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1. What percent is 3/8?

Difficulty: EasyType: MCQTopic: percent basics

Percent means per hundred. Three by eight equals zero point three seven five. Multiply by one hundred to get thirty seven point five percent.

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(3/8)*100 = 37.5

2. A value is decreased by 20% and then increased by 25%. Net effect?

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1. What percent is 3/8?

2. A value is decreased by 20% and then increased by 25%. Net effect?

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3. Cost price is ₹240 and selling price is ₹300. Find the profit percent.

4. A TV bought for ₹800 is sold for ₹680. What is the loss percent?

5. An item is sold for ₹360 at a profit of 20%. What is its cost price?

6. If the discount is 20% and the selling price is ₹880, what is the marked price?

7. A town’s population is 1000. It rises by 10% in year one and 20% in year two. What is the population after two years?

8. Selling price is 15% less than marked price. Cost price is 20% less than marked price. Find profit or loss percent.

9. Which single discount equals two successive discounts of 15% and 10%?

10. Forty five is what percent of sixty?

11. A price increases from ₹80 to ₹92. What is the percentage increase?

12. A shop offers successive discounts of 20% and 10%. What is the single equivalent discount?

13. A shopkeeper marks goods 40% above cost and wants a 12% profit. What discount percent should be given on the marked price?

14. To earn 25% profit after allowing 20% discount, what should be the markup on cost price?

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1. What percent is 3/8?

2. A value is decreased by 20% and then increased by 25%. Net effect?

Continue your preparation

3. Cost price is ₹240 and selling price is ₹300. Find the profit percent.

4. A TV bought for ₹800 is sold for ₹680. What is the loss percent?

5. An item is sold for ₹360 at a profit of 20%. What is its cost price?

6. If the discount is 20% and the selling price is ₹880, what is the marked price?

7. A town’s population is 1000. It rises by 10% in year one and 20% in year two. What is the population after two years?

8. Selling price is 15% less than marked price. Cost price is 20% less than marked price. Find profit or loss percent.

9. Which single discount equals two successive discounts of 15% and 10%?

10. Forty five is what percent of sixty?

11. A price increases from ₹80 to ₹92. What is the percentage increase?

12. A shop offers successive discounts of 20% and 10%. What is the single equivalent discount?

13. A shopkeeper marks goods 40% above cost and wants a 12% profit. What discount percent should be given on the marked price?

14. To earn 25% profit after allowing 20% discount, what should be the markup on cost price?

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