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If 𝑥 is less than y by 25% then y exceeds x by :

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a) 33 % b) 25% c) 75% d) 66
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2. If P % is 36, then P is equal to:
a) 3600 b) 600 c) 60 d) 15
3. If 10% of m is the same as 20% of n, then m:n is equal to :
a) 2:1 b)1:2 c)1:10 d) 1:2
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4. 0.15% of 33 % of ₹10000 is:
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a) Rs. 5 b) Rs. 150 c) Rs. 0.05 d) Rs. 105
5. 30% of x is 72. The value of x is:
a) 216 b) 240 c) 480 d) 640
6. If 15% of ( A + B) = 25% of (A-B) , then what per cent of B is equal to A?
a) 10% b) 60% c) 200% d) 400%
7. What is 20% of 25% of 300?
a) 150 b) 60 c)45 d) 15
8. If 20% A = 50% of B, then what percent of A is B ?
a) 30% b) 40% c) 25% d) 15%
9. The time duration of 1 hour 45 minutes is what percent of a day ?
a) 7.218 b) 7.291 c) 8.3 d) 8.24
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10. If 30% of A = 0.25 of B = 5 of c , then A : B : C is equal to :
a) 5:6:4 b) 5:24:5 c) 6:5:4 d) 10:12:15
11. The difference of two numbers is 15% of their sum. The ratio of the larger numbers to the
smaller number is:
a) 23:17 b) 11:9 c) 17:11 d) 23:11
12. P is six times as large as Q. The percent that Q is less than P, is:
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a) 83 3 % b) 70% c) 63 3 % d) 50%
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13. If 60% of A = of B, then A: B is =?
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a) 9:20 b) 20:9 c) 4:5 d) 5:4
14. If 90% of A = 30% of B and B = 2x% of A, then the value of x is =
a) 450 b) 400 c) 300 d) 150
15. What percent of 3.6kg is 72gms?
a) 32% b) 22% c) 12% d) 2%
16. If 50% of ( P- Q ) = 30% and of (P+Q) and Q = x % of P, then the value of x is :
a) 30 b) 25 c) 20 d) 50
17. If 60% of A= 30% of B, B = 40% of C and C= x% of A, then value of x is:
 a) 800 b) 200 c) 300 d) 500
18. If 80% of a number added to 80 gives the result as the number itself, then the number is:
a) 200 b) 300 c) 400 d) 500
b)
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19. A person who spends 663 %of his income is able to save ₹1200 per month. His monthly
expenses (in ₹ ) is:
a) 1,200 b) 2,400 c) 3,000 d) 3,200
20. If A exceeds B by 40%. B is less than C by 20%, then A:C is :
a) 28.25 b) 26.25 c) 14.27 d) 27.14
21. When 60 is subtracted from 60% of a number, the result is 60. The number is:
a) 120 b) 150 c) 180 d) 200
22. If a number x is 10% less than another number y and y is 10% more than 125, then x is equal to
a) 150 b) 143 c) 140.55 d) 123.75
23. Two number are respectively 20% and 50% more than a third number. Then the ratio of the two
numbers is:
a) 2:5 b) 3:5 c) 4:5 d) 6:7
24. Out of two numbers, 40% of the greater number is equal to 60% of smaller , if the sum of the
numbers is 150, then the greater number is :
a) 70 b)80 c) 90 d) 60
25. If A’s height is 10% more than B’s height by how much per cent is B’s height less than that of A?
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a) 10% b) 10 9 % c) 10 11 % d) 9 11 %
26. If Nita’s salary is 25 percent more than Papiya’s salary, then the percentage by which Papiya’s
salary is less than Nita’s salary is :
a) 15% b) 20% c) 25% d) 32%
27. If A’s income is 25% less than B’s income then by what percent in B’s income more than that of
A?
