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Discount and Profit Questions for SSC & Bank Exams

The document contains a series of mathematical problems related to discounts, selling prices, and profit calculations. It includes various scenarios involving marked prices, cost prices, and the effects of discounts on sales. The problems are designed for practice in preparation for competitive exams such as SSC and CGL.

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Discount and Profit Questions for SSC & Bank Exams

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Concept - 1 6. A merchant marked his goods 25% above the cost


1. If a pair of shoes marked at Rs.350 is offered at price and then allows a discount of 15%. Then
Rs.308, then what will be the discount percent- the profit percent in this transaction is?
age?
       
  
    (TS SI MAINS
 (SSC CHSL TIER - I 2020)
A) 42% B) 13.6% C) 12% D) 14%
2018)
2. If a reduction of Rs. 3 is given on an article and 1 1
A) 6 B) 10 C) 12 D) 15
sold it to Rs. 42, then the percentage of discount 4 2
allowed is: 7. A shopkeeper earns a profit of 21% after selling
     a book at 21% discount on the printed price. The
(AP SI PRELIMS ratio of the cost price and selling price of the book
is: (SSC CGL TIER - I 2020)
2018)   
1 2    
A) 14 B) 9 C) 8 D) 6
3 3
      
3. A discount of 20% on the marked price of an
article is allowed and then the article is sold for

A) 100 : 79 B) 100 : 121
Rs. 1,380. The marked price of the article is
C) 79 : 100 D) 121 : 100
______ . SSC CHSL 27/05/2022 ( Evening )
8. The marked price of a newly arrived article shows
       an increase of 15% on its cost price. Later this
  marked price was decreased by 20% as the
    article is outdated. If the cost price of the article
A) Rs.l,850 B) Rs.l,800
is Rs.1,200 then the profit or loss for the
C) Rs. l,725 D) Rs. l,625
shopkeeper with the current selling price is (TS
4. There is a 20% discount on a dozen pairs of shoes
SI PRELIMS 2022)
marked at Rs.7,200. How many pairs of shoes
can be bought with Rs.1,440? SSC CHSL 31/
          
05/2022 (Evening)   
   
       
       
A) 3 B) 5 C) 2 D) 4 
5. A distributor gives a discount of 12% on the A) 5% loss B) 8% loss
marked price. If the selling price is Rs. C) 10% gain D) 7% gain
9240, then what will be the discount on it 9. The cost price of an article is x. It is marked
      up by 120%. It is sold at Rs. 8800 after
 giving 20% discount. What is the value (in
Rs) of x? (CGL 2017)
(CPO 2018)
  x. 
A) Rs. 1260 B) Rs. 1109
C) Rs. 1192 D) Rs. 1140 
x 
A) 7680 B) 6000 C) 6680 D) 5000

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10. The ratio of the cost price to the marked price of 3 1
an article is 4 : 7. A discount of 25% is given on A) 13 % B) 13 %
23 23
the marked price and the shopkeeper made a
profit of Rs. 50. Find the cost price of the article. 2 4
(SSC CHSL 08/06/2022) (Afternoon) C) 13 % D) 13 %
23 23
      15. A shopkeeper buys a book for Rs. 2,500 and
        marks its price at 15% above cost. He
 allows a discount Rs. 345. The discount
   
A) Rs. 160 B) Rs. 165 percentage is: (CPO 2018)
C) Rs. 150 D) Rs. 155   
11. The marked price of an article is Rs. 1500. A shop- 
keeper sells it by giving 20% discount on its marked
price. If the cost price of the article is Rs. 991, 
then his profit (in Rs.) is: 
                     A) 10 B) 12 C) 11 D) 13
                 16. The cost price of a pair of shoes is Rs. 800. Its
  marked price is Rs. 1060. If the shopkeeper suf-
 (SSC CGL TIER - I 2020) fered a loss of 12% in the festival sale, the ap-
A) 319 B) 189 C) 229 D) 209 proximate discount percent he offered was?
12. A dealer marks his car 20% more than the     
cost of the car and gives a discount of 15%.      
If the discount is Rs. 2,23,200, what will       
be the cost price of the car? (AP SI PRELIMS 2018)
  A) 36.2 B) 33.6 C) 32 D) 26
      17. A shopkeeper bought a machine for Rs.4600 and
spent Rs.500 on its repairs and transport. He
 marked the machine at 8% above the overall cost
 price. If he sold the machine for Rs.4681.80 af-
(CPO 2018) ter giving x% discount, then the value of x is: SSC
CGL 18/08/2021 (Evening)
A) Rs. 11,60,000 B) Rs. 14,25,000
C) Rs. 15,80,000 D) Rs. 12,40,000

                 
13. A new mobile is introduced into the market and    
is marked at 25% above its original cost price. x 
What discount should be given on the marked 
price to gain a profit of 20%? SSC CHSL 24/ x 
05/2022 (Afternoon) (a)18 (b 15 (c)20 (d)12
       18. The Marked price of a dress is Rs. 2,340
    which is 25% above the cost price. if the
           
 dress is sold at a profit of 10%, the profit
A) 2.50% B) 5% C) 4% D) 10% earned on the dress is: (CPO 2018)
14. The list price of coconut oil is 15% more than its    
cost price. At what percent less should it be sold  
for no profit and no loss? (SSC CHSL 9/8/2021)
(Evening) 
       A) Rs. 234 B) Rs. 187.20
      C) Rs. 197 D) Rs. 175.50
 19. The marked price of an article is Rs. 625. After
allowing a discount of 32% on the marked price,

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12/04/2022 (Morning) 24. If 60% discount of offered on the marked
         price and selling price becomes equal to
 cost price then what was the % mark up?
  
