PERCENTAGES(%)

PER | CENT(100)

%= (WHAT I OBTAINED/ORIGINAL VALUE) * 100

Property
X % of Y = Y % of X

Ex: 36% of 50 = 50% of 36

Basic questions
Q1. 20% of x =500
Find 35% of x
a) 850
b) 875
c) 860
d) 865
Q2. 30% of x is 750
Find 45 % of x is
a) 1235
b) 1125
c) 1550
d) 1450
Q3. What is 45% of 25% of 4/5th of 850
a) 67.5
b) 76.5
c) 83.5
d) 87.5
Q4.If 50% of(x-y) = 30% of (x+y) then what percent is y of x ?
a) 400
b) 25
c) 60
d) 75
Q3. 40% of (A+B) = 60% of (A-B) then (2A-3B)/(A+B)
a) 7/6
b) 5/3
c) 5/7
d) 7/5
Q4. 20% of A is equal to 80% of B ,then (B+A)(B-A)
a) 3/5
b) 5/3
c) 5/7
d) 7/5
Q7. If A is 40% less than B and C is 40% of the sum of A and B, then by
what percentage is B greater than C?
a) 60
b) 36
c) 56.25
d) 40.25
Q8.A’s salary is 30% less than B’s salary but 25% more than C’s salary.
If A’s salary is Rs. 90 less than B’s salary, find the salary of C.
 a) 170
b) 168
c) 120
d) 200

Q9.Dominos, a pizza manufacturing company. The cost of

making one pizza is Rs. 500 and the company invests 25% of the
amount to manufacturing one piezza from the one pizza
amount . What should be the price of the remining profit
amount for the 50 pizzas if they prepare for a day?
A. RS. 19200
B. RS. 18150
C. RS.18750
D. RS.17500

Based on salary
Q1. Radha spends 40% of her salary on food ,20% on house
rent, 10% on entertainment and 10% on conveyance. If her
savings at the end of a month are Rs. 1500, then her salary per
month is(in Rs)
a) 8000
b) 7200
c) 7500
d) 8200
Q2.Kishan spends 30% of hi salary on food and donates 3% in a
charitable trust . He spends Rs.2310 on these two items, then the
total salary for that month is
a) 8500
b) 7000
c) 5500
d) 7200
Q3. Mr.Frozen spends 35% of his salary on food 5% of his
salary on children education. In January 2020, He spents Rs.
17600 on these two items. His salary for the month is
a) 55000
b) 44000
c) 45000
d) 50000
Q4. Karthik spends Rs. 55475 on his birthday party, Rs. 28525
on buying home appliances and the remining 25% of the total
amount he had as cash with him. What was the total amount?
a) 112000
b) 120000
c) 113000
d) 114000
Q5. Ms. Sujata invests 7% that is Rs.2170 of her monthly salary
in mutual fund. 18% of her monthly salary in recurring
deposits. Also, ,she invests 6% of her salary on NSc’s. What is
the total annual amount invested by Ms. Sujata?
a) 146200
b) 115320
c) 122500
d) 146300
Q6.A man spends 40% of his monthly salary on food and one
third of the remining on transport. If he saves Rs.4500 per
month,which is equal to half the balance after spending on food
and transport, his monthly salary is
a) 30000
b) 22500
c) 40000
d) 33000
Based on votes:
Q1. Two person contested an election of parliament. The
winning candidate secured 57% of the total votes polled and
won by a majority of 42,000. The total number of votes polled
is?
a) 3,50,000
b) 3,00,000
c) 5,00,000
d) 4,80,000
Q2.In an election a candidate secured 40% of the votes but is
defeated by the only other candidate by a majority of 298 votes.
Find the total numbers of votes recorded.
a) 1490
b) 1500
c) 1520
d) 1620
Q3. In an election between two candidates, one get 72% of the
total votes, if the total votes are 8200 by how many votes did the
winner win the election?
a) 3608
b) 3337
c) 3252
d) 3610
Q4. In an election between two candidates, the candidate getting
60% of the votes polled is elected by a majority of 14,000 votes.
The number of votes polled by the winning candidate is
a) 45000
b) 47000
c) 42000
d) 48000
Q5. In an election , three cnadidates contesed. The first
candidate got 40% votes and the second got 36% votes. If the
total number of votes polled were 36000, find the number of
votes got by the third candidate.
a) 8640
b) 8841
c) 8520
d) 8630
Based on population

