Percentage and its applications:

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1. A shepherd has 1 million sheeps at the beginning of Year 2000. The numbers grow by x% (x > 0)
during the year. A famine hits his village in the next year and many of his sheeps die. The sheep
population decreases by y% during 2001 and at the beginning of 2002 the shepherd finds that he is
left with 1 million sheeps. Which of the following is correct?
1. x > y
2. y > x
3. x = y
4. Cannot be determined
ans 1
2. In an election contested by two parties, Party D secured 12% of the total votes more than Party R.
If party R got 132,000 votes and there are no invalid votes, by how many votes did it lose the
election?
1. 300,000
2. 168,000
3. 36,000
4. 24,000
ans 3
3. 30% of the men are more than 25 years old and 80% of the men are less than or equal to 50 years
old. 20% of all men play football. If 20% of the men above the age of 50 play football, what
percentage of the football players are less than or equal to 50 years?
1. 15%
2. 20%
3. 80%
4. 70%
ans 3
4. John weighs twice as much as Maria. Maria's weight is 60% of Bob's weight. Dave's weight is
50% of Lee's. Lee weighs 190% as much as John does. Which of these 5 persons weighs the least?
1. Bob
2. Dave
3. John
4. Lee
5. Maria

ans 5
5. Tina, Mina, Gina, Lina and Bina are 5 sisters, aged in that order, with Tina being the eldest. Each
of them had to carry a bucket of water from a well to their house. Their buckets' capacities were
proportional to their ages. While returning, equal amount of water got splashed out of their buckets.
Who lost maximum amount of water as a percentage of the bucket capacity?
1. Tina
2. Mina
3. Gina
4. Lina
5. Bina
ans 5
6. a is x % of b, b is x% more than a. Find x?
Ans- 100(b-a)/a
7. A, B, C and D share a loot. A gets a% of the total. B gets b% of the remaining (after A has taken
his share). C gets c% of the remaining and D gets the rest. D gets a% less than what A gets. B and C
get equal amounts. b = 2a.
i) What percentage of what A got did C get?
ii) If the total amount is equal to Rs. 1000, what is the difference between what A got and what D
got?
8. In a class, if 50% of the boys were girls, then there would be 50% more girls than boys. What
percentage of the overall class is girls?
Ans- 20%
9. 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?
Ans- 50%
10. What is the % change in the area of a square (which will become rectangle) if its length
side is increased by 10% and its width side is decreased by 10%?
Ans- 1% decrease
11. Ram obtains 40 % of the marks in a paper of 200 marks. Shyam is ahead of Ram by 25 %
of Rams marks, while Bhuvan is ahead of Shyam by one ninth of his own marks. How many
marks does Bhuvan get?
Ans- 112.5
12. In an election, Congress secured 10% of the total votes more than BJP (consider only two
parties in the election and everyone voting). If BJP got 126000 votes, by how many votes did it
lose the election?
Ans- 28000

13. If the price of petrol increases by 25% and Rajesh intends to spend only 15% more on
petrol, by how much % should he reduce the quantity of petrol that he buys?
1. 10%
2. 12%
3. 8%
4. 14%
Ans- 3
14. The difference between two years of compound interest and simple interest at 10% over
Rs. X is Rs. 10. What is the value of X?
15. A candidate who gets 20% marks fails by 10 marks but another candidate who gets 42% marks
gets 12% more than the passing marks. Find the maximum marks.
16. B as a percentage of A is equal to A as a percentage of (A+B). Find B as a percentage of A.
1. 62%
2. 64%
3. 60%
4. 68%
Ans- 1
17. KK, an aspiring entrepreneur wanted to set up a pen drive manufacturing unit. Since the
technology was changing very fast, he wanted to carefully the demand and the likely profits before
investing.
The market survey indicated that he would be able to sell 1 lac units before customers shifted to
different gadgets. KK realized that he had to incur two kinds of costs fixed costs (the costs which
do not change, irrespective of the number of units of pen drives produced) and variable costs (=
variable cost per unit multiplied by the number of units).
KK expected fixed cost to be Rs. 40 lac and variable cost to be Rs. 100 per unit. He expected each
pen drive to be sold at Rs. 200
17.1. What would be the break-even point (defined as no profit, no loss situation) for KKs factory
in term of sales?
a. 80 lac
b. 100 lac
c. 120 lac
d. 140 lac
Ans- 1

