Percentage

1.		A woman spends 35% of her income on food, 25% on children's education and 80% of the remaining on house rent. What percent of her income is left with ?

6%

8%

10%

12%

2.		If A's height is 40% less than that of B, how much percent B's height is more than that of A?

76.67%

83.67%

66.67%

86.66%

3.		If the price of sugar rises from Rs. 44 per kg to Rs. 55 per kg, a person, in order to have no increase in his expenditure on sugar, will have to reduce his consumpion of sugar by:

15%

20%

25%

30%

4.		A number is increased by 20% and then decreased by 20%, the final value of the number is :

increase by 2%

decrease by 3%

decrease by 4%

increase by 5%

5.		The ratio 5 : 4 expressed as a percent equals :

12.5 %

40 %

80 %

125 %

6.		What percent of 6.4 kg is 16 gms ?

.25%

.5%

.75%

1%

7.		The value of a motor depreciates at the rate of 10% every year. It was purchased 3 years ago. If its present value is Rs. 5832, its purchase price was :

10000

8000

12000

8500

8.		Of the 10000 citizens of a town, 60% are males of whom 20% are literate. If, of all the citizens, 25% are literate, then what percent of the females of the town are literate ?

32.5 %

43 %

46.6 %

53.2 %

9.		A salesman gets commission on total sales at 9%. If the sale is exceeded Rs.10,000 he gets an additional commission as bonus of 3% on the excess of sales over Rs.10,000. If he gets total commission of Rs.1380, then the bonus he received is:

Rs.180

Rs.120

Rs.480

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10.		In an election between two candidates, one got 55% of the total valid votes, 80% of the votes were valid. If the total number of votes was 7500, the number of valid votes that the other candidate got, was :

2500

2700

2900

3100