Percentage (application)

1) If the price of petrol increased by 37.5%,then how much percent consumption be reduced so
that expenditure remains the same
a)27.27%

b)37.5%

c)9.09%

d)11.11%

e)none of these

2) If the prices of milk went up by 18.18% and consumption is decreased by 8.33%,then find
the percentage change in the expenditure.
a)8.33%increase b)8.33%decrease c)10% increase d)10% decrease e) none

of these

3)In an examination, Ram scored 25% of total marks and failed by 100 marks whereas Kiran
scored 45% of total marks and he got 40 marks above pass marks. Find out the total marks for
the examination?
a)600
b)700
c)800
d)900
e)None of these
4) If A's income is 25% more than that of B, then by what percentage is B's income less than
that of A?
a)10% .
b)15%.
c)20%.
d)25%.
e) None of these
5) Two horses were sold for Rs. 12,000 each, one at a loss of 20% and the other at a gain of
20%. The entire transaction resulted in ?
a)Rs1000
b)Rs1500
c)Rs2000
d)2500 e)None of these
6) In a village of m people, c% are literate. Among the men p% are literate and among the
women q% are literate. What is the number of men in the village?
a)m(c-q)/p-q
b)m(q-c)/p-q
c)m(p-c)/q-c
d)m(c-p)/p-q
e) None of these
7) As income is 60% of Bs income. If As expenditure is Rs. 260 less than Bs and their savings
are 10% and 20% of their incomes, find their incomes respectively?
a)500,800
b)600,1000
c)800,300
d)800,1000
e) None of these
8)A candidate scores an aggregate of 60% marks, scoring an average of 56% in first four
papers and 68% in the rest of the papers. If the maximum marks for all the papers are equal,
then how many papers were there?
a) 6
b) 7
c) 8
d) 9
e) None of these
9) There are 2,94,000 tractors in a particular state, out of which 1,50,000 are manufactured by
Mahindra. Out of every 1,000 Mahindra tractors, 98 are red in color and 5.3% of the total
number of tractors in the state is red. What percentage of non-Mahindra tractors is red?
a) 0.6125
b) 0.7125
c) 0.9125
d) 0.9025
e) None of these

10) Vaibhav was writing the CAT exam. There were four passages of equal length (in words)
and they had 5, 8, 8 and 6 questions respectively. Vaibhav can answer exactly 12 questions in the
time he takes to read any one of the four passages. Assume that his rate of reading and answering
question remains the same across all four passages. By what percentage should Vaibhav increase his
speed (reading) in order to cut down his total time spent by 10%?
a) 20%.
b) 18.5%.
c) 19%.
d) 21%.
e) None of these