Percentage Questions

• If a retailer offers a discount of 28% on the marked price of his goods and thus ends up selling at cost price, what was the % mark up?
• Two numbers are 30% and 60% lesser than a third number. By how much percent is the second number to be enhanced to make it equal to the first number?
• Value of vehicle at end of each year depreciates at the rate of 3/5th of value at the beginning. If Initial value is 10,000Rs then at the end of three years its value is ?
• Prashanth sold a album for $ 735 and made a profit of 22.5% . The cost price of the album went up by $120 and so Prashanth increased the selling price by $120. What is his profit % now ?
• What percent is 120 of 85 ?
• The present population of a town is 26010. It increases annually at the rate of 2%. What was the population of town 2 years ago?
• A tyre is sold at three successive discounts of 20%,30%, and 20%. What is the net discount (in percentage)
• In a city, 40% of the people are illiterate and 60% are poor. Among the rich, 10% are illiterate. The percentage of the illiterate poor population is
• The list price (marked price ) of an article is Rs. 900 and is available at two successive discounts of 20% and 10% ; the selling price of the article,in rupees, is
• A merchant marked cloth at Rs. 50/metre . He offers 2 successive discounts of 15% and 20%. The net price/metre is
• Ramesh marks his article at Rs 6000 and after allowing a discount of 20%, he still earns 60% profit. What is the cost price (in Rs) of the article?
• 1/8 th of the audience of a program Jabardast were children, 2/5th of the audience were men and the rest women. If the number of women audience is 380, find the total number of audience in the program?
• If 4/5th of 6/7th of a number is 216, then 8/9th of that number will be
• If the price of pen decreases by 20%, then a man can buy 10 more pens for Rs 100. What is the new price (in Rs) of each pen?
• After deducting 60% from a certain number and then deducting 15% from the remainder, 1428 is left. What was the initial number?
• A shop keeper allows 20% discount on the marked price on his articles. Find the marked price of an article for which he charges Rs. 740
• The number of trees in a town is 17640. If the numbers of trees increases annually at the rate of 5%, then how many trees were there 2 years ago?
• If A has got 20% more marks than B, then by what percent marks of B are less than the marks of A?
• If the price of onion increases from Rs 24/kg to Rs 36/kg, then by what percentage a household should decrease the consumption of onion so that expenditure remains same?
• What is the discount percentage offered on a book having marked price Rs 2150 being sold at Rs 1892?