CDS Arithmetic Math Book

CDS/AFCAT/CAPF
EXAM
MATHEMATICS
ARITHMETIC
FOR ALL STUDENTS

CONTENTS
(CDS ARITHMETIC MATHS)
CHAPTER PAGE
1. 1-16
RATIO AND PROPORTION……………………..…………………………
17-27
2. AVERAGE……………………….....…………………………………………
28-42
3. TIME AND WORK…………………………………………………………..
43-60
4. TIME AND DISTANCE……………………………..........…………………
61-75
5. PERCENTAG…..…………………………………………………………….
76-90
6. PROFIT AND LOSS..………………………………………………………..
91-105
7. INTEREST……………………………………………………………………
106-131
8. NUMBER SYSTEM………………………………………………………....
132-138
9. SIMPLIFICATION…………………………………………………………..
139-147
10. LCM AND HCF……………………………………………………………….
QUESTION DISTRIBUTION
(CDS ARITHMETIC MATHS)
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1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2
1. RATIO AND PROPORTION 2 4 3 3 4 3 3 1 1 3 1 1 0 2
2. AVERAGE - 5 3 2 3 2 3 1 1 3 4 2 0 3
3. TIME AND WORK 1 2 3 2 4 5 2 3 2 1 2 3 1 3
4. TIME AND DISTANCE 5 5 4 5 4 4 4 1 3 5 3 2 4 4
5. PERCENTAGE 2 1 2 3 1 1 2 2 2 1 2 1 0 0
6. PROFIT AND LOSS 1 2 1 2 1 1 1 2 - 3 2 1 1 0
7. INTEREST 1 1 1 1 3 2 2 2 1 1 2 1 1 1
8. NUMBER SYSTEM 12 11 5 1 7 7 15 10 9 11 4 5 8 4
9. SIMPLIFICATION - 2 1 3 3 - 1 2 2 2 3 1 3 1
10. LCM AND HCF 1 1 2 - 2 2 - 2 3 2 - 3 1 2

1 RATIO & PROPORTION
PRACTICE SHEET 1
1. If a : b = 7 : 9 and b : c =15 : 7, then what 11. The mean proportional between (3 + √2)
is a : c? and (12 - √32) is
(1) 5 : 3 (2) 3 : 5 (1) 7 (2) 2√7
(3) 7 : 21 (4) 7 : 15 (3) 6 (4) 15  3  2
2
1 1
2. If x = y and y = z , then x : y : z, is equal 12. If a : b : c = 2 : 3 : 4 and 2a –3b + 4c = 33,
3 2 then the value of c is
to: (1) 6 (2) 9
(1) 3 : 2 : 1 (2) 1 : 2 : 6 (3) 12 (4) 66/7
(3) 1 : 3 : 6 (4) 2 : 4 : 6
13. If two times of A is equal to three times of B
3. If x : y = 3 : 1, then x3 – y3 : x3 + y3 = and also equal to four times of C, then A : B
(1) 13 : 14 (2) 14 : 13 : C is
(3) 10 : 11 (4) 11 : 10 (1) 2 : 3 : 4 (2) 3 : 4 : 2
(3) 4 : 6 : 3 (4) 6 : 4 : 3
4. The fourth proportional to 0.12, 0.21, 8 is :
(1) 8.9 (2) 56 14. If A and B are in the ratio 3 : 4, and B and
(3) 14 (4) 17 C in the ratio 12 : 13, then A and C will be
in the ratio
5. The ratio 21.5 : 20.5 is the same as (1) 3 :13 (2) 9 : 13
(1) 2 : 1 (2) 3 : 1 (3) 36 :13 (4) 13 : 9
(3) 6 : 1 (4) 3 : 2
15. If 3x = 5y = 4z, then x : y : z is equal to
6. If A : B = 3 : 4, B : C = 5 : 7 and C : D = 8 : (1) 9 : 12 : 16 (2) 20 : 12 : 15
9 then A : D is equal to (3) 15 : 10 : 9 (4) 8 : 5 : 3
(1) 3 : 7 (2) 7 : 3
(3) 21 : 10 (4) 10 : 21 16. If A : B = 3 : 4 and B : C = 6 : 5, then A : (A
+ C) is equal to
7. If b is the mean proportional of a and c, (1) 9 : 10 (2) 10 : 9
then (a – b)3 : (b – c)3 equals (3) 9 : 19 (4) 19 : 9
(1) a3 : c3 (2) b2 : c2
(3) a : c
2 2 (4) a3 : b3 17. If 78 is divided into three parts which are
8. If a : b = 5 : 7 and c : d = 2a : 3b, then ac : in the ratio 1: 1 : 1 , the middle part is
3 6
bd is :
(1) 9 1 (2) 13
(1) 20 : 38 (2) 50 : 147
(3) 10 : 21 (4) 50 : 151 3
(3) 17 1 (4) 18 1
3 3
9. If A : B : C = 2 : 3 : 4, then ratio A : B : C is
B C A
equal to 18. If two-third of A is four-fifth of B, then A : B
(1) 8 : 9 : 16 (2) 8 : 9 : 12 =?
(3) 8 : 9 : 24 (4) 4 : 9 : 16 (1) 5 : 6 (2) 6 : 5
(3) 10 : 9 (4) 9 :10
10. If a : b = c : d = e : f = 1 : 2, then (3a + 5c
+7e): (3b + 5d + 7 f ) is equal to 4 5
(1) 8 : 7 (2) 2 : 1 19. If A = of B and B = of C, then the ratio
5 2
(3) 1 : 4 (4) 1 : 2
of A : C is
(1) 1 : 2 (2) 2 : 1
(3) 2 : 3 (4) 1 : 3
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20. Marks of two candidates P and Q are in the (1) Rs. 680 (2) Rs. 800
ratio of 2 : 5. If the marks of P is 120, (3) Rs. 900 (4) Rs. 950
marks of Q will be
(1) 120 (2) 240 1 1
(3) 300 (4) 360 26. If A = B and B = C, then A : B : C is :
4 2
21. If A : B = 4 : 9 and A : C = 2 : 3, then (A + (1) 8 : 4 : 1 (2) 4 : 2 : 1
B) : (A + C) is (3) 1 : 4 : 8 (4) 1 : 2 : 4
(1) 15: 13 (2) 10 : 13
(3) 13: 10 (4) 13: 15 27. If 2A = 3B = 4C, then A: B: C is :
(1) 2 : 3 : 4 (2) 4 : 3 : 2
22. If (a + b) : (b + c) : (c + a) = 6 : 7 : 8 and (a + (3) 6 : 4 : 3 (4) 3 : 4 : 6
b + c) = 14, then the value of c is
(1) 6 (2) 7 28. The ratio 43.5 : 25 is the same as
(3) 8 (4) 14 (1) 4 : 1 (2) 2 : 1
(3) 1 : 2 (4) 1 : 4
23. If 18, x and 50 are in continued proportion,
then the value of x is 29. There are three numbers A, B, C such that
(1) 30 (2) 3 twice A is equal to thrice B and four times
(3) 5 (4) 32 B is equal to five times C. Then the ratio
between A and C is
(1) 3 : 4 (2) 8 : 15
24. If (a + b) : ab = 4 : 1, where a > b > 0, (3) 15 : 8 (4) 4 : 3
then a : b is
(1) (2 + √3 ) : (2 – √3 ) 3x  5 2
(2) (2 – √3 ) : (2 + √3 ) 30. If  , then the value of x is
(3) (3 + √2 ) : (3 – √2 ) 5x  2 3
(4) (3 – √2 ) : (3 + √2 ) (1) 11 (2) 19
(3) 23 (4) 7
25. Rs. 2420 were divided among A, B and C so
that A : B = 5 : 4 and B : C = 9 : 10 then C
gets
ANSWER KEY
1. (1) 2. (3) 3. (1) 4. (3) 5. (1) 6. (4) 7. (4) 8. (2) 9. (3) 10. (4)
11. (2) 12. (3) 13. (4) 14. (2) 15. (2) 16. (3) 17. (3) 18. (2) 19. (2) 20. (3)
21. (3) 22. (1) 23. (1) 24. (1) 25. (2) 26. (3) 27. (3) 28. (1) 29. (3) 30. (2)

PRACTICE SHEET 2
1. Ram, Shyam and Kamal together started a 8. A,B.C rented a video cassette at á rent of
business in partnership. The ratio of their 350. If they use if for 6 hrs, 10 hrs and 12
capitals is 3:4:7. If their annual profit be Rs. hrs. Rent to be paid C, is
21000, what will be Kamal's share in this (1) Rs. 75 (2) Rs. 125
profit? (3) Rs. 135 (4) Rs. 150
(1) Rs. 12500 (b) Rs. 10500
(3) Rs. 15000 (4) Rs.10000 9. Amit started a business investing Rs. 25000.
After 3 months, Vinay joined him. With a
2. Three partners A,B,C in a business invested capital of Rs. 30000. At the end of the year
money such that 6(As capital)=8 (B's they make a profit of Rs. 19000. What will
capital)=10 (C's capital) then the ratio of be Amit's share in the profit?
their capitals is: (1) Rs. 9423 (2) Rs. 10000
(1) 3:4:5 (2) 12:15:20 (3) Rs. 12500 (4) none
(3) 20:15:12 (4) 6:810
10. A,B and C start a business each investing
3. If 4 (A's capital) = 6 (B's capital) = 10 (Cs Rs. 20000. After 5 months A withdrew Rs.
capital), then out of a profit of Rs. 4650, C 5000, B Rs. 4000 and C invested Rs. 6000
will receive more. At the end of the year a total profit of
(1) 465 (2) 900 Rs. 69900 was recorded. What is share of B?
(3) 1550 (4) 2250 (1) Rs. 20500 (2) Rs. 21200
(3) Rs. 27300 (4) Rs. 28200
4. Three partners A,B.C in a business invested
money such that (A's capital)/3 = (B's 11 A,B.C enter into partnership. A initially
capital)/1 = [C's capital)/5 then the ratio of invests Rs. 25 lakhs and another Rs.10
their capitals is: Lakhs after one year. B initially invests Rs.
(1) 3:1:5 (2) 12:15:20 35 lakhs and withdraws Rs. 10 lakhs after 2
(3) 20:15:12 (4) 6:810 years and C invests Rs. 30 lakhs. In what
ratio should the profits be divided at the end
5. In a business A and b invested amounts in of 3 years?
ratio 2:3, where as B and C invested (1) 10:10:9 (2) 19:19:18
amounts in the ration 3:4. If their annual (3) 20:20:19 (4) None
profit be 45000 then B's share in profit is:
(1) Rs. 15000 (2) Rs. 30000 12. A,BC enter into partnership and their
(3) Rs. 20000 (4) None capitals are into the proportion 1/3:1/4:1/5,
a withdraws half his capital after 4 months.
6. A,B and C invested Rs. 26000, Rs. 34000 Out of a total annual profit of Rs. 8470, A's
and Rs. 10000 respectively in a business. At share is:
the end of the year, they earn a profit of (1) Rs. 2520 (2) Rs. 2800
Rs.3500. B's share of profit is: (3) Rs. 3150 (4) Rs. 4120
(1) Rs. 1200 (2) Rs. 1500
(3) Rs. 1700 (4) Rs. 1900 13. In a partnership A invests 1/6 of the capital
of 1/6 of the time B invests 1/3 of the
7. Four milkmen rented a pasture A grazed 18 capital for 1/3 of the time and C, the rest of
cows for 4 months B 25 cows for 2 months C the capital for the Whole time. Out of a profit
28 cows for 5 months and D 21 cows for 3 of Rs. 23000, B's share is
months. total rent of the field is 1625, A's (1) Rs. 4000 (2) Rs. 5000
share of rent is: (3) Rs. 3250 (4) Rs. 4800
(1) Rs. 250 (2) Rs. 300
(3) Rs. 360 (4) Rs. 650 14. A and B started a business witlı initial
investments In ratio 12:11 and their annual
profits were in the ratio 4:1. If A invested the

money for 11 months B invested the money Rs. 20000 More than C. Out of a total profit
for of Rs. 40000, A receives:
(1) 3 months (2) 4 months (1) 32000 (2) 31900
(3) 5 months (4) 7 months (3) 33600 (4) 20000
15. A began a business with Rs. 4500 and was 22. A,B and C enter into partnership. A invests
joined afterwards by B with Rs. 5400. If the some money at the begging B invests double
profits at the end of the year were divided in the amount after 6 months and C invests
the ratio 2:1, B joined the business after: thrice the amount after 8 months. If the
(1) 4 month (2) 5 month annual profit be Rs. 27000, C's share is:
(3) 6 month (4) 7 month (1) 8625 (2) 9000
(3) 10800 (4) 11250
16. A and B partners in a business. A
contributes 1/4 of the capital for 15 months 23. A, B and C entered in to a partnership. A
and B received 2/3 of the profit. Find how invested Rs. 2560 and B invested Rs. 2000.
long B's money was used. At the end of the year they gained Rs. 1105,
(1) 6 month (2) 9 month out of which a got Rs. 320. C's capital was:
(3) 10 month (4) 1 year (1) Rs. 2840 (2) Rs. 4028
(3) Rs. 4280 (4) Rs. 4820
17. A and B enter into partnership. A Invests Rs.
16000 for 8 months and B remains in the 24. A,B and Care three partners in a business. If
business for 4 months. Out off a total profit, A's capital is equal to twice B's capital and B
B claims 2/7 of the profit. How much money 's capital is three times C's capital, ratio of
was contributed by B? the capitals of A,B,C is
(1) 11900 (2) 10500 (1) 2:1:3 (2) 1:2:6
(3) 13600 (4) 12800 (3) 6:3:1 (4) 1:3:6
18. A is a working and B, a sleeping partner in a 25. A,B and C start a business. A invests 3 times
business. A puts in Rs. 12000 and B Rs. as much as B. invests and B invests two
20000. A receives 10% of the profits for third of C invests. Then the ratio of capitals
managing, the rest being divided in of A,B ,C is:
proportion to their capitals. Out of a total (1) 3:9:2 (2) 6:10:15
profit of Rs. 18000 the money received by A (3) 5:3:2 (4) 6:2:3
is:
(1) Rs. 6480 (2) Rs. 8400 26. A,B,C started a shop by investing Rs.27000,
(3) Rs. 7875 (4) Rs.8325 Rs. 81000 and Rs.72000 respectively. At end
of the one year, B's share of total profit was
19. A is a working and B, a sleeping partner in a Rs.36000. What total profit?
business. A puts in Rs. 20000 and B Rs. (1) 108000 (2) 116000
30000. A receives 20% of the profits for (3) 80000 (4) 92000
managing, the rest being divided in
proportion 'to their capitals. Out of total 27. A and B started a joint firm. A's investment
profit of Rs. 50000 the money received by A was thrice the investment of B and the
is: period of his investment was twice the
(1) Rs. 26000 (2) Rs. 24000 period of investment of B. If B got Rs. 12000
(3) Rs. 30000 (4) Rs.20000 as profit then the total profit was
(1) 72000 (2) 48000
20. A,B,C subscribe Rs. 50000 for a business. A (3) 84000 (4) 60000
subscribes Rs. 4000 more than B and B Rs.
5000 More than C. Out of a total profit of Rs. 28. A and b entered into partnership with
35000, A receives: capitals in the ratio 4:5. After 3 months A
(1) 8400 (2) 11900 withdraw 1/4 of his capital and B. withdrew
(3) 13600 (4) 14700 1/5 of this capital. The gain at the end of 10
months was Rs. 15200. A's share in this
21. A,B,C subscribe Rs. 80000 for a business. A profit is:
subscribes Rs. 10000 more than B and B

(1) Rs. 7200 (2) Rs. 6600 (1) 21:28:23 (2) 26:20:15
(3) Rs. 7800 (4) Rs. 8200 (3) 31:27:21 (4) None
29. A,B,C became partners in a business by 30. A and B invest in business in tlhe ratio 3:2.
investing money in ratio 5:7:6. Next year If 5% of the total profit goes to charity and
they increase their investments by 26%, A's share is Rs. 8550, then total profit is:
20% and 15%. profit earned during 2nd year (1) 15760 (2) 15735
should be distributed in ratio. (3) 15000 (4) 142500
ANSWER KEY
1. (2) 2. (3) 3. (2) 4. (1) 5. (1) 6. (3) 7. (3) 8. (4) 9. (2) 10. (2)
11. (2) 12. (2) 13. (1) 14. (1) 15. (4) 16. (3) 17. (4) 18. (3) 19. (1) 20. (4)
21. (4) 22. (2) 23. (3) 24. (3) 25. (4) 26. (3) 27. (3) 28. (2) 29. (1) 30. (3)
PRACTICE SHEET 3
1. The ratio of the age of Ram and Rahim 10 6. Four years ago, the ratio of the age of A and
years ago was 1 : 3. The ratio of their age B was 2 : 3 and after four years it will
five years hence will be 2 : 3. Then the ratio become 5 : 7. Find their present age.
of their present age is (1) 36 years and 40 years
(1) 1 : 2 (2) 3 : 5 (2) 32 years and 48 years
(3) 3 : 4 (4) 2 : 5 (3) 40 years and 56 years
(4) 36 years and 52 years
2. The ratio of the age of a father to that of his
son is 5: 2. If the product of their ages in 7. The average age of boys in the class is twice
years is 1000, then the father's age (in years) the number of girls in the class. The ratio of
after 10 years will be : boys and girls in the class of 50 is 4 : 1. The
(1) 50 (2) 60 total of the ages (in years) of the boys in the
(3) 80 (4) 100 class is
(1) 2000 (2) 2500
3. The ratio between Sumit’s and Prakash’s age (3) 800 (4) 400
at present is 2 : 3. Sumit is 6 years younger
than Prakash. The ratio of Sumit’s age to 8. The ratio of age of two boys is 5 : 6. After two
Prakash’s age after 6 years will be years the ratio will be 7 : 8. The ratio of their
(1) 2 : 3 (2) 1 : 2 age after 12 years will be
(3) 4 : 3 (4) 3 : 4 (1) 22/24 (2) 15/16
(3) 17/18 (4) 11/12
4. Harsha is 40 years old and Ritu is 60 years
old. How many years ago was the ratio of 9. The ratio of the present age of Puneet and
their ages 3 : 5 ? Appu is 2 : 3. After 3 years the ratio of their
(1) 10 years (2) 20 years age will be 3 : 4. The present age of Puneet
(3) 37 years (4) 5 years is:
(1) 3 years (2) 6 years
5. The ratio of present age of two brothers is 1 : (3) 9 years (4) 4 years
2 and 5 years back the ratio was 1 : 3. What
will be the ratio of their age after 5 years ? 10. The ratio of the ages of a father and his son
(1) 1 : 4 (2) 2 : 3 10 years hence will be 5 : 3, while 10 years
(3) 3 : 5 (4) 5 : 6 ago, it was 3:1. The ratio of the age of the
son to that of the father today, is

(1) 1 : 2 (2) 1 : 3 19. At present the ratio between the ages of
(3) 2 : 3 (4) 2 : 5 Arun and Deepak is 4:3, After 6 years,
Arun's age will be 26 years. what is the age
11. Father is three times more than his son of Deepak at present
Ronit. After 8 years, he would be two and (1)12 years (2)15 years
half times of Ronit's age, after further 16 (3) 19 and half (4) 21 years
years, how many times would he be of
Ronit's age 20. Sachin is younger than Rahul by 7 years. if
(1) 2 times (b) 2 and half times their ages are in the respective ratio of 7:9,
(3) 2.75 times (4) 3 times then how old is Sachin
(1)16 years (2) 18 years
12. The sum of ages of 5 children born at the (3) 28 years (4) 24.5 years
intervals of 3 years each is 50 years what is
the age of the youngest child 21. The present age of three persons in
(1) 4 years (2) 8 years proportions 4 : 7 : 9 , Eight years ago the
(3) 10 years (4) none of these sum of their ages was 56. find their present
age
13. A father said to his son "I was as old as you (1) 8, 20, 28 (2) 16, 28, 36
at the present at the time of your birth" if (3) 20, 35,45 (4) none of these
the father's age is 38 years now the son's
age 5 years back was 22. Ayesha's father was 38 years of age when
(a) 14 years (b) 19 years she was born while her mother was 36 years
(c) 33 years (d) 38 years old when her brother was 4 years younger to
her was born what is the difference between
14. A is 2 years older than B who is twice as old the ages of his parents
as C. If the total of the ages of A, B and C to (1) 2 years (2) 4 years
be 27, then how old is B (3) 6 years (4) 8 years
(a) 7 (b) 8
(c) 9 (d) 10 23. Rs 180 contained in a box consists of one
rupee, 50 paise and 25 paise coins in the
15. Present age of Sameer and Anand are in the ratio 2 : 3 : 4. What is the number of 50
ratio 5 : 4 respectively. 3 years hence, the paise coins?
ratio of their ages will become 11:9 (1) 60 (2) 120
respectively. what is Anand's present age in (3) 150 (4) 180
years
(1) 24 (2) 27 24. If 378 coins consist of rupees, 50 paise and
(3) 40 (4) 50 25 paise coins, whose values are in the ratio
of 13 : 11 : 7, the number of 50 paise coins
16. A man is 24 years older than his son. In two will be :
years, his age will be twice the age of his (1) 132 (2) 128
son. The present age of his son is (3) 136 (4) 133
(1) 14 years (2)18 years
(3) 20 years (4) 22 years 25. A bag contains Rs 90 in coins of
denominations of 50 paise, 25 paise and 10
17. Six years ago, the ratio of the ages of Kunal paise. If coins of 50 paise, 25 paise and 10
and Sagar was 6 : 5 . four years hence the paise are in the ratio 2 : 3 : 5, then the
ratio of their ages will be 11 :10 . what is number of 25 paise coins in the bag is
present age of Sagar (1) 80 (2) 120
(1) 16 years (2) 18 years (3) 100 (4) 135
26. There are Rs 225 consisting of one rupee, 50
18. The sum of present age of father and his son paise and 25 paise coins. The ratio of their
is 60 years. Six years ago, father's age was numbers in that order is 8 : 5 : 3. The
five times the age of his son, after 6 years number of one-rupee coins is :
son's age will be (1) 80 (2) 112
(1) 12 years (2) 14 years (3) 160 (4) 172

27. A box contains 1-rupee, 50-paise and 25- 29. A box has 210 coins of denominations one-
paise coins in the ratio 8 : 5 : 3. If the total rupee and fifty paise only. The ratio of their
amount of money in the box is 112.50, the respective values is 13 : 11. The number of
number of 50-paise coins is one-rupee coins is
(1) 80 (2) 50 (1) 65 (2) 66
(3) 30 (4) 42 (3) 77 (4) 78
28. In a bag, there are three types of coins — 1- 30. A boy has a few coins of denominations 50
rupee, 50 paise and 25-paise in the ratio of paise, 25 paise and 10 paise in the ratio 1 :
3 : 8 : 20. Their total value is Rs 372. The 2 : 3. If the total amount of the coins is 6.50,
total number of coins is the number of 10 paise coins is
(1) 1200 (2) 961 (1) 5 (2) 10
(3) 744 (4) 612 (3) 15 (4) 20
ANSWER KEY
1. (2) 2. (2) 3. (4) 4. (1) 5. (3) 6. (4) 7. (3) 8. (3) 9. (2) 10. (1)
11. (1) 12. (1) 13. (1) 14. (4) 15. (1) 16. (4) 17. (1) 18. (4) 19. (2) 20. (4)
21. (2) 22. (3) 23. (2) 24. (1) 25. (2) 26. (3) 27. (2) 28. (2) 29. (4) 30. (3)
PRACTICE SHEET 4
1. The income of A, B and C are in the ratio 3 : (1) 4,000, 2,400 (2) 3,000, 1,800
7 : 4 and their expenses in the ratio 4 : 3 : 5. (3) 5,000, 3,000 (4) 4,500 2,700
If A saves 300 out of an income of 2,400, the
savings of B and C are : 5. The annual income of A and B are in the ratio
(1) 4025 and 575 (2) 1575 and 2.625 4 : 3 and the ratio of their expenditures is 3 :
(3) 2750 and 1.525 (4) 3725 and 1.525 2. If each of them saves 600 in the year, the
annual income of A is
2. Between two consecutive years my income (1) 4800 (2) 1800
are in the ratio of 2 : 3 and expenses in the (3) 1200 (4) 2400
ratio 5 : 9. If my income in the second year is
45000 and my expenses in the first year is 6. The income of A, B and C are in the ratio 7 :
25000 my total savings for the two years is : 9 : 12 and their spending are in the ratio 8 : 9
(1) Nil (2) 15000 : 15. If A saves 1/4 th of his income, then the
(3) 10000 (4) 5000 savings of A, B and C are in the ratio of :
(1) 56 : 99 : 69 (2) 69 : 56 : 99
3. A and B have monthly incomes in the ratio 5 (3) 99 : 56 : 69 (4) 99 : 69 : 56
: 6 and monthly expenditures in the ratio 3 :
4. If they save 1800 and 1600 respectively, 7. The ratio of income of P and Q is 3 : 4 and
find the monthly income of B : the ratio of their expenditures is 2 : 3. If both
(1) 3400 (2) 2700 of them save 6000, the income of P is
(3) 1720 (4) 7200 (1) 20000 (2) 12000
(3) 18000 (4) 24000
4. The ratio of income of two persons is 5 : 3
and that of their expenditures is 9 : 5. Find 8. A man spends a part of his monthly income
the income of each person, if they save 1,300 and saves a part of it. The ratio of his
and 900 respectively. expenditure to his saving is 26 : 3. If his

monthly income is 7250, what is the amount (1) 350 (2) 260
of his monthly savings ? (3) 140 (4) 250
(1) 350 (2) 290
(3) 750 (4) 780 17. In an army selection process, the ratio of
selected to unselected candidates was 3 : 1. If
9. The monthly salaries of A, B and C are in the 80 less had applied and 40 less selected, the
ratio 2 : 3 : 5. If C’s monthly salary is 12,000 ratio of selected to unselected candidates
more than that of A, then B’s annual salary is would have been 4 : 1. How many candidates
(1) 1,20,000 (2) 1,44,000 had applied for the process?
(3) 1,80,000 (4) 2,40,000 (1) 480 (2) 960
(3) 240 (4) 1440
10. The ratio of income of two persons is 5 : 3
and that of their expenditures is 9 : 5. If they 18. In an army selection process, the ratio of
save 2600 and 1800 respectively, their selected to unselected candidates was 4:1. If
incomes are : 90 less had applied and 20 less were
(1) 8000; 4800 (2) 6000; 3600 selected, the ratio of selected to unselected
(3) 10000; 6000 (4) 9000; 5400 candidates would have been 5:1. How many
candidates had applied for the process ?
11. The monthly income of two persons are in (1) 1650 (2) 3300
the ratio 2 : 3 and their monthly expenses are (3) 825 (4) 4950
in the ratio 5 : 9. If each of them saves 600
per month, then their monthly incomes are 19. In a cricket match there are three types of
(1) 1,500; 2,250 (2) 1,200; 1,800 tickets say A, B and C each costing Rs. 1000,
(3) 1,600; 2,400 (4) 1,400; 2,100 Rs. 500 and Rs. 200 respectively. The ratio of
the tickets sold of categories A, B and C is 3 :
12. A person bought some rice and wheat for 2 : 5. If the total collection from selling the
380. The ratio of weight of rice and wheat is 4 tickets is Rs 2.5 crore, find the total number
: 3 and the price of equal amount of rice and of tickets sold?
wheat is in the ratio 5 : 6. The rice was (1) 5000 (2) 4800
bought of worth (3) 50000 (4) 52000
(1) 380 (2) 300
(3) 200 (4) 180 20. From each of the two given unequal numbers,
half the smaller number is subtracted. Then,
13. Divide 7,500 among A, B and C such that A’s of the resulting numbers, the larger one is
share to B’s share is in ratio 5 : 2 and B’s five times than the smaller one. Then the
share to C’s share is in the ratio 7 : 13. How ratio of the larger to smaller one is
much will B receive? (1) 2 : 1 (2) 3 : 2
(1) 1,400 (2) 3,500 (3) 3 : 1 (4) 1 : 4
(3) 2,600 (4) 7,000
21. A person ordered 4 shirts of brand A and
14. A sum of 1240 is distributed among A, B and some shirts of brand B. The price of one shirt
C such that the ratio of amount received by A of brand A was twice that of brand B. When
and B is 6 : 5 and that of B and C is 10 : 9 the order was executed, it was found that the
respectively. Find the share of C. numbers of the two brands has been
(1) 480 (2) 360 interchanged. This increased the bill by 40%.
(3) 400 (4) 630 The ratio of the number of brand A shirts to
that of brand B shirts in the original order
15. 3400 is divided among A, B, C, D in such a was
way that the share of A and B, B and C, C (1) 1 : 2 (2) 1 : 3
and D may be as 2 : 3, 4 : 3 and 2 : 3 (3) 1 : 4 (4) 1 : 5
respectively. The sum of shares of B and D is
(1) 2040 (2) 1680 22. A and B together have 158. C has 101 less
(3) 2000 (4) 1720 than what A and B together have, and B has
23 more than C. The amount of A is :
16. 750 are divided among A, B and C in such a (1) 80 (2) 78
manner that A : B is 5 : 2 and B : C is 7 : 13. (3) 57 (4) 88
What is A’s share ?

