Percentage Aptitude Questions (20 Questions)
1. What is 25% of 480?
Answer: B) 120
2. If 40% of a number is 300, what is the number?
Answer: C) 750
3. A's salary is 25% more than B's. If B's salary is Rs.40,000, what is A's salary?
Answer: C) Rs.50,000
4. A number is increased by 20% and then decreased by 20%. What is the net change?
Answer: C) 4% decrease
5. If 60% of the students passed and 240 failed, how many students appeared for the exam?
Answer: C) 600
6. A shopkeeper marks up the price of an item by 30% and gives a discount of 10%. What is
the effective profit percent?
Answer: C) 17%
7. If a number is 20% more than another number, then what percent is the second number
less than the first?
Answer: A) 16.66%
8. What percent of 3/4 is 9/16?
Answer: B) 75%
9. A number is first increased by 10% and then again increased by 20%. The total increase is:
Answer: B) 32%
10. If 25% of x is equal to 20% of y, then x : y = ?
Answer: B) 5:4
11. What is 0.5% of 2000?
Answer: B) 10
12. A's income is 60% that of B. How much percent is B's income more than A?
Answer: C) 66.66%
13. If the price of a product increases from Rs.500 to Rs.600, what is the percentage
increase?
Answer: D) 20%
14. What percent of 2 hours is 36 minutes?
Answer: C) 30%
15. A student scores 72 marks out of 80. What is the percentage?
Answer: C) 90%
16. A population increased by 5% annually. If the population is 2205 now, what was it 2 years
ago?
Answer: A) 2000
17. What is the percentage increase from 80 to 100?
Answer: B) 25%
18. The difference between 40% of a number and 30% of the same number is 60. What is the
number?
Answer: A) 600
19. A person spent 85% of his income and saved Rs.1,200. What is his income?
Answer: C) Rs.8,000
20. The value of a machine depreciates by 10% annually. If it is worth Rs.72,900 now, what
was its value 2 years ago?
Answer: D) Rs.90,000