The sum of three numbers is 280. The ratio between the first and the second number is 2 : 3 and the ratio between the second and the third number is 4 : 5. Find the second number.
A Firm, at the time of inflation reduced the staff in the ratio 12 : 5, and the average salary per employee is increased in the ratio 9 : 17. By doing so, the Firm saved Rs. 46,000. What was the initial expenditure (in Rs) of the Firm?
A man divided an amount between his sons in the ratio of their ages. The sons received Rs. 54000 and Rs. 48000. If one son is 5 years older than the other, find the age of the younger son.
Rahul has a bag which contains Rs. 1, 50 paisa, and 25 paisa coins and the ratio of number of coins is 1 ∶ 1/2 ∶ 1/3. If Rahul has a total amount of Rs 1120, then find the total value of 25 paisa coins.
Twenty-five percent of Reena's yearly income is equal to seventy-five percent of Anubhab monthly income . If Anubhab yearly income is Rs. 240000, What is the Reena's monthly income ?
If the price of the commodity is increased by 50% by what fraction must its consumption be reduced so as to keep the same expenditure on its consumption?
If the length of a rectangle is increased by 50% and its breadth is decreased by 50%, what is the percentage change in its area?
In an examination, 78% of the total students who appeared were successful. If the total number of failures was 176 and 34% got first-class out of total students, then how many students got first class?
A number is decreased by 20% then increased by 72 which results into 120% of the original number. Find the original number.
In a test consisting of 200 questions, Amit answered 40% of the first 120 questions correctly. What percent of the 80 remaining questions does he need to answer correctly for his score in the entire test to be 60%?
A town has 40% men and 35% women in its population. Of all the children in the town, 40% are girls. If the total number of girls is 1200 what is the total population?
If 50% of the difference between two numbers equals 30% of their sum, then what is the ratio between the numbers?
Meenu’s salary was increased by 25% and subsequently decreased by 25%. How much percent does she lose/gain?
Raj scores 30% and fails by 60 marks, while Rohan who scores 55% marks, gets 40 marks more than the minimum required marks to pass the examination. Find the maximum marks for the examination?
A number is first decreased by 20% and then increased by 10%. The number so obtained is 12 less than the original number. The original number is:
If the price of a grocery item consumed by a family increases by 25%, then by what percentage should its consumption reduce, so as to keep the expenditure on this item unchanged?
The population of a village is 5000 and it increases at the rate of 2% every year. After 2 years the population will be:
In an examination 40% marks are needed to pass. An examinee got 120 marks and failed by 80 marks. Calculate the total marks of the examination?
The ratio of income and expenditure is 7 ∶ 5. Income increases by 50% and expenditure decreases by 20%. If the initial expenditure is Rs.15000. Find the final saving.
A person gave 20% and 30% of his income to his younger son and elder son respectively, then he gave 10% of the remaining income to a beggar, and now he has only 10080 rupees. Find his total income.
Ram spends 30% of his monthly income on food and 50% of the remaining on household expenses and saves the remaining Rs. 10,500. Find the monthly income of Shyam if monthly income of Ram is 25% less than that of Shyam.
The population of a village is 25,000. One fifth are females and the rest are males. 5% of males and 40% of females are uneducated. What percentage on the whole are educated?
In a college election fought between two candidates, one candidate got 55% of the total valid votes. 15% of the votes were invalid. If the total votes were 15,200, what is the number of valid votes the other candidate got?
In a class of 60 students and 5 teachers, each student got sweets that are 20% of the total number of students and each teacher got sweets that are 30% of the total number of students. How many sweets were there?
In a test consisting of 80 questions carrying one mark each, Ankita answers 65% of the first 40 questions correctly. What percent of the other 40 questions does she need to answer correctly to score 80% on the entire test?
Mr Amar spends 50% of his monthly income on household items and out of the remaining he spends 25% on travelling, 30% on entertainment, 15% on shopping and remaining amount of Rs. 900 is saved. What is Mr Amar’s monthly income?
A, B and C stood up in an election. After the votes were polled A and C became a single party by combining their votes and they together defeated B by 3800 votes. A and B received 27% and 48% of the total votes polled. Find the total number of votes polled to C alone.
Ram invests 50% of his income on household purposes and out of the remaining he spends 20% on Education which is Rs. 5000 and the remaining he saves and he plans a trip from saving and trip cost is Rs. 60000. After how many months he can go on a trip?
Amit spends 40% of his salary on food items, 20% of the remaining amount on entertainment and 20% of the remaining amount for paying various bills. If Amit saves Rs.24,000, what is his total salary?
Parth had a certain amount. He invested 3/4th of it in equity fund, 10% of it in some business, and 5% of it in debentures and remaining amount is Rs 2000. How much amount he had ?
In a village election a candidate who got 25% of total votes polled was defeated by his rival by 350 votes. Assuming that there were only 2 candidates in the election, the total number of votes polled was?
A man bought some apples of which 13% of them were rotten. He sold 75% of the balance and was left with 261 apples. How many apples did he have originally?
If the population of Delhi is 50% more than the population on Jaipur. How much percent is Jaipur’s population less than Delhi’s population?
66.67% of the apples in a basket are rotten. Only 25 apples present in the basket can be eaten. Find the total number of apples present in the basket.
At what percent per annum will Rs 3,000 amount to Rs. 3,993 in 3 years if the interest rate is compounded annually ?
Two numbers are less than the third number by 40% and 50% respectively. By how much percent is the first number greater than the second number?
In a college election between two candidates, one got 45% of the total valid votes, 25% of the votes were invalid. If the total number of votes was 7600, the number of valid votes that the other candidate got, was:
In final examination, Prithvi scored 50% marks and gets 12 marks more than the passing marks. In the same examination, Supriya scored 43% marks and failed by 23 marks. What is the score of Alan if he takes same examination and secured 78% marks?
In panchayat elections, the candidate got 30% votes and lost by 62 votes. If the candidate had got 45% votes he would have got 34 votes more than the winning votes. Find the number of winning votes.
In an election, two candidates participated. 20% votes declare invalid and the winner gets 70% of the valid votes and wins by 9600 votes. Find the number of voters.
The population of a town is 63400. It increases by 15% in the first year and decreases by 20% in the second year. what is the population of the town at the end of 2 year?