Q.
If the word PHOTOGRAPH is spelt with 'F' in place of 'PH', then what would be the
percentage reduction in the number of letters ?
(a) 10% (b) 20% (c) 25% (d) 18%
Q. The total cost of 3 pens and 4 notebooks is ₹235. If the cost of the pen is decreased by
20% and that of the notebook is increased by 10%, then the total cost of 2 pens and 3
notebooks will be ₹172. What is the total original cost (in) of 7pens and 5 notebooks ? (a) 375
(b) 365 (c) 355 (d) 385
Q. There are y yellow marbles and b blue marbles in a box. 18% of the yellow marbles were added
to 24% of the blue marbles, and the total was 30. Three times the number of yellow marbles
exceeds two times the number of blue marbles by 200. What is the ratio of y to b ? (a) 2:1 (b) 6:5
(c) 4:1 (d) 5:2
Q. In an examination, there were two papers, A and B, and the maximum mark in each of the two
papers was 10. However, the weights assigned to papers A and B were in the ratio 2 : 1, respectively.
Jonathan scored 8 out of 10 in Paper A and an overall 70% in the examination. How much did he
score in Paper B out of 10 ? (a) 5 (b) 5.5 (c) 6 (d) 6.5
[Link] gave 3 examinations. The respective ratio of marks scored by him in the 3 examinations is
3 : 5 : 6. The respective ratio of maximum marks of the 3 examination is 5 : 7 : 8. If he scored 50
percent marks in total, then in how many examination has he scored marks more than 50 percent
?
• 0 (b) 1 (c) 2 (d) 3
[Link] a student score 36% marks the gets failed by 32 marks but when he score 48% marks
he gets passed by 64 marks. Find the passing percentage?
30% 40% 45% 50%
[Link] a test a student got 30% marks and failed by 25 marks. In the same test another student got 40% marks
and secured 25% marks more than the essential minimum pass marks. The maximum pass marks for the test
were: 350 400 420 450
[Link] a student scores 42% marks she fails by 10 marks but when she scores 52% marks, she passes
by 25 marks. Find the pass marks.
157 147 350 152
[Link] a test a student got 39% marks and passed by 12 marks. In the same test another student got 27% of
marks and got 25% less than the essential pass marks. What are the maximum pass marks for the test?
152 144 156 142
BACKWARD APPROACH IN PERCENTAGE
Q.A has some coins. He gives half of the coins and 2 more to B. B gives half of the coins and 2 more to C. C
gives half of the coins and 2 more to D. The number of coins D has now, is the smallest two digit number. How
many coins does A have in the beginning?
76 68 60 52
Q. A fruit seller sells 45% of the oranges that he has along with one more oranges to a customer.
He then sells 20% of the remaining oranges and 2 more oranges to a second customer. He then
sells 90% of the now remaining oranges to a third customer and is still left with 5 oranges. How
many oranges did the fruit seller have initially ?
(a)100 (b) 111 (c) 121 (d) 120
Q.A boy has some chocolates. He gives 28.57% of them and five more to his friends..he then gives 40% of the remaining and
one more to another friend. Then he haves 62.5% of the remaining to a new friend and two more. He finally gives 70% of the
rest to the fourth friend and is left with three chocolates. How many chocolates did he initially had? 80 84 90 96
[Link] had some students in his pre batch of mathematics.
33.33% of students and 4 more got full 200 marks in CGL mains
exam, 82% of the remaining students and 10 more got 195 marks.
Then 50% of the remaining students and 2 more got 190 marks
and 67% of his remaining students got 188 marks and rest 66
students got 185 marks in exam. Find the number of students
Abhas had in all.
3356 3456 3256 3146
Q.P,Q and R together have 180 candies among them. P gives Q and R each as many candies as they already have. After this. R
gives Q half as many candies as Q already has, and R also gives P twice as many candies as P already has. Now each of them has
the same number of candies with them. What is the ratio of the respective number of candies P and R had initially?
5:3 3:5 1:2 2:3
Q. A fruit seller had some apples and oranges. he sold 25% apples to a person A, 40% of the
remaining to a person B and had 45 apples left. Similarly, he sold 35% oranges to A, 80 oranges to
B and had 15% oranges left. What is the total number of apples and oranges that the fruit seller
had initially ?
A) 270 B) 280 C) 240 D) 260
Q. At the beginning of day 1 of a month, Rajesh has 500 eggs. He sells 20% of the eggs by the end
of the day and added b% of the eggs at the beginning of the next day and sold 20% of the eggs at
the end of the next day. This pattern continued up to the end of the third day of the month when
he is left with 1024 eggs. The value of b is equal to ?
(a) 10 (b) 20 (c) 100 (d) 500
Q. A monkey cover 62.5% of height of a pole in one hour. In the next hour it climbs 12.5%
of the remaining height. If height of pole is 192 meter. Then find the distance travelled
in second hour
(a)18 meter (c)9 meter (b)36 meter (d)3 meter
[Link] day a mango seller sells half of his stock, 10% of the stock overnight gets spoiled, if 1322 mango rotted
over three nights then how many did he starts with on the first day?
24000 16000 21000 18000
Q.A large watermelon weighs 20kg with 96% of its weigh being water. It is allowed to stand in the
sun for a while and some of the water evaporates so that now only 95% of it is water. What is its
reduced weight now?
15 14 16 16.5
Q. A watermelon weighs 17kg with 91% of its weight being water. It was left in sun for a while and some of the
water evaporated such that only 85% of it is water. What is the reduced weight of the watermelon now?
a)None b) 11.5 kg c) 10.5 kg c)10.2 kg
[Link] fruit contain 68% of water and dry fruit contain 20% of water. Then how much
dry fruits have in 75 kilograms fresh fruits?
25KG
28KG
30KG
32KG