PERCENTAGE PRACTICE

27511 10-Oct-2017, Tue
1) Ganesh spends 81% of his monthly income and saves Rs. 3534. What is his annual income ?
(A)223200
(B)152000
(C)142000
(D)452000
(E)None of these
2) The difference between 42% of a number and 28% of the same number is 210. What is 59% of that number ?
(A)500
(B)885
(C)452
(D)630
(E)None of these
3) 48 per cent of first number is 36 percent of the second number. What is the respective ratio of the first number to the second number ?
(A)1:4
(B)2:3
(C)3:4
(D)2:7
(E)None of these
4) If two numbers are respectively 30% and 40% more than a third number, what percentage is the first of the second ?
(A)94(1/8)
(B)92(2/7)
(C)15
(D)60
(E)None of these
5) If the price of sugar increases by 20%, by what percentage should a family reduce its consumption so that there is no change in the expenditure on sugar ?
(A)16 23 %
(B)15 24 %
(C)10 2 8 %
(D)16 7 3%
(E)None of these
6) 611 of a number is equal to 22% of the second number. The second number is equal to one fourth of the third number. The value of the third number is 2400. What is 45% of the first number ?
(A)108.9
(B)102.5
(C)100
(D)105
(E)None of these
7) If the price of an article is reduced by 20%, the number of articles sold is increased by 30%. What will be the effect on the revenue ?
(A)8%
(B)4%
(C)15%
(D)20%
(E)None of these
8) In an entrance examination, Ritu scored 56 percent marks, Smita scored 92 percent marks and Rina scored 634 marks. The maximum marks of the examination is 875. What is the average marks scored by all the three girls together ?
(A)524
(B)620
(C)421
(D)643
(E)None of these
9) A man spends 25% of his monthly income on rent, 20% on school fees, 30% on cloths and saves the remaining. If he saves Rs. 3350 find his annual income ?
(A)160800
(B)125000
(C)145200
(D)186200
(E)None of these
10) A student has to secure 50% marks to pass. He gets 163 marks and fails by 37 marks. Find the maximum marks ?
(A)200
(B)400
(C)650
(D)450
(E)None of these
11) A student scores 25% marks and fails by 38 marks while another student who scores 40% marks gets 7 marks more than the minimum required pass marks. What are the maximum marks for the examination ?
(A)300
(B)450
(C)550
(D)400
(E)None of these
12) If 2 litres of water is evaporated on boiling from 8 litres of sugar solution containing 30% sugar, find the percentage of sugar in remaining water ?
(A)50%
(B)45%
(C)40%
(D)35%
(E)None of these
13) Two numbers are respectively 10% and 25% more than a third number. What per cent is the first number of the second?
(A)72%
(B)82%
(C)40%
(D)88%
(E)None of these
14) Population of a town is 12420. If it increases 15% in the first year and decreases 10% in the second year, what was the population of the town two years ago ?
(A)10500
(B)12000
(C)14500
(D)15200
(E)None of these
15) In an examination it is required to get 350 of the aggregate marks to pass. A student gets 32% marks and is declared failed by 70 marks. What are the maximum aggregate marks a student can get ?
(A)875
(B)900
(C)754
(D)600
(E)None of these
16) 800 boys and 600 girls appeared in an examination. If 75% boys and 80% girls passed the examination, find the percentage of students who failed the examination ?
(A)20%
(B)15.25%
(C)22.86%
(D)24.23%
(E)None of these
17) Akash scored 73 marks in subject A. He scored 56% marks in subject B and 'X' mark sin subject C. Maximum marks in each subject were 150. The overall percentage marks obtained by Akash in all the three subjects together were 54%. How many marks did he score in subject C ?
(A)90
(B)86
(C)45
(D)60
(E)None of these
18) The population of a town is 6000. In the next year, if males increase by 8% and females by 10%, the population becomes 6530. Find the number of males in the town.
(A)3800
(B)4800
(C)3650
(D)3500
(E)None of these
19) In measuring the sides of a rectangle, one side is taken 10% in excess, and the other 5% in deficit. What is the change in the area as a percentage ?
(A)7%
(B)4.5%
(C)6%
(D)10%
(E)None of these
20) Production of a company in 2011 was 132 tonnes. If by 8% in the second year, find the production of the company after two years ?
(A)139.65
(B)145.26
(C)120.52
(D)140
(E)None of these
21) What % of 780 is 259.2 ?
