Friday, 27 October 2023

PERCENTAGE

EXERCISE - A

1) Convert the following fractions into percentages :

a) 7/10.             70%
b) 5/12.             125/3%
c) 9/16.              225/4%
d) 13/15.            270/3%
e) 3/8.                 37.5%
f) 5/16.              125/4%
g) 7/25.              28%
h) 5/8.               125/2%
i) 11/6.              550/3%
j) 9/25.              36%
k) 3/125.           2.4%
l) 12/5.              240%
m)  1/4.             25%
n) 1/8.              12.5%
o) 1/5.              20%
p) 50/3.           5000/3%


2) Convert the following into fractions:

a) 15%.                3/20
b) 25/4%.            1/16
c) 17.5%.             7/40
d) 8.25%.            33/400
e) 24%.               6/25
f) 65/2%.            3/8   
g) 48%.              12/25
h) 22⁰%.            11/5
i) 2.5%.              1/40
j)  36%.              9/25
k) 120%.            6/5
l) 0.8%.              1/125
m) 48%.            48/100
n) 2.5% .          25/1000
o) 56%.             56/100 





EXERCISE - B

1) Convert the following decimals as percentages:

a) 0.28.            28%
b) 0.6.              60%
c) 0.09.            9%
d) 0.125.         12.5%
e) 0.15.           15%
f) 0.2.              20%
g) 1.2.             50%


2) Convert the following percentage into decimals:

a) 8%.               0.08
b) 65%.             0.65
c) 36/5%.         0.072
d) 12.4%.         0.124
e) 105%.          1.05
f) 65/2%.         0.375
g) 21.5% .        0.215
i) 7.5%.            0.075
j) 250%.           2.5
k) 80%.            0.8
l) 205%.           2.05
m) 6%.             0.06
o) 72%.            0.72
p) 125%.          1.25
q) 12.5%.         0.125
r) 76%.             0.76
s) 5%.              0.05
t) 72% .           0.72
u) 67%.            0.67



EXERCISE - C

1) Convert the ratios in percentage:

a) 3:5.           60%
b) 4 :11.        148/11%
c) 7 :25.        28%
d) 4:5.           80%
e) 5 : 6.         260/3%
f) 11:12 .      275/3%
g) 3:4.           75%
h) 2:3.         200/3%
i) 3:4.            75%
j) 4:5.            80%

2) Express as ratio:

a) 65%.              13:20
b) 45/2%.           9:40
c) 13.5%.           27:200
d) 56%.              14:25
e) 65/2%.           3:8
f) 36%                 9:25
g)125%.              5:4
h) 10 paise to Rs2.     1:20
i) 5 cm to 5 m.      1:100




