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Basic calculations:

1)2 is what percent of 50?


(1) 2 (2) 2.5 (3) 4 (4) 5

2)If x is 80% of y, what percent of y is x ?


(1) 75% (2) 80% (3) 100% (4) 125%

3)If p% of p is 36, then p is equal to :


(1) 3600 (2) 600 (3) 60 (4) 15

4)0.15% of 33 ⅓ % of 10000 is :
(1) 5 (2) 150 (3) 0.05 (4) 105

5)What is 20% of 25% of 300?


(1) 150 (2) 60 (3) 45 (4) 15

6)32 is what percent of 80 ?


(1) 24% (2) 25.6% (3) 36% (4) 40%

7)If 90% of A = 30% of B and B =2x% of A, then the value of x is


(1) 450 (2) 400(3) 300 (4) 150

8)If 30% of A is added to 40% of B,the answer is 80% of B. What percentage of A is B?


(1) 30% (2) 40% (3) 70% (4) 75%

9)The value of 18.99% of 799.068 = ? (approximately)

A) 150 B) 152 C) 145 D) 140 E) 151

10)The present population of a city is 180000. If it increases at the rate of 10% per annum, its
population after 2 years will be :
(1) 207800 (2) 227800 (3) 217800 (4) 237800
Questions:

1)*In a village 30% of the population is literate. If the total population of the village is 6,600,
then the number of illiterate is
(1) 1980 (2) 4620 (3) 2200 (4) 3280

2)*A student secures 90%,60%,54% marks in test papers with 100,150 and 200 respectively
as maximum marks. The percentage of his aggregate is
A) 64% B) 68% C) 70% D) 72% E) 65%

3)If two numbers are respectively 30% and 40 % more than a third number ,what percentage
is the first of the second ?

4)*In an examination in which full marks were 500, A got 10% less than B, B 25% more than C
and C 20% less than D. If A got 360 marks. Marks obtained by D is?
A) 60% B) 80% C) 40% D) 70% E) 755

5)*When a number is first increased by 10% and then is reduced by 10%, then the number
A) Decreases by 1% B) Does not change C) Increases by 1% D) Cannot be
determined

6)If price of a book is first decreased by 25% and then increased by 20%, the net change in
the price
of the book will be
(1) 10% decrease (2) 5% decrease (3) no change (4) 5% increase

7)*The length of a rectangle is increased by 10% and breadth decreased by 10% Then the
area of the new rectangle is
(1) neither decreased nor increased (2) increased by 1%
(3) decreased by 1% (4) decreased by 10%

8)In a PSC examination there were 2500 candidates, Of them, 20% were girls and the rest
were boys. Suppose 5% of boys and 40% of girls failed. The percentage of candidates who
passed was A) 64% B) 85% C) 74% D) 88% E) 82%
9)A person saves 20% of his income every year. If his income increases every year by 10%,
then his savings increases every year by

A) 15% B) 20% C) 10% D) 18% E) 19%

10)*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 1500, then her salary per month
(in ) is
(1) 8000 (2) 7500(3) 6000 (4) 10000

11)Kishan spends 30% of his salary on food and donates 3% in a Charitable Trust. He spends
2,310 on these two items, then total salary for that month is
(1) 6,000 (2) 8,000(3) 9,000 (4) 7,000

12)*Out of his total income, Mr. Kapur spends 20% on house rent and 70% of the rest on
house-hold expenses. If he saves 1,800, what is his total income (in rupees)?
(1) 7,800 (2) 7,000(3) 8,000 (4) 7,500

13)In a 50 gm alloy of gold and silver, the gold is 80% by weight. How much gold should be
mixed with this alloy so that the weight of gold would become 95% ?
(1) 200 gm (2) 150 gm(3) 50 gm (4) 10 gm

14)*75 gm of sugar solution has 30% sugar in it. Then the quantity of sugar that should be
added to the solution to make the quantity of the sugar 70% in the solution, is
(1) 125 gm (2) 100 gm(3) 120 gm (4) 130 gm

15)*If the price of a commodity decreases by 20% and its consumption increases by
20%,what will be the increase or decrease in the expenditure on the commodity ?
(1) 4% increase (2) 4% decrease(3) 8% decrease (4) 8% increase

16)If the price of rice be raised by 25%, the percent by which a house-holder must reduce his
consumption of rice so as not to increase his expenditure on rice is
(1) 225% (2) 25.75%(3) 25% (4) 20%
17)*When the price of sugar decreases by 10%, a man could buy 1 kg more for 270. Then the
original price of sugar per kg is
(1) 25 (2) 30(3) 27 (4) 32

18)A reduction of 20% in the price of sugar enables a purchaser to obtain 8 kg more for Rs.
160.Then the price per kg before reduction was
(1) Rs. 5 (2) Rs. 6(3) Rs. 10 (4) Rs. 4

Answers:

1)3 2)2 3)3 4)1 5)4 6)4 7)4 8)4 9)B 10)3

1)2 2)A 3)92.85 4)B 5)A 6)1 7)3 8)D 9)c 10)2
%

11)4 12)4 13)2 14)2 15)2 16)4 17)2 18)1 19) 20)

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