(A)30
(B)33.23
(C)23.45
(D)33
(E)None of these
22) Find the value of X in X% of 1864 + 60 = 618.2
(A)28
(B)15
(C)23.95
(D)29.94
(E)None of these
23) 90% of 3000 + 70% of 3400 = ? % of 6350
(A)78
(B)80
(C)45
(D)63
(E)None of these
24) What is the value of X in 130% of X = 40% of 845 ?
(A)250.37
(B)145.23
(C)147.55
(D)150
(E)None of these
25) Two students appeared at an examination. One of them secured 9 marks more than the other and his marks was 56% of the sum of their marks. The marks obtained by them are:
(A)45,30
(B)42 ,45
(C)42 ,33
(D)50,33
(E)None of these
26) In an election between two candidates, one got 55% of the total valid votes, 20% of the votes were invalid. If the total number of votes was 7500, the number of valid votes that the other candidate got, was:
(A)1500
(B)2700
(C)4500
(D)5600
(E)None of these
27) In an election contested by two parties, Party DD secured 12% of the total votes more than Party RR. If party RR got 132,000 votes, by how many votes did it lose the election?
(A)38000
(B)35200
(C)36000
(D)45000
(E)None of these
28) A vendor sells 60 percent of apples he had and throws away 15 percent of the remainder. Next day he sells 50 percent of the remainder and throws away the rest. What percent of his apples does the vendor throw?
(A)45
(B)23
(C)38
(D)28
(E)None of these
29) If the cost price of 20 articles is equal to the selling price of 16 articles, What is the percentage of profit or loss that the merchant makes?
(A)20% profit
(B)15% loss
(C)24%loss
(D)25% profit
(E)None of these
30) 30% of the men are more than 25 years old and 80% of the men are less than or equal to 50 years old. 20% of all men play football. If 20% of the men above the age of 50 play football, what percentage of the football players are less than or equal to 50 years?
(A)20%
(B)80%
(C)45%
(D)56%
(E)None of these
31) If the price of petrol increases by 25, by how much must a user cut down his consumption so that his expenditure on petrol remains constant?
(A)15%
(B)23%
(C)20%
(D)30%
(E)None of these
32) A student multiplied a number by 3/5 instead of 5/3. What is the percentage error in the calculation?
(A)60%
(B)45%
(C)25%
(D)64%
(E)None of these
33) Ritesh and Co. generated revenue of Rs. 1,250 in 2006. This was 12.512.5 of its gross revenue. In 2007, the gross revenue grew by Rs. 2,500. What is the percentage increase in the revenue in 2007?
(A)25%
(B)20%
(C)26%
(D)30%
(E)None of these
34) Gauri went to the stationers and bought things worth Rs. 25, out of which 30 paise went on sales tax on taxable purchases. If the tax rate was 66, then what was the cost of the tax free items?
(A)20
(B)19.70
(C)45
(D)30
(E)None of these
35) In a library, 20% of the books are in Hindi. 50% of the remaining are in English and 30% of the remaining are in French. The remaining 6,300 books are in regional languages. What is the total number of books in library?
(A)22500
(B)15200
(C)145520
(D)16000
(E)None of these
36) Two merchants sell, each an article for Rs.1000. If Merchant A computes his profit on cost price, while Merchant B computes his profit on selling price, they end up making profits of 25% respectively. By how much is the profit made by Merchant BB greater than that of Merchant A?
(A)150
(B)67
(C)50
(D)80
(E)None of these
37) If the price of petrol increases by 25 and Raj intends to spend only an additional 15 on petrol, by how much will he reduce the quantity of petrol purchased?
(A)12%
(B)8%
(C)20%
(D)23%
(E)None of these
38) A candidate who gets 20% marks fails by 10 marks but another candidate who gets 42% marks gets 12% more than the passing marks. Find the maximum marks.
(A)120
(B)140
(C)172
(D)100
(E)None of these
39) Peter got 30 of the maximum marks in an examination and failed by 10 marks. However, Paul who took the same examination got 40 of the total marks and got 15 marks more than the passing marks. What were the passing marks in the examination?