EXERCISE - D

1) 20% of 65.                       13

2) 30% of 80.                      24

3) 16% of 5/8.                  1/10

4) 75/4% of Rs560.       Rs105

5) 125/2% of 4 kg.        2.5 kg

6) 12.5% of 6 km.          750m

7) 51/4% of 240.         Rs30.60

8) 11.5% of 350m.       40.25m

9) 15/2% of Rs2400.      Rs180

10) find 9/2% of Rs3600.          Rs162

11) 18% of Rs3500.    Rs630

12) 100/3% of 180 GM's.    60gms




EXERCISE - E

1) 20% of a number is 15. find the number.         75

2) 25/2% of a number is 80. Find the number.   640

3) 34% of a number is 85, find the number.       250

4) If 35% of a quantity is 154 kg, find quantity.      440 kg

5) If 27.5% of an amount is Rs123.75, what is the amount ?   Rs450

6) 45% of the number is 216. Find the number.        480

7) If 25/2% of a weight is 16 kg. Find the weight.     128kg

8) If 24.5% of a length is 2 m 45 cm, what is the length.      10m

9) 6.5% of a sum of money is Rs16.25, find the sum of money.    Rs250

10) ) If 65% of a number is 3250, find the number.           5000

11) ) if 26% of the number is 65, find the number.             250

12) if 16% number is 72, find the number.                     450

13) If 32% of a number is 8. Find the number ?       25

14) 60% of a certain number is 18.6. Find the number.     31







EXERCISE - E

1) What percentage of 80 is 20?        25%

2) What percentage of Rs1260 is Rs210 ?     50/3%

3) What percentage of 85 is 17 ?       20%

4) What percentage of Rs1440 is Rs120 ?     25/3%

5) What percentage of 45 litre is 18 litre ?         40%

6) What percentage of 120 is 90.       75%

7) what percentage of 1 kg is 5 g.    0.5%

8) what percentage of 3.5 L is 150 ml.      30/7%

9) what percentage of 150 is 96.     64%

10) what percentage of 5 kg is 200 gram.    4%

11) what percentage of 2 litre is 250 ml ?   12.5%

12) What percentage of 72 is 12.      50/3%

13) What percentage of 490gm of 1kg 400gms.   35%

14) What percentage of 54P is Rs3 ?      18%

15) What percentage of 60ml of a litre.       6%



12) 9 hours is what percent of 3 days ?     12.5%

13) 60 kg is what percentage of 240kg?      25%



EXERCISE - F


1) which is largest in 50/3%, 2/15 and 0.12 ?

2) which is the largest in 20/3%, 3/20 and 0.14 ?           3/20

3) which is largest in 25/3%, 4/25 and 0.15?                   4/25

4) A number increased by 45/2% gives 98. Find the number.     80

5) A number exceeds 20% of itself by 40. Find the number.      50

6) A number decreased by 12.5% gives 52.5. Find the number.     60

7) A number is increased by 20% and then decreased by 20%. Find the net increase or decrease percent.    4%





EXERCISE - G

1) In a railway accident, 84 out of 525 passengers were injured. What percentage of the passengers were unhurt ?             84%

2) Bimal secured 750 marks out of a total of 900. What percentage of marks did he secure ?             250/3%

3) The number of students in a school increased from 800 to 860. What was the increase percent the number of students ?           15/2%

4) Neetu got 64 marks in a test. After 1 week, she obtained 72 marks. Find the percentage increase in her marks. 25/2%

5) The price of a TV decreases from Rs9900 to 9000. Find the decrease percent in the price of the TV.  100/11%

6) A number is increased by 20% and then decreased by 20%. Find the net increase or decrease percent?  Decrease 4%

7) In a school, out of a total of 1050 students , 210 are girls. What percentage of the students are boys.      80%

8) In an examination, one required 40% marks to pass. Rahul gets 185 marks and fails by 15 marks. What are the maximum marks ?        500

9) In a class, 60% of the total number of students are boys and there are 14 girls. How many students are there in the class ?          35

10) If 32% of the students in a school are girls and the number of the boys in the school is 731. Calculate the total strength of the school.      1075



EXERCISE - H

1) The full marks in an examination is 600, if a students secures 7i% marks, how much does he score ?         468

2) John weighs 55 kg. Find Peter's weight if John weighs 10% more than Peter.    50kg

3) A drum contains 85 litres of water, 60% of the water flows out. How much water is left in the drum ?          34 litres

4) 3900 bulbs were used to decorate a building. Of these 25% were green,15% were red, and the rest were yellow. Find the number of yellow bulbs used.    2340

5) Ravi's age is 10% more than his sister's age. Find his sister's age if Ravi is 44 years old.           40 years

6) On a rainy day, 30% of the students of a class were absent. If 84 students were present, what was the strength of the class?       120

7) Sonia ha Rs5.40. If she has 10% less money than Uma. How much does Uma have?      Rs600

8) Raina scored 48 runs. If he scored 20% more runs than Roy, how many runs did Raina score ?         40

9) Pakistan scored 270 runs and fail short of India's score by 10%. How much did India score ?       300

10) Amit was given an increment 20% on his salary. If his new salary is Rs30600 , what was his salary before the increment ?          Rs25500

11) A football team wins 7 games, which is 35% of the total games played. How many games were played in all ?        20


EXERCISE - I

1) Sonal attended her school on 204 days in a full year. If her attendance is 85%, find the number of days on which the school was opened.          240

2) A student needs to score 75% or more to secure grade A in an examination. How much must the students score out of 900 to get grade A?         675

