CUET (UG) entrance exam Question Bank Solutions

Water tax is increased by 20% but its consumption is decreased by 20%. Then the increase or decrease in the expenditure of the money is:

A shopkeeper sells one transistor for ₹ 840 at a gain of 20% and another for ₹ 960 at a loss of 4%. His total gain or loss percent is

The cost price of 20 articles is the same as the selling price of x articles. If the profit is 25%, then the value of x is

A dishonest dealer uses a scale of 90 cm instead of a metre scale and claims to sell at cost price. His profit is

If an article is sold at 200 percent profit, then the ratio of its cost price to its selling price will be

Who is the author of the book ‘Fearless Governance’?

100 oranges are bought at the rate of Rs. 350 and sold at the rate of Rs. 48 per dozen. The percentage of profit or loss is:

Who is the author of the book ‘How to Prevent the Next Pandemic’?

“One Among You” is an autobiography of which politician?

On selling 17 balls at Rs. 720, there is a loss equal to the cost price of 5 balls. The cost price of a ball is:

After successive discounts of 12% and 5% an article was sold for ₹ 209. What was the original price of the article?

If the ratio of cost price and selling price of an article be 10 : 11, the percentage of profit is

The cost prices of the two articles are in the ratio of 4:5. While selling these articles, the shopkeeper gains 10% on one article and 20% profit on the other article, and the difference in the selling price is ₹480. Find the total cost price of both the articles. 

A shopkeeper earns a profit of 40% on the cost price of an article after giving three consecutive discounts of 5%,  10%, and 15% to a customer. What would have been the profit percentage, has the shopkeeper given discounts of 5% and 10% only?   

Kavita purchased fabric worth ₹ 800 for a dress and spent ₹ 350 on embroidery and stitching. If she sold the dress at a profit of 20%, the selling price is:   

If by selling 110 mangoes, the C.P. of 120 mangoes is realised, the gain percent is

The cost of manufacturing an item was ₹ 24,000, and 20% of it was spent on packaging and its shipment to a retailer. The manufacturer made a profit of 50%, while the retailer incurred a loss of 20% in selling it to a customer. At what price (in ₹) was the item sold by the retailer?  

Who was the first Indian to win the Booker Prize?

Five friends are sitting on a bench facing North and South alternately. R is sitting at the left comer and facing North, and T is second to the right of R. If P is third to the left of Q, then what is the sitting position of S?

Eight houses A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H are in two rows with four houses in each row. The houses in one row face the houses in the other.

1. C is facing F.
2. G and A are diagonally opposite.
3. E is facing H, but is not in the same row as that of A.
4. His between D and C.

Which house is B facing?