Practice Exercise - 1

1. The price of petrol has increased by 25%. By what percentage should it now be reduced to return to the
original price?
(1) 25% (2) 20%
(3) 15% (4) 10%

2. Price of cooking gas has increased by 10%. By what percentage should consumption be reduced to
keep expenditure unchanged?
(1) 9.09% (2) 10%
(3) 11.11% (4) 110%

3. Ram’s salary is ` 25,000 while Lakshman’s salary is ` 32,500. By what percentage is Lakshman’s salary
more than Ram’s salary and by approximately what percentage is Ram’s salary less than Lakshman’s
salary?
(1) 30%, 23% (2) 20%, 40%
(3) 96%, 25% (4) 75%, 75%

4. In a class, the number of boys is more than the number of girls by 12% of the total strength. What is the
ratio of the numbers of boys and girls?
(1) 56 : 44 (2) 14 : 11
(3) 28 : 25 (4) 112 : 101

5. A’s age is 100% more than B’s age. After 20 years, A’s age will be 50% more than B’s age. Find the
present age of A and B.
(1) 80, 40 (2) 60, 30
(3) 60, 20 (4) 40, 20

Practice Exercise - 2

6. A buys a shirt for ` 100 and sells it to B for ` 120. B now sells it to C for ` 144. Had A sold it directly to
C at the price C paid for it, then his profit % would have been ____________
(1) 10% (2) 20%
(3) 44% (4) 46%

7. The selling price of 15 apples is equal to the cost price of 20 apples. What is the profit or loss percent?
(1) 22% (2) 33.33%
(3) 25% (4) 18%

8. An advertisement states the following - “Buy 2 shirts and get 1 free”. Find the discount %?
(1) 50% (2) 66.67%
(3) 75% (4) 33.33%

9. A gets 20% of total marks and fails by 35 marks while B gets 42% of the total marks and gets 42 more
than the pass mark. Find the pass mark.
(1) 105 (2) 100
(3) 42 (4) 200

10. If CP = ` 50, SP = ` 100 and Marked Price = ` 120 then Profit % and Discount % are (in that order)
(1) 50%, 20% (2) 100%, 20%
(3) 37%, 50% (4) 100%, 16.67%
 Practice Exercise - 3

11. If the annual increase in the population of a town is 5% and the present population is 11025. What was the
population two years ago?
(1) 13000 (2) 10000
(3) 9625 (4) 8879

12. A college student buys a second hand bike for ` 22,500. He spends ` 1,500 on an overhaul and other
repairs. He then sells the bike for ` 30,000 to his friend. His profit % is _____________
(1) 20% (2) 25%
(3) 30% (4) 40%

13. If the selling price of an article is 7/6 times its cost price, the profit percentage is ______________
(1) 33.33% (2) 25%
(3) 16.67% (4) 20%

14. Ravi buys mangoes at the rate of ` 21 for 3 kg and sells them at ` 50 for 5 kg. How many kgs should he sell
to earn a profit of ` 51?
(1) 17 kg (2) 5 kg (approx)
(3) 34 kg (4) None of these

15. If books bought at prices ranging from ` 200 to ` 300 are sold at prices ranging from ` 300 to ` 400, what is
the greatest possible profit % that can be made by selling 10 books?
(1) 10% (2) 20%
(3) 300 % (4) 100%

Practice Exercise - 4

16. If a cricket bat is sold at a profit of 5% instead of a loss of 5%, the seller gets ` 75 more. The CP of the
cricket bat is `_______________
(1) 75 (2) 750
(3) 7500 (4) 7.5

17. A diamond passes through the hands of 3 sellers and the price increases by 80% on the whole. If the first
and second sellers earned 20% and 25% profit respectively, find the profit % earned by the 3rd seller?
(1) 20% (2) 35%
(3) 55% (4) None of these

18. Ameen earns 15% on one investment but loses 17% on the other. If the ratio of the two investments is 3:5,
what is the total gain or loss made by Ameen?
(1) 15% loss (2) 15% profit
(3) 5% profit (4) 5% loss

19. What is the single discount equivalent to successive discounts of 20% and 10%?
(1) 28 (2) 30
(3) 38 (4) None of these

20. Every month, Lavanya spends 80% of her income. In a particular month her income increases by 10% and
her expenditure increases by 5%. By what % does her saving increase?
(1) 13% (2) 31% (3) 30% (4) None of these