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1. 56% of Y is 182. What is Y?

2. What percent is 42kg of 336kg?
3. A is 25% more than B, B is what percent less than A?
4. In an examination a candidate must secure 40% marks to pass. A candidate, who gets
220 marks, fails by 20 marks. What are the maximum marks for the examination?
5. A candidate secured 30% marks in an examination and failed by 6 marks. Another
secured 40% marks and got 6 marks more than the bare minimum to pass. The
maximum marks are:
6. 65% people like tea and 55% like coffee. All the people like either tea or coffee or
both. Find the percentage of people who like both?
7. Present population of a village is 67600. It has been increasing annually @ 4%. What
was the population of the village 2 years ago?
8. The value of a machine depreciates every year @ of 10% on it’s value at the
beginning of that year. If the current value of the machine is 72900, it’s worth 3 years
ago was:
9. Price of sugar rises by 20%. By how much percent should the consumption of sugar
be reduced so that the expenditure does not change?
10. A person who spends 66(2/3)% of his income is able to save 12000 per month. His
monthly expenses (in rupees) is:
11. A student multiplied a number by 3/5 instead of 5/3. What is the percentage error in
the calculation?
12. A number is increased by 20% and then it is decreased by 10%. Find the net increase
or decrease percent?
13. At an election there were 2 candidates. A candidate got 38% of votes and lost by
7200 number of votes. The total number of valid votes were?
14. The ratio of the number of boys and girls in a college is 3:2. If 20 % of boys and 25% of
girls are adults, the percentage of those students who are not adults, is?
15. How much water must be added to 100ml of 80 percent of boric acid to reduce it to a
50 percent solution?
16. If the income tax is increased by 19%, the net income is reduced by 1%. The rate of
income tax is?
17. If 15% of y is same as 21% of z, the 12.5% of y is equal to what percent of Z?
18. If price of rice is 30% less than that of wheat, then price of wheat is how much
percent more than that of rice?
19. The price of apple is first increased by 10% nd then decreased by 105. What is the
change in the price of apple?
20. If the price of sugar is raised by 25%, then by how much percent should a person
reduce his consumption of sugar, so that his expenditure remains same?
21. Y has to score 405 marks to pass. He gets 20 marks and fails by 40 marks. The
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22. A scores 105 and fails by 30 marks. B scores 40% marks and gets 30 marks more than
the minimum marks needed to pass the exam. What are the maximum marks for the
exam?
23. In a class, 15% of total number of students failed in science, 25% of total number of
students failed in Maths and 10% of total number of students failed in both. How
much percentage of students passed in both Maths and Science?
24. By 20% decrease in the price of rice, people can buy 10kg more rice in 100 rupees.
What is the original price of 1kg of rice?
25. In an election which was contested by 2 candidates, one candidate got 40% of total
votes and yet lost by 1000 votes. What is the total number of votes casted in the
election?
26. In a country 55% population is female. 80% of the male population is literate. How
much of females are literate if total literacy is 58%?
27. If 20% of an electricity bill is deducted, then 100 rupees is still to be paid. How much
was the original bill?
28. A’s salary is 50% more than B’s. How much percent is B’s salary less than A’s?
29. Two numbers are less than a third number by 30% and 37% respectively. How much
percent is the second number less than the first?
30. 10% of inhabitants of a village having died of cholera, a panic set in, during which 25%
of remaining inhabitants left the village. The population is then reduced to 4050. The
number of inhabitants originally was?
31. 60cm is what percent of 4m?
32. 120m is what percent of 3km?
33. 32 is what percent of 80?
(a) 24%
(b) 25.6%
(c) 36%
(d) 40%
34. 65gr is what percent of 2kg?
(a) 13/4
(b) 65/2
(c) 15/8
(d) 13/8
35. 2 is what percent of 50?
(a) 2
(b) 2.5
(c) 4
(d) 5
36. 0.01 is what percent of 0.1?
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(c) 100
(d) 1/100
37. 2/3 is what percent of 1/3?
(a) 50 %
(b) 33(1/3)%
(c) 150%
(d) 200%
38. P is 25% less than Q, Q is what percent more than P?
39. X is 50% more than Y, Y is what percent less than x?
40. If x earns 25% more than y, What percent less does Y earn than x?
(a) 16%
(b) 10%
(c) 20%
(d) 25%
41. B got 20% marks leass than a. What percent marks did A got more than B?
(a) 20%
(b) 25%
(c) 12%
(d) 80%
42. If a’s height is 10% more than B’s height, by how much percent less is B’s height than
that of A?
