By selling an article at $80 \%$ of its marked price, a shopkeeper makes a loss of $10 \% .$ What will be the profit percentage if he sells it at $95 \%$ of its marked price?
$6.9$
$5$
$5.9$
$12.5$
A man sells an article at a loss of $5 \% .$ If he had bought it at $20 \%$ more and sold it for $Rs.\,115$ less, he would have made a loss of $40 \% .$ Find the cost price of the article.
Ram purchases a chair at $Rs.\, 70$ and spent $Rs$. $17$ on its repair and $50$ paise on cartage. If he sold the chair at $Rs.\, 100$ then his approximate margin of profit in $\%$ will be?
cost price of $100$ books is equal to the selling price of $60$ books. The gain or loss percentage will be
Allowing $20 \%$ and $15 \%$ successive discounts, the selling price of an article becomes $Rs.\,3,060;$ then the marked price will be (in $Rs.$)
A machine is sold at a profit of $15 \%$. Had it been sold for $Rs\,540$ more $24 \%$ would have been gained. Find the cost price.