PERCENTAGE

1. Mohan's income is 40% more than Shyam's income. Shyam's income is

what percentage less than Mohan's income? (28 2/7% ,28 5/7% , 28 3/7%
,28 4/7%)
2. The numbers are less than a third number by 37% and 30%, respectively.
By what percentage is the second number more than the first?(100/9 ,10/9
,10 , 100/3)
3. A Number P is 20% more than a number Q but 10% less than a number
R. What percentage is number Q of number R? (80,85,75,90)
4. A, B and C are three positive numbers such that A is 70% of B, and B is
40% of C. If the sum of all three numbers is 336, then 15% of the sum of
B and C is: (42,44,48,32)
5. A's salary is 15% less than B's. B's salary is 30% less than C's. about how
many By what percent, C's salary is more than A's salary? (68,45,75,40)
6. The difference between a number and its three-fifth is 274. What is 20%
of the number? (137,150165,144)
7. The income of A is 30% less than the income of B and the income of B is
137.5% more than that of C. If the income of A is Rs. 28500 less than that
of B, than income (in Rs.) of C is: (40000,50000,48000,36000)
8. Weight of A is 20% more than weight of B, whose weight is 30% more
than weight of C. By how much percent weight of A is more than weight
of C? (69,56,44,35.89)
9. If A is 28% less than B and C is 25% less than the sum of A and B, then
by what percentage will C be more than A (correct to one decimal place)?
(84.3 ,79.2 ,81.6 ,75.5)
10.The income of A is 20% less than the income of B and the income of C is
70% of the sum of incomes of A and B. The income of D is 25% more
than the income of C. If the difference between the incomes of B and D is
'23000, then what is the income (in ') of A? (32000,25000,26000,28000)
11.The income of A is 40% less than that of B. If A gets 25% rise in his
income and B gets 40% rise in his income, then the percentage increase
(correct to two decimal places) in the combined incomes of A and B will
be: (35.19 ,37.86 ,31.67 ,34.38)
12.The income of A is 45% more than the income of B and the income of C
is 60% less than the sum of the incomes of A and B. The income of D is
20% more than that of C. If the difference between the incomes of B and
D is `13200, then the income (in `) of C is: (75000.73500,72000,72500)
13.Avinash has 20% less coins of different countries than Gaurav has.
Gaurav has 40% more such coins than Chetan has. By what percent the
 number of coins which Chetan has is less than the number of coins which
Avinash has? (correct to one decimal place) (10.6 ,10.5 ,12 ,10.7)
14.Ramesh saves 26 2/3% of his monthly salary. When his expenses are
increased by 20%, he is able to save Rs 4,080 per month. His monthly
salary is: (35000.38000,34000,30000)
15.A person saves 25% of his income. If his income increases by 20% and
his saving remains the same, then what will be the increased percentage
of his expenditure? (20,26,30,26 2/3)
16.Raghav spends 80% of his income. If his income increases by 12% and
his expenditure increases by 17.5% then what is the percentage decrease
in his saving? (15,10,12,8)
17.Renu spends 68% of her income. When her income increases by 40% she
increases her expenditure by 30% Her savings are increased by:
(62.5 ,37.98 ,61.25 ,51.6)
18.Radha saves 25% of her income. If her expenditure increases by 20% and
her income increases by 29%, then her savings increases by:
(56,52,65,70)
19.Radha saves x% of her income. If her income increases by 28% and the
expenditure increases by 20%, then her savings increases by 40%. What
is the value of x? (35,40,50,25)
20.Lucky spends 85% of her income. If her expenditure increases by x%,
savings increases by 60% and income increases by 26%, then what is the
value of x? (30,34,26,20)
21.If the numerator of a fraction is increased by 20% and the denominator of
the fraction is increased by 50%, the resultant fraction is ½ . What is the
original fraction(5/8,5/7,4/6,7/8)
22. A number is mistakenly multiplied by 7/5 instead of being multiplied by
3/2. What is the percentage change in the result due to this mistake? (6
2/3 % ,7 2/3 % , 3 2/3 % ,5 2/3 %)
23. The length of rectangle is increased by 40% and its width is decreased by
25% then find the percentage change in the area of rectangle? (15,17,25,
NOT)
24.If the circumference of the circle is increased by 20% then find the
percentage change in the area of circle? (15,40,44,20)
25.The price of cinema ticket is increased by 57 1/7% and sell is also
increased by 16 2/3% then find the percentage change in revenue?
(57{1/7} ,83{1/3} ,14{2/7} ,20)
26.The price of commodity increased by 28%. However, the expenditure on
it increased by 12%. What is the percentage increased or decreased in its
 consumption? (16% increased , 12.5 increased , 12.5 decreased
16%dereased)
27.When the price of an item was reduce by 20%, its sales increased by x%.