23. A sum of 340.68 is distributed among L, M 27. Three numbers are in the ratio 1 : 2 : 3. By
and N such that L gets 5.72 more than N and adding 5 to each of them, the new numbers
M gets Rs. 2.24 more than L. N gets are in the ratio 2 : 3 : 4. The numbers are:
(1) 109 (2) 110.90 (1) 10, 20, 30 (2) 15, 30, 45
(3) 113.56 (4) 114.72 (3) 1, 2, 3 (4) 5, 10, 15
24. The ratio of the first and second class fares 28. Ram got twice as many marks in English as
between two railway stations is 4 : 1 and that in Science. His total marks in English,
of the number of passengers travelling by Science and Maths are 180. If the ratio of his
first and second classes is 1 : 40. If on a day marks in English and Maths is 2 : 3, what is
1,100 are collected as total fare, the amount his marks in Science ?
collected from the first class passengers is (1) 30 (2) 60
(1) 315 (2) 275 (3) 72 (4) 90
(3) 137.50 (4) 100
29. The ratio of number of boys to the number of
25. Three persons walk from place A to place B. girls in a school of 432 pupils is 5 : 4. When
Their speeds are in the ratio 4 :3 : 5. The some new boys and girls are admitted, the
ratio of the time taken by them to reach B number of boys increase by 12 and the ratio
will be : of the boys to girls changes to 7 : 6. The
(1) 10 : 15 : 13 (2) 2 : 3 : 4 number of new girls admitted is
(3) 15 : 20 : 12 (4)16 : 18 : 15 (1) 12 (2) 14
(3) 24 (4) 20
26. Two numbers are in the ratio of 3 : 5. If 9 be
subtracted from each, then they are in the 30. If the ratio of two numbers is 1 : 5 and their
ratio of 12 : 23. Find the numbers. product is 320, then the difference between
(1) 15, 28 (2) 36, 115 the squares of these two numbers is :
(3) 33, 55 (4) 60, 69 (1) 1024 (2) 1256
(3) 1536 (4) 1435
ANSWER KEY
1. (1) 2. (4) 3. (4) 4. (1) 5. (4) 6. (1) 7. (3) 8. (3) 9. (2) 10. (1)
11. (3) 12. (3) 13. (1) 14. (2) 15. (1) 16. (1) 17. (1) 18. (1) 19. (3) 20. (3)
21. (2) 22. (2) 23. (1) 24. (4) 25. (3) 26. (3) 27. (4) 28. (1) 29. (3) 30. (3)
PRACTICE SHEET 5
1. A mixture of 30 litres contain milk and water 3. There is 81 litres pure milk in a container.
in the ratio of 7 : 3. How much water should One-third of milk is replaced by water in the
be added to it so that the ratio of milk and container. Again one-third of mixture is
water becomes 3 : 7 ? extracted and equal amount of water is
(1) 40 litres (2) 49 litres added. What is the ratio of milk to water in
(3) 56 litres (4) 63 litres the new mixture?
(1) 1 : 2 (2) 1 : 1
2. A barrel contains a mixture of wine and water (3) 2 : 1 (4) 4 : 5
in the ratio 3 : 1. How much fraction of the
mixture must be drawn off and substituted 4. In 80 litres mixture of milk and water the
by water so that the ratio of wine and water ratio of amount of milk to that of amount of
in the resultant mixture in the barrel water is 7 : 3. In order to make this ratio 2 :
becomes 1 : 1 ? 1, how many litres of water should be added?
(1) 1/4 (2) 1/30 (1) 5 (2) 6
(3) 3/4 (4) 2/3 (3) 8 (4) 4

5. Vessels A and B contain mixtures of milk and 12. In an alloy, zinc and copper are in the ratio 1
water in the ratios 4 : 5 and 5 : 1 : 2. In the second alloy, the same elements
respectively. In what ratio should quantities are in the ratio 2 : 3. If these two alloys be
of mixture be taken from A and B to form a mixed to form a new alloy in which two
mixture in which milk to water is in the ratio elements are in the ratio 5 : 8, the ratio of
5 : 4? these two alloys in the new alloy is
(1) 2 : 5 (2) 4 : 3 (1) 3 : 10 (2) 3 : 7
(3) 5 : 2 (4) 2 : 3 (3) 10 : 3 (4) 7 : 3
6. The milk and water in a mixture are in the 3

ratio 7 : 5. When 15 litres of water are added 13. A liquid ‘P’ is 1 times as heavy as water
to it, the ratio of milk and water in the new 7
mixture becomes 7 : 8. The total quantity of 2
water in the new mixture is and water is 1 times as heavy as another
(1) 35 litres (2) 40 litres
5
liquid ‘Q’. The amount of liquid ‘P’ that must
be added to 7 litres of the liquid ‘Q’ so that
7. A jar contained a mixture of two liquids A the mixture may weigh as much as an equal
volume of water, will be
and B in the ratio 4 : 1. When 10 litres of the
mixture was taken out and 10 litres of liquid 1
B was poured into the jar, this ratio became 2 6
: 3. The quantity of liquid A contained in the
jar initially was 2
(1) 4 litres (2) 8 litres 3
14. Two alloys contain tin and iron in the ratio of
8. Two equal vessels are filled with the mixtures 1 : 2 and 2 : 3. If the two alloys are mixed in
of water and milk in the ratio of 3:4 and 5:3 the proportion of 3 : 4 respectively (by
respectively. If the mixtures are poured into a weight), the ratio of tin and iron in the newly
third vessel, the ratio of water and milk in the formed alloy is :
third vessel will be (1) 10 : 21 (2) 13 : 22
(1) 15 : 12 (2) 53 : 59 (3) 14 : 25 (4) 12 : 23
(3) 20 : 9 (4) 59 : 53
15. 60 kg of an alloy A is mixed with 100 kg of
9. A Can contains a mixture of two liquids A alloy B. If alloy A has lead and tin in the ratio
and B in the ratio 7:5. When 9 litres of 3 : 2 and alloy B has tin and copper in the
mixture are drained off and the Can is filled ratio 1 : 4, the amount of tin in the new alloy
with B, the ratio of A and B becomes 7 : 9. is
How many litres of liquid A was contained by (1) 53 kg (2) 44 kg
the Can initially ? (3) 80 kg (4) 24 kg
(3) 21 litres (4) 25 litres 16. Three glasses of equal volume contains acid
mixed with water. The ratios of acid and
10. The ratio of milk and water in mixtures of water are 2 : 3, 3 : 4 and 4 : 5 respectively.
four containers are 5 : 3, 2 : 1, 3 : 2 and 7 : 4 Contents of these glasses are poured in a
respectively. In which container is the large vessel. The ratio of acid and water in
quantity of milk, relative to water, minimum? the large vessel is
(1) First (2) Second (1) 411 : 540 (2) 401 : 544
(3) Third (4) Fourth (3) 417 : 564 (4) 407 : 560
11. An alloy contains copper, zinc and nickel in 17. Zinc and copper are in the ratio of 5 : 3 in
the ratio of 5 : 3 : 2. The quantity of nickel (in 200 gm of an alloy. How much grams of
kg) that must be added to 100 kg of this alloy copper be added to make the ratio as 3 : 5?
to have the new ratio 5 : 3 : 3 is (1) 400/3 (2) 1/200
(1) 8 (2) 10 (3) 72 (4) 66
(3) 12 (4) 15
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18. The ratio of copper and zinc in brass is 13 :
7. How much zinc will be there in 100 kg of 25. Two vessels A and B contain milk and water
brass ? mixed in the ratio 4 : 3 and 2 : 3. The ratio in
(1) 20 kg. (2) 55 kg. which these mixtures be mixed to form a new
(3) 35 kg. (4) 40 kg. mixture containing half milk and half water is
(1) 7 : 5 (2) 6 : 5
19. In 30 litres mixture of acid, the ratio of acid (3) 5 : 6 (4) 4 : 3
and water is 2 : 3 . What amount of water
should be added to the mixture so that the 26. A mixture contains alcohol and water in the
ratio of acid and water becomes 2 : 5 ? ratio 4 : 3. If 5 litres of water is added to the
(1) 10 litres (2) 15 litres mixture, the ratio becomes 4 : 5. The quantity
(3) 18 litres (4) 12 litres of alcohol in the given mixture is
20. There are three containers of equal capacity. (3) 15 litres (4) 10 litres
The ratio of Sulphuric acid to water in the
first container is 3 : 2, that in the second 27. In two alloys A and B, the ratio of zinc to tin
container is 7 : 3 and in the third container it is 5 : 2 and 3 : 4 respectively. Seven kg of the
is 11 : 4. If all the liquids are mixed together, alloy A and 21 kg of the alloy B are mixed
then the ratio of Sulphuric acid to water in together to form a new alloy. What will be the
the mixture will be : ratio of zinc and tin in the new alloy ?
(1) 61 : 29 (2) 61 : 28 (1) 2 : 1 (2) 1 : 2
(3) 60 : 29 (4) 59 : 29 (3) 2 : 3 (4) 1 : 1
21. 200 litres of a mixture contains milk and 28. A jar contained a mixture of two liquids A
water in the ratio 17 : 3. After the addition of and B in the ratio 4 : 1. When 10 litres of the
some more milk to it, the ratio of milk to mixture was taken out and 10 litres of liquid
water in the resulting mixture becomes 7 : 1. B was poured into the jar, this ratio became 2
The quantity of milk added to it was : 3. The quantity of liquid A contained in the
(1) 20 litres (2) 40 litres jar initially was
(3) 60 litres (4) 80 litres (1) 4 litres (2) 8 litres
22. The ratio in which a man must mix rice at
10.20 per kg and 14.40 per kg so as to make 29. A vessel contains 20 litres of acid. 4 litres of
a mixture worth 12.60 per kg, is acid is taken out of the vessel and replaced
(1) 4 : 3 (2) 2 : 5 by the same quantity of water. Next 4 litres of
(2) 18 : 24 (4) 3 : 4 the mixture are withdrawn, and again the
vessel is filled with the same quantity of acid
23. A mixture contains spirit and water in the left in the vessel with the quantity of acid
ratio 3 : 2. If it contains 3 litres more spirit initially in the vessel is
than water, the quantity of spirit in the (1) 4 : 5 (2) 4 : 25
mixture is (3) 16 : 25 (4) 1 : 5
30. 729 ml of a mixture contains milk and water
24. A vessel is filled with liquid, 3 parts of which in the ratio 7 : 2. How much more water is to
are water and 5 parts syrup. How much of be added to get a new mixture containing
the mixture must be drawn off and replaced milk and water in the ratio 7 : 3 ?
with water so that the mixture may be half (1) 81 ml (2) 60 ml
water and half syrup ? (3) 71 ml (4) 52 ml
(1) 1/3 (2) 1/4
(3) 1/5 (4) 1/7

ANSWER KEY
1. (1) 2. (2) 3. (4) 4. (4) 5. (3) 6. (2) 7. (4) 8. (4) 9. (3) 10. (3)
11. (2) 12. (1) 13. (4) 14. (2) 15. (2) 16. (2) 17. (1) 18. (3) 19. (4) 20. (1)
21. (2) 22. (4) 23. (4) 24. (3) 25. (1) 26. (4) 27. (4) 28. (4) 29. (3) 30. (1)
CDS PYQ
1. If x:y = 7:5 , then what is the value of (5x- (c) 1:5 (d) 5:1
2y): (3x + 2y)?
[CDS 2012 (I)] 7. (x+y) : (x-y)= 3:5 and xy = positive imply that
(a) 5/4 (b) 6/5 [CDS 2014 (II)]
(c) 25/31 (d) 31/42 (a) x and y are both positive
(b) x andy are both negative
2. Two numbers are in the ratio 2: 3. If 9 is (c) one of them is positive and one of them is
added to each number, they will be in the negative
ratio 3 4. What is the product of the two (d) no real solution for x and y exists
numbers?
[CDS 2012 (I)] 8. The ratio of ages of A and B is 2:5 and the
(a) 360 (b) 480 ratio of ages of B and C is 3:4. What is the
(c) 486 (d) 512 ratio of ages of A,B and C?
[CDS 2014 (II)]
3. A milkman bought 15 kg of milk and mixed (a) 6 : 15 : 20 (b) 8 : 5 : 3
3 kg of water in it. If the price per kg of the (c) 6 : 5 : 4 (d) 2 : 15 : 4
mixture becomes `22, what is cost price of
the milk per kg? 9. The height of a tree varies as the square root
[CDS 2012 (II)] of its age (between 5 to 17 yr). When the age of
(a) 28.00 (b) 26.40 the tree is 9 yr, its height is 4 ft. What will be
(c) 24.00 (d) 22.60 the height of the tree at the age of 16 yr?
[CDS 2014 (II)]
4. Sex ratio is defined as the number of (a) 5 ft 4 inch (b) 5 ft 5 inch
females per 1000 males. In a place, the (c) 4 ft 4 inch (d) 4 ft 5 inch
total inhabitants are 1935000, out of which
935000 are females. What is the sex ratio 10. 16 L of a mixture contains milk and water in
for the place? the ratio 5:3. If 4 L of milk is added to this
[CDS 2012 (II)] mixture, the ratio of milk to water in the new
(a) 935 (b) 1000 mixture would be
(c) 1935 (d) 9350 [CDS 2015 (I)]
(a) 2: 1 (b) 7:3
5. In a certain school, the ratio of boys to girls (c) 4:3 (d) 8:3
is 7:5. If there are 2400 students in the
school, then how many girls are there? 11. If a:b=3:5 and b:c=7:8 , then 2a: 3b: 7c is
[CDS 2013 (I)] equal to
(a) 500 (b) 700 [CDS 2015 (II)]
(c) 800 (d) 1000 (a) 42: 105: 320 (b) 15: 21: 40
(c) 6:15: 40 (d) 30 21 350
6. If A:B = 2:3, B:C= 5:7 and C:D = 3:10, then
what is A: D equal to?
[CDS 2014 (I)]
(a)1:7 (b) 2:7

12. In a mixture of milk and water of volume 30 17. Income of Mahesh and Kamal are in the
L, the ratio of milk and water is 7: 3. The ratio 1:2 , and their expenses are in the ratio
quantity of water to be added to the mixture 1:3, Which one of the following statements
to make the ratio of milk and water 1: 2 is are correct ?
[CDS 2015 (II)] [CDS 2016 (II)]
(a) 30 (b) 32 (a)Mahesh saves more than what Kamal
(c) 33 (d) 35 saves
(b)Saving of both of them are equal
13. The annual incomes of two persons are in (c)kamal save more than what Mahesh saves
the ratio 9:7 and their expenses are in the (d) It is not possible to determine who saves
ratio 4:3. If each of them saves Rs 2000 per more
year , what is the difference in their annual
incomes? 18. X and Y entered into partnership with Rs.
[CDS 2016 (I)] 700 and Rs 600 respectively . After 3
(a) Rs 4000 (b) Rs 4500 months X withdraw 2/7 of his stock but
(c) Rs 5000 (d) Rs 5500 after 3 months , he puts back 3/5 of what
he had drawn . The profit at the end of the
a b c year is Rs. 726. How much of this should X
14. If   , then which of the following receive ?
b c d
is/are correct ? [CDS 2016 (II)]
(a) Rs 336 (b) Rs 366
b c d
3 3 3
d (c) Rs 633 (d) Rs 663
I. 3 
a b c
3 3
a
19. Leela got married 6 years ago. Today her age
II. a  b  c  a
2 2 2
b c d
2 2 2
d 1
is 1 times her age at the time of her
Select the correct answer using the code 4
given below
[CDS 2016 (I)] 1
marriage. Her son’s age is times her age.
(a) Only 1 (b) Only 2 10
(c) Both I and II (d) Neither I nor II What is the present age of her son?
[CDS 2017 (I)]
15. In an office , one third of the workers are (a) 1 years (b) 2 years
women , half of the women are married and (c) 3 years (d) 4 years
one-third of the married women have
children, If three-forth of the men are 20. The ratio of two numbers is 1 : 5 and their
married and one third of married men have product is 320. What is the difference
children ,then what is the ratio of married between the squares of these two numbers?
women to married men ? [CDS 2017 (I)]
[CDS 2016 (II)] (a)1024 (b) 1256
(a) 1:2 (b) 2:1 (c)1536 (d) 1640
(c) 3:1 (d) 1:3
21. 25 kg of alloy X is mixed with 125 of alloy Y.
16. There are tweleve friends A, B, C, D, E, F, G, If the amount of lead and tin in the alloy X is
H, I, J, K and L who invested money in some in the ratio 1 : 2 and the amount of lead
business in the ratio of 1 : 2 : 3 : 4 : 5 : 6 : 7 and tin in the alloy Y is in the ratio 2 : 3,
: 8 : 9 : 10 : 11 : 12 and the duration for then what is the ratio of lead to tin in the
which they invested the money is in the ratio mixture?
of 12 : 11 : 10 : 9 : 8 : 7 : 6 : 5 : 4 : 3 : 2 : 1 [CDS 2017 (I)]
respectively. Who will get the maximum (a) 1 : 2 (b) 2 : 3
profit at the end of the year ? (c) 3 : 5 (d) 7 : 11
[CDS 2016 (II)]
(a) F only (b) G only 22. Five year ago Ram was three times as old as
(c) Both F and G (d) Neither F nor G Shyam .Four years from now ,Ram will be
only twice as old as Shyam what is the
percentage of Ram?

[CDS 2017 (II)] the ages of all the members of the family was
is 66 years. If the father‘s age now is six
(a) 30 years (b) 32 years times that of Sonu‘s present age ,then 12
(c) 36 years (d) 40 years years hence the father‘s age will be
[CDS 2018 (II)]
23. If 78 is divided into 3 parts which are (a) 44 years (b) 45 years
proportional to 1,1/3,1/6 , then what is the (c) 46 years (d) 48 years
middle part
[CDS 2017 (II)] 29. 10 years before the age of a mother and her
(a) 28/3 (b) 13 daughter were in the ratio 3:1, in another 10
(c) 52/3 (d) 56/3 years from now the ratio of their ages will be
13:7. what are their present age
24. There are 350 boys in the first three [CDS 2018 (II)]
standards. The ratio of the number of boys (a) 39 yr, 21 yr (b) 55 yr, 25 yr
in first and second standards is 2:3, while (c) 75 yr, 25 yr (d) 49 yr, 31 yr
that of boys in second and third standards is
4:5. What is the total number of boys in first 30. The ratio of the sum and difference of the
and third standards? ages of the father and the son is 11:3,
[CDS 2017 (II)] Consider the following statements
(a) 302 (b) 280 1. The ratio of their age is 8 : 5
(c) 242 (d) 230 2. The ratio of their ages after the son
attains twice the present age will be 11:8
25. If A:B = 1:2, B:C= 3:4,C:D = 2:3 and D:E = Which of the statements given above are
3:4, then what is B:E equal to? correct
[CDS 2018 (I)] [CDS 2018 (II)]
(a)3:2 (b)1:8 (a) 1 only (b) 2 only
(c)3:8 (d)4:1 (c) both 1 and 2 (d) neither 1 nor 2
26. Rs.120 are divided among A,B,C such that 31. If a:b = c:d = 1:6 , then what is the value of
A's share is Rs. 20 more than B"s and Rs.20 a2  c2
less than C"s. What is B"s share? ?
[CDS 2018 (I)] b2  d 2
(a) ₹10 (b) ₹15 [CDS 2019 (I)]
(c) ₹20 (d)₹ 25 (a) 1/600 (b) 1/60
(c) 1/36 (d) 1/6
27. A, B, C, D and E start a partnership firm.
Capital contributed by A is three times that 32. If (4a+7b)(4c-7d)=(4a-7b)(4c+7d), then which
contributed by D. E contributes half of A’s one of the following is correct ?
contribution, B contributes one third of E’s [CDS 2019 (I)]
contribution and C contributes two third of (a) a c (b)  c
a
A’s contribution. If the difference between b d d b
the combined shares of A, D and E and the a d
combined shares of B and C in the total (c)  (d) 4a  c
b c 7b d
profit of the firm is Rs. 13500, what is the
combined share of B, C and E? (The shares 33. Priya's age was cube of an integral number
are supposed to be proportional to the (different from 1) four years ago and square
contributions) of an integral number after four years. How
[CDS 2018 (I)] long should she wait so that her age
(a) Rs. 135000 (b) Rs. 18000 becomes square of a number in the previous
(c) Rs. 19750 (d) Rs. 20250 year and cube of a number in the next year?
[CDS 2019 (I)]
28. The sum of ages of a father a mother, a son (a) 7yr (b) 12 yr
Sonu and daughter Savita and Sonia is 96 (c) 14 yr (d) 21 yr
years. Son is the youngest member of the
family. The year Sonu was born, the sum of

34. The monthly incomes of A and B are in the [CDS 2020 (II)]
ratio 4:3. Each saves 600. If their (a) 18 years (b) 15 years
expenditures are in the ratio 3 :2, then what (c) 13 years (d) 11 years
is the monthly income of A
[CDS 2019 (II)] 39. The income of A, B and C are in the ratio 7 :
(a) 1800 (b) 2000 9 : 12 and their expenditures are in the ratio
(c) 2400 (d) 3600 8 : 9 : 15. If A's saving is one-fourth of his
income , then the ratio of savings of A, B
a 1 b c 1 d e 1 and C is
35. If  ,  2 ,  ,  3 and  , [CDS 2021 (I)]
b 3 c d 2 e f 4 (a) 56 : 99 : 69 (b) 99 : 56 : 69
abc (c) 69 : 56 : 99 (d) 99 : 69 : 56
then what is the value of ?
def 40. If three positive numbers are in the ratio 2 :
[CDS 2020 (I)] 3 : 5 and the sum of their squares is 1368,
(a) 1/4 (b) 3/4 then what is the sum of the numbers?
(c) 3/8 (d) 27/4 [CDS 2021 (II)]
(a) 30 (b) 45
36. Three persons start a business with capitals (c) 60 (d) 75
in the ratio 1/3 : 1/4 : 1/5. The first person
withdraws half his capital after 4 months. 41. If a = 3b, 4b = 5c, 6c = 7d, then what is
What is the share of profit of A if the da
business fetches an annual profit of Rs equal to?
da
96800?
[CDS 2020 (II)] [CDS 2022 (II)]
(a) Rs 32000 (b) Rs 34500 27 43
(a) (b)
(c) Rs 36000 (d) Rs 36800 43 27
27 43
37. Ena was born 4 years after her parents (c) – (d) –
43 27
marriage. Her mother is 3 years younger
than her father and 24 years older than Era,
42. Two glasses of equal volume are filled with a
who is 13 years old . At what age did Rea's
mixture of alcohol and water in the ratio 3:2
father get married?
and 4:1, respectively. These glasses are
[CDS 2020 (II)]
emptied into a third glass. What is the ratio
(a) 25 years (b) 24 years
of alcohol and water in the third glass?
(c) 23 years (d) 22 years
[CDS 2022 (II)]
(a) 5:4 (b) 7:2
38. Mahesh is 60 years old. Ram is 5 years
(c) 7:3 (d) 7:4
younger to Mahesh and 4 years elder to
Raju. Babu is younger brother of Raju and
he is 6 years younger. What is age difference
between Mahesh and Babu?
ANSWER KEY
1. (c) 2. (c) 3. (b) 4. (a) 5. (d) 6. (a) 7. (d) 8. (a) 9. (a) 10. (b)
11. (c) 12. (c) 13. (a) 14. (a) 15. (d) 16. (c) 17. (d) 18. (b) 19. (c) 20. (c)
21. (d) 22. (b) 23. (c) 24. (d) 25. (c) 26. (c) 27. (b) 28. (d) 29. (b) 30. (b)
31. (c) 32. (a) 33. (c) 34. (c) 35. (c) 36. (a) 37. (c) 38. (b) 39. (a) 40. (c)
41. (d) 42. (c)

CAPF PYQ
1. 5 % of income of A is equal to 15% of income (a) 1 : 2 (b) 2: 1
of B and 10% income of B is equal to 20% of (c) 1 : 4 (d) 4 : 1
income of C. If the income of C is Rs. 2000,
then what is the total income of A,B and C is 5. Two years ago , the age of A was three times
[CAPF 2016] the age of B , If B is currently 9 years old ,
(a) Rs. 12000 (b) Rs. 18000 then after how many years The age of A will be
(c) Rs. 14000 (d) Rs. 6000 double of the age of B ?
[CAPF 2020]
2. One year ago, a father was four times as old (a) 2 years (b) 3 years
as his son,. After six years his age exceeds (c) 4 years (d) 5 years
twice his son's age by 9 years. The ratio of
their present age is 6. The ratio of monthly income of A and B is
[CAPF 2018] 7:10. The ratio of their expenditures is 2:3. If
(a) 9 : 2 (b) 11 : 3 each of A and B saves Rs 1000 per month,
(c) 12 : 5 (d) 13 : 4 then what will be the monthly income of B?
[CAPF 2021]
3. The ratio of ages of a man and his son is 3 : 1. (a) Rs 9000 (b) Rs 10000
After 15 years , the age ratio will be 2 : 1 , (c) Rs 15000 (d) Rs 12000
What is the age of man ?
[CAPF 2018] 7. A, B and C start a business by investing Rs
(a) 45 years (b) 40 years 7000, Rs 8000 and Rs 12000 respectively.
(c) 35 years (d) 30 years After a year, B get Rs 3200 as his share of
profit. What is the total profit?
4. If 15% of A is double of 30% of B, then what [CAPF 2021]
is the ratio of A to B ? (a) Rs 16600 (b) Rs 10000
[CAPF 2020] (c) Rs 21600 (d) Rs 10800
ANSWER KEY
1. (b) 2. (b) 3. (a) 4. (d) 5. (d) 6. (b) 7. (d)

2 AVERAGE
PRACTICE SHEET 1
1. The average of the first 7 integers in a series of 2 1
13 consecutive odd integers is 37. What is the (3) 11 (4) 11
average of the entire series? 9 9
(1) 37 (2) 39
(3) 41 (4) 43 11. The average of 5 consecutive natural
numbers is m. If the next three natural
2. The average of 25 consecutive odd integers is numbers are also included, how much more
55. The highest of these integers is than m will the average of these 8 numbers
(1) 79 (2) 105 be?
(3) 155 (4) 109 (1) 2 (2) 1
(3) 1.4 (4) 1.5
3. The arithmetic mean of the following numbers
1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 6, 6, 6, 12. The average of the first 100 positive integers
6, 6, 6 and 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7 is is
(1) 4 (2) 5 (1) 100 (2) 51
(3) 14 (4) 20 (3) 50.5 (4) 49.5
4. The average of all the numbers between 6 and 13. The average of odd numbers upto 100 is
50 which are divisible by 5 is (1) 50.5 (2) 50
(1) 27.5 (2) 30 (3) 49.5 (4) 49
(3) 28.5 (4) 22
14. The average of the squares of first ten
5. The average of 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, -------- to 25 natural numbers is
terms is (1) 35.5 (2) 36
(1) 125 (2) 25 (3) 37.5 (4) 38.5
(3) 625 (4) 50
15. The average of seven consecutive positive
6. The average of 7 consecutive numbers is 20. integers is 26. The smallest of these
The largest of these numbers is integers is :
(1) 20 (2) 23 (1) 21 (2)23
(3) 24 (4) 26 (3) 25 (4)26
7. The average of 8 numbers is 27. If each of the 16. The average of 5 consecutive natural
numbers is multiplied by 8, find the average of numbers is m. If the next three natural
new set of numbers. numbers are also included, how much more
(1) 1128 (2) 938 than m will the average of these 8 numbers
(3) 316 (4) 216 be?
(1) 2 (2) 1
8. The average of eight successive numbers is (3) 1.4 (4) 1.5
6.5. The average of the smallest and the
greatest numbers among them will be : 17. Average of first five odd multiples of 3 is
(1) 4 (2) 6.5 (1) 12 (2) 16
(3) 7.5 (4) 9 (3) 15 (4) 21
9. The average of 7 consecutive numbers is 20. 18. The average of nine consecutive numbers is
The largest of these numbers is : n. If the next two numbers are also
(1) 24 (2) 23 included the new average will
(3) 22 (4) 20 (1) increase by 2
(2) remain the same
10. The average of first nine prime numbers is (3) increase by 1.5
(1) 9 (2) 11 (4) increase by 1

19. The average of four consecutive even (1) 1.3 (2) 1
numbers is 9. Find the largest number. (3) 2 (4) 1.8
(1) 12 (2) 6
(3) 8 (4) 10 26. The average of five consecutive positive
integers is n. If the next two integers are
20. If a, b, c, d, e are five consecutive odd also included, the average of all these
numbers, their average is integers will
(1) 5(a + 4) (1) increase by 1.5
(2) abcde/5 (2) increase by 1
(3) 5(a + b + c + d + e) (3) remain the same
(4) a + 4 (4) increase by 2
21. Average of first five prime numbers is 27. The average of all the odd integers between
(1) 5.3 (2) 5.6 2 and 22 is:
(3) 5 (4) 3.6 (1) 14 (2) 12
(3) 13 (4) 11
22. What is the average of the first six (positive)
odd numbers each of which is divisible by 7? 28. The sum of three consecutive even numbers
(1) 42 (2) 43 is 28 more than the average of these three
(3) 47 (4) 49 numbers. Then the smallest of these three
numbers is
23. The average of first ten prime numbers is (1) 6 (2) 12
(1) 10.1 (2) 10 (3) 14 (4) 16
(3) 12.9 (4) 13
29. The average of 7 consecutive numbers is 20.
24. If the average of eight consecutive even The largest of these numbers is
numbers be 93, then the greatest number (1) 20 (2) 23
among them is (3) 24 (4) 26
(1) 100 (2) 86
(3) 102 (4) 98 30. The average of 25 consecutive odd integers
is 55. The highest of these integers is
25. The average of 6 consecutive natural numbers (1) 79 (2) 105
is K. If the next two natural numbers are also (3) 155 (4) 10
included, how much more than K will the
average of these 8 numbers be?
ANSWER KEY
1. (4) 2. (1) 3. (2) 4. (1) 5. (2) 6. (2) 7. (4) 8. (2) 9. (2) 10. (4)
11. (4) 12. (3) 13. (2) 14. (4) 15. (2) 16. (4) 17. (3) 18. (4) 19. (1) 20. (4)
21. (2) 22. (1) 23. (3) 24. (1) 25. (2) 26. (2) 27. (2) 28. (2) 29. (2) 30. (1)

PRACTICE SHEET 2
1. kg of rice costing 30 per kg is mixed with 8 kg 8. A librarian purchased 50 story– books for his
of rice costing 40 per kg. The average per kg library. But he saw that he could get14 more
price of mixed rice is books by spending Rs. 76 more and the
(1) 38 (2) 37 average price per book would be reduced by
(3) 35 (4) 34 Re. 1. The average price (in Rs.) of each book
he bought, was:
2. A library has an average number of 510 (1) 15 (2) 10
visitors on Sunday and 240 on other days. (3) 25 (4) 20
The average number of visitors per day in a
month of 30 days beginning with Sunday is: 9. The average of 9 numbers is 30. The average
(a) 285 (b) 295 of first 5 numbers is 25 and that of the last 3
(c) 300 (d) 290 numbers is 35. What is the 6th number?
(1) 20 (2) 30
3. The average weight of five persons sitting in a (3) 40 (4) 50
boat is 38 kg. The average weight of the boat
and the persons sitting in the boat is 52kg. 10. The average of 15 numbers is 7. If the
What is the weight of the boat? average of the first 8 numbers be 6.5 and the
(1) 228 kg (2) 122 kg average of last 8 numbers be 9.5, then the
(3) 232 kg (4) 242 kg middle number is
(1) 20 (2) 21
4. The average marks of 32 boys of section A of (3) 23 (4) 18
class X is 60 whereas the average marks of
40 boys of section B of class X is 33. The 11. Out of seven given numbers, the average of
average marks for both the sections the first four numbers is 4 and that of the
combined together is last four numbers is also 4. If the average of
(1) 44 (2) 45 all the seven numbers is 3, fourth number is
1 1 (1) 3 (2) 4
(3) 46 (4) 45 (3) 7 (4) 11
2 2
12. The average temperature of the first 4 days of
5. Six tables and twelve chairs were bought for a week was 37°C and that of the last 4 days
7,800. If the average price of a table is 750, of the week was 41°C. If the average
then the average price of a chair would be temperature of the whole week was 39°C, the
(1) 250 (2) 275 temperature of the fourth day was
(3) 150 (4) 175 (1) 38°C (2) 38.5°C
(3) 39°C (4) 40°C
6. a, b, c, d, e, f, g are consecutive even
numbers. j, k, l, m, n are consecutive odd 13.In a certain year, the average monthly income
numbers. The average of all the numbers is of a person was 3,400. For the first eight
an  5l  7 d  months of the year, his average monthly
(1) 3   (2)  
 2   12  income was 3,160 and for the last five
months, it was 4,120. His income in the
 abmn  jcn g  eighth month of the year was
(3)   (4)  
 4   4  (1) 3,160 (2) 5,080
(3) 15,520 (4) 5,520
7. The average weight of 15 person in a boat is
increased by 1.6 kg when one of the crew, 14. The average of 30 numbers is 12. The average
who weighs 42 kg is replaced by a new man. of the first 20 of them is 11 and that of the
Find the weight of the new man (in kg). next 9 is 10. The last number is
(1) 67 (2) 65 (1) 60 (2)45
(3) 66 (4) 43 (3) 40 (4)50

