Recent questions tagged cost-price-selling-price

A person who has a certain amount with him goes to the market. He can buy $50$ oranges or $40$ mangoes. He retains 10% of the amount for taxi fare and buys $20$ mangoes, ...

The owner of an art shop conducts his business in the following manner: Every once in a while he raises his prices by $\text{X}\%$, then a while later he reduces all the ...

At a certain fast food restaurant, Brian can buy $3$ burgers, $7$ shakes, and one order of fries for Rs. $120$ exactly. At the same place it would cost Rs. $164.5$ for $4...

A milkman has 50 litres of milk. Find quantity of water to be added in it so that he gets 20% profit by selling at its cost price?

The price of Darjeeling tea ( in rupees per kilogram) is $100 + 0.10 n,$ on $n$-th day of $2007\; (n=1, 2, 3, \dots,100),$ and then remains constant. On the other hand, t...

A shop stores $x$ kg of rice. The first customer buys half this amount plus half a kg of rice. The second customer buys half the remaining amount plus half a kg of rice. ...