Subject: Quantitative Aptitude

1. .02 =? %
(a) 20
(b) 2
2. 12

Topic: Percentage

(c) .02

(d) .2

1
% is equivalent to
2

(a) 0.8

(b) 1.25

(c) 0.125

(d) 12.5

3. 13937.869 199.54+15% of 201 = ?

(a) 150
(b) 90
(c) 80

(d) 100

4. If 30% of a number is 12.6, then the number is

(a) 41
(b) 51
(c) 52
(d) 42
5. 35% of 30 = 25% of ? +1
(a) 28
(b) 38
(c) 42
6. ? % of 6144 = 2
(a) 16

(d) 32

1
x 245.76
2

(b) 20

(c) 5

7. What is 25% of 25% equal to ?

(a) 6.25 (b) .625
(c) .0625

(d) 10
(d) .00625

8. One fourth of one third of two fifth of a number

is 15. What will be 40% of that number?
(a) 120
(b) 350
(c) 270
(d) 180
9. What percent of 7.2 kg is 18 gms ?
(a) 25% (b) 2.5%
(c) .25%

(d) .025%

10. By how much percent is four-fifth of 70 lesser

than five-seventh of 112 ?
(a) 42% (b) 30%
(c) 24%
(d ) 36%
11. If 75% of a number is added to 75. The result is
the number itself. Then, the number is:
(a) 400
(b) 300
(c) 60
(d) 50
12. Subtracting 40% of a number from the number,
we get the result as 3.0. The number is:
(a) 28
(b) 50
(c) 52
(d) 70
13. If X is 90% of Y, what percent of X is Y?
(a) 101.1 (b) 190
(c) 90
(d) 111.1
14. If 8% of x = 4% of y, then 20% of x is:
(a) x% of y
(c) 2% of xy

(b) y% of x
(d) xy% of 3

15. x% of y is y% of ?
(a) x

(b)

x
100

(c) 100x

(d)

y
100

16. It is known that 20% of the mangoes are rotten.

If the number of rotten mangoes is 35, then the
total number of mangoes is :
(a) 150
(b) 175
(c) 180
(d) 185

17. If 70% of students in a school are boys and the

number of girls is 504, the number of boys is:
(a) 1680 (b) 1176
(c) 1276
(d) NOT
18. A house-owner was having his house painted.
He was advised that he would require 25 kg of
paint. Allowing for 15% wastage and assuming
that the paint is available in 2 kg cans, what
would be the cost of paint purchased, if one can
cost Rs. 16?
(a) 240
(b) 180
(c) 160
(d) 360
19. A reduction of 12.5% in the price of a dining
table brought down its price to Rs. 4375. The
original price of the table was:
(a) 6000 (b) 5400
(c) 5200 (d) 5000
20. In a library, 20% books are in Hindi, 50% of the
remaining are in English and the remaining
9000 are in various other languages. What is the
total number of books in English?
(a) 4000 (b) 3000
(c) 2250
(d) NOT
21. Avinash spends 30% of his income on scooter
petrol,

1
of the remaining on house rent and
4

the balance on food. If he spends Rs. 300 on

petrol, then what is the expenditure on house
rent?
(a) 525
(b) 1000
(c) 675
(d) 175
22. The price of jute has been reduced by 20%, If
the reduced price is Rs. 800 per quintal, the
original price per quintal was
(a) 900
(b) 640
(c) 960 (d) 1000
23. Swati spends 40% of her salary on food, 25% on
house rent, 15% on entertainment and 5% on
conveyance. If her saving at the end of a month
Is:
(a) 4000 (b) 6000
(c) 8000 (d) 10000
24. Kamal has some apples. He sold 40% more
than he ate. If he sold 70 apples, how many did
he eat?
(a) 50
(b) 90
(c) 18
(d) 42
25. In an examination, 1100 boys and 900 girls
appeared. 50% of the boys and 40% of the girls
passed the examination. The percentage of
candidates failed is:
(a) 45
(b) 45.5
(c) 54.5
(d) 59.2
26. 30% of As salary is equal to 20% of

3
th of
5

Bs salary. If Bs salary is Rs. 2400, what is As

salary?
(a) 1880 (b) 1000
(c) 960 (d) 2160

27. If x% of a is the same as y% of b, then z% of b

is:
yz
% of a
(a)
x

xy
% of a
(b)
z

xz
(c) y % of a

(d) NOT.