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a) 25% b) 30% c) 33 3 % d) 66 3 %
28. If A exceeds B by 60% and B is less than C by 20%, then A:C is
a) 32:25 b) 25:32 c) 8:5 d) 4:6
29. If 30% of A is added to 40% of B, the answer is 80% of B. What percentage of A is B?
a) 30% b) 40% c) 70% d)75%
30. A number is divided into two parts in such a way that 80% of 1st part is 3 more than 60% of 2nd
part and 80% of 2nd part is 6 more than 90% of the 1st part. Then the number is :
a) 125 b) 130 c) 135 d) 145
31. A number, on subtracting 15 from it reduces to its 80%. What is 40% of the number?
a) 75 b) 60 c) 30 d) 90
32. 498 is 17% less than a number then the number is:
a) 610 b) 580 c) 600 d) 620
33. What is to be added to 15% of 160 so that the sum may be equal to 25% of 240?
a) 24 b) 84 c) 60 d) 36
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34. A number increased by 22 2% gives 98 as result. The number is :
a) 45 b) 18 c) 80 d) 81
35. The number that is to be added to 10% of 320 to have the sum as 30% of 230
a) 37 b) 32 c) 23 d) 73
36. In a village 30% of the population is literate. If the total population of the village is 6,600 then
the number of literate is :
a) 1980 b) 4620 c) 2200 d) 3280
37. One - fifth of half of a number is 20. Then 20% of that number is
a) 80 b) 60 c) 20 d) 40
38. What percent decrease in salary would exactly cancel out of the 20percent increase?
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a) 20% b) 16 % c) 33 % d) 18%
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39. If food price go up by 10%, by how much should a man reduce his consumption so as not to
increase his expenditure?
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a) 9 11 % b) 10% c) 9 11 % d) The data is not sufficient
40. The price of an article is decreased by 10%. To restore its former value the new price must be
increased by:
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a) 10% b) 11% c) 11 8 % d) 119 %
41. Salary of a person is first increased by 20%, then it is decreased by 20%. Then the percentage
change in his salary is:
a) 4% decreased b) 8% increased c) 8% decreased d) 20%increased
42. The tax imposed on an article is decreased by 10% and its consumption is increased by 10%. Find
the percentage change in revenue from it.
a) 10%increased b) 2% decrease c) 1% decrease d) 11% increase
43. A workers suffers a 20% cut in his wage. He may regain his original wages by obtaining a rise of
how much %?
a) 27.5% b) 25.0% c) 22.5% d) 20.0%
44. The numbers of employees working in a farm is increased by 25% and the wages per head are
decreased by 25%. If it result in x% decrease in total wages, then the value of is
25
a) 0% b) 25% c) 20% d) 4
45. A number is first decreased by 10% and then increased by 10%. The number so obtained is 50
less than original number. The original number is :
a) 5900 b) 5000 c) 5500 d) 5050
46. The government reduced the price of sugar by 10 per cent. By this a consumer can buy 6.2 kg
more sugar for ₹ 837. The reduced price per kg of sugar is :
a) ₹ 12.50 b) ₹ 13.00 c) ₹ 13.50 d) ₹ 14.00

47. The length of rectangle is increased by 10% and breadth decreased by 10%. Then the area of the
new rectangle is :
a) Neither decreased nor increased
b) Increased by 1%
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d) Decreased by 1%
48. B got 20% marks less than A. What per cent marks did A got more than B?
a) 20% b) 25% c) 12% d) 80%
49. If the duty on an article is reduced by 40% of its present rate by how much per cent must its
consumption increase in order that the revenue remains unaltered?
