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The price of salt is reduced by 50% but, inspite of the decrease, Aayush ends up increasing his expenditure on salt by 50%. What is the percentage change in his monthly consumption of salt?

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Important Questions on Percentages

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How to prepare for Quantitative Aptitude for the CAT>Chapter 8 - Percentages>Level of Difficulty>Q 25
The price of wheat falls by 20%. How much wheat can be bought now with the money that was sufficient to buy 100 kg of rice previously?
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How to prepare for Quantitative Aptitude for the CAT>Chapter 8 - Percentages>Level of Difficulty>Q 26
At an election, the candidate who got 60% of the votes cast won by 200 votes. Find the total number of voters on the voting list, if 66.67% people cast their vote and there were no invalid votes.
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How to prepare for Quantitative Aptitude for the CAT>Chapter 8 - Percentages>Level of Difficulty>Q 27
The population of a town is 500000. The rate of increase is 20% per annum. Find the population at the start of the third year.
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How to prepare for Quantitative Aptitude for the CAT>Chapter 8 - Percentages>Level of Difficulty>Q 28
The population of the city of Gotham is 50000 at this moment. It increases by 20% in the first year. However, in the second year, due to immigration, the population drops by 10%. Find the population at the end of the third year, if in the third year, the population increases by 30%.
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How to prepare for Quantitative Aptitude for the CAT>Chapter 8 - Percentages>Level of Difficulty>Q 29
Shyam invests ₹40000 in some shares in the ratio 1:4:5 which pay dividends of 10%, 15% and 25% (on his investment) for that year respectively. Find his dividend income.
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How to prepare for Quantitative Aptitude for the CAT>Chapter 8 - Percentages>Level of Difficulty>Q 30
In an examination, Madan obtained 20% more than Sahir, but 40% less than Ravi. If the marks obtained by Sahir is 80, find the percentage marks obtained by Ravi, if the full marks is 200.
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How to prepare for Quantitative Aptitude for the CAT>Chapter 8 - Percentages>Level of Difficulty>Q 31
In a class, 20% of the students were absent for an exam. 10% failed by 10 marks and 20% just passed because of grace marks of 5. Find the average score of the class, if the remaining students scored an average of 50 marks and the pass marks are 30 (counting the final scores of the candidates).
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How to prepare for Quantitative Aptitude for the CAT>Chapter 8 - Percentages>Level of Difficulty>Q 32
Sharad spends 20% of his monthly income on his household expenditure, 30% of the rest on food, 10% of the rest on clothes and saves the rest. On counting, he comes to know that he has finally saved ₹10080. Find his monthly income (in ₹).