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1)Which of the following is the largest number?

A)20% of 200
B)7% of 500
C)1300% of 3
D)600% of 7
E)none of these
2)What is the 20% of 50% of 75% of 70?

a)5.25
b)5.5
c)6.5
d)6.75
e)7.25
3)Ram sells his goods 25% cheaper than Shyam and 25%greater than Bran. How much
percentage is Bran's goods cheaper than Shyam's?
a)33.33%
b)40%
c)50%
d)66.66%
e)75%
4)A number is mistakenly divided by 5 instead of being multiplied by 5. Find the percentage
change in the result due to this mistake.
a)80%
b)96%
c)95%
d)2400%
e)none of these
5)In a school there are 15 more girls than boys. If the number of girls is increased by 10% and
number of boys is also increased by 16%, there would be 9 more girls than boys. What is the
total number of students in the school?
a)165
b)200
c)250
d)265
e)530
6)Positive integer y is 50% of 50% of positive integer x and y percent of x equals 100.What is the
value of x?
a)50
b)100
c)200
d)1000
e)2000
7)If the cost of a certain house in 1983 was 300 percent of its cost in 1970,by what percent did
the cost increase?
a)50%
b)70%
c)100%
d)200%
e)300%
8)A rainstorm increased the amount of water stored in State J reservoirs from 124 billion gallons
to 138 billion gallons . If the storm increased the amount of water in the reservoirs to 82% of
total capacity ,approximately how many billion gallons of water were the reservoirs short of total
capacity prior to the storm?
a)9
b)14
c)25
d)30
e)44
9)8% of the people eligible to vote are between 18 and 21. In an election 85% of those eligible to
vote who were between 18 and 21 actually voted. In that election people between 18 and 21 who
actually voted were what percentage of those people eligible to vote?
a)4.2
b)6.4
c)6.8
d)8
e)10
10)In1967 a new sedan cost $2500; in 1975,the same type of sedan cost $4800. The cost of the
type of sedan has increased by what percentage between 1967 and 1975?
a)48
b)52
c)92
d)152
e)192
11) 1972
PERSONS OF VOTING AGE PERCENT
VOTED
TOTAL 136 63
MALE 64 64
FEMALE 72 62
In 1972 ,what percent ( to nearest percent) of persons of voting age were female?
a)52
b)53
c)62
d)64
e)74
12)In a group of people solicited by a charity ,30% contributed $40 each, 45% contributed $20
each, and the rest contributed $12 each. What percentage of the total contribution came from who
gave $40?
a)25%
b)30%
c)50%
d)30%
e)45%
13)Jim’s weight is 140% of Marcia's weight; Bob's weight is 90% of Lee's weight. Lee's weight
is twice weight as much as Marcia. What percentage of Jim's weight is Bob's weight?
4
a( 28 %
7
b(50%
4
c( 128 %
7
d(150%
e(200%
14)The number of eligible voters is 100,000.If 63% of eligible men and 67% of the eligible
women voted, how many eligible voters voted?
a)6300
b)6700
c)7000
d)8000
e)cannot be determined
15)Successive discount of 20% and 15%are equal to a single discount of ?

a)30%
b)34%
c)36%
d)32%
e)35%
16)An attorney charged 0.2 percent of the accessed value of the estate .If the attorney charged
$2400 for the estate planning services ,what was the accessed value of the estate?
a)12000
b)20000
c)24000
d)1200,000
e)2400,000
17)Company P had 15 percent more employees in December than it had in January. If company
P had 460 employees in December ,how many employees did it have in January?
a)391
b)400
c)410
d)423
e)445
18)A certain company that sells only cars and trucks reported that revenue from car sales in 1997
were down 11% from 1996 and revenues from truck sales in 1997 were up 7 percent from 1996.
If total revenues from car sales and truck sales in 1997 were up 1 percent from 1996,what is the
ratio of revenue from car sales in 1996 to revenue from truck sales in 1996?
a)1:2
b)4:5
c)1:1
d)3:2
e)5:3
19)Four people shared a taxi to the airport. The fare was $36.00, and they gave the driver a tip
equal to 25 percent of the fare. If they equally shared the cost of the fare and tip, how much did
each person pay?
a)9
b)9.75
c)10.25
d)10.75
e)11.25
20)If 60 percent of W equals 20 percent of T, what percent of T is W?

a)12%
1
b) 33 %
3
c)60%
d)120%
e)133%
21)36% of 18 is 18 percent of what number ?

a)4
b)24
c)36
d)40
e)48
22)In 2002 ,30 percent of the 200 apartment units on a certain street were front apartments. By
2003,the total number of units on the street had increased by 25 percent and 40 percent of the
units were front apartments. What was the percent increase of front apartments during this
period?
a)10%
1
b) 33 %
3
c)33%
d)40%
2
e) 66 %
3
23)What is 0.02 percent of 2.5 percent of 0.8?
a)0.0004
b)0.00004
c)0.000004
d)0.0000004
e)0.00000004
24)A base ball team won 45 percent of the first 80 games it played. How many of the remaining
82 games will the team have to win in order to win exactly 50% of all the games it plays?
a)45
b)60
c)80
d)100
e)162
25) The highway death rate per 100 million miles travel has dropped from 5.7 in 1966 to 3.6 in ‫إ‬
1974. If there was a 20% decrease in the death rate from 1973 to 1974 , what was the
approximate percent decrease from 1966 to 1973?
a)15
b)17
c)21
d)30
e)37
26)A certain sales representation earns a weekly salary of $200 plus and 8 percent commission
on all sales made for a certain week. If the sales representative earned a total of $392 in salary
and commission for a certain week , what was the total amount of sales made for that week?
a)1536
b)2400
c)3136
d)3870
e)4900
27)The cash price of a certain car is $6,000. If the car were financed, the customer would pay 8
percent of the cash price of the car as a down payment and make 36 monthly payments of $190
each .How much more than the cash price is the cost of car if financed under these terms?
a)480
b)840
c)888
d)960
e)1320
28)the price of a model M camera is $209 and the price of a special lens is $69. When the camera
and bonus are purchased together ,the price is $239. The amount saved by purchasing the
camera and lens together is approximately what percent of the total price of the camera and lens
when purchased separately ?
a)14
b)16
c)33
d)86
e)91
29)The surface of a certain planet reflects 80 percent of the light that strikes it. The clouds around
the planet then absorb 40 percent of the reflected light. What percent of the light that strikes the
planet is reflected from the surfaces and passes through the clouds without being absorbed?
a)32%
b)40%
c)48%
d)80%
e)88%
30)Last Sunday a certain store sold copies of newspaper A for $1.00 each and copies of
newspaper B for $ 1.25 each and the store sold no other newspapers that day .If ‘r’ percent of
the store's revenues from newspaper sales was from newspaper A and if ‘p’ percent of the
newspapers that the store sold were copies of newspaper A ,which of the following expresses r in
terms of p?
a)100p/(125-p)
b)150p/(250-p)
c)300p/(375-p)
d)400p/(500-p)
e)500p/(625-p)

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1)Which of the following is the largest number?

2)What is the 20% of 50% of 75% of 70?

15)Successive discount of 20% and 15%are equal to a single discount of ?

20)If 60 percent of W equals 20 percent of T, what percent of T is W?

21)36% of 18 is 18 percent of what number ?

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