Percentage problems
- 1. A boy found the answer for the question "Subtract the sum of 1/4 and 1/5 from unity and express the answer in decimals" as 0.45. The percentage of error in his answer was
Options- A. (100/11) %
- B. 50%
- C. 10%
- D. (200/11)% Also asked in: Bank Exams
Correct Answer: (200/11)%
- 2. Two baskets together have 640 oranges. If (1/5)th of the oranges in the first basket be taken to the second basket. The number of oranges in the first basket is
Options- A. 800
- B. 600
- C. 400
- D. 300 Also asked in: Bank Exams
Correct Answer: 400
- 3. A shopkeeper offers 15% discount on all plastic toys. He offers a further discount of 4% on the reduced price to those customers who pay cash. What does a customer have to pay (in Rs) in case for a toy of Rs 200?
Options- A. 133.7
- B. 129.8
- C. 163.2
- D. 153.3 Also asked in: Bank Exams
Correct Answer: 163.2
- 4. A photographer allows a discount of 10% on the advertised price of a camera. The price (in Rs) that must be marked on the camera, which cost him Rs 600, to make a profit of 20% would be
Options- A. 650
- B. 800
- C. 700
- D. 850 Also asked in: Bank Exams
Correct Answer: 800
- 5. A dinner set is quoted for Rs 1500. A customer pays Rs 1173 for it. If the customer got a series of two discounts and the rate of first discount is 15% then the rate of second discount was,
Options- A. 15%
- B. 7%
- C. 9%
- D. 8% Also asked in: Bank Exams
Correct Answer: 8%
- 6. A businessman imported Laptops, worth Rs 210000, Mobile phones worth Rs 100000 and Television sets worth Rs 150000. He had to pay 10% duty on laptops, 8% on Phones and 5% on Television sets as a special case. How much total duty (in Rupees) he had to pay on all items as per above details?
Options- A. 36500
- B. 37000
- C. 37250
- D. 37500 Also asked in: Bank Exams
Correct Answer: 36500
- 7. A man spend 7.5% of his money and after spending 75% of the remaining, he had Rs. 370 left. How much money did he have
Options- A. 1200
- B. 1600
- C. 1500
- D. 1400 Also asked in: Bank Exams
Correct Answer: 1600
- 8. Giving two successive discounts of 25% is equal to giving one discount of ________%.
Options- A. 43.75
- B. 56.25
- C. 50
- D. 45 Also asked in: Bank Exams
Correct Answer: 43.75
- 9. If a watch is being sold at Rs 7,225 which is marked at Rs 8,500, then what is the discount (in %) at which the watch is being sold?
Options- A. 24
- B. 15
- C. 25
- D. 20 Also asked in: Bank Exams
Correct Answer: 15
- 10. On a machine there is 10% trade discount on the marked price of Rs 2,50,000. But the machine is sold at Rs 2,16,000 after giving a cash discount. How much is this cash discount (in %)?
Options- A. 5
- B. 4
- C. 6
- D. 7 Also asked in: Bank Exams
Correct Answer: 4
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