Percentage Questions

In an election, a candidate who gets 78% votes is elected by a margin of 504 votes. What is the total number of votes polled?

A man donates 5% of his monthly income to an orphanage and deposits 20% of the remaining income in a bank. If he is left with Rs. 14,250, find his monthly income.

Study the given table and answer the question that follows.
The table shows the percentage population of four states below poverty line and the proportion of male to female.



If the population of states A and D is $18,000$ each, then what is the total number of females below the poverty line in these states combined?

In a class, the numbers of boys and girls are in the ratio of $3:5$. What is the percentage of boys in the class?

On account of coronavirus, $5\%$ of the population of a village died. Out of the remaining population, $20\%$ fled due to panic. If the present population is $4655$, then what was the population of the village before the corona attack?

Study the given pie-chart data and answer the question that follows.



If ₹$21,000$ was spent on Football, then the money spent on Tennis and Basketball taken together is what percentage (rounded off to $2$ decimal places) of money spent on Hockey and Cricket taken together?

The price of an AC increases and decreases in every alternate year by 13
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%. It started with an increase in 2004. The price of the AC in 2007, as compared to that in 2004 (correct to two places of decimals):

The present population of a city is 60,000. If the rate of increase is 10% per year, find the population of the city after 2 years.

In a company, 35% of employees are from a science background and
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are from an arts background. The rest are either illiterate or with a commerce background. The number of illiterate is 300 which is
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of the commerce background. How many employees are from science or arts background?

In a school, an exam was held for 80 marks in which 32 was the passing marks. Who among the following scored the minimum marks?
[Note: Round off up to one decimal only.]

Which of the following schemes will yield minimum discount?
2 successive discounts of 5% and 5%

Single discount of 10%

2 successive discounts of 8% and 2%

During 2021, the population of a city increased by 8% and in 2022, it increased by 10%. At the end of 2022, its population was 47520. The population of the city at the end of 2021 was:

Shweta spends 21% of her monthly salary on house rent, 14% on education, and 13% on entertainment, and still saves ₹5,408. What is her monthly salary (in ₹)?

Sandeep spends 32% of his annual income on food, 20% of the remaining income on travelling, and 35% of the remaining income on clothes, and still saves ₹70,720 per year. What is the annual income (in ₹) of Sandeep?

In an election, the total number of valid votes cast was 3,75,000. Candidate A secured 48% of the valid votes, with the rest of the valid votes going to the winner, Candidate B. By how many valid votes did Candidate B win over Candidate A?

A man saves ₹6,000 per month from his salary. He spends $75\%$ of his salary each month. What is his annual salary (in ₹)?

A number is decreased by $24\%$ and then increased by $18\%$. What is the net increase or decrease per cent in the number?

If each side of a square field is increased by $12\%$, then by what percentage has the area of the field increased?