A bakery bakes cake with the expectation that it will earna profit of $40 \%$ by selling each cake at marked price. But during the delivery to showroom $16 \%$ of the cakes were completely damaged and hence could not be sold. $24 \%$ of the cakes were slightly damaged and hence could be sold at $80 \%$ of the cost price. The remaining $60 \%$ of the cakes were sold at marked price. What is the percentage profit in the whole consignment?
$3.2$
$2.4$
$2.8$
$4.2$
A man buys $100\, kg$ of sugar for $Rs.\, 2400 .$ He sold $1 / 4$ th of the stock at a loss of $5 \% .$ At what per cent profit should he sell the remaining stock so as to make an overall profit of $20 \%$ on the whole transaction? (in $\%$)
The value of an article depreciates every year at the rate of $10 \%$ of its value. If the present value of the article is $Rs.\, 729$, then its worth $3\, years$ ago was (in $Rs.$)
Some articles were bought at $6$ articles for $Rs.\,5$ and sold at $5$ articles for $Rs.$ $6 .$ Gain percent is
A person bought a horse and a carriage for $Rs.\,20000.$ Later, he sold the horse at $20 \%$ profit and the carriage at $10 \%$ loss. Thus, he gained $2 \%$ in the whole transaction. The cost price of the horse was (in $Rs.$)
Two discounts of $40 \%$ and $20 \%$ equal to a single discount of $\%$?