15. The average of 11 results is 50. If the average
of the first six results is 49 and that of the 23. The average of first three numbers is thrice
last six is 52, the sixth no. is the fourth number. If the average of all the
(1) 48 (2) 50 four numbers is 5, then find the fourth
(3) 52 (4) 56 number.
(1) 4.5 (2) 5
16. The average of five numbers is 27. If one (3) 2 (4) 4
number is excluded, the average becomes 25.
The excluded number is : 24. Of the three numbers, first is twice the
(1) 25 (2) 27 second and second is twice the third. The
(3) 30 (4) 35 average of three numbers is 21. The smallest
of the three numbers is
17. The average of marks of 28 students in (1) 9 (2) 6
Mathematics was 50; 8 students left the (3) 12 (4) 18
school, then this average increased by 5.
What is the average of marks obtained by the 25. Of the three numbers, the first is 3 times the
students who left the school? second and the third is 5 times the first. If
(1) 50.5 (2) 37.5 the average of the three numbers is 57, the
(3) 42.5 (4) 45 difference between the largest and the
smallest number is
18. The average weight of 12 parcels is 1.8 kg. (1) 9 (2) 18
Addition of another new parcel reduces the (3) 126 (4) 135
average weight by 50 g. What is the weight of
the new parcel? 26. Of the three numbers, the first is twice the
(1) 1.50 kg (2) 1.10 kg second and the second is 3 times the third. If
(3) 1.15 kg (4) 1.01 kg. their average is 100, the largest of the three
numbers is :
19. The average of 50 numbers is 38. If two (1) 120 (2) 150
numbers namely 45 and 55 are discarded, (3) 180 (4) 300
the average of the remaining numbers is :
(1) 35 (2) 32.5 27. Of the three numbers, the first is twice the
(3) 37.5 (4) 36 second and the second is thrice the third. If
the average of the three numbers is 10, the
20. There are 50 students in a class. Their largest number is:
average weight is 45 kg. When one student (1) 12 (2) 15
leaves the class the average weight reduces (3) 18 (4) 30
by 100g. What is the weight of the student
who left the class ? 28. The average of first three numbers is double
(1) 45 kg (2) 47.9 kg of the fourth number. If the average of all the
(3) 49.9 kg (4) 50.1 kg four numbers is 12, find the 4th number.
(1) 16 (2)48/7
21. Of the three numbers whose average is 60, (3) 20 (4)18/7
the first is one fourth of the sum of the
others. The first number is : 29. The average of three numbers is 77. The first
(1) 30 (2) 36 number is twice the second and the second
(3) 42 (4) 45 number is twice the third. The first number
is:
22. Of the three numbers, second is twice the (1) 33 (2) 66
first and also thrice the third. If the average (3) 77 (4) 132
of the three numbers is 44, the largest
number is: 30. Out of three numbers, the first is twice the
(1) 24 (2) 72 second and is half of the third. If the average
(3) 36 (4) 108 of the three numbers is 56, then difference of
first and third number is
(1) 12 (2) 20
(3) 24 (4) 48

ANSWER KEY
1. (4) 2. (1) 3. (2) 4. (2) 5. (2) 6. (2) 7. (3) 8. (2) 9. (3) 10. (3)
11. (4) 12. (3) 13. (2) 14. (4) 15. (4) 16. (4) 17. (2) 18. (3) 19. (3) 20. (3)
21. (2) 22. (2) 23. (3) 24. (1) 25. (3) 26. (3) 27. (3) 28. (2) 29. (4) 30. (4)
PRACTICE SHEET 3
1. The average of marks of 14 student was 6. The average marks of 100 students were
calculated as 71. But it was later found that found to be 40. Later on it was discovered
the marks of one student had been wrongly that a score of 53 was misread as 83. Find
entered as 42 instead of 56 and of another the correct average corresponding to the
as 74 instead of 32. The correct average is : correct score.
(1) 67 (2) 68 (1) 38.7 (2) 39
(3) 69 (4) 71 (3) 39.7 (4) 41
2. The average weight of three men A, B and C 7. A cricketer whose bowling average is 24.85,
is 84 kg. D joins them and the average runs per wicket, takes 5 wickets for 52 runs
weight of the four becomes 80 kg. If E whose and thereby decreases his average by 0.85.
weight is 3 kg more than that of D, replaces The number of wickets taken by him till the
A, the average weight of B, C, D and E last match was :
becomes 79 kg. The weight of A is (1) 64 (2) 72
(1) 65 kg. (2) 70 kg. (3) 80 (4) 96
(3) 75 kg. (4) 80 kg.
8. The average of runs of a cricket player of 10
3. The average of a collection of 20 innings was 32. How many runs must he
measurements was calculated to be 56 cm. make in his next inning so as to increase his
But later it was found that a mistake had average of runs by 4?
occurred in one of the measurements which (1) 76 (2) 70
was recorded as 64 cm., but should have (3) 4 (4) 2
been 61 cm. The correct average must be
(1) 53 cm (2) 54.5 cm 9. The bowling average of a cricketer was 12.4.
(3) 55.85 cm (4) 56.15 cm He improves his bowling average by 0.2
points when he takes 5 wickets for 26 runs
4. The average of marks in Mathematics for 5 in his last match. The number of wickets
students was found to be 50. Later, it was taken by him before the last match was
discovered that in the case of one student (1) 125 (2) 150
the marks 48 were misread as 84. The (3) 175 (4) 200
correct average is :
(1) 40.2 (2) 40.8 10. A cricketer had a certain average of runs for
(3) 42.8 (4) 48.2 his 64 innings. In his 65th innings, he is
bowled out for no score on his part. This
5. The average weight of 15 students in a class brings down his average by 2 runs. His new
increases by 1.5kg when one of the students average of runs is
weighing 40 kg is replaced by a new student. (1) 130 (2) 128
What is the weight (in kg) of the new (3) 70 (4) 68
student?
(1) 64.5 kg. (2) 56 kg. 11. A cricketer has a certain average of runs for
(3) 60 kg. (4) 62.5 kg. his 8 innings. In the ninth innings, he
scores 100 runs, thereby increases his

average by 9 runs. His new average of runs (1) 1.2 (2) 13.2
is (3) 10.8 (4) 12
(1) 20 (2) 24
(3) 28 (4) 32 19. Average age of 6 sons of a family is 8 years.
Average age of sons together with their
12. The average of runs scored by a player in 10 parents is 22 years. If the father is older
innings is 50. How many runs should he than the mother by 8 years, the age of
score in the 11th innings so that his average mother (in years) is :
is increased by 2 runs? (1) 44 (2) 52
(1) 80 runs (2) 72 runs (3) 60 (4) 68
(3) 60 runs (4) 54 runs
20. Out of 10 teachers of a school, one teacher
13. A cricket batsman had a certain average of retires and in his place, a new teacher of age
runs for his 11 innings. In the 12th innings, 25 years joins. As a result, average age of
he made a score of 90 runs and thereby his teachers reduces by 3 years. The age of the
average of runs was decreased by 5. His retired teacher is
average of runs after 12th innings is : (1) 50 years (2) 55 years
(1) 155 (2) 150 (3) 58 years (4) 60 years
(3) 145 (4) 140
21. 3 years ago, the average age of a family of 5
14. The batting average for 40 innings of a members was 17 years. A baby having been
cricket player is 50 runs. His highest score born, the average age of the family is the
exceeds his lowest score by 172 runs. If same today. The present age of the baby is :
these two innings are excluded, the average (1) 3 years (2) 2 years
of the remaining 38 innings is 48 runs. The (3) 1.5 years (4) 1 year
highest score of the player is
(1) 165 runs (2) 170 runs 22. The average age of 45 persons is decreased
(3) 172 runs (4) 174 runs by 1/9 year when one of them of 60 years is
replaced by a new comer. Then the age of
15. The batting average of a cricket player for 64 the new comer is :
innings is 62 runs. His highest score (1) 45 years (2) 55 years
exceeds his lowest score by 180 runs. (3) 59 years (4) 49 years
Excluding these two innings, the average of
remaining innings becomes 60 runs. His 23. When the average age of a husband and wife
highest score was and their son was 42 years, the son got
(1) 180 runs (2) 209 runs married and a child was born just one year
(3) 212 runs (4) 214 runs after the marriage. When child turned to be
five years then the average age of family
16. A cricket player after playing 10 tests scored became 36 years. What was the age of
100 runs in the 11th test. As a result, the daughter- in-law at the time of marriage ?
average of his runs is increased by 5. The (1) 26 years (2) 25 years
present average of runs is (3) 24 years (4) 23 years
(1) 45 (2) 40
(3) 50 (4) 55 24. The average age of 30 boys in a class is 15
years. One boy aged 20 years, left the class,
17. A cricketer has a mean score of 60 runs in but two new boys came in his place whose
10 innings. Find out how many runs are to ages differ by 5 years. If the average age of
be scored in the eleventh innings to raise the all the boys now in the class still remains 15
mean score to 62? years, the age of the younger newcomer is :
(1) 83 (2) 82 (1) 20 years (2) 15 years
(3) 80 (4) 81 (3) 10 years (4) 8 years
18. In a 20 over match, the required run rate to 25. The average age of 24 boys and their teacher
win is 7.2. If the run rate is 6 at the end of is 15 years. When the teacher’s age is
the 15th over, the required run rate to win excluded, the average age decreases by 1
the match is year. The age of the teacher is

(1) 38 years (2) 39 years new boy is admitted. As a result, the average
(3) 40 years (4) 41 years age of the class is increased by 2 months.
What is the age of the new boy?
26. There were 24 students in a class. One of (1) 12 years (2) 15 years
them, who was 18 years old, left the class (3) 14 years (4) 13 years
and his place was filled up by a newcomer. If
the average of the class thereby, was lowered 29. 5 years ago, the average age of A, B, C and D
by one month, the age of the newcomer is was 45 years. With E joining them now, the
(1) 14 years (2) 15 years average age of all the five is 49 years. How
(3) 16 years (4) 17 years old is E ?
27. The average age of 30 students is 9 years. If (3) 45 years (4) 64 years
the age of their teacher is included, the
average age becomes 10 years. The age of 30. In a family, the average age of a father and a
the teacher (in years) is mother is 35 years. The average age of the
(1) 27 (2) 31 father, mother and their only son is 27
(3) 35 (4) 40 years. What is the age of the son ?
28. From a class of 24 boys, a boy, aged 10 (3) 10.5 years (4) 10 years
years, leaves the class and in his place a
ANSWER KEY
1. (3) 2. (3) 3. (3) 4. (3) 5. (4) 6. (3) 7. (3) 8. (1) 9. (3) 10. (2)
11. (3) 12. (2) 13. (3) 14. (4) 15. (4) 16. (3) 17. (2) 18. (3) 19. (3) 20. (2)
21. (2) 22. (2) 23. (2) 24. (2) 25. (2) 26. (3) 27. (4) 28. (3) 29. (3) 30. (2)

CDS PYQ
1. The mean of 100 values is 45. If 15 is added class Y and Z is 81.What is the average score
each of the first forty values and 5 is of class X, Y and Z ?
subtracted from each of remaining 60 values, [CDS 2016(II)]
then the new mean becomes (a) 81.5 (b) 80.5
[CDS 2012(II)] (c) 79.0 (d) 78.0
(a) 45 (b) 48
(c) 51 (d) 55 8. A cricketer has a certain average of 10
innings. In the eleventh inning he scored 108
2. The mean of 7 observations is 7. If each runs, thereby increasing his average by 6
observation is increased by 2, then the new runs, What is his new average?
mean is [CDS 2016(II)]
[CDS 2013(I)] (a) 42 (b) 47
(a)12 (b) 10 (c) 48 (d) 60
(c) 9 (d) 8
9. The mean of 20 observation is 17. On
3. There are 45 male and 15 female employees in checking it was found that the two
an office. If the mean salary of 60 employees is observations were wrongly copied as 3 and 6.
Rs 4800 and the mean salary of the male If wrong observations are replaced by correct
employees is Rs 5000, then the mean salary of values 8 and 9, then what is the correct
the females employees is mean?
[CDS 2013(I)] [CDS 2016(II)]
(a) Rs 4200 (b) Rs 4500 (a) 17.4 (b) 16.6
(c) Rs 5600 (d) Rs 6000 (c) 15.8 (d) 14.2
4. The average of u ,v, w, x, y and z is 10. What 10. In a class of 100 students, there are 70 boys
is the average u + 10, v + 20, w + 30, x + 40,y whose average marks in a subject are 75. If
+ 50 and z + 60? the average marks of the complete class is
[CDS 2013(II)] 72, then what is the average marks of girls ?
(a) 30 (b) 35 [CDS 2016(II)]
(c) 40 (d) 45 (a) 64 (b) 65
(c) 68 (d) 74
5. If each of n numbers xi = i(i = 1,2,3,4,.....n) is
replaced by (i+1)xi, then the new mean is 11. The mean of 5 numbers is 15, if one more
[CDS 2015(II)] number is included, the mean of 6
n3 n( n  1) observations become 17. What is the
(a) (b) included number ?
2 2 [CDS 2017(I)]
(n  1)(n  2) (n  1)(n  2) (a) 24 (b) 25
(c) (d)
3n 3 (c) 26 (d) 27
6. The mean age of combined group of boys and 12.The mean marks obtained by 300 students in
girls is 18 years and the mean of age of boys a subject are 60. The mean of top 100
is 20 and that of girls is 16, then what is the students was found to be 80 and the mean of
percentage of boys in the group is last 100 students was found to be 50. The
[CDS 2016(II)] mean marks of the remaining 100 students
(a) 60 (b) 50 are
(c) 45 (d) 40 [CDS 2017(I)]
(a) 70 (b) 65
7. The average score of class X is 83. The (c) 60 (d) 50
average score of class Y is 76. The average
score of class Z is 85. The average score of 13. Let a, b, c, d, e, f, g be consecutive even
class X and Y is 79. The average score of numbers and j, k, l ,m, n be consecutive odd

numbers. What is the average of all the of the last 6 observations is 11.5. What is the
numbers? sixth observation?
[CDS 2017(I)] [CDS 2018(I)]
3(a  n) (5l  7 d ) (a) 10 (b) 10.5
(a) (b) (c) 11 (d) 11.5
2 12
abmn 20. The average marks of section A are 65 and
(c) (d) None
4 that of section B are 70. If the average of both
the sections combined are 67 , then the ratio
14. A small company pays each of its 5 category of number of students of section A and to
'C' workers Rs 20000, each of its 3 category that of section B is
'B' workers Rs 25000 and a category 'A' [CDS 2018(II)]
workers Rs 65000. The number of workers (a) 3 : 2 (b) 1 : 3
earning less than the mean salary is (c) 3 1 (d) 2 : 3
[CDS 2017(II)]
(a) 8 (b) 5 21. Let x1 and x2 (where x2 > x1 ) be the means
(c) 4 (d) 3 of two sets comparing n1 and n2 ( where n2 <
15. The average height of 22 students of a class n1) observations respectively. If x is the
is 140 cm, and the average height of 28 mean when they are pooled. then which one
students of another class is 152cm . What is of the following is correct ?
the average height of students of both the [CDS 2018(II)]
classes?
(a) x1 < x < x2
[CDS 2017(II)]
(a) 144.32 cm (b) 145.52 cm (b) x > x2
(c) 146.72 cm (d) 147.92 cm
(c) x < x1
16. At present the average of the ages of a father
and a son is 25years After 7 year the son will   
(d) x1  x  x2  x1  0 
be 17 year old. What will be the age of the
father after 10 year ? 22. In a class of 100 students, the average weight
[CDS 2018(I)] is 30 kg. If the average weight of girls is 24 kg
(a) 44yr (b) 45yr and that of the boys is 32 kg, then what is
(c) 50 yr (d) 52 yr the number of girls in class ?
[CDS 2019(I)]
17. If the average of 9 consecutive positive (a) 25 (b) 26
integers is 55, then what is the largest (c) 27 (d) 28
integer?
[CDS 2018(I)] 23. The average of 50 consecutive natural
(a) 57 (b) 58 numbers is x. what will be the new average
(c) 59 (d) 60 when the next four numbers also included ?
[CDS 2019(I)]
18. The average of the ages of 15 students in a (a) x + 1 (b) x + 2
class is 19 year. When 5 new students are (c) x + 4 (d) x + (x/54)
admitted to the class, the average age of the
class becomes 18.5 year. What is the average 24. The mean of m observations out of n
age of 5 newly admitted students? observations is n and the mean of remaining
[CDS 2018(I)] observations is m, then what is the mean of
(a) 17 yr (b) 17.5 yr all n observations?
(c) 18 yr (d) 18.5 yr [CDS 2019(I)]
(a) 2m - (m2/n) (b) 2m + (m2/n)
19. The arithmetic mean of 11 observations is 11. (c) m - (m2/n) (d) m + (m2/n)
The arithmetic mean of the first 6
observations is 10.5 and the arithmetic mean 25. A library has an average number of 510
visitors on Sunday and 240 on other days.

What is the average number of visitors per 33. Let p be the mean of m observations and q be
day in a month of of 30 days beginning with the mean of n observations, where p ≤ q. If
Saturday? the combined mean of(m + n) observations is
[CDS 2019(II)] c, then which one of the following is correct ?
(a) 276 (b) 282 [CDS 2021(I)]
(c) 285 (d) 375 (a) c ≤ p (b) c ≥ q
(c) p ≤ c ≤ q (d) q ≤ c ≤ p
26. In a class room of number of girls to that of
boys is 3 : 4, The average height of students 34. Let the average score of a class of boys and
in the class is 4.6 feet. If average height of the girls in an examination be p. The ratio of boys
boys in the class is 4.8feet, then what is the and girls in the class is 3 : 1. If the average
average height of the girls in the class? score of the boys is (p + 1), then what is the
[CDS 2020(I)] average score of girls ?
(a) Less than 4.2 kg [CDS 2021(I)]
(b) More than 4.5 feet and less than 4.3 feet (a) (p - 1) (b) (p - 2)
(c) More than 4.3 feet but less than 4.4 feet (c) (p - 3) (d) p
(d) More than 4.4 feet but less than 4.5 feet
Direction for next two:
27. The ages of 7 family members are 2, 5 , 12, Collect all the sequence of five consecutive
18, 38, 40 and 60 years respectively. After 5 integers such that their product is equal to
years a new member aged x years is added. If one of these integers. Let X be the collection
the mean age of the family now goes up by of all possible such sequences. Let P be the
1.5 years, then what is the value of x ? smallest integer and Q be the largest integer
[CDS 2020(II)] occurring in these sequences.
(a) 1 (b) 2
(c) 3 (d) 4 35. How many such sequences of five consecutive
integers are possible?
28. The mean weight of 100 students in a class is [CDS 2021(II)]
46kg. The mean weight of boys is 50kg and (a) one (b) Two
that of girls is 40kg. The number of boys (c) Three (d) Five
exceeds the number of girls by
[CDS 2020(II)] 36. What is the arithmetic mean of P and Q?
(a) 10 (b) 15 [CDS 2021(II)]
(c) 20 (d) 25 (a) 0
(b) 1
29. The mean of five observations x, x + 2, x + 4, (c) 2
x + 6, x + 8 is m. What is the mean of first (d)Cannot be determined due to insufficient
three observation. data
[CDS 2020(II)]
(a) m (b) m - 1 37. Mean marks of 50 students were found to the
(c) m - 2 (d) m - 3 78.4. But later it was detected that 95 was
misread as 59 and 25 was misread as 52.
30. What is the arithmetic mean of the first ten What is the difference between correct mean
composite numbers ? and incorrect mean?
[CDS 2021(I)] [CDS 2022 (II)]
(a) 8.5 (b) 9.5 (a) 0.04 (b) 0.08
(c) 10.2 (d) 11.2 (c) 0.12 (d) 0.18
31. The marks obtained by 5 students are 21, 27,

19, 26, 32. Later on 5 grace marks are added 38.If M is the mean of the first 100 even natural
to each student. What are the average marks numbers, then what is the mean of the first
of the revised marks of the students ? 100 odd natural numbers?
[CDS 2021(I)] [CDS 2022 (II)]
(a) 26 (b) 30 (a) M–1 (b) M
(c) 31 (d) 32 (c) M + 1 (d) M + 2

ANSWER KEY
1. (b) 2. (c) 3. (a) 4. (d) 5. (d) 6. (b 7. (a) 8. (c) 9. (a) 10. (b)
11. (d) 12. (d) 13. (b) 14. (a) 15. (c) 16. (c) 17. (c) 18. (a) 19. (c) 20. (a)
21. (a) 22. (a) 23. (b) 24. (a) 25. (c) 26. (c) 27. (b) 28. (c) 29. (c) 30. (d)
31. (b) 32. (c) 33. (c) 34. (c) 35. (d) 36. (d) 37. (d) 38. (a)
CAPF PYQ
1. The average of 7 consecutive odd numbers is three times that of Raj, then the age of Raj's
M. If the next 3 odd numbers are also included, grandfather is
the average [CAPF 2021]
[CAPF 2017] (a) 75 years (b) 90 years
(a) Remains unchanged (c) 81 years (d) 84 years
(b) increase by 1.5
(c) increase by 2 5. The average age of father and elder son is 35
(d) increase by 3 years, the average age of father and younger
son is 32 years and the average age of the two
2. Suppose a, b, c d and e are five consecutive sons is 17 years. What is the average age of
odd numbers in ascending order . Consider the father and his sons?
the following statements: [CAPF 2022]
1. Their average is (a + 4) (a) 30 years (b) 27 years
2. Their average is (b + 2) (c) 28 years (d) 29 years
3. Their average is (e - 4)
Which of the statements given above is/are 6. Suppose A and B can complete a work
correct? together in 10 days. If B alone can complete
[CAPF 2018] the work in 15 days, then in how many days
(a) 1 only (b) 2 and 3 only can A alone finish the work?
(c) 1 and 3 only (d) 1, 2 and 3 [CAPF 2022]
(a) 20 days (b) 24 days
3. The average age of the boys in a class is 12 (c) 25 days (d) 30 days
years. The average age of the girls in the class
is 11 years. There are 50% more girls than 7. If the average of the first four of five numbers
boys in the class. Which one of the following is in decreasing order is 25 and the average of
the average age of the class (in years)? the last four numbers is 20, then what is the
[CAPF 2020] difference between the first and the last
(a) 11.2 years (b) 11.4 years number?
(c) 11.6 years (d) 11.8 years [CAPF 2022]
(a) 5 (b) 10
4. The average age of raj and his father is 45 (c) 15 (d) 20
years. If the ages of the father and the
grandfather of Raj are respectively two and
ANSWER KEY
1. (d) 2. (d) 3. (b) 4. (b) 5. (c) 6. (d) 7. (d)

3 TIME AND WORK
PRACTICE SHEET 1
1. A and B together can finish a job in 24 days, 1
while A, B and C together can finish the same R, completes of the work in 13 days and S,
job in 8 days. C alone will finish the job in 3
(1)12 days (2) 14 days 1
(3) 16 days (4) 24 days of the work in 7 days. Who will be able to
6
complete the work first?
2. A and B together can do a piece of work in 10
(1) P (2) Q
days. A alone can do it in 30 days. The time
(3) R (4) S
in which B alone can do it is
(1) 10 days (2) 12 days
9. A, B and C can complete a piece of work in
(3) 15 days (4) 20 days
24, 6 and 12 days respectively. Working
together, they will complete the same work in
3. A can do a piece of work in 4 hours; B and C
can do it in 3 hours. A and C can do it in 2 1 7
(1) day (2) day
hours. How long will B alone take to do it ? 4 24
(1) 10 hours (2) 12 hours
3
(3) 8 hours (4) 24 hours (3) 3 days (4) 4 days
7
4. A and B can do a work in 12 days, B and C in
15 days and C and A in 20 days. If A, B and 10. A and B together can complete a piece of
C work together, they will complete the work work in 72 days, B and C together can
in : complete it in 120 days, and A and C together
5 in 90 days. In what time can A alone
(1) 5 days (2) 7 days complete the work?
6 (1) 80 days (2) 100 days
2 (3) 120 days (4) 150 days
(3) 10 days (4) 15 days
3
11. A and B together can complete a work in 8
days and B and C together in 12 days. All of
5. A and B can do a piece of work in 72 days. B
the three together can complete the work in 6
and C can do it in 120 days, A and C can do
days. In how much time will A and C together
it in 90 days. In how many days all the three
complete the work?
together can do the work?
(1) 8 days (2) 10 days
(1) 80 days (2) 100 days
(3) 12 days (4) 20 days
(3) 60 days (4) 150 days
12. A alone can complete a work in 12 days. A
6. A can do a work in 6 days and B in 9 days.
and B together can complete it in 8 days.
How many days will both take together to
How long will B alone take to complete the
complete the work?
work?
(1) 7.5 days (2) 5.4 days
(1) 24 days (2) 18 days
(3) 3.6 days (4) 3 days
(3) 16 days (4) 20 days
7. A and B can do a piece of work in 10 days, B
13. If A and B together can complete a work in 18
and C in 15 days and C and A in 20 days. C
days, A and C together in 12 days and B and
alone can do the work in :
C together in 9 days, then B alone can do the
(1) 60 days (2) 120 days
work in
(3) 80 days (4) 30 days
(1) 18 days (2) 24 days
(3) 30 days (4) 40 days
1
8. P can complete of a work in 10 days, Q can
4 14. A can finish a work in 24 days, B in 9 days
complete 40% of the same work in 15 days, and C in 12 days. B and C start the work but
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are forced to leave after 3 days. The 1
remaining work was done by A in: (1) 5 days (2) 5 days
(1) 5 days (2) 6 days 3
(3) 8 days (4) 10 days
1
(3) 10 days (4) 10 days
2 22. A can do a piece of work in 12 days and B
can do it in 18 days. They work together for 2
15. A and B can together finish a work in 30 days and then A leaves. How long will B take
days. They worked together for 20 days and to finish the remaining work?
then B left. After another 20 days, A finished (1) 6 days (2) 8 days
the remaining work. In how many days A (3) 10 days (4) 13 days
alone can finish the job?
(1) 50 days (2) 60 days 23. A and B can do a job in 6 and 12 days
(3) 48 days (4) 54 days respectively. They began the work together
but A leaves after 3 days. Then the total
16. A and B together can complete a work in 8 number of days needed for the completion of
days. B alone can complete that work in 12 the work is:
days. B alone worked for four days. After that (1) 4 days (2) 5 days
how long will A alone take to complete the (3) 6 days (4) 9 days
work?
(1) 15 days (2) 18 days 24. A and B can do a piece of work in 28 and 35
(3) 16 days (4) 20 days days respectively. They began to work
together but A leaves after sometime and B
17. A can do a work in 20 days and B in 40 days. completed remaining work in 17 days. After
If they work on it together for 5 days, then how many days did A leave?
the fraction of the work that is left is : 2
(1) 5/8 (2) 8/15 (1) 14 days (2) 9 days
(3) 7/15 (4) 1/10 5
5
18. A and B working separately can do a piece of (3) 8 days (4) 7 days
9
work in 10 days and 15 days respectively. If
they work on alternate days beginning with A,
25. A and B can complete a work in 15 days and
in how many days will the work be
10 days respectively. They started doing the
completed?
work together but after 2 days, B had to leave
(1) 18 days (2) 13 days
and A alone completed the remaining work.
(3) 12 days (4) 6 days
The whole work was completed in:
(1) 10 days (2) 8 days
19. A can finish a work in 18 days and B can do
(3) 12 days (4) 15 days
the same work in half the time taken by A.
Then working together what part of the same
26. A and B can do a piece of work in 20 days
work they can finish in a day?
and 12 days respectively. A started the work
(1) 1/6 (2) 2/5
alone and then after 4 days B joined him till
(3) 1/9 (4) 2/7
the completion of the work. How long did the
work last?
20. A work can be completed by P and Q in 12
(1) 10 days (2) 20 days
days, Q and R in 15 days, R and P in 20
(3) 15 days (4) 6 days
days. In how many days P alone can finish
the work?
(1) 10 days (2) 20 days 7
27. A does part of work in 15 days. After that
(3) 30 days (4) 60 days 10
he completes the remaining work in 4 days
21. A and B can do a work in 18 and 24 days with the help of B. In how many days will A
respectively. They worked together for 8 days and B together do the same work?
and then A left. The remaining work was
1 2
finished by B in: (1) 10 days (2) 12 days
3 3

