Percentage Worksheet-6

Percentage Worksheet-6

1. A's salary is 50% more than B's. How much percent is B's salary less than A's?

(a) 33%              (b)            (c)           (d)

2. If A's height is 40% less than that of B, how much percent B's height is more than that of A?

(a)            (b) 40%              (c) 60%             (d)

3. p is six times as large as q. The percent that q is less than p, is:

(a)                (b) 60                 (c)               (d) 90

4. Two numbers are less than a third number by 30% and 37% respectively. How much percent is the second number less than the first?

(a) 3%                 (b) 4%                (c) 7%                 (d) 10%

5. Two numbers are respectively and.25% more than a third number. The first number as a percentage of the second number is:

(a) 50                  (b) 60                 (c) 75                  (d) 90

6. A's salary is 40% of B's salary which is 25% of C's salary. What percentage of C's salary is A's salary?

(a) 5%                 (b) 10%              (c) 15%               (d) 20%

7. 5% of income of A is equal to 15% of income of B and 10% of income of B is equal to 20% of income of C. If C's income is Rs. 2000, then the total income of A, B and C is:

(a) Rs. 6000                                  (b) Rs. 14,000

(c) Rs. 18,000                               (d) Rs. 20,000

8. Peter earned 40% more money than Albert. Albert earned 20% less than Michael. Peter earned more than Michael by

(a) 10%               (b) 12%               (c) 20%              (d) 25%

9. Amit's monthly income is 30% more than that of Raunaq. Raunaq's monthly income is 20% less than that of Deepak. If the difference between the monthly incomes of Amit and Deepak is Rs. 800, what is the monthly income of Raunaq?

(a) Rs. 12,000                               (b) Rs. 16,000

(c) Rs. 20,000                              (d) Data inadequate

(e) None of these

10. In an examination in which full marks were 800, A gets 20% more than B, B gets 20% more than C, and C gets 15% less than D. If A got 576, what percentage of full marks did D get (approximately)?

(a) 45.7              (b) 51.2               (c) 58.8              (d) 61.7

11. In an examination, the percentage of students qualified to the number of students appeared from school A is 70%. In school B, the number of students appeared is 20% more than the students appeared from school A and the number of students qualified from school B is 50% more than the students qualified from school A. What is the percentage of students qualified to the number of students appeared from school B?

(a) 30%              (b) 70%              (c) 78.5%           (d) 87.5%

12. Fresh fruit contains 68% water and dry fruit contains 20% water. How much dry fruit can be obtained from 100 kg of fresh fruits?

(a) 32 kg            (b) 40 kg            (c) 52 kg             (d) 80 kg

13. A large watermelon weighs 20 kg with 96% of its weight being water. It is allowed to stand in the sun and some of the water evaporates so that only 95% of its weight is water. Its reduced weight will be:

(a) 16 kg             (b) 16.5 kg         (c) 17 kg             (d) 18 kg

14. How much pure alcohol has to be added to 400 ml of a solution containing 15% alcohol to change the concentration of alcohol in the mixture to 32%?

(a) 60 ml           (b) 68 ml           (c) 100 ml          (d) 128 ml

15. Milk contains 5% water. What quantity of pure milk should be added to 10 litres of milk to reduce this to 2%?

(a) 5 litres                                       (b) 1 litres

(c) 15 litres                                     (d) Cannot be determined

(e) None of these

Answer Key:

(1)-c; (2)-d; (3)-c; (4)-d; (5)-d; (6)-b; (7)-c; (8)-b; (9)-b; (10)-c; (11)-d; (12)-b; (13)-a; (14)-c; (15)-c