Percentage-Test 4

When the price of rice is increased by 25 percent, a family reduces its consumption
such that the expenditure is only 10 percent more than before. If 40 kg of rice is consumed by family before, then find the new consumption of family.

The price of rice is increased by 20 percent and a person decrease his consumption by 15
percent, so his expenditure on rice is

A salary is 40 percent more than B. B’s salary is 30 percent less than C. If the
difference between the salary of C and A is 1200 rupees, then what is the monthly income
of C

When the price of rice is increased by 30 percent, a family reduces its consumption
such that the expenditure is only 20 percent more than before. If 50 kg of rice is consumed by family before, then find the new consumption of family (approx.)

One type of liquid contains 20 percent of milk and second type of liquid contains 40
percent milk. If 4 part of the first and 6 part of the second are mix, then what is the
percent of water in the mixture.

40% of the students like Mathematics, 50% like English and 10% like both Mathematics
and English. What % of the students like neither English nor Mathematics?

A watermelon weighing 20 kg contains 96% of water by weight. It is put in sun for some time and some water evaporates so that now it contains only 95% of water by weight.
The new weight of watermelon would be?

If the price of wheat is reduced by 2%. How many kilograms of wheat a person can
buy with the same money which was earlier sufficient to buy 49 kg of wheat?

Monthly salary of A is 30% more than B’s monthly salary and B’s monthly salary is
20% less than C’s. If the difference between the monthly salaries of A and C is Rs 800,
then find the annual salary of B.

Mixture 1 contains 20% of water and mixture 2 contains 35% of water. 10 parts
from 1st mixture and 4 parts from 2nd mixture is taken and put in a glass. What is
the percentage of water in the new mixture of glass?

3 years ago the population of a town was 1,60,000. In the three respective years the
population increased by 3%, 2.5% and 5% respectively. What is the population of town
after 3 years?

There are 2500 students who appeared for an examination. Out of these, 35% students
failed in 1 subject and 42% in other subject and 15% of students failed in both the
subjects. How many of the students passed in either of the 2 subjects but not in both?

A bucket is filled with water such that the weight of bucket alone is 25% its weight when
it is filled with water. Now some of the water is removed from the bucket and now the
weight of bucket along with remaining water is 50% of the original total weight. What part of the water was removed from the bucket?

In a survey done by a committee, it was found that 4000 people have smoking habit.
After a month this number rose by 5%. However due to continuous advices given by
the committee to the people, the number reduced by 5% in the next month and further
by 10% in the next month. What is the total number of smokers after 3 months?

There are 5000 students in a school. The next year it was found that the number of
boys and girls increased by 10% and 15% respectively making the total number of
students in school as 5600. Find the number of girls originally in the school?

If x is 20% more than y, then by what percent y is smaller than x.

In an alloy, there is 15% of brass, to get 90 kg of brass, how much alloy is needed ?

25 litre of solution contains alcohol and water in the ratio 2:3. How much alcohol
must be added to the solution to make a solution containing 60% of alcohol ?

In an examination if a person get 20% of the marks then it is fail by 30 marks. Another
person who gets 30% marks gets 30 marks more than the passing marks. Find out the
total marks and the passing marks.

A company has produced 900 pieces of transistor out of which 15% are defective and
out of remaining 20 % were not sold. Find out the number of sold transistor.

In an election the votes between the winner and loser candidate are in the ratio
5:1. If total number of eligible voters are 1000, out of which 12% did not cast their vote
and among the remaining vote 10% declared invalid. What is the number of votes the
winner candidate get ?

If the price of a commodity is increased by 30%, by how much % a consumer must
reduce his consumption so to keep the expenditure same ?

1000 sweets need to be distributed equally among the school students in such a way that
each student gets sweet equal to 10% of total students. Then the number of sweets, each
student gets.

Rishi salary is first increased by 20% and then decreased by 25%. How much percent
the salary increased/decreased ?

The income of a person is 10000 and its expenditure is 6000 and thus saves 4000 rs. In
the next year his income is increased by 10% and its expenditure increased by 20%. Now
his saving is what percent lower than the previous saving.