If there is an increased of 25% in the receipt of the revenue, then the
value of X? (53.84,55.75,56.25,61.5)
28.The price of the sugar is reduced by 20% on its present rate. Now a
person can purchase 16 kg more sugar in 320 Rs. Find the original price
of 20 kg sugar? (100,80,160,200)
29.A reduction of 20 % in the rate of sugar enables Subir to get 6 kg more
sugar for Rs. 960. What is the reduced rate of sugar per kg? (35,36,32,40)
30.The expenditure on food is 35% of the a particular family. If the income
is raised by 30% , then how much percentage of food expenditure is less
than the initial percentage to keep the food expenditure unchanged?
(2,20,23,17)
31.If the cost of rice increased to 30 Rs/kg from 25 Rs/kg . then by how
much percentage a reduces its consumption to maintain the same cost?
(15,10,16.66,25)
32.The population of a town increased by 15% in 2018 and 10% in 2019.
Due to a pandemic,, it decreased by 10% in2023. What was the
percentage increased in population of the town in 3 years?
(12.5,17.5,13.85,15)
33.Price of a one gram gold coin decreased by 10% on it initial priced on
Monday and increased by 20% on Tuesday and again increased by 8% on
Wednesday, and 5% increased on Thursday. If the final price on Thursday
is 5511.24, then the initial price of one gram gold coin on Monday?
(4500,4250,4000,5000)
34.The present population of a village (males and Females) is 7640. If the
number of males increased by 25% and the number of Females increased
by 15% then the population will become 9214. The difference between
the present population of Males and Females in the village is :
(820,960.940,920)
35.The present population of village is 15280. If the number of males
increased by 25% and number of Females increased by 15% , then the
population will become 18428. The difference between present
population of males and Females in the village is : (1840.1380,920,2760)
36.A student has obtain 33% of the total marks to pass in the Exam. He got
125 marks and failed by 40 marks. The maximum marks are?
(500,600,800,1000)
37.In a examination A got 30% of the maximum marks and failed by 10
marks. However, B who took 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? (65,75,85,90)
38.Geeta scored 30% and failed by 50 marks. While Sandeep who scored
45% marks got 25 marks than the minimum marks required to pass the
examination. How many did Vimal get if the scored 64% marks?
( 500,256,320,436)
39.In an Examination of 180 marks of a subject, 75% marks are allocated for
theory and the rest for the project work. Vena scored 60% in theory. What
percentage of marks must she score in the project to achieve an overall
62% marks in the subject? (65,66,68,64)
40.In an examination,45% of the students who appeared are boys and rest
are girls. If 60% of the boys and 70% of the girls passed, then what the
percentage of students who failed? (36,35.4,40,34.5)
41.The total number of students in school is 1400 out of which 35% of the
students are girls and rest are boys. If 80% of the boys and 90% of the
girls passed in an annual examination, then the percentage of student who
failed? (17.4,21.5,15.8,16.5)
42.A certain number of students from school X appear in an examination and
20% students failed. From school Y, 130% more students than that from
the school X, appeared in the same examination. If 90% of total number
of students appeared from both the school passed, then what is
p8.3,10,6.4,5.7ercentage of students from school Y who failed?
(8.3,10,6.4,5.7)
43.In an examination 52% of the students failed in English 42% failed in
mathematics and 17% failed in both. How much percentage of the
students passed in both the subject? (16,26,19,23)
44.In an election of a candidate who get 84% of the votes is elected by a
majority of 4760 votes. What is the total number of polled votes?
(700,70000,7000,10500)
45.In an election of candidates 65 votes were declared invalid. One
candidate get 52% votes and wins by 9800 votes. Find the total number of
polled votes? (245000,245065,210500,270000)
46.Inan election, there only two candidates. Total 8000 votes are polled in
the election. Out of them 25% votes are invalid. The winner won by 240
valid votes. Find the percentage of valid votes got by the loser?
(42,52,56,48)
47.In a constituency, 55% of the total number of votes are males and rest are
females. If 40% of the males are illiterate and 40% the Females are
literate, then what percentage is the number of illiterate females more
than that of the illiterate males? (20.8,16.4,22.7,11.5)
48.Chamanlal, Arshad and Jagjit Singh contested an election. All the votes
polled were valid. Arshad got 35% of the total votes. For Every 35 votes
Chamanlal got 14 votes. The winner got 4950 more than the person who
received the least number of votes. Find the total number votes polled?
( 13378,38000,99000,33000)
49.