Percentage Questions

• A trader marks up his goods by 120% and offers 30% discount. What will be the selling price (in Rs) if the cost price is Rs 750?
• 0.08% of 120% of 50,000 is equal to __________.
• When a number is increased by 24, it becomes 115% of itself. What is the number?
• Price of diesel increased from Rs 45/litre to Rs 50/litre. How much should the consumption of diesel be reduced (in %) so as to increase expenditure by only 5%?
• Giving two successive discounts of 20% is same as giving one discount of ________ %.
• 0.06% of 250% of 1600 is _________.
• Two numbers are 90% and 75% lesser than a third number. By what % should the first number be increased so that it becomes equal to the second number?
• When a number is increased by 216, it becomes 140% of itself. What is the number?
• A man donates 30% of his wealth to charity. 30% and 25% of the remaining wealth to his wife and son respectively. The rest he divides equally between his three daughters. One of his daughter gets Rs 42 lakh as her share. What was the man's wealth (in Rs lakhs)?
• An investor invested his saving in the stock market. The value of his investments increased by 12% and 9% in the first year and the second year respectively. If the value of his investments after two years became Rs 97,664 then how much had he invested (in Rs)?
• 1 bottle of honey costs Rs 240 but a pack of 4 of the same bottles costs Rs 768. What is the effective discount (in %) on the pack?
• If the cost price of an article is Rs x . It is marked up by 100%. It is sold at Rs 1,200 after giving 20% discount. What is value of x?
• A Rs 1000 box of cookies is offered at 10% discount and a Rs 400 bar of chocolate at 8% discount. If we buy 2 boxes of cookies and 3 bars of chocolate, what is the effective discount we get (in %)?
• The price of a product after getting 20% discount is Rs 3,024 which includes 5% tax on selling price. What was the marked price (in Rs) of the product?
• If 35% are the passing marks. A student gets 200 marks yet fails by 24 marks. What is the maximum marks?
• A man's annual income has increased by Rs 1.2 lakhs but the tax on income that he has to pay has reduced from 12% to 10%. He now pays the same amount of tax as before. What is his increased income (in Rs lakhs)?
• Daily local train ticket costs Rs 110 and Monthly Pass costs Rs 2524.5. If Ram buys the monthly pass and travel for 27 days in a month than he will save_____.
• If the selling price is Rs 728 after getting a discount of 9%, what was the marked price?
• Two numbers are 30% and 37% lesser than a third number. By how much percent is the second number to be enhanced to make it equal to the first number?
• If a website is selling smartphone at Rs 18,000 which is marked at Rs 25,000, then what is the discount (in %) at which the smartphone is being sold?