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34 Exemplar Problems

This document contains 13 word problems involving rates, ratios, percentages, and other mathematical concepts. The problems include calculating speeds given distances and times traveled, determining original prices from sales amounts and percentages, splitting investments between schemes with different interest rates, and dividing and selling items like bananas between lots at different rates to determine total quantities.

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34 Exemplar Problems

This document contains 13 word problems involving rates, ratios, percentages, and other mathematical concepts. The problems include calculating speeds given distances and times traveled, determining original prices from sales amounts and percentages, splitting investments between schemes with different interest rates, and dividing and selling items like bananas between lots at different rates to determine total quantities.

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34 EXEMPLAR PROBLEMS

On the other hand, if she travels 4 km by rickshaw and the remaining distance by
bus, she takes 9 minutes longer. Find the speed of the rickshaw and of the bus.
7. A person, rowing at the rate of 5 km/h in still water, takes thrice as much time in
going 40 km upstream as in going 40 km downstream. Find the speed of the
stream.
8. A motor boat can travel 30 km upstream and 28 km downstream in 7 hours. It can
travel 21 km upstream and return in 5 hours. Find the speed of the boat in still
water and the speed of the stream.
9. A two-digit number is obtained by either multiplying the sum of the digits by 8 and
then subtracting 5 or by multiplying the difference of the digits by 16 and then
adding 3. Find the number.
10. A railway half ticket costs half the full fare, but the reservation charges are the
same on a half ticket as on a full ticket. One reserved first class ticket from the
station A to B costs Rs 2530. Also, one reserved first class ticket and one reserved
first class half ticket from A to B costs Rs 3810. Find the full first class fare from
station A to B, and also the reservation charges for a ticket.
11. A shopkeeper sells a saree at 8% profit and a sweater at 10% discount, thereby,
getting a sum Rs 1008. If she had sold the saree at 10% profit and the sweater at
8% discount, she would have got Rs 1028. Find the cost price of the saree and the
list price (price before discount) of the sweater.
12. Susan invested certain amount of money in two schemes A and B, which offer
interest at the rate of 8% per annum and 9% per annum, respectively. She received
Rs 1860 as annual interest. However, had she interchanged the amount of
investments in the two schemes, she would have received Rs 20 more as annual
interest. How much money did she invest in each scheme?
13. Vijay had some bananas, and he divided them into two lots A and B. He sold the
first lot at the rate of Rs 2 for 3 bananas and the second lot at the rate of
Re 1 per banana, and got a total of Rs 400. If he had sold the first lot at the rate of
Re 1 per banana, and the second lot at the rate of Rs 4 for 5 bananas, his total
collection would have been Rs 460. Find the total number of bananas he had.

03/05/18

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