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A shopkeeper sells rice at a discount of 6% on the marked price but uses a weight that is 25% less than the actual weight. Find his overall profit percentage.
The profit made on an article sold for 2400 is equal to the loss incurred when it is sold for 2000. What will be the profit or loss percentage if the article is sold for 2200?
A right circular cone has a radius of 9 cm and a height of 40 cm. What is its slant height?
If 40% of $P = 0.5$ of $Q = 1/8$ of $R$, find $P : Q : R$.
Evaluate: $15\frac{1}{3}\% \text{ of } 480\text{ km} + 58\frac{1}{3}\% \text{ of } 300\text{ km}$
A sales agent earns 3% commission on laptops priced at 40,000 each and 8% commission on printers priced at 8,000 each. If in a week he sells 4 laptops and 10 printers, what is his total commission for 5 such weeks?
The radius of a circular plate is increased by 8%. What will be the approximate percentage increase in its area?
A rectangular prism has a base area of $36\text{ cm}^2$. If its height is increased by 25% from the original height of 12 cm, what is the new volume?
A solid metal sphere of radius 6 cm is completely immersed in a vertical cylindrical vessel containing water, causing the water level to rise by 4 cm. What is the radius of the cylinder?
A train covers 1.2 km in 1 minute. How far will it travel in 2 hours 15 minutes?
Two farmers, X and Y, hire a field. X keeps 18 oxen there for 5 months and 20 goats for 3 months. Y keeps 24 goats for 7 months and 30 sheep for 6 months. If 2 oxen eat as much as 5 goats, and 3 goats eat as much as 4 sheep, what fraction of the total rent should X pay?
Three batches of students have average ages 17, 19, and 23 years respectively. If their numbers are in the ratio 3 : 4 : 6, what is the overall average age of all the students?
The average of 13 numbers is 75. If the average of the first six numbers is 69 and the average of the last six numbers is 80, what is the 7th number?
What is the average of all integers between 200 and 350 that are exactly divisible by 11?
How many kilograms of wheat costing 52 per kg must be mixed with 30 kg of wheat costing 40 per kg so that a 20% gain may be obtained by selling the mixture at 54 per kg?
A gardener has 80 m of fencing wire. He can use this wire to enclose either a circular lawn or a square lawn. If he uses the entire wire in each case, what is the approximate ratio of the area of the circular lawn to the area of the square lawn?
A family spends on groceries, rent, and other expenses in the ratio 3:5:2. Next year, groceries are expected to rise by 8%, rent by 4%, and other expenses to fall by 10%. What will be the overall percentage change in total expenditure?
C and D invested 1,40,000 and 1,80,000, respectively. C remained for 9 months and D for 8 months. If C's share in the profit is 18,900, what is the total profit?
A television set is sold for Q and the shopkeeper earns a profit of 25%. During a clearance sale, he marks the same set at 1.4Q and allows a discount of 15% on the marked price. What is his profit percentage during the sale?
Simplify: $(\frac{1}{5+\sqrt{3}})+(\frac{1}{5-\sqrt{3}})-(\frac{10}{25-3})$
A trader marks his goods 30% above the cost price and then allows a discount of 12%. What is his profit percentage?[cite: 57]
A shopkeeper marks his products 50% above the cost price and allows a discount of 20% on the marked price. He also gives an additional cash discount of 120 and still makes a profit of 16% on cost. What is the cost price of the product?[cite: 57]
X lent 6,000 to Y for 3 years and 4,000 to Z for 2 years, both at the same simple interest rate. In total, he received 2,000 as interest from both. What is the rate of interest per annum (nearest integer)?[cite: 57]
A sector of a circle has a central angle of 150Β° and radius 10 cm. Another sector of the same circle has a central angle of 5Ο/6 radians. What is the ratio of the area of the first sector to that of the second?[cite: 57]
Two men, M and N, rent a pasture. M uses 12 cows for 4 months and 18 goats for 5 months, while N uses 26 goats for 7 months. If 3 cows are equivalent to 7 goats, what is M's share of the rent?[cite: 58]