Wednesday 13 April 2016

Profit and loss formulas and shortcuts

Profit and loss formulas and shortcuts

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In every bank exam,at least 1-2 questions will be from  profit and loss section.By understanding few simple formulas and shortcuts you can easily score full mark from this section.Here we are sharing some important formulas and shortcut tricks to solve profit and loss problems faster Hope you will find this article on profit and loss shortcut formulas useful in upcoming bank exams.

C P(Cost Price):
The Price at which an article is purchased, is called its cost price or In
short called C.P. or Cost price is amount of money goes out from us
when purchase any article.

SP (Selling Price):
The price at which an article is sold, called its selling price or In short
called SP.
Selling Price is a amount of money came in when selling by anything.

Profit or Gain:
If S.P. is greater than C.P, then seller is said to have a profit or gain.

Loss:
If S.P. is less than C.P., the seller said to have a loss.

Marked Price:
When we purchase any item we saw the label price or Marked Price or
listed Price and denoted by M.P.

Some important formulas:
1. Selling price is greater than cost price is called Gain.
Gain = (S.P) – (C.P)
15% Profit on article that means,
Cost price 100%
Selling Price 115%
Profit 15%

2. If Cost price is greater than Selling price is called Loss.
Loss = (C.P) – (S.P)
15% Loss on article that means,
Cost price 100%
Selling Price 85%
Loss 15%

3. Profit and Loss is always calculated on C.P (Cost Price).

Gain percent Shortcut tricks
Example: Rajan purchases an article for Rs.40 and sells it for Rs. 60.
Find his gain percent.
Answer: C.P = 40 and S.P = 60.
Gain= 60 – 40 = 20.
Gain % = 20 x 100/40 = 50%
Loss percent Shortcut tricks
Formula: Loss% = (Loss x 100/C.P)

Example:
10% loss on selling price is what percent loss on the cost price ?
Answer:
consider selling price be = Rs.100, Then loss = Rs.10
Cost price = Rs.( 100 + 10 ) = 110
So, loss% = (10 / 110 x 100 ) = 100 / 11 %

Find selling Price Profit and Loss Shortcut tricks

Formula: S.P = (100+Gain %) /100 x C.P.
Example: If C.P of a product is a Rs. 180 , Gain = 30%, then Find the S.P.
Answer:  S.P =?
S.P = 130% of Rs. 180, Gain = (100+30) = 130, (130/100 x 180) = Rs.234
So Selling Price is Rs. 234

Find cost price Profit and Loss Shortcut tricks
Formula: C.P =100 x S.P/ (100+Gain %).
Example: If S.P of a article is Rs. 240 then Gain 20%, Find the C.P.
Answer: C.P.= ?
C.P. = 100 x 240 / (100+20)
=24000/120 = 200
C.P. = 200

shortcut Tricks:
100 x 240/ (120) = 200

Example:
Find the single discount equivalent to a series discount of 30%, 20% and
10%.
Answer:
Let price be Rs. 100.
Then Net S.P = (90 x 80 x 70 / 100 x 100 x 100) x 100
= 36 x 7 / 5
= 252 / 5
= 50.4.
Required Discount is = (100 – 50.4) = 49.6

Example:
The Profit earned by selling an article for Rs.630 is equal to the loss
incurred when the same article is sold for Rs. 370. What should be the
sale price for making 50% profit?

Answer:
Let C.P price be x
Then
630 – x = x – 370
2x =1000
x = 500
Required S.P = 150% of 500
= 150 x 500 / 100
= 750

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