A shopkeeper sold an article offering a discount of $5 \%$ and earned a profit of $23.5 \% .$ What would have been the percentage of profit earned if no discount was offered?

The profit earned by a shopkeeper by selling a bucket at a gain of $8 \%$ is $Rs.\, 28$ more than when he sells it at a loss of $8 \% .$ The cost price (in Rupees) of the bucket is

A retailer offers the following discount schemes for buyers on an article

$I.$ Two successive discounts of $10 \%$

$II.$ A discount of $12 \%$ followed by a discount of $8 \%$

$III.$ Successive discounts of $15 \%$ and $5 \%$

$IV.$ A discount of $20 \%$

The selling price will be minimum under the scheme

A shopkeeper purchased a chair marked at $RS.\, 600$ at two successive discounts of $15 \%$ and $20 \% .$ He spent $Rs.\, 28$ on transportation and sold the chair for $Rs.\,545.$ His gain percent was

Half of $100$ articles were sold at a profit of $20 \%$ and the rest at a profit of $40 \% .$ If all of the articles had been sold at a profit of $25 \%,$ the total profit would have been $Rs.\,100$ less than earlier profit. The cost price of each article was (in $Rs.$)

By selling $25$ $metres$ of cloth a trader gains the selling price of $5$ $metres$ of cloth. The gain of the trader in $\%$ is