CAT (QA) PYQs

Amal purchases some pens at ₹ $8$ each. To sell these, he hires an employee at a fixed wage. He sells $100$ of these pens at $₹ 12$ each. If the remaining pens are sold at $₹ 11$ each, then he makes a net profit of ₹ $300$, while he makes a net loss of ₹ $300$ if the remaining pens are sold at ₹ $9$ each. The wage of the employee, in INR, is

A fruit seller has a stock of mangoes, bananas and apples with at least one fruit of each type. At the beginning of a day, the number of mangoes make up 40% of his stock. That day, he sells half of the mangoes, 96 bananas and 40% of the apples. At the end of the day, he ends up selling 50% of the fruits. The smallest possible total number of fruits in the stock at the beginning of the day is

A man buys $35$ kg of sugar and sets a marked price in order to make a $20\%$ profit. He sells $5$ kg at this price, and $15$ kg at a $10\%$ discount. Accidentally, $3$ kg of sugar is wasted. He sells the remaining sugar by raising the marked price by $p$ percent so as to make an overall profit of $15\%$. Then $p$ is nearest to