IIMB 2001 (QA) PYQs

A shopkeeper sold article A at a profit of $18\%$ and article B at a loss of $10\%$, thus making an overall profit of Rs.$85$. If he had sold at article A at an $11\%$ loss and article B at an $8\%$ profit, he would have suffered a loss of Rs.$34$. Find the sum (in Rs.) of the cost prices of article A and article B.

A dishonest dealer marks up the price of his goods by $30\%$ gives a discount of $20\%$ to the customer. Besides, he also cheats both his supplier and his buyer by $100$ grams while buying or selling $1$ kilogram. Find the percentage profit earned by the shopkeeper.

A group of $3000$ people bought the shares of XYZ company of which $65\%$ were male and the rest were female. The male population earned a profit of $10\%$ and female population earned $5\%$ on an investment of Rs. $500$ each. Find the change in the percentage profit of the group, if the ratio of male to female gets reversed the next year, population and profit percentages for the respective groups remaining the same.