PERCENTAGE

Percentage - 2
• Passing marks based problems.
• Percentage bifurcation based problems
• Voting based problems.
• Miscellaneous Percentage problem (Venn diagram, Dry fruits).
• Population increment or decrement
• Data Sufficiency on related topic.
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1. A student has to secure minimum 35% marks to pass in an examination. If he gets 200
marks and fails by 10 marks, then the maximum marks are
A] 200 B] 600
C] 500 D] 800
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2. A candidate who scores 30 per cent fails by 5 marks, while another candidate who scores 40
per cent marks gets 10 more than minimum pass marks. The minimum marks required to pass
are
A] 50 B] 150
C] 70 D] 100
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3. Radha spends 40% of her salary on food, 20% on house rent, 10% on entertainment and 10%
on conveyance. If her savings at the end of a month are 1500, then her salary per month (in ) is
A] Rs. 7500 B] Rs.8000
C] Rs.6000 D] Rs.10000
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4. A person gave 20% of his income to his elder son, 30% of the remaining to the younger son
and 10% of the remaining, he donated to a trust. He is left with 10080. His income was :
A] Rs. 50000 B] Rs. 40000
C] Rs. 30000 D] Rs. 20000
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5. village lost 12% of its goats in a flood and 5% of remainder died from diseases. If the
number left now is 8360, what was the original number before the flood?
A] Rs. 10000 B] Rs. 9000
C] Rs. 11000 D] Rs. 12000
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Voting Concept:
Total Votes

Casted Votes Uncasted Votes

Valid Votes Invalid Votes

Votes to Winner Votes to Loser

Winning Difference
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6. At an election there were two candidates. A candidate got 37.5% of valid votes and lost by
6500 number of votes. The total number of valid votes were
A] 13000 B] 13800
C] 16200 D] 26000
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7. In an assembly election, a candidate 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 favor of the candidate is:
A] 56506 B] 56650
C] 56560 D] 56056
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8. 8% of the voters in an election did not cast their votes. In this election, there were only two
candidates. The winner by obtaining 48% of the total votes defeated his contestant by 1100
votes. The total number of voters in the election was :
A] 21000 B] 23500
C] 22000 D] 27500
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9. In an election 10% of the voters on the voters’ list did not cast their votes and 60 voters
cast their ballot papers blank. There were only two candidates. The winner was supported by
47% of all the voters in the list and he got 308 votes more than his rival. The number of
voters on the list was
A] 3600 B] 6200
C] 4575 D] 6028
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10. In a certain office, 66% of workers prefer tea and 44% prefer coffee. If each on them
prefers tea or coffee and 40 like both, the total number of workers in the office is:
A] 400 B] 220
C] 252 D] 284
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11. In a school of 1000 students, 40% of the students play football and 50% of the students
play cricket. If 18% of the students play neither football nor cricket, percentage of students
playing both is,
A] 80 B] 800
C] 40 D] 400
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12. In a survey of 500 students of a college, it was found that 49% liked watching football,
53% liked watching hockey and 62% liked watching basketball. Also, 27% liked watching
football and hockey both, 29% liked watching basketball and hockey both and 28% liked
watching football and basket ball both. 5% liked watching none of these games. How
many students like watching all the three games?
A] 75 B] 80
C] 40 D] 40
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13. Fresh fruit contains 68% of water and dry fruit contains 20% water. How much dry fruit
can be obtained from 100 kg of fresh fruits?
A] 52 kg B] 32 kg
C] 50 kg D] 40 kg
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14. Fresh grapes contains 80% water while dry grapes contain 10% water. If the weight of dry
grapes is 500kg, then what is its total weight when it fresh?
A] 1500 kg B] 1570 kg
C] 2250 kg D] 2040 kg
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15. Of the 1000 inhabitants of a town, 60% are males of whom 20% are literate. If, of all the
inhabitants, 25% are literate, then what percent of the females of the town are literate?
A] 15 % B] 35.70 %
C] 32.5 % D] 20.40 %
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16. The ratio of the number of boys to that of girls in a school is 4 : 1. If 75% of boys and 70%
of the girls are scholarship-holders, then the percentage of students who do not get scholarship
is
A] 50 % B] 74 %
C] 26 % D] 60 %
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Population increment or decrement

