Percentages

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What is $16\frac{2}{3}\%$ as a fraction and decimal?

Q. The population of a town increases 10% annually. If it's present population is 60000 what will be it's population after 2 years

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The price of cooking oil has increased by $25\%$. The percentage of reduction that a family should effect in the use of cooking oil so as not to increase the expenditure on this account is:

1. 25%

2. 30%

3. 15%

4. 20%

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70% of the students in a school are boys and the number of girl is 504 . Find the number of boys in the school.

Q. A man loses $20\%$ of his money. After spending $25\%$ of the remainder, he has Rs 480 left. How much money did he originally have?

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By selling $36$ oranges, a vendor suffers a loss equal to the selling price of $4$ oranges. Find the loss$\%$

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The decimal number 0.20 is equal to the percentage:

1. 2%

2. 0.2%

3. 20%

4. 200%

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A student divided a number by$\frac{2}{3}$ when he was required to multiply by $\frac{3}{2}$. Calculate the percentage of error in his result.

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In a city, $30\%$ are females, $40\%$ are males and the remaining are children. What percent are children?

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A flower seller purchases roses at $Rs96$ a dozen and sells them at $10$ rupees for flower. What is the profit per cent of the flower seller?

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Convert the fraction into percentage.

$\frac{5}{12}$

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A five-question quiz is taken in which the first and second questions have four answer choices, the third and fourth questions have three answer choices, and the last question has five answer choices. If a student randomly marks an answer for each question, what is the expected number of questions he will answer correctly?

1. $0.27$

2. $0.96$

3. $1$

4. $1.37$

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Question 5

In a scout camp, 40 % of the scouts were from Gujarat state and 20 % of these were from Ahmedabad. The percentage of scouts in the camp from Ahmedabad is
(a) 25 %
(b) 32.5 %
(c) 8 %
(d) 50 %

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

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What percent of $90$ is $120$?

Q. A garrison of 1200 men has provisions for 15 days. How long will the provisions last if the garrison be increased by 600 men?

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Does phenol give Lucas test?

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An ore contains 15% of iron. How much ore will be required to get 36 kg of iron ?

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Question 100

45 % of the population of a town are men and 40 % are women. What is the percentage of children?

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Question 40

The cost price of 10 tables is equal to the sale price of 5 tables. The profit per cent in this transaction is ___.

Q. By selling a watch for rupees 1275 Jared lost 15%at what price should he sell to make 10%profit

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What is the whole quantity if $40\%$ of it is $500km$?

1. $1300km$
2. $1250km$
3. $1200km$
4. $1500km$

Q. The population of a town increased by 10%, then by 20% and then decreased by 30% due to migrattion. the final population is what percent of the original?

Q. What is the whole quantity if 70% of it is 14 minutes?

1. 16 min
2. 98 min
3. 20 min
4. 25 min

Q. Of the $5675$ people in a village $5448$ are literate. What is the percentage of literacy in the village?

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The original price of a washing machine which was bought for $Rs.13500$ including of $8\%$ VAT, is

(a) $Rs.12420$
(b) $Rs.14580$
(c) $Rs.12500$
(d) $Rs.13492$

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$20\%$ $\mathrm{of}700\mathrm{m}$is

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Question 100

Achal bought a second-hand car for Rs. 225000 and spend Rs. 25000 for repairing. If she sold it for Rs. 325000, what is his profit per cent?

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If $30\%$ of a number is $75$ . Find the number.

Q. A bookseller sells all his books at a profit of 10%. If he buys a book from the distributor at Rs 200, how much does he sell it for?