A) 5% B) 4% 
C) 6% D) 7%     
20. The marked price of an article is Rs. 400. After                         
allowing a discount of 20% on the marked price
a shopkeeper makes a loss of Rs. 48. His loss
(MAINS 2017)
percentage is: A) 100 B) 250 C) 150 D) 40
(SSC MTS 14/10/2021 (Morning) 25. A shopkeeper marks an article x% above the
            cost price and sells it by allowing a 30% dis-
 count on the marked price. If there is a loss of
   4.8%, then what is the value of x? (SSC CGL
21/04/2022 (Afternoon)
1 1    
A) 14 % B) 13 %
23 23 x%       
1 1   
C) 15 % D) 17 % x 
23 23
A) 30 B) 40 C) 36 D) 35
21. After allowing a discount of 20% on the marked
26. The cost price of an article is Rs 280. A shop-
price of an article, a shop keeper makes a profit keeper sells it by allowing 16% discount on its
of 12%. What percent is its marked price above marked price and still gains 20%. What is the
its cost price? marked price (in Rs) of the article? (SSC CGL
      TIER - I 2020)
   
            
   (AP SI PRELIMS 
2018) A) 400 B) 360 C) 420 D) 350
A) 40 B) 32 C) 25 D) 16 27. The marked price of an article is Rs. 2720. If a
shopkeeper sold the article at 15% loss after giv-
22. A trader allows a discount of 10% on a calcula-
ing 25% discount, then the cost price (in Rs.) of
tor. In order to gain 20% on selling it at this dis- the article is: (SSC CGL TIER I 2020)
count, the percentage of increase on its cost price                    
that has to be marked, is? 
       
      A) 2000 B) 1800 C) 2400 D) 1200
                   28. After giving a discount of 16% a
      (AP SI PRE- shopkeeper still earns 19% profit.If article
LIMS 2016) is marked 1350 Rs more than the its CP
1 then find the MP of article ?
A) 10% B) 30% C) 33 % D) 34%
3    
23. An article was sold at 65% of its marked price,
 
and thus there was a gain of 30%. Find the ratio
of the marked price to cost price. (SSC MTS 7/   
10/2021) (Morning)     
        
    
   A) 3672 B) 5250 C) 5130 D) 4590

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3 4 4 5 4
A) 7 B) 8 C) 5 D) 5
market price of an article, a dealer makes a 7 7 7 7
profit of 40%. Marked price of article is 33. The marked price of an article is 315
how much rupees more than its cost price, rupees. It is sold for 288 rupees. If there is
if the cost price of the article is Rs. 8000? a loss of 4%, then by what percent above
2 the cost is the article marked? (CGL 2018)
       16 3 

        
    
  
A) 5890 B) 4250 C) 5100 D) 5440 1 1
30. A shopkeeper marks an article at a price A) 5 B) 8 C) 6 D) 5
2 2
such that after giving a discount of 25%, he 34. The marked price of an article is Rs. 660. A shop-
gains x%. If the cost price and the marked keeper allows a discount of 20% and still gets a
price of the article are Rs. 460 and Rs. 736 profit of 10% If he sells it for Rs. 470. his profit
respectively, what is the value of x? (CPO or loss per cent, correct to two decimal places
2018) will be : (SSC CHSL TIER I 2020)

                         



x   
   
  
x A) Profit 3.06% B) Loss 5.43%
C) Profit 7.59% D) Loss 2.08%
A) 20% B) 18% C) 24% D) 16% 35. A shopkeeper allows 28% discount on the
31. A shopkeeper marks an article at a price such
marked price of an article and still makes a profit
that after giving a discount of x%, he gains 20%.
If the cost price and the marked price of the ar- of 20%. If he gains Rs. 3,080 on the sale of one
ticle are Rs. 920 and Rs. 1472 respectively, then article, then what is the selling price of the ar-
what is the value of x? (SSC CGL TIER - I 2020) ticle? (SSC CGL 13/04/2022 (Morning)
x%      
         
  
    
  A) 14,880 B) 18,480
x  C) 18,840 D) 10,884
A) 18 B) 20 C) 25 D) 30 36. A shopkeeper marks an article at such a price
32. The cost price and the marked price of an item
are Rs. 720 and Rs. 900 respectively. When it is 1
that after giving a discount of 12 % on the
2
5x
%. What
sold at a discount of x%, then profit is marked price, he still earns a profit of 15%. If
3
the cost price of the article is Rs. 385, then the
is the value of x? (SSC CGL TIER - I 2020)
sum of the marked price and the selling price (in
 Rs.) of the article is: (SSC CGL Tier - II 03/02/
     x% 2022)
5x     
   3 % x 
1
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        14 72 
 
A) 948.75 B) 849.50

C) 984.75 D) 954.75 A) 630 B) 651 C) 712 D) 612
37. A merchant is selling goods by importing from 41. Giri sold a machine for Rs22,000 with a
1
discount of 8% on the labelled price and
abroad. He gets a discount of 33 % on the cata- 2
3
made a profit of 22 % . What would have
logue price, pays 20% import duty on the net cost 3
of the goods and sells the goods for a profit of been the profit %, if the machine was sold
25%. If the catalogue price of an article is Rs. without any discount on the labelled price?
3,756, then its selling price (in Rs.) is?      
     
1  22 23
      33 % 
3
  
    
          
        1 2
A) 36 % B) 30 %
(AP SI MAINS 2018) 3 3
A) 4,695 B) 11,268 C) 2,857 D) 3,756 1 1
38. In festival season, a shopkeeper allows a discount C) 27 % D) 33 %
3 3
of 10% on every item. Even after the discount, he 42. After allowing a discount of 15% on the marked
makes a profit of 20%. If he does not give any price of an article. It was sold for Rs.425. Had
discount, then what will be his profit percent? (cor- the discount not been given; the profit would have
rect to 2 decimal places) (SSC CGL TIER I 2020) been 25% What was the cost price (in Rs.) of
  the article? (SSC CHSL TIER I 2020)
       
    
 
