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Q1. The Indian cricket team won 50% of the matches Q5. The price of a trouser is more than that of a t-shirt
played in the first two weeks of the NatWest series in by 60%. By what percent is the t-shirt’s price less than
Australia. However, at the end of the series its success that of the trouser?
rate was 75%. If the Indian team had played six matches (a) 37.0%
in the first two weeks and they won all the matches (b) 55.0%
they played after the first two weeks, find the total (c) 40.0%
number of matches that they played after the first two (d) 37.5%
weeks? (e) 35.0%
(a) 6
(b) 4 Q6. Since the price of sugar reduced by 20%, Rohan was
(c) 5 able to purchase 10 kg more for Rs.80. What was the
(d) 10 original price per kg of sugar?
(a) Rs.4
Q2. The price of sugar has increased by 20%. Sneha has (b) Rs.10
decided to only spend 8% more than she initially did on (c) Rs.3
sugar. Find the percentage by which she needs to (d) Rs.2
reduce the sugar consumption? (e) Rs.1.6
(a) 12%
(b) 10% Q7. Seema brought some chocolates. She distributed
(c) 15% 25% of the chocolates among the students of the first
(d) 18% standard and 20% of the remaining chocolates among
the students of the second standard. If she still had 240
Q3. In an election between two candidates, one got chocolates, how many did she have initially?
55% of the total valid votes. 20% of the total votes cast (a) 436
were invalid. If the total number of votes cast was 7500, (b) 350
the number of valid votes that the other candidate got (c) 400
was: (d) 410
(a) 2700
(b) 2900 Q8. In a certain test, Ajay was able to correctly solve 3
(c) 3000 out of the 5 questions asked. In the second test, there
(d) 3100 were 7 questions out of which he got 6 correct. In both
(e) 3300 the tests, each question carried 10 marks with no
negative marking. What is the percentage change in the
Q4. The price of oil decreases by 30%. What should be marks obtained by Ajay in the two tests?
increase in consumption so as to keep the expenditure (a) 43.00%
constant? (b) 48.26%
(a) 44.00% (c) 42.86%
(b) 42.86% (d) 46.86%
(c) 48.26% (e) 42.00%
(d) 30.00%
(e) 45.00% Q9. A shopkeeper reduces the price of a product by
12.5%. Thinking that this is not enough, he then reduces
it by 10%. When selling the product to a customer, he

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further gives a discount of 7%. What single discount (c) Relationship between A and B cannot be
would have been equivalent to the successive determined
discounts? (d) If x is smaller than y, then A is greater than B
(a) 12.50% (e) None of these
(b) 21.25%
(c) 29.50% Q14. What percent of numbers from 1 to 70 have 1 or 9
(d) 26.76% in the unit’s digit?
(a) 1
Q10. In a mini zoo, 60% of the animals are monkeys and (b) 14
70% of the animals have a tail. If 50% of the monkeys (c) 20
have a tail, what percentage of the other animals have a (d) 21
tail? (e) None of these
(a) 40%
(b) 100% Q15. A student multiplied a number by 3/5 instead of
(c) 50% 5/3. What is the percentage error in the calculation?
(d) 90% (a) 34%
(b) 44%
Q11. The hourly wages of a labourer have increased by (c) 54%
15%. Since the increase, the number of hours he works (d) 64%
daily has reduced by 12.5%. If, before the increase, he (e) None of these
was earning Rs.80 everyday, find the amount he is
earning after the increase? Q16. Ganesh spends 15% of his salary on fuel, 20% on
(a) 78 house rent, 40% on other house expenditures and the
(b) 90 remaining amount on his children’s education. What is
(c) 80.5 the amount spent by him on fuel if his children’s
(d) 92.5 education costs him Rs.5000?
(e) 92 (a) Rs.3000
(b) Rs.2000
Q12. A batsman scored 110 runs which included 3 fours (c) Rs.4000
and 8 sixes. A four and six correspond to 4 and 6 runs (d) Rs.4500
respectively, and all other runs have to be scored by (e) None of these
running between the wickets. What percent of his total
score did he make by running between the wickets? Q17. A’s income is 20% more than B’s income while B’s
(a) 45% income is 20% less than C’s income. Whose income is
(b) 45.45% the highest among all?
(c) 55% (a) A
(d) 54.63% (b) B
(e) None of these (c) C
(d) A and C
Q13. If A = x% of Y and B = y% of x, then which of the (e) Cannot be determined
following is true?
(a) A is smaller than B
(b) A is greater than B

