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This section includes 152 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Mathematics Quizzes knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 51. |
p is six times as large as q. The percent that q is less than p is:________? |
| A. | 83 1/3 |
| B. | 16 2/3 |
| C. | 90 |
| D. | 60 |
| Answer» B. 16 2/3 | |
| 52. |
Out of an earning of Rs. 720 Ram spends 65 %. How much does he save? |
| A. | Rs. 350 |
| B. | Rs. 390 |
| C. | Rs. 252 |
| D. | Rs. 316 |
| Answer» D. Rs. 316 | |
| 53. |
Out of 100 students, 50 failed in English and 30 in Mathematics. If 12 students fail in both English and Mathematics. Then the number of students who passed in both the subjects is__________? |
| A. | 26 |
| B. | 28 |
| C. | 30 |
| D. | 32 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 54. |
On decreasing the price of T.V. sets by 30 % its sale is increased by 20 %. What is the effect on the revenue received by the shopkeeper? |
| A. | 10 % increase |
| B. | 10 % decrease |
| C. | 16 % increase |
| D. | 16 % decrease |
| Answer» E. | |
| 55. |
Of the 1000 inhabitants of a town 60 % are males of whom 20 % are literate. If of all the inhabitants 25 % are literate. Then what percent of the females of the town are literate? |
| A. | 22. 5 % |
| B. | 27.5 % |
| C. | 32. 5 % |
| D. | 37.5 % |
| Answer» D. 37.5 % | |
| 56. |
Nawaz Sahrif spends 10% of his income in house rent, 20% of the rest on his children’s education, 25% of the rest miscellaneous causes. If he now posses Rs. 1944 then his income is_______? |
| A. | Rs.3600 |
| B. | Rs.4000 |
| C. | Rs.4500 |
| D. | Rs.3000 |
| Answer» B. Rs.4000 | |
| 57. |
Moons salary was first increased by 20% and then decreased by 20%. If his present salary is Rs. 7200, then what was his original salary? |
| A. | Rs. 8000 |
| B. | Rs. 7500 |
| C. | Rs. 7400 |
| D. | Rs. 7200 |
| E. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Rs. 7400 | |
| 58. |
Masood’s salary is reduced by 10% and then reduced salary is increased by 10%. Find ,how many percentage his present salary is less as compared to his previous salary? |
| A. | Nothing |
| B. | 10% |
| C. | 1% |
| D. | 5% |
| Answer» D. 5% | |
| 59. |
In two successive years, 100 and 75 students of a school appeared at the final examination. Respectively 75 % and 60 % of them passed. The average rate of pass is:_________? |
| A. | 68 4/7 % |
| B. | 78 % |
| C. | 80 % |
| D. | 80 4/7 % |
| Answer» B. 78 % | |
| 60. |
In measuring the sides of a rectangle errors of 5 % and 3 % in excess are made. The error percent in the calculates area is_________? |
| A. | 8. 35 % |
| B. | 7.15 % |
| C. | 8.15 % |
| D. | 6. 25% |
| Answer» D. 6. 25% | |
| 61. |
In an examination, every candidate took physics or mathematics or both 65.8% took physics and 59.2% took mathematics the total number of candidates was 2000. How many candidates took both physics and mathematics? |
| A. | 750 |
| B. | 500 |
| C. | 250 |
| D. | 125 |
| Answer» C. 250 | |
| 62. |
In an examination, 47% failed in English and 54% failed in Mathematics. Find the pass percentage in both the subjects if 31% failed in both the subjects? |
| A. | 70% |
| B. | 37% |
| C. | 53% |
| D. | 30% |
| Answer» E. | |
| 63. |
In an examination, 65 % of the total examinees passed if the number of failures is 420, the total number of examinees is:_________? |
| A. | 500 |
| B. | 1200 |
| C. | 1000 |
| D. | 1625 |
| Answer» C. 1000 | |
| 64. |
In an examination 40% failed in Urdu, 45% failed in English. If 25% students failed in both the subjects. Then the percentage of failed students is________? |
| A. | 15% |
| B. | 65% |
| C. | 60% |
| D. | 70% |
| Answer» D. 70% | |
| 65. |
In an examination 38% of students fail in English and 61% pass in Urdu and 23% fail in both. Find the actual failure percentage? |
| A. | 46% |
| B. | 61% |
| C. | 54% |
| D. | 70% |
| Answer» D. 70% | |
| 66. |
In an election between two candidates. One got 55 % of the total valid votes. 20 % of the votes were invalid. If the total number of votes was 7500. The number of valid votes that the other candidate got was_________? |
| A. | 2700 |
| B. | 2900 |
| C. | 3000 |
| D. | 3100 |
| Answer» B. 2900 | |
