Percentage problems
- 1. A Number is increased by 20%. To get back to the orignal number, the increased number is to be reduced by
Options- A. 20%
- B. 21%
- C. 16 2/3%
- D. 14 1/3% Also asked in: Bank Exams
Correct Answer: 16 2/3%
- 2. A 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 orignal number before the flood?
Options- A. 1000
- B. 10000
- C. 1,00,000
- D. 8360 Also asked in: Bank Exams
Correct Answer: 10000
- 3. A scored 72% in a paper with a maximum marks of 900 and 80% in another paper with a maximum marks of 700. If the result is based on the combined percentage of two papers, the combined percentage is
Options- A. 75.5%
- B. 76%
- C. 76.5%
- D. 77% Also asked in: Bank Exams
Correct Answer: 75.5%
- 4. On a certain date, Pakistan has a success rate of 60% against India in all the ODIs played between the two countries. They lost the next 30 ODIs in a row to India and their success rate comes down to 30%. The total number of ODIs played between the two countries is
Options- A. 50
- B. 45
- C. 60
- D. 30 Also asked in: Bank Exams
Correct Answer: 60
- 5. A retailer marks up his goods by 150% and offers 40% discount. What will be the selling price (in Rs) if the cost price is Rs 800?
Options- A. 1200
- B. 1500
- C. 1000
- D. 2000 Also asked in: Bank Exams
Correct Answer: 1200
- 6. On a television of brand A the discount is 25% and on television of brand B the discount is 40%. The price of B after discount Rs 2,250 greater than the price of A after discount. What is the marked price of A (in Rs) if marked price of B is Rs 35,000?
Options- A. 18750
- B. 21000
- C. 25000
- D. 17850 Also asked in: Bank Exams
Correct Answer: 25000
- 7. Rs 10,200 has to be divided between A,B & C so that A gets 2/3 of what B gets and B gets 1/4 of what C gets. How much more does C get over A (in Rs)?
Options- A. 6000
- B. 7200
- C. 1800
- D. 1200 Also asked in: Bank Exams
Correct Answer: 6000
- 8. 2% of a = b, then b% of 10 is the same as:
Options- A. 200% of a
- B. 20% of a/100
- C. 20% of a/10
- D. 200% of a/10 Also asked in: Bank Exams
Correct Answer: 20% of a/10
- 9. Giving two successive discounts of 40% is equal to giving one discount of ________%.
Options- A. 80
- B. 96
- C. 64
- D. 72 Also asked in: Bank Exams
Correct Answer: 64
- 10. A shopkeeper marks up his wares by 125% and offers 25% discount. What will be the selling price if the cost price (in Rs) is Rs 640?
Options- A. 1080
- B. 1000
- C. 920
- D. 860 Also asked in: Bank Exams
Correct Answer: 1080
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