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Percentages express a quantity as parts per hundred and support calculations involving increases, decreases, discounts, commissions, taxes, and successive changes. Questions require distinguishing percentage change from percentage points and identifying the original value when a final value and its percentage change are given.
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- A. 50
- B. 72
- C. 75
- D. 76
Explanation: Take the numbers of boys and girls as 3x and 2x, giving 5x students. Scholarship holders are 20% of 3x = 0.6x and 30% of 2x = 0.6x, so…
Correct answer: 76- A. Rs. 350
- B. Rs. 390
- C. Rs. 252
- D. Rs. 316
Explanation: Ram saves the remaining 100% − 65% = 35% of his Rs. 720 income. His saving is 35/100 × Rs. 720 = Rs. 252. Students may choose Rs.
Correct answer: Rs. 252- A. 500
- B. 1200
- C. 1000
- D. 1625
Explanation: If 65% passed, then 35% failed. Therefore, 35% of the total is 420 examinees, so the total is 420 ÷ 0.35 = 1,200 examinees.
Correct answer: 1200- A. 10 %
- B. 15 %
- C. 20 %
- D. 25 %
Explanation: Taking the third number as q, the first number is 70% of q and the second is 63% of q.
Correct answer: 10 %- A. 33 1/3 %
- B. 11 1/9 %
- C. 9 1/11 %
- D. 66 2/3 %
Explanation: After a 25% reduction, the new price is 75% of the original price. To recover the missing 25% using the new price as the base, the…
Correct answer: 33 1/3 %- A. 83 1/3
- B. 16 2/3
- C. 90
- D. 60Fun & Trivia
Explanation: If p = 6q, then q = p/6. The amount by which q is less than p is p − p/6 = 5p/6, and as a percentage of p this is (5p/6) ÷ p × 100 = 83…
Correct answer: 83 1/3- A. 9.8
- B. 10
- C. 10.5
- D. 10.8
Explanation: Each year the population is multiplied by 1.04 and then by 0.995, giving a yearly factor of 1.035.
Correct answer: 10.8- A. 10 % increase
- B. 10 % decrease
- C. 16 % increase
- D. 16 % decrease
Explanation: Take the original price and sales as 100 units each, so original revenue is 100 x 100 = 10,000 revenue units.
Correct answer: 16 % decrease- A. No change
- B. 5 % decrease
- C. 4 % increase
- D. 4 % decrease
Explanation: If the original tax and consumption are 100 units each, the original expenditure is 10,000 expenditure units.
Correct answer: 4 % decrease- A. 15 %
- B. 20 %
- C. 25%
- D. 30%
Explanation: Let the original price and quantity be Rs. 100 and 100 units, giving expenditure of Rs. 10,000. After a 25% price rise, the price is Rs.
Correct answer: 20 %- A. 144
- B. 72
- C. 36
- D. none of these
Explanation: If 200% of the number is 90, then the number is 90 / 2 = 45. Therefore, 80% of it is 0.8 x 45 = 36.
Correct answer: 36- A. 11250
- B. 15000
- C. 26250
- D. 37500
Explanation: The losing candidate receives 30%, so the winning candidate receives 70%; their difference is 40% of the total votes.
Correct answer: 26250- A. 600
- B. 800
- C. 925
- D. 1200Pakistan Studies Quiz
Explanation: The winning margin is 62% - 38% = 24% of the total votes. Since 24% equals 144 votes, the total is 144 / 0.24 = 600 votes.
Correct answer: 600- A. 20%
- B. 25 %
- C. 28%
- D. 30%
Explanation: The difference between the two students' scores is 32% - 20% = 12% of the total marks, and this difference is 30 + 42 = 72 marks.
Correct answer: 25 %- A. 150
- B. 200
- C. 225
- D. 300
Explanation: Let the number be x. The equation is 75% of x + 75 = x, so x - 0.75x = 75, giving 0.25x = 75 and x = 300.
Correct answer: 300- A. Rs. 6500
- B. Rs. 7225
- C. Rs. 8700
- D. Rs. 1390
Explanation: The total spent is 40% + 25% + 15% + 5% = 85%, leaving 15% of the original money. Since 15% equals Rs. 1,305, the original amount is Rs.
Correct answer: Rs. 8700- A. Rs. 2558. 60
- B. Rs. 2525
- C. Rs. 2500
- D. Rs. 2300
Explanation: After donating 5% of his income, 95% remains; depositing 20% of that leaves 80% of 95%, or 76% of the income. Thus 0.76 x income = Rs.
Correct answer: Rs. 2525- A. Rs. 3500
- B. Rs. 4000
- C. Rs. 4500
- D. Rs. 5000
Explanation: After crediting 15% to the fixed deposit, 85% of the salary remains; spending 30% of this leaves 70% x 85% = 59.5% of the salary in cash.
Correct answer: Rs. 4000- A. 8 %
- B. 1 %
- C. 20 %
- D. 80 %
Explanation: For unchanged income, old commission equals new commission: 4% of old business = 5% of new business.
Correct answer: 20 %- A. 10 %
- B. 9 1/11 %
- C. 11 1/9 %
- D. 11%
Explanation: Let the original price be Rs. 100; after a 10% cut, the new price is Rs. 90. To return to Rs. 100, the increase required is Rs. 10 / Rs.
Correct answer: 11 1/9 %