Practice Percentage Questions and Answers

• In an election two candidates participated. 10% voters did not vote. 11(1/9)% votes declared invalid and the winner got 75% of the valid votes. If he won b...
• A company allowed 16% commission on the total sales made by the salesman and a bonus of 1% on the sales over Rs.25000. If the salesman deposited Rs. 66650 ...
• A student multiplied a number by 4/5 instead of 5/4. What is the percentage error in the calculation?
• After increase in the price of coffee by 15%, a person is able to buy 3 kg less for Rs. 1,840. Find the original and increased price of the coffee per kg?
• A girl found the answer for the question “subtract the sum 1/2  and 1/8  from unity and express the answer in decimals” as 1.5. The percentage of err...
• There are 100 students in a particular class. 55% students play rugby, 30 % play basketball and 15% play both the games. What is the number of students who...
• After increase in the price of coffee by 20 %, a person is able to buy 4 kg less for Rs. 1,440. Find the original and increased price of the coffee per kg....
• 84 is what % of 120?
• What % of 115 is 23?
• The salary of a man increased from Rs. 16000 per month to Rs. 18000 per month. Find the increase percent.
• The salary of a man decreased from Rs. 20000 per month to Rs. 15000 per month. . Find the decrease percent.
• Two numbers are respectively 30% and 50% more than a third number. First number is approximately how much percent less than the second number?
• Two numbers are respectively 45% and 27% of a third number. What percent of the first number is the second number?
• If a number is added to 52 instead of being added to 25. Approximately what percent of the correct value of the result?
• 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...
• In a school, 30% of the students are not participating in any competition. 80% of the students who are participating in the competition are girls. If 4200 ...
• Sumit spends 30% of his salary on food items and 30% of the remaining amount on electricity bill. If Sumit saves Rs. 29400, what is his total salary?
• Pankaj gives 15% of her salary to his wife, 5% of the remaining amount to his children and 20% of the remaining to his parents. If Pankaj is left with Rs. ...
• If price of grains is increased by 50%, by how much percent a person has to decrease his consumption of grains so that expenditure on grain increases only ...
• After decreases in petrol prices by 20%, a person is able to buy 3 litre more petrol for Rs. 540. Find the original and increased price of petrol per litre...
• Manmeet decided to donate 20% of her salary to an NGO. On the day of donation she changed her mind and donated Rs. 13520 which was 80% of what she decided ...
• The population of a village is 30,000. It increases at the rate of 15% during the first year and decreases at the rate of 25% during the second year and de...
• The population of a village increase at the rate of 10% during the first year and decreases at the rate of 20% during the second year. If it has 20240 inha...
• P’s income exceeds that of Q’s by Rs. 600 and Q’s income is 50% less than that of R’s income. If the total income of all of them pu...
• The price of a sweater is increased by 30% and then decreased by 20%. What is the net change in the price(in%)?
• In an election two candidates participates. 20% voters did not vote. 25% votes declared invalid and the winner get 80 % of the valid votes. If he win by 54...
• There are 100 students in a particular class. 60% students play cricket, 25 % play football and 15% play both the games. What is the number of students who...
• In a village 80% of votes were cast in an election. A and B were the contestants. A won by 800 votes. If B had got 20% more votes, there would have been a ...
• 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...
• A student multiplied a number by 2/5 instead of 5/2 . What is the percentage error in the calculation?
• In a school, 60% of the students pass and 30 fail. The number of students appearing from another school is 25 more and 20 more students pass than the forme...
• In an examination the percentage of students qualified with respect to the number of students appeared from school A is 75%. The number of students appeare...
• In physics examination a student scored 45% marks in the first paper out of 160. How much percent marks should he score in the second paper out of 140 mark...
• A Fruit seller purchased 1530 bananas at the rate of Rs. 20 per dozen. 90 bananas get rotten. In order to make a 20%, he must sell the remaining bananas at...
• If the student scores 25% marks then he is failed by 150 marks. But if he scores 55% marks then he is passed with 180 marks. Find the passing percentage?
• An Urn has 120 Pink, 60 Green and 80 White Cards. 25% of Pink Cards and 50% of Green Cards are taken away, percentage of White Cards at present is
• In an examination in which full marks were 400. Harry got 20% more than Peter, Peter got 20% less than Tony. If Harry got 240 marks. What percentage of ful...
• In a village, number of male, female and children are in the ratio of 3:5:7. If 90% of the males are literate, 80% of females are literate and 40% of child...
• Two students appeared at an examination. One of them secured 18 marks more than the other and his marks were 62% of the sum of their marks. Find the marks ...
• In a metro, there are as many wagons as there is the number of seats in each wagon. In one of the wagon carrying 125 persons is filled with 62 (1/2)  % of...