29. An increase of Rs. 60 in the monthly salary of

Madan made it 50% of the monthly salary of
kamal. What is Madans present monthly salary?
(a) 180
(b) 240 (c) 300 (d) Data inadequate
30. A man bought a house for repairs, pays Rs. 1660
as annual taxes and realized 10% on his
investment thereafter. The monthly rent of the
house is:
(a) 5000 (b) 4920
(c) 2500 (d) 2460
31. The salaries of A and B together amount to Rs.
2000. A spends 95% of his salary and B, 85% of
his. If now, their savings are the same, what is
As salary?
(a) 1500 (b) 1250
(c) 750 (d) 1600
32. 300 grams of sugar solution has 40% sugar in it.
How much sugar should be added to make it
50% in the solution?
(a) 10 gms (b) 40 gms
(c) 60 gms (d) 80 gms
33. To a sugar solution of 3 liters containing 40%
sugar, one liter of water is added. The
percentage of sugar in the new solution is:
(b) 15%

(c) 30%

the value of the fraction is

(d) 33%

34. The income of a broker remains unchanged

though the rate of commission is increased from
4% to 5%. The percentage of slump is business
is :
(a )1%
(b) 8%
(c) 20%
(d) 80%
35. A candidate scoring 25% marks in an
examination fails by 30 marks while another
candidate who scores 502% marks gets 20
marks more than those required to pass. The
pass percentage is:
(a) 25% (b) 35%
(c) 40%
(d) 50%
36. A bag contains 600 coins of 25p denomination
and 1200 coins of 50p denomination. If 12% of
25p coins and 24% of 50p coins are removed,
the percentage of money removed from the bag
is nearly:
(a) 30% (b) 21.6%
(c) 17.8% (d) 15.6%

15
. The original
16

fraction is
(a)

28. In a city, 35% of the population is composed of

migrants, 20% of whom are from rural areas. Of
the local population, 48% is female while this
figure for rural and urban migrants is 30% and
40% respectively. If the total population of the
city is 728400, what is its female population?
(a) 324138 (b) 349680
(c) 509940 (d) None

1
(a) 13 %
3

37. If the numerator of a fraction be increased by

15% and its denomination be diminished by 8%,

3
5

(b)

3
4

(c)

3
7

(d)

2
3

38. IN an examination, 35% of total students failed

in Hindi, 45% failed in English and 20% I both.
There percentage of those who passed in both
the subjects is :
(a) 10
(b) 20
(c) 30
(d) 40
39. There are 600 boys in a hostel. Each plays either
hockey or football or both. If 5% play hockey
and 45% play football, how many play both?
(a) 48
(b) 60
(c) 80
(d) 120
40. In an examination, 80% of the students passed
in English, 85% in Mathematics and 75% in
both English and Mathematics. If 40 students
failed in both the subjects, the total number of
students is :
(a) 200
(b) 400
(c) 600
(d) 800
41. The boys and girls in college are in the ratio 3:2.
If 20% of the boys and 25%^ of the girls are
adults. The percentage of students who are not
adults is:
(a) 58% (b) 67.5%
(c) 78% (d) 82.5%
42. In an election between two candidates, a
candidate who gets 40% of total votes id
defeated by 15000 votes. The number of votes
polled by the winning candidate is:
(a) 6000 (b) 10000
(c) 22500 (d ) 45000
43. In an election between two candidates, one got
55% of total valid votes 20% of the votes were
invalid. If the total number of votes was 7500,
the number of valid votes that the other
candidate got was:
(a) 2700 (b) 2900
(c) 3000 (d) 3100
44. At an election involving two candidates, 68
votes were declared invalid. The winning
candidates scores 52% and wins by 98 votes.
The total number of votes polled is:
(a) 2518 (b) 2450
(c) 2382 (d) None
45. As income is 25% more than Bs income . Bs
income in terms of As income is :
(a) 75% (b) 80%
(c) 90% (d) 96%
46. Anils height is 20% less than Deepaks. How
much is Deepaks height more than Anil.
2
3

(a) 16 % (b) 18%

(c) 20%

(d)25%

47. On increasing the price of T.V. sets by 30%,

their sale decreased by 20%. What is the effect
on the revenue receipts of the shop?

