Percentage Increase and Decrease

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A shopkeeper earns a profit of rs.1 by selling one pen and incurs a loss of 40 pause per pencil while selling her old stock . In a particular month she incurs a loss of rs.5.In this period , she sold 45 pens.How many pencils did she sell in this period?

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An elevator descends into a mine shaft at the rate of 6m per minute . If it begins to its descend from 15 m above the ground level and what will be it's position after 45 m

Q. The salary of a person was increased by 15%. If his salary now is ₹9936, what was his initial salary?

Q.

Every month, a man spends 72% of his income and saves ₹12, 600. Find: (1) his monthly income (2) his monthly expenses

Q.

Four times a number is a ____$\%$ increase in the number.

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A shopkeeper earns a profit of rupees one by selling one pen and incurs a loss of 40 pause per pencil while selling pencil of her old stock.

#1: in a particular month she incurs a loss of rupees five. In this period she sold 45 pens. How many pencils did she sell in this period?

#2: in the next month she earns neither profit nor loss. If she sold 70 pens how many pencils did she sell?

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A fruit-seller had some apples. He sells 40% of them and still has 420 apples. How many apples had he in all?

(a) 588
(b) 600
(c) 700
(d) 725

Q. A fruit-seller had some apples. He sells 40% of them and still has 420 apples. Find the number of apples he had originally.

Q.

What percent of $240$ is $30$ $?$

Q. The number of illiterate people in the country decreased from 150 lakhs to 100 lakhs. What is the decrease% ?

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When a quantity is increased to 1.7 times its original value, the increase in percentage is :

1. 35%

2. 70%

3. 17%

4. 170%

Q. Due to an increase in the price of sugar by 25%, by how much per cent must a householder decrease the consumption of sugar so that there is no increase in the expenditure on sugar?

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I bought a second-hand car for ₹ 50, 000, spent ₹ 5, 000 on transportation and sold it for ₹ 59, 400. What is my profit %?

1. $3\%$

2. $1\%$

3. $0\%$

4. $8\%$

Q. The population of a town increases at 5% per annum. Its present population is 16000. What will be its population after 2 years?

Q.

A company gains profit of RS 12 per each piece of pen and loss of RS 8 per each box of pencil .the company sells 2500 pieces of pen and 4000 boxes of pencil of in month. What is the profit or loss?

Q.

The population of a town increases $10\%$ annually. If its present population is $60000$, what will be its population after $2$ years?

Q. If price of rice increases from ₹100 to ₹150 per kg, find the percentage increase in price.

1. 15%
2. 25%
3. 50%
4. 75%

Q.

Convert $86.5\%$ into fraction.

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A railway ticket cost $Rs.720$, a further tax of $3\%$ on this amount is added to it. What is the total of this ticket?

Q.

If the cost of water bottle is decreased from Rs 15 to Rs 12 then the percentage decrease is:

1. 3%

2. 13%

3. 20%

4. 10%

Q.

Find 24% less than 160 kg.

Find 40% more than ₹390.

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The number obtained after increasing 100 by 30% is:

1. 101

2. 91

3. 81

4. 111

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Solve the following.

A person saves 12% of his salary every month. If his salary is Rs. 2, 500/- what is his expenditure?

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Mr Saxena is a dealer of used cars. He purchased a car for ₹75, 000 and then spent ₹7, 000 in servicing it and ₹16, 500 in painting it. He expects a profit ₹15, 000 on selling the car. What should be the S.P?

1. ₹90, 000

2. ₹110, 600

3. ₹113, 500

4. ₹98, 500

Q. Saroj'a collection of stamps is 25% more than that of Sarita.How much percent is Sarita's collection less that SAroja's collection

Q.

Rs 5.4 is what percent of 18 rupees?

1. 32%

2. 25%

3. 30%

4. 23%

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A man buys a book for 300 rupees and sells it at a gain of 30 rupees. Find the gain percent?

1. 7%

2. 5%

3. 10%

4. 1%

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After making a withdrawal, the amount of money in Sunil's bank account decreased by 42.5%
Then he had 1, 380 rupees left in his account.

How much money did Sunil withdraw?

1. 1, 020 rupees

2. 3, 247 rupees

3. 1, 867 rupees

4. 2, 400 rupees

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Goutham takes 497 h to deliver 3, 976 food packets to the houses on his route. What is the rate per hour at which he delivers food packets?

1. 5 food packets per hour

2. 4 food packets per hour

3. 8 food packets per hour

4. 7 food packets per hour

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Mr Saxena is a dealer of used cars. He purchased a car for ₹75, 000 and then spent ₹7, 000 in servicing it and ₹16, 500 in painting it. He expects a profit ₹15, 000 on selling the car. What should be the selling price?