Percentage

Practice Percentage – The population of a village is 50000. The rate of increase is 12% per annum. Find the approximate population at the start of the fourth year.

Practice Percentage – A population of a certain town is 1,25,000. If the annual birth rate is 3.3 % and the annual death rate is 1.3%, then the approximate population after 3 years will be:

Practice Percentage – 4% of the votes cast were found to be invalid in an election. Raman got 75% of the total valid votes and won the election by 240 votes from Ritesh who was the only opponent. Find the total number of people who cast the votes provided one person can cast one vote only.

Practice Percentage – In a competitive examination in State A, 6% candidates got selected from the total appeared candidates. State B had an equal number of candidate appeared, and 7% candidates got selected with 80 more candidates got selected than A. What was the number of candidates appeared from each State?

Practice Percentage – By selling goods for Rs. 240, a merchant gains 25%. How much percent would he gain by selling it for Rs. 216?

Practice Percentage – What is the percentage increase in the population of the country from 2014 to 2017 if it increases at a rate of 20% from 2014 to 2015 and again 20% from 2015 to 2016 but reduces at a rate of 10% during 2016 to 2017?

Practice Percentage – In a school election, Peter wins over Albert by a margin of 260 votes which is 13% of the total number of votes. If the invalid votes are 0.5%, then how many votes are valid?

Practice Percentage – At the college entrance exam, a candidate is admitted according to whether he has passed or failed the test. Of the candidates who are really capable, 80 % pass the test and of the incapable, 25 % pass the test. Given that 40 % of the candidates are really capable, then the proportion of the really capable students who can pass the test to the total students who can pass is about:

Practice Percentage – The ratio between the number of passengers travelling by I & II Class between two railway stations is 1 : 50, whereas the ratio of the I & II Class fares between the same stations is 3 : 1. If on a particular day, Rs. 1325 were collected from the passengers travelling between these stations, what was the amount collected from the II Class passengers ?

Practice Percentage – If the ratio of production of 3 different companies A, B & C is 4:7:5 and of overall production last year was 4lac tones and if each companies had an increase of 20% in production level this year what is the production of Company B this year?

Practice Percentage – A sum invested at simple interest to ?18375 and ?20125 in 5 and 7 years, respectively. What was the interest (in ?) earned in 1 year?

Practice Percentage – A sum of money was invested in scheme A for 12 years, which offers simple interest at a rate of 9% p.a. The amount received from scheme A was then invested for 2 years in scheme B which offers compound interest ( compounded annually ? at a rate of 10% p.a. If the interest received from scheme B was Rs 873.6, what was the sum invested in scheme A ?

Practice Percentage – If A had invested his sum at Simple interest for 3 year at the rate of R% p.a. instead in scheme S1 and B has invested his sum at compound interest at (R + 5%) p.a. for 1 year and difference in interest obtained is 30,000 then find value of R%:

Practice Percentage – Aniket deposited two parts of a sum of 25000 in different banks at the rates of 15% per annum and 18% per annum respectively. In one year he got 4050 as the total interest. What was the amount deposited at the rate of 18% per annum ?

Practice Percentage – A sum was put at simple interest at certain rate for 3 years. Had it been put at 1% higher rate it would have fetched Rs. 63 more. The sum is: