Percentages practice problems - page 2 of 110
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- Price of rice
The price of rice is reduced by 5% . How many kilograms of rice can now be bought for the money which was sufficient to buy 50 kg of rice earlier? - Lightbulbs
The physical plant at the main campus of a large state university recieves daily requests to replace fluorescent lightbulbs. The distribution of the number of daily requests is bell-shaped and has a mean of 48 and a standard deviation of 10. Using the emp - Bananas 5
A fruit vendor was able to sell 85% of his 80 kilograms of bananas. How many kilograms of bananas were sold? - Two trains 16
Two trains cross each other in 14 seconds when they are moving in opposite direction and when they are moving in the same direction they cross each other in 3 minutes 2 seconds . The speed of the faster train is by what percent more than the slower train?
- Failed in examination
In an examination, 20% of total students failed in history,15% failed in English and 5% of total number of students failed in both subjects. Find the percentage of total number of students who passed in both the subjects. - A man 23
A man has some money. He gives 50% of it to his wife and 40% of the remaining to his daughter. He gives the rest to his son. If the son receives 12000 euro, how much did his wife receive? - A furniture
A furniture dealer bought a dining set at 12000 USD. At what price would the dealer sell this set by offering a discount of 5% and still make a profit of 10%? - Michael 9
Michael purchased an old scooter for Rs 12000 and spent Rs 2840 on its overhauling. Then he sold it to his friend Rs 13860 . How much per cent did he gain or lose? - Cash discount
Marked price of a mobile phone Rs 6000. The shopkeeper offers a discount of 5% on cash payment . If the VAT is 8%, find the amount the customer has to pay in cash to purchase the mobile phone.
- By selling
By selling an article for $ 21, a trader loses as much percent as the cost price of the article. Find the cost price. - Drying fruit
Fresh fruit contains 68% water and dry fruit contains 20% water. How much dry fruit can be obtained from 100 kg of fresh fruits? - Scholarship 3
The ratio of number of boys to that of the girls in a school is 3:2. If 20% of boys and 25% of the girls are scholarship holders, find the percentage of those who are not scholarship holders? - The profit 5
A man buys 12 pens for 60 eur and sells them at 5 pens for 30 euros. What is his profit percentage? - The radius 3
The radius of a solid circular cylinder decreases by 20% and its height increases by 10% . Find the percentage change its : (a) volume (b) curved surface area.
- Percent to number If 75% of a number is 225, what is the number?
- A merit scholarship Last year’s freshman class at Big State University totaled 5,307 students. Of those, 1,264 received a merit scholarship to help offset tuition costs during their freshman year (although the amount varied per student). The amount a student received was N($
- Simple interest At what time will the sum be doubled at 5% per annum at simple interest?
- A shopkeeper 7
A shopkeeper bought 80 cricket bats for 2.55 euros each. He sells 20 of them at a 5% gain. What must be the gain percentage of the remaining bats to get a 10% gain overall? - An article An article is sold at 20% profit. If it were sold at a 25% profit, then he could get USD 35 more. Then, find the article's cost price.
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