Books and More Profit Analysis

XAT 2010 · QADI · Medium · Quantitative Ability

Passage / data set

Books and More sells books, music CDs and film DVDs. In December 2009, they earned 40% profit in music CDs and 25% profit in books. Music CDs contributed 35% towards their total sales in rupees. At the same time total sales in rupees from books is 50% more than that of music CDs.

Question 1 of 2

If Books and More have earned 20% profit overall, then in film DVDs they made

  1. A.

    15.2% profit

  2. B.

    10.0% profit

  3. C.

    10.0% loss

  4. D.

    16.3% loss

  5. E.

    23.4% loss

Question 2 of 2

If Books and More made 50% loss in film DVDs, then overall they made

  1. A.

    12.3% profit

  2. B.
    1. 7% profit
  3. C.

    0.4% loss

  4. D.

    6.25% loss

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