Practice Percentage Questions and Answers

• In a job fair, 50% of the people are graduates, one fifth of them are post graduates and rest are double graduates. If three-fourth of the graduates, 60% o...
• Lalit buys wheat at Rs. 20/kg and puts a price tag on it so as to earn a profit of 30%. However, his faulty balance shows 1000 gm when it is actually 600 g...
• In order to maximise his gain, a theatre owner decided to reduce the price of tickets by 10% and as a result of this, the sales of tickets increased by 40%...
• A car driver’s income consist of his salary and tips. During one week his tips were 5/4 of his salary. What portion of his total income came from tip...
• Arun saves 30% of his salary while Gagan saves 32%. If both get the same salary and Gagan saves Rs. 1600, find the savings of Arun?
• The weight of two persons Vishwas and Vivek are in the ratio 5:7. If the weights are increased in such a way that Vivek’s weight is increased by 20% ...
• A salesman is allowed 24% commission on the total sales by him and a bonus of 1% on the sales over Rs. 25000. If the total earnings of a salesman is Rs. 11...
• 57L of milk water is poured into a tub and the tub was found to be 5% empty. To completely fill the tub, what mount of additional milk must be poured?
• There were two candidates in an election. 10% of the total voters did not cast their votes whereas 5% of the casting votes were declared invalid. If the wi...
• A number when reduced by 35% gives 195. Find the number?
• A fruit seller has a certain number of apples of which 10% are rotten. He sells 91% of the remainder and then 405 apples are left. How many apples he bou...
• The height of a triangle is increased by 40%. What can be maximum percentage increase in the length of the base so that the increase in the area is restric...
• The difference between the value of the number increased by 10% and the value of the number decreased by 20% is 72. Find the number.
• The difference between the value of the number increased by 10% and the value of the number decreased by 20% is 72. Find the number.
• A no. is multiplied by 35 instead of being multiplied by 53. What % is the result of the required correct value?
• A person gives 20% of his salary to his wife and 25% of the remaining to his children. Now he is left with Rs. 27000. What is his total salary?
• 8.5 can be expressed in terms of percentage as:
• A village lost 20% of its cattle in a flood, 20% of remaining died due to diseases and 20% of the rest were disabled. If the number left now is 9600. What ...
• Vipul decided to donate 5% of his salary. On the day of donation he changed his mind and donated Rs. 1687.50, which was 75% of what he had decided earlier....
• If 75% of a number is added to 75, the result is the number itself, then the number is:
• Sunita scored 434 marks in a test and failed by 6 marks. If the passing marks of the test is 25%. What is the maximum mark of the test? 
• The ratio between the numbers of girls and boys in a class is 2:3 respectively. What is the percentage of girls in the class? 
• A student has to secure 40% marks to pass an examination. He gets 150 marks and fails by 30 marks. What are the maximum marks?
• Vodafone charges a fixed rental of Rs. 450 per month. It allows 200 calls free per month. Each call is charged at 1.8 when the number of calls exceeds 200 ...
• If 35% of 40% of 7/5 of a number is 490, then what is 25% of 2/3 of that number?
• A student multiplied a number by 2/5 instead of 5/2. What is the percentage error in the calculation?
• In an assembly election, a candidate got 60% of the total valid votes. 2% of the total votes were declared invalid. If the total number of voters is 126000...
• A student multiplied a number by 8/5 instead of 5/8. What is the percentage error in the calculation?
• If a student scores 30% marks then he is failed by 50 marks, but when he scores 50% marks then he is passed by 30 marks. Find the passing %?
• A Salesman is allowed 18% commission on the total sales made by him and a bonus of 1% on the sales over Rs. 40000. If the total earning of a salesman is Rs...
• A salesman is allowed 24% commission on the total sales by him and a bonus of 1% on the sales over Rs. 25000. If the total earnings of a salesman is Rs. 11...
• A salesman is allowed 12% commission on the total sales by him and a bonus of 1% on the sales over Rs. 10000. If the total earnings of a salesman is Rs.770...
• In a competitive examination containing 200 questions, 2 marks are awarded for every correct answer and 1 mark gets deducted for every wrong answer. If a s...
• Population of a village is three lakh out which 40% were male and the rest were females. The male population earned a profit of 6% and the female populatio...
• A company allowed 9% commission on the total sales made by the salesman and a bonus of 1% on the sales over Rs. 40000. If the salesman deposited Rs. 81400 ...
• In an election, two candidates A and B participated. 2⁄5 of the voters promised to vote for A and rest promised to vote for B. On the voting day 25% of t...
• There were two candidate in an election. 15% of the total voters did not cast their votes whereas 10% of the casting votes were declared invalid. If the wi...
• In a college election a candidate who got 40% of the total votes polled was defeated by 126 votes. Assuming that there were only two candidates in the elec...
• After increase in the price of coffee by 25%, a person is able to buy 4 kg less for Rs. 1,640. Find the original and increased price of the coffee per kg.�...
• An army lost 20% its men in war, 20% of the remaining due to diseases and 20% of the rest were disabled. Thus, the strength was reduced to 64,000 active me...