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4. Percentages
12. Each side of a rectangular field is diminished by 40%. By
3 how much percent is the area of field diminished ?
1. Convert into percent ?
8 (a) 32 (b) 64 (c) 25
(a) 27.5% (b) 37.5% (c) 21.5% (d) Not (d) 16 (e) None of these
2. 10 g is what percent of 1 kg ? 13. Mr. More spent 20% of his monthly income on food, and
(a) 10% (b) 100% (c) 1% (d) 1.1% 15% on children’s education, 40% of the remaining he spent
3. If 10% of A is equal to 12% of B, then 15% of A is equal to on entertainment and transport together and 30% on
what percent of B ? medical. He is left with an amount of Rs. 8775 after all these
expenditure what is Mr. More Monthly Income ?
(a) 16% of B (b) 18% of B
(a) Rs. 40,000 (b) Rs. 35,000 (c) Rs. 42,000
(c) 20% of B (d) None of these
(d) Rs. 38,000 (e) None of these
4. The price of a computer is Rs. 20,000. What will be the price
of computer after reduction of 25% ? 14. The price of sugar is increased by 20%. As a result, a family
has decreased its consumption by 20%. The expenditure of
(a) 1500 (b) 25000 (c) 15000 (d) 5000
the family on sugar is decreased by :
5. A candidate who gets 20% marks fails by 10 marks but
(a) 0% (b) 2.5% (c) 4%
another candidate who gets 42% marks gets 12% more than
the passing marks. Find the maximum marks. (d) 5% (e) None of these
(a) 50 (b) 100 (c) 150 15. If the numerator of a fraction is increased by 200% and the
denominator is increased by 400% the resultant fraction is
(d) 200 (e) None of these
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4 1 . What was the original fraction ?
6. What is 45% of 25% of of 850 ? 20
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(a) 67.5 (b) 835 (c) 69.5 3 11 6
(a) 1 (b) (c)
(d) 76.5 (e) NOT 4 10 5
7. If 35% of a number is 175, then what percent of 175 is that
number ?
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(d) 1 (e) None of these
(a) 33% (b) 65% (c) 280% 2
(d) 285.71% (e) None of these 16. In a class of 65 students and 84 teachers, each student got
sweets that are 20% of the total number of student and each
8. A salary is 40% of B salary which is 25% of C salary. What
teacher got sweets that are 40% of total number of students.
percentage of C’s salary is A’s Salary ?
How many sweets are there.
(a) 5% (b) 10% (c) 15%
(a) 845 (b) 897 (c) 949
(d) 20% (e) Data Inadequate
(d) 104 (e) None of these
9. If 60% of the students in a school are boys and the number of
17. If due to 10% decrease in the price of sugar, Ram can buy 5
girls is 972. How many boys are there in the school ?
kg more sugar in Rs. 100, then find actual price of sugar (per
(a) 1258 (b) 1458 (c) 1324 (d) 1828 kg).
10. 40% of 60% of 3/5 of a number is 504. What is 25% of 2/5 of
that number ? 2 2 2
(a) 4 (b) 2 (c) 5 (d) Not
(a) 130 (b) 175 (c) 360 9 9 9
(d) 350 (e) None of these 18. In an examination, 20% of total no. of student failed in
11. Peter got 30% of the maximum marks in an Examination and History, 15% of total number of student failed in Hindi and
failed by 10 marks. However, paul who took the same 5% in both. Find the %age of student who passed in both the
examination got 40% of the total marks and got 15 marks subjects ?
more then the passing marks. What were the passing marks (a) 82% (b) 72% (c) 70% (d) 60%
in Examination?
19. If the price of petrol increases by 25% and Raj intends to
(a) 35 (b) 250 (c) 75 spend only an additional 15% on petrol, by how much will
(d) 85 (e) None of these he reduce the quantity of petrol purchased ?
(a) 10% (b) 12% (c) 8%
(d) 6.67% (e) None of these

