DC PERCENTAGES

1. 37.5 % of 640?
2. 18.75 % of 176?
3. 83.33 % of 606?
4. 43.75 % of 352?
5. 56.25% of 160?
6. 18.75% of 296?
7. 55% of 1430
8. 80% of 1260
9. 61% of 900 + 82% of 450?
10. 20% of 600 + 30% of 800 – 50% of 500?
Multiplying Factor.
11. 648 is decreased by 37.5%. What is the value?
12. 648 is increased by 37.5%. What is the value?
13. 1212 is decreased by 83.33% What is the value?
14. 1212 is increased by 83.33% What is the value?

15. A number is increased by 18.75% and decreased by 12.5 %

a. 3.9 b. 4.1 c.5.3 d. 4.1
16. A number is increased by 166.66 %. Then decreased by 37.5% and further decreased by 18.75 %.
What is the percentage change?
a. 29% b. 45.32 % c. 35.33% d. 37.42 %
17. 4320 is decreased successively 3 times by 16.66 %. What is the resulting number?
a. 2300 b. 2700 c. 2500 d. 2600

Percentage Increase and Decrease:

1. A is 40% more than B. By what percent B is less than A?
a. 27% b. 31% c . 31.56% d. 28.56%
2. Rajesh’s salary is 30% less than Kirin’s salary. By what percent Kirin’s salary is more than Rajesh?
a. 21.43% b. 23% c. 45.65% d. 66.66%
 PART 2
1. The ratio of the number of boys and girls in a class of 400 students is 1 : 24. How many girls need to
be removed from the class, so that the percentage of boys in the class becomes 64%?

a. 375 b. 378 c. 387 d.345

2. In a department there are only two categories of employees’ i.e, officers and clerks. Out of which
40% are officers. Further, the percentage of female employees in the respective categories is 65%
and 40%. If the total number of female employees in the department is 500, then what is the strength
of the department?

a. 1200 b.1300 c.1000 d.1100

3. In a class of 450 students, the ratio of the number of boys to the number of girls is 8 : 7 respectively.
If 65% of the boys and 70% of the girls appear in a class test, then what percentage of students that
don't appear in the class test?
a. 32.66 b.38.90 c.43 d. 40

4. In a class 65% of the students appeared for MAT and 50% appeared for CAT. If 5% of the students
did not appear for either of the two exams, then what percentage of the students appeared for both
CET and CAT?
a. 20 b. 23 c. 25 d. 56

5. In a test, minimum passing percentage for reserved and unreserved category is 37.5% and 54%
respectively. A candidate from unreserved category secured 300 marks and failed by 24 marks. What
are the minimum passing marks of reserved category in that test?
a. 235 b. 225 c. 240 d.238

6. Ankit got 102 marks in Hindi, 118 marks in Science, 104 marks in Sanskrit, 114 marks in Maths and
96 marks in English. The maximum marks of each subject are 120. How much overall percentage of
marks did Ankit get?
a.93 b.89 c. 85 d. 91

7. A class is divided into three sections named as A, B, and C which comprises of 10, 20 and 30 students
respectively. The percentage of students passing from the sections A, B, and C are 20%, 30%, and
40% respectively. What is the percentage of students who passed in the class?
a. 33.33% b.32.32% c. 31.31 % d.30.30%

8. In a showroom according to a plan if a person buys 13 jeans, then he/ she will get 5 jeans free. What
percentage discount is being offered?
 a. 27.77 b.32.45 c 45.76 d.32.12

9. In a test Raju got 232 marks which were 56 more than that of the Bheem marks. Sony got 40% marks
out of the total marks of the test which were 24 marks more than the Bheem’s marks. What
percentage of marks did Bheem get?
a. 32 b. 35.2 c. 34.32 d.36

10. In a town, there are 2,500 men and 2,500 women. If the number of men increase by 20% and the
number of women decreased by 20%, then women as a percentage of men now is
a. 60% b. 65.8% c. 66.66% d.69.6%
11. After spending 20% on clothes, 10% on books, 9% on food and 7% on others, Thrivi has balance of
2700. How much money did he have initially?
12. A man received Rs. 880000 as his annual salary of the year 2007 which was 10% more than his annual
salary in 2006. His annual salary in the year 2006 was
13.Puneet scored 175 marks in a test and failed by 35 marks. If the passing percentage of the test is 35
percent, what are the maximum marks of the test?
1) 650 2) 600 3) 700 4) 750 5) None
14.A candidate appearing for an examination has to secure 35% marks to pass. But he secured only
40 marks and failed by 30 marks. What would be the maximum marks of test?
1) 280 2) 180 3) 200 4) 150 5) 210
15.If a number is added to seven-ninth of thirty five percent of 900, the value so obtained is 325.
What is the number?
1) 60 2) 120 3) 90 4) 80 5) None
16.There are 360 students in a class out of which 35% are day scholars. How many day scholars are
there in the class?
1) 128 2) 122 3) 124 4) 126 5) None
17. In an examination it is required to get 55% of the aggregate marks to pass. A student got 340
and was declared failed by 5% marks. What are the maximum aggregate marks a student can
get?1) 650 2) 660 3) 680 4) Can’t be determined 5) None
18.What is the seventy four percent of five-eighth of 1200?
1) 555 2) 565 3) 445 4) 455 5) None
19.Jyoti’s monthly expense on shopping is 25%, travelling is 20%, food is 45% and 10% on other
recreational activities. What is the total amount she spent on travelling and food together?
1) Rs. 15000 2) Rs. 18000 3) Rs. 12050 4) Can’t be determined 5) None
20. Anish spends 25% of his salary on house rent, 5% on food, 15% on travel, 10% on clothes and the
remaining amount of Rs. 22500 is saved. What is Anish’s salary?
1) Rs. 40000 2) Rs. 40500 3) Rs. 45500 4) Rs. 50000 5) None
21.There are 1825 employees in an organisation, out of which 64% got transferred to different places.
How many such employees are there who got transferred?
1) 1054 2) 1490 3) 1263 4) 1168 5) None
22.If 20 percent of a number is 12, what will be two-third of that number?
1) 40 2) 20 3) 80 4) 60 5) None
23.It is required to get 40% marks to pass an exam. A candidate scored 200 marks and failed by 8
marks. What were the maximum marks of the exam?
1) 530 2) 540 3) 520 4) Can’t be determined 5) None
24.Bhoomi invests Rs. 3675, which is 14% of her monthly income, in mutual funds. What is her
monthly income?
1) Rs. 23700 2) Rs. 28450 3) Rs. 26250 4) Rs. 25950 5) None
25.There are 3050 employees in an organization. Out of which 48% got transferred to different
places. How many employees got transferred?
1) 1384 2) 1628 3) 1464 4) 1526 5) None