Percentages:-

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1. What is 20% of of 15?
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A) 1 B) 2
C) 3 D) 4

2. What percent of 16 is 40?

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A) 20 B) 2
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C) 200 D) 250

3. $4 is 20% of what?
A) $5 B) $20
C) $200 D) $5

4. 12 is 150% of what number?

A) 18 B) 8
C) 6 D) 9
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5. How many sixteenths are there in 87 %?
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A) 7 B) 14
C) 3.5 D) 13

0.25+0.15
6. The fraction is equivalent to what percent?
0.50
A) 20% B) 25%
C) 40% D) 80%

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7. An auctioneer sells a house for Rs. 12840. What is the commission at 2 %?
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A) Rs. 321 B) Rs. 325
C) Rs. 333 D) Rs. 315

8. What is the number of 5% of which is 10.

A) 205 B) 200
C) 204 D) 207
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9. Express 1 as a percentage of 4 .
5 5
1 1
A) 33 % B) 32 %
3 2
1 1
C) 34 % D) 31 %
2 2

10. In a theater, 480 of the 500 seats were occupied. What percent of the seats
were NOT occupied?
A) 0.4% B) 2%
C) 4% D) 20%

11. 12% of ______ = 48

A) 250 B) 200
C) 100 D) 400

12. If 35% of a number is 70, what is the number?

A)100 B) 150
C) 200 D) 700
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13. What is 10% of x if x is 10% of 60?
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A) .1 B) .2
C) .3 D) .4

14. If 8 kilograms of alcohol are added to 17 kilograms of pure water, what

percent by weight of the resulting solution is alcohol?
A) 8% B) 17%
C) 32% D) 68%

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15. 65% of the area of a city is covered by house. If the area left off is 3 sq.
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miles, find the area of the whole city.
A) 9.50 sq. miles B) 10.00 sq. miles
C) 8.50 sq. miles D) 7.5 sq. miles

16. If the price of a bicycle is increased by 15% to Rs.920.00, what was the
original price?
A) 782.00 B) 800.00
C) 840.00 D) 1058.00
17. A man sold a motorcycle for Rs 18000 at a profit of 20%. What would have
been gained or lost percent if it had been sold for Rs 16000?
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A) 6% B) 6 %
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C) 6 % D) 7%
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18. When an article is sold for Rs. 90 the gain is 50%. When it is sold for Rs. 78,
the gain percent is:
A) 30% B) 34%
C) 32% D) 41%

19. A man bought a watch for Rs.400 and marked a 25% profit. He then gave a
discount and sold the watch for Rs 450. what is the % discount that he
offered?
A) 12.5% B) 10%
C) 15% D) 20%

20. The population of a city increased from 3000 to 3600; find the % increase.
A) 20% B) 10%
C) 5% D) 6%
21. In ten years, the population of a town increases from $50 to $70. What is
the average increase every year?
A. 40% B. 20%
C. 4% D. 100%

22. Jim works for $15 per hour, he is supposed to get a $3/hour raise. What will
his % increase per hour?
A) 25% B) 3.3%
C) 133% D) 20%

23. 0.04% bulbs are defective approximating to one bulb. What no. of bulbs that
are manufactured?
A) 2500 B) 1250
C) 1000 D) 500

24. A car is sold for $13600 but this is after a 15% discount. What is the original
price of the car?
A. 16000 B. 15000
C. 17000 D. 15500
25. The present population of a town is 1000 and the annual increase is 5%.
What will be the population after 2 years?
A. 1100 B. 1102.5
C. 1200 D. 1210

26. A woman has a certain number of mangoes of which 14% are bad. She gives
80% of the remainder in charity. Then she has 258 left. How many had she at
first?
A) 1,500 mangos B) 1,000 mangoes
C) 1,250 mangoes D) 1,2000 mangoes

