Percentage Exercise 3

It costs Rs 1 to photocopy a sheet of paper. However, 2% discount is allowed on all photocopies done after first 1000 sheets. How much will it cost to copy 5000 sheets of paper?

Ravi’s salary is 150% of Amit’s salary. Amit’s salary is 80% of Ram’s salary. What is the ratio of Ram’s salary to Ravi’s salary?

The population of a village is 10,000. If the population increases by 10% in the first year, by 20% in the second year and due to mass exodus, it decreases by 5 % in the third year, what will be its population after 3 years?

At a college entrance examination each candidate is ad­mitted or rejected according to whether he has passed or failed the test. Of the candidates who are really ca­pable, 80% pass the test and of the incapable, 25% pass the test. Given that 40% of the candidates are really capable, then the proportion of capable college students is about

In a housing society, 30 per cent of the residents are men over the age of 18 and 40 per cent are women over the age of 18. If there are 24 children living in the housing society, then how many total residents live?

In a class, 40% of the boys is same as ½ of the girls and there are 20 girls. Total number of students in the class is :

In a certain school, 20% of students are below 8 years of age. The number of students above 8 years of age is ⅔ of the number of students of 8 years age which is 48. What is the total number of students in the school?

A positive number is by mistake divided by 6 instead of being multiplied by 6. What is the % error on the basis of correct answer?

From the salary of an officer, 10% is deducted as house rent, 20% of the rest, he spends on conveyance, 20% of the rest he pays as income tax and 10% of the balance, he spends on clothes. Then , he is left with Rs 15,552. Find his total salary.

40% of the people read newspaper X, 50% read newspaper Y and 10% read both the papers. What percentage of the people read neither newspaper?

40% of the students in a college play basketball, 34% of the students play tennis and the number of students who play both the games is 234. The number of students who neither play basketball nor tennis is 52%. Determine the total number of students in the college.

In a factory, producing parts of an automobile, the parts manufactured on the shop floor are required to go through quality checks, each conducted after a specific part of the processing on the raw material is completed. Only parts that are not rejected at one stage are put through subsequent stages of production and testing. If average rejection rates at these three testing stages during a month are 10%, 5% and 2% respectively, then what is the effective rejection rate for the whole plant?

When 7% of the total quantity of wheat is lost in grinding when a country has to import 6 million tonnes, but when only 5⅕% is lost, it can import 3 million tonnes. Find the quantity of wheat grown in the country.

Shobha’s Mathematics Test had 75 problem i.e., 10 arithmetic, 30 algebra and 35 geometry problems. Although she answered 70% of the arithmetic, 40% of the algebra and 60% of the geometry problems correctly. She did not pass the test because she got less than 60% of the problems right. How many more questions she would have needed to answer correctly to earn a 60% passing grade?

Lucknow bound Shatabdi Express has a capacity of 500 seats of which 10% are in the Executive class and the rest chair cars. During one journey, the train was booked to 85% of its capacity. If Executive class was booked to 96% of its capacity, then how many chair car seats were empty during that journey?

A salesman’s terms were changed from a flat commission of 5% on all his sales to a fixed salary of Rs 1,000 plus 2.5% commission on all sales exceeding Rs 4,000. If his remuneration as per the new scheme was Rs 600 more than by the first scheme, what were his sales worth?

In a competitive examination in State A, 6% candidates got selected from the total appeared candidates. State B had an equal number of candidates appeared and 7% candidates got selected with 80 more candidates got selected than A. What was the number of candidates appeared from each State?

 Mr. X, a businessman had the income in the year 2000, such that he earned a profit of 20% on his investment in the business. In the year 2001, his investment was less by Rs 5000 but still had the same income (Income=Investment + Profit) as that in 2000. Thus, the percent profit earned in 2001 increased by 6%. What was his investment in 2000?

In the month of January, the Railway Police caught 4000 ticketless travellers. In February, the number rise by 5%. However, due to constant vigil by the Police and the Railway staff, the number reduced by 5% and in April it further reduced by 10%. The total number of ticketless travellers caught in the month of April was:

An empty fuel tank of a car was filled with A type petrol. When the tank was half-empty, it was filled with B type petrol. Again when the tank was half-empty, it was filled with A type petrol. When the tank was half-empty again, it was filled with B type petrol. What is the percentage of A type petrol at present in the tank?