CAT Profit and Loss previous year questions

14 Profit and Loss questions from CAT 2021–2025 (Quant), each with its answer and a step-by-step solution.

• Q16A shopkeeper offers a discount of 22% on the marked price of each chair, and gives 13 chairs to a customer for the…CAT 2025 Slot 1 · Quant · Profit and Loss
• Q15An item with a cost price of ₹1650 is sold at a certain discount on a fixed marked price to earn a profit of 20% on…CAT 2025 Slot 2 · Quant · Profit and Loss
• Q5The monthly sales of a product from January to April were 120, 135, 150 and 165 units, respectively. The cost price of…CAT 2025 Slot 3 · Quant · Profit and Loss
• Q21The selling price of a product is fixed to ensure 40% profit. If the product had cost 40% less and had been sold for 5…CAT 2024 Slot 1 · Quant · Profit and Loss
• Q7Bina incurs 19% loss when she sells a product at ₹4860 to Shyam, who in turn sells this product to Hari. If Bina would…CAT 2024 Slot 2 · Quant · Profit and Loss
• Q12Gopi marks a price on a product in order to make 20% profit. Ravi gets 10% discount on this marked price, and thus…CAT 2024 Slot 3 · Quant · Profit and Loss
• Q13Gita sells two objects A and B at the same price such that she makes a profit of 20% on object A and a loss of 10% on…CAT 2023 Slot 1 · Quant · Profit and Loss
• Q9Minu purchases a pair of sunglasses at ₹1000 and sells to Kanu at 20% profit. Then, Kanu sells it back to Minu at 20%…CAT 2023 Slot 2 · Quant · Profit and Loss
• Q15Jayant bought a certain number of white shirts at the rate of ₹1000 per piece and a certain number of blue shirts at…CAT 2023 Slot 2 · Quant · Profit and Loss
• Q11A merchant purchases a cloth at a rate of ₹100 per meter and receives 5 cm length of cloth free for every 100 cm…CAT 2023 Slot 3 · Quant · Profit and Loss
• Q9Ankita buys 4 kg cashews, 14 kg peanuts and 6 kg almonds when the cost of 7 kg cashews is the same as that of 30 kg…CAT 2022 Slot 1 · Quant · Profit and Loss
• Q14Amal buys 110 kg of syrup and 120 kg of juice, syrup being 20% less costly than juice, per kg. He sells 10 kg of syrup…CAT 2022 Slot 1 · Quant · Profit and Loss
• Q3Amal purchases some pens at ₹8 each. To sell these, he hires an employee at a fixed wage. He sells 100 of these pens…CAT 2021 Slot 1 · Quant · Profit and Loss
• Q18Raj invested ₹10000 in a fund. At the end of first year, he incurred a loss but his balance was more than ₹5000. This…CAT 2021 Slot 2 · Quant · Profit and Loss