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The schedule working hour of a labour in a week if 48 hours and he gets Rs. 480 for that. Over time rate is 25% more than the the basic salary rate. In a week a labour gets Rs. 605, how many hours altogether he works in that week.

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In an election 4% of the votes caste become invalid. Winner gets 55% of casted votes and wins the election by a margin of 4800 votes. Find the total number of votes casted.

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A reduction of 10% in the price of cloth enables a man to buy 6 meters of cloth more for Rs. 2160. Find the reduced price and also the original price of cloth per meter.

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A gardener increased the rectangular garden by increasing its length by 40% and decreasing its width by 20%. The area of the new garden:

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If A exceeds B by 40%, B is less than C by 20%, then A : C is

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A batsman scored 110 runs which included 3 boundaries and 8 sixes. What percent of his total score did he make by running between the wickets?

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Two students appeared at an examination. One of them secured 9 marks more than the other and his marks was 56% of the sum of their marks. The marks obtained by them are:

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A fruit seller had some apples. He sells 40% apples and still has 420 apples. Originally, he had:

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What percentage of numbers from 1 to 70 have 1 or 9 in the unit's digit?

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If A = x% of y and B = y% of x, then which of the following is true?

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If 20% of a = b, then b% of 20 is the same as:

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In a certain school, 20% of students are below 8 years of age. The number of students above 8 years of age is of the number of students of 8 years of age which is 48. What is the total number of students in the school?

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Two numbers A and B are such that the sum of 5% of A and 4% of B is two-third of the sum of 6% of A and 8% of B. Find the ratio of A : B.

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A student multiplied a number by instead of . What is the percentage error in the calculation?

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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:

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Three candidates contested an election and received 1136, 7636 and 11628 votes respectively. What percentage of the total votes did the winning candidate get?

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Two tailors X and Y are paid a total of Rs. 550 per week by their employer. If X is paid 120 percent of the sum paid to Y, how much is Y paid per week?

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Gauri went to the stationers and bought things worth Rs. 25, out of which 30 paise went on sales tax on taxable purchases. If the tax rate was 6%, then what was the cost of the tax free items?

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Rajeev buys good worth Rs. 6650. He gets a rebate of 6% on it. After getting the rebate, he pays sales tax @ 10%. Find the amount he will have to pay for the goods.

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The population of a town increased from 1,75,000 to 2,62,500 in a decade. The average percent increase of population per year is:

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