(A)80
(B)85
(C)42
(D)63
(E)None of these
40) In an election between two candidates, one got 55% of the total valid votes, 20% of the votes were invalid. If the total number of votes was 7500, the number of valid votes that the other candidate got, was :
(A)2700
(B)2450
(C)2300
(D)1520
(E)None of these
41) Fresh fruit contains 68% water and dry fruit contains 20% water. How much dry fruit can be obtained from 100 kg of fresh fruits ?
(A)45
(B)56
(C)40
(D)78
(E)None of these
42) A candidate scoring 25% in an examination fails by 30 marks , while another candidate scores 50 % mark, gets 20 marks more than the minimum pass marks . Find the minimum pass marks. Find the minimum pass percentage.
(A)50%
(B)56%
(C)30%
(D)40%
(E)None of these
43) The value of a machine depreciates at the rate of 10% every year. It was purchased 3 years ago. If its present value is Rs. 8748, its purchase price was
(A)12500
(B)12000
(C)8500
(D)14520
(E)None of these
44) A student has to obtain 33% of the total marks to pass. He got 125 marks and failed by 40 marks. The maximum marks are
(A)500
(B)420
(C)650
(D)700
(E)None of these
45) if the price of a book is first decreased by 25% and then increased by 20%, then the net change in the price will be
(A)15
(B)10
(C)14
(D)18
(E)None of these
46) Gaurav spends 30% of his monthly income on food articles, 40% of the remaining on conveyance and clothes and saves 50% of the remaining. If his monthly salary is Rs. 18,400, how much money does he save every month ?
(A)3864
(B)1425
(C)4253
(D)3600
(E)None of these
47) A man spends 35% of his income on food, 25% on children's education and 80% of the remaining on house rent. What percent of his income he is left with ?
(A)10%
(B)25%
(C)12%
(D)9%
(E) 8%
48) If A's height is 40% less than that of B, how much percent B's height is more than that of A?
(A)60%
(B)56.25%
(C)66.67%
(D)69.45
(E)None of these
49) 405 sweets were distributed equally among children in such a way that the number of sweets received by each child is 20% of the total number of children. How many sweets did each child receive ?
(A)10
(B)15
(C)9
(D)14
(E)None of these
50) In an election only two candidates contested 20% of the voters did not vote and 120 votes were declared as invalid. The winner got 200 votes more than his opponent thus he secured 41% votes of the total voters on the voter list. Percentage votes of the defeated candidate out of the total votes casted is ?
(A)50%
(B)45%
(C)78%
(D)23%
(E)None of these
51) If 75% of a number is added to 75, then the result is the number itself. The number is
(A)150
(B)300
(C)140
(D)230
(E)None of these
52) A number is decreased by 10% and then increased by 10%. The number so obtained is 10 less than the original number. What was the original number ?
(A)1500
(B)1400
(C)1000
(D)2500
(E)None of these
53) What percent of 7.2 kg is 18 gms ?
(A)0.25
(B)0.24
(C)0.42
(D)0.23
(E)None of these
54) A's salary is 40% of B's salary which is 25% of C's salary. What percentage of C's salary is A's salary ?
(A)12
(B)23
(C)15
(D)10
(E)None of these
55) The ratio 5 : 4 expressed as a percent equals?
(A)120%
(B)125%
(C)147%
(D)150%
(E)None of these
56) The population of a town was 1,60,000 three years ago, If it increased by 3%, 2.5% and 5% respectively in the last three years, then the present population in
(A)145230
(B)235610
(C)177366
(D)154200
(E)None of these
57) In a History examination, the average for the entire class was 80 marks. If 10% of the students scored 35 marks and 20% scored 90 marks, what was the average marks of the remaining students of the class ?
(A)78
(B)75
(C)56
(D)69
(E)None of these
58) What percent is 70 of 280?
(A)20%
(B)30%
(C)25%
(D)15%
(E)None of these
59) A number increased by 20% gives 480. The number is
(A)500
(B)400
(D)450
(D)560
(E)None of these
60) Two employees X and Y are paid a total of Rs. 550 per week by their employer. If X is paid 120 percent of the sum paid to Y, how much is Y paid per week?
(A)560
(B)240
(C)350
(D)250
(E)None of these
61) Two numbers are less than a third number by 30% and 37%, respectively. The second number is less than the first by
(A)12.5%
(b)23.15%
(C)10%
(D)15%
(E)None of these
62) In a competitive examination in State A, 6% candidates got selected from the total appeared candidates. State B had an equal number of candidates appeared and 7% candidates got selected with 80 more candidates got selected than A. What was the number of candidates appeared from each State?