1 1 After how many days of the start of the work
(3) 13 days (4) 8 days did A leave?
3 4 (1) 10 days (2) 9 days
(3) 8 days (4) 5 days
4
28. A does of a piece of work in 20 days; He
5 1
30. A can complete of a work in 5 days and B,
then calls in B and they finish the remaining 3
work in 3 days. How long B alone will take to
do whole work?
2
of the work in 10 days. In how many days
1 5
(1) 37 days (2) 37 days both A and B together can complete the
2 work?
(3) 40 days (4) 23 days
3
(1) 10 days (2) 9 days
29. A and B can do a work in 45 days and 40 8
days respectively. They began the work 4 1
together but A left after some time and B (3) 8 days (4) 7 days
completed the remaining work in 23 days. 5 2
ANSWER KEY
1. (1) 2. (3) 3. (2) 4. (3) 5. (3) 6. (3) 7. (2) 8. (2) 9. (3) 10. (3)
11. (1) 12. (1) 13. (2) 14. (3) 15. (2) 16. (3) 17. (1) 18. (3) 19. (1) 20. (3)
21. (2) 22. (4) 23. (3) 24. (3) 25. (3) 26. (1) 27. (3) 28. (1) 29. (2) 30. (2)
PRACTICE SHEET 2
1. A and B can do a work in 18 and 24 days A, in how many days will the work be
respectively. They worked together for 8 days completed?
and then A left. The remaining work was (1) 18 days (2) 13 days
finished by B in : (3) 12 days (4) 6 days
1
(1) 5 days (2) 5 days 5. A and B can do a piece of work in 28 and 35
3 days respectively. They began to work
(3) 8 days (4) 10 days together but A leaves after sometime and B
completed remaining work in 17 days. After
2. A can do a piece of work in 12Vdays and B how many days did A leave?
can do it in 18 days. They work together for
2 days and then A leaves. How long will B
2
(1) 14 days (2) 9 days
take to finish the remaining work? 5
(1) 6 days (2) 8 days 5
(3) 10 days (4) 13 days (3) 8 days (4) 7 days
9
3. A and B can do a job in 6 and 12 days
respectively. They began the work together 6. A and B can complete a work in 15 days and
but A leaves after 3 days. Then the total 10 days respectively. They started doing the
number of days needed for the completion of work together but after 2 days, B had to
the work is: leave and A alone completed the remaining
(1) 4 days (2) 5 days work. The whole work was completed in:
(3) 12 days (4) 15 days
4. A and B working separately can do a piece of
work in 10 days and 15 days respectively. If 7. A and B can complete a piece of work in 12
they work on alternate days beginning with and 18 days respectively. A begins to do the
work and they work alternatively one at a

time for one day each. The whole work will 14. A and B together can finish a work in 30
be completed in days. They worked on it for 20 days and
1 2 then B left the work. The remaining work
(1) 14 days (2) 15 days was done by A alone in 20 days more. In
3 3 how many days can A alone finish the work?
1 2 (1) 48 days (2) 50 days
3 3
15. Ramesh and Rahman can do a work in 20
8. A, B and C can complete a work in 10, 12
and 25 days respectively. After doing
and 15 days respectively. They started the
collectively for 10 days at the work, they
work together. But A left the work before 5
leave the work due to illness and Suresh
days of its completion. B also left the work 2
completes rest of the work in 3 days. How
days after A left. In how many days was the
many days Suresh alone can take to
work completed?
complete the whole work?
(1) 4 days (2) 5 days
(1) 32 days (2) 28 days
(3) 7 days (4) 8 days
(3) 29 days (4) 30 days
9. A can complete a piece of work in 10 days, B
16. A can do a piece of work in 10 days and B
in 15 days and C in 20 days. A and C
can do it in 12 days. They work together for
worked together for two days and then A was
3 days. Then B leaves and A alone
replaced by B. In how many days,
continues. 2 days after that C joins and the
altogether, was the work completed?
work is completed in 2 days more. In how
(1) 12 days (2) 10 days
many days can C do it, if he works alone?
(3) 6 days (4) 8 days
(1) 30 days (2) 50 days
(3) 40 days (4) 60 days
10. A, B and C can do a piece of work in 20, 30
and 60 days respectively. In how many days
17. Pratibha is thrices as efficient as Sonia and
can A do the work if he is assisted by B and
is therefore able to finish a piece of work in
C on every third day?
60 days less than Sonia. Pratibha and Sonia
(1) 10 days (2) 12 days
can individually complete the work
(3) 15 days (4) 20 days
respectively in
(1) 30 days, 60 days
11. A and B together can complete a work in 3
days. They start together. But, after 2 days,
B left the work. If the work is completed
(4) 40 days, 120 days
after 2 more days, B alone could do the work
in
18. If A, B and C can complete a work in 6 days.
(1) 10 days (2) 4 days
If A can work twice faster than B and thrice
(3) 6 days (4) 8 days
faster than C, then the number of days C
alone can complete the work is :
12. A can do a piece of work in 20 days and B in
(1) 33 days (2) 44 days
30 days. They work together for 7 days and
(3) 22 days (4) 11 days
then both leave the work. Then C alone
finishes the remaining work in 10 days. In
19. A is twice as good as B and together they
how many days will C finish the full work?
finish a piece of work in 16 days. The
(1) 25 days (2) 30 days
number of days taken by A alone to finish
(3) 24 days (4) 20 days
the work is
(1) 20 days (2) 21 days
13. A and B can do a piece of work in 45 and 40
(3) 22 days (4) 24 days
days respectively. They began the work
together but A left after some days and B
20. A man does double the work done by a boy
finished the remaining work in 23 days. A
in the same time. The number of days that 3
left after
men and 4 boys will take to finish a work
(1) 6 days (2) 9 days
which can be done by 10 men in 8 days is
(3) 12 days (4) 5 days
(1) 4 (2) 16

3 4 26. A, B and C together can do a piece of work
(3) 7 (4) 8 in 40 days. After working with B and C for
11 5 16 days, A leaves and then B and C
complete the remaining work in 40 days
21. A works twice as fast as B. If B can complete more. A alone could do the work in
a piece of work independently in 12 days, (1) 80 days (2) 90 days
then what will be the number of days taken (3) 100 days (4) 120 days
by A and B together to finish the work?
(1) 4 (2) 6 27. A and B together can complete a work in 8
(3) 8 (4) 18 days. B alone can complete that work in 12
days. B alone worked for four days. After
22. A can complete a work in 6 days while B can that how long will A alone take to complete
complete the same work in 12 days. If they the work?
work together and complete it, the portion of (1) 15 days (2) 18 days
the work done by A is (3) 16 days (4) 20 days
(1) 1/3 (2) 2/3
(3) 1/4 (4) 1/2 28. A and B can complete a piece of work in 12
and 18 days respectively. A begins to do the
23. A can do 1/2 of a piece of work in 5 days, B work and they work alternatively one at a
can do 3/5 of the same work in 9 days and time for one day each. The whole work will
C can do 2/3 of that work in 8 days. In how be completed in
many days can three of them together o the
1 2
work? (1) 14 days (2) 15 days
(1) 3 days (2) 5 days 3 3
1 1 2
2 3 3
24. If 28 men complete 7/8 of a piece of work in 29. A and B can separately complete a piece of
a week, then the number of men, who must work in 20 days and 30 days respectively.
be engaged to get the remaining work They worked together for some time, then B
completed in another week, is left the work. If A completed the rest of the
(1) 5 (2) 6 work in 10 days, then B worked for
(3) 4 (4) 3 (1) 6 days (2) 8 days
(3) 12 days (4) 16 days
25. A can complete 1/3 of a work in 5 days and
B,2/5 of the work in 10 days. In how many 30. A and B together can complete a work in 12
days both A and B together can complete the days. A alone can complete in 20 days. If B
work? does the work only half a day daily, then in
3 how many days A and B together will
(1) 10 days (2) 9 days complete the work?
8 (1) 10 days (2) 20 days
4 1 (3) 11 days (4) 15 days
(3) 8 days (4) 7 days
5 2
ANSWER KEY
1. (2) 2. (4) 3. (3) 4. (3) 5. (3) 6. (3) 7. (1) 8. (3) 9. (4) 10. (3)
11. (3) 12. (3) 13. (2) 14. (4) 15. (4) 16. (3) 17. (3) 18. (1) 19. (4) 20. (2)
21. (1) 22. (2) 23. (4) 24. (3) 25. (2) 26. (3) 27. (3) 28. (1) 29. (1) 30. (4)

PRACTICE SHEET 3
1. 39 persons can repair a road in 12 days (1) 24 (2) 20
working 5 hours a day. In how many days (3) 16 (4) 18
will 30 persons working 6 hours a day
complete the work? 9. Working 8 hours a day, Anu can copy a book
(1) 10 days (2) 13 days in 18 days. How many hours a day should
(3) 14 days (4) 15 days she work so as to finish the work in 12
days?
2. If 72 men can build a wall of 280 m length (1) 12 hours (2) 10 hours
in 21 days, how many men could take 18 (3) 11 hours (4) 13 hours
days to build a similar type of wall of length
100 m? 10. If the work done by (x –1) men in (x + 1) days
(1) 30 (2) 10 is to the work done by (x + 2) men in (x – 1)
(3) 18 (4) 28 days are in the ratio 9 : 10, then the value of
x is equal to :
3. A wall of 100 metres can be built by 7 men (1) 5 (2) 6
or 10 women in 10 days. How many days (3) 7 (4) 8
will 14 men and 20 women take to build a
wall of 600 metres ? 11. 30 men can repair a road in 18 days. They
(1) 15 (2) 20 are joined by 6 more workers. Now the road
(3) 25 (4) 30 can be repaired in
(1) 14 days (2) 15 days
4. 5 persons can prepare an admission list in 8 (3) 16 days (4) 17 days
days working 7 hours a day. If 2 persons
join them so as to complete the work in 4 12. If 6 men and 8 boys can do a piece of work
days, they need to work per day for : in 10 days and 26 men and 48 boys can do
(1) 10 hours (2) 9 hours the same in 2 days, then the time taken by
(3) 12 hours (4) 8 hours 15 men and 20 boys to do the same type of
work will be :
5. 4 mat-weavers can weave 4 mats in 4 days. (1) 5 days (2) 4 days
At the same rate how many mats would be (3) 6 days (4) 7 days
woven by 8 mat-weavers in 8 days ?
(1) 4 (2) 8 13. 5 men can do a piece of work in 6 days while
(3) 12 (4) 16 10 women can do it in 5 days. In how many
days can 5 women and 3 men do it ?
6. 10 men working 6 hours a day can complete (1) 4 days (2) 5 days
a work in 18 days. How many hours a day (3) 6 days (4) 8 days
must 15 men work to complete the same
work in 12 days ? 14. If 3 men or 6 women can do piece of work in
(1) 6 days (2) 10 days 16 days, in how many days can 12 men and
(3) 12 days (4) 15 days 8 women do the same piece of work?
(1) 4 days (2) 5 days
7. ‘x’ number of men can finish a piece of work (3) 3 days (4) 2 days
in 30 days. If there were 6 men more, the
work could be finished in 10 days less. The 15. A man, a woman and a boy can complete a
original number of men is job in 3, 4 and 12 days respectively. How
(1) 6 (2) 10 many boys must assist 1 man and 1 woman
(3) 12 (4) 15 to complete the job in 1/4 of a day?
(1) 1 (2) 4
8. Some carpenters promised to do a job in 9 (3) 19 (4) 41
days but 5 of them were absent and
remaining men did the job in 12 days. The 16. If 16 men or 20 women can do a piece of
original number of carpenters was work in 25 days. In what time will 28 men

and 15 women do it? with 20 labours it was found that only 5/8th
(1) 100/7 days (2) 100/3 days of the road had been constructed. To
(3)75/4 days (4) 10 days complete the work in stipulated time the
number of extra labours required is :
17. If 5 men or 8 women can do a piece of work (1) 18 (2) 10
in 12 days, how many days will be taken by (3) 12 (4) 16
2 men and 4 women to do the same work?
(1) 15 days (2) 27/2 days 25. Janardan completes 2/3 of his work in 10
(3) 40/3 days (4) 10 days days. Time he will take to complete 3/5 of
the same work, is
18. If 3 men or 4 women can plough a field in 43 (1) 8 days (2) 6 days
days, how long will 7 men and 5 women take (3) 9 days (4) 4 days
to plough it ?
(1) 10 days (2) 11 days 26. Two workers A and B working together
(3) 9 days (4) 12 days completed a job in 5 days. If A worked twice
as efficiently as he actually did and B
19. 6 men or 12 women can do a piece of work worked 1/3 as efficiently as he actually did,
in 20 days. In how many days can 8 men the work would have been completed in 3
and 16 women do twice as big as this work ? days. To complete the job alone, A would
(1) 2 days (2) 5 days require
(3) 15 days (4) 10 days (1) 26/5 days (2) 25/4days
(3) 15/2 days (4) 35/4 days
20. A man, a woman and a boy can together
complete a piece of work in 3 days. If a man 27. A man undertakes to do a certain work in
alone can do it in 6 days and a boy alone in 150 days. He employs 200 men. He finds
18 days, how long will a woman alone take that only a quarter of the work is done in 50
to complete the work? days. The number of additional men that
(1) 9 days (2) 21 days should be appointed so that the whole work
(3) 24 days (4) 27 days will be finished in time is :
(1) 75 (2) 100
21. 3 men or 5 women can do a work in 12 days. (3) 125 (4) 50
How long will 6 men and 5 women take to
finish the work? 28. A contractor undertook to finish a certain
(1) 20 days (2) 10 days work in 124 days and employed 120 men.
(3) 4 days (4) 15 days After 64 days, he found that he had already
done 2/3 of the work. How many men can
22. Two workers A and B are engaged to do a be discharged now so that the work may
piece of work. A working alone would take 8 finish in time ?
hours more to complete the work than when (1) 48 (2) 56
work together. If B worked alone, would take (3) 40 (4) 50
4 and half an hours more than when work
together. The time required to finish the 29. If 7 men working 7 hrs a day for each of 7
work together is days produce 7 units of work, then the units
(1) 5 hours (2) 4 hours of work produced by 5 men working 5 hrs a
(3) 8 hours (4) 6 hours day for each of 5 days is
(1) 25/343 (2) 125/49
23. A company employed 200 workers to (3) 49/125 (4) 343/25
complete a certain work in 150 days. If only
one fourth of the work has been done in 50 30. Seventy-five men are employed to lay down a
days, then in order to complete the whole railway line in 3 months. Due to certain
work in time, the number of additional emergency conditions, the work was to be
workers to be employed was finished in 18 days. How many more men
(1) 100 (2) 300 should be employed to complete the work in
(3) 600 (4) 200 the desired time ?
(1) 300 (2) 325
24. A contractor was engaged to construct a (3) 350 (4) 375
road in 16 days. After working for 12 days

ANSWER KEY
1. (2) 2. (1) 3. (1) 4. (1) 5. (4) 6. (1) 7. (3) 8. (2) 9. (1) 10. (4)
11. (2) 12. (2) 13. (2) 14. (3) 15. (4) 16. (4) 17. (3) 18. (4) 19. (3) 20. (1)
21. (3) 22. (4) 23. (1) 24. (4) 25. (3) 26. (2) 27. (2) 28. (2) 29. (2) 30. (1)
PRACTICE SHEET 4
1. A and B can complete a piece of work in 15 the other in 8 days. With the assistance of a
days and 10 days respectively. They boy they together completed the work in 3
contracted to complete the work for 30,000. days. How much money will the boy get ?
The share of A in the contracted money will (1) 300 (2) 325
be (3) 275 (4) 250
(1) 18,000 (2) 16,500
(3) 12,500 (4) 12,000 7. If 5 men or 7 women can earn 5,250 per
day, how much would 7 men and 13 women
2. A man and a boy received 800 as wages for 5
days for the work they did together. The earn per day ?
man’s efficiency in the work was three times (1) 11,600 (2) 11,700
that of the boy. What are the daily wages of (3) 16,100 (4) 17,100
the boy ?
(1) 76 (2) 56 8. 2 men and 1 woman together can complete a
(3) 44 (4) 40 piece of work in 14 days, while 4 women and
2 men together can do it in 8 days. If a man
3. A daily-wage labourer was engaged for a gets 600 per day, how much should a
certain number of days for 5,750; but being woman get per day?
absent on some of those days he was paid (1) 400 (2) 450
only 5,000. What was his maximum possible (3) 480 (4) 360
daily wage?
(1) 125 (2) 250 9. Two men undertake a job for 960. They can
(3) 375 (4) 500 complete it in 16 days and 24 days
respectively. They work along with a third
4. A, B and C completed a work costing 1,800. man and take 8 days to complete it. Then
A worked for 6 days, B for 4 days and C for the share of the third man should be
9 days. If their daily wages are in the ratio of (1) 155 (2) 165
5 : 6 : 4, how much amount will be received (3) 160 (4) 150
by A?
(1) 800 (2) 600
10. If there is a reduction in the number of
(3) 900 (4) 750
workers in a factory in the ratio 15 : 11 and
an increment in their wages in the ratio 22 :
5. A labourer was appointed by a contractor on
25, then the ratio by which the total wages
the condition that he would be paid 75 for
of the workers should be decreased is
each day of his work but would be fined at
(1) 6 : 5 (2) 5 : 6
the rate of 15 per day for his absence, apart
(3) 3 : 7 (4) 3 :5
from losing his wages, After 20 days, the
contractor paid the labourer 1140. The
11. Stanie and Paul take a piece of work for
number of days the labourer abstained from
28,800. One alone could do it in 36 days,
work was
the other in 48 days. With the assistance of
(1) 3 (2) 5
an expert, they finish it in 12 days. How
(3) 4 (4) 2
much remuneration the expert should get ?
(1) 10000 (2) 18000
6. Two men undertook to do a job for 1400.
(3) 16000 (4) 12000
One of them can do it alone in 7 days, and

12. A and B were assigned to do a job for an the cistern is full in 50 minutes. In how
amount of 1,200. A alone can do it in 15 much time the third pipe alone can empty
days, while B can do it in 12 days. With the the cistern?
help of C, they can finish in 5 days. The (1) 110 minutes (2) 100 minutes
share of amount that C earns is (3) 120 minutes (4) 90 minutes
(1) 300 (2) 400
(3) 500 (4) 600 20. Two pipes can fill a cistern in 3 hours and 4
hours respectively and a waste pipe can
13. A sum of money is sufficient to pay A’ s empty it in 2 hours. If all the three pipes are
wages for 21 days and B’s wages for 28 kept open, then the cistern will be filled in :
days. The same money is sufficient to pay (1) 5 hours (2) 8 hours
the wages of both for : (3) 10 hours (4) 12 hours
(1) 12 days (2) 14 days 14
(3) 24 days (4) 12 days 12 21. 12 pumps working 6 hours a day can empty
a completely filled reservoir in 15 days. How
14. A can do a piece of work in 12 days while B many such pumps working 9 hours a day
alone can do it in 15 days. With the help of will empty the same reservoir in 12 days ?
C they can finish it in 5 days. If they are (1) 15 (2) 9
paid 960 for the whole work how much (3) 10 (4) 12
money A gets ?
(1) 480 (2) 240 22. Three pipes P, Q and R can separately fill a
(3) 320 (4) 400 cistern in 4,8 and 12 hours respectively.
Another pipe S can empty the completely
15. A, B and C together earn 150 per day while filled cistern in10 hours. Which of the
A and C together earn 94 and B and C following arrangements will fill the empty
together earn 76. The daily earning of ‘C’ is cistern in less time than others?
(1) 56 (2) 20 (1) Q alone is open.
(3) 34 (4) 75 (2) P and S are open.
(3) P, R and S are open.
16. Two pipes A and B can fill a tank in 20 (4) P, Q, R, S are open all together
minutes and 30 minutes respectively. If both
pipes are opened together, the time taken to 23. Two pipes can fill a cistern separately in 10
fill the tank is : hours and 15 hours. They can together fill
(1) 50 minutes (2) 12 minutes the cistern in
(3) 25 minutes (4) 15 minutes (1) 6 hours (2) 7 hours
(3) 8 hours (4) 9 hours
17. A tap can empty a tank in one hour. A
second tap can empty it in 30 minutes. If 24. Three taps A,B and C together can fill an
both the taps operate simultaneously, how empty cistern in 10 minutes. The tap A
much time is needed to empty the tank? alone can fill it in 30 minutes and the tap B
(1) 20 minutes (2) 30 minutes alone in 40 minutes. How long will the tap C
(3) 25 minutes (4) 15 minutes alone take to fill it ?
(1) 16 minutes (2) 24 minutes
18. A cistern can be filled with water by a pipe (3) 32 minutes (4) 40 minutes
in 5 hours and it can be emptied by a
second pipe in 4 hours. If both the pipes are 25. One tap can fill a water tank in 40 minutes
opened when the cistern is full, the time in and another tap can make the filled tank
which it will be emptied is : empty in 60 minutes. If both the taps are
(1) 9 hours (2) 18 hours open, in how many hours will the empty
(3) 20 hours (4) 12 hours tank be filled ?
(1) 2 hours (2) 2.5 hours
19. Two pipes A and B can separately fill a (3) 3 hours (4) 3.5 hours
cistern in 60 minutes and 75 minutes
respectively. There is a third pipe in the 26. A tank can be filled by pipe A in 2 hours and
bottom of the cistern to empty it. If all the pipe B in 6 hours. At 10 A.M. pipe A was
three pipes are simultaneously opened, then

opened. At what time will the tank be filled if (3) 15 hours (4) 30 hours
pipe B is opened at 11 A.M.?
(1) 12.45 A.M. (2) 5 P.M 29. Two pipes can fill a tank with water in 15
(3) 11.45 A.M. (4) 12 P.M. and 12 hours respectively and a third pipe
can empty it in 4 hours. If the pipes be
27. Two pipes, P and Q, together can fill a opened in order at 8, 9 and 11 a.m.
cistern in 20 minutes and P alone can in 30 respectively, the tank will be emptied at
minutes. Then Q alone can fill the cistern in (1) 11 : 40 a.m. (2) 12 : 40 p.m.
(1) 62 minutes (2) 60 minutes (3) 1 : 40 p.m. (4) 2 : 40 p.m.
30. A Boy and girl together fill a cistern with
28. Two pipes A and B can fill a cistern in 3 water. The boy pours 4 litres of water every
hours and 5 hours respectively. Pipe C can 3 minutes and the girl pours 3 litres every 4
empty in 2 hours. If all the three pipes are minutes. How much time will it take to fill
open, in how many hours the cistern will be 100 litres of water in the cistern ?
full? (1) 36 minutes (2) 42 minutes
(1) can’t be filled (2) 10 hours (3) 48 minutes (4) 60 minutes
ANSWER KEY
1. (4) 2. (4) 3. (2) 4. (2) 5. (3) 6. (3) 7. (4) 8. (1) 9. (3) 10. (1)
11. (4) 12. (1) 13. (4) 14. (4) 15. (2) 16. (2) 17. (1) 18. (3) 19. (2) 20. (4)
21. (3) 22. (4) 23. (1) 24. (2) 25. (1) 26. (3) 27. (2) 28. (4) 29. (4) 30. (3)
CDS PYQ
1. 45 people take 18 days to dig a pond. If the [CDS 2013 (I)]
pond would have to be dig in 15 days, Then (a) 30 h (b) 45 h
the number of people to be employed will be (c) 60 h (d) 64 h
[CDS 2012 (I)]
(a) 50 (b) 54 5. X can complete a job in 12 days. If X and Y
(c) 60 (d) 72 work together, they can complete the job in
2
2. A and B can do a piece of work in 10 hr . B 6 days. Y alone can complete the job in
and C can do it in 15 hr, while A and C take 3
12 hr. In how much time B will complete the [CDS 2013 (I)]
work (a) 10 days (b) 12 days
[CDS 2012 (I)] (c) 15 days (d) 18 days
(a) 12h (b) 16h
(c) 20h (d) 24h 6. Pipe A can fill a tank in 10 min and pipe B
can empty it in 15 min. If both the pipes are
3. X can do a piece of work in 25 days. Y is opened in an empty tank, the time taken to
25% more efficient than X. The number of make it full is
days taken by y is [CDS 2013 (I)]
[CDS 2012 (II)] (a) 20 min (b) 25 min
(a) 15 days (b) 20 days (c) 30 min (d) None of these
(c) 21 days (d) 30 days
7. 4 goats or 6 sheeps can graze a field in 50
4. A mason can build a tank in 12 h. After days. 2 goats and 9 sheeps can graze the
working for 6 h, he took the help of a boy field in
and finished the work in another 5 h. The [CDS 2013 (II)]
time that the boy will take alone to complete (a) 100 days (b) 75 days
the work is (c) 50 days (d) 25 days

8. A can finish a work in 15 days, B in 20 days number of days taken by both of them when
and C in 25 days. All these three worked working together?
together and earned Rs 4700. The share of C [CDS 2014 (II)]
is (a) 22.5 days (b) 15 days
[CDS 2013 (II)] (c) 20 days (d) 18 days
(a) 1200 (b) 1500
(c) 1800 (d) 2000 15. The efficiency of P is twice that of Q, whereas
the efficiency of P and Q together is three
9. 20 workers working for 5 h per day complete times that of R. If P, Q and R work together
work in 10 days. If 25 workers are employed on a job, in what ratio should they share
to work 10 h per day, what is the time their earnings?
required to complete the work? [CDS 2015 (I)]
[CDS 2013 (II)] (a) 2:1:1 (b) 4:2:1
(a) 4 days (b) 5 days (c) 4 :3:2 (d) 4:2:3
16. A and B are two taps which can fill a tank
10. 18 men can earn Rs 360 in 5 days. How individually in 10 min and 20 min,
much money will 15 men earn in 9 days? respectively. However, there is a leakage at
[CDS 2013 (II)] the bottom, which can empty a filled tank in
(a) 600 (b) 540 40 min. If the tank is empty initially, then
(c) 480 (d) 360 how much time will both the taps take to fill
the tank with leakage?
11. 2 men and 1 woman can complete a piece of [CDS 2015 (II)]
work in 14 days, while 4 women and 2 men (a) 2 min (b) 4 min
can do the same work in 8 days. If a man (c) 5 min (d) 8 min
gets Rs 90 per day, what should be the
wages per day of a woman ? 17. If 4 men working 4h per day for 4 days
[CDS 2013 (II)] complete 4 units of work, then how many
(a) 48 (b)60 units of work will be completed by 2 men
(c) 72 (d) 135 working for 2 h per day in 2 days?
[CDS 2015 (II)]
12. A can do a piece of work in 4 days and B can (a) 2 (b) 1
complete the same work in 12 days. What is (c) 1/2 (d) 1/8
the number of days required to do the same
work together? 18. If m persons can paint a house in d days,
[CDS 2013 (II)] then how many days will it take for (m + 2)
(a) 2 days (b) 3 days persons to paint the same house?
(c) 4 days (d) 5 days [CDS 2015 (II)]
(a) md+ 2 (b) md -2
13. A, B and C can do a piece of work m2 md
individually in 8, 12 and 15 days, (c) (d)
respectively. A and B start working but A md m2
quits after working for 2 days. After this, C
joins B till the completion of work. In how 19. Two pipes A and B can fill a tank in 60 min
many days will the work be completed? and 75 min, respectively. There is also an
[CDS 2014 (II)] outlet C. If A. B and C are opened together,
then the tank is full in 50 min. How much
8 6 time will be taken by C to empty the full
(a) 5 days (b) 4 days
9 7 tank?
7 3 [CDS 2016 (I)]
(c)6 days (d) 3 days (a) 100 min (b) 110 min
13 4 (c) 120 min (d) 125 min
14. A is thrice as efficient as B and hence 20. A can do 50% more work than B in the same
completes a work in 40 days less than the time . B alone can do a piece of work in 30
number of days taken by B. What will be the hrs. B starts working and had already

worked for 12 hours when A joins him. How was open and water was leaking through it .
many hours should B and A work together It was then immediately closed. It took 7
to to complete the remaining work? hours to fill the tub after closing the outlet.
[CDS 2016 (II)] What time will be taken by the outlet to
(a) 6 hours (b) 12 hours empty the full tub of water?
(c) 4.8 hours (d) 7.2 hours [CDS 2017 (II)]
(a) 35 hrs (b) 25 hrs
21. A tank can be filled by pipe X in 2 hours and (c) 20 hr (d) 17 hrs
pipe Y in 6 hours. At 10 a.m. Pipe X was
opened. At what time will the tank be filled if 27. A work when done by 10 women is completed
pipe Y is opened at 11 a.m.? in 12 days.The same work can be completed
[CDS 2016 (II)] in 8 days when done by 5 men. How many
(a) 12:45 hours (b) 5:00 p.m. days will it take to complete when 6 women
(c) 11:45 a.m. (d) 11:50 a.m. and three men are employed to perform the
same job?
22. If 15 men take 21 days of 8 hours each to do [CDS 2018 (I)]
a piece of work , then what is the number of (a) 12 (b) 10
days of 6 hours each that 21 women would (c) 8 (d) 5
take, if three women would do as much work
as 2 men ? 28. A man undertakes to do a certain work in
[CDS 2017 (I)] 150 days he employs 200 man he finds that
(a) 18 (b) 20 only a quarter of the work is done in 50
(c) 25 (d) 30 days. How many additional men should he
employs so that the whole work is finished
23. A and B working together can finish a piece in the time?
of work in 12 days while B alone can finish [CDS 2018 (I)]
it in 30 days . In how many days A can alone (a) 75 (b) 85
finish the work? (c) 100 (d) 120
[CDS 2017 (I)]
(a) 18 days (b) 20 days 29. If 5 tractors can plough 5 hectares of land in
(c) 24 days (d) 25 days 5 days. then what is the number of tractors
required to plough 100 hectares in 50 days
24. If 5 men can do a piece of work in 10 days [CDS 2018 (I)]
and 12 women can do the same work in 15 (a) 100 (b) 20
days, the number of days required to (c) 10 (d) 5
complete the work by 5 men and 6 women
[CDS 2017 (I)] 30. A water tank has been fitted with two taps P
1 and Q and a drain pipe R. Taps P and Q fill
(a) 7 days (b) 8 days at the rate of 12 litre per minute and 10 litre
2 per minute respectively.
1 Consider the following statements S1, S2 and
2 S3
S1 : pipe R drains out at the rate of 6 litre
25. 30 men can complete a job in 40 days. per minutes
However, after 24 days some men left the job S2 : if both the taps and the drain pipes are
the remaining people took another 40 days opened simultaneously then the water tank
to complete the job the number of men who is filled in 5 hours 45 minutes
left the job is S3 : Pipe R drains out (fully) the field tank in
[CDS 2017 (II)] 15 hours 20 minutes.
(a) 24 (b) 18 To know what is the capacity of the tank
(c) 12 (d) 6 which one of the following is correct ?
[CDS 2018 (I)]
26. A tap can fill a tube in 10 hours. After (a) S 2 is only sufficient
opening the tap for 5 hours it was found (b) S1, S2 and S3 are necessary
that a small outlet at the bottom of the tub (c) any two out of S1 S2 and S3 are sufficient
(d) none of the above

