ICSE ICSE Class 8 - CISCE Question Bank Solutions

A shopkeeper sells his goods at 80% of their cost price. Find the percent gain or losses?

The cost price of an article is 90% of its selling price. What is the profit or the loss as a percent ?

The cost price of an article is 30 percent less than its selling price. Find, the profit or loss as a percent.

A shop-keeper bought 300 eggs at 80 paise each. 30 eggs were broken in a transaction and then he sold the remaining eggs at one rupee each. Find, his gain or loss as a percent.

If John sells his bicycle for Rs. 637, he will suffer a loss of 9%. For how much should it be sold, if he desires a profit of 5%?

A man sells a radio-set for Rs.605 and gains 10%. At what price should he sell another radio of the same kind, in order to gain 16%?

By selling a sofa-set for Rs.2,500; the shopkeeper loses 20%. Find his loss percent or profit percent; if he sells the same sofa-set for Rs.3150.

Mr. Sinha sold two tape-recorders for Rs.990 each; gaining 10% on one and losing 10% on the other. Find his total loss or gain as a percent on the whole transaction.

John sold an article to Peter at 20% profit and Peter sold it to Mohan at 5% loss. If Mohan paid Rs.912 for the article; find how much did John pay for it?

A stationery buys pens at 5 for Rs.28 and sells them at a profit of 25 %. How much should a customer pay; if he buys
(i) only one pen ;
(ii) three pens?

A man sells 12 articles for Rs. 80 gaining `33 1/3%`. Find the number of articles bought by the man for Rs. 90.

The cost price of 20 articles is the same as the selling price of 16 articles. Find the gain percent.

The selling price of 15 articles is equal to the cost price of 12 articles. Find the gain or loss as a percent.

By selling 8 pens, Shyam loses equal to the cost price of 2 pens. Find his loss percent.

Mohan bought a certain number of note-books for Rs.600. He sold `1/4` of them at 5 percent loss. At what price should he sell the remaining note-books so as to gain 10% on the whole?

An article is marked for Rs. 1,300 and is sold for Rs. 1,144; find the discount percent.

The marked price of a dinning table is Rs. 23,600 and is available at a discount of 8%. Find its selling price.

A shop-keeper buys an article for Rs.450. He marks it at 20% above the cost price. Find :
(i) the marked price of the article.
(ii) the selling price, if he sells the articles at 10 percent discount.
(iii) the percentage discount given by him, if he sells the article for Rs.496.80

An article is marked at Rs. 2,250. By selling it at a discount of 12%, the dealer makes a profit of 10%. Find :
(i) the selling price of the article.
(ii) the cost price of the article for the dealer.

By selling an article at a 20% discount, a shopkeeper gains 25%. If the selling price of the article is Rs. 1,440 ; find :
(i) the marked price of the article.
(ii) the cost price of the article.