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1. The price of petrol has increased by 40%. By what percent should a person reduce the
consumption of petrol so that he is able to balance his budget?
a) 33.33 b)28.56 c)25 d)None of these
2. A sells his goods 25% cheaper than B and 25% dearer than C. How much percentage is Cs
goods cheaper than Bs?
a) 33.33% b)50% c)66.66% d)40%
3. If 25% of a number is 75, then 45% of that number is:
a) 145 b)125 c)150 d)135
4. What is 20% of 50% of 75% of 70?
a) 5.25 b)6.75 c)7.25 d)2.5
5. In an election between 2 candidates, A gets 65% of the total valid votes. If the total votes
were 6000, what is the number of valid votes that the other candidate B gets if 25% of the
total votes were declared invalid?
a) 1625 b)1575 c)1675 d)1525
6. In a medical certificate, by mistake a candidate gave his height as 25% more than normal. In
the interview panel, he clarified that his height was 5 feet 5 inches. Find the percentage
correction made by the candidate from his stated height to his actual height?
a) 20 b)28.56 c)25 d)None of these
7. A number is mistakenly divided by 5 instead of being multiplied by 5. Find the percentage
change in the result due to this mistake.
a) 96% b)95% c)2400% d)None of these
8. Abhi wanted to subtract 5 from a number; unfortunately, he added 5 instead of subtracting.
Find the percentage change in the result
a) 300% b) 66.66% c) 50% d) Cannot be determined
9. In a mixture of 80 liters of milk and water, 25% of the mixture is milk. How much water should
be added to the mixture so that milk becomes 20% of the mixture?
a) 20 liters b)15 liters c)25 liters d)None of these
10. A landowner increased the length and the breadth of a rectangular plot by 10% and 20%
respectively. Find the percentage change in the cost of the plot assuming land prices are
uniform throughout his plot.
a) 33% b)35% c)22.22% d)None of these
11. The length, breadth and height of a room in the shape of a cuboid are increased by 10%, 20%
and 50% respectively. Find the percentage change in the volume of the cuboid.
a) 77% b)75% c)88% d)98%
12. The salary of A is 30% more than that of B. Find by what percentage is the salary of B less than
that of A?
a) 26.12% b)23.07% c)21.23% d)None of these
13. The price of sugar is reduced by 25% but inspite of the decrease, A ends up increasing his
expenditure on sugar by 20%. What is the percentage change in his monthly consumption of
sugar?
a) +60% b)-10% c)+33.33% d)50%
14. The Price of the rice falls by 20%. How much rice can be brought now with the money that
was sufficient to buy 20 kg of rice previously?
a) 5kg b)15Kg c)25kg d)30Kg

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15. 30% of a number when subtracted from 91, gives the number itself, find the number
a) 60 b)65 c)70 d)None of these
16. The population of a village is 1, 00,000. The rate of increase is 10% per annum. Find the
population at the start of third year?
a) 1,33,100 b)1,21,000 c)1,20,000 d)None of these
17. The population of the village of Rampur is 10,000 at this moment. It increases by 10% in the
first year. However, in the second year, due to immigration, the population drops by 5%. Find
the population at the end of third year if in the third the population increases by 20%
a) 12,340 b)12,540 c)1,27,540 d)12,340
18. In an examination, Amar obtained 20% more marks than Bhargav but 10% less than Charan.
If the marks obtained by Bhargav is 1080, find the percentage marks obtained by Charan, if
the full marks is 2000.
a) 86.66% b) 72% c) 78.33% d) None of these
19. Siri Spends 20% of his monthly income on her house hold expenditure, 15% of the rest of
books, 30% of the rest on clothes and saves the rest. On counting, she comes to know that
she has finally saved Rs.9520. find her monthly income
a) 10000 b)15000 c)20000 d)None of these
20. The population of a village is 5500. If the number of males increases by 11% and the number
of females increases by 20%, then the population becomes 6330. Find the population of
females in the town
a) 2500 b)3000 c)2000 d)3500
21. An ore contains 25% of an alloy that has 90% iron. Other than this, in the remaining 75 of the
ore, there is no iron. How many kilograms of the ore are needed to obtain 60kg of pure iron?
a) 250kg b)275kg c)300kg d)266.66kg
22. A trader bought some Apples. 4% of them were spoiled in transport, 10% of the remaining
got rotten and sold 90% of good ones. If 540 Apples remained unsold, find the number of
Apples that he bought?
a. 6000 b. 6250 c. 6500 d. 6750
23. A coconut tree was planted two years ago. It increases at the rate of 20% every year. If at
present the height of the tree is 540 cm, what was it when the tree was planted?
a. 324cm b. 375cm c. 400cm d. 432cm
24. A man scores 42.5% and failed by 5marks. If he scored 52.5% he would pass by 15 marks then
the minimum marks to pass is
a.200 b. 100 c. 90 d. 80
25. In an examination, 70% student passed in English, 65% passed in mathematics, 27% students
failed in both the subjects. If only 248 student passed in both the subjects. Find the total
number of students appearing at the examination?
a. 400 b. 700 c. 600 d. 500
26. In the recently conducted SSC board examination a total of 5, 00,000 students appeared. 60%
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of them were females while the rest were males. Pass percentage among females is 33 3 %
and the overall pass percentage is 50%. What is the pass percentage of the males?
a.60% b. 62.5% c. 70% d. 75%