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27. A man spends 12 % of his money and after spending 75% of the remainder
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he had Rs. 175 left. The money he had at first was:
A) Rs. 2,000 B) Rs. 1,750
C) Rs. 700 D) Rs. 800
28. A school sent up 80 candidates for a certain examination and the result was
60% pass. Find out how many were to be detailed so than the pass
percentage would have been 80%?
A) 20 B) 15
C) 17 D) 25

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29. A man spent 13 % of his money and after spending 80% of the remainder
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had Rs. 346 left. How much had he at first?
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A) 2005 B) 2500
C) 2000 D) 2100

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30. Of the 3,600 employees of Company X. are electrical. If the electrical staff
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were to be reduced by . What percent of the total number of the remaining
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employees would then be electrical?
A) 25% B) 22.2%
C) 20% D) 12.5%
31. A baseball team has won 40 games out of 60 played. It has 32 more games
to play. How many of these must the team win to make its record 75% for the
season?
A) 26 B) 29
C) 28 D) 30

32. In an election where there only two candidates one who gets 43 percent of
the votes is rejected by a majority of 420 votes. The total number of votes
polled is:
A) 1,290 B) 1,300
C) 1,710 D) 3,000

33. At an election candidate secures 40% of the votes but is defeated by the
other candidate by a majority of 298 votes. Find the total number of votes
recorded.
A) 1,400 B) 1,490
C) 1,500 D) 1,350
34. Ali's salary was reduced by 10%. In order to have his salary back to the
original amount. it must he raised by
A) 10% B) 11%
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C) 11 % D) 12.5%
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35. If prices are reduced 25% and sales increase 20%. What is the net effect on
gross receipts?
A) They increase by 5%
B) They decrease by 5%
C) They remain the same
D) They decrease by 10%

36. The price of sugar increased by 30% and then decreased by 30%. What was
the percentage increase or decrease in the final price as compared to the
original price'?
A) No increase or decrease
B) 9% decrease
C) 10% increase
D)10% decrease
37. In an examination, a candidate who secures 20% of the totalt marks fails by
30 marks but another candidate who secures 32% of the total marks gets 42
marks more than necessary for passing. Find the total marks and the %
necessary for passing.
A) 600 marks; 25% B) 500 marks; 25%
C) 600 marks; 50% D) 500 marks; 50%

38. A medical student must secure 40% marks to pass. He gets 40 marks and
fails by 80 marks. The maximum marks are:
A) 500 B) 400
C) 200 D) 300

39. A number is increased by 25% and the resulting number is then decreased
by 20%. The final number is what percent of the original number?
A) 90% B) 95%
C) 100% D) 105%
40. John’s weight dropped from 168 pounds to 147 pounds by what percent did
John’s weight drop?
1 2
A) 12 % B) 14 %
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C) 21% D) 25%

41. A salesman has the basic monthly salary of Rs. 6000 and he gets a 30%
commission on his sales. If his total sales amount to Rs. 20000, find his total
salary.
A) 26000 B) 21800
C) 12000 D) 10000

42. Q can make Rs. 24000/month if he takes home a basic salary of Rs. 10,000 &
gets commission on his sales of Rs. 200,000. What is the rate of commission?
A. 5 % B. 7 %
C. 14% D. 9%

43. If the result of increasing 𝑎 by 300% is 𝑏, then 𝑎 is what percent of 𝑏?

A) 20% B) 25%
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C) 33 % D) 40%
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44. The price of flour rises by 20% and during the next week falls by 15%. What
is the net change?
A. -4% B. +5%
C. +4% D. -5%

45. There are 50 students in a class, 2/5th of them are boys & 25% of the boys are
black. If there are 15 black students in the class, then how many girls are white?
A) 17 B) 20
C) 23 D) 26

1 B
2 D
3 B
4 B
5 B
6 D
7 A
8 B
9 A
10 C
11 D
12 C
13 C
14 C
15 B
16 B
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18 A
19 B
20 A
21 C
22 D
23 A
24 A
25 B
26 A
27 D
28 A
29 C
30 A
31 B
32 D
33 B
34 C
35 D
36 B
37 A
38 D
39 C
40 A
41 C
42 B
43 B
44 C
45 B