Olympiad problems

2019 AMC 8, 8

Gilda has a bag of marbles. She gives $20 \%$ of them to her friend Pedro. The, Gilda gives $10 \%$ of what is left to her other friend, Ebony. Finally, Gilda gives $25 \%$ of what is left in the bag to her brother. What percentage of her original bag does she have left? $\textbf{(A) } 20 \qquad\textbf{(B) } 33\tfrac{1}{3} \qquad\textbf{(C) } 38 \qquad\textbf{(D) } 45 \qquad\textbf{(E) } 54$

2022 BAMO, B

Tags: percentage , algebra

You are bargaining with a salesperson for the price of an item. Your first offer is $a$ dollars and theirs is $b$ dollars. After you raise your offer by a certain percentage and they lower their offer by the same percentage, you arrive at an agreed price. What is that price, in terms of $a$ and $b$?

2005 Estonia National Olympiad, 3

Tags: percentage , algebra

Rein solved a test on mathematics that consisted of questions on algebra, geometry and logic. After checking the results, it occurred that Rein had answered correctly $50\%$ of questions on algebra, $70\%$ of questions on geometry and $80\%$ of questions on logic. Thereby, Rein had answered correctly altogether $62\%$ of questions on algebra and logic, and altogether $74\%$ of questions on geometry and logic. What was the percentage of correctly answered questions throughout all the test by Rein?

2000 Estonia National Olympiad, 1

Tags: percentage , algebra

The managing director of AS Mull, a brokerage company for soap bubbles, air castles and cheese holes, kissed the sales manager lazily, claiming that the company's sales volume in December had decreased by more than $10\%$ compared to October. Muugijuht, on the other hand, wrote in his quarterly report that although each, in the first half of the month, sales decreased compared to the second half of the previous month $30\%$ of the time, it increased in the second half of each month compared to the first half of the same month by $35\%$. Was the CEO wrong when the sales manager's report is true?

2003 JHMMC 8, 3

Tags: ratio , percentage

On an exam with $80$ problems, Roger solved $68$ of them. What percentage of the problems did he solve?

VII Soros Olympiad 2000 - 01, 8.1

Tags: algebra , percentage

If there are as many boys in the class as there are girls in the class now, the percentage of girls will decrease by $1.4$ times. Find out what percentage of the students in the class were boys.

IV Soros Olympiad 1997 - 98 (Russia), 9.7

Tags: algebra , percentage

There are three solutions with different percentages of alcohol. If you mix them in a ratio of $1:2:3$, you get a $20\%$ solution. If you mix them in a ratio of $5: 4: 3,$ you will get a solution with $50\%$ alcohol content. What percentage of alcohol will the solution contain if equal amounts of the original solutions are mixed?

1970 Spain Mathematical Olympiad, 5

Tags: combinatorics , algebra , percentage

In the sixth-year exams of a Center, they pass Physics at least$70\%$ of the students, Mathematics at least $75\%$; Philosophy at least, the $90\%$ and the Language at least, $85\%$. How many students, at least, pass these four subjects?