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# Quant Aptitude: Percentage Solved Questions

## Practicing Aptitude solved problems from section Percentage and Fraction

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 1 In an election contested by two parties, Party D secured 12% of the total votes more than Party R. If party R got 132,000 votes, by how many votes did it lose the election?
 A. 300,000 B. 168,000 C. 36,000 D. 24,000
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 Answer - (C)Solution:Let the percentage of the total votes secured by Party D be x% Then the percentage of total votes secured by Party $R = (x – 12)%$ As there are only two parties contesting in the election, the sum total of the votes secured by the two parties should total up to 100% i.e.,$x + x – 12 = 100$ $2x – 12 = 100$ or $2x = 112$ or $x = 56%.$ If Party D got 56% of the votes, then Party got (56 – 12) = 44% of the total votes. 44% of the total votes = 132,000  i.e., $(44/100)×T = 132,000$ ⇒ $T = ({132,000×100}/44) = 300,000$ votes.   The margin by which Party R lost the election = 12% of the total votes  = 12% of 300,000 = 36,000
 2 A vendor sells 60 percent of apples he had and throws away 15 percent of the remainder. Next day he sells 50 percent of the remainder and throws away the rest. What percent of his apples does the vendor throw?
 A. 17 B. 23 C. 77 D. None of these
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 Answer - (B)Solution:Let the number of apples be 100. On the first day he sells 60% apples i.e.,60 apples. Remaining apples =40. He throws 15% of the remaining i.e., 15% of 40 = 6.Now he has $40-6 = 34$ apples The next day he throws 50% of the remaining 34 apples i.e., 17. Therefore in total he throws$6 + 17 =$ 23 apples.
 3 If the cost price of 20 articles is equal to the selling price of 16 articles, What is the percentage of profit or loss that the merchant makes?
 A. 20% Profit B. 25% Loss C. 25% Profit D. 33.33% Loss
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 Answer - (C)Solution:Let Cost price of 1 article be Re.1. Therefore, Cost price of 20 articles = Rs. 20. Selling price of 16 articles = Rs. 20 Therefore, Selling price of 20 articles = $(20/16) × 20 = 25$ $\text"Profit = Selling price - Cost price"$ $= 25 - 20 = 5$ $\text"Percentage of profit" = \text"Profit" / \text"Cost price" × 100$ = $(5 / 20) × 100 =$ 25% Profit
 4 When processing flower-nectar into honeybees' extract, a considerable amount of water gets reduced. How much flower-nectar must be processed to yield 1kg of honey, if nectar contains 50% water, and the honey obtained from this nectar contains 15% water?
 A. 1.5 kgs B. 1.7 kgs C. 3.33 kgs D. None of these
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 Answer - (B)Solution:Flower-nectar contains 50% of non-water part.  In honey this non-water part constitutes 85% (100-15). Therefore 0.5 X Amount of flower-nectar = 0.85 X Amount of honey = 0.85 X 1 kg  Therefore amount of flower-nectar needed $= ({0.85/0.5} × 1)kg =$1.7 kgs
 5 30% of the men are more than 25 years old and 80% of the men are less than or equal to 50 years old. 20% of all men play football. If 20% of the men above the age of 50 play football, what percentage of the football players are less than or equal to 50 years?
 A. 15% B. 20% C. 80% D. 70%
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 Answer - (C)Solution:20% of the men are above the age of 50 years. 20% of these men play football. Therefore, 20% of 20% or 4% of the total men are football players above the age of 50 years.  20% of the men are football players. Therefore, 16% of the men are football players below the age of 50 years. Therefore, the % of men who are football players and below the age of $50 = (16/20)×100 =$ 80%