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PERCENTAGE BASICS
1. What is 36% of 25% of 320? B. 490
A. 288 C. 245
B. 96 D. 348
C. 28.8 10. 3/4th of a number is less than the number itself by
D. 12.4 35. What is the number?
2. The fraction equivalent to 2/5% is A. 140
A. 1/40 B. 125
B. 1/125 C. 250
C. 1/250 D. 70
D. 1/500 11. 450% of a number is 4725. What is 82% of the same
3. How is ¾ expressed as percentage? number.
A. 0.75% A. 186
B. 7.5% B. 841
C. 60% C. 821
D. 75% D. 861
4. How is ½% expressed as a decimal fraction? 12. 3/5th of a number is 250 more than 40% of the
A. 0.0005 same number. What is the number.
B. 0.005 A. 450
C. 0.05 B. 1250
D. 0.5 C. 750
5. What percentage of 7.2 kg is 18gms? D. 500
A. 0.025% 13. 68% of a group are married. What is the ratio of
B. 0.25% married and unmarried people.
C. 2.5% A. 17:4
D. 25% B. 17:7
6. A period of 4rs 30 min is what percentage of a day? C. 17:8
3 D. 34:17
A. 18 4%
𝒙+𝒚 𝟒
B. 20% 14. If = and x≠0,then what percentage of x+3y is x-
𝒙−𝒚 𝟑
2
C. 16 % 3y?
3
D. 19% A. 20%
𝟏 B. 25%
7. A man spends Rs.3500 per month and saves 12𝟐%
C. 30%
of his income. His monthly income is:
D. 40%
A. 4400
B. 4270 Percentage increase/ decrease
C. 4000 15. Amit’ salary increased from 40,000 to 50,000.
D. 3937.50 What is the percentage increase in salary?
8. In an examination 65% of the total examinees A. 20%
passed. If the number of failure is 420, the total B. 25%
number of examinees is C. 30%
A. 567 D. 40%
B. 693 16. Namit’s salary decreased from 1,75,000 to
C. 1000 1,25,000. What is the percentage decreased in
D. 1200 salary?
9. 56% of a number is less than its 72% by 56. What is A. 14.28%
70% of that number? B. 40%
A. 325 C. 28.57%
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D. 25% A. 21%
17. Ramesh’s salary increased by 12.5%. it was 68,000 B. 33%
earlier. What is the new salary? C. 40.5%
A. 72000 D. 33.1%
B. 76500 25. When the price of fans was reduced by 20% and
C. 80000 then increase by 20%. What would by the
D. 84000 percentage change in the price?
18. Suresh’s salary decreased by 20%. It was 10,500 A. 12% decrease
earlier. What is the new salary? B. 12% increase
A. 7000 C. 3% increase
B. 8000 D. 4% decrease
C. 9000 26. In measuring the side of a square an error of 5% in
D. 8400 excess is made. The error percentage in the
19. Sita’s salary increased by 42.85% to 50,000. What calculated area is
was her old salary? A. 10%
A. 35000 B. 10.25%
B. 40000 C. 10.5%
C. 42000 D. 25%
D. 45000 𝟑 𝟓
27. A student multiplied a number by 𝟓
instead of 𝟑,
20. Gita’s salary decreased by 8.33% to 44,000. What
what is the percentage error in the calculation?
was her old salary?
A. 34%
A. 52000
B. 44%
B. 40000
C. 54%
C. 48500
D. 64%
D. 48000
28. If salary of a person 1st increases by 165.66% and
Successive increase/Decrease again increase by 28.57%. what will be net
21. When a number is first increased by 10% and then percentage increases by 28.75%. what will be net
reduced by 10% the number; percentage increases?
