Percentage Basics

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Why Percentages?

(Write down in your own words)

Three very basic steps in percentage calculations

1. A% of B....................................(A/100) x B [information is given in %]

2. A is what percentage of B?.....(A/B) x 100 [Answer is to be given in %]

3. Percentage change................(Change/Original value)x100 [Answer is to be given in %]

Write down the values of the fractions in the table given below

1/2

1/3 2/3

1/4 2/4 3/4

1/5 2/5 3/5 4/5

1/6 2/6 3/6 4/6 5/6

1/7 2/7 3/7 4/7 5/7 6/7

1/8 2/8 3/8 4/8 5/8 6/8 7/8

1/9 2/9 3/9 4/9 5/9 6/9 7/9 8/9

1/11 2/11 3/11 4/11 5/11 6/11 7/11 8/11 9/11 10/11

Students with good percentage Basics.

 Can understand and distinguish the required case out of the three cases written above.
 Have a good hold on Tables till 19 and know the fraction table.
 Are good at approximations.
 Continuously keep working on % basics to improve the speed and the accuracy.

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Solve the following

1.
A B Ans A B Ans A B Ans
1 10% 400 21 16.66% 84 41 37.50% 96
2 20% 380 22 33.33% 72 42 57.14% 77
3 30% 360 23 66.66% 96 43 33.33% 12
4 40% 340 24 83.33% 114 44 87.50% 328
5 50% 320 25 14.28% 175 45 16.66% 726
6 60% 300 26 28.57% 119 46 33.33% 129
7 70% 280 27 12.50% 984 47 66.66% 174
8 80% 260 28 37.50% 112 48 83.33% 162
9 90% 240 29 22.22% 126 49 75% 316
10 100% 220 30 55.55% 621 50 85.71% 994
11 110% 200 31 42.85% 98 51 11.11% 108
12 120% 180 32 37.50% 824 52 33.33% 810
13 130% 160 33 57.14% 525 53 87.50% 712
14 140% 140 34 33.33% 369 54 44.44% 225
15 150% 120 35 87.50% 224 55 66.66% 522
16 160% 100 36 44.44% 117 56 16.66% 792
17 170% 80 37 66.66% 450 57 33.33% 819
18 180% 60 38 75% 480 58 66.66% 333
19 190% 40 39 85.71% 588 59 83.33% 672
20 200% 20 40 11.11% 9 60 14.28% 189

2.
A B Ans A B Ans A B Ans
1 12 120 21 24 120 41 18 75
2 15 300 22 35 105 42 18 42
3 18 60 23 42 98 43 44 77
4 21 70 24 24 260 44 42 42
5 24 120 25 55 88 45 95 171
6 27 900 26 9 20 46 46 69
7 30 600 27 13 25 47 78 312
8 33 110 28 16 24 48 86 215
9 36 120 29 28 49 49 68 238
10 39 130 30 42 112 50 28 50
11 42 70 31 23 69 51 60 250
12 45 900 32 51 85 52 19 20
13 48 800 33 65 78 53 24 160
14 51 300 34 34 126 54 12 15
15 54 180 35 60 135 55 75 120
16 57 380 36 12 50 56 98 112
17 60 450 37 27 75 57 126 144
18 63 840 38 81 108 58 144 168
19 66 121 39 105 245 59 52 117
20 69 460 40 111 148 60 63 105

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3.