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a) 60% b) 62 % c) 72% d)66 %
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50. The price of an article is reduced by 25% but the daily sale of the article is increased by 30%. The
net effect on the daily sale receipt is: 3
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a) 2 2 % increased b) 2 2 %decreased c) 2% increased d) 2% decreased
51. A reduction of 10 % in the price of an apple enables a man to buy 10 apples more for ₹ 54. The
reduced price of apples per dozen is
a) ₹ 6.48 b) ₹ 12.96 c) ₹ 10.80 d) ₹ 14.40
52. Price of milk has increased by 20%. To keep the expenditure unchanged, the present
consumption is to be reduced by :
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a) 20% b) 18% c) 10% d) 163 %
53. In a class 60% of the students pass in Hindi and 45% pass Sanskrit. If 25% of them pass in both
subjects, what percentage of the students fail in both the subjects?
a) 80% b) 75% c) 20% d) 25%
54. In an examination 70% of the candidates passed in English, 80% passed in Mathematics. 10%
failed in both the subjects if 144 candidates passed in both, the total number of candidates was:
a) 125 b) 200 c) 240 d) 375
55. In examination three were 640 boys and 360 girls, 60% of boys and 80% of girls were successful.
The percentage of failure was:
a) 20% b) 60% c) 30.5% d) 32.8%
56. Two students appeared at an examination. One of them secured 9 marks more than the other
and his marks were 56% f the sum of their marks. The marks obtained by them are:
a) 42,33 b) 43,34 c) 41,32 d) 39,30
57. In an examination, 52%studnets failed in Hindi and 42% in English. If 17% failed in both the
subjects, what percentage of students passed in both the subjects?
a) 38% b) 33% c) 23% d) 18%
58. 25% of the candidates who appeared in an exam. The number of students who appeared in the
examination was:
a) 700 b) 600 c) 550 d) 500
59. In a class, the number of girls is 20% more than that of the boys. The strength of class is 66. If 4
more girls are admitted to the class, the ration of the number of boys to that of the girls is :
a) 1:2 b) 3:4 c) 1:4 d) 3:5
60. In an examination, 60% of the candidates passed in English and 70% of the candidates passed
Mathematics, but 20% failed in both of these subjects. If 2500 candidates passed in both
subjects, the numbers of candidates who appeared at the examination was:
a) 3000 b) 3500 c) 4000 d) 5000
61. In a test a student got 30% marks and failed by 25marks. In the same test another student got
40% marks and secured 25% marks more than the essential minimum pass marks. The maximum
pass marks for the test were?
a) 400 b) 480 c) 500 d) 580
62. In an examination, 35% of the candidates failed in Mathematics and 25% in English. If 10% failed
in both mathematics and English, then how mush percent of candidates passed in both the
subjects?
a) 50% b) 55% c) 57% d) 60%
63. 90% of the students in school passed in English, 85% passed in Mathematics and 150 students
passed in both the subjects. In no student failed in both the subjects, find the total number of
students.
a) 120 b) 220 c) 200 d) 300
64. The ratio of the number of boys to that of girls in a village is 3:2. If 30% boys and 70% of girls
appeared in an examination, the ration of the number of students, appeared in the examination
to that not appeared in the same examination is:
a) 1:1 b) 27:23 c) 9:14 d) 2327
65. In an examination there are three subjects of 100 marks each. A student scores 60% in the first
subject and 80% in the second subject. He scored 70% in aggregate. His percentage of marks in
the third subject is
a) 80 b) 60 c) 65 d) 70
66. A person gave 20% of his income to his elder son, 30% of the remaining to the younger son and
10% of the balance, he donted to a trust. He is left with ₹10080. His income was:
a) ₹ 50000 b) ₹40000 c) ₹30000 d) 20000
67. Ram spends 40% of his salary on food, 20% on house rent, 10 % on entertainment and 10 % on
conveyance. If his savings at the end of the month are ₹ 1500, then his salary per month (in ₹ )
is :
a) ₹ 8000 b) ₹ 7500 c) ₹6000 d) ₹ 10000
68. Bhuvnesh spends 30% of his salary on food and donates 3% in charitable trust. He spends ₹
2,310 on these two items, then total salary for that month is :
a) ₹ 6,000 b) ₹8,000 c) ₹ 9,000 d) ₹ 7,000
69. Out of his total income, Mr. Kapoor spends 20%on house rent and 70% of the rest on house hold
expenses. If he saves ₹ 1,800 what is his total income (in ₹)?
