Successive formula

1. Tax on commodity is diminished by 30% and consumption increase by 30%. Find the effect on revenue.
2. The price of a commodity is increased by 36% and the quantity purchased is decreased by 30%. What is
the percentage increase/decrease in the amount spent on the commodity?
3. If the height of triangle is decreased by 40% and its base is increased by 40% what will be the effect on its
area?
4. The Land holding of a person is decreased by 10% due to late monsoon, the production decreases by 20%.
Then what is the effect on the revenue?
5. The number of seats in a cinema hall is increased by 20%. The price on a ticket is also increased by 10%.
What is the effect on the revenue collected?
6. The sale of a cinema ticket is increased by 57 % and the piece of ticket is increased by 𝟏𝟔 %. Find the %
change in his revenue.

Salary Based Questions : -

1. A sum of Rs. 731 is divided among A, B and C such that ‘A’ receives 25% more than ‘B’ and ‘B’ receives 25% less than
‘C’. What is C’s share in the amount?
2. A’s salary is 125% of B’s salary. C’s salary is 80% of B’s salary. The total of all three salaries is Rs. 122000. What is C’s
salary?
3. Tom’s salary is 125% of Tina’s salary. Titu’s salary is 80% of tina’s salary. The total of all three salaries is Rs. 61000.
What is Titu’s salary?
4. Arun who spends 66 % of his income is able to save Rs. 4800 per month. His monthly expenses (in Rs) is:
5. Samir spends 52% of his monthly salary on education expenditure and 23% on miscellaneous expenditure. If he is
left with Rs. 4500, what is the monthly salary?
6. Mr. sarang invests 6% of his monthly salary i.e., Rs. 2100 on insurance policies. Also, he invests 8% of another 9% of
his salary on NSCs. What is the total annual amount invested by Mr. Sarang?
7. Anil spends 25% of his monthly salary for his house expenditure and 12% on travelling. Out of the remaining, he
spends 20% on clothes and saves the rest. If he saves Rs. 2520 every month, what is his monthly salary ?
8. A gave 40% of his monthly salary to B. B spent 20% of this amount on taxi fare. He spent the remaining amount in
the respective ratio of 3 : 5 on tuition fees and library membership. If the spent Rs. 1720 for membership, what is A’s
monthly salary?
9. A gave 25% of an amount to B. From the money B got, he spent 30% on a dinner. Out of the remaining amount, the
respective ratio between the amount B kept as savings and the amount he spent on buying a book is 5 : 2. If B
bought the book for Rs. 460, how much money did A have in the beginning?
10. A and B went to market with money in the ratio 4:5 respectively, A spent 20% on clothing, 25% on food and donated
Rs. 520 to beggar, while B spent 40% on clothing and 40% of rest on food, he also donated Rs. 280 to beggar. Now, if
both of them have saved equal amount, then find the total money that they saved.
11. A spend 30% of his monthly salary on house rent, 40% of the remaining salary on clothing and he distributes his
remaining monthly salary among his two daughters and a son in the ratio 5:5 : 4. If difference of A’s monthly
expenditure on Clothing and monthly amount given by A to his son is Rs.24000, then find A’s annual expenditure on
house rent.
12. A man spends 50% of his income. His income increases by 30% and his expenditure also increases by 20%, Find the
percentage increase in his savings.
13. Aman’s expenditure and savings are in the ratio of 3:2. If his income increases by 10% his expenditure also increases
by 12%. How much percent does his savings increase?

Pass & Fail Based Questions  

1. Pawan obtains 22% marks and failed by 81 marks while Vishal got 42% marks and obtained 9 marks more than
passing marks. Find the marks obtained by Vishal.
2. In an examinations Ram got 30% of the maximum marks and failed by 80 marks. Shyam got 200 marks and failed by
15%. What are the maximum marks in the exam?
3. If Abhishek score 43% marks then he is failed by 36 marks, but when he scores 57% marks he is passed by 20 marks.
Find passing percent?
4. In an examination in which maximum marks were 500, A got 10% less than B. B got 25% more than C. C got 20% less
than D. If A got 360 marks, what percent of maximum marks was obtained by D ?

Income tax-based Questions  

1. If the income tax is increased by 19% then net income is reduced by 6%. Find the rate of income tax ?
2. If the income tax is increased by 17% then net income is reduced by 3%. Find the rate of income tax ?

Milk water & Pulp Based Questions &

Evaporations  

1. Fresh fruit contains 68% water and dry fruit contains 20% water. How many kg of dry fruits can be made from 125 kg
of fresh fruits?
2. Fresh fruits contain 80% water, while dry fruits contain 10% water. If the weight of dry fruits is 450 kg, then what was
it when fruits were fresh?
3. Fresh grapes contain 75% of water by weight while dried grapes contain 40% of pulp by weight. Find the weight of
dry grapes obtained from 72 kg of fresh grapes?
4. A solution of salt and water contains 13% salt by weight of it 42 kg water evaporates and the solution now contains
20% of salt. Find the original quantity of sol?
5. A solution of salt and water contains 20% salt by weight. If 20 litre of water is evaporated from the solution, the
solution contains 25% salt. What is the original quantity
6. If 60% of the students in a school are boys and the number of girls is 972. How many boys are there in the school.
7. 600 gm. of sugar solution has 40% of sugar in it. How much sugar needs to be added to make it 60% in the solution?
8. A vessel contains 30 liters of milk and 6 liters of water, X liter of water is added in it. In final mixture water is 30% of
the milk. Find the value of ‘X’.
9. A mixture of milk and water in a jar contains 36l milk and 12l water, Xl of milk and (X + 8) l of water added in mixture.
If 12.5 % of new mixture is 10l, then find how much water added in mixture ?
10. A and B went to market with money in the ratio 4:5 respectively, A spent 20% on clothing, 25% on food and donated
Rs. 520 to beggar, while B spent 40% on clothing and 40% of rest on food, he also donated Rs. 280 to beggar. Now, if
both of them have saved equal amount, then find the total money that they saved.

