loss or gain per cent. A. 2% loss B. 2.22% gain C. 2% gain D. None of these Ans : B 74. Rajiv sold an article for Rs.56 which cost him Rs.x. If he had gained x% on his outlay, what was his cost? A. Rs. 40 B. Rs. 45 C. Rs. 36 D. Rs. 28 Ans : A 75. A trader buys goods at a 19% Aount on the label price. If he wants to make a profit of 20% after allowing a Aount of 10%, by what % should his marked price be greater than the original label price? A. +8% B. -3.8% C. +33.33% D. None of these Ans : A 76. If apples are bought at the rate of 30 for a rupee. How many apples must be sold for a rupee so as to gain 20%? A. 28 B. 25 C. 20 D. 22 Ans : B 77. One year payment to the servant is Rs. 200 plus one shirt. The servant leaves after 9 months and recieves Rs. 120 and a shirt. Then find the price of the shirt. A. Rs. 80 B. Rs. 100 C. Rs. 120 D. Cannot be determined Ans : C 78. Two merchants sell, each an article for Rs.1000. If Merchant A computes his profit on cost price, while Merchant B computes his profit on selling price, they end up making profits of 25% respectively. By how much is the profit made by Merchant B greater than that of Merchant A? A. Rs.66.67 B. Rs. 50 C. Rs.125 D. Rs.200 Ans : B 79. A merchant marks his goods in such a way that the profit on sale of 50 articles is equal to the selling price of 25 articles. What is his profit margin? A. 25% B. 50% C. 100% D. 66.67% Ans : C 80. A merchant marks his goods up by 75% above his cost price. What is the maximum % Aount that he can offer so that he ends up selling at no profit or loss? A. 75% B. 46.67% C. 300% D. 42.85% Ans : D 81. Rajesh traveled from city A to city B covering as much distance in the second part as he did in the first part of this journey. His speed during the second part was twice as that of the speed during the first part of the journey. What is his average speed of journey during the entire travel? A. His average speed is the harmonic mean of the individual speeds for the two parts. B. His average speed is the arithmetic mean of the individual speeds for the two parts. C. His average speed is the geometric mean of the individual speeds for the two parts. D. Cannot be determined. Ans : B 82. Two boys begin together to write out a booklet containing 535 lines. The first boy starts with the first line, writing at the rate of 100 lines an hour; and the second starts with the last line then writes line 534 and so on, backward proceeding at the rate of 50 lines an hour. At what line will they meet? A. 356 B. 277 C. 357 D. 267 Ans : C 83. A man and a woman 81 miles apart from each other, start travelling towrds each other at the same time. If the man covers 5 miles per hour to the womens 4 miles per hour, how far will the woman have travelled when they meet? A. 27 B. 36 C. 45 D. None of these. Ans : B 84. The speed of a motor boat itself is 20 km/h and the rate of flow of the river is 4 km/h. Moving with the stream the boat went 120 km. What distance will the boat cover during the same time going against the stream? A. 80 km B. 180 km C. 60 km D. 100 km Ans : A 85. Two friends A and B run around a circular track of length 510 metres, starting from the same point, simultaneously and in the same direction. A who runs faster laps B in the middle of the 5th round. If A and B were to run a 3 km race long race, how much start, in terms of distance, should A give B so that they finish the race in a dead heat? A. 545.45 metres B. 666.67 metres C. 857.14 metres D. Cannot be determined Ans
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