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Percentage, Profit, Loss & Discount : Practice Set 2 [16-25] – Must Practice Set for CAT, XAT & Other MBA Exams

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Percentage, Profit, Loss & Discount : Practice Set 2 [16-25] – Must Practice Set for CAT, XAT & Other MBA Exams

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10 Percentage, Profit, Loss and Discount MCQs – SSC & CAT Level Practice

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16) Two numbers are respectively 20% and 50% of a third number. What percent is the first number of the second?

  • (a) 10%
  • (b) 20%
  • (c) 30%
  • (d) 40%
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Answer: 40%

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17) Two numbers are respectively 25% and 20% less than a third number. What percent is the first number of the second?

  • (a) 5%
  • (b) 75%
  • (c) 80%
  • (d) 93.75%
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Answer: 93.75%

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18) A supply of juice lasts for 35 days. If its use is increased by 40%, the number of days the same amount of juice lasts is:

  • (a) 25 days
  • (b) 30 days
  • (c) 24 days
  • (d) 27 days
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Answer: 25 days

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19) If 60% of A = 30% of B, B = 40% of C, C = x% of A, then value of x is:

  • (a) 200
  • (b) 500
  • (c) 800
  • (d) 300
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Answer: 500

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20) Due to 25% fall in the rate of eggs, one can buy 2 dozen eggs more than before by investing Rs.162. Then the original rate per dozen of the eggs is:

  • (a) Rs. 22
  • (b) Rs. 24
  • (c) Rs. 27
  • (d) Rs. 30
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Answer: Rs. 27

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21) A number is increased by 20%. To get back to the original number, the increased number is to be reduced by:

  • (a) 20%
  • (b) 21%
  • (c) 1623%
  • (d) 1413%
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Answer: 1623%

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22) A village lost 12% of its goats in a flood and 5% of the remainder died from diseases. If the number left now is 8360, what was the original number before the flood?

  • (a) 1000
  • (b) 10000
  • (c) 1,00,000
  • (d) 8360
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Answer: 10000

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23) In a school there are 1500 students, 44% of them are girls. Monthly fee of each boy is Rs. 540 and the fee of each girl is 25% less than that of a boy. The sum of fees of boys and girls both is:

  • (a) Rs. 720600
  • (b) Rs. 720800
  • (c) Rs. 720900
  • (d) Rs. 721000
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Answer: Rs. 720900

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24) Refer the following data table and answer the following question:

Boys Girls
Medical 30 70
Engineering 75 25

What per cent of students who chose Engineering are girls?

  • (a) 26.32
  • (b) 12.5
  • (c) 25
  • (d) 33.33
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Answer: 25%

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25) A boy found the answer for the question “subtract the sum of 14 and 15 from unity and express the answer in decimals” as 0.45. The percentage of error in his answer was:

  • (a) 10011%
  • (b) 50%
  • (c) 10%
  • (d) 20011%
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Answer: 20011%

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