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One article is sold at 20% profit and another (different article) is sold at 30% loss. Determine the ratio of their cost prices so that the seller breaks even (overall no profit, no loss) on the two articles combined.

A person sells two products for ₹800 each. He makes a 25% profit on one and incurs a 25% loss on the other. What is his net gain or loss on the whole transaction?

A bookstore bought 150 different novels at an average price of ₹160. It sold 50 novels at a $25\%$ profit, 70 novels at a $10\%$ loss, and the remaining novels in a combo deal that included a 20% profit on the total cost of the remaining novels. What was the selling price per novel in the combo deal?

A shopkeeper sold 40% of his goods at a profit of 25% and the remaining goods at a loss of $10\%$. If his overall gain was ₹150, find the total cost price of the goods.

A shopkeeper bought 100 shirts. He bought 40 shirts at Rs. 500 each and the rest at Rs. 800 each. He had to pay a transportation charge of 5% on the total purchase price. He sold 30 of the cheaper shirts at a 20% profit and the remaining cheaper ones at a 10% loss. All the expensive shirts were sold at a $10\%$ profit. What is his approximate overall profit percentage?

A man purchased 3 identical electric fans at a total cost of ₹5,320. He sold two of them at a gain of $16\%$ each and the third one at a loss of $12\%$. What is his overall profit or loss percentage?

If equal quantities of two types of wheat are mixed, where the first is sold for $₹60/\mathrm{kg}$ at a $25\%$ profit, and the second is sold for ₹36/kg at a 25% loss. If the mixture is sold at ₹48/kg, what is the loss or gain percentage ?

A trader buys 60 kg of rice at ₹60 per kg and 40 kg of a different variety at ₹70 per kg. He mixes the two varieties and sells the entire mixture at ₹65 per kg. What is his total profit or loss?

A shopkeeper bought 20 dozens of eggs at ₹60 per dozen. He sold 15 dozens at ₹70 per dozen and the remaining eggs at ₹55 per dozen. What is his total profit or loss?

A trader sells two articles at ₹840 each. On one, he gains 25%, and on the other, he loses 25%. What is his overall profit or loss percentage?

A trader marks up an article by 20% on its cost price. He then offers two successive discounts: 10% followed by $5\%$ on the marked price. If the cost price (CP) is ₹520, what is the final profit or loss percent ?

A person sells 15 pens for ₹ 750 and suffers a loss equal to the selling price of 3 pens. What is the cost price of one pen?

An item was sold for ₹ 14000 at a $30\%$ loss. At what price should it be sold to gain a $25\%$ profit ?

A vendor buys apples at 6 for ₹80 and sells them at 4 for ₹90. What is his profit or loss percentage?

If the selling price of 20 items is equal to the cost price of 25 items, what is the percentage profit or loss?

A retailer sells a product for ₹X, incurring a loss of 20%. During a sale, he marks up the product by 35% on the cost price and provides a flat discount of $30\%$ on the marked price. What is the percentage profit or loss for the retailer during the sale?

The difference between the selling price and the cost price of an article is ₹600. If the profit percentage is $30\%$, what is the selling price of the article?

If an article is sold for Rs. 105 at a loss of $30\%$, what was its cost price?

A shopkeeper sells an article for ₹900, making a profit of 20%. What was the cost price of the article ?