Cost Price, Selling Price and Profit Percentage

04 Try it yourself Interactive

Two prices in, profit percentage out

Pick a cost price and a selling price. The console finds the gap, divides by the cost, and then shows what dividing by the selling price would have given instead — so you can see the two candidate answers side by side. Try a selling price below the cost to watch it become a loss.

Bought 400, sold 500

25% profit · 20% margin

The last line always reports both the profit per cent and the margin, because telling them apart is the point of this lesson.

Press Next to work through it one step at a time.

Cost–

Selling–

Gap / SP as %–

Profit %–

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