QUANTITATIVE ABILITY HANDOUT

(Percentages, Profit and Loss – I)

Ref: QAHO1001903
Directions for questions 1 to 20: Solve the following questions.

1. (a) 62.5% of 960 = (b) If the price of an item is decreased by 25%, by

(b) 44.44% of 2790 =
(c) If 60% of x is equal to 75% of 1200, x =
(d) 13.6% of 750 =
2. Bobby spends 25% of his monthly income on rent,
30% on food and 20% on entertainment. If he saves
`15000 per month, what is his monthly income?
3. (a) A earns more than B. A spends 30% of his
income on food and B spends 25% of his
income on food. Who spends more on food?
what percentage should it be raised to bring it
back to the original level?
9. (a) The price of sugar increased by 25%. By what
percentage should the consumption of sugar by
a family be reduced so that their expenditure on
sugar remains the same?
(b) If the price of tea decreased by 20%, by
what percentage should the consumption of tea
by a family increase so that the total
expenditure increases by 10%?

(b) In the above question if the income of A is less 10. (a) When the price of an article is increased by
than that of B, who spends more on food? 30%, its sales decreased by 20%. What is the
effect on the sales revenue?
4. In an exam, the marks scored by A is 50 and the
marks scored by B is 40. (b) The price of an article increased by 20% and its
(a) A’s score is what percentage more than B’s? sales decreased by 20%. What is the effect on
(b) B’s score is what percentage less than A’s? the sales revenue?
(c) A’s score is what percentage of B’s? 11. A rectangle is taken and its length and breadth are
(d) B’s score is what percentage of A’s? altered, causing corresponding changes in its area.
Fill in the blanks with appropriate figures.
5. (a) If the salary of A is 20% greater than that
of B, by what percentage is B’s salary Percentage Percentage Percentage
less than that of A? change in change in change in
length breadth area
(b) If A’s salary is 10% less than B’s salary, by what
(a) +10% +20%
percentage is B’s salary greater than that
of A? (b) +25% 0
(c) –20% +12%
6. (a) The production of wheat in 2012 was 60,000 tons (d) –30% –37%
and in 2013, it was 75,000 tons. By what
percentage did the production of wheat increase? 12. If A's income is 16% more than B's income and
(b) The quantity of jowar produced in the year B's income is 25% more than C's income, by what
2012 was 21,000 tons. During the next year the percentage is A's income more than C's income?
production increased by 331/3%. What was the
production of jowar in 2013? 13. The percentage increase in the sales of a company
over the previous year during the period 2010 to
(c) In the year 2012, the production of pulses 2013 is shown in the table.
increased by 25% over that in the preceding
year and reached 400 thousand tons. What was
Year 2010 2011 2012 2013
the production of pulses in 2011?
% increase 20% 30% 16% 24%
7. (a) If the production of sugar tripled from
2010 to 2011, find the percentage increase What is the overall percentage increase in the sales
in the production of sugar from 2010 to 2011. from 2009 to 2013?
(b) If the production of sugar in 2012 is 0.6 times
that in 2011, by what percentage is the 14. Two schools A and B participated in a talent search
production in 2012 less than that in 2011? exam and sent 200 and 300 students respectively.
36% of the students from school A and 44% of the
8. (a) If the price of an item is increased by 25%, by students from school B cleared the exam. What
what percentage should it be reduced to bring percent of the total number of students from schools
it back to the original level? A and B cleared the exam?
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15. Anand scored 75 out of 150 marks in his mid-term
exam and 105 out of 150 in his end-term exam.
(a) Find the percentage increase/decrease in his
marks.
(b) Find the increase in his marks in terms
of percentage points.
16. The production of wheat formed 20% of the total
food grain production in 2006. In the next year, the
share of wheat in the total food grain production
went up by 5 percentage points. Find the
percentage change in the production of wheat from
2006 to 2007 if the total food grain production
increased by 20% from 2006 to 2007.
17. In an election, Amar got 331/3% of the total number
of votes polled while Bhima got 426/7% of the
remaining votes. If Amar got 4000 votes more than
Bhima, find the total number of votes polled.
ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS FOR PRACTICE
Directions for questions 1 to 10: Solve the following questions.
1. The ratio of the populations of cities X, Y and Z
in 2008 was 3 : 5 : 6. The percentage increases in
the populations of X, Y and Z from 2008 to 2009
were 10%, 20% and 15% respectively. Find the
approximate percentage increase in their total
population from 2008 to 2009.
2. Mr. Mohit imported a camera after paying
a 6 percent customs duty on the value of the camera
in excess of `1,20,000. If the amount of customs
duty that Mohit paid was `5670, what was the value
of the camera?
3. Three persons A, B and C have their monthly
incomes in the ratio 6 : 7 : 8. Their monthly
expenditures are in the ratio 5 : 6 : 10. The monthly
savings of C are 37.5% of his monthly income.
What percent of B’s savings are A’s savings?
4. The savings of Achyut are 30% of his earnings while
the savings of Ranjit are 150% of the savings
of Achyut. The combined earnings of Achyut and
Ranjit as a percentage of Achyut's earnings
cannot be _______.
(A) 150 (B) 160
(C) 120 (D) 180
5. A fast food restaurant pays `40 lakhs as royalty to
the parent company, on the first `8 crores of
revenue per year. For revenues exceeding
`8 crores, a royalty of `4 lakhs is paid for every
`1 crore revenue in excess of `8 crores. By how
many percentage points does the royalty paid
(as a % of annual revenue) vary across two years
when the restaurant's revenues were `15 crore and
`20 crore?
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18. A management trainer conducted a certain
workshop last year as well as this year. The amount
he charged for each day this year is 30% more than
what he did last year. The number of days for which
his workshop ran this year is 20% less than that for
last year. The total amount he earned from the
workshop this year is `8400 more than what he did
last year. The amount he earned this year is
_______.
19. In a town, 40% of the population are minors,
35% of the minors are educated, 40% of the majors
are uneducated. The total educated population is
48,000. What is the population of the town?
20. Anand spends 70% of his monthly income every
month. If his monthly income increases by 20% and
his monthly expenditure increases by 10%, find the
percentage increase in his savings.
6. Ajay spends 16.66% of his income on rent, 25% of
the remaining on food, 60% of the remaining on
education, 50% of the remaining on entertainment
and saves the rest. If he saves `4500, find his
income.
7. The hourly percentage increase in the number of
bees in a colony increases by 10 percentage points
every hour. In the first hour, the increase in the
number of bees is 20%. Find the increase in the
number of bees in the 2nd hour, if there are
1248 more bees at the end of the third hour when
compared to the end of the second hour.
8. A firm has 38 stockists. On a certain day, the total
stock with all the stockists was 120,000 cartons.
62.5% of the total stock that day was held by half
of the stockists. If each of these stockists held not
more than 4000 cartons, the minimum stock held by
any of these stockists is _______ cartons.
9. Out of the total complaints received by the municipal
department, 63% are from households which lack
water supply. Also, 28% of the total households
in the municipality lack water supply. What is the
number of households in the municipality, if the total
complaints received by the municipal department is
12,00,000? (Only one complaint is lodged by
a household and all the households which lack
water supply lodge a complaint)
10. If Q(b, c, d) = b + cd and b is increased by
331/3% while c and d are increased by 60% and
2
decreased by 16 % respectively, then find the
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percentage change in Q(b, c, d).
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