3) Meena secured 450 marks. If Manoj score was 40% higher than Meena's , find Manoj's marks.           630

4) A student has to get 33% of the full marks to pass an examination. Rajini secured 150 marks and failed by 15 marks. Find the full marks in examination.        500

5) Suresh spent Rs560 in the market. If the money he spent was 40% of the money he had, how much money did he have ?          Rs1400

) A student X secured 30% marks in an examination in failed by 15 marks. Another student Y secured 40% marks and obtain 35 marks more than those required to pass. Find the maximum marks and the pass percentage of marks.      33%

6) A man saves 18% of his monthly income. If he saves Rs 3780 per month, what is his monthly income ?    Rs21000

7) Ravi's monthly salary is Rs16000 Rahul's salary is 25/4% more than Ravi's salary. What is their total monthly income ?    Rs33000

8) A man has Rs500. He spends 85% of the money. How much money is left with him?        Rs75

9) A man's monthly salary is Rs12000. His wife's monthly salary is 20% less than his. Find their total monthly income.      Rs21600

10) Sarita spends 65% of her salary and the rest she saves. If she saves Rs2940 per month, what is her monthly salary?      Rs8400

11) Out of her total monthly salary Ram spends 30% on his house rent and 60% of the rest on his household expenditure. If he saves Rs10500, what is his total monthly salary ?       Rs37500

12) The salary of an officer is increased by 25%. By what percentage should the new salary be decreased to restore the original salary ?     20%

13) Tom spent 65% of his salary, he had left with Rs14000. How much money did he get as salary ?        Rs40000

) Shuam spends 75% of is income. His income is increased by 20% and he increased his expenditure by 10%. Find the percentage increase in his savings.     50%

14) Mr. Jones gave 40% of the money he had, to his wife. He also gave 20% of the remaining amount to each of the three sons. Half of the amount now left was spent on miscellaneous items and the remaining amount of Rs12000 was deposited in the bank. How much money did Mr. Jone have initially ?     1000000



EXERCISE - J

1)a) The population of a town increased by 6% annually. If the present population is 17490, what was it a year ago?     16500

b) The population of a town increases by 8% annually. If the present population is 54000. What was it a year ago?      50000

c) The population of jahangirpuri in the year 2013 was 100000 and increased in 2014 by 5%, in the year 2015 by 10% and in the year 2016 by 3%. What is the population of jahangirpuri at the beginning of 2017 ? 118965

3) The value of a machine depreciate every year by 10%. If the present value of the machine be Rs99,000, what was its value last year ?         Rs110000

4) The value of a machine depreciates every year by 20%. If the present value of the machine be Rs160000, what was its value last year?      Rs200000

5) The value of a machine depreciates every year by 10%. If the present value of the machine is Rs54000, what was its value last year ?        Rs60000

6) A's income is 60% more than that of B. By what percent is B's income less than A's.         37.5%

7) A's income is 20% less than that of B. By what percentage is B's income more than A's.   25%

) If A's salary is 25% more than that of B, then how many percent is B's salary less than that of A?   20%

8) The price of petrol goes up by 10%. By how much percent must a motorist reduce the consumption of petrol so that the expenditure on it remains unchanged ?     100/11%

9) The price of sugar goes up by 20%. By how much percent must a housewife reduce her consumption of sugar so that the expenditure on sugar remains the same ?   50/3%

) A reduction of 10% in the price of sugar enables a man to buy 1 kg of sugar more for Rs162. Find 
a) the original rate per kg.     Rs18
b) the reduced rate per kg.         Rs16.20

10) A man weight 72 kg. His wife's weight is 25% less than his. If their son weight 10% more than his mother. Find the son's weight.       59kg 400gms


EXERCISE - K



2) Balanced diet should contain 12% of protein, 25% of fats and 63% of carbohydrates. If a child needs 2600 calories in his food daily, find in calories the amount of each of these in his food intake.       P:312, f:650, c:1638

3) Gunpowder contains 75% nitre and 10% sulphur. Find the amount of gunpowder which carries 9kg nitre. What amount of gunpowder would contain 2.5 kg sulphur?                12kg, 25kg

