Percentage II
For 2 values X and Y, find the answers to the following questions:
X =200, Y = 160
1. X is what % of Y? 2. Y is what % of X?
3. X is more than Y by what %? 4. Y is less than X by what %?
X = 360, Y=180
1. X is what % of Y? 2. Y is what % of X?
3. X is more than Y by what %? 4. Y is less than X by what %?
1. What is 33.33 % of 972 ?
a) 332 b) 411 c) 348 d) 324
2. What percentage of 75 is x?
a) 3x/4 b) 4x/3 c) x/12 d) 12/x
3. 60% of 1450 + 1450% of 60 = ?
a) 1710 b) 1720 c) 1730 d) 1740
4. The salaries of A & B together amount to Rs 2000. A spends 95% of his salary
while B spends 85% of his salary. If their savings are same, what is A’s salary?
a) Rs 1500 b) 1250 Rs c) 750 Rs d) 1600 Rs
5. Out of 940 employees in an organisation 15% of employees got promoted to
a higher grade. How many employees did not get promoted?
a) 793 b) 301 c) 787 d) 799
6. A student obtained 95 marks out of 250 in mathematics . If passing
percentages is 42%, then by how many marks did he fail?
a) 10 b) 15 c) 20 d) 12
7. If 74% of a number is 555, then what will be 44% of that number?
a) 750 b) 330 c) 290 d) 310
8. In an election between two candidates, the candidate who gets 30% of the
votes polled is defeated by 15,000 votes. The number of votes polled in favour
of the winning candidates
a) 11250 b) 15000 c) 26250 d) 37500
9. A candidate scores 39% of the maximum marks and fails 58 marks, while
another candidate who scores 55% of the maximum marks, get 22 marks more
than minimum required to pass the examination. Find maximum marks of the
examination.
a) 450 b) 650 c) 500 d) 550
10. Instead of multiplying a no. by 7, the no. is divided by 7. Approximately,
how much is the error percentage?
a) 100% b) 14.28% c) 98% d) 49%
11. Fresh Grapes contain 90% water by weight. Dried grapes contain 20%
water .What will be the weight of dried grapes when 20 kgs of fresh grapes is
kept for drying ?
a) 10 kgs b) 2.5 kgs c) 4.44 kgs d) 2 kgs
12. A1 Pacino invested 40% of his money in share, 20% of the remaining
amount in property & lost 25% of the remaining amount in a casino. What
percent of initial amount does he have now ?
a) 15% b) 40% c) 42 % d) 36%
13. If the numerator of a fraction is increased by 25% and the denominator is
decreased by 20%, the fraction becomes is 5/4 . What was original fraction?
a) 3/5 b) 4/5 c) 7/8 d) 3/7
14. A student required 45% marks to pass on examination. If he got 138 marks
& failed by 15%, then what were the total marks of the examination?
a) 400 b) 450 c) 460 d) 500
15. A vendor sells 30% of his fruits & throw away 40% of the remainder. Next
day, he sells 50% of the remainders & throws away the rest. What percentage
of the fruits does the vendor throw?
a) 51% b) 45% c) 63% d) 72%
16. In a class of 55 student & 3 teachers, each student gets sweets that are
20% of the total number of students & each teacher got sweets that are 60% of
total number of students. How many sweets are there?
a) 737 b) 671 c) 714 d) 704
