Percentage Questions

• If on an item there is 12% discount on the marked price of Rs 10,000 but the item is sold at Rs 8,360 only then what additional discount (in %) did the customer get?
• 0.09% of 25% of 1200 is equal to____________.
• Price of petrol increased from Rs 60/liter to Rs 75/liter. How much should the consumption of petrol be reduced (in %) so as to increase expenditure by only 10%?
• There are two buckets, smaller bucket can hold only 3/5th of the water as compared to the larger bucket. If 6,000 buckets of larger capacity are needed to fill a pond. Then how many smaller capacity buckets are needed to fill the same pond?
• 90% of X = 40% of Y and Y = a% of X. What is the value of a?
• A student multiplied a number by 6/13 instead of 13/6. What is the percentage error in the calculation?
• An engineering student has to secure 36% marks to pass. He gets 53 and fails by 37 marks. Find the maximum marks.
• An engineering student has to secure 25% marks to pass. He gets 47 and fails by 43 marks. What are the maximum marks of the examination?
• If the selling price of an item is Rs 1150 after getting a discount of 8%, what is its marked price?