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Q18. If the length of a rectangle is increased by 50% and all. What is the total number of questions, if there is no
its breadth is increased by 20% what is the net increase negative marking?
in percentage of the area of the rectangle? (a) 32
(a) 75% (b) 28
(b) 100% (c) 50
(c) 80% (d) 36
(d) 70% (e) 40
(e) None of these
Q23. A student must get 40% marks to pass in an exam.
Q19. Ravi’s initial salary was increased by 50% and then A student gets 30 marks and fails by 6 marks. What are
reduced by 50%. What is the net increase or decrease in the maximum marks of the exam?
his initial salary? (a) 80
(a) Decreases by 25% (b) 100
(b) Increases by 20% (c) 70
(c) Decreases by 20% (d) 75
(d) Decreases by 30% (e) 90
(e) No change
Q24. If we decrease the selling price of milk by 20%, by
Q20. When prices are reduced by 40%, the sales what percent should the sales be increased so that the
increase by 60%. What is the net effect on revenue total revenue remains the same?
earned? (a) 20%
(a) No change (b) 15%
(b) Decreases by 4% (c) 30%
(c) Increases by 4% (d) 22%
(d) Decreases by 6% (e) 25%
(e) Increases by 6%
Q25. The value of a machine, purchased exactly two
Q21. In a Chinese city, the population increases in the years ago, depreciates at the rate of 8% every year. Its
first year by 10%, increases in the second year by 10% present value is Rs.1045.304. At what price was it
and decreases in the third year by 10%. If the purchased?
population now is 100000, what is the population after (a) Rs.1235
three years? (b) Rs.1210.12
(a) 98100 (c) Rs.1248.501
(b) 108000 (d) Rs.1100
(c) 121000
(d) 108900 Q26. Rishi gets a commission of 6% on sales up to
(e) None of these Rs.5000 and 5% on all sales exceeding Rs.5000. If Rishi
has collected Rs.15150 for his company after deducting
Q22. In an examination, Raju got 12 out of the first 16 his commission, what is his commission amount?
questions correctly. Out of the remaining questions he (a) Rs.950
got only 25% of the questions correctly. All the (b) Rs.780
questions have equal marks and he got 50% marks in (c) Rs.980
(d) Rs.850

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Q27. If the numerator of a fraction is increased by 15% Q32. Three years ago, the population of a town was
and its denominator is decreased by 12%, the value of a 320000. If it has increased by 2%, 2.5% and 5%
fraction becomes 5/4. Find the original fraction? respectively in the last three years, what is the present
12 population of this town?
(a) 15
13 (a) 361256
(b)
15 (b) 351288
22
(c) 23 (c) 371204
21 (d) 368524
(d) 25

Q28. Three-fourth of one-third of two-fifth of a number Q33. Amit has to get 40% of the total marks to qualify in
is 5. What is 30% of that number? an examination. In the first paper he scores 70 out of
(a) 5 140 and in the second paper, he scores 25 out of 60.
(b) 10 How much should he score out of 100 in the third paper
(c) 15 to just qualify in the exam?
(a) 33
(d) 20
(b) 29
5 (c) 25
Q29. The sum of two number is of the first number.
4 (d) 34
The second number is what percent of the first
number? Q34. A new house worth Rs.1968300 is constructed on
(a) 25% land worth Rs.51200. If the value of the house and land
(b) 15.5% respectively depreciates and appreciates at 20% per
(c) 10.25% annum, in how many years will the value of both be
(d) 20% equal?
(a) 8
Q30. If one number is 60% of the second number and 5 (b) 9
times the sum of their squares is 170, what are the (c) 10
numbers? Assume that both numbers are positive (d) 11
integers.
(a) 4, 7 Q35. The price of apples decreases by 15%. As a result,
(b) 3, 7 Reena increases her consumption by 20%. The
(c) 9, 4 percentage change in expenditure is?
(d) 5, 3 (a) -5%
(b) 5%
Q31. 25% of machine A’s daily production is equal to (c) -2%
45% of machine B’s daily production. If machine B (d) 2%
makes 2000 products every day, what is machine A’s (e) 10%
daily production? Q36. A’s income is 40% of B’s income. If B’s income is
(a) 3100 Rs.25140, then what is A’s income?
(b) 3250 (a) Rs.10056
(c) 3600 (b) Rs.10506
(d) 3750 (c) Rs.15006
(d) Rs.10065

