Percentage Quiz 7

In a company, there are 75% skilled workers and remaining ones are unskilled. 80% of skilled workers and 20% of unskilled workers are permanent. If number of temporary workers is 126, then what is the number of total workers?

At the end of year 1998, Shepherd bought nine dozen goats. Hence forth, every year he added p% of the goats at the beginning of the year and sold q% of the goats at the end of the year where p > 0 and q > 0. If Shepherd had nine dozen goats at the end of year 2002, after making the sales for that year, which of the following is true?

A company received two shipments of ball bearings. In the first shipment, 1% of the ball bearings were defective. In the second shipment, which was twice as large as the first, 4.5% of the ball bearings were defective. If the company received a total of 100 defective ball bearings, then how many ball bearings were in the first shipment?

The number of votes not cast for the Praja Party increased by 25% in the National General Elections over those not cast for it in the previous Assembly polls, and the Praja party lost by a majority twice as large as that by which it had won the Assembly Polls. If a total of 2,60,000 people voted each time, then how many voted for the Praja Party in the previous Assembly Polls?

A man buys a house for ₹ 10000 and rents it. He puts 12.5% of each month’s rent aside for upkeep and repairs, pays ₹ 325 per year as taxes and realizes 5.5% on his investment. What is the monthly rent?

One-forth of the subscribers to a certain fund gave ₹ 20 each, one-sixth of the remainder gave ₹ 10 each, and the rest gave ₹ 1 each. If the three sets of subscribers raised their subscriptions by ₹ 2 each, the total increase in the subscriptions would be ₹ 560. How many subscribers were there?

In Hyderabad city, legal water connections form 80% of the total connections. If 90% of the houses in the city have water connections, then what percentage of the houses in the city have illegal water connections?

In the student’s union election, 10% of the voters on the voter’s list did not cast their votes and 60 voters cast their ballot paper blank. There were only two contestants. The winner was supported by 47% of all voters in the list and he got 308 votes more than his rival. How many voters were there on the list?