JIPMAT Arithmetic > Percentages PYQs

Three numbers A, B and C are such that A is 40% less than B, and C is 40% of the sum of A and B. The difference between A and B is what percentage of C?

A candidate scoring $x \%$ marks in an examination fails by ' $a$ ' marks while another candidate who scores $y \%$ marks, gets ' $b$ ' marks more than the minimum required pass marks. What is the maximum marks for the examination ?

Given below are two statements : In class ' $X$ ' of 30 students, 24 passed in first division; in another class ' $Y$ ' of 35 students, 28 passed in first division. Statement I : Class ' $X$ ' has more percentage of students getting first division. Statement II : Both classes have equal percentage of students getting first division.

The population of a village is 5000. If in a year, the number of males were to increase by 5% and that of females by 3% annually, the population would grow to 5202 at the end of the year. If M is the number of males and F is the number of females in the village, then (M,F) =

If A earns $33 \frac{1}{3} \%$ more than B, then percentage B earns less than A will be:

The value of a flat worth ₹500,000 is depreciating at the rate of 10% per annum. In how many years will the value be reduced to ₹364,500?

A man pays 40 times the annual rent to purchase a building. The rate % per annum he derives from his investment is

$(\frac{4}{7})$ of a pole is in the mud. When $(\frac{1}{3})$ of it is pulled out, 250 cm of the pole is still in the mud. The length of the pole is

A candidate scoring 25% marks in an examination fails by 30 marks while another candidate who scores 50% marks gets 20 marks more than those required to pass. The pass percentage is

A train starts full of passengers. At the first station, it drops one third of passengers and takes 280 more. At the second station, it drops one half of the new total and takes 12 more. On arriving at the third station, it is found to have 248 passengers. The number of passengers in the beginning was