(a) 10%
(b) 10(1/9)%
(c) 10(1/11)%
(d) 9(1/11)%
43. If X is 10% more than Y, then by what percent is y less than X?
(a) 9(1/11)%
(b) 7(1/11)%
(c) 8(1/11)%
(d) 10(1/11)%
44. If X is less than Y by 25% then Y exceed X by?
(a) 33(1/3)%
(b) 255
(c) 75%
(d) 66(2/3)%
45. Two numbers are respectively 35% and 50% greater than the third number. First
number is what percent of the second?
46. Two numbers are respectively 68% and 26% greater than the third number. First
number is what percent of the second?
47. Two numbers are less than the third number by 30% and 37% respectively. Second
number is what percent less than the first number?

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48. Two numbers are respectively 25% and 20% less than a third number. What percent
is the first number of the second?
(a) 5%
(b) 75%
(c) 80%
(d) 93.75%
49. A student has to obtain 33% of total marks to pass. He got 25% of total marks and
failed by 40 marks. The number of total marks is?
(a) 800
(b) 300
(c) 500
(d) 1000
50. In an examination, a student had to obtain 33% of the maximum marks to pass. He
got 125 marks and failed by 40 marks. The maximum marks were?
(a) 500
(b) 600
(c) 800
(d) 1000
51. For an examination it is required to get 36% of maximum marks to pass. A student got
113 marks and failed by 85 marks. The maximum marks for the examination are?
(a) 500
(b) 550
(c) 565
(d) 620
52. A student has to secure 405 marks to pass. He gets 90 marks and fails by 10 marks.
Maximum marks are?
(a) 200
(b) 225
(c) 250
(d) 275
53. A student scored 32% marks in science subjects out of 300. How much should he
score in language papers out of 200 if he is to get overall 46% marks?
(a) 72%
(b) 67%
(c) 66%
(d) 60%
54. In attest a student got 30% marks and failed by 25 marks. In the same test another
student got 40% marks and secured 25 marks more than the essential minimum pass
marks. The maximum marks for the test were?
(a) 400
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(c) 500
(d) 580
55. In a quarterly examination a student secured 30% marks and failed by 12 marks. In
the same examination another student secured 40% marks and got 28 marks more
than minimum marks to pass. The maximum marks in the examination are?
(a) 300
(b) 500
(c) 700
(d) 400
56. In an examination, 93% of students passed and 259 failed. The total number of
students appearing at the examination was?
(a) 3700
(b) 3850
(c) 3950
(d) 4200
57. In an examination, 1100 boys and 900 girls appeared. 50% of the boys and 40% of the
girls passed the examination. The percentage of candidates who failed?
(a) 45%
(b) 45.5%
(c) 50%
(d) 54.5%
58. In an examination, there were 1000 boys and 800 girls. 60% of the boys and 50% of
the girls passed. Find the percent of the candidates failed?
(a) 46.4%
(b) 48.4%
(c) 44.4%
(d) 49.6%
59. A candidate who gets 20% marks in an examination fails by 30 marks but another
candidate who gets 32% gets 42 marks more than the passing marks. Then the
percentage of pass marks is?
(a) 52%
(b) 505
(c) 33%
(d) 25%
60. In an examination, a student who gets 20% of the maximum marks fails by 5 marks.
Another student who scores 30% of the maximum marks gets 20 marks more than
the pass marks. The necessary percentage erequired for passing is?
(a) 32%
(b) 23%
(c) 22%
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61. In the annual examination Mahuya got 10% less marks than Supriya in Mathematics.
Mahuya got 81 marks. The marks of Supriya are?
(a) 90
(b) 87
(c) 88
(d) 89
62. In an examination A got 25% marks more than B, B got 10% less than C and C got 25%
more than D. If D got 320 marks out of 500, the marks obtained by A were?
(a) 405
(b) 450
(c) 360
(d) 400
63. In an examination in which full marks were 500. A got 10% less than b, B got 25%
more than C. C got 20% less than D. If a got 360 marks, what percentage of full marks
was obtained by D?
(a) 90%
(b) 80%
(c) 50%
(d) 60%
64. 70% people like tea and 40% peope like coffee, all the people like either tea or coffee
or both. Find the percentage of people who like both?
65. In a town 50% like tea, 40% like coffee, and 15% like both tea and coffee. Find total
percentage of the people who like anyone of them?( either tea or coffee)
66. In a town 55% like tea, 50% like coffee, and 45% like both tea and coffee. Find total
percentage of the people who don’t like both?( neither tea nor coffee)
67. 42% people like tea and 47% like coffee and 15% like both, 520 people neither like tea
nor coffee. Find total population?
