Percentage · General Aptitude

417 questions in this chapter.

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ABC26GN2353 · 605 sweets were distributed equally among children in such a way that the number of sweets received by each child is 20\% of the total… · 2006
ABC26GN2354 · In a certain organisation, 40\% employees are matriculates, 50\% of the remaining are graduates and the remaining 180 are post-graduates… · 2007
ABC26GN2355 · Gaurav spends 30\% of his monthly income on food articles, 40\% of the remaining on conveyance and clothes and saves 50\% of the remaining…
ABC26GN2356 · A spider climbed 62 1/2 \% of the height of the pole in one hour and in the next hour it covered 12 1/2 \% of the remaining height. If the…
ABC26GN2357 · A man spends 35\% of his income on food, 25\% on children's education and 80\% of the remaining on house rent. What percent of his income…
ABC26GN2358 · Mr. More spent 20\% of his monthly income on food and 15\% on children's education. 40\% of the remaining he spent on entertainment and… · 2009
ABC26GN2359 · 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… · 2007
ABC26GN2360 · Aman gave 40\% of the amount he had to Rohan. Rohan in turn gave one-fourth of what he received from Aman to Sahil. After paying ₹ 200 to…
ABC26GN2361 · On a test consisting of 250 questions, Jassi answered 40\% of the first 125 questions correctly. What percent of the other 125 questions… · 2009
ABC26GN2362 · In a certain month a baseball team that played 60 games had won 30\% of its games played. After a phenomenal winning streak this team… · 2009
ABC26GN2363 · In an examination of n questions, a student replied 15 out of the first 20 questions correctly. Of the remaining questions, he answered…
ABC26GN2364 · The salaries of A and B together amount to ₹ 2000. A spends 95\% of his salary and B, 85\% of his. If now, their savings are the same, what…
ABC26GN2365 · A's marks in Biology are 20 less than 25\% of the total marks obtained by him in Biology, Maths and Drawing. If his marks in Drawing be 50…
ABC26GN2366 · In an examination, there are three papers and a candidate has to get 35\% of the total to pass. In one paper, he gets 62 out of 150 and in…
ABC26GN2367 · In a History examination, the average for the entire class was 80 marks. If 10\% of the students scored 95 marks and 20\% scored 90 marks…
ABC26GN2368 · A scored 30\% marks and failed by 15 marks. B scored 40\% marks and obtained 35 marks more than those required to pass. The pass percentage…
ABC26GN2369 · In an area, of the total people 40\% were women and 45\% coffee drinkers. One-third of the males are coffee drinkers. Suppose the total… · 2009
ABC26GN2370 · A city has a population of 3,00,000 out of which 1,80,000 are males. 50\% of the population is literate. If 70\% of the males are literate… · 2009
ABC26GN2371 · In a company there are 75\% skilled workers and the remaining are unskilled. 80\% of skilled workers and 20\% of unskilled workers are… · 2006
ABC26GN2372 · A clothing supplier stores 800 coats in a warehouse, of which 15 percent are full-length coats. If 500 of the short-length coats are… · 2006
ABC26GN2373 · At the college entrance examination, each candidate is admitted or rejected according to whether he has passed or failed the tests. Of the… · 2007
ABC26GN2374 · In a public school, 1/5 th of girls and 1/4 th of boys are under 12 years of age. If the number of girls is 2/5 th of the total, what part… · 2008
ABC26GN2375 · In a city, 35\% of the population is composed of migrants, 20\% of whom are from rural areas. Of the local population, 48\% is female while… · 2005
ABC26GN2376 · In a recent survey, 40\% houses contained two or more people. Of those houses containing only one person, 25\% were having only a male…
ABC26GN2377 · 37 1/2 \% of the candidates in an examination were girls, 75 \% of the boys and 62 1/2 \% of the girls passed and 342 girls failed. The…
ABC26GN2378 · 5/9 part of the population in a village are males. If 30\% of the males are married, the percentage of unmarried females in the total…
ABC26GN2379 · The boys and girls in a college are in the ratio 3: 2. If 20\% of the boys and 25\% of the girls are adults, the percentage of students who…
ABC26GN2380 · A debtor can pay 87 paise in the rupee, but if his creditors would take 20\% of his debts, he could pay them and have ₹ 42 left. His debts…
ABC26GN2381 · Of the 50 researchers in a workgroup, 40\% will be assigned to Team A and the remaining 60\% to Team B. However, 70\% of the researchers… · 2005
ABC26GN2382 · A train starts from station A with some passengers. At station B 10\% of the passengers get down and 100 passengers get in. At station C… · 2008
ABC26GN2383 · The charges for a five-day trip by a tourist bus for one full ticket and a half-ticket are ₹ 1440 inclusive of boarding charges which are…
ABC26GN2384 · Asha's monthly income is 60\% of Deepak's monthly income and 120\% of Maya's monthly income. What is Maya's monthly income if Deepak's… · 2009
ABC26GN2385 · Raju’s monthly salary is 20 percent more than Anuj’s monthly salary. Ravi’s monthly salary is ` 1500 more than Anuj’s salary. The sum of… · 2010
ABC26GN2386 · A sum of ₹ 2236 is divided among A, B and C in such a way that A receives 25\% more than C and C receives 25\% less than B. What is A's… · 2009
ABC26GN2387 · A sum of ₹ 6100 was divided among 8 men, 10 women and 12 children in such a way that each man received 25\% more than a woman and each… · 2006
ABC26GN2388 · In an examination in which full marks were 800, A gets 20\% more than B, B gets 20\% more than C, and C gets 15\% less than D. If A got…
ABC26GN2389 · In an examination, the percentage of students qualified to the number of students appeared from school A is 70\%. In school B, the number…
ABC26GN2390 · If the price of a book is first decreased by 25\% and then increased by 20\%, then the net change in the price will be
ABC26GN2393 · A shopkeeper first increased the price of an article by 25\% and then by 20\%. What is the total percent increase? (P.C.S., 2008)
ABC26GN2394 · Two successive price increases of 10\% each on an article are equivalent to a single price increase of · 2010
ABC26GN2396 · The price of an article was first increased by 10\% and then again by 20\%. If the last increased price be ₹ 33, the original price was… · 2010
ABC26GN2397 · The price of an article was increased by r \%. Later the new price was decreased by r \%. If the latest price was ₹ 1 , then the original…
ABC26GN2398 · In a factory, producing parts for an automobile, the parts manufactured on the shop floor are required to go through three quality checks… · 2005
ABC26GN2400 · Peter could save 10\% of his income. But two years later when his income is increased by 20\%, he could save the same amount only as…
ABC26GN2399 · In the expression xy 2, the values of both variables to go through three quality checks, each conducted x and y are decreased by 20%. By…
ABC26GN2401 · Income tax is raised from 4 paise to 5 paise in a rupee but the revenue is increa-sed by 10\% only. Find the decrease percent in the amount… · 2007
ABC26GN2402 · The ticket for admission to an exhibition was ₹ 5 and it was later reduced by 20\%. As a result, the sale proceeds of tickets increased by…
ABC26GN2403 · The income of a broker remains unchanged though the rate of commission is increased from 4\% to 5\%. The percentage of slump in business is
ABC26GN2404 · By how much percent must a motorist increase his speed in order to reduce by 20\%, the time taken to cover a certain distance? · 2006
ABC26GN2405 · What percent decrease in salaries would exactly cancel out the 20 percent increase?