Profit-loss is a very important section for competitive exams.
Here are some important rules and concepts related to Profit and Loss that you should know:
- Cost Price (CP): The price at which an article is purchased or acquired.
- Selling Price (SP): The price at which an article is sold.
- Profit (P): The positive difference between the Selling Price and the Cost Price.
- Profit = SP – CP
- Loss (L): The negative difference between the Cost Price and the Selling Price.
- Loss = CP – SP
- Profit Percentage (% P): The percentage of profit on the cost price.
- Profit Percentage = (Profit / CP) * 100
- Loss Percentage (% L): The percentage of loss on the cost price.
- Loss Percentage = (Loss / CP) * 100
- Marked Price (MP): The price marked on the article.
- Discount (D): The reduction from the marked price to the selling price.
- Discount = MP – SP
- Discount Percentage (% D): The percentage of discount on the marked price.
- Discount Percentage = (Discount / MP) * 100
- Selling Price after Discount (SP’): The actual selling price after deducting the discount.
- SP’ = MP – Discount
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