A. Does not change A. 44%
B. Decreases by 1% B. 48%
C. Increases by 1% C. 50%
D. None of these D. 55%
𝟏
22. If the side of square is increased by 25%. Then its 29. The sale of cinema ticket is increase by 57 𝟕% & the
area is increased by: price of ticket also increase by 16.66% . Find the
A. 25% percentage change in the revenue?
B. 55% A. +80%
C. 40.5% 1
B. +833%
D. 56.25%
C. +-84%
23. The length and breadth of a rectangle are increased
D. -90%
by 30% and 20% respectively. The area of the
30. If radius of a cylinder increases by 20% and its
rectangle of formed exceeds the area of the 𝟐
original rectangle by: height decreases by 16𝟑% then what will be the
A. 20% effect on its volume?
B. 36% A. 20% Increase
C. 50% B. 20% decrease
D. 56% C. 10% Increase
24. If the side of cube is increased by 10%, then its D. 10% decrease
volume is increased by: Population increase/decrease
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subject and 144 students passed in both. Then find 79. There were two candidates in an election. One got
the total no. of students appeared in exam? 55% of total valid votes and 20% of votes were
A. 200 invalid. If the total votes was 5500. How many valid
B. 240 votes did the other person get?
C. 280 A. 1870
D. 300 B. 1980
74. In a village 60% families have 1 cow and 30% C. 1920
families have 1 buffalo and 15% families have both D. 1770
1 cow and 1 buffalo. If there is only 96 families in 80. There were two candidates in an election. 8% of
village. Find the number of persons that they do voters did not cast their votes. The wining
not have any cow or buffalo. candidates secures 48% of total votes and wins by
A. 25 1100 votes. The total no. of votes polled is:
B. 30 A. 23800
C. 24 B. 26400
D. 20 C. 24200
75. Out of 100 students, 50 failed in English and 30 in D. 25300
mathematics. If 12 students fail in both English and 81. In an election between two candidates 10% of
mathematics, then the number of students who votes did not cast their vote. 10% of the votes
passed in both subjects is polled were found invalid. The winning candidates
A. 26 got 54% of the valid votes and won by 1620 votes
B. 28 find the number of voters enrolled in an election.
C. 30 A. 26000
D. 32 B. 24000
76. In a class 65% students passed in maths, 50 % C. 25000
passed in English. 10% failed in both. If 40 students D. 23000
passed in both the subjects, what is the total 82. There were two candidate in an election 75% of
number students. voters cast their votes, out of which 2% of the votes
A. 160 were found invalid a candidate got 9261 vote4s
B. 240 which were 75% of total valid votes. Find the
C. 360 number of voters enrolled in that election.
D. 480 A. 16800
77. In a school, 40% of students play football and 50% B. 16400
play cricket. If 18% of the students play neither C. 16000
football nor cricket the percentage of students D. 17200
playing both is 83. In an election between two candidates 10% of
A. 40% voters did not cast their votes. 60 votes were found
B. 32% invalid. A candidate got 47% of total votes and won
C. 22% by a majority of 308 votes. Find the total number
D. 8% of votes in the voter list.
A. 6000
Votes B. 6200
78. There were two candidates in an election.one got C. 6400
41% of total votes and lost by 5580 votes, find the D. 6800
total votes? 84. In an election between two candidate one got 55%
A. 31000 of the total valid votes. 20% of the votes were
B. 29800 invalid. If the total number of votes was 7500, the
C. 32400 number of valid votes that the other candidates
D. 34600 got was.
A. 2700
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1 C 2 C 3 D 4 B 5 B
6 A 7 C 8 D 9 C 10 A
11 D 12 B 13 C 14 D 15 B
16 C 17 B 18 D 19 A 20 D
21 B 22 D 23 D 24 D 25 D
26 B 27 D 28 C 29 B 30 A
31 C 32 B 33 B 34 C 35 D
36 D 37 B 38 A 39 A 40 A
41 D 42 A 43 B 44 A 45 B
46 B 47 A 48 C 49 A 50 C
51 B 52 D 53 D 54 A 55 A
56 A 57 B 58 A 59 C 60 B
61 B 62 B 63 B 64 C 65 B
66 B 67 D 68 C 69 C
72 B 73 B 74 C 75 D
76 A 77 D 78 A 79 B 80 D
81 A 82 A 83 B 84 A 85 C
86 B 87 A 88 B 89 C 90 B
91 A 92 C 93 C 94 B 95 D
96 B 97 A 98 D 99 A 100 C