31. Two workers A and B working together then what is the time required to complete
completed a job in 5 days had A work twice the work ?
as efficiently as he actually did and B [CDS 2019 (I)]
worked one-third as efficiency as he actually (a) 3 h (b) 3 h 15 min
did the work would have completed in 3 (c) 3 h 30 min (d) 3 hr 45 min.
days. In how many days could a alone
completed the job 38. A stock of food grains is enough for 240 men
[CDS 2018 (II)] for 48 days. How long will the same stock
1 1 last for 160 men?
(a) 3 days (b) 4 days [CDS 2019 (II)]
2 6 (a) 72 days (b) 64 days
1 1 (c) 60 days (d) 54 days
2 4
39. Two taps X and Y are fixed to a water tank ,
32. A is thrice as good a workman as B and if only X is opened ,it drains out the full
takes 10 days less to do a piece of work than tank of water in 20 min. If both X and Y are
B takes. the number of days taken by B opened , then they drain out the full tank of
alone to finish the work is water in 15 min. If only Y is opened, how
[CDS 2018 (II)] long does it take to drain out the full tank of
(a)12 (b) 15 water ?
(c) 20 (d) 30 [CDS 2019 (II)]
(a) 30min (b) 45min
33. 12 men work 8 hr per day and require 10 (c) 60 min (d) 90 min
days to build a wall, if 8 men are available,
how many hours per day must they work to 40. If the ratio of the work done by (x + 2)
finish the work in 8 days workers in ( x - 3) days to the work done by
[CDS 2018 (II)] (x + 4) workers in (x - 2) days is 3:4 , then
(a) 10 (b) 12 what is the value of x ?
(c) 15 (d) 18 [CDS 2019 (II)]
(a) 8 (b) 10
34. 12 person can paint 10 identical rooms in (c) 12 (d) 15
16 days. In how many days can 8 persons
paint 20 such rooms? 41. If 6 men and 8 women can do a piece of
[CDS 2018 (II)] work in 10 days and 13 men and 24 women
(a) 12 (b) 24 can do the same work in 4 days, then what
(c) 36 (d) 48 is the ratio of daily work done by a man to
that of a woman ?
35. X and Y together can finish a job in 6 days, [CDS 2020 (I)]
X can alone do the same job in 12 days. how (a) 2:1 (b) 1:2
long will we alone take to do the same job (c) 4:3 (d) 3:4
[CDS 2018 (II)]
(a) 16 days (b) 12 days 42. In a water tank there are two outlets. It
(c) 10 days (d) 8 days takes 20 min to empty the tank of both the
outlet are opened. If the first outlet is
36. A field can be reaped by 12 men or 18 opened, the tank is emptied in 30 min. What
women in 14 days. In how many days can 8 is the time taken to empty the tank by
men and 16 women reap it? second outlet?
[CDS 2019 (I)] [CDS 2020 (I)]
(a) 26 days (b) 24 days (a) 30 min (b) 40 min
(c) 9 days (d) 8 days (c) 50 min (d) 60 min
37. Tushar takes 6 hours to complete a piece of 43. If x men working x hours per day can do x
work , while Amar completed the same work units of work in x days, then y men working
in 10 hours. if both of them work together y hours per days would be able to do k units
of work in y days .What is the value of k ?
[CDS 2020 (II)]

(a) x2y-3 (b) x3y-2 [CDS 2021 (II)]
(c) y2x-3 (d) y3x-2 (a) 32 days (b) 33 days
44. If 20 persons can clean 20 floors in 20 days,
then how many days can 16 persons clean 49. 8 men or 12 women can do a piece of work in
16 floors? 24 days. In how many days can the work be
[CDS 2021 (I)] done by 8 men and 12 women?
(a) 25 days (b) 24 days [CDS 2022 (I)]
(c) 20 days (d) 16 days (a) 12 days
(b) 18 days
45. Let the work done by (x − 1) men in (x + 1) (c) 24 days
days be y. Let the work done by (x + 2) men (d)cannot be determined due to insufficient
in (x − 1) days be z. If y:z =9:10 , then what data
is the value of x ?
[CDS 2021 (I)] 50. X and Y can do a piece of work in 45 days
(a) 8 (b) 9 and 40 days respectively. They begin to work
(c) 10 (d) 12 together, but X leaves after n days and then Y
completes and remaining work in 23 days.
46. 20 men are supposed to complete a work in What is n equal to?
10 days. After working for 5 days, they [CDS 2022 (II)]
realise that only one-forth of the work is (a) 8 (b) 9
done. How many more men they need to (c) 10 (d) 12
employ to finish the work on time ?
[CDS 2021 (II)] 51. 480 persons working 10 hours per day
(a) 40 (b) 30 complete one-fourth of work in 10 days. How
(c) 20 (d) 15 many additional persons are to be employed
in order to complete the remaining work in 20
47. Let work done by (3n−1) men in (2n +1) days days, working 8 hours per day?
be x and work done by (3n + 1) men in (4n [CDS 2022 (II)]
−3) days be y. If x : y = 6 : 11, then what is (a) 400 (b) 420
the value of n ? (c) 480 (d) 500
[CDS 2021 (II)]
(a) 6 (b) 7 52.12 women and 16 men can do a piece of work
(c) 8 (d) 9 in 5 days. 13 women and 24 men can do it in
4 days. How long will 25 women and 50 men
48. Sheela can stitch a suit in 2 days, while take to do it?
1 [CDS 2022 (II)]
Meena can stitch a suit in 1 days. How (a) 1 day (b) 2 days
2 (c) 3 days (d) 4 days
many days will both take in stitching 30
suits?
ANSWER KEY
1. (b) 2. (d) 3. (b) 4. (c) 5. (c) 6. (c) 7. (d) 8. (a) 9. (a) 10. (b)
11. (b) 12. (b) 13. (a) 14. (b) 15. (a) 16. (d) 17. (c) 18. (d) 19. (a) 20. (d)
21. (c) 22. (d) 23. (b) 24. (a) 25. (c) 26. (b) 27. (c) 28. (c) 29. (c) 30. (c)
31. (d) 32. (b) 33. (c) 34. (d) 35. (b) 36. (c) 37. (d) 38. (a) 39. (c) 40. (b)
41. (a) 42. (d) 43. (d) 44. (c) 45. (a) 46. (a) 47. (b) 48. (c) 49. (a) 50. (b)
51. (b) 52. (b)

CAPF PYQ
1. If 5 persons can weave 160 mats in 8 days, (d) 4 minutes 45 sec
how many mats will 8 persons weave in 6
days 3. A and B together can finish a job in 20 days.
[CAPF 2012] B and C together can finish the same job in
(a) 200 (b) 192 30 days. If A and C together can finish it in
(c) 190 (d) 180 24 days, in how many days can A alone
finish the job?
2. Two pipes A and B can fill a tank in 12 [CAPF 2021]
minutes and 16 minutes respectively, if both 2 2
the pipes are opened together then after how (a) 35 (b) 37
much time B should be closed so that the 7 7
tank is full in 9 minutes 2 2
[CAPF 2017] (c) 34 (d) 33
(a) 3 and half minutes 7 7
(b) 4 minutes
(c) 4 and half minutes
ANSWER KEY
1. (b) 2. (b) 3. (c)

4 TIME AND DISTANCE
PRACTICE SHEET 1
1. The speed of a bus is 72 km/hr. The (3) 13 minutes
distance covered by the bus in 5 seconds is (4) 11 minutes 20 sec
(1) 100 m (2) 60 m
(3) 50 m (4) 74.5 m 9. A man rides at the rate of 18 km/ hr, but
stops for 6 mins. to change horses at the
2. Two men start together to walk a certain end of every 7th km. The time that he will
distance, one at 4 km/h and another at 3 take to cover a distance of 90 km is
km/h. The former arrives half an hour (1) 6 hrs. (2) 6 hrs. 12 min.
before the latter. Find the distance. (3) 6 hrs. 18 min. (4) 6 hrs. 24 min.
(1) 8 km (2) 7 km
(3) 6 km (4) 9 km 10. A speed of 30.6 km/.hr is the same as
(1) 8.5 m/sec. (2) l0 m/sec.
3. A train starts from a place A at 6 a.m. and (3) 12 m/sec. (4) 15.5 m/sec.
arrives at another place B at 4.30 p.m. on
the same day. If the speed of the train is 40 11. A man covers 2/15 of the total journey by
km per hour, find the distance travelled by train, 9/20 by bus and the remaining 10 km
the train ? on foot. His total journey (in km) is
(1) 420 km (2) 230 km (1) 15.6 (2) 24
(3) 320 km (4) 400 km (3) 16.4 (4) 12.8
4. A boy runs 20 km in 2.5 hours. How long 12. A man travels for 5 hours 15 minutes. If he
will he take to run 32 km at double the covers the first half of the journey at 60
previous speed ? km/h and rest at 45 km/h. Find the total
(1) 2 hours (2) 2.5 hours distance travelled by him.
(3) 4.5hours (4) 5 hours (1) 1028.85 km. (2) 189 km.
(3) 378 km. (4) 270 km.
5. A train is moving with the speed of 180
km/hr. Its speed (in metres per second) is : 13. A car can finish a certain journey in 10
(1) 5 (2) 40 hours at the speed of 42 kmph. In order to
(3) 30 (4) 50 cover the same distance in 7 hours, the
speed of the car (km/h) must be increased
6. A man riding his bicycle covers 150 metres by :
in 25 seconds. What is his speed in km per (1) 12 (2) 15
hour ? (3) 18 (4) 24
(1) 25 (2) 21.6
(3) 23 (4) 20 14. A man cycles at the speed of 8km/hr and
reaches office at 11 am and when he cycles
7. Walking at the rate of 4 km an hour, a man at the speed of 12 km/hr he reaches office at
covers a certain distance in 3 hours 45 9 am. At what speed should he cycle so that
minutes. If he covers the same distance on he reaches his office at 10 am?
cycle, cycling at the rate of 16·5 km/hour, (1) 9.6 kmph.
the time taken by him is (2) 10 kmph.
(1) 55.45 minutes (2) 54.55 minutes (3) 11.2 kmph.
(3) 55.44 minutes (4) 45.55 minutes (4) Cannot be determined
8. A train covers a distance of 10 km in 12 15. A bus travels at the speed of 36 km/hr, then
minutes. If its speed is decreased by 5 the distance covered by it in one second is
km/hr, the time taken by it to cover the (1) 10 metre (2) 15 metre
same distance will be : (3) 12.5 metre (4) 13.5 metre
(1) 10 minutes
(2) 13 minutes 20 sec

16. A boy rides his bicycle 10km at an average 10
speed of 12 km/hr and again travels 12 km (3) 2 (4) 9
at an average speed of 10 km/hr. His 13
average speed for the entire trip is
approximately : 23. A constant distance from Chennai to
(1) 10.4 km/hr (2) 10.8 km/hr Bangalore is covered by Express train at 100
(3) 11.0 km/hr (4) 12.2 km/hr km/hr. If it returns to the same distance at
80 km/hr, then the average speed during
17. A person travels 600 km by train at the whole journey is
80km/hr, 800 km by ship at 40 km/hr 500 (1) 90.20 km/hr (2) 88.78 km/hr
km by aeroplane at 400 km/hr and 100 km (3) 88.98 km/hr (4) 88.89 km/hr
by car at 50km/hr. What is the average
speed for the entire distance ? 24. A person went from A to B at an average
speed of x km/hr and returned from B to A
5 at an average speed of y km/hr. What was
(1) 65 vkm./hr. (2) 60 km./hr.
123 his average speed during the total journey
5 x y 2xy
(3) 60 km./hr. (4) 62 km./hr. (1) (2)
123 xy x y
2 1 1
18. A train moves with a speed of 30 kmph for (3) (4) 
12 minutes and for next 8 minutes at a x y x y
speed of 45 kmph. Find the average speed of
the train: 25. A man goes from Mysore to Bangalore at a
(1) 37.5 kmph (2) 36 kmph uniform speed of 40 km/hr and comes back
(3) 48 kmph (4) 30 kmph to Mysore at a uniform speed of 60 km/hr.
His average speed for the whole journey is
19. A man covers half of his journey at 6km/hr (1) 48 km/hr (2) 50 km/hr
and the remaining half at 3km/hr. His (3) 54 km/hr (4) 55 km/hr
average speed is
(1) 9 km/hr (2) 4.5 km/hr 26. A man goes from a place A to B at a speed of
(3) 4 km/hr (4) 3 km/hr 12 km/hr and returns from B to A at a
speed of 18 km/hr. The average speed for
20. A man goes from A to B at a uniform speed the whole journey is
of 12 kmph and returns with a uniform 2
speed of 4 kmph His average speed (in (1) 14 km/hr (2) 15 km/hr
kmph) for the whole journey is :
5
(1) 8 (2) 7.5 1
(3) 15 km/hr (4) 16 km/hr
(3) 6 (4) 4.5 2
21. A train covers a distance of 3584 km in 2 27. One third of a certain journey is covered at
days 8 hours. If it covers 1440 km on the the rate of 25 km/ hour, one-fourth at the
first day and 1608 km on the second day, by rate of 30 km/hour and the rest at 50 km/
how much does the average speed of the hour. The average speed for the whole
train for the remaining part of the journey journey is
differ from that for the entire journey ? 1
(1) 3 km/hour more (2) 3 km/hour less (1) 35 km/hour (2) 33 km/hour
(3) 4 km/hour more (4) 5 km/hour less 3
1
22. A man travels a distance of 24 km at 6 (3) 30 km/hour (4) 37 km/hour
12
kmph. Another distance of 24 km at 8 kmph
and a third distance of 24 km at 12 kmph.
28. A man completes 30 km of a journey at the
His average speed for the whole journey (in
speed of 6 km/hr and the remaining 40 km
kmph) is
of the journey in 5 hours. His average speed
2 for the whole journey is
(1) 8 (2) 8
3

4 (3) 41 km/hr (4) 42 km/hr
(1) 7 km/hr (2) 6 km/hr
11 30. The speed of a train going from Nagpur to
(3) 8 km/hr (4) 7.5 km/hr Allahabad is 100 kmph while its speed is
150 kmph when coming back from
29. A man covers the journey from a station A to Allahabad to Nagpur. Then the average
station B at a uniform speed of 36 km/hr speed during the whole journey is :
and returns to A with a uniform speed of 45 (1) 120 kmph (2) 125 kmph
km/hr. His average speed for the whole (3) 140 kmph (4) 135 kmph
journey is
(1) 40 km/hr (2) 40.5 km/hr
ANSWER KEY
1. (1) 2. (3) 3. (1) 4. (1) 5. (4) 6. (2) 7. (2) 8. (2) 9. (2) 10. (1)
11. (2) 12. (4) 13. (3) 14. (1) 15. (1) 16. (2) 17. (1) 18. (2) 19. (3) 20. (3)
21. (1) 22. (2) 23. (4) 24. (2) 25. (1) 26. (1) 27. (2) 28. (3) 29. (1) 30. (1)
PRACTICE SHEET 2
1. The length of a train and that of a platform (3) 10 seconds (4) 15 seconds
are equal. If with a speed of 90 km/hr the
train crosses the platform in one minute, 6. A train takes 18 seconds to pass through a
then the length of the train (in metres) is : platform 162 m long and 15 seconds to pass
(1) 500 (2) 600 through another platform 120 m long. The
(3) 750 (4) 900 length of the train (in m) is :
(1) 70 (2) 80
2. A train passes two bridges of lengths 800 m (3) 90 (4) 105
and 400 m in 100 seconds and 60 seconds
respectively. The length of the train is : 7. A train, 150 m long, takes 30 seconds to
(1) 80 m (2) 90 m cross a bridge 500 m long. How much time
(3) 200 m (4) 150 m will the train take to cross a platform 370 m
long ?
3. A train 300 metres long is running at a (1) 36 secs (2) 30 secs
speed of 25 metres per second. It will cross a (3) 24 secs (4) 18 secs
bridge of 200 metres in
(1) 5 seconds (2) 10 seconds 8. A 120 metre long train is running at a speed
(3) 20 seconds (4) 25 seconds of 90 km per hour. It will cross a railway
platform 230 m long in
4. A train 800 metres long is running at the (1) 4.8 seconds (2) 9.2 seconds
speed of 78 km/hr. If it crosses a tunnel in 1 (3) 7 seconds (4) 14 seconds
minute, then the length of the tunnel (in
metres) is : 9. A train travelling at a speed of 30 m/sec
(1) 77200 (2) 500 crosses a platform, 600 metres long, in 30
(3) 1300 (4) 13 seconds. The length (in metres) of train is
(1) 120 (2) 150
5. A train is moving at a speed of 132 (3) 200 (4) 300
km/hour. If the length of the train is 110
metres, how long will it take to cross a 10. A train with a uniform speed passes a
railway platform 165 metres long? platform, 122 metres long, in 17 seconds
(1) 5 seconds (2) 7.5 seconds

and a bridge, 210 metres long, in 25 hour and reaches school 5 minutes early.
seconds. The speed of the train is How far is the school from his house ?
(1) 46.5 km/hour (2) 37.5 km/hour (1) 5/8km (2) 8 km
(3) 37.6 km/hour (4) 39.6 km/hour (3) 5 km (4) 10 km
11. A train running at 7/11 of its own speed 19. A man covered a certain distance at some
reached a place in 22 hours. How much time speed. Had he moved 3 km per hour faster,
could be saved if the train would run at its he would have taken 40 minutes less. If he
own speed? had moved 2 km per hour slower, he would
(1) 14 hours (2) 7 hours have taken 40 minutes more. The distance
(3) 8 hours (4) 16 hours (in km) is :
(1) 20 (2) 35
12. A man with 3/5 of his usual speed reaches (3) 36.6 (4) 40
the destination 2 and half hours late. Find
his usual time to reach the destination. 20. If a train runs at 40 km/hour, it reaches its
(1) 4 hours (2) 3 hours destination late by 11 minutes. But if it runs
(3) 3.75 hours (4) 4.5 hours at 50 km/ hour, it is late by 5 minutes only.
The correct time (in minutes) for the train to
13. A car travelling with 5/7 of its usual speed complete the journey is
covers 42 km in 1 hour 40 min 48 sec. What (1) 13 (2) 15
is the usual speed of the car? (3) 19 (4) 21
(1) 17.8 km/hr (2) 35 km/hr
(3) 25 km/hr (4) 30 km/hr 21. A student walks from his house at a speed of
2.5 km per hour and reaches his school 6
14. Walking at three-fourth of his usual speed, a minutes late. The next day he increases his
man covers a certain distance in 2 hours speed by 1 km per hour and reaches 6
more than the time he takes to cover the minutes before school time. How far is the
distance at his usual speed. The time taken school from his house?
by him to cover the distance with his usual (1)5/4km (2) 7/4km
speed is (3) 9/4 km (4) 11/4 km
(1) 4.5 hours (2) 5.5 hours
(3) 6 hours (4) 5 hours 22. A boy is late by 9 minutes if he walks to
school at a speed of 4 km/hour. If he walks
15. By walking at 3/4 of his usual speed, a man at the rate of 5 km/hour, he arrives 9
reaches his office 20 minutes later than his minutes early. The distance to his school is
usual time. The usual time taken by him to (1) 9 km (2) 5 km
reach his office is (3) 4 km (4) 6 km
(3) 40 minutes (4) 30 minutes 23. A car can cover a certain distance in 4.5
hours. If the speed is increased by 5
16. If a man walks 20 km at 5 km/ hr, he will be km/hour, it would take 1/2 hour less to
late by 40 minutes. If he walks at 8 km/hr, cover the same distance. Find the slower
how early from the fixed time will he reach? speed of the car.
(1) 15 minutes (2) 25 minutes (1) 50 km/hour (2) 40 km/hour
(3) 50 minutes (4) 90 minutes (3) 45 km/hour (4) 60 km/hour
17. If a man reduces his speed to 2/ 3, he takes 24. Shri X goes to his office by scooter at a
1 hour more in walking a certain distance. speed of 30km/h and reaches 6 minutes
The time (in hours) to cover the distance earlier. If he goes at a speed of 24 km/h, he
with his normal speed is : reaches 5 minutes late. The distance of his
(1) 2 (2) 1 office is
(3) 3 (4) 1.5 (1) 20 km (2) 21 km
(3) 22 km (4) 24 km
18. A student rides on bicycle at 8 km/hour and
reaches his school 2.5 minutes late. The 25. Walking at 5 km/hr a student reaches his
next day he increases his speed to 10 km/ school from his house 15 minutes early and

walking at 3 km/hr he is late by 9 minutes. speed of 3 km/hr. in the direction of the
What is the distance between his school and moving train if the speed of the train is 63
his house ? km/hr ?
(1) 5 km (2) 8 km (1) 25 sec (2) 30 sec
(3) 3 km (4) 2 km (3) 40 sec (4) 45 sec
26. A train 180 m long moving at the speed of 29. A train is 125 m long. If the train takes 30
20 m/sec. over-takes a man moving at a seconds to cross a tree by the railway line,
speed of 10m/ sec in the same direction. then the speed of the train is :
The train passes the man in : (1) 14 km/hr (2) 15 km/hr
(1) 6 sec (2) 9 sec (3) 16 km/hr (4) 12 km/hr
(3) 18 sec (4) 27 sec
30. A 120 m long train takes 10 seconds to
27. A train 100m long is running at the speed of cross a man standing on a platform. What is
30 km/hr. The time (in second) in which it the speed of the train ?
will pass a man standing near the railway (1)12 m/sec. (2) 10 m/sec.
line is : (3) 15 m/sec. (4) 20 m/sec.
(1) 10 (2) 11
(3) 12 (4) 15
28. How many seconds will a 500 metre long

train take to cross a man walking with a
ANSWER KEY
1. (3) 2. (3) 3. (3) 4. (2) 5. (2) 6. (3) 7. (3) 8. (4) 9. (4) 10. (4)
11. (3) 12. (3) 13. (2) 14. (3) 15. (2) 16. (3) 17. (1) 18. (3) 19. (4) 20. (3)
21. (2) 22. (4) 23. (2) 24. (3) 25. (3) 26. (3) 27. (3) 28. (2) 29. (2) 30. (1)
PRACTICE SHEET 3
1. On increasing the speed of a train at the rate (1) 85 km/hr. (2) 50 km/hr.
of 10 km per hr, 30 minutes is saved in a (3) 55 km/hr. (4) 25 km/hr.
journey of 100 kms. Find the initial speed of
train. 4. A constable is 114 metres behind a thief.
(1)40 kmph (2) 45 kmph The constable runs 21 metres and the thief
(3)42 kmph (4) 44 kmph runs 15 metres in a minute. In what time
will the constable catch the thief ?
2. A thief is noticed by a policeman from a (1) 19 minutes (2) 18 minutes
distance of 200m. The thief starts running (3) 17 minutes (4) 16 minutes
and the policeman chases him. The thief and
the policeman run at the rate of 10 km./hr 5. How much time does a train, 50 m long,
and 11 km./hr respectively. What is the moving at 68 km/ hour take to pass another
distance between them after 6 minutes? train, 75 m long, moving at 50 km/ hour in
(1) 100 m (2) 190 m the same direction.
(3) 200 m (4) 150 m (1) 5 seconds (2) 10 seconds
(3) 20 seconds (4) 25 seconds
3. A moving train, 66 metres long, overtakes
another train of 88 metres long, moving in 6. A constable follows a thief who is 200 m
the same direction in 0.168 minutes. If the ahead of the constable. If the constable and
second train is moving at 30 km/hr, at what the thief run at speed of 8 km/hour and 7
speed is the first train moving?

km/hour respectively, the constable would parallel rails, the first at 77 km an hour and
catch the thief in the other at 67 km an hour. How long will
(1) 10 minutes (2) 12 minutes they take to cross each other?
(3) 15 minutes (4) 20 minutes (1) 7 seconds (2) 7.5seconds
(3) 6 seconds (4) 10 seconds
7. Two trains are running with speed 30 km/hr
and 58 km/hr in the same direction. A man 14. Two trains are running in opposite direction
in the slower train passes the faster train in with the same speed. If the length of each
18 seconds. The length (in metres) of the train is 120 metres and they cross each
faster train is : other in 12 seconds, the speed of each train
(1) 70 (2) 100 (in km/hour) is
(3) 128 (4) 140 (1) 72 (2) 10
(3) 36 (4) 18
8. Two trains travel in the same direction at the
speed of 56 km/h and 29 km/h respectively. 15. Two trains 140 m and 160 m long run at the
The faster train passes a man in the slower speed of 60 km/ hour and 40 km/hour
train in 10 seconds. The length of the faster respectively in opposite directions on parallel
train (in metres) is tracks. The time (in seconds) which they
(1) 100 (2) 80 take to cross each other, is :
(3) 75 (4) 120 (1) 10 sec. (2) 10.8 sec.
(3) 9 sec. (4) 9.6 sec.
9. A bus moving at a speed of 45 km/hr
overtakes a truck 150 metres ahead going in 16. A train ‘B’ speeding with 100 kmph crosses
the same direction in 30 seconds. The speed another train C, running in the same
of the truck is direction, in 2 minutes. If the length of the
(1) 27 km/hr (2) 24 km/hr train B and C be 150 metre and 250 metre
(3) 25 km/hr (4) 28 km/hr respectively, what is the speed of the train C
(in kmph)?
10. A man covered a certain distance at some (1) 75 (2) 88
speed. Had he moved 3 km per hour faster, (3) 95 (4) 110
he would have taken 40 minutes less. If he
had moved 2 km per hour slower, he would 17. A passenger train running at the speed of 80
have taken 40 minutes more. The distance kms./hr leaves the railway station 6 hours
(in km) is : after a goods train leaves and overtakes it in
(1) 20 (2) 35 4 hours. What is the speed of the goods
(3) 36.6 (4) 40 train?
(1) 32 kmph (2) 50 kmph
11. The distance between two cities A and B is (3) 45 kmph (4) 64 kmph
330 km. A train starts from A at 8 a.m. and
travels towards B at 60 km/hr. Another 18. Two trains start from a certain place on two
train starts from B at 9 a.m. and travels parallel tracks in the same direction. The
towards A at 75 km/hr. At what time do speed of the trains are 45 km/hr. and 40
they meet? km/ hr respectively. The distance between
(1) 10 a.m. (2) 10 : 30 a.m. the two trains after 45 minutes will be
(3) 11 a.m. (4) 11 : 30 a.m. (1) 2.5 km. (2) 2.75 km.
(3) 3.7 km. (4) 3.75 km.
12. Two men are standing on opposite ends of a
bridge 1200 metres long. If they walk 19. A thief is stopped by a policeman from a
towards each other at the rate of 5m/minute distance of 400 metres. When the policeman
and 10m/minute respectively, in how much starts the chase, the thief also starts
time will they meet each other ? running. Assuming the speed of the thief as
(1) 60 minutes (2) 80 minutes 5 km/h and that of policeman as 9 km/h,
(3) 85 minutes (4) 90 minutes how far the thief would have run, before he
is over taken by the policeman?
13. Two trains, one 160 m and the other 140 m (1) 400 metre (2) 600 metre
long are running in opposite directions on (3) 500 metre (4) 300 metre

20. Two trains of equal length are running on minutes and visibility is upto a distance of
parallel lines in the same direction at 46 130 metres. Find the speed of the car.
km/hour and 36 km/hour. The faster train (1) 7.5 kmph (2) 6.6 kmph
passes the slower train in 36 seconds. The (3) 6 kmph (4) 7 kmph
length of each train is
(1) 72 m (2) 80 m 26. Ram starts his journey from Bombay to
(3) 82 m (4) 50 m Pune and simultaneously Mohan starts from
Pune to Bombay. After crossing each other
21. Two trains leave a railway station at the 1
same time. The first rain travels due west they finish their remaining journey in 6
and the second train due north. The first
4
and 4 hours respectively. What is Mohan’s
train travels 5 km per hr. faster than the
speed if Ram’s speed is 20 km per hr.
second train. If after two hours they are 50
(1) 28 kmph (2) 24 kmph
km apart, find the average speed of faster
(3) 25 kmph (4) 30 kmph
train.
(1) 18 kmph (2) 15 kmph
27. Two guns were fired from same place at an
(3) 20 kmph (4) 25 kmph interval of 5 minutes but a man sitting in
the train going away from the place near the
22. A carriage driving in a fog passed a man who second fire 6 minute after the first if the
was walking at the rate of 6 km per hr. in speed of train is 40 km per hour find the
the same direction. He could see the carriage
speed of sound
for 4 minutes and it was visible to him up to
(a) 160 kmph (b) 200kmph
a distance of 200 metres. Find the speed of (c) 240 kmph (d) 350 kmph
the carriage.
(1) 8.75 kmph (2) 8.5 kmph 28. The buses are departed after every 25
(3) 8 kmph (4) 9 kmph minutes but man going towards from the
bus deport after every 20 minute get the
23. Two bullets were fired at a place at an buses find the speed of message if the speed
interval of 12 minutes. A person of man is 30 km per hour?
approaching the firing point in his car hears (a) 120 kmph (b) 200kmph
the two sounds at an interval of 11 minutes (c) 150 kmph (d) 180kmph
40 seconds. The speed of sound is 330
metres per second. What is the approximate 29. Two men A and B start from Delhi e and
speed of the car? Agra at same time towards each other after
(1) 34 kmph (2) 32 kmph meeting on the way they cover the remaining
(3) 36 kmph (4) 38 kmph 1 1
journey in in 7 and 6 hours respectively
24. A and B start simultaneously at 5 km per hr. 9 4
and 4 km per hr. from P and Q, 180 kms find the slower speed if faster speed is 40
apart, towards Q and P respectively. They kilometre more than the slower
cross each other at M and after reaching Q (a) 500 kmph (b) 600 kmph
and P turn back immediately and meet again (c) 650 kmph (d) 720 kmph
at N. Find the distance MN.
(1) 45 km (2) 40 km 30. Two men A and B start from X and Y at
(3) 35km (4) 42 km same time towards each other after meeting
on the way they cover the remaining journey
25. A car driving in the morning fog passes a in 9 and 4 hours respectively find the faster
man walking at 4 km per hr. in the same speed if slower speed is 40 kilometre
direction. The man can see the car for 3 (a) 50 kmph (b) 60 kmph
(c) 65 kmph (d) 72 kmph
ANSWER KEY
1. (1) 2. (1) 3. (1) 4. (1) 5. (4) 6. (2) 7. (4) 8. (3) 9. (1) 10. (4)
11. (3) 12. (2) 13. (2) 14. (3) 15. (2) 16. (2) 17. (1) 18. (4) 19. (3) 20. (4)
21. (3) 22. (4) 23. (1) 24. (2) 25. (2) 26. (3) 27. (3) 28. (1) 29. (2) 30. (2)