Q1. In a village there are 700 males, 500 females and 800
children. If due to epidemic 20% males, 40% females and 10%
children are died. Find the % age of safe population of the
village.
a) 72
b) 79
c) 82
d) 85
Q2. IF the population of a town is 64000 and its annual increase is
10% then its correct population at the end of 3 years will be.
a) 70400
b) 77440
c) 85184
d) 84520
Q3. There are 2000 students in a college, next year it will increased by
20% and for the next year it will increased by 30% and final time it will
decreased by 50% .Find the final number of students in the college?
a) 1450
b) 1650
c) 1560
d) 1700

Q3. At a special sale, 5 tickets can be purchased

for the price of 3 tickets. If 5 tickets are
purchased at the sale , the amount saved will be
what percent of the original price of the 5 tickets?
a) 20%
 b) 33%
c) 40%
d) 60%
Q4.The price of an article is cut by 20%. To restore it to the
Former value, the new price must be increased by
(A) 20%
(B) 24%
(C) 25%
(D) 28%

SUCCESSIVE INCREMENT/DECREMENT MODELS

Q1. A number is increased by 20% and then decreased by 20% Find the
net increaseor decrease percent?
a) 4% increase
b) 4% decrease
c) 5% increase
d) 5% decrease
Q2. If gautham’s height is 10% more than seema’s height , by how
much prcent is seema’s height less than of Gautham’s?
a) 8.09
b) 9.09
c) 9.10
d) 8.10
Q3.Two numbers are respectively 20% and 50% more than a third.
Now what percentage is the first of the second?
a) 125
b) 80
c) 60
d) 25
Assignment question

Q1.If 20& of ( A+B) = 50% of B, then the value of

(2A-B)/(2A+B)
a) 1/2
b) 1/3
c) 1/4
d) 1
e) 1/5
Q2.In a library 60% of the books are in Hindi,
60% of the remaining books are in English
rest of the books are in Malayalam. If there
are 4800 books in English, then the total
number of books in Malayalam are?
A. 3400
B. 3500
C. 3100
D. 3200
E.None of these

Q3.Initially, Suresh has Rs.200 in his paytm

wallet then he increased it by 20%. Once
again he increased his amount by 25%. The
final value of money in his wallet will be how
much % greater than the initial amount?
A. 40%
B. 50%
C. 80%
D. 60%
E. None of these

Q4.Mr.Ramesh gives 10% of some amount to

his wife and 10% of the remaining to hospital
expenses and again 10% of the remaining
amount to charity. Then he has only Rs.7290
with him. What is the initial sum of money
with that person?
A. Rs.8000
B. Rs.9000
C. Rs.10000
D. Rs.20000
E. Rs.17200

Q5.In a class of 60 students , 40% of the students

passed in Reasoning, 5% of the students
failed in Quants and Reasoning, and 20% of
the students passed in both the subjects. Find
the number of student passed only in
Quants?
1.17
2.33
3.23
4.37
5.None of these
Q6.here are 5000 students in a school. The
next year it was found that the number of
boys and girls increased by 10% and 15%
respectively making the total number of
students in school as 5600. Find the number
of girls originally in the school?
A) 4500
B) 2000
C) 3000
D) Cannot be determined
E) None of these

Q7.A company has produced 900 pieces of

transistor out of which 15% are defective and
out of remaining 20 % were not sold. Find
out the number of sold transistor.
a) 610
b) 611
c) 612
d) 614
 Q3. In a town of 2,00,000 citizens ,if the population increases at a rate of
4% per annum, then what will be the population of the town in 2 years from
now?
a)2,10,000
b)3,55,555
c)1,84,320
d)2,16,000
Q4. The population of a village decreases at the rate of 20% per annum.If its
population 2 years ago was 10000.What is its present population? a)6000
b)7200
C)6400
d)7600