UPSC Interview Logical Reasoning General Mental Ability

Q. A pujari started from home with certain number of flowers. His flowers became double with entrance of a temple, where he offered 40 flowers, then he went to a second temple. There also his flowers doubled and he offered 40 flowers again. In the third temple also the flowers doubled and he offers 40 flowers, after which he was left with no flower.The number of flowers he bought from home were ?

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A simple but confusing puzzle
Q. A lady buys goods worth rs.200 from a shop.(shopkeeper selling the goods with zero profit). The lady gives him 1000 rs note. The shopkeeper gets the change from the next shop and keeps 200 for himself and returns rs.800 to the lady. later the shopkeeper of the next shop comes with the 1000 rs note saying "duplicate" and takes his money back. How much LOSS did the shopkeeper face ?
Option
a) 200
b) 800
c) 1200
d) 2000
e) 1800
the manufacturer of an article make a profit of 25% the wholesale dealer makes a profit of 20% and retailer makes a profit of 28%, find the manufacturing price of the article of the retailer soli it for Rs48