Successive Percentage Change — XAT Previous-Year Questions
2 previous-year questions on Successive Percentage Change from XAT, with full solutions. Practise free — check answers as you go; sign in to save your progress.
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Successive Percentage Change · XAT PYQs
XAT 2019 · QA & DI
Q1.
A, B, C, D and E are five employees working in a company. In two successive years, each of them got hikes in his salary as follows:
A : p% and (p + 1)%,
B : (p + 2)% and (p - 1)%,
C : (p + 3)% and (p - 2)%,
D : (p + 4)% and (p - 3)%,
E : (p + 5)% and (p - 4)%.
If all of them have the same salary at the end of two years, who got the least hike in his salary?
XAT 2018 · QA & DI
Q2.
The price of a product is P. A shopkeeper raises its price by X% and then offers a discount of Y% on the raised price. The discounted price again becomes P. If Y is the difference between X and Y, then find X.