A) 33 B) 25 C) 33.33 D) 33.43 
39. A shopkeeper sells an article by offering 24% A) 325 B) 450 C) 500 D) 400
discount on the marked price and there by gets a 43. A shopkeeper sold an item for Rs1510
loss of 5%. If he does not offer the discount, then
the gain/loss he gets is (TS SI PRELIMS 2022) 1
after giving discount of 24 % and there
2
      
by incurred a loss of 10%. Had he sold the
    item without discount, his net profit would
   have been?
A) 20% gain /   B)29% loss /   
C) 25% gain /   D) 21% loss /  
40. The MP of an article is Rs744. After
allowing x % discount a shopkeeper still

gains y %. If no discount is allowed then he 
2 
gain 14 % . find the CP of article?
7 1
A) Rs. 641 B) Rs. Rs. 322
 x 9
y C) Rs. 422
2
D) Rs. 322
2
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44. After giving discount of Rs x, a shopkeeper of the following ensures that she makes a
gained 17%. If the discount is not offered, profit of 20%? (CAT 2017)
then he makes 33% profit. If CP is 725Rs, 
then find the value of x. 
 x/      
 A) Give a discount of 5% on retail price
  B) Give a discount of 2% on retail price
 C) Increase the retail price by 2%
D) Sell at retail price
x 49. A customer availed a 10% discount on the pur-
A) 110 B) 116 C) 132 D) 124 chase of a table and paid Rs.4,950 for it. how
45. Even after reducing the marked price of a much
Table by Rs.576, a shopkeeper makes a money would he have saved if he had bargained
profit of 20%. If the cost price of table is to get 12% discount? (SSC CHSL TIER I 2020)
Rs.3840, what % of profit would he have 
made if he had sold the Table at the marked  
price? 
       
A) Rs. 660 B) Rs. 99
 C) Rs. 108.90 D) Rs. 110
  50. If the difference between the selling price of an
  article, when sold at 22% discount and at 14.5%
discount, is Rs.285, then the marked price of the
 article is: SSC MTS 7/10/2021 (Morning)
A) 40% B) 35% C) 32% D) 36.36%           
46. A 25% profit is made when a discount of 25% is    
given on the marked price of an item. When the   
discount is 35%, what will be the profit? (Give   
your answer correct to the nearest whole num- (a) Rs.3,400 (b)Rs.3,500
ber). (SSC CHSL 31/05/2022 (Morning) (c) Rs.3,800 (d) Rs.2,800
          51. When an article is sold at 37% discount a
   shopkeeper suffers 9% loss. But when it is
    sold at 28% discount, he gets Rs. 7072
 more thant what he got on previous deal. At
A) 13% B) 8% C) 9% D) 11%
47. A shopkeeper allows 16% discount on every item.
what price should he sell to get no profit
Even after giving the discount, he makes a profit no loss?
of 8%. If he gives 8% discount instead of 16% on  
an item marked for Rs. 1800, then what will be
his profit percent? (correct to 2 decimal
  
places)(SSC CGL TIER I 2020) 
       
   
     
    
A) Rs.54400 B) Rs.52400

A) 18.31 B) 19 C) 18.29 D) 18 C) Rs.48600 D) Rs.58640
48. If a seller gives a discount of 15% on retail 52. A dealer bought an article at 10% discount on its
market price and sold it at a price which is 20%
price, she still makes a profit of 2%. Which
above the marked price. The gain percentage

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nearest integer) is: SSC MTS 7 /10/ 2021 (Af- its marked price and sells it at 5% discount on its
ternoon) marked price. If he earns a profit of Rs. 65, then
       what is the marked price (in Rs.) of the article?
   (SSC CGL TIER I 2020)
     
  
A) 33% B) 35% C) 25% D) 28%   
53. Kanchan bought a clock with 25% discount 
on marked price. She sold it with 75% gain 
on the price she bought. What was her profit A) 260 B) 227.50 C) 325 D) 292.50
percentage on the marked price? 58. A person bought an article at 30% discount
  on its marked price. The person then sold it
   at 30% profit for Rs. 427.70. What was the
marked price of the article?
 (CGL 2017)      
A) 31.25 B) 50 C) 56.25 D) 60
54. The cost price of an article is 64% of the marked 
price. If the article is sold for 12% discount on  
the marked price, then the profit percent is (TS (CPO 2019)
SI PRELIMS 2022)
A) Rs. 470 B) Rs. 450
            C) Rs. 500 D) Rs. 480
   59. Amit purchased stationery marked for ‘8,000 at
A) 48 B) 28.5 C) 37.5 D) 25 12% discount and spent ‘160 on transportation.
55. A dealer buys an article at a discount of 20% He sold the stationery at the marked price. Find
on its list price and marks it at 25% above his profit percentage. (SSC CHSL TIER - I 2020)
the list price. If he allows a 20% discount      
on the new list price, then his profit percent 
is: (CGL 2018)       
 1 1
A) 10 B) 12 C) 12 D) 11
  2 9

  60. The marked price of an article is Rs.5000


but due to festive offer a certain percent of
 discount is declared. Mr. X availed this
 opportunity and bought the article at
A) 24 B) 25 C) 20 D) 27 reduced price. He then sold it at Rs.5000
56. A shopkeeper marks his goods 30% higher than 1
the cost price and allows a discount of 10% on and thereby made a profit of 11 % . The
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the marked price. In order to earn 6.5% more
percentage of discount allowed was?
profit, what discount percent should he allow on
the marked price? (SSC CGL 13/8/2021 (MAINS 2016)
(Evening)    
    X 
    
