UG-CLAT entrance exam Question Bank Solutions for Mathematics

The percentage of profit earned by selling an article for ₹1920 is equal to the percentage loss incurred by selling the same article for ₹1280. At what price should the article be sold to make a 25% profit?

A dealer marks the price of all the goods at 30% above the cost price and assumes that he will make a profit of 15% if he offers a discount of 15%. Find what will be his actual profit on sales?

By selling an article at 80% of its marked price a trader makes a loss of 10%, what will be a profit percentage if he sells it at 95% of its marked price?

By selling an article at `3/4`th of the marked price, there is a gain of 25%. The ratio of the marked price and the cost price is

A seller marks his good 30% above their cost price but allows a 15% discount for cash payment. His percentage of profit, when sold in cash, is

Selling an item for ₹1800 at a discount of 10% a shopkeeper had a gain of ₹200. Had he sold the item without discount the percentage of profit would have been

A person bought two bicycles for ₹1600 and sold the first at 10% profit and the second at 20% profit. If he sold the first at 20% profit and the second at 10% profit, he would get ₹5 more. The difference in the cost price of the two bicycles was

A person sold a table at a gain of 15%. Had he bought it for 25% less and sold it for ₹60 less, he would have made a profit of 32%. The cost price of the table was

An article is sold at a loss of 5% If it is sold at ₹72 more, then there would be a profit of 4%. What is the actual price of the article?

A man buys an article and sells it at a loss of 10%. Had he bought it for 20% less and sold it for ₹55 more, he would have made a profit of 40%. The cost price of the article is

A vendor bought toffees at 6 for a rupee. How many for a rupee must he sell to gain 20%?

Gita sold her watch to Sita for ₹800 at a loss of 20%. The same watch was sold to Gita by Shakti at 20% loss. What is the actual price of watch?

Solve the following question and mark the best possible option.
Jogen's taxable income for 2010-11 is Rs. 5,00,000. The tax rates are (i) nil for first 1,50,000, (ii) 10% for 150,001-3,00,000, and (iii) 20% for the remaining. His Tax liability is:

Customised jewellery was sold at L 1000 with 90% discount on the 'making charges'. 11' the payment made for making charges was Z 100, what is the appropriate rate of discount on the product?

Francis has 18 eggs out of which 12 eggs were sold at 10% less than the cost price. At what mark up should he sell the remaining eggs to cover his losses?

The Municipality of a town increases water tax by 20% and water consumption decreased by 20%. Then the percentage of increase or decrease in the monthly expenditure is: 

An employee of an organization invests a total of Rs 25,400 in two different schemes X and Y at a simple interest rate of 18% per annum and 10% per annum respectively. If a total of  Rs. 6460 has been earned as a simple interest in 2 years, what amount was invested in  Scheme Y?

Sonika invested an amount of Rs 5800 for 2 years. At what rate of compound interest will she get an amount of Rs 594.50 at the end of two years?

A speaks truth in 75% cases and B in 80% of the cases. In v1hat percentage of cases are they likely to contradict each other. narrating the same incident?

If n² = 12345678987654321, what is n?