percentage test 1

Welcome to your percentage test 1

1. Student A scores 20 marks in an examination out of 30 while another student B scores 40 marks out of 70. Who has performed better ?

2. The cost of manufacture of an article is made up of four components A, B, C and D which have a ratio of 3 : 4 : 5 : 6 respectively. If there are respective changes in the cost of +10%, –20%, –30%, and +40%, then what would be the percentage change in the cost.

3. If we express 41 3 /17 % as a fraction, then it is equal to

4. In an election between 2 candidates, Rajesh gets 65%of the total valid votes. If the to-tal votes were 6000, what is the number of valid votes that the other candidate Bhuvnesh gets, if 25% of the total votes were declared invalid ?

5. Arjit Sharma generally wears his father’s coat. Unfortunately, his cousin Shaurya poked him one day that he was wearing a coat of length more than his height by 15%. If the length of Arjit’s father’s coat is 120 cm then what should be the actual length of the his coat.

6. A number is mistakenly divided by 5 instead of being multiplied by 5. Find the percentage change in the result due to this mistake.

7. The price of an item is increased by 20 % and then decreased by 20 %. The final price as compared to original price is:

8. 50% of a% of b is equal to 75% of b% of c. Which of the following is c?

9. The length, breadth and height of a room in the shape of a cuboid are increased by 10%, 20% and 50% respectively. Find the percentage change in the volume of the cuboid.

10. The price of sugar is reduced by 25% but inspite of the decrease, Aayush ends up increasing his expenditure on sugar by 20%. What is the percentage change in his monthly consumption of sugar ?

11. When 60% of number A is added to another number B, B becomes 175% of its previous value. Then which of the following is true regarding the values of A and B ?

`12. The population of a village is 1,00,000. The rate of increase is 10% per annum. Find the population at the start of the third year.

13. The population of the Mukherjee Nagar is 10,000 at this moment. It increases by 10% in the first year. However, in the second year, due to immigration, the population drops by 5%. Find the population at the end of the third year if in the third year the population increases by 20%.

14. Rajesh spends 20% of his monthly income on his houshold expenditure, 15% of the rest on books, 30% of the rest on clothes and saves the rest. On counting, he comes to know that he has finally saved Rs. 9520. Find his monthly income .

15. The population of a village is 5500. If the number of males increase by 11% and the number of females increases by 20% then the population becomes 6330. Find the population of females in the town.

16. Ram sells his goods 25% cheaper than Shyam and 25% dearer than Balram. How much percentage is Balram’s goods cheaper than Shyam’s ?

17. In an examination, Rajesh obtained 20% more thanBhuvnesh but 10% less thanPawan. If the marks obtained by Bhuvnesh is 1080. find the percentage marks obtained by Pawan if the full marks is 2000

18. In the recent, climate conference in New York, out of 700 men, 500 women, 800 children present inside the building premises, 20% of the men, 40% of the women and 10% of the children were Indians. Find the percentage of people who were not Indian.

19. A man buys a truck for Rs. 2,50,000. The annual repair cost comes to 2.0% of the price of purchase. Besides, he has to pay an annual tax of Rs. 2000. At what monthly rent must he rent out the truck to get a return of 15% on his net investment of the first year ?

20. In an examination, 80% students passed in Physics, 70% in Chemistry while 15% failed in both the subjects. If 325 students passed in both the subjects. Find the total number of students who apperared in the examination.

21. Rajesh’s monthly salary is A rupees. Of this , he spends X rupees. The next month he has an increase of C% in this salary and D% in his expenditure. The new amount saved is:

22. Rajesh’s project report consists of 25 pages each of 60 lines with 75 characters on each line. In case the number of lines is reduced to 55 but the number of characters is increased to 90 per lines. What is the percentage change in the number of pages

23. After three successive equal percentage rise in the salary the sum of 100 rupees turned into 140 rupees and 49 paise. Find the percentage rise in the salary.

24. The price of a certain article was raised by 10% in India. The consumption of the same article was increased from 200 tons to 225 tons. By how much percent will the expenditure on the article rise in the Indian economy ?

25. The population of New Foundland increases with a uniform rate of 8% per annum, but due to immigration, there is a further increase of population by 1% (however, this 1% increase in populaion is to be calculated on the population after the 8% increase and not on the previous years population). Find what will be the percentage increase in population after 2 years.

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