Percentage & Profit-Loss Concept Building for IBPS RRB PO and Clerk 2025

Understanding the concepts of Percentage and Profit-Loss is crucial for clearing the Quantitative Aptitude section of the IBPS RRB PO and Clerk 2025 exams. These topics form the base of many questions and are often combined with other chapters like Simple Interest, Data Interpretation, and Discount. A strong grasp of percentage calculations helps in quickly solving profit-loss problems, which are based on real-life business scenarios. By mastering these fundamentals, candidates can improve their accuracy and speed two key factors for scoring well in the competitive exam.

Percentage & Profit-Loss Concept Building for IBPS RRB PO and Clerk 2025

In the IBPS RRB PO and Clerk 2025 exams, questions from Percentage and Profit-Loss are asked to test how well you can handle numbers in real-life situations. These topics may look tricky at first, but with regular practice and understanding of basic rules, they become easy to solve. Learning how to find percentages, calculate profit or loss, and understand cost and selling prices will help you score better and faster in the exam. Below we have provided some questions for you to solve:-

Q1. A shopkeeper sold two books each at price of Rs. 336. Out of two books one is sold at 12% profit and another at 16% loss. Find overall loss incurred in this process?
(a) Rs. 24
(b) Rs. 38
(c) Rs. 28
(d) RS. 32
(e) Rs. 36

Q2. Selling price of two commodity is same and one is sold at 20% profit and another at 10% loss, find overall loss/profit occurred in this process if selling price is Rs.10800?
(a) Rs. 560 profit
(b) Rs. 480 loss
(c) Rs. 640 loss
(d) Rs. 600 profit
(e) No profit no loss.

Q3. When an article is sold at certain profit% and loss% than ratio of profit to loss becomes 2:3 and ratio of selling price at profit and at loss 12 : 7. Find profit percent?
(a) 20%
(b) 10%
(c) 15%
(d) 18%
(e) 12%

Q4. A person bought an old bicycle in Rs 6400. He expends Rs. X on repairing it. Find value of X, if he sold the bicycle in Rs 9180 and makes profit of 20%.
(a) Rs 1450
(b) Rs 1250
(c) Rs 1800
(d) Rs 1350
(e) Rs 1150

Q5. By selling an article at 3/4 th of the marked price, there is a gain of 25%. The ratio of the marked price and the cost price is
(a) 5 : 3
(b) 3 : 5
(c) 3 : 4
(d) 4 : 3
(e) 4: 7

Q6. An article P was sold at d% discount after it was marked up by 20% and sold at 10% profit. If another article Q was sold at Rs. 800 and at a profit of 3d%, then find cost price of article Q. (in Rs.)
(a) 600
(b) 640
(c) 740
(d) 720
(e) None of these

Q7. 1/5th of cost price of article B is Rs 45 more than 10% of the cost price of article A, while article A is sold at profit of 12% and article B is sold at loss of 5%. If total selling price of article A and B is Rs 1410, then find the cost price of B.
(a) Rs. 600
(b) Rs. 650
(c) Rs. 700
(d) Rs. 800
(e) None of these

Q8. Ten years hence, the ratio of the ages of Bhola and Ram will be 9:5 respectively. If Ram is 10 years younger to Bhola, then find the present age Ram is what % present age of Bhola?
(a) 25%
(b) 40%
(c) 10%
(d) 15%
(e) 20%

Q9. P invested Rs 3600 in business and Q invested Rs 900 less than P, while the investment of R is 50/3% more than that of Q. If R invested for six months only, then find the percentage of profit share of R out of total profit of the business at the end of the year.
(a) 45.71%
(b) 20.00%
(c) 34.28%
(d) 15.00%
(e) 25.00%

Q10. The cost price (CP) of article A is 25% more than the cost price of article B and the ratio of the marked price (MP) of article A to that of article B is 12:5. If the shopkeeper offers a discount of x% and (x + 5) % on marked price of article B and article A respectively while he gets the profit of 25% on article B and 20% on article A, then find the value of x?
(a) 90
(b) 80
(c) 70
(d) 60
(e) 50