4) Divide Rs7000 among A, B and C such that A gets 50% of what B gets and B gets 50% of what C gets.      1000, 2000, 4000

5) Find the percentage of pure gold in 22 carat gold, if 24 carats gold is 100% pure .              275/3%

6) An alloy contains 30% copper, 42% nickel and rest zinc. Find the mass of zinc in 1 kg of alloy.             280g

7) An alloy contains 40% copper, 32% nickel and rest zinc. Find the mass of zinc in one kg of the alloy. 280 kg






) Students of Class 8 have decided to go for a picnic. If a class at 70% girls and the total number of girls going for picnic is 28 then find the number of student in the class ?   40











) 25% of 450 + 45% of 280=?    238.5

) what is 30% of 40% of 2/5th of 2500 ?    120


) In an election, candidate A got 75% of the total valid votes. If 15% of the total voters were declared invalid and the total numbers of votes is 560000, find the number of valid votes polled in favour of candidate. 357000

) In an election contested by two candidates, one candidate got 38% of the total votes and still lost by 480 votes, then find the total number of votes casted? 2000

) In an election there were two contestant. 15% of voters used NOTA whereas the candidate who won the election got 45% of total votes and still won by 2500 votes then how many votes did the opponent candidate got? 20000

) In an election contested by two candidates , the winning candidates secured 57% of the total votes polled and won by a majority of 43456 votes. Calculate 
a) the number of total votes polled.          310400
b) the number of votes cast for the losing candidates.      133472



) The ratio of the number of boys in the girls in a school is 3:2, 20% of the boys and 30% the girls are scholarship holders. What is the percentage of students who are not scholarship holders?     76%

) If the GST be reduced from 5% to 3%, then what difference does it make to a person who purchases article with marked price of Rs6200?   rs124

) A food inspector rejects 0.10% of the metres as defective. How many will he examine to reject 5 ?      5000

) if Dilip earns 25% more than Jordan then income of Dilip is how much percentage less than that of Dilip.        20% less

) In the new budget, the price of sugar rose by 20%. How much a percen must a person reduces his consumption so that his expenditure on it does not increase ?    50/3%



) If Ramesh's salary is 20% less than that of Dilip then by what percentage Dilip 's income more than Ramesh's.      25%



) A man expands 25% on food , 20% on rent and 10% on education and saves Rs1350 at the end of the month. Find his monthly income.    800


) If the sides of a square is increased by 10%, what is the percentage increase in its area ? 21%

) The length of rectangle is increased by 10% and its breath is increased by 20%. Find the percentage increase in its area.     32%


) A candidate scores 25% and fails by 30 marks while another candidate who scored 50% marks gets 20 marks more than the minimum required marks for the examination. Find the maximum marks for the examination.      200



) The price of an article is reduced by 20%, find the original price of the article if the reduced prices is Rs4000.         5000

) The value of car depreciates every year by 20%. Find out its value after 2 years if present value is Rs350000.          224000

) A fruit seller has 1600 fruits, 20% of the are apples, 35% are oranges and the rest are mangoes. Find the number of fruits of each kind.      720







) if 15% of 40 greater than 25% of a number by 2, then what is the number ?   16

) A batsman scored 120 runs with includes 3 boundaries and 8 sixes . What percent of his total score did he make by running between the wickets.     50%

) Raju scored 62% English, 18% in mathematics and 56% in Social Science. If the maximum marks in these subjects were 50, 100 and 75 respectively, find her aggregate percentage.    68%

) In an examination, 70% then candidates passed in English, 65% in mathematics and 27% failed in both the subjects . If 558 candidates passed in both the subjects , find the total number of candidates.       900

) 40% passengers from a train got down at station A. 60% of the remaining passangers got down at station B. If there were still 540 passangers in the train, how many passengers were there before station A, provided no one boarded the train at station A and station B?     2250

) A bag consists of 450 marbles. Out of these marbles , 16% are blue , 32% are white, 28% of green and the rest are red. Find the number of marbles of different colours.   B:72, w:144, g: 126



) A Solution of salt and water contained 15% salt . After evaporating 30 kg of water from it, the remaining solution has 20% salt. Find the weight of the original solution.    120kg