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Q37. Student A scores 30 out of 75 marks. Student B Q42. If selling price of certain commodity remains
scores 25 out of 60. Who performed better in constant, then a 10% decrease in cost price results in
percentage terms? 40% increase in profit. Find actual percentage profit?
(a) A (a) 25%
(b) B (b) 30%
(c) Both are equal (c) 33%
(d) Cannot be determined (d) 28%

Q38. In a group of persons, 70% of the persons are male Q43. A student took a certain entrance test and scored
and 30% of the persons are married. If two-sevenths of 180 marks on his first attempt and 250 marks on his
the males are married, what fraction of the females is second attempt. What was the percentage change of
single? [CSAT 2011] his marks between the two attempts? Assume that the
(a) 2/7 total marks in the examination remains the same for
(b) 1/3 both the attempts.
(c) 3/7 (a) 38.89%
(d) 2/3 (b) 34.57%
(c) 23.43%
Q39. If the sales of a company grew from Rs.200 crores (d) 25.00%
to Rs.450 crores, then what is the growth registered by
the company in the given time period? Q44. The price of petrol increases by 30%. By what
(a) 125% percentage should a motorist reduce his consumption
(b) 120% of petrol to keep his expenditure constant?
(c) 110% (a) 23.07%
(d) 100% (b) 24.00%
(c) 18.86%
Q40. A’s salary is 20% more than B’s salary. By what (d) 16.67%
percentage is B’s salary less than A’s salary?
(a) 16.67% Q45. The price of a commodity decreases by 20%. By
(b) 16.00% what percentage should the quantity increase so as to
(c) 17.05% keep the revenue constant?
(d) 15.84% (a) 25%
(b) 20%
Q41. If the cost of a product increases from Rs.500 in (c) 30%
2000 to Rs.750 in 2001, then calculate the absolute (d) 50%
value change and the percentage change of the product
between the two years? Q46. Sumaiya generally spent Rs.800 for buying a
(a) 50% month’s provision of potatoes. However, lower yield
(b) 53% this year caused the cost of one kilogram of potatoes to
(c) 46% be increased by 60%. Owing to this, Sumaiya had to buy
(d) 61% 30 kg less potatoes than usual. What was the cost of
potatoes this year?
(a) Rs.16
(b) Rs.18

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(c) Rs.15 Q51. After giving successive discounts of 30% and x%,
(d) Rs.21 the selling price of a shirt becomes Rs.98. If the marked
price of a shirt is Rs.200, then find x?
Q47. Ramesh is a wholesaler of bananas. One day he (a) 30
observed that if he decreases selling price of bananas by (b) 25
10% then total sales increases by 15%. Find the (c) 35
percentage increase in Ramesh’s total revenue? (d) 40

(a) 3.5%
(b) 2.7%
(c) 4.3%
(d) 5.0%

Q48. Due to the erosion of soil from some parts of his

field, a farmer considered increasing the length of his
rectangular field by 25% and reducing its breadth by
12%. What will be the percentage change in the area of
his plot?
(a) 10%
(b) 12%
(c) 9%
(d) 15%

Q49. A shopkeeper increases the price of his new

product by 20%. He makes a loss and decreases the
price by 35%. Find the total percentage change?
(a) 22%
(b) 23%
(c) 24%
(d) 25%

Q50. Ravi’s income has increased by 10% over the last

year and will be 20% higher next year. If last year his
salary was Rs.15000, what will it be next year?
(a) Rs.19800
(b) Rs.19080
(c) Rs.19008
(d) Rs.18900

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