Abhijit Guha Solutions for Chapter: Percentage, Exercise 2: Practice Problems Level 2

A man donates $30$ per cent of his wealth to charity. $30$ per cent and $25$ per cent of the remaining wealth to his wife and son, respectively. The rest he divides equally between his three daughters. One of his daughter gets $₹42$ lakh as her share. What was the man's wealth (in $₹$ lakh)?

The government reduced the price of sugar by $10$ per cent. By this a consumer can buy $6.2 \mathrm{kg}$ more sugar for $₹ 837$. The reduced price per kg of sugar is

In an assembly election, a candidate got $55$ per cent of the total valid votes. $2$ per cent of the total votes were declared invalid. If the total number of voters is  $1,04,000$, then the number of valid votes polled in favour of the candidate is

In an election, $10$ per cent of the voters on the voters list did not cast their votes and $60$ voters cast their ballot papers blank. There were only two candidates. The winner was supported by $47$ per cent of all the voters in the list and he got $308$ votes more than his rival. The number of voters on the list were

A district has $64,000$ inhabitants. If the population increases at the rate of $2\frac{1}{2}\%$ p.a, the number of inhabitants at the end of $3$ years will be

The value of the property depreciates every year by $10$ per cent of its value at the beginning of the year. The present value of the property is $₹ 8,100$. What was its value $2$ years ago?

Tickets for all but $100$ seats in a $10,000$ seat stadium were sold. Of the tickets sold, $20$ per cent were sold at half price and the remaining tickets were sold at the full price of $₹ 20$. The total revenue from the ticket sales in $₹$ was

A business man's earnings increased by $25$ per cent in one year but decreases by $4$ per cent in the next year. Going by this pattern after $5$ years his total earnings is $₹72,000$. What is his present earning?