Problems on Percentage

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Problems on Percentage: Overview

This topic covers concepts, such as Percentage, Percentages from Ratios, Conversion of Percentages, Interest as Charge on Borrowed Money & Final Amount for Repayment etc.

Important Questions on Problems on Percentage

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Amit deposited two parts of a sum of ₹ 25000 in different banks at the rates of 15% per annum and 18% per annum respectively.In one year he got ₹ 4050 as the total interest.What was the amount deposited at the rate of 18% per annum?

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The difference is selling an article at profits of4% and 6% is 12. The cost price of the article is-

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In a quarterly examination a student secured 30% marks and failed by 12 marks. In the same examination another student secured 40% marks and got 28 marks more than minimum marks to pass. The maximum marks in the examination is

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Two numbers are respectively 25% and 20% less than a third number. What percent is the first number of the second.

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A salesman gets a commission on total sales at 9%. If the sale is exceeded ₹.10,000 he gets an additional commission as a bonus of 3% on the excess of sales over ₹.10,000. If he gets a total commission of ₹.1380, then the bonus he received is:

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A wooden boat with a density of 0.48 g/cc is floating in a vat of oil whose density is
0.80 g/cc.
What percentage of the boat is floating above the surface of the oil?

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The population of a town is  50,000. It decreases by 20 per thousand per year. Find out the population after 2 years.

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In a company, there are 724 employees 25% employees left the job. Find the number of rest of employees.

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In what time will 72 become 81 at per 25400 annum simple interest?

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Raju's factory kept increasing its output by the same percentage every year. Find the percentage increase every year if it is known that his output is doubled after 2 years.

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20% of 5 + 5% of 20 = ?

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The average height of 74 students in a class is 168 cm, out of which 42 students have an average height of 170 cm. Find the average height of the remaining 32 students.

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In a village, 18% of population are children and 10% children are female. If the number of female children is 90, what is the population of the village ?

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The expenditure and saving of an employee are in the ratio 3:2. His income increases by 15% but at the same time his expenditure also increases by 20%. Find increase or decrease in his savings ?

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A towel, when bleached, was found to have lost 20% of its length and 10% of its breadth. The percentage of decrease in area is:

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How much amount is required to be invested every year as to accumulate Rs. 6,00,000 at the end of 10th year, if interest is compounded annually at 10% rate of interest?
[Given : (1.1)10 = 2.59374]

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A sells a scooter priced  36,000. He gives a discount of 8% on the first  20,000 and 5% on the next  10,000. How much discount can he afford on the remaining  6,000 if he is to get as much as when 0.7% discount is allowed on the total?

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8% of the voters in the election did not cast their votes. In this election, there were only two candidates. The winner by obtaining 48% of the total votes defeated his contestant by 1100 votes. The total number of voters in the election was:

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The marked price of an article is 10% higher than the cost price. A discount of 10% is given on the marked price. In this kind of sale, the seller bears:

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The value of x when 5% of 2x is 0.01 will be ?