(A)8700
(B)4500
(C)8000
(D)5600
(E)None of these
63) If 20% of a certain number is 80, then what is 30% of that number?
(A)200
(B)120
(C)450
(D)230
(E)None of these
64) The population of a town is 8100. It decreases annually at the rate of 10% p.a. What was its population 2 years ago?
(A) 15000
(B)14050
(C)10000
(D)12500
(E)None of these
65) The population of a town increases 10% and 20% respectively in two consecutive years. After the growth the present population of the town is 13200. Then what is the population of the town 2 years ago?
(A)12500
(B)10000
(C)14500
(D)13520
(E)None of these
66) In an examination it is required to get 30% of minimum marks to pass. A student got 110 marks and was declared failed by 10 marks difference. Then what is total marks?
(A)500
(B)450
(C)300
(D)400
(E)None of these
67) In an examination it is required to get 40% of minimum marks to pass. A student got 142 marks, Thus he got 22 marks more than minimum marks required to pass. What is total marks?
(A)350
(B)300
(C)250
(D)560
(E)None of these
68) In a class 60% of students passed in telugu, 50% 0f students passde in english. Then if every student Passed in either telugu or english or both the subjects. Then what is the percentage of students passed In both the subjects?
(A)1250
(B)1000
(C)1200
(D)2000
(E)None of these
69) In a class 60% of students passed in telugu, 50% 0f students passde in english and 20% of students passed in both the subjects then what is the percentage the students who failed in the both the subjects?
A)20%
(B)30%
(C)10%
(D)15%
(E)None of these
70) A mixture of 20 litres of milk and water contains 20% of water. The new mixture is formed by adding 5 lit of water. What is the percentage of milk in the new mixture?
(A)56%
(B)64%
(C)36%
(D)40%
(E)None of these
71) From the salary of Roja, 20% is deducted as house rent, 10% she spends on children’s education and 20% on watching movies. If her savings are Rs.5760/- then her total salary is ?
(A)15200
(B)11520
(C)14520
(D)23650
(E)None of these
72) The average height of 74 students in a class is 168 cm out of which 42 students had an average height of 170 cm. Find the average height of the remaining 32 students.
(A)165.37
(B)120.52
(C)145.23
(D)175.52
(E)None of these
73) The average height of 40 students in a class is 172 cm. 30 students whose average height is 172.5 cm left the class and 40 students whose average height is 170.5 cm joined the class. Find the average height of the present class?
(A)152.25cm
(B)145.23cm
(C)170.5cm
(D)145.6cm
(E)None of these
74) Average of 75 students is 82, out of which average of 42 students is 79. What is the average of the remaining 33 students?
(A)85.82
(B)14.23
(C)86.12
(D)14.86
(E)None of these
75) Subtracting 60% of a number from the number, We get the result as 20. The number is?
(A)45
(B)50
(C)78
(D)60
(E)None of these
76) Rajiv spends his money from his saving in different way that is he spends 30% on travel,10% on food,15% on wages and 22% on purchase a bike and after that all expenditure he saved 4600.Find the how much he spent on bike.
(A)4800
(B)4400
(C)5600
(D)7800
(E)None of these
77) Raghu's salary was decreased by 20% and subsequently increased by 20%, How much percent does he lose?
(A)8%
(B)4%
(C)3%
(D)6%
(E)None of these
78) Rajiv works in shop and his 30% of income is Rs.1800 . Now Find the 65% of his income and also find the 1 / 5 of Rajiv's income.
(A)1500
(B)1750
(C)1400
(D)1200
(E)None of these
79) A is six times as large as B. The percent that B less than A, is?
(A)5%
(B)3%
(C)8%
(D)15%
(E)None of these
80) Sameer spends 20% of his monthly salary on house rent, 25% on food, 10% on transportation, 15% on the education of his children, and 18% on other household expenses. He saves the remaining amount of ₨. 4800 at the end of the month. What is his monthly salary?
(A)15000
(B)23000
(C)40000
(D)52000
(E)None of these
81) Gaurav spends 40% of his allowance on hostel expenses, 20% on books and stationary, and 50% of the remaining on transport. He saves Rs. 450, which is half of the remaining amount after spending on the hostel expenses, books and stationary and transport. How much is his allowance?
