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Percentage Problem Solving Exercises

This document contains percentage word problems and questions. It includes problems involving finding percentages of numbers, price increases and decreases, population changes over time, and other scenarios involving applying percentage calculations. The problems cover a range of skills around interpreting word problems and setting up and solving percentage equations.

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Percentage Problem Solving Exercises

This document contains percentage word problems and questions. It includes problems involving finding percentages of numbers, price increases and decreases, population changes over time, and other scenarios involving applying percentage calculations. The problems cover a range of skills around interpreting word problems and setting up and solving percentage equations.

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Percentage Questions

Q] Fill in the blanks

1) 60% of ____ = 75 2) 5% of ___ = 6 3) 31% of _____ = 620

4) ___% of 700 = 210 5) ___% of 400 = 20 6) ___% of 250 = 100

7) 14% of 50 = ______ 8) 3 % of 7500 = _____ 9) 22% of 675 = _____

10) ___% of 1500 = 30 11) 5 % of _____ = 45 12) ___% of 550 =


110

13) ___% of 200 = 6 14) 25% of 800 = _____ 15) 15% of ______ = 72

Q] What is the fraction equivalent to 75%?

Q] Price of a toy is Rs. P. What will be its price after an increase of 15%?

Q] If 60% of a number is added to 60, result is the same number. The number is?

Q] A is 20% more than B. Is B 20% less than A?

Q] In a container, 13 liters of milk was poured and it was still 35% empty. How many litres
of water should be added to the container to fill it to the brim?

Q] If A is 50% more than B and B is 50% less than C, then what percent of C is A?

Q]If 515 is 3% more than A, then how much percent is 710 more than A?
Q] Price of an article increased by 25%. By how much percentage should it be reduced to
bring it to the initial level?

Q] 45% of the students in a class are girls. If the number of boys is 30 more than the
number of girls, find the total number of students in that class.

Q] The population of a city increased by 20% in the first year and decreased by 25% in the
second year. If the present population is 54,000, population before two years is:

Q] A vendor sells 60 percent of apples he had and throws away 15 percent of the
remainder. Next day he sells 50 percent of the remainder and throws away the rest. What
percent of his apples does the vendor throw?

a) 17% b) 23% c) 77% d) 37%

Q] A jar contains 10 red marbles and 30 green ones. How many red marbles must be
added to the jar, so that 60% of the marbles will be red?

Q] The population of a town is 30000. During first year, the population increased by 15%.
During second year, the population increased by 10%. During the third year, the
population increased by 10%. Find the population after 3 years.

Q] The cost of sugar is Rs. 24 per kg. If the cost of sugar increases to Rs. 27 per kg in the
next month then by how many percent (approximately) should a family reduce its
consumption, so as to keep the expenditure same as earlier?

a) 20% b) 16% c) 11% d) 6%

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