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

Gita sells two objects $A$ and $B$ at the same price such that she makes a profit of $20 \%$ on object $A$ and $a$ loss of $10 \%$ on object $B$. If she increases the selling price such that objects $A$ and $B$ are still sold at an equal price and a profit of $10 \%$ is made on object $B$, then the profit made on object A will be nearest to

In a market, the price of medium quality mangoes is half that of good mangoes. A shopkeeper buys $80 \mathrm{~kg}$ good mangoes and $40 \mathrm{~kg}$ medium quality mangoes from the market and then sells all these at a common price which is $10 \%$ less than the price at which he bought the good ones. His overall profit is