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20. The price of an item changed from Rs. 120 to Rs. 100. Then 29. In an examination, 60% of the candidates passed in English
later the price decreased again from Rs. 100 to Rs. 80. Which and 70% of the candidates passed in Mathematics, but 20%
can be said about the two decreases in percentage term ? failed in both of these subjects. If 2500 candidates passed in
(a) 1st decrease in larger (b) 2nd decrease in larger both the subjects, the number of candidates who appeared at
the examination was:
(c) both are equal (d) nothing can be said
(a) 3000 (b) 3500 (c) 4000
(e) none of these
(d) 5000 (e) None of these
21. X has twice as much money as that of Y and Y has 50% more
money than that of Z. If the average money of all of them is 30. 8% of the voters in an election did not cast their votes. In this
Rs. 110, then the money, which X has is: election, there were only two candidates. The winner by
obtaining 48% of the total votes, defeated his contestant by
(a) Rs. 55 (b) Rs. 60 (d) Rs. 90
1100 votes. The total number of voters in the election was:
(d) Rs. 180 (e) none of these
(a) 21000 (b) 23500 (c) 22000
22. A number is divided into two parts in such a way that 80%
(d) 27500 (e) None of these
of 1st part is 3 more than 60% of 2nd part and 80% of 2nd
part is 6 more than 90% of the 1st part. Then the number is: 31. The Population of a village has increased annually at the rate
of 25%. If at the end of 3 years it is 10, 000, the population
(a) 125 (b) 130 (c) 135
in the beginning of the first year was:
(d) 145 (e) None of these
(a) 5120 (b) 5000 (c) 4900
23. In an examination A got 25% marks more than B, B got 10%
(d) 4500 (e) None of these
less than C and C got 25% more than D. If D got 320 marks
out of 500, the marks obtained by A were. 32. Fresh fruit contains 68% water and dry fruit contains 20%
water. How much dry fruit can be obtained from 100 kgs of
(a) 405 (b) 450 (c) 360
fresh fruits?
(d) 400 (e) None of these
(a) 32 kgs (b) 40 kgs (c) 52 kgs
24. Two numbers A and B are such that the sum of 5% of A and
(d) 80 kgs (e) None of these
2 33. The percentage of metals in a mine of lead ore is 60%. Now
4% of B is rd of the sum 6% of A and 8% of B. The ratio
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A : B is: the percentage of silver is % of metals and the rest is lead.
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(a) 4 : 3 (b) 3 : 4 (c) 1 : 1 (d) 2 : 3
If the mass of ore extracted from this mine is 8000 kg, the
25. The number of employees working in a farm is increased by mass (in kg.) of lead is:
25% and the wages per head are decread by 25%. If it result
(a) 4763 (b) 4764 (c) 4762
in x% decreased by total wages, then the value of x is:
(d) 4761 (e) None of these
(a) 0% (b) 25% (c) 20 %
34. The expenses on rice, fish and oil of a family are in the ratio
25 12 : 17 : 3. The price of these articles are increased by 20%,
(d) % (e) None of these 30% and 50% respectively. The total expenses of family on
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these articles are increased by:
26. The Government reduced the price of sugar by 10 per cent.
By this a consumer can buy 6.2 kg more sugar for Rs. 837. 1 1 1
The reduced price per kg of sugar is: (a) 14 % (b) 7 % (c) 28 %
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(a) Rs. 12.50 (b) Rs.13.00 (d) Rs. 13.50
(d) Rs. 14.00 (e) none of these 1
(d) 15 (e) None of these
27. The price of sugar is reduced by 20%. Now a person can buy 8
500g more sugar for Rs. 36. The original price of the sugar 35. The population of a village ws 9800. In a year with the
per kilogram was: increase in population of males by 8% and that of females by
(a) Rs. 14.40 (b) Rs.18 (d) Rs. 15.60 5%, the population of the village became 10458. What was
(d) Rs. 16.50 (e) none of these the number of males in the village before increase?

28. If the height of a cylinder is increated by 15% and the radius (a) 4200 (b) 4410 (c) 5600
of its base is decreased by 10% then the percentage change in (d) 6048 (e) None of these
its curved surface area is:
(a) 2.5% increased (b) 3.5% increased
(c) 2.5% decreased (d) 3.5% decreased

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