Problems on Percentage
Problems on Percentage: Overview
This topic covers concepts, such as, Percentage, Percentages when Total is Hundred, Percentage Change by Graphical Method & Product Constancy etc.
Important Questions on Problems on Percentage
In an examination, students failed in Hindi and in English. If failed in both the subjects, what percentage of students passed in both the subjects?


The population of a colony was three years back. It is 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?

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?

The difference is selling an article at profits of and is . The cost price of the article is-

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

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

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

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

A salesman gets a commission on total sales at . If the sale is exceeded ₹. he gets an additional commission as a bonus of on the excess of sales over ₹.. If he gets a total commission of ₹., then the bonus he received is:

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

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

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

A box has coins of denominations one- rupee and fifty paise only. The ratio of their respective values is . The number of one rupee coins is

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?

The population of a town is . It decreases by per thousand per year. Find out the population after years.

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-

If a selling price of results after discount on the list price of an article, the selling price that would result after discount on the list price is;

of a number is euqal to four-fifth of another number. What is the ratio between first number and the second number?

In a company, there are employees employees left the job. Find the number of rest of employees.