17.2. KK was skeptical that per unit variable cost might increase by 10 though the demand might
remain same. What will be the expected changes in profit in such a case?
a. Profit will increase by 16.67%
b. Profit will decreased by 16.67%
c. Profit will increase will by 15.75%
d. Profit will decreased will by 15.75%
Ans- 4
18. Two persons Raj and Ramu started working for a company in similar jobs on January 1, 1991.
Raj's initial monthly salary was Rs 400, which increases by Rs 40 after every year. Ramu's initial
monthly salary was Rs 500 which increases by Rs 20 after every six months. If these arrangements
continue till December 31, 200. Find the total salary they received during that period.
1. 1.08 lac
2. 1.44 lac
3. 1.32 lac
4. 1.524 lac
Ans- 4
19. The volume of the sphere Q is (dfrac{37}{64}%)less than the volume of sphere P and the
volume of sphere R is (dfrac{19}{27}%) less than that of sphere Q. By what is the surface area of
sphere R less than the surface area of sphere P?
1. 77.77%
2. 87.5%
3. 75%
4. 67.5%
Ans- 3
20. A Techno company has 14 machines of equal efficiency in its factory. The annual manufacturing
costs are Rs 42,000 and establishment charges are Rs 12,000. The annual output of the company is
Rs 70,000. The annual output and manufacturing costs are directly proportional to the number of
machines. The shareholders get 12.5 profit, which is directly proportional to the annual output of
the company. If 7.14 machines remain closed throughout the year, then the percentage decrease in
the amount of profit of the shareholders would be:
1. 12%
2. 12.5%
3. 13.5%
4. none
Ans- 2

21. A salesman sells two kinds of trousers: cotton and woollen. A pair of cotton trousers is sold at
30% profit and a pair of woollen trousers is sold at 50%
profit.
The salesman has calculated that if he sells 100%
more woollen trousers than cotton trousers, his overall profit will be 45%. However, he ends up
selling 50%
more cotton trousers than woollen trousers.
What will be his overall profit?
1. 37.5%
2. 40%
3. 41%
4. 42.33%
Ans- 2
22. Mantu starts a month with provisions expected to last for the entire month. After few days, it is
discovered that the provisions will, in fact short by 12 days and it is calculated that if the stock of
provisions left is immediately tripled, it will be possible to exactly make up for the shortfall. If the
stock of provisions left is doubled instead of being tripled, and simultaneously the strength of the
Mantu is decreased by 25, then the provisions will fall short by
1. 2days
2. 1 day
3. 3 days
4. 4 days
Ans- 1
23. The cost of raw material of a product increases by 30, the manufacturing cost increases by 20
and the selling price of the product increases by 60. The raw material and the manufacturing cost,
originally, formed 40 and 60 of the total cost respectively. If the original profit was one-fourth the
original manufacturing cost, find the approximation new profit percentage.
1. 48.39%
2. 54.68%
3. 62.48%
4. 42.36%
Ans- 1
24. In a period from January to March, Jamshedpur Electronics sold 3150 units of Television,
having started with a beginning inventory of 2520 units and ending with an inventory of 2880.
What was the value of order placed (Rupees in thousands) by Jamshedpur Electronics during the

three months period? [Profits are 25 of cost price, uniformly.]

1. 26325
2. 22320
3. 25200
4. 28080
Ans- 4
25. After offering a discount of 37.5, Pankaj sold the rice at a profit of 25. Had he offered a discount
of 41.67, his profit or loss percent would have been:
1. 16.66% profit
2. 8.33% profit
3. 12% loss
4. 29.17% loss
Ans 1