CBSE Class 5 Mathematics Percentage MCQs

Question: 25% =
a) 0.25
b) 25
c) 2.5

Answer: 0.25

Question: 9% =
a) 0.09
b) 9
c) 0.9

Answer: 0.09

Question: 1.5 =
a) 150%
b) 0.15%
c) 15%

Answer: 150%

Question: 50% of 200 =
a) 100
b) 50
c) 10

Answer: 100

Question: 0.06% of 800 =
a) 0.48
b) 48
c) 4.8

Answer: 0.48

Question: 5% of Rs.5 =
a) 0.25 P
b) 2.5 P
c) 25 P

Answer: 0.25 P

Question: In word CLASS, what is the percentage of the letter S =
a) 40%
b) 20%
c) 4%

Answer: 40%

Question: 20% of 1 hour 30 minutes is
a) 18 minutes
b) 30 minutes
c) 26 minutes

Answer: 18 minutes

Question: Reena spelt 22 out of 50 words correctly. What percentage of words did Reena spelt correctly?
a) 44%
b) 40%
c) 50%

Answer: 44%

Question: 23/100 =
a) 23%
b) 0.23%
c) 2.3%

Answer: 23%

Question: Anil said that 3/4 of his friends wear glasses. What percent of his friends wear glasses?
a) 75%
b) 30%
c) 25%

Answer: 75%

Question: In the word NAINITAL, What percent of the letters are A =
a) 25%
b) 20%
c) 15%

Answer: 25%

Question: There are 600 students in a school. 60% are boys. How many girl students are there in the school?
a) 240
b) 360
c) 100

Answer: 240

Question: In a school, 120 students appeared for the class X board examination. If 90% of the students passed with first division, how many students passed with first division?
a) 108
b) 105
c) 100

Answer: 108

Question: Which of the following is equivalent to 2.02?
a) 202%
b) 20.2%
c) 0.02%

Answer: 202%

Question: Which of the following is equivalent to 8%?
a) 0.08
b) 0.008
c) 0.8

Answer: 0.08

Question: What percent of 20 is 16?
a) 80%
b) 20%
c) 30%

Answer: 80%

Question: What percent of a rupee is 40 paise?
a) 40%
b) 60%
c) 50%

Answer: 40%

Question: What percent of 6 litres is 20 ML?
a) 1/3%
b) 2/3%
c) 3/3%

Answer: 1/3%

Question: 69/100=
a) 0.69
b) 0.021
c) 0.21

Answer: 0.69

Question: Which is more (i) 12% of 400 or (ii) 18% of 200?
a) (i)
b) (ii)
c) both are equal

Answer: (i)

Question: In the set of numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 11, 12 percent of even numbers is
a) 40%
b) 20%
c) 11%

Answer: 40%

Question: What percent of 8 is 2?
a) 25%
b) 20%
c) 40%

Answer: 25%

Question: What percentage of Rs.140 is Rs.7?
a) 5%
b) 0.5%
c) 20%

Answer: 5%

Question - If the total monthly income of 16 persons is 80,800 and the income of one of them is 120% of the average income, then his income is ?
a) 5,050
b) 6,060
c) 6,160
d) 6,600

Answer : B

Question - If each side of a cube is increased by 10% the volume of the cube will increase by ?
a) 30%
b) 10%
c) 33.1%
d) 25%

Answer : C

Question - If 15% of (A + B) = 25% of (A – B), then what per cent of B is equal to A ?
a) 10%
b) 60%
c) 200%
d) 400%

Answer : D

Question - Tulsiram’s salary is 20% more than that of Kashyap. If Tulsiram saves 720 which is 4% of his salary, then Kashyap’s salary is ?
a) 15,000
b) 12,000
c) 10,000
d) 22,000

Answer : A

Question - In a class, the number of girls is 20% more than that of the boys. The strength of the class is 66. If 4 more girls are admitted to the class, the ratio of the number of boys to that of the girls is ?
a) 1 : 2
b) 3 : 4
c) 1 : 4
d) 3 : 5

Answer : B

Question - In an examination 75% candidates passed in English and 60% passed in Mathematics. 25% failed in both and 240 passed the examination. Find the total number of candidates ?
a) 492
b) 300
c) 500
d) 400

Answer : D

Question - When the price of cloth was reduced by 25%, the quantity of cloth sold increased by 20%. What was the effect on gross receipt of the shop ?
a) 5% increase
b) 5% decrease
c) 10% increase
d) 10% decrease

Answer : D

Question - The population of a village increases by 5% annually. If its present population is 4410, then its population 2 years ago was ?
a) 4500
b) 4000
c) 3800
d) 3500

Answer : B

Question - 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 ?
a) 1258
b) 1458
c) 1324
d) 1624

Answer : B

Question - What is 20% of 25% of 300 ?
a) 150
b) 60
c) 45
d) 15

Answer : D

Question - In an examination A got 25% marks more than B, B got 10% less than C and C got 25% more than D. If D got 320 marks out of 500, the marks obtained by A were ?
a) 405
b) 450
c) 360
d) 400

Answer : B

Question - What percent of 3.6 kg is 72 gms ?
a) 32%
b) 22%
c) 12%
d) 2%

Answer : D

Question - If A’s income is 40% less than that of B, how much percent B’s income is more than that of A ?
a) 60%
b) 40%
c) 66.66%
d) 33.33%

Answer : C

Question - The price of sugar is increased by 20%. If the expenditure on sugar has to be kept the same as earlier, the ratio between the reduction in consumption and the original consumption is ?
a) 1 : 3
b) 1 : 4
c) 1 : 6
d) 1 : 5

Answer : C

Question - 200 litres of a mixture contains 15% water and the rest is milk. The amount of milk that must be added so that the resulting mixture contains 87.5% milk is ?
a) 30 litres
b) 35 litres
c) 40 litres
d) 45 litres

Answer : C

Question - In an examination, 60% of the candidates passed in English and 70% of the candidates passed in Mathematics, but 20% failed in both of these subjects. If 2500 candidates passed in both the subjects, the number of candidates who appeared at the examination was ?
a) 3000
b) 3500
c) 4000
d) 5000

Answer : D

Question - At an election there were two candidates. A candidate got 38% of votes and lost by 7200 number of votes. The total number of valid votes were ?
a) 13000
b) 13800
c) 16200
d) 30000

Answer : D

Question - A reduction of 21% in the price of an item enables a person to buy 3 kg more for 100. The reduced price of item per kg is ?
a) 5.50
b) 7.50
c) 10.50
d) 7.00

Answer : D

Question - A fruit seller had some apples. He sells 40% apples and still has 420 apples. Originally, he had ?
a) 588 apples
b) 600 apples
c) 672 apples
d) 700 apples

Answer : D

Question - A man bought some eggs of which 10% are rotten. He gives 80% of the remainder to his neighbours. Now he is left out with 36 eggs. How many eggs he bought ?
a) 40
b) 100
c) 200
d) 72

Answer : C

Question - A dozen pairs of socks quoted at 180 are available at discount of 20%. How many pairs of socks can be bought for 48 ?
a) 3 pairs
b) 4 pairs
c) 2 pairs
d) 5 pairs

Answer : B

Question - A man spends 15% of his income. If his expenditure is Rs. 75, his income (in rupees) is ?
a) 400
b) 300
c) 750
d) 500

Answer : D

Question - The ratio of the number of boys to that of girls in a school is 4 : 1. If 75% of boys and 70% of the girls are scholarship-holders, then the percentage of students who do not get scholarship is ?
a) 50%
b) 28%
c) 75%
d) 26%

Answer : D

Question - A candidate who scores 30 percent fails by 5 marks, while another candidate who scores 40 percent marks gets 10 more than minimum pass marks. The minimum marks required to pass are ?
a) 50
b) 70
c) 100
d) 150

Answer : A

Question - In an election, a candidate secures 40% of the votes but is defeated by the only other candidate by a majority of 298 votes. Find the total number of votes recorded ?
a) 1580
b) 1490
c) 1470
d) 1530

Answer : B

Question - If the price of sugar increases by 20%, one can buy 2 kg less for Rs. 50. What is the amount of sugar that could be bought before price hike ?
a) 10 kg
b) 12 kg
c) 14 kg
d) 16 kg

Answer : B

Question - An army lost 10% of its men in war, 10% of the remaining died due to disease and 10% of the rest were declared disabled. Thus the strength of the army was reduced to 7,29,000 active men. The original strength of the army was ?
a) 1500000
b) 1000000
c) 1200000
d) 1100000

Answer : B

Question - In an office 40% of the staff is female, 40% of the females and 60% of the males voted for me. The percentage of votes I got was ?
a) 24%
b) 42%
c) 50%
d) 52%%

Answer : D

Question - When 75 is added to 75% of a number, the answer is the number. Find 40% of that number ?
a) 100
b) 80
c) 120
d) 160

Answer : C

Question - If the income of Mohan is 150% higher than that of Mahesh, then by what percent the income of Mahesh is less than that of Mohan ?
a) 40%
b) 50%
c) 60%
d) 45%

Answer : C

Question - In a certain school, 10% of the students have less than 75% attendance and are not allowed to sit in the exam, but 20% of the students who have less than 75% attendance are allowed to sit in the exam. What percent of the students in the school have less than 75% attendance ?
a) 30%
b) 12.5%
c) 15%
d) 10.5%

Answer : B

Question - In an election there were only two candidates. One of the candidates secured 40% of votes and is defeated by the other candidate by 298 votes. The total number of votes polled is ?
a) 745
b) 1460
c) 1490
d) 1500

Answer : C

Question - If 70% of the students in a school are boys and the number of girls be 504, the number of boys is ?
a) 1176
b) 1008
c) 1208
d) 3024

Answer : A

Question - A's salary is 25% more than B's salary. B's salary is how much less than A's salary ?
a) 20 %
b) 24 %
c) 25 %
d) 27.5 %

Answer : A

Question - x is 5 times longer than y. The percentage by which y is less than x is ?
a) 50%
b) 40%
c) 80%
d) 70%

Answer : C

Question - The ratio in which two sugar solutions of the concentrations 15% and 40% are to be mixed to get a solution of concentration 30% is ?
a) 2 : 3
b) 3 : 2
c) 8 : 9
d) 9 : 8

Answer : A

Question - A number is decreased by 10% and the resulting number is again decreased by 20%. What is the final percentage of decrease ?
a) 25%
b) 26%
c) 27%
d) 28%

Answer : D

Question - A reduction of 20% in the price of sugar enables a purchaser to obtain 8 kg more for Rs. 160. Then the price per kg before reduction was ?
a) Rs. 5
b) Rs. 6
c) Rs. 10
d) Rs. 4

Answer : A

Question - The number of seats in a cinema hall is increased by 25%. The cost of each ticket is also increased by 10%. The effect of these changes on the revenue collection will be an increase of ?
a) 37.5%
b) 45.5%
c) 47.5%
d) 49.5%

Answer : A

Question - If 50% of (P – Q) = 30% of (P + Q) and Q = x% of P, then the value of x is ?
a) 30
b) 25
c) 20
d) 50

Answer : B

Question - The ratio of the number of boys and girls in a school is 3 : 2. If 20% of the boys and 25% of the girls are scholarship holders, then the percentage of the students, who do not get the scholarship, is ?
a) 78%
b) 75%
c) 60%
d) 55%

Answer : A

Question - In an examination, a student must get 36% marks to pass. A student who gets 190 marks failed by 35 marks. The total marks in that examination is ?
a) 450
b) 810
c) 500
d) 625

Answer : D

Question - In a factory, the production of cycles rose to 48, 400 from 40,000 in 2 years. The rate of growth per annum is ?
a) 9%
b) 8%
c) 10.5%
d) 10%

Answer : D

Question - 18% of which number is equal to 12% of 75 ?
a) 50
b) 100
c) 2
d) 3/2

Answer : A

Question - If 50% of x = 30% y, then x : y is ?
a) 2 : 3
b) 5 : 3
c) 3 : 2
d) 3 : 5

Answer : D

Question - A student has to secure 40% marks to pass. He gets 90 marks and fails by 10 marks. Maximum marks are ?
a) 200
b) 225
c) 250
d) 275

Answer : C

Question - An individual pays 30% income tax. On this tax he has to pay a surcharge of 10%. Thus, the net tax rate, he has to pay, is ?
a) 45%
b) 40%
c) 33%
d) 27%

Answer : C

Question - A vessel has 60 litres of solution of acid and water having 80% acid. How much water be added to make it a solution in which acid forms 60% ?
a) 48 litres
b) 20 litres
c) 36 litres
d) None of these

Answer : B

Question - A number, on subtracting 15 from it, reduces to its 80%. What is 40% of the number ?
a) 75
b) 60
c) 30
d) 90

Answer : C

Question - The prices of a school bag and a shoe are in the ratio 7 : 5. The price of a school bag is 200 more than the price of a shoe. Then the price of a shoe is ?
a) 200
b) 700
c) 500
d) 1,200

Answer : C

Question - P’s salary is 25% higher than Q, what percentage is Q’s salary lower than that of P ?
a) 20
b) 29
c) 31
d) 33 and 1/3

Answer : A

Question - If A’s income is 50% less than that of B’s, then B’s income is what per cent more than that of A ?
a) 125%
b) 100%
c) 75%
d) 50%

Answer : B