Practice Percentage Questions and Answers

• 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...
• 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. 108400...
• When the income of the man is increase by Rs. 9000 then tax rate reduces from 18% to 15%. While in both the situation 25% income is tax free. Find his init...
• In a school with 800 students, the average of the age of the boys is 16 years and that of the girls is 12 years. If the average age of the school is 14 yea...
• What is the total number of students in a college? Statement I. In the college 24% of the students are between 18 to 24 years of age, and 45% of the rema...
• Gaurav spends 25% of his salary on grocery and 35% of the remaining amount on electricity bills. If Gaurav saves Rs. 33637.5, what is his total salary?
• In an election, two candidates participated. 20% voters did not cast their votes, out of which 600 votes declared invalid and the winner get 75% of the val...
• Radha purchase 6 black and some white balloons. The price of Black balloon is 5/2 of the price of the price of white balloon. At the time of making the bil...
• Ganesh gives 30% of her salary to his wife, 12% of the remaining amount to his children and 10% of the remaining to his parents. If has given a total amoun...
• The boys and girls in a college are in the ratio 4:3. If 15% of the boys and 22% of the girls are adults, the percentage of students who are not adults is-...
• If the price of rice has increased from Rs 40 per kg to Rs. 60 per kg, by how much percent a person has to decrease his consumption so that his expenditure...
• Milk contains 6% water. What quantity of pure milk should be added to 12 litres of milk to reduce the quantity of water to 3%?
• In a conference, 78% people were present, and the no. of absentees was 110. The total number of the people who were invited was
• 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 mixed school 25% of the scholars are infants under 7 and the number of girls above 7 is 4/5 of the number of boys above 7, is 120. Find the number of ...
• A towel was 75 cm broad and 120cm long. When bleached, it was to have lost 40% of its length and 20% breadth. The percentage of decrease in area is:
• A book is listed at Rs. 2,400 and the discount offered is 10%. What additional discount must be given to bring the net selling price Rs. 1,800?
• 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...
• Rajeev spends 30% of his monthly income on cloths and food and 20% of remaining on rent and saves the remaining amount. If he saves Rs 17920 per month, the...
• A reduction of 20% in the price of cinema tickets would enable me to see 15 movies more for Rs. 1200. Find the original price of one ticket.
• The maximum marks in an examination was 500. Shiva got 25% more than Parul, Parul got 10% more than Tashu. If Shiva got 275 marks. What percentage of full ...