Vijeta Competitions Editorial Board Solutions for Chapter: Percentages, Exercise 1: EXERCISE

A candidate scoring $25\%$ in an examination fails by $30$ marks while another candidate who scored $50\%$ marks gets $20$ marks more than the minimum required for pass. Find the minimum pass percentage:

After spending $40\%$ in machinery, $25\%$ in building, $15\%$ in raw material and $5\%$ on furniture. Harilal had a balance of $₹1305$. Total money with him was:

At an election, a candidate who gets $72\%$of the total votes is elected by a majority of$264$ votes. The total number of votes polled and the number of votes secured by the candidate who was elected are respectively?

In an election $4000$ votes were polled, one of the candidates gets $40\%$ votes. He was defeated by?

In an examination $49\%$ of students failed in English,$36\%$ failed in Hindi, and $15\%$ failed in both subjects. Find the percentage of the students who passed the examination. If $450$ students passed the examination, then find the number of students who appeared in the examination?

If $x$ is $90\%$ of $y$, what percent of $x$ is $y$?

If $40\%$ of people read newspaper $x$, $50\%$ people read newspaper $y$, and $10\%$ read both the newspapers. Find the percentage of the people who do not read any newspaper?

In an organisation, $40\%$ of the employees are matriculates, $50\%$ of the remaining are graduates, and the remaining $180$ are postgraduates. How many employees are graduates?