  11 19
   
  
A) 6 B) 5.5 C) 4 D) 5 

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A) 10 B) 3 C) 7 D) 11
3 2 9 and 6 % is equivalent to a single discount
61. The cost price of an article B is 25% more than 3
that of an article A. Article A and B are marked of?
up by 30% and 20% respectively. Article A is 4
sold at a discount of 10% and article B is sold at 28 %
7
   6 23 %   
a discount of 5%. If the selling price of article A
is Rs.51 less than the selling price of article B,
 
then the cost price of article B is (TS SI 4
PRELIMS 2022) A) 60% B) 61 %
B  A   7
A, B  2
A B  C) 50% D) 61 %
  A   3
 B   66. The price of an article is raised by 45% and then
B  two successive discounts of 15% each are al-
A) Rs. 200 B) Rs. 250 lowed. Ultimately the price of the article is
C) Rs.260 D) Rs.300 ______. (SSC CHSL 26/05/2022 (Morning)
Concept - 2     
62. The price of a certain laptop is discounted by
20% and the reduced price is then discounted

by 20%. This series of successive discounts is    
equivalent to a single discount of: SSC CHSL A) decreased by 7.7625%
25/05/2022 ( Evening ) B) increased by 4.7625%
    C) decreased by 4.7625%
D) decreased by 4.7625%
  67. A watch dealer usually sells watches for Rs
   2350 per watch. Once he gave two
A) 20% B) 26% successive discounts of 15% and 25% while
C) 30% D) 36% selling a watch to a customer. But he
63. Find a single discount percentage equivalent to charged an additional 8% on the net sale
successive discounts of 10%, 20% and 25%. price from the customer. By what percent
SSC CGL 19/4/2022 (Afternoon)
is the new selling price less than the original
      selling price? (BANKING)
        
(a) 55% (b) 46% (c) 20% (d) 18.3%
64. Three successive discounts 22%, 17% and 11

% are equivalent to a single discount of: SSC  
CPO 23-11-2020 (Morning) 
   
  A) 28.45% B) 29.25%
(a) approximately 45% C) 30.45% D) 31.15%
(b) approximately 50% E) None of these
(c) approximately 42% 68. By how much above the cost price should
(d) approximately 25% an article be marked up for sale so that after
4 allowing two successive discounts of 20%
65. Three successive discount of 28 % , 25% and 6.25% on it, a net gain of 20% is made
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on the cost? (CGL 2018)
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 
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
A) 66 % B) 46 % C) 50% D) 60%  
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69. An article is marked at Rs. 5,000. The shopkeeper A) 740 B) 820 C) 840 D) 824
allows successive discounts of x%, y%, z% on it. 73. The price of a cell phone is Rs. 20,000. On Sun-
The net selling price is days, the shopkeeper offers a cash discount of
Rs. 1,000 on the purchase of the cell phone. Fur-
       ther, if someone purchases it through a credit
card, he gives 5% additional discount. If some-
   x y one is purchasing the cell phone on a Sunday
z through a credit card, then how much does he/
she have to pay? (SSC CHSL 27/05/2022 (Af-
100  x 100  y 100  z  ternoon)
A) Rs.
200
   
Rs.
100  x 100  y 100  z      
B)
200
   
100  x 100  y 100  z 
C) Rs.
200
   
  
100  x 100  y 100  z 
D) Rs. 
200
70. A shopkeeper offers 25% discount on all table A) Rs. 18,350 B) Rs. 18,900
lamps. He offers a further discount of 8% on the C) Rs. 18,050 D) Rs. 18,500
reduced price to those customers who pay cash. 74. A tractor is sold after allowing three successive
What does a customer have to pay in cash for a discounts of 10%, 5% and 2%. If the marked
table lamp of Rs.2.500? SSC CHSL 25/05/2022 price of the tractor is Rs 4,88,000, find its net
( Evening ) selling price. SSC CHSL 26/05/2022 (Evening)
        
      
             
        
(a) Rs 5,08,895.2 (b) Rs 4,49,895.06
  (c) Rs 4, 18,895.45 (d) Rs 4,08,895.2
A) Rs.1 .725 B) Rs.1.865 75. A shopkeeper marked every item 25% above the
C) Rs.2.220 D) Rs.1.780 cost price and allowed 10% discount. Shruti be-
71. A shopkeeper gives two successive discounts of ing a regular customer got 5% additional discount
10% and 20%. If he sells an article for Rs. 432, on the bill and paid Rs.2394 for the item pur-
then the marked price of the article is (in rupees) chased. What is the cost price of the item (in Rs.)?
   (SSC CGL TIER I 2020)
           
     (TS SI 
MAINS 2016)  
A) 526 B) 550 C) 600 D) 626
     
72. An article is sold for Rs. 1,176 after two succes-  
sive discounts of 30% and 16% on its list price. A) 2440 B) 2240 C) 2220 D) 2420
What is the difference (in) between the list price 76. A dealer marked the price of an item at 50%
and the selling price of the article? (SSC CHSL above the cost price. He allowed two succes-
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said customer? (SSC MTS 27/10/2021 pared to the second option? (SSC CHSL 30/
(Evening) 05/2022 (Afternoon)
           
    
 
           
      
A) Rs. 3,150 B) Rs. 3,250   
C) Rs. 3,050 D) Rs. 3,200 A) Rs. 87 less B) Rs. 60 extra
77. An article has marked price Rs.3600. By giving C) Rs. 87 extra D) Rs. 60 less
two successive discounts of 10% each instead of 81. Three shopkeepers A, B and C marked an identi-
giving a discount of 20% on the marked price, the cal article at Rs. 4820. A, B and C sold their ar-
gain of the trader, in rupees, is? ticle on successive discounts of 20% and 20%;
     25% and 15%; 30% and 10% respectively. Which
shopkeeper gives the maximum discount and how
      
much (in Rs.)? (SSC CGL TIER I 2020)
      (TS SI A,B C 
MAINS 2018) 
A) 18 B) 24 C) 36 D) 54 A,B C
78. A customer wanted to purchase an item marked
for Rs. 10000. Shopkeeper offered two types of 
discounts, 25% flat discount or successive      
discounts of 14% and 12%. Which is the better 
offer for the customers and by how much? (SSC A) C, 1780 B) A, 1735.20
CGL TIER I 2020) C) B, 1800 D) C, 1783.84
               82. The marked price of a laptop is Rs. 50,000. A
 shopkeeper gives the following four schemes of
  discount to his customers. Which one is more
 beneficial to the customers? (i) Discount of Rs.
10,000 (ii) Discount of flat 25% (iii) Discount of
    10% of 10% (iv) Discount of 15% of 10% SSC
 CHSL 03/06/2022 (Morning)
A) second offer by Rs. 100
B) first offer by Rs.68      
C) second offer by Rs.68      
D) first offer by Rs.32
79. The difference between a discount of 35% and
                  
two successive discounts of 20% and 20% on a   
certain bill is Rs. 22. Then the amount of the bill i
(in rupees) is? ii
       
   iii
    (TS SI MAINS iv
2016) (a) i (b) iv (c) ii (d) iii
83. A shopkeeper purchased a TV whose marked
A) 1100 B) 2000 C) 2200 D) 2640
80. A shopkeeper wanted to sell Rs. 3,000 worth of price is Rs. 16,000 from a dealer at two succes-
products. He gave two options - giving three suc- sive discounts of 20% and then 10%. The shop-
cessive discounts of 10% each, or giving a single keeper spent Rs. 480 for transportation of T.V. If

