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PREVIOUS QUESTIONS : PERCENTAGES

Type 1
1.1. (a% of a) + (b% of b) = 2% of ab, then what percentage
of a is b?
(a) 50%
(b) 75%
(c) 100%
(d) Cannot be determined

1.10.Initial price of the scooter is 40,000 and it reduces to


3/4th of the previous price every year. What will be
the price after 3 years?
(a) 22, 500 (b) 30, 000 (c) 16, 875 (d) 12, 656

1.2. If M is 30% of Q, Q is 20% of P and N is 50% of P then


M/N = ?
(a) 4/3
(b) 3/25 (c) 6/5
(d) 3/250

1.11.Bhanu spends 30% of his income on petrol on scooter


20% of the remaining on house rent and the balance
on food. If he spends Rs. 300 on petrol, then what is
the expenditure on house rent?
(a) 200
(b) 150
(c) 140
(d) 210

1.3. If two number are respectively 10% and 25% more


than 3rd number. Find the first number as a percent of
second number?
(a) 78
(b) 80
(c) 88
(d) 85

1.12.The price of groundnuts increased by x% per week over


2 successive weeks. If at the beginning, 2 kgs were
available for Rs. 80 and after 2 weeks they were available for Rs. 105.80, what is the value of x?
(a) 16
(b) 20
(c) 10
(d) 15

1.4. A gardener changed the size of his rectangle-shaped


garden by increasing its length by 40% and decreasing
its width by 20%. The area of the new garden:
(a) has increased by 12%
(b) has increased by 20%
(c) has increased by 8%
(d) cannot be expressed in percentage terms without
actual numbers

1.13.In some quantity of ghee 60% is pure ghee and 40% is


vanaspati. If 10kg of pure ghee is added, then the
strength of vanaspati ghee becomes 20%.The original
quantity was?
(a) 20
(b) 5
(c) 4
(d) 10

1.5. The height of triangle is increased by 40%.What can


be the maximum percentage increase in length of the
base so that the increase in area is restricted to a
maximum of 60%?
(a) 50%
(b) 20%
(c) 14.28% (d) 25%

Type 2
2.1. Mr. Paul invested Rs. 50,000 partly at 10% and partly
at 15% simple interest. His total income after a year
was Rs. 7000. How much did he invest at the rate of
10%?
(a) 40,000 (b) 10,000 (c) 30,000 (d)15,000

1.6 If the price of an item is decreased by 10% and then


increased by 10%, the net effect on the price of the
item is
(a) A decrease of 99% (b) No change
(c) A decrease of 1% (d) An increase of 1%

2.2. Rs. 1200 becomes Rs. 1500 in 2 years at a certain rate


of compound interest. What will be the sum after 6
years?
(a) 2434.75
(b) 2343.75
(c) 2543.75
(d) 2344.75

1.7 A reduction of 20% in the price of wheat enables a


person to purchase 4 kgs more wheat for Rs. 80. What
is the original price of 1 kg of wheat?
(a) Rs. 4.8 (b) Rs. 5 (c) Rs. 6
(d) Rs. 5.2

2.3. A person invested a certain amount at simple interest


at the rate of 6% per annum earning Rs. 900 as an
interest at the end of three years. The interest has been
compounded every year. How much more interest
would he have earned on the same amount with the
same interest rate after three years (approx.)?
(a) 55
(b) 75
(c) 65
(d) 96

1.8 Fresh fruit contains 68% water and dry fruit contains
32% of the water. How much dry fruits can be obtained
from 100 kg of fresh fruits?
(a) 43 kg
(b) 40 kg (c) 42 kg (d) 41 kg

ZENITH

1.9 In a certain city, 60 percent of the registered voters


are Party A supporters and the rest are Party B supporters. In an assembly election, if 75 percent of the
registered Party A supporters and 20 percent of the
registered Party B supporters are expected to vote for
Candidate A, what percent of the registered voters are
expected to vote for Candidate A?
(a) 60
(b) 53
(c) 20
(d) 75
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2.4. A sum of money placed at compound interest doubles


itself in 5 years. It will amount to in eight times itself
at the same rate of interest in how many years?
(a) 25
(b) 10
(c) 15
(d) 20

