Percentages

Q.1. The price of my Chevrolet Spark depreciates by 10% every year. If I

bought it for 3.6 lakhs in the year 2011, by what percent would its
price have fallen in 2015?

Q.2. The prices at McDonalds rose by 15% in the period 2005 – 2008 and
by 20% in the period 2008 – 2011. If the price of a McChicken burger
is Rs.69 now, what was its price in 2005?

Q.3. I spend Rs.3300 per month at a nearby mall. However, this month the
prices of all the items were hiked by 10%. What percent reduction in
my consumption will help me keep my budget constant?

Q.4. Anand’s salary is 10% less than Swanand’s and 10% more than
Paramanand’s. By what percent is Swanand’s salary more than
Paramanand’s?

Q.5. A bottle of my favourite drink contains 12% alcohol. On my doctors

advice I added 20ml water to the bottle to reduce the concentration to
10%. What was the quantity of drink in my bottle initially?

Q.6. A student wrote 3 hours 3 min as 3.3 hours. By what percent of an

hour did he go wrong?

Q.7. In Norway, when the price of eggs dropped by 20%, 20 more eggs
could be obtained for 20 Kroner. What was the price of one egg
earlier?
Q.8. In a test, Calvin secured 40% marks and failed by 60 marks while
Susie secured 60% marks and passed by 40 marks. What is the
passing percentage?

Q.9. An agent offers a commission of 10% on sales over Rs.1000 to a

single customer and a commission of 5% for on any other sales. A
salesman sold goods worth Rs.1500 to each of five customers and
goods worth Rs.800 to each of four others. How much percent
commission will he get on the whole?

Q.10. In a class 40% of the students are girls. If 50% of the boys and 60%
of the girls pass the final exam, find the passing percentage of the
class.

Q.11. A watermelon weighs 5000 gm. 99% of its weight is water. It is kept in
a drying room and after some time it
turns out that it is only 98% water by weight. What is the weight now?
1) 2500 gms 2) 4500 gms 3) 4950 gms 4) 4000 gms

Q.12. A student gets an aggregate of 60% marks in 5 subjects in the ratio

10 : 9 : 8 : 7 : 6. If the passing marks are 50% of the maximum marks
and each subject has the same maximum marks, in how many
subjects did he pass the examination?
1) 2 2) 3 3) 4 4) 5
Q.13. A woman has a certain number of mangoes, of which 13% are bad.
She gives 75% of the remainder to charity, and then has 261 left.
How many did she have initially?
1) 1300 2) 1250 3) 1200 4) 610

Q.14. 2/5th of the voters promised to vote for P and the rest promised to
vote for Q. Of these, on the last day, 15% of the voters went back on
their promise to vote for P and 25% of the voters went back on their
promise to vote for Q, and P lost by 2 votes. Then the total number of
voters is ________.
1) 100 2) 110 3) 90 4) 95

Q.15. Grandpa is writing a book. Every morning he starts writing vigorously

and fills a lot of pages. But post-lunch he goes through all that he’s
written that far (right from day one) and deletes one-fifth of it. He
doesn’t write anything more that day. At the end of the day the
content of his book is still 20% more than that at the end of the
previous day. How much percent new content does Grandpa write in
the morning?