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he sold the T.V. for Rs. 15,000, his gain percent- 
age is? (a) 450 (b) 600 (c) 550 (d) 500
      87. A shopkeeper earns a profit of 40% on the cost
    TV    price of an article after giving three consecutive
         discounts of 5%, 10% and 15% to a customer.
TV  What would
have been the profit percentage, had the shop-
 TV        
keeper given discounts of 5% and 10% only?
(TS PRELIMS 2016) SSC MTS 8/10/2021 (Morning)
A) 30 B) 25 C) 20 D) 15   
84. An article is listed at Rs.2375. A man
purchases it at two successive discounts of
   
50% and 25% and spends Rs165 on    
repairing of article. If he sells the article at  
a profit of 62.5%, then what is the selling 
price (in Rs) of the article? (CGL 2017) (a) 59.71 % (b) 66.71 %
       (c) 64.71 % (d) 74.71 %
 88. The marked price of a study table is Rs.3,200. It
will be offered for Rs.2,448 after two succes-
 sive discounts. If the first discount is 10%, the
 second discount is: SSC CHSL 26/05/2022
 (Evening)
A) 1467.6 B) 1492.6         
C) 1715.39 D) 1567.6 
85. The marked price of an article is Rs. 400. A shop- 
keeper sells it by giving two successive discounts (a)13% (b) 10% (c) 15% (d)18%
of 12% and 20% on its marked price. If he earns 89. The marked price of an article is Rs.1,000. After
a profit of two successive discounts. It is sold for Rs.600. If
10%, then the cost of the article is: SSC MTS the first discount is x%, and the second discounts
5/10/2021 (Morning) 25% then what is the value of x? (SSC CHSL
TIER I 2020)
      
      
       
      x%
    x 
  A) 18% B) 12% C) 25% D) 20%
90. The marked price of an article is Rs.300. It is
(a} Rs.250 (b} Rs.260 (c} Rs.256 (d) Rs.268 sold
86. Two successive discounts of 20% and 25% on for Rs.177.84 after giving three successive dis-
the marked price of an article are equal to a single counts of 20%, x% and 5%. What is the value of
discount of Rs.250 . If the marked price of the x? (SSC CHSL TIER I 2020)
article is 25% above the cost price, the cost price   
(in Rs.) of the article is: SSC CGL 2021 19/4/   x 
2022 (Evening)
x 
      A) 15 B) 22 C) 18 D) 24
91.
An article was subject to three successive dis-
    
counts, whereby a customer had to pay Rs.
      
2,366.8 less than the marked price of Rs.
     
12,500. If the rates of the first two discounts
were, respectively, 12% and 6%, then what was
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 Concept - 3
  96. On buying 24 bangles Isha gets 6 bangles free of
cost. What percent does Isha get as a discount?
     SSC CHSL 30/05/2022 (Afternoon)
  
  
A) 3.6 B) 2 C) 2.5 D) 3 (a) 25% (b) 20% (c) 10% (d) 15%
92. The selling price of an article marked for Rs. 10000
97. A retailer offers a discount scheme on shirts, that
after giving three discounts, 20%, 10% and k% is
Rs. 6120. What will be selling price (in Rs) of the
is, buy 3, get 2 free. What is the discount per-
same article if a single discount of (k+20)% is al- centage? (SSC CHSL 24/05/2022) (Morning)
lowed? (SSC CGL TIER I 2020)      
       
 A) 35%B) 50% C) 30%D) 40%
k% 98. During festivals, a banner on a shop displays, ‘Pay
k+20  for 3 and get 5. The discouint percentage offered
  is: (SSC MTS 02/11/2021 (Morning)
A) 6500 B) 8500 C) 6800 D) 8000  
93. An article was sold for 512 after given two equal
successive discounts on the market price of 800.
  
The percentage discount offered is: (SSC CHSL 2
TIER I 2020) A) 166 % B) 60%
3

2
          C) 40% D) 66 %
3

A) 16% B) 20% C) 18% D) 15% 99. A shopkeeper offers the following four schemes.
94. Two successive discounts each of x% on the Which scheme has the maximum discount per-
marked price of an article are equal to a single centage? (SSC CHSL 03/06/2022 (Evening)
discount of 350. If the marked price of the article  
is 800, then the value of x is : (SSC CHSL TIER
I 2020)
    
 x% (i) Two successive discounts of 22% and 25%
(ii) Buy 3, get 2 free
    (iii) Buy 5, get 4 free (iv)
 Buy 4, get 3 free
A) i B) ii C) iv D) iii
x 
100. A retailer offers the following discount scheme for
A) 27.5% B) 20% C) 25% D) 22.5%
an article to his customers. A. Two equal succes-
95. The marked price of an article is Rs 1500.
sive discounts of 15%. B. Two successive dis-
If two successive discounts, each of x%, on counts of 12% and 18%. C. Buy 7 articles and
the marked price is equal to a single discount get 3 free. Which scheme is favourable to a
of Rs 587.40, then what will be the selling customer?(assuming buys articles in a multiple of
price of the article if a single discount of 10)
x% is given on the marked price? (MAINS SSC CHSL 03/06/2022 {Morning)
2018)           
x   
 A 
  x B 

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C 
     
    1
8 %  
(a) Only A (b) Only C 3
(c) Both A and Care the same (d) Only B 
101. 1 packet of biscuits costs Rs. 16 but a pack A) 9 : 5 B) 9 : 14
of 4 of the same packet of biscuits costs C) 16 : 21 D) 6 : 7
Rs. 56. What is the effective discount (in 106. A shopkeeper give 1 article free on the purchase
%) on the pack? (SSC T-II) 2017 | 17 FEB of every 15 article, he also allow a discount of
     4% to customer and still earn 35% profit. Find
the ratio of CP and MP.
   