68. In an office 72% workers prefer tea and 44% prefer coffee. If each of them prefers tea
or coffee and 40 like both, the total number of the workers in the office are?
69. In an examination, 52% students failed in Hindi and 42% in English. If 17% failed in
both the subjects, what percentage of students passed in both the subjects?
(a) 38%
(b) 33%
(c) 23%
(d) 18%
70. In an examination, 34% students failed in Mathematics and 42% in English. If 20%
failed in both the subjects, what percentage of students passed in both the subjects?
(a) 54%
(b) 50%
(c) 44%
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71. In an examination, 35% of the candidates failed in Mathematics and 25% in English. If
10% failed in both Mathematics and English, then how much percent of candidates
passed in both the subjects?
(a) 50%
(b) 55%
(c) 57%
(d) 60%
72. In an examination, 19% students fail in Mathematics and 10% students fail in English.
If 7% of all students fail in both subjects, then the number of students passed in both
subjects is?
(a) 36%
(b) 64%
(c) 71%
(d) 78%
73. In an examination, 65% of the students passed in Mathematics, 48% passed in physics
and 30% passed in both. How much percent of students failed in both the subjects?
(a) 17%
(b) 43%
(c) 13%
(d) 47%
74. 90% of the students in a school passed in English, 85% passed in Mathematics and
150 students passed in both the subjects. If no student failed in both the subjects.
Find the total number of students?
(a) 120
(b) 220
(c) 200
(d) 300
75. In an examination, 705 of the candidates passed in English. 80% passed in
Mathematics. 10% failed in both the subjects. If 144 candidates passed in both, the
total number of candidates were?
(a) 125
(b) 200
(c) 240
(d) 375
76. In a group of students, 70% can speak English and 65% can speak Hindi. If 27% of the
students can speak none of the languages, then what percent of the group can speak
both the languages?
(a) 38%
(b) 62%
(c) 28%
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77. 72% of the students of a certain class took Biology and 44% took Mathematics. If each
student took at least one subject from Biology or Mathematics and 40 took both.
Then the total number of students in the class is?
(a) 200
(b) 240
(c) 250
(d) 320
78. In an examination, 80% of the boys passed in English and 85% passed in Mathematics,
while 75% passed in both. If 45 boys failed in both, the number of boys who sat for
the examination was?
(a) 400
(b) 450
(c) 200
(d) 150
79. In an examination, 60% of the students pass in Engliish. 70% opass in Hindi and 40%
pass in both. What percent of students fail in both English and Hindi?
(a) 10%
(b) 20%
(c) 25%
(d) 30%
80. The population of a village increases by 5% annually. If it’s present population is
44100, then it’s population 2 years ago was?
(a) 45000
(b) 40000
(c) 38000
(d) 35000
81. The population of a town increses by 5% every year. If the present population is
929100, the population 3 years ago was?
(a) 800000
(b) 570000
(c) 600000
(d) 750000
82. The population of a village decreases @ of 20% per annum. If it’s population 2 years
ago was 10000, the present population is?
(a) 4600
(b) 6400
(c) 7600
(d) 6000
83. If the population of a town is 64000 and it’s annual increase is 10%, then its correct
population at the end of 3 years will be?
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(b) 85184
(c) 85000
(d) 85100
84. The present population of a city is 180000. If it increases at the rate of 10% per
annum. It’s population after 2 years will be?
(a) 207800
(b) 227800
(c) 217800
(d) 237800
85. The population of a town increases every year by 4%. If it’s present population is
50000, then after 2 years it will be?
(a) 53900
(b) 54000
(c) 54080
(d) 54900
86. The population of a village has increased annually at the rate of 25%. If at the end of 3
years it is 10000, the population in the beginning of the first year was?
(a) 5120
(b) 5000
(c) 4900
(d) 4500
87. If population of women in a village is 90% of population of men, what is the
population of men as percentage of population of women?
(a) 100%
(b) 105%
(c) 108%
(d) 111%
88. In a town, the population was 8000, In one year, male population increased by 10%
and female population increased by 8% but the total population increased by (%. The
number of males in the town was?
(a) 4000
(b) 4500
(c) 5000
(d) 6000
89. The population of a village was 9800. In a year, with the increase in population of
males by 8% and that of females by 5%, the population of the village became 10458.
What was the number of males in the village before increase?
(a) 4200
(b) 4410
(c) 5600
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90. Of the 1000 inhabitants in a town 60% are males of whom 20% are literate. If of all
the inhabitants, 25% are literate, then what percentage of the females of the town
are literate?
