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Showing posts with label PERCENTAGE. Show all posts
Showing posts with label PERCENTAGE. Show all posts

PERCENTAGE PRACTICE SET-1

1. Last year, a cricket team played 40 one-day cricket matches out of which they managed to
win only 40%. This year, so far it has played some matches, which has made it mandatory for it to
win 80% of the remaining matches to maintain its existing winning percentage. Find the number of
matches played by cricket team so far this year.
 (a) 30
 (b) 25
 (c) 28
 (d) Insufficient Information

2.In the recent, climate conference in New York, out of 700 men, 500 women, 800 children present
inside the building premises, 20% of the men, 40% of the women and 10% of the children were
Indians. Find the percentage of people who were not Indian.
(a) 73%
(b) 77%
(c) 79%
(d) 83%

3. Out of the total production of iron from hematite, an ore of iron, 20% of the ore gets wasted, and
out of the remaining ore, only 25% is pure iron. If the pure iron obtained in a year from a mine of
hematite was 80,000 kg, then the quantity of hematite mined from that mine in the year is
(a) 5,00,000 kg
(b) 4,00,000 kg
(c) 4,50,000 kg
(d) None of these

4. Arushi’s project report consists of 25 pages each of 60 lines with 75 characters on each line. In
case the number of lines is reduced to 55 but the number of characters is increased to 90 per lines,
what is the percentage change in the number of pages. (Assume the number of pages to be a whole
number)
(a) +10%
(b) +5%
(c) –8%
(d) –10%

5.The price of a certain article was raised by 10% in India. The consumption of the same article
was increased from 200 tons to 225 tons. By how much percent will the expenditure on the article
rise in the Indian economy?
(a) 24.25%
(b) 22.5%
(c) 23.75%
(d) 26.75%