Introduction to Percentage and Its Meaning

Q. Find the selling price, if cost price = ₹900 and profit = 10%.

1. ₹1000
2. ₹990
3. ₹900
4. ₹950

Q.

45 minutes = ____ $\%$ of 1 hour.

1. 50 $\%$

2. 70 $\%$

3. 85$\%$

4. 75 $\%$

Q. What is 40% of 240?

1. 120
2. 144
3. 72
4. 96

Q.

Which of the following represents 1.5% as a decimal?

1. 15

2. 0.015

3. 0.15

4. 1.5

Q.

Find 45% of 5, 000.

Q.

If an article is sold at a profit of $₹25,$what is its selling price , taking the cost price as $₹x.$

Q.

There are 100 eggs in a box. If 10% of the eggs are rotten, then the number of rotten eggs are ____.

1. 10
2. 20
3. 25
4. 1

Q.

$120\%isequalto:$

1. $\frac{3}{2}$

2. $\frac{6}{5}$

3. $\frac{5}{6}$

Q.

15 minutes = ____ % of 1 hour.

1. 20
2. 25
3. 30
4. 15

Q.

An alloy is made from $30\%copper,35\%zinc$ and the rest nickel. Find the weight of nickel

in $740g$ of the alloy.

Q.

The cost of an article is decreased by 15%. If the original cost is ₹80, find the decreased cost

1. ₹56

2. ₹68

3. ₹87

4. ₹84

Q.

If only 10 of the 200 apples are bad, what percent is good?

1. $5\%$

2. $25\%$

3. $40\%$

4. $95\%$

Q.

There were 1050 people in a party. 20% of the people left. How many were still in the party?

1. 680
2. 420
3. 840
4. 210

Q. Express 60% in decimal form.

1. 60
2. 6
3. 0.06
4. 0.6

Q.

15% of 200 is ____.

1. 20
2. 25
3. 30
4. 15

Q.

Convert 177.5% to a decimal fraction.

1. 17.75

2. .1775

3. 1.775

4. .1

Q.

$SP=CP\hspace{0.17em}+............$ . $[Loss/Profit]$

Q.

An alloy of copper and zinc contains $65\%$ of copper. Find The weight of zinc in $3.6kg$ of alloy.

Q.

Express the following percentage as decimal:

$200\%$

Q.

If the cost price and the selling price in a transaction are ₹ 2, 349 and ₹ 2, 539 respectively, then which of the following is true?

1. Profit of ₹ 290

2. Loss of ₹ 190

3. Profit of ₹ 190

4. Loss of ₹ 290

Q.

0.1 $\%$ of 700 = ____.

1. 7

2. 0.7

3. 70

4. 700

Q.

Convert 177.5% to a decimal fraction.

1. 17.75

2. .1

3. 1.775

4. .1775

Q.

Fill in the blank :

$45\%$ as a decimal $=$ …………….. .

Q. Out of 80 mangoes in a basket, 25% were rotten. Find the number of rotten mangoes.

Q.

Ramya earned ₹8000 out of which she spent ₹2000 on shopping. What percent of her earnings did she spend on shopping?

1. 20%

2. 40%

3. 30%

4. 25%

Q. In each of the following pairs of numbers, find what percentage the first number forms of the scored.

(3) 36, 25

Q. During Diwali, 75 of the 625 letters collected from a postbox were greeting cards. What percentage of the letters were greeting cards?

Q.

The price of all the televisions in a shop are to be increased by $8\%$. Calculate the new price of a television whose original cost is ₹15000.

1. ₹ 16200

2. ₹ 16900

3. ₹ 15200

4. ₹ 16000

Q.

$8\frac{3}{4}\%$ when expressed as a fraction, is

1. $\frac{35}{100}$

2. $\frac{7}{80}$

3. $\frac{35}{4}$

4. $\frac{35}{40}$

Q.

8 $\%$ of 600 = _________

1. 42

2. 48

3. 0.48

4. 4.8