) The cost of manufacturing of an article is divided between material and labour in the ratio 8:7. If the cost of material be increased by 40% and the cost of labour be decreased by 20%, find the resulting change percent in the total cost.    12%

) The population of a town has been increasing at the rate of 6% per annum. If its present population is 19663, what was it 2 years ago?    17500

) A machine was purchased 3 years ago. Its value depreciates at the rate of 10% per annum. If its present value is Rs94770, for how much was it purchased ?     130000

) convert the following into fraction
a) 35%
b) 40/3% 
c) 108%
d)!2.05% 

) convert each of the following into decimal 
a) 14%
b) 25/4% 
c) 125% 
d) 817/8%

Convert each of the following into percentage
a) 3/8
b) 3/2
c) 0.3
d) 0.0.0654

) what percent is a 84 is 6 ?    50/7%
) what percent of 70 is 84 ?   120%
) what percentage of 2.5 is 1.21 ?    48.4%
) what percentage of Rs5 is 40 P.   8%
) what percentage of 2.4 kg is 400gm.     50/3%
) what percentage of 6.5 litres is 130 ml.    2%

) find 
a) 63% of 25/7.    9/4
b)  28% of 2.5.     0.7

)  express Rs42.15 as the percentage of Rs281.    15%
)  express 35 cm as the percentage of 2.5 m.    14%

) If 30% of a number is 12.6, find the number.    42

) If 2.5% of a number is 0.6, find the number.    24

) If 35% of a number is 26.6, what is 20% of that number.    15.2

) Find the percentage error (correct to 2 decimal places) in taking
a)  2.54 as 2.5.     1.57%
b) 2.53 x10⁵ as 2.5 x 10⁵.      1.18%

) If the sales tax be reduced from 7/2% to 10/3%, then what is the difference does it make to a person who purchases an article with marked price of Rs8400 ?Rs14

) A batsman scored 110 runs which included 3 boundaries and 8 sixes . What percentage of his the total score did he make by running between the wickets ?   450/11%

) While purchasing one item costing Rs400, I had to pay the sales tax at 7% and on another costing Rs6400, the sales tax was 9%. What percent of the sales tax I had to pay, taking the two items together on an average ?    128/17%

) Hemant spends 84% of his salary and the rest he saves . If he saves Rs900 per month, what is his monthly salary ?     Rs5625

) In an examination 7200 candidates appeared, of whom 15% are girls and the rest boys. If 5% of the boys and 15% of the girls fail, what percentage of the total strength passed ?     93.5%

) A man saves 30% of his salary. Due to dearness , his expenses increased by 30% and now he is able to save Rs1125 per month. Calculating his monthly salary.    Rs12500

) A factory produced 5625 scooters in the year 2000. The production was increased by 20% in 2001 and then by 40% 2002. What was the total production in the year 2002 ?   9450

) Last year, the population of a town was 25000. Due to an increase of 5% males and 6% females during the year, its present population is 26360. How many males are there in the town now ?    14700

) In a survey, it is found that 567 pupils, representing 42% of the total strength of a school come by the school bus. If 4% come by car, 540 come on foot and rest use their bicycles ,find 
a) the total strength of the school.     1350
b) the percentage of pupils using their bicycles.     14%

) A reduction of 15% in the price of a dining tables brought down its cost to Rs4760. What was the original price of the dining table ?    Rs5600

) A candidate scoring 25% of maximum marks in an examination, fails by 30 marks, while another candidate who scores 50% of maximum marks , gets 20 marks more than those required to pass. Find
a) the maximum marks.     200
b) the percentage of marks necessary for passing.       40%

) In an election between two candidates, one who gets 40% of total votes is defeated by 15000 votes. Find the number of votes polled by the winning candidate.    45000

) in a election between two candidates, one got 55% of total valid votes. If 20% of the votes were invalid and the total number of votes was7500, find the number of valid votes obtained by the other candidate.

) At an election involving two candidates , 68 votes were declared invalid. The winning candidate scored 52% of the valid votes and won by 98 votes . Find the total number of votes polled.