ZENITH
creating new dimensions

Type 3
3.1. Cost price of 21 apples is equal to selling price of 18
apples. What is the profit?
(a) 18%
(b) 21%
(c) 33.33% (d) 16.67%
3.2. Steve bought 6 toffees for Rs. 1. If he sells x toffees for
Rs. 1 to gain 20%. What is x ?
(a) 20
(b) 12
(c) 5
(d) 10

Type 4
4.1. The average monthly expenditure of a family was Rs.
2200 during first 3 months, Rs. 2500 during next 4
months and Rs. 3150 during last 5 months of the year.
If the total saving during the year was Rs. 5210, find
average monthly income.
(a) 3130
(b) 3180 (c) 3150 (d) 3080

3.3. 12 oranges are sold at Rs. 10 thereby making a loss of


a%. If 12 oranges are sold at Rs. 12 then there is a
profit of a%. Find a?
(a) 12%
(b) 7.28% (c) 11.11% (d) 9.09%

4.2. Average salary of 17 teachers is 45000. 3 teachers left


and the average salary dropped by 2500. What is the
sum salaries of 3 teachers who left?
(a) 170000 (b) 185000 (c) 142000 (d) 165000

3.4. A dishonest dealer sells goods at 30% profit but uses


only 800 grams in place of a kilogram weight. Find his
gain percent?
(a) 60%
(b) 57.5% (c) 55%
(d) 62.5%

4.3. The average marks of 3 students A, B and C is 48. When


another student D joins the group, the now average
becomes 46 marks. If another student E, who has 3
marks more than D, joins the group, the average of
the 4 students B, C, D and E becomes 45 marks. How
many marks did A get in the exam?
(a) 47
(b) 46
(c) 50
(d) 49

3.5. Sum of the CPs of two cars is RS. 1,50, 000. 1st car is
sold at a profit of 20% and the second car at the loss
of 20%. However, their S.Ps are same. What is the
cost price of the 1st car?
(a) 60,000 (b) 64, 000 (c) 72, 000 (d) 75, 000

4.4. The price of lunch for 15 people was 207 pounds, including a 15 percent gratuity of service. What was the
average price per person, EXCLUDING the gratuity?
(a) 10
(b) 11
(c) 12
(d) 15

3.6. A vendor sells two articles at same price with one article at 25% profit and other at 20% loss. What is the
profit/loss percent in the overall transaction?
(a) 5% profit
(b) 2.43% loss
(c) 2.43% profit
(d) 5% loss

4.5. Arun, Akash, Amir and Aswanth go for a picnic. When


Arun stands ona weighing machine, Akash also climbs
on, and the weight shown was 132 kg. When Akash
stands, Amir also climbs on, and the machine shows
130kg. Similarly the weight of Amir and Aswanth is
found as 102 kg and that of Akash and Aswanth is
116kg. What is Aswanths weight?
(a) 58 kg
(b) 78 kg
(c) 44 kg
(d) None of these

3.7. Marked price of an item is 60% of its MRP. A person


buys the item at half of its marked price. How many
percentage discounts is given on MRP?
(a) 70
(b) 50
(c) 80
(d) 100
3.8. The price of book in four different shops and the successive discounts offered for the books is given below. Select the option in which the price of the book
is the least?
(a) 10%, 5%, and 5% discount on Rs. 195
(b) 25%, discount on Rs. 200
(c) 12.5% and 12.5% discounts on Rs. 205
(d) 10% and 15% discounts on a marked price of Rs.
190

4.6. Three non-negative numbers X, Y and Z are such that


the mean is M and the median is 5. If M is 10 more
than the smallest number and 15 less than the biggest number, find the value of X + Y + Z.
(a) 15
(b) 5
(c) 20
(d) 30

ZENITH

4.7. Two consecutive numbers are removed from progression 1, 2, 3, 4, . N. The arithmetic mean of remain1
4

3.9. A person bought an article and sold it at a loss of 10%.


If he had bought it for 20% less and sold it for Rs.55
more he would have had a profit of 40%. The cost price
of the article is?
(a) 125
(b) 150.5 (c) 112.5 (d) 250

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ing numbers is 26 . The value of N is:

(a) 81

(b) 60

(c) 50

(d) 92

ZENITH
creating new dimensions

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