Questions asked by students:: vs Clarification

Reasoning: Coding / Decoding (New Pattern)

Directions (1-5): Study the following information to answer the given questions:

In a certain code,
‘mixed chamber incidence vacuum’ is written as       ’88$B     12@C      36#E     52%A’,
‘jammer corporate frozen weird’ is written as             ’24©B    40@B     92%A    12#E ’,
‘comedian magnitude webcam jumbled’  as               ‘40%C    12©D     92$B     52#E ’, and
‘maximum revealed union editor’ is written as            ‘72%D     52$C     20@B    84©A ’.

1.     What is the code for ‘cardamom’?
A) 16#D
B) 12%E
C) 12$D
D) 14$D
E) Cannot be determined

2.     What is the code for ‘pager style’?
A) 64@A 76#A
B) 64#A 76@A
C) 60@C 76#B
D) 64$A 76#A
E) Cannot be determined

3.     What is the code for ‘September December’?
A) 16@E 76@D
B) 72@E 16@D
C) 76@E 16@D
D) 76@E 16#D
E) Cannot be determined

4.     What is code for ‘fusion clown’?
A) 12©B 24©A
B) 24©B 12©A
C) 24©D 12@A
D) 24©C 12©A
E) Cannot be determined

5.     What is the code for ‘hundred folder’?
A) 32%D 24#B
B) 32©C 24@B
C) 32%D 24#B
D) 32%C 24@B
E) Cannot be determined

Profit and Loss

1.     If Satvik sells an article at 4/5th of its selling price and secures a profit of 20%, what will be the profit or loss percentage if he sells it at the actual selling price?
A) 45%
B) 60%
C) 50%
D) 56%
E) None

2.     A product costs a company Rs 60 to manufacture, and it sold the product to a dealer for Rs 70, who in turn sold it to a shopkeeper for Rs 85, who sold to a customer for Rs 102. What is the percentage of profit for the company and who made the highest profit on selling the product?
A) 20 1/3%, Company
B) 16 2/3%, Dealer
C) 20 1/3% ,Dealer
D) 16 2/3%, Shopkeeper
E) None

3.     Manasa buys a certain number of toys at 12 per Rs 9 and the same number at 18 per Rs 9. If she sells them at 18 per Rs15 does she gain or lose and by what percentage?
A) 33 1/3 % loss
B) 12% gain
C) 33 1/3 % gain
D) 12% loss
E) None

4.     A shopkeeper sells Marker at the rate of Rs.35 each and earns a commission of 10%. He also sells Gel pen at the rate of Rs. 65 each and earns a commission of 20%. How much amount (in rupees) of commission will he earn in 2 weeks, if he sells 12 markers and 8 Gel pens a day?
A) 2100
B) 1850
C) 2044
D) 2680
E) None

5.     A discount of 20% is given on the marked price of an article. The shopkeeper charges sales tax of 10% on the discounted price. If the selling price be Rs 1848, what is the marked price (in rupees) of the article?
A) 2500
B) 3200
C) 3600
D) 2100
E) None