) The price of a table is Rs400 more than that of a chair. If 6 tables and 6 chairs together cost Rs4800, by what percent is the price of a chair less than that of a table?

) 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, what percentage of students consists of those who are not adults?

) A man spends 80% of his income is income. His income increases by 20% and he increases his expenditure by 15%. Find the percentage increase in his saving.

) A's height is 20% less than that of B. How many percentage is B's height more than that of A?   

) If A's income is 50% more than that of B, then how much percentage is B's income less than that of A?

) If the price of sugar is increased by 15%, by how much percentage a household must reduce her consumpttion of sugar so as not to increase the expenditure ?

) The price of an article is reduced by 25%. By what percentage the new price be increased in order to restore it to the former value?

) Due to a detection of 25/4% in the price of sugar, A man is able to buy 1 kg more Rs120. Find 
a) the original rate of sugar.
b) the reduced rate of sugar.

) The price of sugar was first increased by 20% and then reduced by 10%. If the reduced price is 10.80 per kg, find the original price of 1 kg of sugar.

) How many millimeters of water must be added to 9 ml of shaving lotion containing 50% of alcohol to get a location containing 30% alcohol ?

) From the salary of an officer, 10% is deducted as house rent, 15% of the rest he spends on children's education and 10% of the balance, he spends no clothes. Then, he is left with Rs11016. Find his total salary.      

) The population of a town is 176400. If it increases at the rate of 5% per annum, calculate its population :
a) 2 years hence.
b) 2 years ago.

) The value of a machine depreciates at the rate of 10% per annum. If its present value is Rs162000, find its worth.
a) after 2 years.
b) 2 years ago.

) 36 kg of gunpowder contains 27 kg nitre, 54 kg of charcoal and the rest sulphur. Find the percentage content of sulphur in the mixture.

) How much copper must be mixed with 54 kg of zinc, in order to make an alloy, of which 45% is zinc and the rest copper ?     

) A man had two acid solutions, one 90% pure and other 97% pure.  How many litres of each should be mixed to get 42 litres of 95% pure solution ?

) Divide Rs552 among A, B and C so that A receives 20% more than B and B receives 20% less than C.

) The cost of manufacturing an article is divided between materials , labour and overheads in the ratio 3:4:1. If the materials cost Rs180, find the cost of manufacturing the article. Later on the cost of materials rose by 25%, labour rose by 35% and overheads decreased by 15%, find the percentage of increase in the cost of the article.





















)  in an election the winning candidates received 48000 60% of the electorate The other candidate secured boards from 25% of the electorate calculate the number of electorate collection of time is 20% less than the Santosh collection then by what percentage more than that of Suraj 25th one third of 3 7th of a number is 15 what is 40% of that number 75% of a number is direct 275 then result is a number itself find the number three candidates contested in an election and receive to 1136 7636 and 11628 respectively what percentage of the price question of the price the car was damage respectively completely in an accident and incidence company pate 90% of the insurance what was the difference between the price of the car and the amount receipt a student has to obtain 33% marks of the total marks to pass he has to got 125 marks in a field by 40 marks find the maximum marks when 35% of his income on food 25% and childreneducation and education of the remaining and house rent what percentage of his income is left 430% marks and filled by 15 marks for 60% maths and obtain 35 marks more than those are required to pass what is the past percentage the sum of the number of boys in the girls in a school is 150 with the number of boys the sum of the number of boys and girls in school 150 that in one number of oxygen the number of girls become 6% of the total number of student find the total number of boys in the school the population of town increases by 8% annually the present population is 542 contains 40% copper 32% equal in the Westin find the mass 15% of 180 + X + 250 is equals to 11% up is equals to convert 29% into decimal find the value of 230% of 6000 bucket is 80% full they contains 2 litres more water than water is 6600/3% full what is the capacity of bucket if 32% of number is 8 find the number after spending 75% of the money at 6:25 what was the amount she had originally 55% of student school are boys in the number of girls is 900 find the number of boys then what percentage of x student X 3/5/3 what is the percentageexamination students score 40% marks to pass hectares 40 marks in case by 40 marks find the maximum number of maths 1.5 of b1 by 8C then ABC is 60% of income is equals to 75% of these income in the income is equal to its percent of income what is the value of x% of 5% of x y x y x + Y x in an examination examination one request 40% marks to pass Rahul get 185 months and appeals by 15% marks what are the maximum marks 455 600550 its percent of Y + Y % Apex 3% of xy 4% of xy 2% of x y 5% of xy adding 24 to a number is equal to add in 20% of that of number to it what is 120% of that number 14134 142 144 80.1 percent of 10% of the name is what percent is obtained 1000% 100% 10% 150% 26% of a number is 65 find the number 150 200 25100