a) ₹7,800 b) ₹7,000 c) ₹8,000 d) ₹7,500
70. A man gives 50% of his money to his son and 30% to his daughter. 80% of the rest in donated to
a trust. If he is left with 16,000 now, how much money did he have in the beginning?
a) ₹ 4,00,00 b) ₹ 40,000 c) ₹90,000 d) ₹80,000
71. In an election there were only two candidates. One of the candidates secured 40% of votes and
is defeated by the other candidate by 298 votes. The total number of votes polled as:
a) 745 b) 1460 c)1490 d) 1500
72. In an assembly election, a candidates got 55% of the total valid votes. 2% of the total votes were
declared invalid. If the total number of voters is 104000, then the number of valid votes polled
in favour of the candidate is :
 a) 56506 b) 56650 c) 56560 d) 56056
73. In an election, there are three candidates contested. The first candidates got 40% votes and the
second got 36% votes. If total number of votes polled were 36000, find the number of votes got
by the 3rd candidate.
a) 8040 b) 8640 c) 9340 d) 9640
74. Two person contested an election of parliament. The winning candidate secured 57% of the
total votes polled and won by a majority of 42,000 votes. The number of total votes polled is:
a) 5,00,000 b) 6,00,000 c) 3,00,000 d) 4,00,000
75. The value of property depreciates every year of 10% of its value at the beginning of the year.
The present value of the property is ₹ 8100. What was its value 2years ago?
90 2 100 2
a) ₹ 10,000 b) ₹( ) 𝑋 100 c) ₹( ) 𝑋 8100 d) ₹ 9801
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76. The population of a village has increased annually at the rate of 25%. If at the end of 3 years it is
10,000 the population in the beginning of the first year was:
a) 5120 b) 5000 c) 4900 d) 4500
77. The population of a town 2years ago was 62,500. Due to migration to big cities, it decreases
every year at the rate of 4%. the present population of the town is:
a) 57,000 b) 56,700 c) 76,000 d) 75,000
78. A man received ₹ 8, 80,000 as his annual salary of the year 2007 which was 10% more than his
annual salary in 2006. His annual salary in the year 2006 was:
a) ₹4,80,000 b) ₹8,00,000 c) ₹4,00,000 d) ₹ 8,40,000
79. The value of a machine is ₹ 6,250. It decreases by 10% during the first year, 20% during the
second year and 30% during the third year. What will be the value of the machine after 3years?
a) ₹2,650 b) ₹ 3,050 c) ₹ 3,150 d) ₹ 3510
80. The income of a company increase 20% per annum. If its income is ₹ 26, 64,000 in the year
2012. Then its income in the year 2010 was :
a) ₹ 21,20,000 b) ₹ 18,50,000 c) ₹28,20,000 d) ₹ 28,55,000
81. 1 liter water is added to 5 liters of alcohol- water solution containing 40% alcohol strength. The
strength of alcohol in the new solution will be:
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a) 30% b) 33% c) 333 % d) 333 %
82. One type of liquid contains 20% water and the second type of liquid contains 35% of water. A
glass is filled with 10 part of first liquid and 4 parts of second liquid. The water in the new
mixture in the glass is:
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a) 37% b) 46% c) 127 % d) 247 %
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83. The percentage of metals in a mine of lead ore is 60%. Now the percentage of silver is 4 % of
metals and the rest is lead. If the mass of ore extracted from this mine is 8000kg, the mass (in
kg) of lead is:
a) 4763 b) 4764 c) 4762 d) 4761
84. Due to increase of 50% in the price of eggs less are available for ₹ 24. The present rate of eggs
per dozen is :
a) ₹ 24 b) ₹ 27 c) ₹ 36 d) ₹ 42
85. Ram’s expenditure and savings are in the ratio 5:3. If his income increases by 12% and
expenditure by 15%, then by how much percent does his savings increase?
