General Ability

Topic: Percentage
Questions
Q 1: After an increase of 10 %, a person’s salary becomes 110,000. What was his salary before the
increment?
Q 2: The cost of hiring a car for 2 days in 2018 was Rs. 264 which was 20% more than in 2013.
What was the cost of hiring a car in 2013?
Q 3: A fruit seller had some apples. He sells 40% apples and still has 420 apples. What is the total
number of apples he had originally?
Q 4: For a student to clear an examination, he must score 55% marks. If he gets 120 and fails by
78 marks, what is the total marks for the examination?
Q 5: If population of a country doubled every 10 years from 1980 to 2010, what was the percent
increase in population during this time?
Q 6: 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?
Q 7: A man buys 5kg of meat at Rs.500 per kg. In addition, for every kilogram of meat purchased,
he has to pay a consumption tax of 6% on the selling price. Calculate the total amount of money
that he has to pay.
Q 8: Rizwan buys good worth Rs. 6650. He gets a rebate of 6% on it. After getting the rebate, he
pays sales tax of 10%. Find the amount he will have to pay for the goods.
Q 9: Mr. Faheem has dinner with his family at a restaurant which offers a 10% discount on food.
The marked price of the food that they order was Rs. 15,000. Given that there was a service charges
of 10% and GST is 17%, calculate the total amount of money he has to pay.

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