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27. Fresh fruit contains 72% water by weight where as dry fruit contains 20% water by weight.
What is the weight of the dry fruit obtained from 20 Kgs of fresh fruit?
a. 5.6 kgs b 6.5 kgs. c. 7.5 kgs d. 7.0 kgs
28. In an election, 10% of the voters in the voter list did not vote and 60 voters cast their ballot
papers blank. There were only two candidates. The winner was supported by 47% of all votes
in the list and he got 308 votes more than his rival. The number of voters on the list was.
a. 3,600 b. 6,200 c. 4,575 d. 6,028
29. Deepak went to a fruit market with a certain of money. With the money he has, he can buy
30 apples or 50 mangoes. He retains 20% of his money for auto fare. If he buys 25 mangoes,
how many more apples can he buy?
a. 9 b. 12 c. 15 d. None of these
30. There are 50 successive percentage discount given in a series of 2%,4%,6%,8%...so on. What
is the net discount?
a.98% b. 2250% c. 100% d. Infinite
31. The entry fee for a circus was Rs: 98. Later this was reduced by 25%, which increased the sale
of tickets by 20%. Find the percentage increase in the number of visitors.
a. 54 b. 57 c. 60 d. 66
32. One liter of water is evaporated from 6 liters of solution containing 4% of sugar. The
percentage of sugar in the remaining solution is.
a.1.4% b. 5.2% c. 4.8% d. 3.4%
33. Steven saves 10% of his total salary. Next year he increases his expenses by 20% but his
savings remain same. What is the percentage increase in salary next year?
a.10% b. 16.66% c. 18% d. 20%
34. In a maternity center 5% of all child births result in twins. What is the approximate percentage
of twins out of total children born?
a.5% b. 7.6% c. 9.5% d. 10.4%
35. If the price of petrol increases by 25% and Raj intends to spend only an additional 15% on
petrol, by how much % will he reduce the quantity of petrol purchased?
1. 10% 2. 12% 3. 8% 4. 6.67%
36. A shepherd has 1 million sheeps at the beginning of Year 2000. The numbers grow by x% (x
> 0) during the year. A famine hits his village in the next year and many of his sheeps die. The
sheep population decreases by y% during 2001 and at the beginning of 2002 the shepherd finds
that he is left with 1 million sheeps. Which of the following is correct?
1 .x > y 2. y > x 3. x = y 4. Cannot be determined
37. In an election contested by two parties, Party D secured 12% of the total votes more than
Party R. If party R got 132,000 votes, by how many votes did it lose the election?
(1) 300,000 (2) 168,000 (3) 36,000 (4)24,000
38. A candidate who gets 20% marks fails by 10 marks but another candidate who gets 42% marks
gets 12% more than the passing marks. Find the maximum marks.
(1) 50 (2) 100 (3)150 (4)200
39. When processing flower-nectar into honeybees' extract, a considerable amount of water gets
reduced. How much flower-nectar must be processed to yield 1kg of honey, if nectar contains
50% water, and the honey obtained from this nectar contains 15% water?
(1) 1.5 kgs (2) 1.7 kg (3) 3.33 kg (4) None of these

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40. A vendor sells 60 percent of apples he had and throws away 15 percent of the remainder.
Next day he sells 50 percent of the remainder and throws away the rest. What percent of his
apples does the vendor throw?
(1) 17 (2) 23 (3) 77 (4) None of these
41. If the cost price of 20 articles is equal to the selling price of 16 articles, what is the percentage
of profit or loss that the merchant makes?
(1) 20% Profit (2) 25% Loss (3) 25% Profit (4) 33.33% Loss
42. 30% of the men are more than 25 years old and 80% of the men are less than or equal to 50
years old. 20% of all men play football. If 20% of the men above the age of 50 play football, what
percentage of the football players are less than or equal to 50 years?
(1) 15% (2) 20% (3) 80% (4) 70%
43. If the price of petrol increases by 25%, by how much must a user cut down his consumption
so that his expenditure on petrol remains constant?
(1) 25% (2) 16.67% (3) 20% (4) 33.33%
44. Peter got 30% of the maximum marks in an examination and failed by 10 marks. However,
Paul who took the same examination got 40% of the total marks and got 15 marks more than the
passing marks. What was the passing marks in the examination?
(1) 35 (2) 250 (3) 75 (4) 85
45. 40% of 70 is x% more than 30% of 80. Find x.
(1) 33.33% (2) 40% (3) 16.67% (4) 25%
46. John weighs twice as much as Maria. Marcia's weight is 60% of Bob's weight. Dave weighs
50% of Lee's weight. Lee weighs 190% of John's weight. Which of these 5 persons weighs the
least?
(1) Bob (2) Dave (3) John (4) Lee (5) Marcia
47. Tina, Mina, Gina, Lina and Bina are 5 sisters, aged in that order, with Tina being the eldest.
Each of them had to carry a bucket of water from a well to their house. Their buckets' capacities
were proportional to their ages. While returning, equal amount of water got splashed out of their
buckets. Who lost maximum amount of water as a percentage of the bucket capacity?
(1) Tina (2) Mina (3) Gina (4) Lina (5) Bina
48. During winters, an athlete can run x meters on one bottle of Glucose. But in the summer he
can only 0.5x meters on one bottle of Glucose. How many bottles of Glucose are required to run
400 meters during summer?
a) 800/x b)890/x c)96 d)454/x