Percentages practice problems - page 5 of 111
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- 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 21
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. - An election In an election between two candidates, one candidate secured 43% of the total votes polled and lost the election by 4900 votes. Find the total number of votes polled.
- A man 20 A man sells an article at successive discounts of 10% and 5% on the listed price. Another man sells the same article at a discount of 15%.If the difference between the two selling prices be Rs 24, find the listed price of the article.
- Wheat plus and minus
If the price of wheat is increased by 20% today, at what percent should it be decreased tomorrow, so as to bring down the price back to the original? - A reduction
A 40% reduction in the price of mango would enable a buyer to get 2 kg more for Rs 90. Find the initial/original price of mango per kg. - Compare offers Which is the better offer: Three successive discounts of 10%, 10%, and 30% or Three consecutive discounts of 40%,5%, and 5%? Enter the answer as an A or B letter.
- Carol 3
Carol reduces the size of a photo by 30%. If the length of each side is 12 cm, what is the length of the side of the new photo? - The population 4
The population of a city is decreasing at a rate of 2% per year. The population in 2002 was 700,000. What would be the population in 2009?
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