PRACTICE SHEET 4
1. In a one-kilometre race A, B and C are the 9. A jeep is chasing a car which is 5km ahead.
three participants. A can give B a start of 50 Their respective speed are 90 km/hr and 75
m. and C a start of 69 m. The start, which B km/ hr. After how many minutes will the
can allow C is jeep catch the car?
(1) 17 m. (2) 20 m. (1) 18 min. (2) 20 min.
(3) 19 m. (4) 18 m. (3) 24 min. (4) 25 min.
2. A runs twice as fast as B and B runs thrice 10. A is twice as fast as B, and B is thrice as fast
as fast as C. The distance covered by C in 72 as C is. The journey covered by C in 1 and
minutes, will be covered by A in : half hours will be covered by A in
(1) 18 minutes (2) 24 minutes (1) 15 minutes (2) 30 minutes
(3) 16 minutes (4) 12 minutes (3) 1 hour (4) 10 minutes
3. A is twice as fast runner as B, and B is 11. It takes 8 hours for a 600 km journey, if 120
thrice as fast runner as C. If C travelled a km is done by train and the rest by car. It
distance in 1 hour 54 minutes, the time takes 20 minutes more if 200 km is done by
taken by B to cover the same distance is train and the rest by car. The ratio of the
(1) 19 minutes (2) 38 minutes speed of the train to that of the car is
(3) 51 minutes (4) 57 minutes (1) 2 : 3 (2) 3 : 2
(3) 3 : 4 (4) 4 : 3
4. In a 100m race, Kamal defeats Bimal by 5
seconds. If the speed of Kamal is 18 Kmph, 12. It takes eight hours for a 600 km journey, if
then the speed of Bimal is 120 km is done by train and the rest by car.
(1) 15.4 kmph (2) 14.5 kmph It takes 20 minutes more, if 200 km is done
(3) 14.4 kmph (4) 14 kmph by train and the rest by car. The ratio of the
speed of the train to that of the car is :
5. In a race of 1000 m, A can beat B by 100m. (1) 3 : 5 (2) 3 : 4
In a race of 400 m, B beats C by 40m. In a (3) 4 : 3 (4) 4 : 5
race of 500m. A will beat C by
(1) 95 m (2) 50 m 13. A truck covers a distance of 550 metre in
(3) 45 m (4) 60 m one minute where as a bus covers a distance
of 33 km in 3/4 hour. Then the ratio of their
6. In a race of 800 metres, A can beat B by 40 speeds is
metres. In a race of 500 metres, B can beat (1) 1 : 3 (2) 2 : 3
C by 5 metres. In a race of 200 metres, A (3) 3 : 4 (4) 1 : 4
will beat C by
(1) 11.9 metre (2) 1.19 metre 14. A car travels 80 km. in 2 hours and a train
(3) 12.7 metre (4) 1.27 metre travels 180 km. in 3 hours. The ratio of the
speed of the car to that of the train is :
7. In a race of 200 metres, B can give a start of (1) 2 : 3 (2) 3 : 2
10 metres to A, and C can give a start of 20 (3) 3 : 4 (4) 4 : 3
metres to B. The start that C can give to A,
in the same race, is 15. The speeds of three cars are in the ratio of 1
(1) 30 metres (2) 25 metres : 3 : 5. The ratio among the time taken by
(3) 29 metres (4) 27 metres these cars to travel the same distance is
(1) 3 : 5 : 15 (2) 15 : 3 : 5
8. A can give 40 metres start to B and 70 (3) 15 : 5 : 3 (4) 5 : 3 : 1
metres to C in a race of one kilometre How
many metres start can B give to C in a race 16. A man rows a boat 18 kilometres in 4 hours
of one kilometre ? downstream and returns upstream in 12
(1) 30 metre (2) 31.25metre hours. The speed of the stream (in km per
(3) 31.75 metre (4) 32 metre hour) is :
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(1) 1 (2) 1.5 24. A person can row 7.5 km an hour in still
(3) 2 (4) 1.75 water and he finds that it takes him twice as
long to row up as to row down the river. The
17. A motorboat in still water travels at a speed speed of the stream is :
of 36 kmph. It goes 56 km upstream in 1 (1) 2 km/hr (2) 3 km/hr
hour 45 minutes. The time taken by it to (3) 2.5 km/hr (4) 3.5 km/hr
cover the same distance down the stream
will be : 25. A man can row at a speed of 4.5 km/hr in
(1) 2 hours 25 minutes still water. If he takes 2 times as long to row
(2) 3 hours a distance upstream as to row the same
(3) 1 hour 24 minutes distance downstream, then, the speed of
(4) 2 hours 21 minutes stream (in km/hr) is
(1) 1 (2) 1.5
18. A boat running downstream covers a (3) 2 (4) 2.5
distance of 20km in 2 hrs while it covers the
same distance upstream in 5 hrs. Then 26. A man can row at 5 kmph. in still water. If
speed of the boat in still water is the velocity of current is 1 kmph. and it
(1) 7 km/hr (2) 8 km/hr takes him 1 hour to row to a place and come
(3) 9 km/hr (4) 10 km/hr back, how far is the place ?
(1) 2.5 km (2) 3 km
19. A boatman rows 1 km in 5 minutes, along (3) 2.4 km (4) 3.6 km
the stream and 6 km in 1 hour against the
stream. The speed of the stream is 27. The speed of a motor-boat is that of the
(1) 3 kmph (2) 6 kmph current of water as 36 : 5. The boat goes
(3) 10 kmph (4) 12 kmph along with the current in 5 hours 10
minutes. It will come back in
20. A boat covers 24 km upstream and 36 km (1) 5 hours 50 minutes
downstream in 6 hours, while it covers 36 (2) 6 hours
km upstream and 24 km downstream in 6 (3) 6 hours 50 minutes
and half hours. The speed of the current is (4) 12 hours 10 minutes
(1) 1 km/hr (2) 2 km/hr
(3) 1.5 km/hr (4) 2.5 km/hr 28. A man goes downstream with a boat to some
destination and returns upstream to his
21. A boat goes 6 km an hour in still water, but original place in 5 hours. If the speed of the
takes thrice as much time in going the same boat in still water and the stream are 10
distance against the current. The speed of km/hr and 4 km/ hr respectively, the
the current (in km/hour) is : distance of the destination from the starting
(1) 4 (2) 5 place is
(3) 3 (4) 2 (1) 16 km (2) 18 km
(3) 21 km (4) 25 km
22. In a fixed time, a boy swims double the
distance along the current that he swims 29. Two boats A and B start towards each other
against the current. If the speed of the from two places, 108 km apart. Speed of the
current is 3 km/hr, the speed of the boy in boat A nd B in still water are 12km/hr and
still water is 15km/hr respectively. If A proceeds down
(1) 6 km/hr (2) 9 km/hr and B up the stream, they will meet after.
(3) 10 km/hr (4) 12 km/hr (1) 4.5 hours (2) 4 hours
(3) 5.4 hours (4) 6 hours
23. A man can row 30 km downstream and
return in a total of 8 hours. If the speed of 30. A man can row 6 km/h in still water. If the
the boat in still water is four times the speed speed of the current is 2 km/h, it takes 3
of the current, then the speed of he current hours more in upstream than in the
is downstream for the same distance. The
(1) 1 km/hour (2) 2 km/hour distance is
(3) 4 km/hour (4) 3 km/hour (1) 30 km (2) 24 km
(3) 20 km (4) 32 km

ANSWER KEY
1. (2) 2. (4) 3. (2) 4. (3) 5. (1) 6. (1) 7. (3) 8. (2) 9. (2) 10. (1)
11. (3) 12. (2) 13. (3) 14. (1) 15. (1) 16. (2) 17. (3) 18. (1) 19. (1) 20. (2)
21. (1) 22. (2) 23. (2) 24. (3) 25. (2) 26. (3) 27. (3) 28. (3) 29. (2) 30. (2)
CDS PYQ
1. A train of 280m long is moving at a speed of 6. A sailor sails a distance of 48 km along the
60 km/h. What is the time taken by the flow of a river in 8 h. If it takes 12 h to
train to cross a platform 220m long? return the same distance, then the speed of
[CDS 2012(I)] the flow of the river is
(a) 45 s (b) 40 s [CDS 2013(I)]
(c) 35 s (d) 30 s (a) 0.5 km/h (b) 1 km/h
(c) 1.5 km/h (d) 2 km/h
2. A car travels along the four sides of a square
speeds v, 2v, 3v and 4v respectively. If u is 7. A train running at the speed of 72 km/h
the average speed of a car in its travel goes past a pole in 15 s. What is the length
around the square, then which one of the of the train.
following is correct? [CDS 2013(II)]
[CDS 2012(I)] (a) 150 m (b) 200 m
(a) u = 2.25v (b) u = 3v (c) 300 m (d) 350 m
(c) v < u < 2v (d) 3v < u < 4v
8. Two cars A and B start simultaneously from
3. A car is travelling at a constant rate of 45 a certain place at the speed of 30 km/h and
km/hr. The distance travelled by car from 45 km/h, respectively. The car B reaches the
10:40 am to 1:00 pm is destination 2 h earlier than A. What is the
[CDS 2012(II)] distance between the starting point and
(a) 165 km (b) 150 km destination?
(c) 120 km (d) 105 km [CDS 2013(II)]
(a) 90 km (b) 180 km
4. A person travels a certain distance at 3 (c) 270 km (d) 360 km
km/h and reaches 15 min late. If he travels
at 4 km/h, he reaches 15 min earlier. The 9. A man cycles with a speed of 10 km/h and
distance he has to travel is reaches his office at 1: 00 pm. However,
[CDS 2013(I)] when he cycles with a speed of 15 km/h, he
(a) 4.5 km (b) 6 km reaches his Office at 11 00 am. At what
(c) 7.2 km (d) 12 km speed should he cycle, so that he reaches
his office at 12 noon?
5. If a body covers a distance at the rate of x [CDS 2013(II)]
km/h and another equal distance at the rate (a) 12.5 km/h (b) 12 km/h
of y km/h, then the average speed (in km/h) (c) 13 km/h (d) 13.5 km/h
is
[CDS 2013(I)] 10. A train takes 9 s to cross a pole. If the speed
( x  y) of the train is 48 km/h, the length of the
(a) (d) xy train is
2 [CDS 2014(I)]
2xy ( x  y) (a) 150 m (b) 120m
(c) (d)
x y xy (c) 90 m (d) 80 m

11. A train takes 10 s to cross a pole and 20 s to 17. A car travels the first one-third of a certain
cross a platform of length 200 m. What is distance with a speed of 10 km/h, the next
the length of the train? one-third distance with a speed of 20 km/h
[CDS 2014(II)] and the last one-third distance with a speed
(a) 50 m (b) 100m of 60 km/h. The average speed of the car for
(c) 150 m (d) 200 m the whole journey is
[CDS 2015(I)]
12. A train travels at a speed of 40 km/h and (a) 18 km/h (b) 24 km/h
another train at a speed of 20 m/s. What is (c) 30 km/h (d) 36 km/h
the ratio of speed of the first train to that of
the second train? 18. A man rows 32 km downstream and 14 km
[CDS 2014(II)] upstream, and he takes 6h to cover each
(a) 2:1 (b) 5:9 distance. What is the speed of the current?
(c) 5:3 (d) 9:5 [CDS 2015(I)]
(a) 0.5 km/h (b) 1 km/h
13. The distance between two points (A and B) is (c) 1.5 km/h (d) 2 km/h
110 km. X starts running from point A at a
8peed of 60 km/h and Y starts running from 2
point B at a speed of 40 km/h at the same 19. A runs 1 times as fast as B. If A gives B a
time. hey meet at a point C, somewhere on 3
the line OB. What is the ratio of AC to BC? start of 80 m, how far must the winning
[CDS 2014(II)] post from the starting point be so that A and
(a) 3: 2 (b) 2:3 B might reach it at the same time?
(c) 3:4 (d) 4:3 [CDS 2015(I)]
(a) 200 m (b) 300 m
14. A man rides one-third of the distance from A (c) 270 mn (d) 160 m
to Bat the rate of x km/h and the remainder
at the rate of 2y km/h. If he had travelled at 20. A thief is noticed by a policeman from a
a uniform rate of 6z km/h, then he could distance of 200 m. The thief starts running
have ridden from A to B and back again in and the The thief and the policeman chases
the same time. Which one of the following is him. policeman run at the speed of 10 km/h
correct? and 11 km/h, respectively. What is the
[CDS 2014(II)] distance between them after 6 min?
(a) z = x + y (b) 3Z= x+y [CDS 2015(I)]
(a) 100 m (b) 120m
1 1 1 1 1 1
(c)   (d)   (c) 150 m (d) 160 m
z x y 2z x y
21. Two persons A and B start simultaneously
15. In a flight of 600 km, an aircraft was slowed from two places c km apart and walk in the
down due to bad weather. Its average speed same direction. If A travels at the rate of p
for the trip was reduced by 200 km/h and km/h and B travels at the rate of q km/h .
the time of flight increased by 30 min. The then A has travelled before he overtakes B a
duration of the flight is distance of
[CDS 2015(I)] [CDS 2015(I)]
(a) 1h (b) 2h qc pc
(c) 3h (d) 4h (a) (b)
pq pq
16. With a uniform speed, a car covers a qc pc
(c) (d)
distance in 8 h. Had the speed been pq pq
increased by 4 km/h, the same distance
could have been covered in 7 h and 30 min. 22. By increasing the speed ot his car by 15
What is the distance covered? km/h. a person covers 300 km distance by
[CDS 2015(I)] taking an hour less than before. The original
(a) 420 km (b) 480 km speed of the car was
(c) 520 km (d) 640 km [CDS 2015(II)]

(a) 45 km/h (b) 50 km/h 29. A bike consumes 20 mL of petrol per
(c) 60 km/h (d) 75 km/h kilometre if it is driven at a speed in the
range of 25-50 km/h and consumes 40 mL
23. Two trains, one 1s of 121 m in length at the of petrol per kilometre at any other speed.
speed of 40 km/h and the other is of 99 m How much is consumed by the bike in
in length at the speed of 32 km/h are travelling distance of 50 km, if the bike is
running in opposite directions. In how much driven at a speed of 40 km/h for the first 10
time will they be completely clear from each km, at a speed of 60 km/h for the next 30
other from the moment they meet? km and at a speed of 30 km/h for the last
[CDS 2015(II)] 10 km?
(a) 10 s (b) 11 s [CDS 2015(II)]
(c) 16 s (d) 21 s (a) 1 L (b) 1.2 L
(c) 1.4 L (d) 1.6 L
24. The speeds of three buses are in the ratio
2:3:4. The time taken by these buses to 30. A passenger train takes 1 h less for a
travel the same distance will be in the ratio. journey of 120 km, if its speed is increased
[CDS 2015(II)] by 10 km/h from its usual speed. What is its
(a) 2:3:4 (b) 4:3: 2 usual speed?
(c) 4:3:6 (d) 6:4:3 [CDS 2016(I)]
(a) 50 km/h (b) 40 km/h
25. Two trains are moving in the same direction (c) 35 km/h (d) 30 km/h
at 1.5 km/min and 60 km/h, respectively. A
man in the faster train observes that it takes 31. A man walking at 5 km/h noticed that a 225
27 s to cross the slower train. The length of m long train coming in the opposite direction
the slower train is crossed him in 9s. The speed of the train is
[CDS 2015(II)] [CDS 2016(I)]
(a) 225 m (b) 230 m (a) 75 km/h (b) 80 km/h
(c) 240 m (d) 250 m (c) 85 km/h (d) 90 km/h
26. In a race of 100 m, A beats B by 4 m and A 32. A cyclist moves non-stop from A to B, a
beats C by 2 m. By how many metres distance of 14 km, at a certain average
(approximately) would C beat B in another speed. If his average speed reduces by 1
100 m race assuming C and B run with their km/h, then he takes 20 min more to cover
respective speeds as in the earlier race? the same distance. The original average
[CDS 2015(II)] speed of the cyclist is
(a) 2 (b) 2.04 [CDS 2016(I)]
(c) 2.08 (d) 3.2 (a) 5 km/h (b) 6 km/h
(c) 7 km/h (d) None of these
27. Three athletes run a 4 km race. Their speeds
are in the ratio 16:15:11. When the winner 33. In a race of 1000 m, A beats B by 100 m or
wins the race, then the distance between the 10 s. If they start a race of 1000 m
athlete in the second position to the athlete simultaneously from the same point and if B
in the third position is gets injured after running 50 m less than
[CDS 2015(II)] half the race length and due to which his
(a) 1000 m (b) 800 m speed gets halved, then by how much time
(c) 750 m (d) 600 m will A beat B?
[CDS 2016(I)]
28. A motorboat, whose speed is 15 km/h in (a) 65 s (b) 60 s
still water goes 30 km downstream and (c) 50 s (d) 45 s
comes back a total of 4h and 30 min. The
speed of the stream is 34. In a race A, B and C take part. A beats B by
[CDS 2015(II)] 30 m, B beats C by 20 m and A beats C by
(a) 4 km/h (b) 5 km/h 48 m.
(c) 6 km/h (d) 10 km/h Which of the following is/are correct?
I. The length of the race is 300 m.

II. The speeds of A, B and C are in the ratio (a) 5/4 m/s (b) 7/5 m/s
50: 45: 42. (c) 4/3 m/s (d) 6/5 m/s
Select the correct answer using codes given
below 41. A passenger train departs from delhi at 6 pm
[CDS 2016(I)] from Mumbai. At 9 pm, an express train,
(a) Only I (b) Only 1l whose average speed exceeds that of the
(c) Both | and l (d) Neither I nor II passenger train by 15km/hr leaves Mumbai
for Delhi. Two trains meet each other mid-
35. Two men, A and B run a race on a course route. At what time do they meet, given that
0.25 km around. If their speeds are in the the distance between the cities is 1080 km?
ratio 5:4, how often does the winner pass [CDS 2017(I)]
the others. (a) 4 pm (b) 2 am
[CDS 2016(II)] (c) 12 mid night (d) 6 am
(a) once (b) Twice
(c) Thrice (d) Four times 42. A 225m long train is running at a speed of
30 km/hr. How much time does it take to
36. When the speed of a train is increased by cross a man running at 3 km/hr in the
20% , it takes 20 minutes less to cover the same direction?
same distance. What is the time taken to [CDS 2017(I)]
cover the same distance with the original (a) 40 sec (b) 30 sec
speed? (c) 25 sec (d) 15 sec
[CDS 2016(II)]
(a) 140 min (b) 120 min 43. A thief is spotted by a policeman from a
(c) 100 min (d) 80 min distance of 100m. When the policeman
starts the chase, the thief also starts
37. A person can row downstream 20 km in 2 running. If the speed of the thief is 8km/hr
hours and upstream 4 km in 2 hours. What and that of the policeman is 10 km/hr, then
is the speed of the current? how far will the thief have to run before the
[CDS 2016(II)] overtaken?
(a) 2km/hr (b) 2.5 km/hr [CDS 2017(I)]
(c) 3 km/hr (d) 4km/hr (a) 200m (b) 300m
(c) 400m (d) 500m
38. A train is travelling at 48 km/hr completely
crosses another train having half its length 44. If a train crosses a km-stone in 12 seconds,
and travelling in opposite direction at 42 how long will it take to cross 91 km-stones
km/hr in 12 s. It also passes a railway completely if its speed is 60 km/hr?
platform in 45 s. What is the length of [CDS 2017(II)]
platform? (a) 1hr 30 min
[CDS 2016(II)] (b) 1 hr 30 min 12 sec
(a) 600 m (b) 400 m (c) 1 hr 51 min
(c) 300 m (d) 200 m (d) 1 hr 1 min 3 sec
39. The speeds of three cars are in the ratio 2 : 3 45. In a 100m race, A runs at 6km/hr. If a gives
: 4 . What is the ratio between the times B a start of 8m and still beats him by 9
taken by these cars to travel the same seconds. What is the speed of B?
distance? [CDS 2017(II)]
[CDS 2016(II)] (a) 4.6 km/hr (b) 4.8 km/hr
(a) 4 : 3 : 2 (b) 2 : 3 : 4 (c) 5.2 km/hr (d) 5.4 km/hr
(c) 4 : 3 : 4 (d) 6 : 4 : 3
46. A boy went to school at a speed of 12km/hr
40. In a 100m race. A runs at a speed of 5/3 and returned to his house at a speed of 8
m/s. If A gives a start of 4 m to B and still km/hr. If he has taken 50 minutes for the
beats him by 12 seconds, What is the speed whole journey, what was the total distance
of B? walked?
[CDS 2017(I)] [CDS 2017(II)]

(a) 4km (b) 8km ( x2  y 2 ) z( x2  y 2 )
(c) 16km (d) 20 km (c) (d)
2 zx x
47. A man rows down a river at 18 km in 4
hours with the stream and returns in 10 52. A car has an average speed of 60 km/hr
hours. while going from Delhi to Agra and has an
Consider the following statements average speed of y km/hr while returning to
1. The speed of man against the stream is Delhi from Agra by travelling the same
1.8 km/hr distance if the average speed of the car for
2. The speed of the man in still water is 3.15 the whole journey is 40 km per hour then
km/hr what is the value of Y
3. The speed of the stream is 1.35 km/hr. [CDS 2018(I)]
Which of the above statements are correct? (a) 30 km/hr (b) 35km/hr
[CDS 2017(II)] (c) 40 km/hr (d) 45 km/hr
(a) 1 and 2 (b) 2 and 3
(c) 1 and 3 (d) 1,2 and 3 53. A cyclist covers his first 20 km at an average
speed of 40 kmp/h, another 10 km at an
48. A man travelled 12km at a speed of 4 km/hr average speed of 10 kmp/h and the last 30
and further 10 km at a speed of 5 km/hr. km at an average speed of 40 kmp/h. Then,
What was his average speed? the average speed of the entire journey is
[CDS 2017(II)] [CDS 2018(II)]
(a) 4.4 km/hr (b) 4.5 km/hr (a) 20 km/h (b) 26.67 km/h
(c) 5.0 km/hr (d) 2.5 km/hr (c) 28.24 km/h (d) 30 km/h
49. A train moving with a speed of 60 km per 54. A train 100 m long passess a platform 100
hour crosses an electric pole in 30 second m long in 10 s. The speed of the train is
what is the length of the train in metres? [CDS 2018(II)]
[CDS 2018(I)] (a) 36 km/h (b) 45 km/h
(a) 300 (b) 400 (c) 54 km/h (d) 72 km/h
(c) 500 (d) 600
55. In a race of 1000 m, A beats B by 150 m,
50. A passenger train and a goods train are while in another race of 3000 m, C beats D
running in the same direction on parallel by 400 m. Speed of B is equal to that of D.
railway tracks, if the passenger train now (Assume that A, B, C and D run with
takes three times as long to pass the goods uniform speed in all the events). If A and C
train as when they are running in opposite participate in a race of 6000 m, then which
directions, then what is the ratio of the one of the following is correct
speed of the passenger train to that of the [CDS 2018(II)]
goods train (assume that the trains run at (a) A beats C by 250 m
uniform speed) (b) C beats A by 250 m
[CDS 2018(I)] (c) A beats C by 115.38 m
(a) 2:1 (b) 3:2 (d) C beats A by 115.38 m
(c) 4:3 (d) 1:1
56. A thief steals a car parked in a house and
51. A man can row at a speed of X kilometre per goes away with a speed of 40 km/h. The
hour in still water if in a stream which is theft was discovered after half an hour and
flowing at a speed of Y kilometre per hour it immediately the owner sets off in another
takes him z hours to row to a place and back car with a speed of 60km/h. When will the
then what is the distance between the two owner meet the thief?
places ? [CDS 2018(II)]
[CDS 2018(I)] (a)55 km from the owner's house and one
hour after the theft
z( x  y )
2 2
z( x  y )
2 2
(b)60 km from the owner's house and 1.5 h
(a) (b)
2y 2x after the theft
(c)60 km from the owner's house and 1.5 h
after the discovery of of the theft

(d)55 km from the owner's house and 1.5 h 62. The ratio of speeds of X and Y is 5:6. If Y
after the theft allows X a start of 70 m in a 1.2 km race,
then who will win the race and by what
57. Three cars A, B and C started from a point distance ?
at 5 pm, 6 pm and 7 pm, respectively [CDS 2020(I)]
uniform speeds of 60 km/h, 80 km/h and x (a) X wins the race by 30 m
km/h, respectively in the same direction. If (b) Y wins the race by 90 m
all the three travelled at and meet at another (c) Y wins the race by 130 m
point at the same instant during their (d) The race finishes in a dead heat
journey, then what is the value of x?
[CDS 2019(I)] 63. A train takes two hours less for at journey of
(a) 120 (b) 110 300 km if its speed, is increased by 5 km/hr
(c) 105 (d) 100 from its usual speed. What is its usual
speed?
58. Radha and Hema are neighbours and study [CDS 2020(I)]
in the same school. Both of them use (a) 50 km/hr (b) 40 km/hr
bicycles to go to the school. Radha's speed is (c) 35 km/hr (d) 25 km/hr
8 km/h whereas Hema's speed is 10 km/h.
Hema takes 9 min less than Radha to reach 64. In covering certain distance, the average
the school. How far is the school from the speeds of X and Y are in the ratio 4:5. If X
locality of Radha and Hema? takes 45 minutes more than Y to reach the
[CDS 2019(I)] destination, then what is the time taken by
(a) 5 km (b) 5.5 km Y to reach the destination?
(c) 6 km (d) 6.5 km [CDS 2020(I)]
(a) 135 minutes (b) 150 minutes
59. A plane is going in circles around an airport. (c) 180 minutes (d) 225 minutes
The plane takes 3 min to complete one
round. The angle of elevation of the plane 65. A train of length 110 m is moving at a
from a point P on the ground at time t is uniform speed of 132 km/hr. the time
equal to that at time (t +30) s. At time (t+x) required to cross a bridge of length 165m is
s, the plane flies vertically above the point P. [CDS 2020(II)]
What is x equal to? (a) 6.5 sec (b) 7 sec
[CDS 2019(I)] (c) 7.5 sec (d) 8.5 sec
(a) 75s (b) 90 s
(c) 105 s (d) 135 s 66. By increasing the speed of his car by 15
km/hr, a person cover a distance of 300 km
60. A race has three parts. The speed and time by taking an hour less than before. What
required to complete the individual parts for was the original speed of car?
a runner is displayed on the following chart [CDS 2020(II)]
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 speed (a) 45 km/hr (b) 50 km/hr
9 8 7.5 (km/h) time (c) 60 km/hr (d) 75 km/hr
50 80 100 (min)
What is the average speed of this runner 67. X, Y and Z travel from the same place with
[CDS 2019(I)] uniform speeds 4km/hr, 5km/hr and 6
(a) 8.17 km/h (b) 8 km/h km/hr respectively. Y starts 2 hours after X.
(c) 7.80 km/h (d) 7.77 km/h How long after Y must Z start in order that
they overtake X at the same instant?
61. It takes 11 h for a 600 km journey if 120 km [CDS 2020(II)]
is done by train and the rest by car. It takes (a) 3/2 hours (b) 4/3 hours
40 min more if 200 km are covered by train (c) 9/8 hours (d) 11/8 hours
and the rest by car. What is the ratio of
speed of the car to that of the train? 68. A car did a journey in t hours, Had the
[CDS 2019(II)] average speed been x kmph greater, the
(a) 3:2 (b) 2:3 journey would have taken y hours less. How
(c) 3:4 (d) 4:3 long was the journey?
[CDS 2020(II)]

(a) x(t-y)ty (b) x(t-y)ty–1 16km/her. How long does the faster train,
(c) x(t-y)ty–2 (d) x(t+y)ty take to cover the journey?
[CDS 2022(I)]
69. When a ball is allowed to fall, the time it (a) 3 hours (b) 4 hours
takes to fall any distance varies as the (c) 5 hours (d) 6 hours
square root of the distance and it takes 4
seconds to fall 78.40 m. How long would it 76. A car travels from A to B at a speed of 40
take to fall 122.50? km /hr. travels back from B to A at a speed
[CDS 2020(II)] of 30km/hr and again goes from A to B at a
(a) 5 sec (b) 5.5 sec speed of 60 km/hr. What is the average
(c) 6 sec (d) 6.5 sec speed of the car?
[CDS 2022(I)]
70. A train 200 m long passes a platform 100 m 130
long in 10 seconds. What is the speed of (a) km/hr (b) 42 km/hr
3
train ?
125
[CDS 2021(I)] (c) 40km/hr (d) km/hr
(a) 40 m/s (b) 30 m/s 3
(c) 25 m/s (d) 20 m/s
77. A man walks at an average speed of 3km/her
71. A train travels 600 km in 5 hours and the from his residence and reaches office 40
next 900 km in 10 hours. What is the minues early. If he walks at an average speed
average speed of the train? of 2 km/hr, he reaches 40 minutes late. What
[CDS 2021(I)] is the distance between his residence and
(a) 80 km/hr (b) 90 km/hr office?
(c) 100 km/hr (d) 120 km/hr [CDS 2022(I)]
(a) 6km (b) 8km
72. Walking at 4/5 of his usual speed, a man is (c) 10km (d) 12km
12 minute late for his office. What is the
usual time taken by him to cover the that 78. A car takes p minutes to travel a distance of
distance? 350km with an average speed of u km/hr.
[CDS 2021(I)] Another can takes q minutes to travel the
(a) 48 min (b) 50 min same distance with an average speed of v
(c) 54 min (d) 60 min km/hr. If u – v = 5 and q – p = 140, then
what is the value of u?
73. A boat has speed 30km/hr in still water. It [CDS 2022(I)]
goes 60km downstream and comes back in (a) 35 (b) 30
9/2 hours. What is the speed of the stream? (c) 25 (d) 20
[CDS 2021(II)]
(a) 5km/hr (b) 8km/hr 79.In a flight of 2800 km, an aircraft was slowed
(c) 10km/hr (d) 12km/hr down due to bad weather. Its average speed
for the trip was reduced by 100 km/hr and
74. A person rode one-third of a journey at time of flight increased by 30 minutes. What
60km/hr, one third at 50km/hr and the rest was the original average speed of the aircraft?
at 40km/hr. Had the person ridden half of [CDS 2022 (II)]
the journey at 60km/hr and the rest at (a) 700km/hr (b) 750km/hr
40km/hr, he would have taken 4 minute (c) 800km/hr (d) 900km/hr
longer to complete the journey. What is the
person ride? 80. A person X starts from a place A and another
[CDS 2021(II)] person Y starts simultaneously from another
(a) 180 km (b) 210 km place B which is d km away from A. They
(c) 240 km (d) 300 km walk in the same direction. X walks at an
average speed of v km/hr. How far will X
75. A train X takes 2 hours less than a train Y to have walked before he overtakes Y?
cover a distance of 192 km between two [CDS 2022 (II)]
cities. Their average speed differ by

ud vd82. There are two station X and Y, 1320 km
(a) (b) apart. A train starts from station X at 6 a.m.
u  v  u  v 
and moves at an average speed of 60 km/hr.
(c)
ud  vd (d)
ud  vd
At 2 p.m. another train starts from Y towards
u  v u  vX and moves at an average speed of
80km/hr. When do they meet?
81. X takes 3 hours longer than Y to walk 30 km. [CDS 2022 (II)]
If X doubles his speed, he takes 2 hours less (a) 6p.m. (b) 7p.m.
than Y. What is the speed of Y? (c) 8p.m (d) 9p.m.
[CDS 2022 (II)]
(a) 3km/hr (b) 4km/hr
2 3
(c) 4 km/hr (d) 4 km/hr
7 7
ANSWER KEY
1. (d) 2. (c) 3. (d) 4. (b) 5. (c) 6. (b) 7. (c) 8. (b) 9. (b) 10. (b)
11. (d) 12. (b) 13. (a) 14. (c) 15. (a) 16. (b) 17. (a) 18. (c) 19. (a) 20. (a)
21. (b) 22. (c) 23. (b) 24. (d) 25. (a) 26. (b) 27. (a) 28. (b) 29. (d) 30. (d)
31. (c) 32. (c) 33. (a) 34. (c) 35. (b) 36. (c) 37. (d) 38. (a) 39. (c) 40. (b)
41. (d) 42. (b) 43. (c) 44. (b) 45. (b) 46. (b) 47. (d) 48. (a) 49. (c) 50. (a)
51. (b) 52. (c) 53. (b) 54. (d) 55. (c) 56. (b) 57. (a) 58. (c) 59. (c) 60. (b)
61. (a) 62. (c) 63. (d) 64. (c) 65. (c) 66. (c) 67. (b) 68. (b) 69. (b) 70. (b)
71. (c) 72. (a) 73. (c) 74. (c) 75. (b) 76. (c) 77. (b) 78. (b) 79. (c) 80. (a)
81. (c) 82. (c)

