It is important to understand the percentage and profit-loss concepts to clean the quantitative qualification section of IBPS RRB PO and Clerk 2025 examinations. These topics form the basis of many questions and are often combined with other chapters such as simple interest, data interpretation and discount. A strong understanding of percentage calculations helps resolve profit-loss problems quickly, based on real-life business scenarios. By mastering these basic things, candidates can improve their accuracy and speed up two major factors to score well in the competitive exam.
IBPS RRB PO and Clerk percent and profit-loss concept construction for 2025
In IBPS RRB PO and Clerk 2025 exam, percentage and profit-loss questions are asked to test how well you can handle the number in real-life conditions. These subjects may seem difficult at first, but with regular practice and understanding of basic rules, they become easy to solve. Learning to find percentage, calculating profit or loss, and understanding cost and sales prices will help you score better and faster in the exam. Below we have given you some questions to solve:-
Q1. A shopkeeper sold two books in each at a price of rupees. 336. One of the two books is sold at 12% profit and the other is 16% loss. Find out the overall loss in this process?
(A) Rs. 24
(b) Rs. 38
(c) Rs. 28
(d) Rs. 32
(e) Rs. 36
Q2. The selling price of two commodities is the same and one is sold at 20% profit and the other at 10% loss, this process caused overall loss/profit if the selling price is Rs.10800?
(A) Rs. 560 benefits
(b) Rs. 480 losses
(c) Rs. 640 losses
(d) Rs. 600 benefits
(e) No benefit is no harm.
Q3. When an article is sold at some profit% and the loss in ratio of loss is 2: 3 and the ratio of the selling price on profit and loss at 12: 7. Find the profit percentage?
(A) 20%
(b) 10%
(c) 15%
(d) 18%
(e) 12%
Q4. A person bought an old bicycle for Rs 6400. That Rs. X on repairing it. Find the price of X, if he sold a bicycle for Rs 9180 and earned a profit of 20%.
(A) Rs 1450
(b) Rs 1250
(c) Rs 1800
(d) Rs 1350
(E) Rs 1150
Q5. By selling an article on the 3/4th of the marked value, there is a profit of 25%. The marked price and cost price ratio is
(a) 5: 3
(b) 3: 5
(c) 3: 4
(d) 4: 3
(e) 4: (
Q6. An article P was sold at D% discount when it was marked up to 20% and sold at 10% profit. If another article was sold in Q rupee. On the profit of 800 and 3D%, then find the cost price of the article Q. (Rupee.)
(A) 400
(b) 60
(c) 740
(d) 720
(e) None of these
Q7. Article B costs more than 10% of the cost of 1/5th Article A at 10% of the cost price of Rs 45, while Article A is sold at a profit of 12% and Article B is sold at a loss of 5%. If the total sale price of Article A and B is Rs 1410, find B cost price.
(A) Rs. 600
(b) Rs. 650
(c) Rs. 700
(d) Rs. 800
(e) None of these
Q8. Therefore, the ratio of ten years, Bhola and Ram’s age will be 9: 5 respectively. If Ram is 10 years younger than Bhola, then find out the present age Ram, what is the present age of Bhola?
(A) 25%
(b) 40%
(c) 10%
(d) 15%
(E) 20%
Q9. P invested Rs 3600 in business and Qu invested Rs 900 less than P, while R’s investment is 50/3% more than Q. If R invests for only six months, find a percentage share of R from the total profit of business at the end of the year.
(A) 45.71%
(b) 20.00%
(c) 34.28%
(d) 15.00%
(E) 25.00%
Q10. Article A cost price price (CP) Article B is 25% higher than the cost price and the ratio of marked value of Article A of Article A is 12: 5. If the shopkeeper offers a discount of X% and (x + 5)% on the marked value of Article B and Article A, while he gets a profit of 25% on Article B and 20% on Article A, then get the price of X?
(a) 90
(b) 80
(c) 70
(d) 40
(e) 50
