Problems on Percentage

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Problems on Percentage: Overview

This topic covers concepts, such as Use of Percentages, Estimation in Percentages, Conversion of Percentages, Conversion of Percentages to Decimals, Part Percentages Always Add to a Whole, Comparing Quantities Using Percentages, etc.

Important Questions on Problems on Percentage

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In an examination, 52% students failed in Hindi and 42% in English. If 17% failed in both the subjects, what percentage of students passed in both the subjects?

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What percent of 7.2kg is  18gm?

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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?

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The population of a colony was 3600 three years back. It is 4800 right now. What will be the population three years down the line, if the rate of growth of population has been constant over the years and has been compounded annually?

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In a class, 55% students passed in Chemistry and 60% passed in Maths, 50% passed in both of these subjects. If 70 students failed in both Chemistry and Maths, then what is the total number of students?

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40% of a number when added to the square of the same number, then it is increased to 4040% of itself the actual number is:

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Amit deposited two parts of a sum of ₹ 25000 in different banks at the rates of 15% per annum and 18% per annum respectively.In one year he got ₹ 4050 as the total interest.What was the amount deposited at the rate of 18% per annum?

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The difference is selling an article at profits of4% and 6% is 12. The cost price of the article is-

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Find the cost price of the article. If a man sells an article at 5% above its cost price. If he had bought it at5% less than what he paid for it and sold it for 2 less, he would have gained 10%.

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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?

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In a quarterly examination a student secured 30% marks and failed by 12 marks. In the same examination another student secured 40% marks and got 28 marks more than minimum marks to pass. The maximum marks in the examination is

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The value of furniture is  9000. If depreciation per year is 10% of the value at the beginning of each year, the value of furniture after $3$ years will be:

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Two numbers are respectively 25% and 20% less than a third number. What percent is the first number of the second.

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Thirty-five percent of 740 is 34 more than a number. What is two-fifth of the number?

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From a class, total 360 students appeared in an exam. Three fourth of these are boys. 40% of boys failed in the exam, two-third of the girls are failed in the exam and the remaining passed.

The total number of boys passed is approximately what percent of the total number of girls in the class?

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The ratio of the number of Boys and Girls in a school is 3 : 2  If 20% of the boys and 25% of the girls are scholarship holders, then the percentage of the students, who do not get the scholarship, is:

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A man spends 75% of his income. If his income increases by 20% and his expenditure increases by 10%, then what is the percentage increase in his savings?

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A wooden boat with a density of 0.48 g/cc is floating in a vat of oil whose density is
0.80 g/cc.
What percentage of the boat is floating above the surface of the oil?

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The population of a town is  50,000. It decreases by 20 per thousand per year. Find out the population after 2 years.

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Two concentric circle radii 6 cm and 10 cm respectively tangent of the smaller circle is chord of larger circle then find the length of tangents-