CAPF PYQ
1. A vehicle with milage 15 km per litre 3. A runner’s average speed reduces by 25%
contains 2 L of fuel. The vehicle gets some every hour. If he runs 16km in the first hour
defect as a result of which 5 L of fuel gets and he runs for 3 hours, then what is his
wasted per hour when the engine is on. With
overall average speed?
what minimum speed the vehicle has to
move to travel 20 km with the existing [CAPF 2022]
amount of fuel, if it travels with a uniform (a) 12km/hr (b) 12.33km/hr
speed ? (c) 10.33km/hr (d) 13km/hr
[CAPF 2016]
(a) 100 km per hour 4. A car travels
3
th of the distance at a speed
(b) 120 km per hour 4
1
(c) 150 km per hour of 60 km/hr and the remaining 𝑡ℎ of the
4
(d) 200 km per hour distance at a speed of v km/hr. If the
average speed for the full journey is
2. Two men set out at the time to walk towards
50km/hr, then the value of v is:
each other from points A and B, 72 km
[CAPF 2022]
apart. The first man walks at the speed of 4
(a) 40 (b) 30
kmph while the second walks 2 km in the
(c) 100/3 (d) 35
first hour, 2.5 km in second hour , 3 km in
the third hour and so on. The two men will
5. Two friends 10km apart start running
meet
towards each other at speeds of 10km/hr
[CAPF 2017]
and 14km/hr respectively. After how much
(a) in 8 hours
time will they meet each other?
(b) nearer to A then B
[CAPF 2022]
(c) nearer to B then A
(a) 20 minutes (b) 25 minutes
(d) midway between A and B
(c) 28 minutes (d) 30 minutes
ANSWER KEY
1. (c) 2. (d) 3. (b) 4. (c) 5. (b)

5 PERCENTAGE
PRACTICE SHEET 1
1. If 80% of A = 50% of B and B = x% of A, then (3) 24 days (4) 27days
the value of x is :
(1) 400 (2) 300 12. If 60% of A = 30% of B, B = 40% of C, C = x%
(3) 160 (4) 150 of A, then value of x is
(1) 200 (2) 500
2. If x is 80% of y, what percent of y is x ? (3) 800 (4) 300
(1) 75% (2) 80%
(3) 100% (4) 125% 13. In an office, 40% of the staff is female. 70% of
the female staff and 50% of the male staff are
3. If 8% of x is the same as 4% of y, then 20% married. The percentage of the unmarried
of x is the same as: staff in the office is
(1) 10% of y (2) 16% of y (1) 64 (2) 60
(3) 80% of y (4) 50% of y (3) 54 (4) 42
4. A student multiplied a number by 3/5 14. 50% of a number when added to 50 is equal
instead of 5/3. What is the percentage error to the number. The number is
in the calculation? (1) 50 (2) 75
(1) 44% (2) 34% (3) 100 (4) 150
(3) 54% (4) 64%
1
5. If p% of p is 36, then p is equal to : 15. 83 % of Rs. 90 is equal to 60% of ?
(1) 3600 (2) 600
3
(1) Rs. 123 (2) Rs. 124
(3) 60 (4) 15
(3) Rs. 122 (4) Rs. 125
6. 2 is what percent of 50?
(1) 2 (2) 2.5 16. 51% of a whole number is 714. 25% of that
number is
(3) 4 (4) 5
(1) 350 (2) 450
7. 2/3 is what percent of 1/3 ? (3) 550 (4) 250
1 17. What is to be added to 15% of 160 so that
(1) 50% (2) 33 %
3 the sum may be equal to 25% of 240
(3) 150% (4) 200% (1) 24 (2) 84
(3) 60 (4) 36
1
8. 0.15% of 33 % of 10000 is : 18. What per cent of a day is 30 minutes?
3 (1) 2.83 (2) 2.083
(1) 5 (2) 150
(3) 2.09 (4) 2.075
(3) 0.05 (4) 105
19. A basket contains 300 mangoes. 75 mangoes
9. 30% of x is 72. The value of x is: were distributed among some students. Find
(1) 216 (2) 240 the percentage of mangoes left in the basket.
(3) 480 (4) 640 (1) 70% (2) 72%
(3) 76% (4) 75%
10. If 15% of (A + B) = 25% of (A – B), then what
per cent of B is equal to A?
20. The weights of two iron balls are 3.5 kg and
(1) 10% (2) 60%
7.5 kg. What is the percentage weight of the
(3) 200% (4) 400% first ball with respect to second ball?
11. A supply of juice lasts for 35 days. If its use 2
(1) 46 % (2) 35%
is increased by 40% the number of days 3
would the same amount of juice lasts, is 1
(1) 25 days (2) 30 days (3) 46 % (4) 45%
3

21. If x is less than y by 25% then y exceed x by: (3) 20% (4) 25%
1
(1) 33 % (2) 25% 26. The difference of two numbers is 20% of the
3 larger number. If the smaller number is 20,
2 the larger number is :
(3) 75% (4) 66 %
3 (1) 25 (2) 45
(3) 50 (4) 80
22. If x is 10% more than y, then by what per
cent is y less than x ? 27. If a number x is 10% less than another
1 1 number y and y is 10% more than 125, then
(1) 9 % (2) 7 % x is equal to :
11 11 (1) 150 (2) 143
1 1 (3) 140.55 (4) 123.75
(3) 8 % (4) 10 %
11 11
1
28. Two numbers are respectively12 % and
23. If A’s height is 10% more than B’s height, by 2
how much per cent less is B’s height than 25% more than a third number. The first
that of A ? number as percentage of second number is
1 (1) 50 (2) 60
(1) 10% (2) 10 %
9 (3) 75 (4) 90
1 1
(3) 10 % (4) 9 % 29. Which number is 40% less than 90 ?
11 11 (1) 36 (2) 54
(3) 50 (4) 60
24. B got 20% marks less than A. What per cent
marks did A got more than B? 30. Two numbers are less than a third number
(1) 20% (2) 25% by 30% and 37% respectively. The per cent
(3) 12% (4) 80% by which the second number is less than the
first is
25. If x earns 25% more than y. What percent (1) 10% (2) 7%
less does y earn than x ? (3) 4% (4) 3%
(1) 16% (2) 10%
ANSWER KEY
1. (3) 2. (4) 3. (1) 4. (4) 5. (3) 6. (3) 7. (4) 8. (1) 9. (2) 10. (4)
11. (1) 12. (2) 13. (4) 14. (3) 15. (4) 16. (1) 17. (4) 18. (2) 19. (4) 20. (1)
21. (1) 22. (1) 23. (4) 24. (2) 25. (3) 26. (1) 27. (4) 28. (4) 29. (2) 30. (1)
PRACTICE SHEET 2
1
1. If the total monthly income of 16 persons is (3) 22 % (4) 20%
80,800 and the income of one of them is 2
120% of he average income, then his income
is 1
3. A man spends 12 % of his salary on items
(1) 5,050 (2) 6,060 2
(3) 6,160 (4) 6,600 of daily use and 30% of the remainder on
house rent. After that he is left with 2940.
2. Mita’s income is 25% more than that of Sita. How much is his salary?
What percent is Sita’s income less than that (1) 4800 (2) 5200
of Mita ? (3) 4500 (4) 4000
(1) 25% (2) 24%

4. The monthly income of a person was 13,500 12. Rama’s expenditures and savings are in the
and his monthly expenditure was 9,000. ratio 5 : 3. If her income increases by 12%
Next year his income increased by 14% and and expenditure by 15%, then by how much
his expenditure increased by 7%. The per per cent do her savings increase?
cent increase in his savings was (1) 12% (2)7%
(1) 7% (2) 21% (3) 8% (4)13%
(3) 28% (4) 35%
13. The ratio of two numbers is 4:5 when the
5. A worker suffers a 20% cut in his wages. He first is increased by 20% and the second is
may regain his original wages by obtaining a decreased by 20%, the ratio of the resulting
rise of numbers is
(1) 27.5% (2) 25.0% (1) 4 : 5 (2) 5 : 4
(3) 22.5% (4) 20.0% (3) 5 : 6 (4) 6 : 5
6. Given that 10% of A’s income = 15% of B’s 3

income = 20% of C’s income. If sum of their 14. If 60% of A = of B, then A : B is
income is 7800, then B’s income is: 4
(1) 3600 (2) 3000 (1) 9 : 20 (2) 20 : 9
(3) 2400 (4) 1800 (3) 4 : 5 (4) 5 : 4
7. If A’s income is 25% less than B’s income, by 15. If A exceeds B by 60% and B is less than C
how much percent is B’s income more than by 20%, then A : C is
that of A ? (1) 32 : 25 (2) 25 : 32
(1) 25% (2) 30% (3) 8 : 5 (4) 4 : 5
1 2 16. If 30% of (B – A) = 18% of (B + A), then the
(3) 33 % (4) 66 %
3 3 ratio A : B is equal to
(1) 4 : 1 (2) 1 : 4
8. A’s salary is 50% more than that of B. How (3) 5 : 4 (4) 5 : 9
much per cent is B’s salary less than that of
A? 17. If 60% of A = 30% of B, B = 40% of C, C = x%
1 of A, then value of x is
(1) 50% (2) 33 % (1) 200 (2) 500
3 (3) 800 (4) 300
2
(3) 45% (4) 66 %
3 18. In an office, 40% of the staff is female. 70%
of the female staff and 50% of the male staff
9. Tulsiram’s salary is 20% more than that of are married. The percentage of the
Kashyap. If Tulsiram saves 720 which is 4% unmarried staff in the office is
of his salary, then Kashyap’s salary is (1) 64 (2) 60
(1) 15,000 (2) 12,000 (3) 54 (4) 42
(3) 10,000 (4) 22,000
19. 50% of a number when added to 50 is equal
10. A’s salary is 40% of B’s salary and B’s salary to the number. The number is
is 25% of C’s salary. What percentage of C’s (1) 50 (2) 75
salary is A’s salary? (3) 100 (4) 150
(1) 5% (2) 10%
(3) 15% (4) 20% 1
20. 83 % of Rs. 90 is equal to 60% of ?
3
11. The price of sugar is increased by 20%. If (1) Rs. 123 (2) Rs. 124
the expenditure on sugar has to be kept the (3) Rs. 122 (4) Rs. 125
same as earlier, the ratio between the
reduction in consumption and the original 21. 51% of a whole number is 714. 25% of that
consumption is number is
(1) 1 : 3 (2) 1 : 4 (1) 350 (2) 450
(3) 1 : 6 (4) 1 : 5 (3) 550 (4) 250

22. In a marriage party 32% are women, 54% 26. If A earns 25% more than B then how much
are men and there are 196 children. How percent does B earns less than A :
many men are there in the marriage party? (1) 15% (2) 20%
(1) 756 (2) 448 (3) 25% (4) 30%
(3) 332 (4) 324
27. What per cent of 1 day is 36 minutes?
23. What per cent of a day is 30 minutes? (1) 25% (2) 2.5%
(1) 2.83 (2) 2.083 (3) 3.6% (4) 0.25%
(3) 2.09 (4) 2.075
28. One number is 25% of another number. The
24. A basket contains 300 mangoes. 75 larger number is 12 more than the smaller.
mangoes were distributed among some The larger number is
students. Find the percentage of mangoes (1) 48 (2) 16
left in the basket. (3) 4 (4) 12
(1) 70% (2) 72%
(3) 76% (4) 75% 29. The number of students in a class is
increased by 20% and the number now
25. The weights of two iron balls are 3.5 kg and becomes 66. Initially the number was
7.5 kg. What is the percentage weight of the (1) 45 (2) 50
first ball with respect to second ball? (3) 55 (4) 60
2
(1) 46 % (2) 35% 30. In a school there are 1500 students, 44% of
3 them are girls. Monthly fee of each boy is Rs.
1 540 and the fee of each girl is 25% less than
(3) 46 % (4) 45%
3 that of a boy. The sum of fees of boys and
girls both is
(1) Rs. 720600 (2) Rs. 720800
(3) Rs. 720900 (4) Rs. 721000
ANSWER KEY
1. (2) 2. (4) 3. (1) 4. (3) 5. (2) 6. (3) 7. (3) 8. (2) 9. (1) 10. (2)
11. (3) 12. (2) 13. (4) 14. (4) 15. (1) 16. (2) 17. (2) 18. (4) 19. (3) 20. (4)
21. (1) 22. (1) 23. (2) 24. (4) 25. (1) 26. (2) 27. (2) 28. (2) 29. (3) 30. (3)
PRACTICE SHEET 3
1. Salary of a person is first increased by 20%, (1) 10% increase (2) 2% decrease
then it is decreased by 20%. Percentage (3) 1% decrease (4) 11% increase
change in his salary is :
(1) 4% decreased (2) 4% increased 4. The price of an article was decreased by 10%
(3) 8% decreased (4) 20% increased and again reduced by 10%. By what per cent
should the price have been reduced once, in
2. A number is increased by 20% and then it is order to produce the same effect as these
decreased by 10%. Find the net increase or two successive reductions?
decrease per cent. (1) 15% (2) 19%
(1) 10% increase (2) 10% decrease (3) 20% (4) 25%
(3) 8% increase (4) 8% decrease
5. If price of a book is first decreased by 25%
3. The tax imposed on an article is decreased and then increased by 20%, the net change
by 10% and its consumption increases by in the price of the book will be
10%. Find the percentage change in revenue (1) 10% decrease (2) 5% decrease
from it. (3) no change (4) 5% increase

6. The price of an article is reduced by 25% but 15. What will be the percentage increase in the
the daily sale of the article is increased by area of a square when each of the its sides is
30%. The net effect on the daily sale receipts increased by 10%?
is (1) 20 (2) 11
(1) 2.5% increase (2) 2.5% decrease (3) 121 (4) 21
(3) 2 % increase (4) 2% decrease
16. If the radius of a cylinder is decreased by
7. Two successive price increases of 10% and 50% and the height is increased by 50% to
10% of an article are equivalent to a single form a new cylinder, the volume will be
price increase of decreased by
(1) 19% (2) 20% (1) 0% (2) 25%
(3) 21% (4) 22% (3) 62.5% (4) 75%
8. The price of an article was first increased by 17. Each of the height and base-radius of a cone
10% and then again by 20%. If the last is increased by 100%. The percentage
increased price be 33, the original price was increase in the volume of the cone is
(1) 30 (2) 27.50 (1) 700% (2) 400%
(3) 26.50 (4) 25 (3) 300% (4) 100%
9. If a number is increased by 20% and the 18. If both the radius and height of a right
resulting number is again increased by 20%, circular cone are increased by 20%, its
what per cent is the total increase ? volume will be increased by
(1) 48% (2) 44% (1) 20% (2) 40%
(3) 41% (4) 40% (3) 60% (4) 72.8%
10. A number is increased by 10% and then it is 19. If the height of a right circular cone is
decreased by 10%. The net change in the increased by 200% and the radius of the
number is base is reduced by 50%, the volume of the
(1) no increase or decrease cone
(2) 2% decrease (1) increases by 25% (2) increases by 50%
(3) 1% increase (3) remains unaltered (4) decreases by 25%
(4) 1% decrease
20. If the height and the radius of the base of a
11. If radius of a circle is increased by 5%, then cone are each increased by 100%, then the
the increase in its area is volume of the cone becomes
(1) 10.25 % (2) 10 % (1) double that of the original
(3) 5.75 % (4) 5 % (2) three times that of the original
(3) six times that of the original
12. The percentage increase in the area of a (4) eight times that of the original
rectangle, if each of its sides is increased by
20% is equal to 21. A sample of 50 litres of glycerine is found to
(1) 32% (2) 34% be adulterated to the extent of 20%. How
(3) 42% (4) 44% much pure glycerine should be added to it
so as to bring down the percentage of
13. If the radius of a circle is decreased by 10%, impurity to 5% ?
then the area of the circle is decreased by (1) 155 litres (2) 150 litres
(1) 89% (2) 18% (3) 150.4 litres (4) 149 litres
(3) 19% (4) 25%
22. 1 litre of water is added to 5 litres of alcohol-
14. If the area of a square is increased by 44%, water solution containing 40% alcohol
retaining its shape as a square, each of its strength. The strength of alcohol in the new
sides increases by : solution will be
(1) 19% (2) 21% (1) 30% (2) 33%
(3) 22% (4) 20% (3) 33.66% (4) 33.33%
23. If 4 litres of water is evaporated on boiling

from 12 litres of salt solution containing 7

percentage salt, the percentage of salt in the 75% of the ore, there is no iron. To obtain 60
remaining solution is kg of pure iron, the quantity of the ore
(1) 10.5% (2) 11.5% needed (in kgs) is approximately
(3) 12% (4) 13% (1) 250.57 (2) 266.67
(3) 275.23 (4) 300
24. A vessel has 60 litres of solution of acid and
water having 80% acid. How much water be 28. How much water must be added to 100 ml
added to make it a solution in which acid of 80 per cent solution of boric acid to
forms 60% ? reduce it to a 50 per cent solution?
(1) 48 litres (2) 20 litres (1) 30 ml (2) 40 ml
(3) 36 litres (4) None of these (3) 50 ml (4) 60 ml
25. 75 gm of sugar solution has 30% sugar in it. 29. In one litre of a mixture of alcohol and
Then the quantity of sugar that should be water, water is 30%. The amount of alcohol
added to the solution to make the quantity that must be added to the mixture so that
of the sugar 70% in the solution, is the part of water in the mixture becomes
(1) 125 gm (2) 100 gm 15% is :
(3) 120 gm (4) 130 gm (1) 1000 ml (2) 700 ml
(3) 300 ml (4) 900 ml
26. A litre of pure alcohol is added to 6 litres of
30% alcohol solution. The percentage of 30. One type of liquid contains 20% water and
water in the solution is the second type of liquid contains 35% of
(1) 50% (2) 65% water. A glass is filled with 10 parts of first
(3) 60% (4) 40% liquid and 4 parts of second liquid. The
water in the new mixture in the glass is
27. An ore contains 25% of an alloy that has (1) 37% (2) 46%
90% iron. Other than this, in the remaining (3) 12.14% (4) 24.28%
ANSWER KEY
1. (1) 2. (3) 3. (3) 4. (2) 5. (1) 6. (2) 7. (1) 8. (4) 9. (2) 10. (4)
11. (1) 12. (4) 13. (3) 14. (4) 15. (4) 16. (3) 17. (1) 18. (4) 19. (4) 20. (4)
21. (2) 22. (4) 23. (1) 24. (2) 25. (2) 26. (3) 27. (2) 28. (4) 29. (1) 30. (4)
PRACTICE SHEET 4
1. The present population of a city is 180000. If (1) 70000 (2) 69200
it increases at the rate of 10% per annum, (3) 68921 (4) 68911
its population after 2 years will be:
(1) 207800 (2) 227800 4. The value of a property depreciates every
(3) 217800 (4) 237800 year by 10% of its value at the beginning of
the year. The present value of the property is
2. The value of an equipment depreciates by 8100. What was its value 2 years ago?
20% each year. How much less will the value (1) 10,000 (2) 9000
of the equipment be after 3 years ? (3) 9500 (4) 9801
(1) 48.8% (2) 51.2%
(3) 54% (4) 60% 5. The population of a town 2 years ago was
62,500. Due to migration to big cities, it
3. A district has 64000 inhabitants. If the decreases every year at the rate of 4%. The
population increases at the rate of 2.5% per present population of the town is:
annum, the number of inhabitants at the (1) 57,600 (2) 56,700
end of 3 years will be (3) 76,000 (4) 75,000

6. The population of a town increases every (3) 42,000 (4) 46,000
year by 4%. If its present population is
50,000, then after 2 years it will be 14. In an office 40% of the staff is female, 40% of
(1) 53,900 (2) 54,000 the females and 60% of the males voted for
(3) 54,080 (4) 54,900 me. The percentage of votes I got was
(1) 24% (2) 42%
7. A man received 8,80,000 as his annual (3) 50% (4) 52%
salary of the year 2007 which was 10% more
than his annual salary in 2006. His annual 15. In an election there were only two
salary in the year 2006 was candidates. One of the candidates secured
(1) 4,80,000 (2) 8,00,000 40% of votes and is defeated by the other
(3) 4,00,000 (4) 8,40,000 candidate by 298 votes. The total number of
votes polled is
8. Present population of a village is 67600. It (1) 745 (2) 1460
has been increasing annually at the rate of (3) 1490 (4) 1500
4%. What was the population of the village
two years ago? 16. In an assembly election, a candidate got
(1) 62500 (2)63000 55% of the total valid votes. 2% of the total
(3) 64756 (4)65200 votes were declared invalid. If the total
number of voters is 104000, then the
9. The value of a machine depreciates by 5% number of valid votes polled in favour of the
every year. If its present value is 2,00,000, candidate is:
its value after 2 years will be (1) 56506 (2) 56650
(1) 1,80,500 (2) 1,99,000 (3) 56560 (4) 56056
(3) 1,80,000 (4) 2,10,000
17. Two candidates contested in an election.
10. The value of a property decreases every year One got 60% of the votes and won by 1600
at the rate of 5%. If its present value is votes. What is the number of votes polled?
4,11,540, what was its value 3 years ago ? (1) 9000 (2) 8000
(1) 4,50,000 (2) 4,60,000 (3) 10000 (4) 7500
(3) 4,75,000 (4) 4,80,000
18. In an election, three candidates contested.
11. 8% of the voters in an election did not cast The first candidate got 40% votes and the
second got 36% votes. If total number of
their votes. In this election, there were only
votes polled were 36000, find the number of
two candidates. The winner by obtaining votes got by the 3rd candidate.
48% of the total votes defeated his (1) 8040 (2) 8640
contestant by 1100 votes. The total number (3) 9360 (4) 9640
of voters in the election was:
(1) 21000 (2) 23500 19. Two persons contested an election of
(3) 22000 (4) 27500 Parliament. The winning candidate secured
57% of the total votes polled and won by a
12. In an election between two candidates, 75% majority of 42,000 votes. The number of
of the voters cast their votes, out of which total votes polled is
2% votes were declared invalid. A candidate (1) 5,00,000 (2) 6,00,000
got 9261 votes which were 75% of the valid (3) 3,00,000 (4) 4,00,000
votes. The total number of voters enrolled in
that election was 20. In an election, a candidate who gets 84 % of
(1) 16000 (2) 16400 the votes is elected by a majority of 476
(3) 16800 (4) 18000 votes. What is the total number of votes
polled?
13. In an election between two candidates, the (1) 900 (2) 810
candidate getting 60% of the votes polled, is (3) 600 (4) 700
elected by a majority of 14,000 votes. The
number of votes polled by the winning 21. In an examination 34% failed in
candidate is Mathematics and 42% failed in English. If
(1) 28,000 (2) 32,000 20% failed in both the subjects, the

percentage of students who passed in both examination. Respectively, 75% and 60% of
subjects was them passed. The average rate of pass is
(1) 54% (2) 50% (1) 68.57 % (2) 78%
(3) 44% (4) 56% (3) 80.5 % (4) 80%
22. A candidate secured 30% marks in an 27. A student has to secure minimum 35%
examination and failed by 6 marks. Another marks to pass in an examination. If he gets
secured 40% marks and got 6 marks more 200 marks and fails by 10 marks, then the
than the bare minimum to pass. The maximum marks are
maximum marks are (1) 300 (2) 400
(1) 150 (2) 120 (3) 500 (4) 600
(3) 100 (4) 180
28. A candidate who scores 30 per cent fails by
23. In an examination, 52% students failed in 5 marks, while another candidate who
Hindi and 42% in English. If 17% failed in scores 40 per cent marks gets 10 more than
both the subjects, what percentage of minimum pass marks. The minimum marks
students passed in both the subjects? required to pass are
(1) 38% (2) 33% (1) 50 (2) 70
(3) 23% (4) 18% (3) 100 (4) 150
24. In a group of students, 70% can speak 29. In an examination, 60% of the candidates
English and 65% can speak Hindi. If 27% of passed in English and 70% of the candidates
the students can speak none of the two passed in Mathematics, but 20% failed in
languages, then what per cent of the group both of these subjects. If 2500 candidates
can speak both the languages? passed in both the subjects, the number of
(1) 38% (2) 62% candidates who appeared at the examination
(3) 28% (4) 23% was
(1) 3000 (2) 3500
25. 25% of the candidates who appeared in an (3) 4000 (4) 5000
examination failed to qualify and only 450
candidates qualified. The number of 30. In a test a student got 30% marks and failed
candidates, who appeared in the by 25 marks. In the same test another
examination, was student got 40% marks and secured 25
(1) 700 (2) 600 marks more than the essential minimum
(3) 550 (4) 500 pass marks. The maximum marks for the
test were
26. In two successive years 100 and 75 students (1) 400 (2) 480
of a school appeared at the final (3) 500 (4) 580
ANSWER KEY
1. (3) 2. (1) 3. (3) 4. (1) 5. (1) 6. (3) 7. (2) 8. (1) 9. (1) 10. (4)
11. (4) 12. (3) 13. (3) 14. (4) 15. (3) 16. (4) 17. (2) 18. (2) 19. (3) 20. (4)
21. (3) 22. (2) 23. (3) 24. (2) 25. (2) 26. (1) 27. (4) 28. (1) 29. (4) 30. (3)

PRACTICE SHEET 5
1. Price of sugar rises by 20%. By how much 2 20
percent should the consumption of sugar be (3) 16 % (4) 10 %
reduced so that the expenditure does not
3 23
change?
7. If the price of a commodity is increased by
(1) 20% (2) 10%
50%, by what fraction must its consumption
2 be reduced so as to keep the same
(3) 16 % (4) 15%
3 expenditure on its consumption?
(1) 1/4 (2) 1/3
2. If food prices go up by 10%, by how much (3) 1/2 (4) 2/3
should a man reduce his consumption so as
not to increase his expenditure? 8. If the price of rice be raised by 25%, the
1 percent by which a house-holder must
(1) 9 % reduce his consumption of rice so as not to
11 increase his expenditure on rice is
(2) 10% (1) 225% (2) 25.75%
1 (3) 25% (4) 20%
(3) 11 %
9
(4) The data is not sufficient 9. If the duty on an article is reduced by 40%
of its present rate, by how much per cent
3. In the new budget, the price of kerosene oil must its consumption increase in order that
rose by 25%. By how much per cent must a the revenue remains unaltered
person reduce his consumption of kerosene 1
oil so that his expenditure on it does not (1) 60% (2) 62 %
3
increase?
(1) 20% (2) 25% 2
(3) 72% (4) 66 %
(3) 50% (4) 40% 3
4. If the price of tea is increased by 20%, by 10. Price of milk has increased by 20%. To keep
how much per cent the consumption of tea the expenditure unchanged, the present
be reduced so that there is no increase in consumption s to be reduced by :
the expenditure on it? (1) 20% (2) 18%
1 2
(1) 83 % (2) 20% (3) 10% (4) 16 %
3 3
2 1
(3) 16 % (4) 8 % 11. The Government reduced the price of sugar
3 3
by 10 per cent. By this a consumer can buy
5. If the price of a commodity is decreased by 6.2 kg more sugar for 837. The reduced
20% and its consumption is increased by price per kg of sugar is
20%, what will be the increase or decrease (1) 12.50 (2) 13.00
in the expenditure on the commodity? (3) 13.50 (4) 14.00
(3) 8% decrease (4) 8% increase 12. The price of sugar is reduced by 20%. Now a
person can buy 500g more sugar for 36. The
6. The price of a certain item is increased by original price of the sugar per kilogram was
15%. If a consumer wants to keep his (1) 14.40 (2) 18
expenditure on the item the same as before, (3) 15.60 (4) 16.50
how much per cent must he reduce his
consumption of that item? 13. A reduction of 10% in the price of sugar
enables a housewife to buy 6.2 kg more for
1 1116. The reduced price per kg is
(1) 15% (2) 13 %
23 (1) 12 (2) 14

(3) 16 (4) 18 (1) 5.50 (2) 7.50
(3) 10.50 (4) 7.00
14. When the price of sugar decreases by 10%, a
man could buy 1 kg more for 270. Then the 23. A reduction of 20% in the price of sugar
original price of sugar per kg is enables a purchaser to obtain 8 kg more for
(1) 25 (2) 30 Rs. 160. Then the price per kg before
(3) 27 (4) 32 reduction was
(1) Rs. 5 (2) Rs. 6
15. A reduction of 20% in the price of an apple (3) Rs. 10 (4) Rs. 4
enables a man to buy 10 apples more for 54.
The reduced price of apples per dozen is 24. The price of an item was increased by 10%.
(1) 4.32 (2) 12.96 This reduced the monthly total sales by
(3) 10.80 (4) 14.40 20%. The overall effect on the value of
monthly sales is a
16. Due to an increase of 50% in the price of (1) 10% increase (2) 10% decrease
eggs, 4 eggs less are available for 24. The (3) 12% increase (4) 12% decrease
present rate of eggs per dozen is :
(1) 24 (2) 27 25. The price of rice has increased by 60%. In
(3) 36 (4) 42 order to restore the original price, the new
price must be reduced by
17. A reduction of 20% in the price of wheat 1 1
enables Lalita to buy 5 kg more wheat for j (1) 33 % (2) 37 %
320. The original rate (in rupees per kg) of
3 2
wheat was (3) 40% (4) 45%
(1) 16 (2) 18
(3) 20 (4) 21 26. In a village, each of the 60% of families has a
cow; each of the 30% of families has a
18. Due to an increase of 20% in the price of buffalo and each of the 15% of families has
eggs, 2 eggs less are available for 24. The both a cow and buffalo. In all there are 96
present rate of eggs per dozen is : families in the village. How many families do
(1) 25.00 (2) 26.20 not have a cow or a buffalo?
(3) 27.80 (4) 28.80 (1) 20 (2) 24
(3) 26 (4) 28
19. A reduction of 25% in the price of rice
enables a person to buy 10 kg more rice for 27. A man invests a part of 10,000 at 5% and
Rs 600. The reduced per kg price of rice is the remainder at 6%. The 5% investment
(1) Rs 30 (2) Rs 25 yields annually 76.50 more than the 6%
(3) Rs 20 (4) Rs 15 investment. The amount invested at 6% is
(1) 3,600 (2) 3,550
20. A reduction in the price of apples enables a (3) 3,850 (4) 4,000
person to purchase 3 apples for 1 instead of
1.25. What is the % of reduction in price 28. For every set of 19 kites sold, a vendor gives
(approximately)? 1 kite extra, free of cost. In order to give a
(1) 20% (2) 25% discount of 10%, the number of extra kites
1 he should give in a sale of 27kites to the
(3) 30% (4) 33 % nearest integer is
3 (1) 3 (2) 6
(3) 7 (4) 8
21. A number, on subtracting 15 from it,
reduces to its 80%. What is 40% of the 29. A number is divided into two parts in such a
number? way that 80% of 1st part is 3 more than 60%
(1) 75 (2) 60 of 2nd part and 80% of 2nd part is 6 more
(3) 30 (4) 90 than 90% of the 1st part. Then the number
is
22. A reduction of 21% in the price of an item (1) 125 (2) 130
enables a person to buy 3 kg more for 100. (3) 135 (4) 145
The reduced price of item per kg is

