CAT 1995 Percentage Questions

Percentage Questions (CAT 1995)

1.       A person who has a certain amount with him goes to the market. He can buy 50 oranges or 40 mangoes. He retains 10% of the amount as taxi fare and buys 20 mangoes and of the balance he purchases oranges. Number of oranges he can purchase is

(a)    36                              (b) 40                             (c) 15                                 (d) 20

2.       Ram purchased a flat at Rs 1 lakh and Prem purchase a plot of land wroth Rs 1. 1 lakh. The respective annual rates at which the prices of the flat and the plot increased were 10% and 5%. After two years they exchanged their belongings and one paid the other the difference. Then….

(a)    Ram paid Rs 275 to Prem                             (b) Ram paid Rs 475 to Prem                            

(b)   Ram paid Rs 2750 to Prem                           (d) Prem paid Rs 475 to Ram

3.       The rate of inflation was 1000%. Then, what will be cost of an article, which costs 6 units of currency now, two years from now?

(a)    666                           (b) 660                           (c) 720                                (d) 726 

4.       A man invests Rs 300 at a rate of 5% per annum. How much more should he invest at a rate of 8%, so that he can earn a total of 6% per annum?

(a)    Rs 1200                   (b) Rs 1300                    (c) Rs 1500                         (d) Rs 2000

5.       2/5 of the voters promise to vote for P and the rest promised to vote  for Q. of these, on the last day 15% of the voters went back of their promise to vote for P and 25% of voters went back of their promise to vote for Q and P lost by 2 votes. Then the total number of voters is

                (a)100                          (b) 110                           (c) 90                                    (d) 95                           


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