.     

A) 8 B) 10 C) 7.5 D) 12.5
     
102. A businessman gives 1 articles free on the   
purchase of 3 articles and also he allow an 
additional discount of 20%, then find A) 2 : 3 B) 2 : 6 C) 3 : 2 D) 2 : 8
effective discount he allowed? 107.. Aditya purchase a Basket Ball whose marked
 price is Rs. 1200. At a discount of 15% and gives
 a cricket ball worth Rs. 65 free with each basket
ball. Even then the seller makes a profit of 25%,
    his cost price per basket ball is
  
A) 45 B) 40 C) 35 D) 50
103. A shop owner announced 2 free T-Shirts 
free on purchase of 5 T-Shirts and he got a 
profit of 20% then find mark up percentage? 
   
 A) Rs. 760 B) Rs. 955
A) 40% B) 68% C) 64% D) 52% C) Rs. 764 D) Rs. 999
104. A shopkeeper marked his goods 60% above 108. Kapil sells a badminton racket whose marked price
cost price and he give 1 article free on is Rs. 30, at a discount of 15% and gives a shuttle
purchase of 5 articles then find his profit cock costing Rs. 1.50 free with each racket. Even
percentage? then he makes profit of 20%. His cost price, per
 racket, is
 .   
   
  
1 
A) 30 B) 25 C) 40 D) 33 A) Rs. 21.00 B) Rs. 21.25
3 C) Rs. 20.00 D) Rs. 19.75
105. A shopkeeper gives 3 articles free on the 109. The marked price of every item being sold by a
purchase of 13 articles and he also allow wholesaler was Rs.300. The wholesaler was
an additional discount of 14.28% to offering a stock-clearance sale under which, for
every three items paid for, one item was being
1 given free. In addition to this, a further 10%
customer and still gains 8 % profit. Find
3 discount on the amount payable on the ‘Buy 3,
the ratio of CP to MP? Get 1 free’ scheme price was being offered to
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Rs.10,000. Ramesh made purchases for I which   
this amount payable was Rs.18,000. What was
the effective percentage discount that was offered 
to Ramesh during this transaction? SSC CHSL   
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  A) 15% B) 20% C) 25% D) 30%
    113. A Rs.1000 box of cookies is offered at 10%
   
          discount and a Rs.400 bar of chocolate at
8% discount. If we buy 2 boxes of cookies
 
and 3 bars of chocolate, what is the effective
  discount we get (in %)? (MAINS 2017)
   
      
     
       
       A) 9 B) 9.25 C) 8.75 D) 8.5
 114. A Rs 100 shirt is offered at 10% discount
(a) 32% (b) 31 .5% (c) 32.5% (d) 32.75% and a Rs300 pair of trousers at 20%
110. Ticket for an adult is Rs. 500 and a child is discount. If Pritam bought 1 shirt and 3 pairs
Rs. 200. 1 child goes free with two adults. of trousers, what is the effective discount
If a group has 20 adults and 8 children what (in %) he got? (CGL 2017)
will be the discount the group get?  
    
       
 
 A) 19 B) 18 C) 17 D) 16
A) 53.43% B) 13.79% 115. Market price of an item is Rs. 400. On
C) 32.2% D) 35.06% purchase of 1 item discount is 6% and on
Concept - 4 purchase of 4 items discount is 24% Rachita
111. A man purchases 100 copies of a book from buys 5 items. What is the effective
the publisher and gets a discount of 25%. discount?
He buys 50 copies from a retailer at a  
discount of 10 %. He got an overall 
discount of: (CGL 2018)
  

  
 A) 34% B) 20.4%
    C) 12.8% D) 23.25%
 116. Under a sale offer, Tanvir was offered a 32%
A) 16.5% B) 17.5% discount on the part of the marked price that was
C) 20% D) 35% paid in cash, but had to add 1.2% on the part of
112. The marked price of a pen and pencil are in the marked price paid through a credit card. If
Tanvir paid 75% of the marked price in cash and
the ratio 1 : 2. The shopkeeper gives 40%
the rest through a credit card, what percentage
discount on the pen. If the total discount
of the marked price was his total final payment?
on the set of the pen and pencil is 30%, the SSC CHSL 31/05/2022 (Evening)
discount offered on the pencil is.
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         
            
            
      A) Loss, 8.75% B) Loss, 12.5%
C) Gain, 10.5% D) Gain, 12.5%
  120. A marks her goods 25% above the cost price.
      She sells 25% of the goods at the marked price,
   60% at 25% discount and the remaining at 1
(a) 76.6% {b) 75.9% (c) 76.1% {d) 76.3% 0% discount. What
117. Under a sale offer for an item,Mahesh was of- is her overall gain or loss per cent? SSC CHSL
fered 24% discount on the part of the marked 10/8/2021 (Evening)
price that was paid in cash, but was charged A 
   
1.5% on the part of the marked price paid through        
a credit card. If Mahesh paid 40% of the marked
price in cash and the rest through a credit card
 
and his total final payment was Rs.6,391, what 
was the marked price of the item? SSC CHSL  
01/06/2022 {Afternoon) (a)Gain15.124% (b)Loss18.175% (c) Loss
       3.125% (d) Gain 4.375%
      121. A dealer marks articles at a price that gives
     him a profit of 30%. 6% of the
consignment of goods was lost in a fire in
         his premises, 24% was soiled and had to
   be sold at half the cost price. If the
     remainder was sold at marked price, what
    % profit or loss did the dealer make on
(a) Rs.7,200 {b) Rs.6,900 that consignment?
(c) Rs.7,050 {d) Rs.7,000    
118. A trader marks his goods at 40% above the   
cost price. He sells 70% of the goods at   
the marked price and the rest, he sells by
allowing a 40% discount on the marked     
price. His percentage profit is: (CGL 2018) 
 A) 2% B) 2.5% C) 3% D )
6.6%
 122. If Fatima sells 60 identical toys at a 40%
      discount on the printed price, then she
 makes 20% profit. Ten of these toys are
 destroyed in fire. While selling the rest,
A) 23.4 B) 24.2 C) 23.2 D) 24.4 how much discount should be given on the
119. A shopkeeper marks his goods at 25% printed price so that she can make the same
above the cost price. He sells three-fourth amount of profit? (CAT 2017)
of the goods at the marked price and  
remaining at 40% discount on the marked       
price. His gain or loss percent is: (CHSL      
2018)
    