% %
Original increase Result Original decrease Result Original % increase Result
1 40 20% 21 30 20% 41 125 2%
2 50 30% 22 40 30% 42 320 12%
3 90 40% 23 20 40% 43 216 12.50%
4 70 10% 24 80 10% 44 144 25%
5 80 25% 25 70 25% 45 450 50%
6 45 20% 26 90 20% 46 567 14.28%
7 65 40% 27 120 40% 47 728 28.57%
8 35 10% 28 150 10% 48 840 37.50%
9 24 50% 29 120 50% 49 480 62.50%
10 56 30% 30 125 30% 50 126 16.66%
11 98 25% 31 256 25% 51 240 33.33%
12 125 30% 32 144 30% 52 480 66.66%
13 658 40% 33 328 40% 53 600 83.33%
14 720 20% 34 512 20% 54 720 11.11%
15 1280 30% 35 484 30% 55 288 20%
16 8840 10% 36 720 10% 56 225 30%
17 9120 5% 37 850 5% 57 150 4%
18 9870 8% 38 1024 8% 58 900 2.50%
19 1024 2% 39 720 2% 59 820 3%
20 480 1% 40 880 1% 60 325 8%

Applications

1. In a class where there are 25 students 40% are girls. Find the number of Boys.

2. In a class where there are 75 students 40 are girls. The boys form what percentage of the girls?

3. In a class where there are 75 students 40 are girls. The boys form what percentage of the class?

4. A car has covered 150km journey. If the total journey is of 180km, what percentage of the total distance is
yet to be covered?

5. A car has covered 150km journey. If the total journey is of 180km, what percentage more should the car
travel to finish the journey?

6. In a shop, a jeans is for `1500. If you managed to get a discount of 25% at what price did you buy it?

7. In a shop a Jeans is marked for certain amount. If I purchased it at `1200 after a discount of 20%. At what
price will it be sold if there is no discount?

8. I had 450 friends on FB. If this year the friend list is of 500, what has been my percentage increase?

9. 85% of the WhatsApp messages are useless. If I received 45 useful messages in a year how many messages
did I receive on the whole?

10. 16.66% of the films that Aamir Khan did in this decade were flops. In this decade he had 20 hits. Find the
total number of films done by him in this decade.

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11. Mahesh got 15 marks out of an exam of total 40 marks. What is his percentage score?

12. Ramesh got 18 out of 45 in an exam. Suresh got 25 out of 60 and Ganesh got 112 out of 320. Who has got
the best percentage score?
13. Paresh wants to reduce his weight from 80 kg to 75 kg. What should be his percentage decrease?

14. Price of a plot, increased by 15% this year. If the price was `18 lacks the previous year what is the price of
the plot his year?
15. Price of my car has depreciated by 12.5% this year. If the price of the car was `18laks the previous year what
is the price of the car this year?
16. Price of a plot, increased by 12.5% this year. If the price this year is `18 lacks find the price of the plot the
previous year?
17. Price of my car has depreciated by 15% this year. If the price of the car is `13.6 laks this year find the price of
the car previous year?
18. Carpet area of a flat is 400 sq.ft whereas the built up area is 450 sq.ft. The carpet area is what percentage of
the built up areas?
19. Stock exchange has increased from 30000 points to 35000 points in a year. What's the % increase?
20. 48% of the 120 runs made by Virat are 4's and 6's. How many runs he had to run?
21. Ram got 25% marks in History paper of 420 marks. How much did he get?
22. Ria got 60 marks out of 160 in her geography paper. What’s her % score?
23. Ram has solved 35% of his 80 questions. How many has he completed?
24. Ria has completed 33 questions out of 88. What % of her work is left%?
25. Ram received 42 WhatAapp messages and he deleted 33.33% of those. How many messages are not
deleted?
26. Ria deleted 46 messages out of 115. What % of her messages are not deleted?
27. Ram has covered 16.66% of his 12km travel to college. What’s the remaining distance in km?

28. Ria has Covered 4km of her 12km distance. What % of the total is still left?
29. Pinu withdrew `1200 from her bank A/C of `16800. What % has she retained?
30. India has made 190 runs. India is chasing a target of 228 runs to win. What % runs are still to be made?

Q Ans Q Ans Q Ans Q Ans Q Ans Q Ans

1 6 11 16 21 26
2 7 12 17 22 27
3 8 13 18 23 28
4 9 14 19 24 29
5 10 15 20 25 30

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