Percentage Problems with Solutions for Aptitude

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PERCENTAGE PROBLEMS WITH SOLUTIONS

1. If 75% of a number is added to 75, the result is the number itself. Then the number is?
2. Subtracting 40% of a number from the number, we get the result as 30, the number is?
3. If three fifth of a number is 40 more than 40% of the same number. What is the number
4. A number on subtracting 15 from it, reduces to its 80%. What is 40% of that number?
5. Calculation shows that an angle is 37 ½ %. The size obtained by drawing and measurement is 36%. The error percent is?
6. The population of a town has increased from 133575 to 138918. The percent increase in population is?
7. IF X is 90% of Y, what percent of X is Y?
8. Subtracting 6% of x from x is equivalent to multiplying x by how much ?
9. (X% of Y+Y%of X)=?
10. If 90% of A=30% of B and b=x% of A, then x is equal to?
11. X% of Y is y% of?
12. A number increased 37 ½% gives 33. The number is?
13. The number which when decreased by 27 ½ % given 87 is?
14. 40 Quintal is what percent of 2 metric tons?
15. If is known that 20% of the Tomatoes are rotten. If the number of rotten Tomatoes is 35, then the total number of Tomatoes is?
16. If 70% of students in a school are boys and the number of girls is 504, the number of boys is?
17. A student has to secure 40% marks to pass. He gets 178 marks and fails by 22 marks. The maximum marks are?
18. A house owner was having his house painted. He was advised that he would require 25kg of paint. Allowing for 15% wastage and assuming that the paint is available in 2 kg cans, what would be the cost of pain purchased, if one can cost Rs.16?
19. A reduction of 12.5% in the price of a dining table brought down its price to RS.4375, the original price (in Rs.) of the table was?
20. The total amount received by Karthikh, 20% was spent on purchases and 5% of the remaining on transportation. If he is left with RS.1520, the initial amount was?
21. Karthikh spends 30% of his income on bike petrol, (1/4)of the remaining on house rent and the balance on food. If he spends Rs.300 on petrol, then what is the expenditure on house rent?
22. A man spends 35% of his income on house rent 75% of the reaming on other items. What percentage of income does he save?

ANSWERS :

(1) 50 (2) 50 (3) 200 (4) 30 (5) 4

(6) 4 (7) 111.1 (8) 94 (9) 2% of XY (10) 300

(11) x (12) 24 (13) 120 (14) 200% (15) 175

(16) 1176 (17) 500 (18) Rs.240 (19) Rs.5,000 (20) 2000

(21) Rs.175 (22) 16.25