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QA - Percentage
1. A fruit seller had some apples. He sells 40% apples and still has 420 apples. How
many Apple he had originally?
2. If it is known that 20% of the mangoes are rotten. If the number of rotten
mangoes is 35, find the total number of mangoes?
3. Raj has to pay 28% of the money in his wallet to milkman. He pays Rs 84/- to the
milkman. How much money does he have in the wallet?
4. What percentage of numbers from 1 to 70 has 2, 3, or 5 in the unit's digit?
5. A teacher says 15% of first number is equal to 21% of the second number. So,
18% of first number will be what percent of second number?
6. In a library 20% books are in Hindi, 50% of the remaining are in English and the
remaining 8000 are in various other languages. What is the total number of
books?
7. A student has to secure 40% marks to pass. He gets 178 marks and fails by 22
marks. Find the maximum marks?
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8. A student has to obtain 33% of the total marks to pass. He got 125 marks and
failed by 40 marks. Find the maximum marks?
9. A man spends 35% of his income on house rent 75% of the remaining on other
items. What percentage of income does he save?
10. The present salary of A is 3000. It will be increased by 20% in the next year
what will be increased salary of A.
11. The salary of an employee of a company increases every month by 5%. If his
salary in August was Rs.4000, what would be his salary in the month of October
in the same year?
12. A student X passes his examination with 515 marks, having scored 3% above
the minimum. If y had obtained 710 marks what % would he have been above
the minimum?
13. John's salary was decreased by 50% and subsequently increased by 50%. How
much per cent he loss?
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14. For the sale season, a mall first increased the rate of its products by 10% and
then offered a discount of 10%. What is the change in rate of products in
comparison to the original?
15. If three fifth of a number is 40 more than 40% of the same number. What is the
number?
16. If number x is 10% less than another number y and y is 10% more than 125,
then find out the value of x.
17. Two students appeared at an examination. One of them secured 9 marks more
than the other and his marks were 56% of the sum of their marks. Find the marks
obtained by them?
18. In a town, 25% male are married & 50% female are married then how many %
people are married in town?
19. If A income is 20% less than B, Then find how much % of B income is more than
A.
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20. A and B together earn Rs 1500. A saves 10% of his salary while B saves 20%.
Their savings are in the ratio 3:4. Find the salary of A?
21. A student multiplied a number by 3/5 instead of 5/3, what is the percentage
error in the calculation?
22. A reduction of 10% in the price of tea enables a dealer to purchase 25 kg more
tea for. Rs 22500. What is the reduced price per kg of tea?
23. The population of a town is 6000. In the next year if male increase by 8% and
females by 10% the population is 6530. What was the total number of male in
the town?
24. Two candidates contested an election. The losing candidate got 40% votes and
lost by 2000 votes. Find the total number of votes cast.
25. Amit gets 70% in one subject, 80% in the other. To get an overall of 75% how
much should get in third subject provided that each paper consists of 100 marks.