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1. There are 1225 employees in an organization, out of which 40% got transferred to different places. How many
such employees got transferred?
a) 540 b)490 c)630 d)710 e)None of these

2. The difference between 89% of a number and 73% of the same number is 448. What is 49% of that number?
a) 1426 b)1372 c)1218 d)1124 e)None of these

3. The difference between 58% of a number and 39% of the same number is 247. What is 62% of that number?
a) 606 b) 806 c) 218 d) 506 e)None of these

4. 45% of a number is 255.6. What is 25% of that number?

5. 56% of a number is 463.68. What is 25% of that number?

6. Manish invest 3818, which is 20% of his monthly income, in insurance policies. What is his monthly income?
a) 19090 b) 19900 c) 19990 d) 19990 e) None of these

7. Shilpa spent 8% on school fees, 25% on rent and 17% on furniture. 25% of the remaining amount was spent on
medical bills and the remaining ₨ 6000 was set aside for investment. How much money did she spend on rent?
a) 3750 b) 6000 c) 4000 d) 3250 e)None of these

8. If the production of a factory grows at 8% p.a., what will be its production for the year 2006 if its production in
2004 was 70 lakh tonnes?
a) 63.48 lakh tones b) 81.68 lakh tones c) 81 lakh tones d )80.68 lakh tones e)None

9. The population of a town is 126800. It increases by 15% in the first year and decreases by 20% in the second
year. What is the population of the town at the end of 2 years?
a) 174984 b)135996 c)116656 d)145820 e)None of these

10. If the numerator of a fraction is increased by 200% and the denominator is increased by 150%, the resultant
fraction is 9/35. What is the original fraction?
a) 3/10 b) 2/15 c) 3/16 d) 2/7 e) None of These

11. 40% of 15% of 3/4th of a number is 153. What is the number?

12. The wheat sold by a grocer contained 10% low quality wheat. What quantity of good quality wheat should be
added to 150 kg of wheat so that the percentage of low quality wheat becomes 5%?
a) 150 kg b)135 kg c)50 kg d)85 kg e)None of these

13. In an examination, it is required to get 40% of the aggregate marks to pass. A student gets 261 marks and is
declared failed by 4% marks. What are the maximum aggregate marks a student can get?
a) 700 b) 730 c) 745 d) 765 e)None of these

14. In an examination, it is required to get 336 aggregate marks to pass. A student gets 35% marks and is
declared failed by 42 marks. What are the maximum aggregate marks a student can get?
a) 800 b) 825 c) 850 d) Cannot be determined e)None

15. A student scores 64% marks in 6 papers of 150 marks each. He scores 25% of his total obtained marks in
Hindi and English together. How much is his total score for both these papers?
a) 120 b)124 c)140 d)144 e)150

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16. Swapana spent ₨ 44,620 on Diwali shopping, ₨ 32,764 on buying laptop and the remaining 32% of the
total amount was left as cash with her. What was the total amount?
a) ₨ 36,416 b) ₨ 1,13,800 c) ₨ 77,384 d) Cannot be determined e)None

17. Mr. Sarang invests 6% of his monthly salary i.e., ₨ 2100 on insurance policies. Also he invests 8% of his
monthly salary on family mediclaim policies and another 9% of his salary on NSCs. What is the total annual
amount invested by Mr. Sarang?
a) ₨ 11,400 b) ₨ 96,600 c) ₨ 8,050 d) ₨ 9,500 e) None of these

18. Rubina decided to donate 16% of her monthly salary to an NGO. On the day of donation she changed her
mind and donated ₨ 6567 which was 75% of what she had decided earlier. How much is Rubina’s monthly
salary?
a) ₨ 8,756 b) ₨ 54,725 c) ₨ 6,56,700 d) ₨ 45,696 e) None of these

19. On a test consisting of 250 questions, Jassi answered 40% of the first 125 questions correctly. What
percent of the other 125 questions does she need to answer correctly for her grade on the entire exam to
be 60%?
a) 75 b) 80 c) 60 d) Cannot be determined e) None

20. Two candidates fought an election. One of them got 64% of the total votes and won with 994 votes. What
was the total number of votes polled?
a) 1500 b) 1580 c) 1550 d) Cannot be determined e) None

21. A number is mistakenly divided by 5 instead of being multiplied by 5. Find the percentage change
in the result due to this mistake ?
a) 96% b) 95% c) 2400% d) 200% e) none

22. Harsh wanted to subtract 5 from a number. Unfortunately, he added 5 instead of subtracting. Find the
percentage change in the result ?
a) 300 b) 66.66% c) 50% d) CND e) none
23. The price of sugar is reduced by 25% but in spite of the decrease, Aayush ends up increasing his expenditure
on sugar by 20%. What is the percentage change in his monthly consumption of sugar?
a) + 60% b) – 10% c) + 33.33% d) + 50% e) none
24. At an election, the candidate who got 56% of the votes cast won by 144 votes. Find the total number of
voters on the voting list if 80% people cast their vote and there were no invalid votes?
a) 360 b) 720 c) 1800 d) 1500 e) none
25. A student X passes his 10th examination with 515 marks having scored 3% above the minimum. If Y had
obtained 710 marks, what percent would have been above the minimum?

26. An employee salary is decreased by 40% after few months his salary get increased by 50% then what percent
of gain/loss did he get?

27. Two numbers are more than a third number by 30% and 40% respectively. How much percent more is the
second number from the first?

28. If 70% of the student in a school is boy and the number of girls is 420, the total number of boys is?

29. A student has to obtain 40% of the total marks to pass. He got 178 marks and failed by 22 marks. The
maximum marks are?

30. A student scored 30% marks and failed by 108 marks and another student scored 52% marks and obtained
24 marks more than there required to pass. The pass percentage is?

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