(A)4800
(B)5200
(C)5210
(D)4500
(E)None of these
82) Prerna decided to donate 30% of her monthly income to orphanages. But on the day of donation, she changed her mind and donated Rs. 4200, which is 70% of what she had earlier decided. What should be her actual donation as per her earlier decision?
(A)6000
(B)1500
(C)8000
(D)5600
(E)None of these
83) The price of a car is Rs. 5,00,000. It was insured for 90% of its price. The car got completely damaged and the insurance company paid only 80% of the insured amount. What is the price of the difference between the price of the car and the amount of insurance received?
(A)70%
(B)72%
(C)63%
(D)72%
(E)None of these
84) In an election between two candidates, the winner secured 58% of the total votes cast and wins by a majority of 2400 votes. How many votes did the losing candidate get?
(A)45%
(B)42%
(C)50%
(D)46%
(E)None of these
85) In a college election between 2 students, 10% of the votes cast is invalid. The winner gets 70% of the valid votes and defeats the loser by 1800 votes. How many votes were cast in total?
(A)5200
(B)5000
(C)4500
(D)6300
(E)None of these
86) In a quarterly examination a student secured 30% marks and failed by 12 marks. In the same examination another student secured 40% marks and got 28 marks more than minimum marks to pass. The maximum marks in the examination is?
(A)500
(B)450
(C)400
(D)620
(E)None of these
87) In an examination, 52% of the candidates failed in English and 42% failed in Mathematics. If17% failed in both the subjects, then the percentage of candidates who passed in both the subjects, was
(A)23%
(B)20%
(C)30%
(D)12%
(E)None of these
88) lf A has 4/5 of the number of books that shelf B has. If 25% of the books A are transferred to B and then 25 % of the books from B are transferred to A then the percentage of the total number of books that on shelf A is
(A)56%
(B)50%
(C)45%
(D)30%
(E)None of these
89) A number, on subtracting 15 from it, reduces to its 80%. What is 40% of the number?
(A)52
(B)33
(C)30
(D)45
(E)None of these
90) A reduction of 10% in the price of wheat enables a man to buy 50 g of wheat more for a rupee. How much wheat could originally be had for a rupee?
(A)450gm
(B)550gm
(C)565gm
(D)400gm
(E)None of these
91) 75 g of sugar solution has 30% sugar in it. Then, the quantity of sugar that should be added to the solution to make the quantity of the sugar 70% in the solution, is
(A)452gm
(B)150gm
(C)125gm
(D)100gm
(E)None of these
92) In an examination, 75% candidates passed in English and 60% passed in Mathematics. 25% failed in both and 240 passed the examination. Find the total number of candidates.
(A)450
(B)500
(C)400
(D)560
(E)None of these
93) In an examination, 93% of students passed and 259 failed. The total number of students appearing at the examination was
(A)3600
(B)3000
(C)4500
(D)3700
(E)None of these
94) In an examination, 1100 boys and 900 girls appeared, 40% of the boys and 50% of the girls passed the examination. The percentage of candidates who failed is
(A)55.5%
(B)60%
(C)52%
(D) 60.23%
(E)None of these
95) A box has 100 blue balls, 50 red balls and 50 black balls, 25% of blue balls and 50% of red balls are taken away. Then, percentage of black balls at present is
(A)50/8%
(B)100/3%
(C)12/56%
(D)56/23%
(E)None of these
96) In an examination in which full marks were 500. A got 10% less than B. B got 25% more than C, C got 20% less than D. If A got 360 marks, what percentage of full marks was obtained by D?
(A)56%
(B)80%
(C)86%
(D)90%
(E)None of these
97) The cost price of an article is 40% of the selling price. What percent of the cost price is the selling price ?
(A)254%
(B)200%
(C)250%
(D)600
(E)None of these
98) B got 20% marks less than A. What percent marks did A get more than B ?
(A)20%
(B)25%
(C)30%
(D)26%
(E)None of these
99) In a class, the average score of girls in an examination is 73 and that of boys is 71. The average score for the whole class is 71.8. Find the percentage of girls.
(A)45%
(B)42%
(C)40%
(D)65%
(E)None of these
100) The ratio of the number of boys and girls in a school is 3 : 2. If 20% of the boys and 25% of the girls are scholarship holders, then the percentage of the students, who do not get the scholarship, is?
(A)75%
(B)78%
(C)96%
(D)85%
(E)None of these