a) 12% b) 7% c) 8 d) 13
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86. A spider climbed 622 % of the height of the pole in one hour and in the next hour it covered
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12 % of the remaining height. If pole’s height is 192 m, then the distance climbed is second
2
hour is
a) 3m b) 5m c) 7m d) 9m
87. A and B are two fixed points 5 cm apart and C is a point on AB such that AC is 3cm. If the length
of AC is increased by 6%, the length of CB is decreased by :
a) 6% b) 7% c) 8% d) 9%
88. A man invests a part of ₹ 10,000 at 5% and the remainder at 6%. The 5% investment yields
annually ₹ 76.50 more than the 6% investment. The amount invested at 6% is:
a) ₹ 3600 b) ₹ 3550 c) ₹ 3850 d) ₹ 4000
89. Ram saves 14% of his salary while Shyam saves 22%. If both get the same salary and Shyam
saves ₹ 1540, what is the savings of Ram?
a) ₹ 990 b) ₹ 980 c) ₹ 890 d) ₹880
90. The population of a village is 25,000. One fifth are females and the rest are males, 5% of males
and 40% of females are uneducated. What percentage on the whole are educated?
a) 75% b) 88% c) 55% d) 85%
91. A box has 100 blue, 50 red balls, 50 black, 25% of blue balls and 50% of red balls are taken away,
percentage of black balls at present is:
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a) 50% b) 25% c) 333 % d) 40%
92. Three sets of 40,50 and 60 students appeared for an examination and the pass percentage was
100., 90 and 80 respectively. The pass percentage of the whole set is :
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a) 883 % b) 843 % c) 883 % d) 843 %
93. From 1980-1990, the population of a country was increased by 20%. From 1990-2000, the
population of the country was increased by 20%. From 2000- 2010, the population of the
country was increased by 20%. Population (in percentage) of the country form 1980-2010 was
increase by
a) 72.2% b) 72.8% c) 60% d) 62.8%

94. The price of an edible oil is increased by 25%. To maintain the budget, Sushma reduces the
consumption of this oil by 20%. The increase in expenditure due to this edible oil is:
a) 0% b) 1% c) 2% d) 3%
95. The red blood cells in a blood sample grows by 10% per hour in first two hours, decreases by
10% in next one hour remains constant in next one hour and again increases by 5% per hour in
next two hours. If the original count of the red blood cells in the sample is 40000, find the
approximate red blood cell count at the end of 6 hours.
a) 40,000 b) 45025 c) 48025 d) 50025
96. A person loses 75% of his money in the first bet, 75% of the remaining in the second and 75% of
the remaining in the third bet and returns home with Rs. 2 only. His initial money was
a) ₹ 64 b)₹ 128 c) ₹ 256 d) ₹ 945
97. In an examination, 35% of total students failed in Hindi, 45% failed in English and 20% failed in
both. Find the percentage of those students who passed in both the subjects?
a) 45% b)35% c) 20% d) 40%
98. The ration of number of boys and girls in a school of 720 students in 7:5. How many more girls
should be admitted to make the ratio 1:1?
a) 90 b) 120 c) 220 d) 240
99. An army lost 10% of its men in war, 10% of the remaining died due to disease and 10% of the
rest were declared disabled. Thus the strength of the army was reduced to 7,29,000 active men.
The original strength of the army was
a) 15,00,000 b) 10,00,000 c) 12,00,000 d) 11,00,000
100. On a certain date, Pakistan has success rate of 60% against India in all the ODI’s played
between the two countries. The lost the next 30 ODI’s. In a row to India and their success rate
comes down to 30%. The total number of ODI’s played between the two countries is
a) 50 b)45 c) 60 d) 30

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