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Government jobs as well as for Bank jobs. Our team will try to write some very helpful
articles related to various shortcut techniques related to the aptitude. Here in this post we
will share various shortcut techniques for percentage

Shortcut 1: If we increased any value by x % and then decreased by y %. Then the

resulting effect in percent will be: “+ x + y + xy /100”.

Various Examples related to this Percentage Short cuts are given below:
Example 1: The price of goods is marks 20% more than the real price by the shopkeeper.
After that the shopkeeper allowed a discount of 10%. Now What profit or loss did the
shopkeeper will get?
Solution: We solve this as follow by using the percentage shortcut1 as follow:
The Loss (or) Profit he will get is = 20 – 10 + (+20)(-10)/100
= + 8% (profit).

Example 2: Side of the square is increased by 30%. Find the percentage increase in area.
Solution: Here we again use the percentage shortcut 1.
So the increased area percentage = 30 + 30 + (30)(30)/100
= 69 % (increased).

Example 3: Radius of the circle is decreased by 20%. What will be the percent change in
area of the circle?
Solution: Therefore by using the percentage shortcut1:
The Percent change in area of circle is= - 20 - 20 + (-20)(-20)/100
= -36% (decreased)

Example 4: The price of a car is increased by 15% than after that again decreased by 15%.
What will be the percent change?
Solution: The percent change is = + 15 - 15 + (+15)(-15)/100
= - 2.25 % (decreased)

Example 5: Length of a rectangle is increased by 40% and breadth of the rectangle is

decreased by 40%. Find change in area.
Solution: By using the formula of percentage shortcut given above:
The percent change in area of rectangle is= 40 - 40 + (-40)(+40)/100
= -16 %( decreased)

SHORTCUTS ON PERMUTATION AND COMBINATION

Some Basic & General Rule & Formula: This method of Permutation &
combination is totally related to the math calculation and it is very important for all bank
examinations.
Factorial Notation: Let’s consider that “n” be a positive integer. Then, Factorial n, denoted
by ⌊n or n! And can be defined as follow:
n! = n (n – 1 ) ( n –2 ) …………….3.2.1.
For Example: 5! = ( 1 x 2 x 3 x 4 x 5 ) = 120;
For Example: 4! = (1 x 2 x 3 x 4 ) = 24;
For Example: 3 = ( 1 x 2 x 3 ) = 6;
You should know that 1! = 1
And also the 0! = 1
Permutation: Arrangements of a given number or any things by taking all or some at a time
is stands for permutation.
All permutation represented by letter a, b, c by taking two at a time are ( ab, ba, ac, ca, bc, cb
)
While All permutations represented by letters a, b, c, taking all at a time are ( abc, acb, bac,
bca, cab, cba ).

No. of Permutations: No. of all permutations of n things, taken r as a time, can be given as:
Formula1: n p r = n (n – 1) ( n – 2 )……(n – r + 1 ) = n! / (n – r ) !
Example: 6 p 2 = 6! / 6-2= (6 x 5) = 30.
Example: 7 p 3 = (7 x 6 x 5) = 210.

Important Note: No. of all arrangement that is n things, we can take all at a time = n!
For Example: 6! / 2! = 1 x 2 x 3 x 4 x 5 x 6 / 1 x 2 = 360.

Now we learn what is permutation and related formula with it. Now for more practice we
are going to solve some examples of permutation with using maths shortcuts.

Question1. ‘HOUSE’ Word can be arranged in how many Different ways?

Solution: As we all know that word HOUSE contains 5 letters.
Therefore required No. of word using formula is
5p5 = 5! = (1 x 2 x 3 x 4 x 5 ) = 120.

Question2. The words ‘COMPUTER’ can be arranged in How many different ways ?
Sol. We know that the word “COMPUTER” contains 7 letters. In this letter no repeated
word so we can find required no. of word using formula: n p r

7p7 = 7! / ( 7 – 7)! = ( 1 x 2 x 3 x 4 x 5 x 6 x 7 ) = 5040.

Question3. ‘KOLKATA’ word can arranged in how many different ways?

Sol. The Total No. of letter in this word is 7. We also w=know that repeated word occurred
so we divided this by repeated word. Repeated is k two time and A two time.

Therefore required No. of word using formula: 7p7 / 2p2 x 2p2

= 7!/(7 – 7 )! / 2!(2 – 2)! x 2!(2 – 2)! = ( 1 x 2 x 3 x 4 x 5 x 6 x 7 )
= 1260.