(a) 27.5
(b) 32.5
(c) 37.5
(d) 22.5
91. From 1980-1990, the population of a country increased by 20%, From 1990-2000, the
population of the country increased by 20%. From 2000-2010, the population of the
country increased by 20%. Then the overall increased population ( in %) of the
country from 1980-2010 was?
(a) 72.2%
(b) 60%
(c) 72.8%
(d) 62.8%
92. The population of a town increases each year by 45 of it’s total at the beginning of
the year. If the population on 1st jan 2001 was 500000. What was it on 1st jan 2004?
(a) 562432
(b) 652432
(c) 465223
(d) 564232
93. The present price of a scooter is 72900. If its value decreses every year by 10%, then
it’s value 3 years back was?
(a) 105000
(b) 80000
(c) 100000
(d) 115000
94. The value of a property depreciates every year by 10% of it’s value at the beginning of
the year. The present value of the property is 81000. What was it’s value 2 years ago?
95. The value of a machine depreciates every year by 10%. If it’s present value is 50000,
then the value of the machine after 2 years is?
(a) 40050
(b) 45000
(c) 40005
(d) 40500
96. A TV was bought at a price of 21000 rupees. After one year the value of TV was
depreciated by 5%, Find the value of the TV after one year?
(a) 19950
(b) 20950
(c) 18950
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97. The value of a machine is 6250. It decreases by 10% during the first year, 20% during
the second year and 30% during the third year. What will be the value of the machine
after 3 years?
(a) 2650
(b) 3050
(c) 3150
(d) 3510
98. In the new budget, the price of kerosene oil rose by 25%. By how much percent must
a person reduce his consumption of kerosene oil so that his expenditure on it does
not increase?
(a) 20%
(b) 25%
(c) 50%
(d) 40%
99. If food prices go up by 10%, by how much should a man reduce his consumption so as
not to increase his expenditure?
(a) 9(1/11)%
(b) 10%
(c) 11(1/9)%
(d) Data is not sufficient
100.If the price of a tea is increased by 20%, by how much percent the consumption of
tea be reduced so that there is no increase in the expenditure on it?
(a) 83(1/3)%
(b) 20%
(c) 16(2/3)%
(d) 8(1/3)%
101.The price of a certain item is increased by 15%. If a consumer wants to keep his
expenditure on the item the same as before, how much percent must he reduce his
consumption of that item?
(a) 15%
(b) 16(2/3)%
(c) 13(1/23)%
(d) 10(20/23)%
102.If the duty on an article is reduced by 40% of it’s present rate, by how much percent
must it’s consumption increase in order that the revenue remains unaltered?
(a) 60%
(b) 72%
(c) 62(1/3)%
(d) 66(2/3)%
103.The price of a commodity rises from 6 rupees per kg to 7.50 rupees for kg. If the
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(a) 15%
(b) 20%
(c) 25%
(d) 30%
104.If the price of sugar is increased by 25% then by how much % a family should reduce
it’s consumption, so as expenditure will increase by 15% only?
105.The price of sugar is decreased by 20%. By how much percent consumption should
increase so that expenditure will decrease by 4% only?
106.The price of sugar is increased by 20% . Then by how much kg of consumption should
be reduced by a family. So that expenditure will increase by 5% only, If original
consumption is 720 kg?
107.The price of sugar is increased by 40% . Then by how much kg of consumption should
be reduced by a family. So that expenditure will increase by 10% only, If original
consumption is 560 kg?
108.The price of rice is increased by 20% due to which a family purchase 16kg less rice so
as expenditure is increased by 10% only. Find the present consumption?
109.The price of tea is decreased by 20% due to this a family purchase 64kg more tea. So
as the expenditure will decrease by 10% only. Find original and current
consumption ?
110.The price of sugar is reduced by 20%. Now a person can buy 500gr more sugar for 36
rupees. The original price of the sugar per kilogram was?
(a) 14.40
(b) 18
(c) 15.60
(d) 16.50
111.When the price of sugar decreases by 10%, a man could buy 1 kg more for 270
rupees. Then the original price of sugar per kg is?
(a) 25
(b) 30
(c) 27
(d) 32
112.A reduction of 20% in the price of an apple enables a man to buy 10 apples more for
54 rupees. The reduced price of apples per dozen is?
(a) 4.32
(b) 12.96
(c) 10.80
(d) 14.40
113.Due to an increase of 50% in the price of eggs, 4 eggs less are available for 24 rupees.
The present rate of eggs per dozen is?
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(c) 36
(d) 42
114.Due to an increase of 20% in the price of eggs, 2 eggs less are available for 24 rupees.
The present rate of egg sper dozen is?
(a) 25
(b) 26.20
(c) 27.80
(d) 28.80

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