CAT Percentages & Profit-Loss questions 46 since 2017

Across the 24 CAT papers from 2017 to 2025, Percentages & Profit-Loss was asked 46 times, in 21 of the 24 papers. CAT asks about 1.9 Percentages & Profit-Loss questions per paper on average; in 2022–2025 it was 1.3 per paper, against 2.1 in the four years before (falling). Below is how often it appeared each year, the ideas CAT keeps reusing, and every question with its answer.

How many Percentages & Profit-Loss questions come in CAT each year?

Percentages & Profit-Loss ideas CAT has repeated

• Selling parts at different prices, rest as a mixture, to hit an overall profit 4 questions, 2018–2022
• Marked price, discount and profit: MP × (1 − d) = CP × (1 + p) 6 questions, 2017–2025
• Successive resales: multiply the profit and loss factors along the chain 4 questions, 2017–2024
• Two items at different profit/loss rates: overall profit equation 4 questions, 2019–2023
• Two successive percentage changes with related rates 3 questions, 2021–2024
• Total change from parts growing at different percentages 3 questions, 2019–2021
• Pass mark from two scores relative to it 3 questions, 2018–2020

All Percentages & Profit-Loss questions, newest first

CAT 2025

• CAT 2025 Slot 3 · QA Q5 The monthly sales of a product from January to April were…
• CAT 2025 Slot 2 · QA Q15 An item with a cost price of Rs. 1650 is sold at a certain…
• CAT 2025 Slot 1 · QA Q16 A shopkeeper offers a discount of 22% on the marked price of…

CAT 2024

• CAT 2024 Slot 3 · QA Q8 After two successive increments, Gopal's salary became…
• CAT 2024 Slot 3 · QA Q12 Gopi marks a price on a product in order to make 20% profit…
• CAT 2024 Slot 2 · QA Q7 Bina incurs 19% loss when she sells a product at Rs. 4860 to…
• CAT 2024 Slot 2 · QA Q12 A fruit seller has a stock of mangoes, bananas and apples…
• CAT 2024 Slot 1 · QA Q21 The selling price of a product is fixed to ensure 40%…

CAT 2023

• CAT 2023 Slot 3 · QA Q10 The population of a town in 2020 was 100000 . The population…
• CAT 2023 Slot 3 · QA Q11 A merchant purchases a cloth at a rate of Rs.100 per meter…
• CAT 2023 Slot 3 · QA Q14 A fruit seller has a stock of mangoes, bananas and apples…
• CAT 2023 Slot 2 · QA Q9 Minu purchases a pair of sunglasses at Rs.1000 and sells to…
• CAT 2023 Slot 2 · QA Q15 Jayant bought a certain number of white shirts at the rate…
• CAT 2023 Slot 1 · QA Q13 Gita sells two objects A and B at the same price such that…

CAT 2022

• CAT 2022 Slot 1 · QA Q9 Ankita buys 4 kg cashews, 14 kg peanuts and 6 kg almonds…

CAT 2021

• CAT 2021 Slot 3 · QA Q10 The total of male and female populations in a city increased…
• CAT 2021 Slot 3 · QA Q14 In a tournament, a team has played 40 matches so far and won…
• CAT 2021 Slot 2 · QA Q18 Raj invested ₹ 10000 in a fund. At the end of first year, he… answer only
• CAT 2021 Slot 1 · QA Q3 Identical chocolate pieces are sold in boxes of two sizes… answer only
• CAT 2021 Slot 1 · QA Q9 Amal purchases some pens at ₹ 8 each. To sell these, he… answer only

CAT 2020

• CAT 2020 Slot 3 · QA Q8 In the final examination, Bishnu scored 52% and Asha scored… answer only
• CAT 2020 Slot 3 · QA Q14 A man buys 35 kg of sugar and sets a marked price in order… answer only
• CAT 2020 Slot 2 · QA Q11 Anil buys 12 toys and labels each with the same selling… answer only
• CAT 2020 Slot 2 · QA Q23 In May, John bought the same amount of rice and the same… answer only
• CAT 2020 Slot 1 · QA Q12 A person spent Rs 50000 to purchase a desktop computer and a…
• CAT 2020 Slot 1 · QA Q23 In a group of people, 28% of the members are young while the…

CAT 2019

• CAT 2019 Slot 2 · QA Q9 In 2010, a library contained a total of 11500 books in two… answer only
• CAT 2019 Slot 2 · QA Q17 In an examination, the score of A was 10% less than that of… answer only
• CAT 2019 Slot 2 · QA Q27 Mukesh purchased 10 bicycles in 2017, all at the same price… answer only
• CAT 2019 Slot 2 · QA Q33 A shopkeeper sells two tables, each procured at cost price… answer only
• CAT 2019 Slot 1 · QA Q1 In a class, 60% of the students are girls and the rest are… answer only
• CAT 2019 Slot 1 · QA Q6 Meena scores 40% in an examination and after review, even… answer only
• CAT 2019 Slot 1 · QA Q13 On selling a pen at 5% loss and a book at 15% gain, Karim… answer only
• CAT 2019 Slot 1 · QA Q18 The income of Amala is 20% more than that of Bimala and 20%… answer only

CAT 2018

• CAT 2018 Slot 1 · QA Q7 A wholesaler bought walnuts and peanuts, the price of walnut… answer only
• CAT 2018 Slot 1 · QA Q19 In an examination, the maximum possible score is N while the… answer only

CAT 2017

• CAT 2017 Slot 2 · QA Q5 Out of the shirts produced in a factory, 15% are defective… answer only
• CAT 2017 Slot 2 · QA Q7 The manufacturer of a table sells it to a wholesale dealer… answer only
• CAT 2017 Slot 2 · QA Q9 Mayank buys some candies for Rs 15 a dozen and an equal… answer only
• CAT 2017 Slot 2 · QA Q10 In a village, the production of food grains increased by 40%… answer only
• CAT 2017 Slot 1 · QA Q1 Arun's present age in years is 40% of Barun's. In another… answer only
• CAT 2017 Slot 1 · QA Q5 Ravi invests 50% of his monthly savings in fixed deposits… answer only
• CAT 2017 Slot 1 · QA Q6 If a seller gives a discount of 15% on retail price, she… answer only
• CAT 2017 Slot 1 · QA Q9 The number of girls appearing for an admission test is twice… answer only
• CAT 2017 Slot 1 · QA Q11 In a market, the price of medium quality mangoes is half… answer only
• CAT 2017 Slot 1 · QA Q12 If Fatima sells 60 identical toys at a 40% discount on the… answer only

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