CAT (QA) PYQs

A merchant purchases a cloth at a rate of Rs. $100$ per meter and receives $5 \mathrm{~cm}$ length of cloth free for every $100 \mathrm{~cm}$ length of cloth purchased by him. He sells the same cloth at a rate of Rs. $110$ per meter but cheats his customers by giving $95 \mathrm{~cm}$ length of cloth for every $100 \mathrm{~cm}$ length of cloth purchased by the customers. If the merchant provides a $5 \%$ discount, the resulting profit earned by him is

Ankita buys $4 \mathrm{~kg}$ cashews, $14 \mathrm{~kg}$ peanuts and $6 \mathrm{~kg}$ almonds when the cost of $7 \mathrm{~kg}$ cashews is the same as that of $30 \mathrm{~kg}$ peanuts or $9 \mathrm{~kg}$ almonds. She mixes all the three nuts and marks a price for the mixture in order to make a profit of Rs.1752. She sells $4$ kg of the mixture at this marked price and the remaining at a $20 \%$ discount on the marked price, thus making a total profit of Rs. 744. Then the amount, in rupees, that she had spent in buying almonds is

Amal buys $110 \mathrm{~kg}$ of syrup and $120 \mathrm{~kg}$ of juice, syrup being 20% less costly than juice, per kg. He sells $10 \mathrm{~kg}$ of syrup at 10% profit and $20 \mathrm{~kg}$ of juice at $20 \%$ profit. Mixing the remaining juice and syrup, Amal sells the mixture at Rs. $308.32$ per kg and makes an overall profit of $64 \%$. Then, Amal's cost price for syrup, in rupees per kg, is