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1. A driver of a autorickshaw makes a profit of 20% on every trip when he carries 3 passengers and the price of petrol is 30 rupees a litre. Find the percentage profit for the same journey if he goes for four passengers per trip and the price of petrol reduces to 24 rupees per litre. (Assume that revenue per passenger is the same in both the cases.) (a) 33.33% (b) 65.66 (c) 100%  (d) Data inadequate 2. After selling a watch, Shyam found that he had made a loss of 10%. He also found that had he sold it for 27 rupees more, he would have made a profit of 5%. The actual initial loss was what percentage of the profit earned, had he sold the watch for a 5% profit? (a) 23% (b) 150% (c) 200%  (b) 180% 3.Sambhu buys rice at  ₹10/kg and puts a price tag on it so as to earn a profit of 20%. However, his faulty balance shows 1000 gm when it is actually 800 gm. What is his actual gain percentage?  (a) 50%  (b) 40%  (c) 18%  (d) 10% 4. The profit earned when an article is so

1. A merchant makes a profit of 20% by selling an article. What would be the percentage change in the profit percent had he paid 10% less for it and the customer paid 10% more for it?  (a) 120% (b) 125% (c) 133.33% (d) 150% 2. An article costing 20 rupees was marked 25% above the cost price. After two successive discounts of the same percentage, the customer now pays 20.25 rupees. What would be the percentage change in profit had the price been increased by the same percentage twice successively instead of reducing it? (a) 3600% (b) 3200% (c) 2800% (d) 4000% 3. Jonny has two cycles and one rickshaw. The rickshaw is worth 96Rupees. If he sells the rickshaw along with the first cycle, he has an amount double that of the value of the second cycle. But if he decides to sell the rickshaw along with the second cycle, the amount received would be less than the value of first cycle by 306Ruppes. What is the value of first cycle? (a) 900 (b) 600 (c) 498 (d) None of these

Read the story and solve the problem Ramu and Shyamu decided to sell their cars each at 36,000 rupees. While Ramu decided to give a discount of 8% on the first 8000 rupees, 5% on next 12,000rupees and 3% on the rest to buyer Sashi, Shyamu decided to give a discount of 7% on the first 12,000, 6% on the next 8,000rupees and 5% on the rest to buyer Rajesh. These discounts were, however, subject to the buyers making the payment on time failing which the discount gets reduced by 1% for every delay of a week. In each case, the selling price of 36,000 rupees was arrived at by increasing the cost price by 25%. 1. If each of them got the payments on time, what is the approximate percentage profit of the person getting the higher profit? (a) 19% (b) 21% (c) 25% (d) 17% 2. If Sashi defaults by 1 and 2 weeks in the second and third payments respectively, what would be the profit of Ramu in the sale of the car? (a) 5920 rupees (b) 6240 rupees (c) 5860  rupees (d) 5980  rupees