| 67. |
In an election only two candidates contested. A candidate secured 70% of the valid votes and won by a majority of 172 votes. Find the total number of valid votes? |
| A. | 430 |
| B. | 570 |
| C. | 480 |
| D. | 520 |
| E. | None of these |
| Answer» B. 570 | |
| 68. |
In an election between two candidates 75 % of the voters cast their votes. Out of which 2 % of the voters were declared invalid. A candidate got 9261 votes which were 75 % of the total valid votes. The total number of voters enrolled in that election was:__________? |
| A. | 10000 |
| B. | 16400 |
| C. | 16800 |
| D. | 18000 |
| Answer» D. 18000 | |
| 69. |
In an election between two candidates, the candidate who gets 30 % of the votes polled is defeated by 15000 votes. The number of votes polled by the winning candidate is:________? |
| A. | 11250 |
| B. | 15000 |
| C. | 26250 |
| D. | 37500 |
| Answer» D. 37500 | |
| 70. |
In a town 45% population read magazine A, 55% magazine B, 40% read Magazine C, 30% read magazines A and B, 15% read magazines B and C, 25% read magazines A and C and 10% read all the three magazines. What percentage do not read any magazine? |
| A. | 10% |
| B. | 15% |
| C. | 20% |
| D. | 25% |
| Answer» D. 25% | |
| 71. |
In a test a candidate attempted only 8 Questions and secured 50% marks in each of the questions if the obtained a total of 40% in the test and all questions in the test carried equal marks, how many questions were there in the test? |
| A. | 8 |
| B. | 10 |
| C. | 15 |
| D. | 16 |
| Answer» C. 15 | |
| 72. |
In a survey it was found that 80% of those surveyed owned a car while 60% of those surveyed owned a mobile phone, if 55% owned both a car and a Mobile phone, What percent of those surveyed owned a car or a mobile phone or both? |
| A. | 65% |
| B. | 80% |
| C. | 85% |
| D. | 97.5% |
| Answer» D. 97.5% | |
| 73. |
In a school, 40 % of the students play football and 50 % play cricket. If 18 % of the students play neither football nor cricket, the percentage of students playing both is________? |
| A. | 40 % |
| B. | 32 % |
| C. | 22 % |
| D. | 8 % |
| Answer» E. | |
| 74. |
In a school of 850 boys, 44% of Muslims, 28% Hindus, 10% Sikhs and the remaining of other communities. How many belonged to the other communities? |
| A. | 173 |
| B. | 163 |
| C. | 153 |
| D. | 143 |
| Answer» D. 143 | |
| 75. |
In a group of 80 children and 10 youngsters, each child got sweets that are 15% of the total number of children and each youngster got sweets that are 25% of the total number of children. How many sweets were there? |
| A. | 1160 |
| B. | 1100 |
| C. | 1080 |
| D. | 1210 |
| E. | None of these |
| Answer» B. 1100 | |
| 76. |
In a factory, there are 40% technicians and 60% non-technicians. If the 60% of the technicians and 40% of non-technicians are permanent employees, then the percentage of workers who are temporary is________? |
| A. | 32% |
| B. | 42% |
| C. | 52% |
| D. | 62% |
| Answer» D. 62% | |
| 77. |
In a company, 60% of the employees are men, of this 40 % are drawing more than Rs. 50000 per year. 36% of the total employees of the company draw more than Rs.50000 per year then what is the percentage of women who are drawing less than Rs. 5000 per year? |
| A. | 70% |
| B. | 60% |
| C. | 40% |
| D. | 30% |
| Answer» B. 60% | |
| 78. |
In a college election, a candidate secured 62 % of the votes and is elected by a majority of 144 votes. The total number of votes polled is:________? |
| A. | 600 |
| B. | 800 |
| C. | 925 |
| D. | 1200 |
| Answer» B. 800 | |
| 79. |
In a class of 140 students, 60% of them passed. By what percent is the number of students who passed more than the number of failed students? |
| A. | 80% |
| B. | 20% |
| C. | 40% |
| D. | 50% |
| E. | None of these |
| Answer» E. None of these | |
| 80. |
In a class of 120 students , 45 students received a grade of B.What percent of the class received a grade of B ? |
| A. | 75 % |
| B. | 25.6 % |
| C. | 37.5% |
| D. | 18.5% |
| Answer» D. 18.5% | |
| 81. |
In 50 gm alloy of gold and silver the gold is 80 % by weight. How much gold should be mixed with this alloy so that the weight of gold would become 95 %? |
| A. | 200 gm |
| B. | 150 gm |
