Percentage – Set 8

2) In an election 4% of votes cast are invalid. A candidate gets 55% of casted votes and wins the election by 4200 votes. Find the total number of votes casted.

3) The amount of work in a leather factory is increased by 50%. By what percent is it necessary to increase the number of workers to complete the new amount of work in previously planned time, if the productivity of the new labour is 25% more.

4) In a test, minimum passing percentage for girls and boys are 45% and 60% respectively. A boy scored 767 marks and failed by 313 marks. What are the minimum passing marks for girls?

7) In Sabarmati Express, there as many wagons as there are the no. of seats in each wagon and not more than one passenger can have the same berth (seat). If the middlemost compartment carrying 25 passengers is filled with 71.428% of its capacity, then find the maximum no. of passengers in the train that can be accommodated if it has minimum 20% seats always vacant.

8) 80% of a number added to 80 gives the result as the number itself, then the number is :

9) Reena goes to a shop to buy a radio costing Rs. 2568. The rate of sales tax is 7% and the final value is rounded off to the next higher integer. She tells the shopkeeper to reduce the price of the radio so that she has to pay Rs. 2568 inclusive of sales tax. Find the reduction needed in the price of the radio.

11) In an office there were initially N employees. The HR manager first hired P% employees then after a month Q% employees left the office, the value of (P – Q) is:

12) Find 1003“>100/3 % of 600

13) Population of a district is 2,96,000 out of which 1,66,000 are male. 50% of the population is literate. If 70% males are literate, then the number of woman who are literate, is

14) Fresh grapes contain 80% while dry grapes contain 10% water. If the weight of dry grapes is 250 kg, what was its total weight when it was fresh?

16) For an examination it is required to get 36% of maximum marks to pass. A student got 113 marks and failed by 85 marks. The maximum marks for the examination are:

17) The population of a town increased from 1,75,000 to 2,62,500 in a decade. The average percent increase of population per year is:

19) Two numbers are respectively 20% and 50% of a third number. What per cent is the first number of second?

20) Distance between A and B is 72 km. Two men started walking from A and B at the same time towards each other. The person who started from A traveled uniformly with average speed of 4 km/hr. The other man traveled with varying speed as follows: In the first hour his speed 2 km/hr, in the second hour it was 2.5 km/hr, in the third hour it was 3 km/hr, and so on. When / where will they meet each other?

22) In a school, there are 100 students. 60% of the students are boys, 40% of whom play hockey and the girls don’t play hockey, 75% of girls play badminton. There are only two games to be played. The number of student who don’t play any game is:

24) What is a percent of b divided by b percent of a?

25) Three candidates contested an election and received 1136, 7636 and 11628 votes respectively. What percentage of the total votes did the winning candidate get ?

27) A big cube is formed by rearranging the 160 coloured and 56 non-coloured similar cubes in such a way that the expouser of the coloured cubes to the outside is minimum. The percentage of exposed area that is coloured is:

30) A shop sells floor tiles at Rs. 48 per square meter. A contractor employs a machine that polishes the tiles that damages 10% of the total number of tiles which cannot be used any more. Calculate the amount that needs to be paid by contractor to tile shop owner, if the hall is of a square shape and has a perimeter of 400 meters?

31) Rajeev buys good worth Rs. 6650. He gets a rebate of 6% on it. After getting the rebate, he pays sales tax @ 10%. Find the amount he will have to pay for the goods.

32) A fraction in reduced form is such that when it is squared and then its numerator is increased by 25% and the denominator is reduced t0 80% it results in 58“>5/8 of original fraction. The product of the numerator and denominator is :

33) 125% of 860 + 75% of 480 = ?

34) The total emoluments of A and B are equal. However, A gets 65% of his basic salary as allowances and B gets 80% of his basic salary as allowances. What is the ratio of the basic salaries of and B?

36) 78% of 750 + 34% of x = 30% of 2630. Find x.

37) A person subscribing to sky cable for a year pack Rs. 1785. If the monthly subscription is Rs. 175, how much discount does a yearly subscriber get?

40) 1% of 1% of 25% 1000 is:

41) In company there are 75% skilled workers and reaming are unskilled. 80% of skilled workers and 20% of unskilled workers are permanent. If number of temporary workers is 126, then what is the number of total workers ?

44) 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?

45) Due to fall of 10% in the rate of sugar, 500 gm more sugar can be purchased for Rs. 140. Find the original rate?

48) Mr. X salary increased by 20%. On the increase, the tax rate is 10% higher. The percentage increase in tax liability is:

49) Heinz produces tomato puree by boiling tomato juice. Tomato puree has 20% water whereas tomato juice has 90% water.How many litres of tomato puree will be obtained from 20 litres of tomato juice ?

50) A book consist of 30 pages, 25 line on each page and 35 characters on each line. If this content is written in another note book consisting 30 lines and 28 characters per line then the required no. of pages will how much percent greater than previous pages?