Fraction Numerator & Denominator Based questions  

1. If a fraction’s denominator is Increased by 150% and numerator is increased by 200%, the fraction becomes 9/10.
What is the fraction?
2. If a fraction’s denominator is decreased by 60% and numerator is increased by 200%, the fraction becomes 2/9.
What is the fraction?
3. If the numerator of a fraction is increased by 200% and the denominator is increased by 400%, the resultant fraction
is 1. What was the original fraction?
4. The population of a town is 6000. If males are increased by 5% and female are increased by 9%. Then population will
become 6500 after 1 year. Find the number of males and females?
5. The population of town at present is 5000. If males are increased by 6% and females are increased by 14%. Then
population will become 5540 after 1 year. Find the no. of males at present.
6. The population of a town is increased by 16 % on first year and on second year it is will again increase by 37 % but on
third year it will decrease by 57 %. Then find the present population if after three years the population will become
1,65,000.
7. If the population of a state in 2018 is 55000 and after 2 years in 2020 it increases to 79200 then what is the rate of
increase pre year?
8. In an election two candidates participate. 20% votes declare invalid, and the winner get 70% of valid votes and he
win by 9600 votes. Find the no. of (i) Voting list (ii) Valid votes.
9. In an election two candidate participated. 20% voters did not vote. 12 %votes declared invalid, and the winner get
60% of valid vote and he win by 5600 votes. Find the number of voter list.
10. In an election two candidate participated, 10% voters did not vote, Out of which 10% votes declare invalid and the
winner get 70% of valid votes, and he win by 7290 votes, Then find the voting List.
11. In an election two candidate participated 20% voters did not cast their votes, out of which 600 votes declared invalid
and the winner get 75% of valid votes and he wins by 1500 votes. Find the no. of voting list.
12. In an election two candidate participated, 10% voters did not vote, 300 votes declared invalid and the winner get
60% votes of voting list and he win by 900 votes. Find the number of voters in the voting list?
13. The price of sugar is increase by 30% due to this a family use 40 kg less sugar so as expenditure will increase by 10%
only. Find original consumption.
14. The price of sugar is decrease by 30% due to this a family purchase 32 kg more sugar so as expenditure will decrease
by 16% only. Find current consumption.
15. A reduction of 20% in the price of sugar enables a purchaser to obtain 2 kg more for Rs. 320. Find the original price
per kg of sugar.
16. In every month Sameer consumes 25 kg rice and 9 kg wheat. The price of rice is 20% of the price of wheat and thus
he spends total Rs. 350 on the rice and wheat per month. If the price of wheat in increased by 20% then what is the
percentage reduction of rice consumption for the same expenditure of Rs. 350? Given that the price of rice and
consumption of wheat is constant:
17. A fraction is increased by 20% and after that numerator increases by 240% and denominator increased to 150% so
that resultant is?
18. The population of a village was 9600. If the males and females are increased by 8% and 5%. Then population will
become 10272 after 1 year. Find the difference between the number of males and female at initially.
19. In an election two candidate participated, 20% voters did not vote, 120 votes declared invalid and the winner get
41% votes of voting list and he win by 200 votes. Find the number of voters in the voting list?
20. The present population of a colony is 5400. There is a decrement in population in next year and increment in
population in further next year with the same rate per year. If population of colony after two years is 4914 then find
the rate?
21. Price of sugar increased from Rs. X per kg to Rs. 25 per kg. If consumption of sugar is decreased by 12% so as to
increase the expenditure by only 10%, then what is the value of X?
22. Monthly income of Sam is Rs. 12000 and his monthly savings is Rs. 7200. If his monthly income is decreased by 40%
and monthly expenditure is decreased by 25% then find percentage decrease in his monthly savings.
23. In an examination, A obtained 20% more marks than B, B obtained 25% more marks than C and C obtained 32% less
marks than D. If A obtained 170 more marks than C, then the marks obtained by B is:
24. 25% of Amit's monthly salary is spent on food, 20% is spent on rent and 30% of the remaining is spent on
entertainment; then he is left with Rs 16,940. If the monthly salary of Amar is 20% greater than that of Amit, what is
the monthly salary of Amar?
25. A solution of salt and water contains 15% salt by weight. If 30 litre water is evaporated from the solution, the
solution contains 20% salt by weight. Find the quantity (in kg) of the original solution.
26. A get 30% of the maximum marks and get failed by 25 marks whereas B get 40% of total marks in the same exam
which is 25% more than the passing marks. Find the passing marks of the exam.