Percentages practice problems - page 5 of 110
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- 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? - Students 48
If 80% of the students of a school are boys and 225 are girls, find the number of all students. - A man 19
A man buys apples at a certain price per dozen and sells them at eight times that price per hundred, find his gain or loss percent
- Increase and decrease A number is first increased by 20% and the resulting number is then decreased by 10%. Find the overall change in the number as percent.
- Five percents What is 5% written as a decimal?
- A trader A trader sold two saree at Rs 96 each & it causes the same% of profit and loss to each saree. If, as a whole he gets total loss of 4%, then what is the gain/loss% in the sale?
- The price 9
The price of sugar is increased by 25%. Find by how much percent a family must reduce their consumption so that their expenditure may increase only by 10%. - Percentages 14 If 20% of a number is 40, what is 30% of the same number?
- Same expenses
If the price of tea increases by 20%, what percent must the consumption be reduced to keep the expense the same? - The election
Three candidates, Adam, Bibiana & Cindy, contested an election and received 1800, 3300, and 3900 votes, respectively. What percent of the total votes did Adam get? - Girls and boys In a class of 50 there are 23 girls and 27 boys, what percent are a. Girls b. boys
- A fruit 4
A fruit seller had some apples. He sells 40% apples and still has 420 apples. How many apples originally he had? - An apple 2 An apple tree was planted two years ago. It increases at the rate of 20% every year .If at present, the height of the tree is 540 cm, what was it when the tree was planted?
In an examination 65% students passed in English and 56% in mathematics. And 25% failed in both the subjects. If 414 passed in both the subjects, then find the total number of students.Do you have homework that you need help solving? Ask a question, and we will try to solve it. Solving math problems.