   
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      126. A company allows 15% discount and gets
19% profit. If the cost of the product is
 
increased by 12% then the MP is increased
A) 30% B) 25% C) 24% D) 28%
by 10% and company still gives 15%
123. A trader gives a discount of 4% of purchases
discount, then find the new profit?
above Rs. 25,000, 6% for purchase above
Rs. 35,000 and 8% for purchases above Rs.       
50,000. if an item is purchased for Rs.     
38,500, what would be the amount of       
discount? (CPO 2018)      
      A) 16.275% B)16.5%
  C)16.625% D)16.875%
  127. The MP of an article is 50% above CP.
When MP is increased by 20% and SP is

increased by 20%, the profit doubles. If
  original MP is Rs300, then find SP.
   
A) Rs. 3,740 B) Rs. 1,810
  
C) Rs. 3,080 D) Rs. 2,310
Concept - 5   
124. A dealer gains 20% by selling an article at 25%  
discount on its marked price. If the cost price of  
the article is decreased by 15%, how much dis-
A)Rs.240 B)Rs.250
count percentage should he now give on the same
C)Rs.270 D)Rs.225
marked price so as to earn the same percentage
of profit as before? SSC CGL Tier-II 03/02/ 128. MP of a chair is 37.5% more than its CP. If
2022 4
SP and MP both are increased by 44 % ,
        9
  then profit becomes 3 times. If the initial
MP of chair is Rs.3850, then find initial
      SP of chair.
     
     
(a) 32.50% (b) 35%
(c) 36.25% (d) 37.75%   44 94   
125. A trader gains 25% by selling an article with 20%
discount on its marked price. If the cost price of 
the article increases by 30%, then how much dis- 
count (in %) should he offer on the same A)Rs.3600 B)Rs.4500
marked price to gain 15% of profit? SSC CGL
C)Rs.3150 D)Rs.4050
Tier -II 29/01 / 2022
129. 3/4th of the marked price of an article is equal to
      5/6th of selling price. What is the discount per-
     cent.
    3/4 5/6
       
A) 12.5 B) 10 C) 15 D) 11.11

130. If the discount of a book is 30% of the SP
(a) 4.87% (b) 5.08% (c) 5.12% (d) 4.32%
and discount % equals profit %, then find
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  x
  x
 A) 15% B) 20% C) 10% D) 5%
A)17:52 B)24:65 136. A shopkeeper offers successively discounts of
C)28:55 D)32:85 20% and 25% on the marked price of an article
131. If SP of a pen is 7 times the discount offered and gets a profit of 20%. If he wants to make
and discount % equals half of profit %, then 40% profit, the percentage by which the marked
find the ratio of discount offered to profit price is to be increased is?
occurred on article?      
        
                  
    
 (AP MAINS 2018)
A)5:28 B)1:2 C)4:7 D)5:7 2 1
A) 40 B) 45 C) 16 D) 33
11 3 3
132. If SP of a book is times to the discount Concept - 6
2
offered and discount % is equal to the 137. A man mark up his goods by 20% and he
profit%. It is given that discount is Rs240, uses 900 gms instead of 1 kg while selling.
find the CP of book. Then find his overall profit percentage?
  
  
  
  1
A)1144 B)1324 C)1068 D)1114 A) 30 B) 33 C) 25 D) 40
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133. The mark - up %, discount % and profit % are in
138. A shopkeeper announced that he is giving
the ratio 16 : 5 : 7. If article is marked at 288 Rs.
higher than CP, then find the amount of discount 15% discount on cost price, but he is using
given (in Rs.) 680 gm instead of 1 kg while selling to the
     customer. Then find his profit / loss
percentage?
         
  
A) 216 B) 189 C) 144 D) 162
134. If ratio of mark up: selling price 3 : 8 and ratio of 
discount: cost price 1 : 4 then find the discount 
percentage?

       A) 30 B) 25 C) 20 D) 40
    139. A shopkeeper marks up his goods by 30% and
 then gives a discount of 10% on the marked price.
A) 15.32% B) 18.47% Apart from this, he uses a faulty balance which
C) 16.66% D) 17.24% reads 1 kg for 870 g. What is his net profit per-
centage? SSC CHSL 24/05/2022 Afternoon
135. If an article is sold on 5x% discount then it
sold at 25% loss and if only x% discount is   
given then it sold at 35% profit. Find the         
value of x?  
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       
(a) 38.42% (b) 34.84% (c) 34.48% (d)    X
38.24% 
140. A shopkeeper while purchasing his goods A) 970 gm B) 985 gm
cheats by 40% using false weights. Then C) 980 gm D) 960 gm
he marks the goods by 37.5% above the Miscellaneous
cost price. But, while selling, he allows a 143. A dealer offers a cash discount of 20% and still
discount of 42.85%. Find his profit or loss makes a profit of 20%. If he further sells 8 ar-
%. ticles at a rate of 6 articles, then how much per-
  centage above the cost price does he mark on
each article? SSC CGL Tier-II 03/02/2022

  
     
    
 
    

A) 10% profit B) 15% profit
         
A) 77.5% B) 100%
C) 10% loss D) 15% loss
C) 112.5% D) 87.5%
1 144. A shopkeeper bought 80 kg of rice at a discount
141. A shopkeeper marks up his goods 33 % of 10%. Besides 1 kg rice was offered free to
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him on the purchase of every 20 kg rice. If he
above the cost price and gives 20% discount sells the rice at the marked price, his profit per-
to the customer. At the time of buying, he centage will be:SSC CGL 5/03/2020 (Morning)
uses 1200 gm instead of 1 kg and at the

time of selling the goods, 800 gm weight
instead of 1 kg. Find his profit? 
 