** CHOOSE THE CORRECT OPTION 

1) 3/5 =?
a) 30%  b) 40%  c) 45%  d) 60%

2) 0.8% when expressed as a decimal, is
a) 0.08.  b) 0.008.  c) 8  d) 0.8

3) 6:5 when expressed as a percentage, is
a) 250/3% b) 90% c) 120% d) 6.5%

4) 5% of a number is a 9. The number is
a) 45 b) 90 c) 135 d) 180

5)  what percentage of 90 is 120 ?
a) 75% b) 100/3% c) 400/3%  d) none

6) what percentage of 10 kg is 250 gram ?
a) 25% b) 5% c) 10% d) 2.5%

7) 40% of  ?= 240
a) 60 b) 600 c) 6000 d) 960

8) ?% of 400= 60
a) 6 b) 12 c) 15 d) 20

9)  (180% of ?)÷2= 504
a) 400 b) 480 c) 600 d) 560

10) 20% of Rs800 = ?
a) 160 b) 16 c) 1600  d) none

11) In an examination. Nitin gets 98 marks . This amounts to 56% of the maximum marks. What are the maximum marks ?
a) 75 b) 150 c) 175 d) 225

12) A number is first increased by 10% and then reduced by 10%. The number 
a) does not change b) decrease by 1% c) increase by 1% d) none

13) A period of 4 hour 30 minutes is what percentage of a day ?
a) 75/4% b) 20% c) 50/3% d) 19% 

14) In an examination, 65% of the total examinees passed. If the number of failure is 420, the total number of examinees is
a) 500 b) 1000 c) 1200 d) 1625

15) A number exceeds 20% of itself by 40. The number is
a) 50 b) 60 c) 80 d) 320

16) A number decreased by 55/2% gives 87. The number is 
a) 58 b) 110 c) 120 d) 135 

17) 0.05 is what percentage of 20.
a) 25%  b) 2.5% c) 0.25% d) 0.025% 

18) One-third of 1206 is what percentage of 134 ?
a) 3% b) 30% c) 20% d) 300%

19) x% of y is y% of ?
a) x b) 100x c) x/100 d) y/100

20) What percentage of 2/7 is 1/35 ?
a) 2.5% b) 10% c) 20% d) 25% 

21) what percentage of 2/9 is 1/45
a) 2.5% b) 5% c) 7.5% d) 10%

21) A number decreased by 30% gives 84. The number is
a) 90 b) 110 c) 120 d) 135 

23) (?)% of 320 is 48 ?
a) 25% b) 15% c) 14% d) 9%

24) What percentage of 45 is 54?
a) 250/3% b) 104% c) 108% d) 120%

25) A number exceeds is 25% of itself by 60. The number is
a) 75 b) 45 c) 80 d) 65 

26) 5% of which number is 12?
a) 120 b) 180 c) 240 d) 320



** FILL IN THE BLANKS:

1) 1/2% of Rs 1200= ___

2) 240 ml is ____ of 3L

3) if x% of of 35 is 42, then x = ___

4) 12/5 = ___ 

5) 120= (__)% of 80.

6) 10 paice= ___% of a rupee. 

7) 18 gram = ___% of a kg. 

8) 8% of 75 litres= ____. 

9) 25/4% of _____ is 16. 256

10) ____% of 40 is 6. 

11) ____% of 1 km is 20m.



** WRITE TRUE or FALSE 

1) 6% of 8 is 48.

2) 6:5 =  30%.

3)  3/5 = 60%.

4) 6 hours= 25% of a day.


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