A person purchases $8$ pens for ₹ $10$ and sells $10$ pens for ₹ $8.$ How much profit or loss does he make in ?

  • A

    $30 \%$ gain

  • B

    $30 \%$ loss

  • C

    $36 \%$ gain

  • D

    $36 \%$ loss

Similar Questions

A shopkeeper sold Sarees at $Rs.$ $266$ each after giving $5\%$ discount on labelled price. Had he not given the discount, he would have earned a profit of $12 \%$ on the cost price. What was the cost price of each Saree? (in $Rs.$)

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?

By selling a book for $Rs.$ $360,20 \%$ profit was earned. What is the $CP$ of the book in $Rs.$?

Albert buys $4$ $horses$ and $9$ cows for $Rs. 13400$. If he sells the horse at $10 \%$ profit and the cows at $20 \%$ profit, then he earns a total profit of $Rs.\, 1880 .$ The cost of a horse is (in $Rs.$)

Ram purchased a Computer set of $Rs.\, 12500$ and spent $Rs.\,300$ on transportation and $Rs.\, 800$ on installation. At what price should he sell it so as to earn an overall profit of $15 \% ?$ (in $Rs.$)