| C. | 50 gm |
| D. | 10 gm |
| Answer» C. 50 gm | |
| 82. |
If y exceeds x by 25%, then x is less than y by__________? |
| A. | 16% |
| B. | 16 1/3 % |
| C. | 20% |
| D. | 16 3/5 % |
| Answer» D. 16 3/5 % | |
| 83. |
If two positive numbers are in the ratio 1/8 : 1/5, then by what percent is the second number more than the first? |
| A. | 40% |
| B. | 33 1/3% |
| C. | 60% |
| D. | 66 2/3% |
| E. | None of these |
| Answer» D. 66 2/3% | |
| 84. |
If the side of a square is increased by 30 %. Its area is increased by:_________? |
| A. | 9 % |
| B. | 30 % |
| C. | 60 % |
| D. | 69 % |
| Answer» E. | |
| 85. |
If the side of a square is increased by 25 %. Then its area is increased by:__________? |
| A. | 25 % |
| B. | 55% |
| C. | 40.5 % |
| D. | 56.25 % |
| Answer» E. | |
| 86. |
If the price of petral is increased by 20% by what percentage should the consumption be decreased by the consumer if the expenditure on petrel remains unchanged? |
| A. | 16 2/3% |
| B. | 6 2/3% |
| C. | 8% |
| D. | 15% |
| Answer» B. 6 2/3% | |
| 87. |
If the price of the eraser is reduced by 25% a person buy 2 more erasers for a rupee. How many erasers available for a rupee? |
| A. | 8 |
| B. | 6 |
| C. | 4 |
| D. | 2 |
| Answer» C. 4 | |
| 88. |
If the price of an article went up by 20%, then by what percent should it be brought down to bring it back to its original price? |
| A. | 16 2/3% |
| B. | 20% |
| C. | 22 1/3% |
| D. | 15% |
| E. | None of these |
| Answer» B. 20% | |
| 89. |
If the price of gold increases by 50%, find by how much the quantity of ornaments must be reduced, so that the expenditure may remain the same as before? |
| A. | 27 2/23 % |
| B. | 33 1/3 % |
| C. | 30% |
| D. | 19% |
| Answer» C. 30% | |
| 90. |
If the price has fallen by 10% what percent of its consumption be: increased so that the expenditure may be the same as before? |
| A. | 11% |
| B. | 10% |
| C. | 11 1/9 % |
| D. | 9 1/11 % |
| Answer» D. 9 1/11 % | |
| 91. |
If the numerator of a fraction is increased by 250 % and the denominator is increased by 400 % the resultant fraction is 7/19. What is the original fraction? |
| A. | 10/19 |
| B. | 5/9 |
| C. | 9/5 |
| D. | 19/7 |
| Answer» B. 5/9 | |
| 92. |
If the numerator of a fraction is increased by 20% and its denominator is diminished by 25% value of the fraction is 2/15. Find the original fraction. |
| A. | 1/12 |
| B. | 1/8 |
| C. | 1/6 |
| D. | 1/4 |
| Answer» B. 1/8 | |
| 93. |
If the numerator of a fraction is increased by 140 % and the denominator is increased by 150 % the resultant fraction is 4/15 what is the original fraction? |
| A. | 3/5 |
| B. | 5/16 |
| C. | 2/9 |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» E. | |
| 94. |
If population of certain city increases at the rate of 5%. If population in 1981 was 138915, then population in 1978 was__________? |
| A. | 1,20,000 |
| B. | 1,10,000 |
| C. | 1,00,000 |
| D. | 90,000 |
| Answer» B. 1,10,000 | |
| 95. |
If P gets 25% more than Q, then by what percent does Q get less than P? |
| A. | 33 1/3% |
| B. | 30% |
| C. | 20% |
| D. | 16 2/3% |
| E. | None of these |
| Answer» D. 16 2/3% | |
| 96. |
If Mobeen while selling two goats at the same price makes a profit of 10% on one goat and suffers a loss of 10% on the other, he |
| A. | Makes no profit and no loss |
| B. | Makes a profit of 1% |
| C. | Suffers a loss of 1% |
| D. | Suffers a loss of 2% |
| Answer» D. Suffers a loss of 2% | |
| 97. |
If cost of sugar increases by 25%. How much percent consumption of sugar should be decreased in order to keep expenditure fixed? |
| A. | 10% |
| B. | 15% |
| C. | 20% |
| D. | 25% |
| E. | None |
| Answer» D. 25% | |
| 98. |
If A got 80 marks and B got 60 marks, then what percent of A’s mark is B’s mark? |
| A. | 60% |
| B. | 80% |
| C. | 65% |
| D. | 75% |
| E. | None of these |
| Answer» E. None of these | |
| 99. |
If 35% of a number is 12 less than 50% of that number, then the number is_________? |
| A. | 40 |
| B. | 50 |
| C. | 60 |
| D. | 80 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 100. |
If 30% of a number exceeds 20% of it by 18, then find the number? |
| A. | 120 |
| B. | 200 |
| C. | 180 |
| D. | 150 |
| E. | None of these |
| Answer» D. 150 | |