(a) 4% increase
(c) 8% increase

(b) 4% decrease
(d ) 8% decrease

48. The price of oil is increased by 25%. If the

expenditure is not allowed to increase, the ratio
between the reduction in consumption and the
original consumption is:
(a ) 1:3
(b) 1:4
(c) 1:5
(d) 1:6
49. The price of sugar is increased by 20%. As a
result, a family decreased its consumption by
25%. The expenditure of the family on sugar
will be decreased by:
(a) 10% (b) 5%
(c) 14%
(d) 15%
50. If the price of sugar rises from Rs. 6 per kg to
Rs. 7.50 kg, a person, to have no increase in his
expenditure on sugar, will have to reduce his
consumption of sugar by:
(a) 15% (b) 20%
(c) 25%
(d) 30%
51. The population of a town increases by 15%
annually. If its pollution was 8000 in 1995, what
will it be in 1997?
(a) 9200 (b) 10400
(c) 9600 (d) 10580
52. A ball pen factory decided to reduce its
production by 10% over that of previous month
for next 3 months starting from February 1994.
In January 1994, it produced 3000 ball pens.,
How many ball pens were produced in March
1994 ?
(a) 2700 (b) 2430
(c) 2187
(d) 2400
53. The length of a rectangle is increased by 20%
and the width is decreased by 20%. The area
decreased by:
(a) 0.8% (b) 1.2%
(c) 4%
(d) 8%
54. If the radius of a circle is decreased by 50%, its
area is reduced by:
(a) 25% (b) 50%
(c) 75% (d) None
55. A cricket team won 40% of the total number of
matches it played during a year. If it list 50% of
the matches played and 20 matches were drawn,
the total number of matches played y the team
during the year was :
(a) 200
(b) 100
(c) 50
(d) 40
56. Arun gave a portion of the money he had to
Gopal. Gopal I turn gave 40% of what he got
form Arun to Dinesh. How much money did
Dinesh get ? To find out the answer, which of
the following information given in statements,
(P) and (Q) is /are sufficient ?
P: Arun had Rs. 4000 with him.
Q: The difference between the amounts of
Gopal and Dinesh was Rs. 500.
(a)Only Q is sufficient..
(b) Only P is sufficient.
(c) Either P or Q is sufficient.

(d) Both P and Q together are needed.

57. The price of an article was increased by p%.
Later the new price was decreased by p%. If the
latest price was Rs. 1, the original price was
1 p2

(b) Rs.
100

(a) Re. 1

10000

(c) Rs.
2
10000 p

(d)

1 p 2
100

58. The length and breadth of a square are increased

by 40% and 30% respectively. The area of the
resulting rectangle exceeds the area of the
square by :
(a) 42% (b) 62%
(c) 82% (d) None.
59. Salaries of A, B an C are in the ratio 1:2:3.
Salary of B and C together is Rs. 6000. By what
percent is salary of C more than that of A?
(a) 300
(b) 600
(c) 100
(d) 200
60. The population of a town is 18000. It increased
by 10% during first year and by 20% during the
second year. The population after 2 years will
be:
(a) 19800 (b) 21600
(c) 23760 (d) None
61. Arvind spends 75% of his income. His income
is increased by 20% and he increased his
expenditure by 10%. His savings are increased
by:
(a) 10% (b) 25%
(c) 37.5% (d) 50%
62. In an examination, 35% candidates failed in one
subject and 42% failed in another subject while
15% failed in both the subjects. If 2500
candidates appeared at the examination, how
many passed in either subject but not in both?
(a) 325
(b) 1175
(c) 2125 (d) NOT
63. In an examination, A got 10% marks less than
B, B got 25% marks more than C and C got
20% less than D. If A got 3602 marks out of
500, the percentage of marks obtained by D was
(a) 70
(b) 75
(c) 80
(d) 85
64. Ramans salary was decreased by 50% and
subsequently increased by 50%. He has a loss of
(a) 0%
(b) 25%
(c)0.25%
(d)2.5%
65. The price of sugar is increased by 20%. AS a
result, a family decrease its consumption by
25%. The expenditure of the family o sugar will
be decreased by :
(a) 10% (b) 5%
(c) 14% (d) 15%