QUANT HANDOUT

(Percentage, Profit, Loss)

QAPPL - 02

Directions for questions 1 to 20: Solve the following questions.

1. (a) 62.5% of 960 = Percentage Percentage Percentage
change in change in change in
(b) 44.44% of 2790 =
Length Breadth Area
(c) If 60% of x is equal to 75% of 1200, then x =
(a) +30% +20%
(d) 13.6% of 750 =
(b) +25% 0
2. Bobby spends 25% of his monthly income on rent,
30% on food and 20% on others. If he saves (c) –20% +12%
Rs. 15000 per month, what is his monthly income? (d) –30% –37%
3. (a) The income of A is more than that of B. A 9. If A's income is 16% more than B's income and
spends 30% of his income on food and B spends B's income is 25% more than C's income, by
25% of his income on food. Who spends more what percentage is A's income more than C's
on food? income?
(b) In the above example if the income of A is less 10. The percentage increase in the sales of a company
than that of B, then who spends more on food? over the previous year during the period 2010 to
2014 is shown in the table.
4. (a) If the production of sugar tripled from 2010 to
2011, then find the percentage increase in the Year 2010 2011 2012 2013
production of sugar from 2010 to 2011. % increase 20% 30% 16% 24%
(b) If the production of sugar in 2012 is 0.6 times What is the overall percentage increase in the sales
that in 2011, then by what percentage is the from 2009 to 2014?
production in 2012 less than that in 2011. 11. Two schools A and B participated in a talent
search exam. Schools A and B sent 200 and 300
students respectively. 36% of the students from
5 (a) If the price of an item is increased by 25%, by school A and 44% of the students from school B
what percentage should it be reduced to bring it cleared the exam. What percent of the total
back to the original level? number of students from schools A and B cleared
the exam?
(b) If the price of an item is decreased by 25%, by
wha.t percentage should it be raised to bring it 12. Andy scored 75 out of 150 marks in his mid-term
exam and 105 out of 150 in his end-term exam.
back to the original level?
(a) Find the percentage increase/decrease in his marks.
6 (a) The price of sugar increased by 25%. By what
percentage should the consumption be reduced so (b) Find the increase in his marks in terms of
that the expenditure on sugar remains the same? percentage points.
(b) If the price of tea decreased by 20%, then by 13. The production of wheat formed 20% of the total
what percentage should the consumption be food grain production in 2006. In the next year,
increased so that the total expenditure is the share of wheat in the total food grain
increased by 10%? production went up by 5 percentage points. Find
the percentage change in the production of wheat
7 (a) When the price of an article is increased by from 2006 to 2007 if the total food grain
30%, its sales decreased by 20%. What is the production increased by 20% from 2006 to 2007.
effect on the sales revenue?
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(b) The price of an article increased by 20% and its 14. In an election, Amar got 33 % of the total
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sales decreased by 20%. What is the effect on
the sales revenue? 6
number of votes polled while Bhima got 42 %
8 What should come in place of the following 7
blanks where the percentage changes in the of the remaining votes. If Amar got 4000 votes
dimensions of a rectangle are mentioned? more than Bhima, then find the total number of
votes polled.
15. A management trainer conducted a certain
workshop last year as well as this year. The
 amount he charged for each day this year is 30% 16. In a town, 40% of the population are minors, 35%
more than that for last year. The number of days of the minors are educated, 40% of the majors are
for which his workshop ran this year is 20% less uneducated. The total educated population is
than that for last year. The total amount he earned 48,000. What is the population of the town?
from the workshop this year is Rs 8400 more than 17. Anand used to spend 70% of his monthly income
what he did last year. The amount he earned this each month. His monthly income increased by
year is _______. 20% and his monthly expenditure increased by
10%. Find the percentage increase in his savings.

ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS FOR PRACTICE

1. The ratio of the populations of cities X, Y and Z in 8. A firm has 38 stockists. On a certain day, the total
2008 was 3 : 5 : 6 . The percentage increases in the stock with all the stockists was 120,000 cartons.
populations of X, Y and Z from 2008 to 2009 were 62.5% of the total stock that day was held by half of
10%, 20% and 15% respectively. Find the the stockists. If each of these stockists held not more
approximate percentage increase in their total than 4000 cartons, the minimum stock held by any
population from 2008 to 2009. of these stockists is _________.
2. Mr. Mohit imported a camera after paying a 6 9. Out of the total complaints received by the
percent customs duty on the value of the camera in municipal department, 63% are from households
excess of Rs 20,000. If the amount of customs duty which lack water supply. Also, 28% of the total
that Mohit paid was Rs 5670, what was the value of households in the municipality lack water supply.
the camera? What is the number of households in the
3. Three persons A, B and C have their monthly- municipality, if the total complaints received by the
incomes in the ratio 6: 7: 8. Their monthly municipal department is 12,00,000? (Only one
expenditures are in the ratio 5: 6: 10. The monthly complaint is lodged by a household and all the
savings of C are 37.5% of his monthly income. households which lack water supply lodge a
What percent of B's savings are A's savings? complaint)
4. The savings of Anand are 30% of his earnings 1
10. If Q(b, c, d) = b + cd and b is increased by 33 %
while the savings of Ranjit are 150% of the savings 3
of Anand. The combined earnings of Anand and while c and d are increased by 60% and decreased by
Ranjit as a percentage of Anand’s earnings cannot 2
be _________. 10 % respectively, then find the percentage change
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(A) 150 (B) 160 in Q(b, c, d).
(C) 120 (D) 180
5. A consultancy firm charged Rs. 40 lakh in royalty
on the first Rs 8 crore's of revenue it receives from
its clients. For all revenue exceeding Rs. 8 crores
firm receives from its client. It charges Rs 4 lakhs
in royalty for every 1 crore revenue that it receives
from the client. By how many percentage points the
royalty charged to a client whose total revenue is Rs
15 crore. more than that from a client whose total
revenue is Rs. 20 crore?
6. Ajay spends 16.66% of his income on rent, 25% of
the remaining on food, 60% of the remaining on
education and 50% of the remaining on others. If he
saves Rs. 4500 per month, find his income.
7. The hourly percentage increase in the number of
bees in a colony increases by 10 percentage points
every hour. In the first hour, the increase in the
number of bees is 20%. Find the effective increase
in the number of bees in the 2nd hour, if there are
1248 more bees in the third hour when compared to
the second hour.