Practice Test: Percentages - 1 - UPSC MCQ

Let’s say the cost of the cloth is x rs per metre. Because of the faulty meter, he is paying x for 120 cms when buying.

So cost of 100 cms = 100x/120.

He is selling 80 cms for x, so selling price of 100cms of cloth is 100x/80.

discount = 20%

so the effective selling price is .8*100x/80= x

profit = SP-CP= x – 100x/120 = x/6

Profit % = x/6 divided by 100x/120 = 20%

Let total sales be ‘x’

The commission that Sailesh will get is x – 265000

He gets 6% on sales upto 100000 and 5% on sales greater than that.

Calculating his commission on total sales:

0.06*100000 + 0.05(x-100000)

Equating,

0.05x + 1000 = x – 265000

0.95x = 266000

x= 280000

Hence, his sales were worth 280,000

Let the number of girls be 2x and number of boys be x.

Girls getting admission = 0.6x

Boys getting admission = 0.45x

Number of students not getting admission = 3x – 0.6x -0.45x = 1.95x

Percentage = (1.95x/3x) * 100 = 65%

The ratio of number of male and female journalists in a newspaper office is 5:4.

The newspaper has two sections, political and sports.

If 30 percent of the male journalists and 40 percent of the female journalists are covering political news, what percentage of the journalists (approx.) in the newspaper is currently involved in sports reporting?

Let ‘9x’ be the number of total journalists in the office.
Then, we can say that the number of male and female journalists are ‘5x’ and ‘4x’ respectively.

It is given that 30 percent of the male journalists and 40 percent of the female journalists are covering political news. Hence, total number of journalists who are covering political news = 0.3*5x + 0.4*4x = 3.1x

Therefore, the total number journalists who are covering sports news = 9x – 3.1x = 5.9x.
Hence, the percentage of the journalists in the newspaper is currently involved in sports reporting = 5.9x/9x x 100 ≈ 

65 percent. Therefore, option B is the correct answer.

Assume one person is born every day. In 100 years, there will be 25 leap years. So 25*1 additional people will be born on these days.
So, total people born will be = 365 x 100 x 1 + 25 x 1
And people born on 29th february = 25 x 1
Hence percentage will be 

Let the total number of people in the group be x

So, the total number of young members = (28/100) × x = 0.28x

Also, the total number of old members = x – 0.28x = 0.72x

It is also given that, 65% of all the members are literates,

Hence, total number of literate people = (65/100) × x = 0.65x

So, the total number of illiterate people = x – 0.65x = 0.35x

Besides, it is also given that 25% of the literates are young.

So, the number of young literates = (25/100) × 0.65x = 0.1625x

Hence, the number of young illiterates = 0.28x – 0.1625x = 0.1175x

Also, we get:

The number of illiterate old people = 0.35x – 0.1175x = 0.2325x

Hence, we can obtain the percentage of old people among the illiterates as:

(0.2325x/0.35x) × 100 = 66.423% ≈ 66%

∴ The percentage of old people among the illiterates is nearly 66% 

Let the CP of the each toy be “x”. CP of 12 toys will be “12x”. Now the shopkeeper made a 10% profit on CP. This means that

12x(1.1)= 2112 or x=160 . Hence the CP of each toy is ₹160.

Now let the SP of each toy be “m”. Now he sold 8 toys at 20% discount. This means that 8m(0.8) or 6.4m

He sold 4 toys at an additional 25% discount. 4m(0.8)(0.75)=2.4m  Now 6.4m+2.4m=8.8m=2112 or m=240

Hence CP= 160 and SP=240. Hence profit percentage is 50%.

The person can buy 50 oranges or 40 mangoes.

Let the price of one orange be Rs. x

Total amount the person has = Rs. 50x

40 mangoes cost 50x, So one mango costs 1.25x

10% of the total amount is retained for taxi fare = 10% of 50x = 5x

20 mangoes bought for 20 x 1.25x = 25x

Money left with the person = 50x – (Taxi fare) – (Mangoes cost)

= 50x – 5x – 25x = 20x

One Orange was for Rs. x, Therefore, 20 oranges can be bought with Rs. 20 x

Thus, the person bought 20 oranges.

No. of Characters in one line = 65

No. of characters in one sheet = No. of lines × No. of characters per line = 55 × 65

Total number of characters = No. of sheets × No. of characters in one sheet = 20 × 55 × 65 = 71500

If the report is retyped –

New sheets have 65 lines, with 70 characters per line

No. of characters in one sheet = 65 × 70

Number of pages required,

Hence, 16 pages will be required if report is retyped.

Hence, reduction of (20 – 16) = 4 pages

% reduction is = (4/20) x 100 = 20%

Seema saved Rs. 900 in the first 3 months. She must saved Rs. (11400 – 900) = Rs. 10500 in the subsequent months.
The sequence will be of the form: 350 + 400 +……….. n terms = 10500

Solving, we get n = 15
The savings of Rs. 10500 is done in 15 months. Seema saved Rs. 11400 in 15+3 = 18 months.
Hence, option A is the correct answer.