• If P is the current population of an area and it increases or decreases by R%, then after ‘n’
years the population of the area is :

• If P is the current population of an area and it increases or decreases by , and for 1 st , 2nd
and 3rd year respectively, then after 3years the population of the area is

=
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17. The present population of a city is 160000. If it increases at the rate of 12.5% per annum,
its population after 2 years will be :
A] 205000 B] 250500
C] 202500 D] 200500
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18. A district has 64000 inhabitants. If the population increases at the rate of 2 (1/2) % per
annum, the number of inhabitants at the end of 3 years will be
A] 70000 B] 69200
C] 68921 D] 68911
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19. The population of a town increased by 10% and decreased by 10% for next year and
similarly 10% increase and decrease for the next 2 years. If the current population is 9801
what was the population of the town 4 years ago?
A] 12100 B] 10000
C] 14000 D] 11000
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20. The population of a town was 1,60,000 three years ago, If it increased
by 3%, 2.5% and 5% respectively in the last three years, then the present
population in
A] 155679 B] 167890
C] 179890 D] 177366
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21. A salesman gets 18% commission of the total sales up to Rs. 20000 and gets 2% extra
commission for the sales of more than Rs. 20000. His earnings for a certain month is Rs.
18800. Find the total sale of that month.
A] 60000 B] 85700
C] 96000 D] 72000
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22. Class B has 50% more students than class A. Number of girls in class A is equal to number
of boys in class B. The percentage of girls is the same in both classes. What percentage of the
student group are boys?
A] 40 % B] 50 %
C] 33.33 % D] 60 %
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23. A two digit number ab is 60% of x. The two-digit number formed by reversing the digits of
ab is 60% more than x. Find x.
A] 45 B] 54
C] 63 D] 72
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For the following question two statements are given. Use the data of those statements and
then determine which of the following statements is necessary to answer the question.

A] Statement I is sufficient to answer the question.

B] Statement II is sufficient to answer the question.
C] Either Statement I or statement II is sufficient to answer the question.
D] Neither Statement I nor statement II is sufficient to answer the question.
E] Both Statements I and II are necessary to answer the question.

24. What is the ratio of two numbers?

Statement I . 40% of x is 20% of 50.

Statement II. 30% of y is 25% of 72.
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For the following question two statements are given. Use the data of those statements and
then determine which of the following statements is necessary to answer the question.

A] Statement I is sufficient to answer the question.

B] Statement II is sufficient to answer the question.
C] Either Statement I or statement II is sufficient to answer the question.
D] Neither Statement I nor statement II is sufficient to answer the question.
E] Both Statements I and II are necessary to answer the question.

25. What is the value of 20 percent of x?

Statement I . One- fourth of 20 percent of x is 5.

Statement II. 4x = S, 5y = S and y = 80.
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Directions (Question no. 26 to 27):
For each of the following questions two statements are given. Use the data of those
statements and then determine which of the following statements is necessary to answer the
question.

A] Statement I is sufficient to answer the question.

B] Statement II is sufficient to answer the question.

C] Either Statement I or statement II is sufficient to answer the question.

D] Neither Statement I nor statement II is sufficient to answer the question.

E] Both Statements I and II are necessary to answer the question.

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26. What percent of a company's employees are women with a college degree?

Statement I . Of the women employed in the company, 40% do not have a college degree.
Statement II. There are 400 men out of 1000 employees.
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27. In 2013 there are 300 employees at Company ABC. If the number of employees at
Company ABC increased by 200% from 1993 to 2013, by what percent did the number of
employees at Company ABC increase from 2003 to 2013?

Statement I . In 2003 there were 160 employees at Company ABC.

Statement II. From 1993 to 2003 the number of employees increased by 60% at Company
ABC.
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