   
  33 13 % 
3 2
A) 15 % B) 16 %
      7 3
      1 2
C) 15 % D) 14 %
 3 7
 145. A merchant announces 25% discount on the price
of a shirt. If one needs to have a total rebate of
 875 and the price of each shirt is 250, then how
A) 37.5 B) 60 C) 40 D) 48 many shirts should the person purchase? SSC
142. A shopkeeper buy sells guava at Rs. 22 per kg, CHSL 13/4/2021 (Evening)
one kg each to Anand and Sakshi for Rs. 25      
each. He sold 950 gm to Anand instead of 1 kg.
He sold ‘X’ gm instead of 1 kg to Sakshi using    
the defective weight. If he makes a total profit of       
Rs. 7.76 by selling both, then what is the value (a)15 (b)12 (c)9 (d)14
of ‘X’? 146. A shop, which sold same marked price shirts,
 announced an offer – if one buys three
      shirts, then the fourth shirt is sold at a
discounted price of Rs.100 only. Patel took
  
the offer. He left the shop with 20 shirts
 X  after paying Rs.20000. What is the marked

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   
      
   
        
       
   
A) Rs. 600 B) Rs. 800

C) Rs. 1000 D) Rs. 750
 150. Marked price of a refrigerator is Rs. 10800 two
A) Rs.1260 B) Rs.1300 successive discounts each x% are given on this
C) Rs.1350 D) Rs.1400 refrigerator. Due to further bargaining of customer
E) Rs.1500 discount of Rs. 1808 are also allowed. Now
147. A shopkeeper sells bed sheets for Rs. 320 each shopkeeper charges 12.5% G.S.T. on the dis-
at a profit of 24%. He gives one bed sheet free counted price and sold it for Rs. 4500. Find value
on a purchase of four bed sheets. Sunil needs 7 of x?
bed sheets whereas Piyush needs 8. How much      
will they save, if they purchase the bed sheets
together rather than separately?
  x% 
     
          
            G.S.T 
       x
  
A) 27.5% B) 28.33% C) 25%D) 26.66%
A) 480 B) 320 C) 960 D) 640
148. Shyam went shopping to buy a mobile, the 151. An article is marked x% above the cost
shopkeeper asked him to pay 23.5% tax if 2
price. A discount of x% is given on the
he wants bill. If not, you can get 9% 3
discount on the actual price of the mobile. marked price. If the profit is 4% of the cost
Then shyam decided not to take the bill and price and the value of x lies between 25 and
paid Rs.5460. By this, how much money 50, then the value of 50% of x is (XAT 2019)
could Shyam saved on purchasing mobile? 
 2
x 3 x% 
     
   x 
 x
 A) 20 B) 15 C) 12 D) 16
152. The price of product is P. A shopkeeper
 raises its price by X% and then offers a
A) 1950 B) 2437.5 C) 1410 D) 1850 discount of Y% on the raised price. The
149. A merchant bought an article after getting discounted price again becomes P. If Y is
35% discount on its MRP. Merchant marks the difference between X and Y, then find
it Rs600 more than the price he had bought X. (XAT 2018)
and gives a discount of 15% on it. If amount
 P 
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A) Rs. 300 B) Rs. 175
 XY 
C) Rs. 375 D) Rs. 325
  PX
156. In a market, the price of medium quality man-
YYX goes is half of good mangoes. A shopkeeper buys
A) 20 B) 25 C) 50 D) 100 80 kg good mangoes and 40 kg medium quality
153. Rajendra marks up the price of an article by mangoes from the market and then sells all these
50% and then allows a discount of 20% and at a common price which is 10% less than the
price at which he bought the good ones. His overall
sells it to Alok. Alok sells it for Rs. 20 more
profit is?
than what he purchased for, this SP is 30%
more than the original CP of the article.     
Then Alok’s profit % is   
        
     
   
     
    
 A) 6% B) 8% C) 10% D) 12%
A) 7.5% B) 6.66% C) 8.33% D) 9% 157. Sushant Publish 3500 books for Rs.
154. On a television of brand A the discount is 3,50,000 at CP, he gives 500 books free to
25% and on television of brand B the some book shops, he also allowed a
discount is 40%. The price of B after discount of 25% on the marked price and
discount Rs. 2,250 greater than the price give 1 book free for every purchase of 29
of A after discount. What is the marked books. Find the amount of loss if the mark
price of A (in Rs.) if marked price of B is price of each book is Rs. 160.
Rs. 35,000? (SSC T-II 2017 | 20 FEB)    
A B 
         
B A      
B 
 A    
 A) Rs. 2000 B) Rs. 3000
A) 18750 B) 21000 C) Rs. 4000 D) Rs. 1500
C) 25000 D) 17850 158. MEH Publisher Rs. 2000 copies of book at
155. Shopkeeper gives 5% discount to its the cost of Rs. 2400. He distributed 500
customers and another 15% discount to its copies for free of cost. He gave 24%
members. If by mistake shopkeeper takes discount on the marked price and offered 1
Rs. 40,000 for any object from its member, free book at the sale of 24 books. In this
whose marked price is Rs. 50,000 then way he sold the entire books. If the marked
profit made by memebr is? price of 1 book is Rs. 3.25. Find the
percentage profit or loss.

MEH     
    
 


    

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  

A) 35% B) 50% C) 40% D) 48.2%
159. A publisher printed 2000 copies of a book
at a cost of Rs. 70,000. He distributes 400
copies free as specimen copies. He gave
30% discount on marked price of each
book which is Rs. 75. What is his gain or
loss percentage?
 
     

 

A) 20% gain B) 20% loss
C) 10% loss D) 10% gain

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