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Questions : A student multiplied a number by $3/5$ instead of $5/3$ . What is the percentage error in the calculation ?

(a) 54%

(b) 64%

(c) 44%

(d) 34%

The correct answers to the above question in:

Answer: (b)

Let x be the multiplicand.

Error = $5/3x - 3/5x$

= $\text"25x – 9x"/15 =\text"16x"/15$

Percentage error = ${\text"16x"/15}/{5/3x}$ × 100

=$\text"16x"/15×3/\text"5x"$ ×100=64%

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Question : 1

A team played 40 games in a season and won in 24 of them. What percent of games played did the team win?

a) 60%

b) 35%

c) 70%

d) 40%

Answer: (a)

Required percentage = $24/40 × 100$ = 60%

Question : 2

If x is 80% of y, what percent of y is x ?

a) 100%

b) 125%

c) 75%

d) 80%

Answer: (b)

According to question,

y = ${100 × 100}/80$ of x

y = 125% of x

Question : 3

In a college, 40% of the students were allotted group A, 75% of the remaining were given group B and the remaining 12 students were given group C. Then the number of students who applied for the group is

a) 80

b) 92

c) 100

d) 60

Answer: (a)

Group A = 40%

Group B = ${60 × 75}/100$ = 45%

Group C = 15%

If the total number of students be x,

then ${x × 15}/100$ = 12

x = ${12 × 100}/15$= 80

Question : 4

0.001 is equivalent to

a) 0.01%

b) 0.1%

c) 10%

d) 1%

Answer: (b)

0.1% = $0.1/100$ = 0.001

Question : 5

If 90% of A = 30% of B and B = 2x% of A, then the value of x is

a) 300

b) 150

c) 450

d) 400

Answer: (b)

${A × 90}/100 ={B × 30}/100$

3A = B

3A = $A × {2x}/100$

300 = 2x ⇒ x = 150

Question : 6

31% of employees pay tax in the year 2008. Non-tax paying employees are 20,700. The total number of employees is :

a) 30,000

b) 66,775

c) 31,160

d) 64,750

Answer: (a)

Let the total number of employees be x.

x × $69/100$ = 20700

x = ${20700 × 100}/69$ = 30000

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