Percentages practice problems - page 4 of 110
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- Gain or loss
A man purchases a certain number of apples at 3/eur and same number of apples at 4/euros. He mixed them together and sells them at 3/euros. What is the gain or loss percent? Write answer as number, loss as negative, gain as positive percent. - Daily compounded
Zachary invested $130 in an account paying an interest rate of 3.6% compounded daily, Assuming no deposits or withdrawals are made, how much money, to the nearest dollar, would be in the account after 11 years? - A random 2
A random sample of 40 families has an average water consumption of 29 cubic meters per month, with a sample standard deviation of 8 cubic meters. Give the 90% confidence interval for the mean usage of water per month. - Lemon tarts
A baker made some lemon tarts. He sold 40% of the tarts in the morning, 2/5 of the remaining tarts in the afternoon and had 54 tarts left. How many tarts did he bake altogether?
- Population growth 2
The present population of the town is 200,000. Its population increases by 10% in the first year and 15% in the second year. Find the population of the town at the end of the two years. - Consumption stable
If the price of sugar rises from Rs 6/kg to Rs 7.50/kg. A person having no increase in his expenditure on sugar, will have to reduce his consumption by? - Saving from salary A man spends 65% of his salary and saves 525 euros/month. Find his monthly salary.
- The cost 15
The cost of a machine depreciates every year by 10% of its cost at the beginning of the year. If the present cost of the machine is USD 10000, find its cost after 2 years. - A tradesman
A tradesman marks his goods at 35% above the cost price and then allows a discount of 15%. Find his profit percentage.
- An examination
In an examination there were 1000 boys and 800 girls. 60% of the boys and 50% of the girls passed. Find the percent of candidates failed. - The profit 4
By selling an article for 19.25 USD a trader makes a profit of 25% How much must he sell the article to make a profit of 40 %? - A lettuce
At Alan’s Produce, all produce is 20% off on Tuesdays. If a head of lettuce is normally $2.50, how much would it cost on Tuesday? - A shopkeeper 6
A shopkeeper allows 40% discount on the marked price and there is a loss of 30%. Find the profit percent if it is sold at the marked price. - A period
A period of 4 hrs 30 min is what percent of a day?
- The tea
If the price of tea is increased by 20%, by how much percent must the consumption of tea be diminished so as not to increased the expenditure? - Two articles A shopkeeper bought two articles each at Rs.800. There was 25% profit on one and 25% loss on the other. Find the total percentage profit or loss in the whole transaction.
- The well 3
When the health department tested private wells in a county for two impurities commonly found in drinking water, it found that 20% of the wells had neither impurity, 40% had impurity A, and 50% had impurity B. (Obviously, some had both impurities. ) If a - A swimming 2
A swimming pool had 2.5 million liters of water in it. Some water evaporated, and then the pool only had 2 million liters of water in it. What percent of the water evaporated? - A discount 2
A discount of 52.50 dollars is obtained if a discount of 15% is allowed. Find the marked price and the selling price.
A man sells a bicycle at a profit of 25%. Had he bought it at a price less by 25% and sold it at 250 euro less then also he could have made a profit of 25%. Find cost price.Do you have homework that you need help solving? Ask a question, and we will try to solve it. Solving math problems.