30. A man invested 27,000 in 12.5% stock at (3) 15% (4) 8.5%
108, then his yield percentage is
31
(1) 18.75% (2) 11 %
54
ANSWER KEY
1. (3) 2. (1) 3. (1) 4. (3) 5. (2) 6. (2) 7. (2) 8. (4) 9. (4) 10. (4)
11. (3) 12. (2) 13. (4) 14. (2) 15. (2) 16. (3) 17. (1) 18. (4) 19. (4) 20. (1)
21. (3) 22. (4) 23. (1) 24. (4) 25. (2) 26. (2) 27. (3) 28. (1) 29. (3) 30. (2)
CDS PYQ
1. If 50% of (x − y) = 40% of (x + y) then what (c) 3 l (d) 4 l
percent of x is y ?
[CDS 2011 (I)] 2
1 1 6. Water contains 14 % of hydrogen and the
(a) 10 % (b) 11 % 7
9 9 rest is oxygen. In 350g of water, oxygen will
1 1 be
(c) 13 % (d) 21 % [CDS 2011 (I)]
9 9 (a) 300g (b) 250g
(c) 200g (d) None of these
2. A person spends 30% of monthly salary on
rent, 25% on food, 20% on children's 7.
To an examination, a candidate needs 40%
education and 12% on electricity and the
marks. All questions carry equal marks. A
balance of Rs 1040 on the remaining items.
candidate just passed by getting 10 answers
What is the monthly salary of the person?
correct by attempting 15 of the total
[CDS 2011 (I)] questions. How many questions are there in
(a) Rs 8000 (b) Rs 9000
the examination?
(c) Rs 9600 (d) Rs 10600 [CDS 2011 (I)]
(a) 25 (b) 30
3. If salary of X is 20% more than salary of Y,
(c) 40 (d) 45
then by how much percentage the salary of
Y less than X? 8. The income of 'A' is 20% higher than that of
[CDS 2011 (I)] 'B'. the income of 'B' is 25% less than of 'C'.
(a) 25 (b) 20 What percent less is A's income from C's
(c) 50/3 (d) 65/4
income?
[CDS 2011 (I)]
4. If the height of a cone is increased by 50% ,
(a) 7% (b) 8%
then what is the percentage increase in (c) 10% (d) 12.5%
volume?
[CDS 2011 (I)]
9. What is the number whose 20% is 30% of
100 40?
(a) % (b) 40%
3 [CDS 2011 (I)]
200 (a) 90 (b) 80
(c) 50% (d) % (c) 60 (d) 50
3
10. An employee is required to contribute 10% of
5. 38L of milk was poured into a tub and the his payment to general Provident fund. If he
tub was found to be 5% empty. To gets Rs.13500 as net pay in a month, then
completely fill the tub,what amount of what is the monthly General Provident fund
additional milk must be poured ? contribution (assuming no other
[CDS 2011 (I)] deductions)?
(a) 1 l (b) 2 l [CDS 2011 (II)]

(a) Rs 1215 (b) Rs 1350 (c) 40% (d) None of these
(c) Rs 1500 (d) Rs 1650
18. A person could save 10% of his income. But
11. A man loses 20% of his money. After 2 years later, when his income increased by
spending 25% of the remaining, he has Rs 20%, he could save the same amount only
480 left. What is the amount of money he as before. By how much percentage has his
originally had? expenditure increased?
[CDS 2012 (I)] [CDS 2015 (I)]
(a) Rs 600 (b) Rs 720 2 1
(c) Rs 800 (d) Rs 8400 (a) 22 % (b) 23 %
9 3
12. The radius of the base of a right circular 2 2
(c) 24 % (d) 25 %
cone is increased by 15% keeping the height 9 9
fixed. The volume of the cone will be
increased by 19. 20% of a number when added to 20 becomes
[CDS 2012 (II)] the number itself, then the number is
(a) 30% (b) 31% [CDS 2015 (II)]
(c) 32.25% (d) 34.75% (a) 20 (b) 25
(c) 50 (d) 80
13. The price of an article is Rs 25. After two
successive cuts by the same percentage, the 20. A's salary was increased by 40% and then
price becomes Rs 20.25. If each time the cut decreased by 20%. On the whole A's salary
was x% then is increased by
[CDS 2012 (II)] [CDS 2015 (II)]
(a) x = 9 (b) x = 10 (a) 60% (b) 40%
(c) x = 11 (d) x = 11.5 (c) 20% (d) 12%
14. What is 5% of 50% of 500? 21. In an election 10% of the voters on the voter
[CDS 2012 (II)] list did not cast their vote and 60 voters cast
(a) 12.5 (b) 25 their ballot papers blank. There were only
(c) 1.25 (d) 6.25 two candidates. The winner was supported
by 47% of total voters in the voter list and he
15. X,Y and Z had taken a dinner together. The got 308 voters more than his rival. The
cost of the meal of Z was 20% more than number of voters on the voter list is
that of Y and the cost of the meal of X was [CDS 2015 (II)]
5/6 as much as the cost of the meal of Z. If (a) 3600 (b) 6200
Y paid Rs 100, then what was the total (c) 6028 (d) 6400
amount that all the three of them had paid?
[CDS 2013 (II)] 22. The salary of a person is increased by 10%
(a) Rs 285 (b) Rs 300 of his original salary. But he received the
(c) Rs 355 (d) None of these same amount even after increment. What is
the percentage of his salary he did not
16. A person's salary has increased from Rs receive?
7200 to Rs 8100. What is percentage [CDS 2016 (I)]
increase in his salary? (a) 11% (b) 10%
[CDS 2013 (II)] (c) 100/11% (d) 90/11%
(a) 25% (b) 18%
2 23. The expenditure of a household for a certain
(c) 16 % (d) 12.5% month is Rs 20,000 out of which Rs 8000 is
3
spent on education, Rs 5900 on food , Rs
17. A water pipe is cut into two pieces. The 2800 on shopping and the rest on personal
longer piece is 70% of the length of the pipe. care. What percentage of expenditure is
By how much percentage is the longer piece spent on personal care?
[CDS 2016 (I)]
longer than the shorter piece.
(a) 12% (b) 16.5%
[CDS 2014 (I)]
(a) 140% (b) 400/3 % (c) 18% (d) 21.8%

24. A candidate scoring x% marks in an 3 5
examination fails by a marks, while another (c) 16 % (d) 10 %
candidate who scores y% marks gets b
5 7
marks more than the minimum required
30. If the price of wheat rises by 25%, then by
pass marks. What is the maximum marks
for the examination? how much percent must a man reduce his
consumption in order to keep his budget the
[CDS 2016 (II)]
same as before?
100(a  b) 100( a  b) [CDS 2018 (I)]
(a) (b)
x y x y (a) 15% (b) 20%
(c) 25% (d) 30%
100(a  b) 100( a  b)
(c) (d)
yx x y 31. A person bought two articles X and Y from a
departmental store. The sum of prices before
25. If a% of a + b% of b = 2% of ab, then what sales tax was Rs 130. There was no sales tax
percent of a is b ? on the article X and 9% sales tax on the
[CDS 2017 (I)] article Y. The total amount the person paid,
(a) 50% including the sales tax was Rs 136.75. What
(b) 75% was the price of the article Y before sales
(c) 100% tax?
(d)Cannot determined [CDS 2018 (II)]
5 th (a) Rs 75 (b) Rs 85
26. part of the population in a village are (c) Rs 122 (d) Rs 125
9
males. If 30% of the males are married, the 32. In the hostel the rent per room is increased
percentage of unmarried females in the total by 20% . If the number of rooms in the hostel
population is? is also increased by 20% and the hostel is
[CDS 2017 (I)] always full, then what is the percentage
2 2 change in the total collection at the cash
(a) 20 % (b) 27 % counter?
9 9
[CDS 2019 (I)]
7 2 (a) 30% (b) 40%
(c) 27 % (d) 29 %
9 9 (c) 44% (d) 48%
27. A fruit seller has a certain number of 33. x, y and z are three numbers such that x is
mangoes of which 5% are rotten. He sells 30% of z and y is 40% of z. If x is p% of y,
75% of the remainder and he is left with 95 then what is the value of p?
mangoes. How many mangoes did he have [CDS 2019 (I)]
originally? (a) 45 (b) 55
[CDS 2017 (II)] (c) 65 (d) 75
(a) 500 (b) 450
(c) 400 (d) 350 34. The train fare and bus fare between two
stations is in the ratio 3 : 4, If the train fare
28. A student has to secure 40% of marks to increases by 20% and bus fare increases by
pass an examination. he gets only 45 marks 30% , then what is the ratio between revised
and fails by 5 marks. The maximum marks train fare and revised bus fare ?
are [CDS 2019 (II)]
[CDS 2017 (II)] (a) 9/13 (b) 17/12
(a) 120 (b) 125 (c) 32/43 (d) 19/21
(c) 130 (d) 150
35. The length and breadth of a rectangle are
29. When prices rise by 12% , if the expenditure increased by 20% and 10% respectively.
is to be the same, what is the percentage of What is the percentage increase in the area
consumption to be reduced? of the rectangle?
[CDS 2017 (II)] [CDS 2019 (II)]
2 2 (a) 32% (b) 30%
(a) 16 % (b) 10 % (c) 25% (d) 15%
3 7

36. If the annual income of X is 20% more than (c) 1% decrease
that of Y, then the income of Y is less than (d) 10% decrease
that of X by p%. What is the value of p?
[CDS 2020 (I)] 39. X sales his goods 25% cheaper than Y and
2 25% dearer than Z, How much percentage is
(a) 10 (b) 16 Z's goods cheaper than Y?
3 [CDS 2021 (I)]
1 (a) 100/3% (b) 40%
(c) 17 (d) 20
3 (c) 50% (d) 200/3%
37. The price of an article X is increases by 20% 40. In a mixture of 80 litres of a liquid and
every year and price of article Y increases by water, 25% of the mixture is the liquid. How
10% every year. In the year 2010, the price much water should be added to the mixture
of article X was Rs 5000 and price of article so that the liquid becomes 20% of the
Y was Rs 2000. In which year the difference mixture?
in their prices exceeded Rs 5000 for the first [CDS 2021 (I)]
time? (a) 15 litres (b) 20 litres
[CDS 2020 (I)] (c) 24 litres (d) 25 litres
(a) 2012 (b) 2013
(c) 2014 (d) 2015 41. If p varies directly as q and inversely as
square of r, what is the percentage increase
38. The length of a rectangle is increased by in p due to an increase in q by 20% and a
10% and breadth is decreased by 10%. Then decrease in r by 20%?
area of new rectangle is [CDS 2021 (II)]
[CDS 2020 (II)] (a) 87.5% (b) 85%
(a) no increase or decrease (c) 82.5% (d) 80%
(b) 1 % increase
ANSWER KEY
1. (b) 2. (a) 3. (c) 4. (c) 5. (b) 6. (a) 7. (a) 8. (c) 9. (c) 10. (c)
11. (c) 12. (c) 13. (b) 14. (a) 15. (d) 16. (d) 17. (b) 18. (a) 19. (b) 20. (d)
21. (b) 22. (c) 23. (b) 24. (c) 25. (c) 26. (c) 27. (c) 28. (b) 29. (d) 30. (b)
31. (a) 32. (c) 33. (d) 34. (a) 35. (a) 36. (b) 37. (b) 38. (c) 39. (b) 40. (b)
41. (a)

CAPF PYQ
1. How much water to be added to 75ml of (c) 3900 (d) 3328
alcohol so that the mixture contains 25% of
alcohol? 3. A tree is at present 9 feet tall, every year it
[CAPF 2021] th
1
(a) 100ml (b) 225 ml grows of its height, will be the height of
(c) 250 ml (d) 125 ml 9
the tree three years?
2. If 35% of a number is 416 more than 27% of [CAPF 2021]
the same number, then the number is (a) 12 feet (b) 12.34 feet
[CAPF 2021] (c) 13 feet (d) 13.10 feet
(a) 5200 (b) 2600
ANSWER KEY
1. (b) 2. (a) 3. (b)

6 PROFIT AND LOSS
PRACTICE SHEET 1
1. A man buys a cycle for 1400 and sells it at a (3) 24% (4) 25%
loss of 15%. What is the selling price of the
cycle? 9. Krishnan bought a camera and paid 20%
(1) 1202 (2) 1190 less than its original price. He sold it at 40%
(3) 1160 (4) 1000 profit on the price he had paid. The
percentage of profit earned by Krishnan on
2. On selling an article for 651, there is a loss the original price was
of 7%. The cost price of that article is (1) 22% (2) 32%
(1) 744 (2) 751 (3) 12% (4) 15%
(3) 793 (4) 700
10. By selling a car for 64,000, Mr. Rao lost
3. A milkman bought 70 litres of milk for 630 20%. Then the cost price of the car is :
and added 5 litres of water. If he sells it at (1) 72,000 (2) 76,800
9.00 per litre, his profit percentage is (3) 80,000 (4) 84,000
1
(1) 8 % (2) 7% 11. By selling an article, a man makes a profit of
5 25% of its selling price. His profit per cent is
2 1 (1) 20% (2) 25%
(3) 8 % (4) 7 %
5 7 2 1
(3) 16 % (4) 33 %
3 3
4. In terms of percentage profit, which is the
best transaction? 12. If there is a profit of 20% on the cost price of
C.P. (in ) Profit (In ) an article, the percentage of profit calculated
(I) 36 17 on its selling price will be
(II) 50 24
(III) 40 19
2
(1) 24 (2) 16
(IV) 60 29 3
(1) I (2) II 1
(3) III (4) IV (3) 8 (4) 20
3
5. A man bought an old typewriter for 1200 13. A man purchased a bedsheet for Rs 450 and
and spent 200 on its repair. He sold it for sold it at a gain of 10% calculated on the
1680. His profit per cent is: selling price. The selling price of the
(1) 20% (2) 10% bedsheet was
(3) 8% (4) 16% (1) Rs 460 (2) Rs 475
(3) Rs 480 (4) Rs 500
6. If the cost price is 95% of the selling price,
what is the profit percent? 14. By selling an article for 960 a man incurs a
(1) 4% (2) 4.75% loss of 4%; what was the cost price?
(3) 5% (4) 5.26% (1) 1,000 (2) 784
(3) 498.4 (4) 300
7. A merchant buys an article for 27 and sells
it at a profit of 10% of the selling price. The 15. A salesman expects a gain of 13% on his
selling price of the article is : cost price. If in a month his sale was
(1) 29.70 (2) 30 7,91,000, what was his profit ?
(3) 37 (4) 32 (1) 85,659 (2) 88,300
(3) 91,000 (4) 97,786
8. If the cost price of an article is 80% of its
selling price, the profit per cent is : 16. A merchant purchases a wrist watch for 450
and fixes its listprice in such a way that
1 after allowing a discount of 10%, he earns a
(1) 20 % (2) 22 %
2

profit of 20%. Then the list price of the 23. A fruit merchant makes a profit of 25% by
watch is selling mangoes at a certain price. If he
(1) 650 (2) 700 charges Rs.1 more on each mango, he would
(3) 550 (4) 600 gain 50%. At first the price of one mango
was
17. The cost price of a radio is 600. The 5% of (1) Rs. 5 (2) Rs. 7
the cost price is charged towards (3) Rs. 4 (4) Rs. 6
transportation. After adding that, if the net
profit to be made is 15%, then the selling 24. There is 10% loss if an article is sold at Rs.
price of the radio must be 270. Then the cost price of the article is
(1) 704.50 (2) 724.50 (1) Rs. 300 (2) Rs. 270
(3) 664.50 (4) 684.50 (3) Rs. 320 (4) Rs. 250
18. If there is a profit of 20% on the cost price, 25. If bananas are bought at the rate of 4 for a
the percentage of profit on the sale price is rupee, how many must be sold for a rupee
2 1
(1) 16 % (2) 12 % so as to gain 33 %?
3 3
1 (1) 2.5 (2) 2
(3) 15 % (4) 16 % (3) 3 (4) 4
3
26. If the profit on selling an article for Rs. 425
19. Nisha bought a number of oranges at 2 for a is the same as the loss on selling it for Rs.
rupee and an equal number at 3 for a rupee. 355, then the cost price of the article is
To make a profit of 20% she should sell a (1) Rs. 410 (2) Rs. 380
dozen for (3) Rs. 400 (4) Rs. 390
(1) 6 (2) 8
(3) 10 (4) 12 27. The C.P of 10 artices is equal to the S.P. of
15 articles. What is the profit or loss
1 percentage?
20. If selling price of an article is 1 of cost (1) 25.5% (2) 35%
3
price, find gain %. (3) 10% (4) 33.3%
1 28. The selling price of 6 bananas is equal to the
(1) 25% (2) 33 %
3 cost price of 8 bananas. Then the percentage
2 of profit is:
(3) 1.33% (4) 66 % 1
3 (1) 20 (2) 33
3
21. A merchant loses 10% by selling an article. (3) 25 (4) 30
If the cost price of the article is 15, then the
selling price of the article is 29. By selling a bag at Rs. 230, profit of 15% is
(1) 13.20 (2) 16.50 made. The selling price of the bag, when it is
(3) 12.30 (4) 13.50 sold at 20% profit would be
(1) Rs. 250 (2) Rs. 205
22. Pooja wants to sell a watch at a profit of (3) Rs. 240 (4) Rs. 200
20%. She bought it at 10% less and sold it
at 30 less, but still she gained 20%. The cost 30. A man gains 20% by selling an article for a
price of watch is certain price. If he sells it at double the
(1) 240 (2) 220 price, the percentage of profit will be
(3) 250 (4) 225 (1) 40% (2) 100%
(3) 120% (4) 140%

ANSWER KEY
1. (2) 2. (4) 3. (4) 4. (4) 5. (1) 6. (4) 7. (2) 8. (4) 9. (3) 10. (3)
11. (4) 12. (2) 13. (4) 14. (1) 15. (3) 16. (4) 17. (2) 18. (1) 19. (1) 20. (2)
21. (4) 22. (3) 23. (1) 24. (1) 25. (3) 26. (4) 27. (4) 28. (2) 29. (3) 30. (4)
PRACTICE SHEET 2
1. The cost price of 36 books is equal to the 8. If the cost price of 12 oranges is equal to
selling price of 30 books. The gain per cent selling price of 10 oranges, then the
is : percentage of profit is
2 2
(1) 20% (2) 16 % (1) 16 % (2) 20%
3 3
1 (3) 18% (4) 25%
(3) 18% (4) 82 %
3 9. If the cost price of 10 articles is equal to the
selling price of 9 articles, the gain or loss per
2. The cost price of 15 articles is same as the cent is
selling price of 10 articles. The profit percent
is:
1 6
(1) 11 % profit (2) 7 % profit
(1) 30% (2) 40% 9 17
(3) 50% (4) 45% 1 12
(3) 11 % loss (4) 1 % loss
3. The selling price of 5 articles is the same as 9 13
the cost price of 3 articles. The gain or loss
percent is: 10. A man sells 320 mangoes at the cost price of
(1) 20% gain (2) 25% gain 400 mangoes. His gain percent is:
(3) 33.33% loss (4) 40% loss (1) 15% (2) 20%
(3) 25% (4) 10%
4. If the cost price of 15 tables be equal to the
selling price of 20 tables, the loss per cent is: 11. If the cost price of 12 pens is equal to the
(1) 20% (2) 30% selling price of 8 pens, the gain per cent is :
(3) 25% (4) 37.5% 1 2
(1) 33 % (2) 66 %
3 3
5. The cost price of 18 articles is equal to the (3) 25% (4) 50%
selling price of 15 articles. The gain per cent
is 12. The cost price of 8 articles is equal to the
(1) 15% (2) 20%
selling price of 9 articles. The profit or loss
(3) 25% (4) 18% per cent in the transaction is
6. A person sells 400 mangoes at the cost price 1 1
(1) 12 % loss (2) 12 % profit
of 320 mangoes. His percentage of loss is 2 2
(1) 10% (2)15% 1 1
(3) 20% (4)25% (3) 11 % loss (4) 11 % profit
9 9
7. If the cost price of 50 oranges is equal to the
selling price of 40 oranges, then the profit 13. A sold an article to B at 20% profit and B
per cent is sold to C at 15% loss. If A sold it to C at the
(1) 5% (2) 10% selling price of B, then A would make
(3) 20% (4) 25% (1) 5% profit (2) 2% profit

(3) 2% loss (4) 5% loss
14. If the cost price of 10 articles is equal to the 22. A shopkeeper buys 144 items at 90 paise
selling price of 7 articles, then the gain or each. On the way 20 items are broken. He
loss per cent is: sells the remainder at 1.20 each. His gain
6 per cent correct to one place of decimal is
(1) 51% gain (2) 42 % gain (1) 13.8% (2) 14.6%
7 (3) 14.8% (4) 15.8%
6
(3) 35 % loss (4) 42 % loss 23. If goods be purchased for 450 and one third
7
sold at a loss of 10%. At what gain percent
should the remainder be sold so as to gain
9 20% on the whole transaction?
15. Mahesh purchased a radio at of its
10 (1) 32% (2) 35%
selling price and sold it at 8% more than its (3) 28% (4) 30%
original selling price. His gain per cent is :
(1) 20 % (2) 18% 24. A shoe company sold 50 pairs of shoes on a
(3) 10 % (4) 8 % day costing 189.50 each for 10,000. Then
the profit obtained in is
16. A coconut merchant finds that the cost price (1) 522 (2) 525
of 2750 coconuts is the same as the selling (3) 573 (4) 612
price of 2500 coconuts. The loss or gain per
cent is 25. The cost price of 25 books is equal to the
(1) 5% loss (2) 15% loss selling price of 20 books. The profit per cent
(3) 20% gain (4) 10% gain is
(1) 20% (2) 22%
17. If the cost price of 10 articles is equal to the (3) 24% (4) 25%
selling price of 16 articles, then the loss per
cent is 26. If the selling price of 40 articles is equal to
(1) 30% (2) 37.5% the cost price of 50 articles, the loss or gain
(3) 42.5% (4) 45% per cent is
(1) 25% gain (2) 20% gain
18. If the selling price of 4 articles is equal to the (3) 25% loss (4) 20% loss
cost price of 5 articles, the profit percent is
1 27. If the cost price of 20 books is the same as
(1) 20% (2) 22 % selling price of 25 books, then the loss
2 percentage is
(3) 25% (4) 30% (1) 20 (2) 25
(3) 22 (4) 24
19. The selling price of 10 oranges is the cost
price of 13 oranges. Then the profit 28. By what fraction selling price (S.P.) must be
percentage is multiplied to get the cost price (C.P.) if the
(1) 30% (2) 10% loss is 20%?
(3) 13% (4) 3% (1) 4/5 (2) 8/5
(3) 5/4 (4) 6/5
20. If the selling price of 10 articles is equal to
the cost price of 11 articles, then the gain 29. A store sells a watch for a profit of 25% of its
percent is cost price. Then the percentage of profit
(1) 10% (2) 11% against selling price is:
(3) 15% (4) 25% (1) 22% (2) 20%
(3) 18% (4) 15%
21. A cloth merchant on selling 33 metres of
cloth obtains a profit equal to the selling 30. The per cent profit made when an article is
price of 11 metres of cloth. The profit sold for Rs. 78 is twice as much as when it
percent is is sold for Rs. 69. The cost price of the
(1) 40% (2) 22% article is
(3) 50% (4) 11% (1) Rs. 60 (2) Rs. 51

ANSWER KEY
1. (1) 2. (3) 3. (4) 4. (3) 5. (2) 6. (3) 7. (4) 8. (2) 9. (1) 10. (3)
11. (4) 12. (3) 13. (2) 14. (2) 15. (1) 16. (4) 17. (2) 18. (3) 19. (1) 20. (1)
21. (3) 22. (3) 23. (2) 24. (2) 25. (4) 26. (1) 27. (1) 28. (3) 29. (2) 30. (1)
(3) Rs. 55.50 (4) Rs. 70
PRACTICE SHEET 3
1. A table is sold at a profit of 13%. If it is sold (1) Rs. 500 (2) Rs. 600
for 25 more, profit is 18 %. Cost price of (3) Rs. 550 (4) Rs. 620
table is 8. A dealer sold a bicycle at a profit of 10%.
(1) 100 (2) 500 Had he bought the bicycle at 10% less price
(3) 200 (4) 1, 000 and sold it at a price Rs. 60 more, he would
have gained 25%. The cost price of the
2. A man sold his watch at a loss of 5%. Had bicycle was
he sold it for 56.25 more, he would have (1) Rs. 2400 (2) Rs. 2600
gained 10%. What is the cost price of the (3) Rs. 2000 (4) Rs. 2200
watch (in )?
(1) 370 (2) 365 9. If 3 articles are sold for the cost of 5 articles,
(3) 375 (4) 390 then the profit percentage is :
(1) 50 (2) 60
3. Kamala bought a bicycle for 1,650. She had 2
to sell it at a loss of 8%. She sold it for (3) 66 (4) 65
(1) 1, 581 (2) 1, 518 3
(3) 1, 510 (4) 1, 508
10. A sold a watch at a gain of 5% to B and B
4. A table is sold at Rs. 1,800 at a loss of 10%. sold it to C at a gain of 4%. If C paid Rs. 91
At what price should it be sold to earn a for it, the price paid by A is:
profit of 15%? (1) Rs. 83.33 (2) Rs. 84.33
(1) 2,070 (2) 1,890 (3) Rs. 83 (4) Rs. 82.81
(3) 2,000 (4) 2,300
11. Arun buys one kilogram of apples for Rs.
5. A manufacturer sells an item to a wholesale 120 and sells it to Swati gaining 25%. Swati
dealer at a profit of 18%. The wholesaler sells it to Divya who again sells it for Rs.
sells the same to a retailer at a profit of 20%. 198, making a profit of 10%. What is the
The retailer in turn sells it to a customer for profit percentage made by Swati?
15045 thereby earning a profit of 25%. The (1) 25% (2) 20%
cost price of the manufacturer is (3) 16.67% (4) 15%
(1) 8000 (2) 8500
(3) 9000 (4) 10000 12. A dealer sold an article at 6% loss. Had he
sold it for Rs. 64 more, he would have made
6. A man sold an article at a gain of 5%. Had a profit of 10%. Then the cost of the article is
he sold it for Rs. 240 more, he would have (1) Rs. 400 (2) Rs. 200
gained 8%. The cost price of the article is (3) Rs. 164 (4) Rs. 464
(1) Rs. 6,000 (2) Rs. 10,000
(3) Rs. 12,000 (4) Rs. 8,000 13. Profit after selling a commodity for 524 is
the same as loss after selling it for 452. The
7. A radio is sold at a profit of 20%. Had it been cost price of the commodity is
sold for Rs. 60 more the profit would have (1) 480 (2) 500
been 30%. The cost price of the radio is (3) 488 (4) 485

14. A clock was sold for 144. If the percentage of 22. On selling 17 balls at 720, there is a loss
profit was numerically equal to the cost equal to the cost price of 5 balls. The cost
price, the cost of the clock was price (in) of a ball is
(1) 72 (2) 80 (1) 45 (2) 50
(3) 90 (4) 100 (3) 55 (4) 60
15. By selling 144 hens Mahesh suffered a loss 23. A dishonest dealer professes to sell his goods
equal to the selling price of 6 hens. His loss at cost price but uses a weight of 875 gms
percent is for the kilogram weight. His gain in
(1) 4% (2) 3% percentage is a
1 5
(3) 9% (4) 4 % (1) 17% (2) 14 %
2 7
2
16. If the profit per cent got on selling an article (3) 14 % (4) 14%
is numerically equal to its cost price in 7
rupees and the selling price is 39, then cost
price (in) will be 24. A dishonest dealer professes to sell his goods
(1) 20 (2) 22 at cost price but uses a weight of 800 gms
(3) 28 (4) 30 for the kilogram weight. His gain in
percentage is a
17. By selling 1 dozen ball pens, a shopkeeper (1) 20% (2) 25%
earned the profit equal to the selling price of (3) 30% (4) 35%
4 ball pens. His profit per cent is
(1) 50% (2) 40% 25. A dishonest shopkeeper professes to sell
goods at his cost price but uses a false
1 1 weight of 50 gms, for each kilogram. His
(3) 33 % (4) 31 %
3 4 gain per cent is:
1 5
18. A merchant sold an article for 75 at a profit (1) 6 % (2) 5 %
percent equal to its cost price. The cost price 4 19
of the article was: 3 2
(1) 45 (2) 50 (3) 5 % (4) 6 %
17 7
(3) 54 (4) 60
26. A dishonest dealer defrauds to the extent of
19. If the profit on selling an article for 425 is
x % in buying as well as selling his goods by
the same as the loss on selling it for 355,
using faulty weight. What will be the gain
then the cost price of the article is per cent on his outlay?
(1) 370 (2) 380
(3) 390 (4) 400  10 
(1) 2x % (2)   x2  %
 x 
20. The loss incurred on selling 21 articles
equals the selling price of 3 articles. Then  x2 
(3)   x % (4) None of these
the loss per cent is
 100 
1
(1) 9 % (2) 10%
11 27. A shopkeeper sells rice at 10% profit and
1 1 uses weight 30% less than the actual
(3) 12 % (4) 11 % measure. His gain per cent is
2 9 2 1
(1) 57 % (2) 57 %
21. A man sold 250 chairs and had a gain equal 3 7
to selling price of 50 chairs. His profit per 2 3
cent is: (3) 57 % (4) 57 %
(1) 20% (2) 25%
5 7
(3) 50% (4) 15%
28. A shopkeeper sells rice at 9% loss and uses
weight 30% less than the actual measure.
His gain per cent is

(1) 30% (2) 25% 30. A shopkeeper promise to sell his goods at x%
(3) 20% (4) 15% profit but he uses 20% less weight thus gain
1
29. A shopkeeper sells rice at 10% profit and 37 . Find x per cent is?
uses weight 20% less than the actual 2
measure. His gain per cent is (1) 10% (2) 25%
(3) 20% (4) 15%
2 1
(1) 57 % (2) 37 %
3 2
3
(3) 25 % (4) 57 %
7
ANSWER KEY
1. (2) 2. (3) 3. (2) 4. (4) 5. (2) 6. (4) 7. (2) 8. (1) 9. (3) 10. (1)
11. (2) 12. (1) 13. (3) 14. (2) 15. (1) 16. (4) 17. (1) 18. (2) 19. (3) 20. (3)
21. (2) 22. (4) 23. (3) 24. (2) 25. (2) 26. (4) 27. (2) 28. (1) 29. (2) 30. (1)
PRACTICE SHEET 4
1. Applied to a bill for 1,00,000 the difference (2) increased by 5.3%
between a discount of 40% and two (3) decreased by 3%
successive discounts of 36% and 4% is : (4) decreased by 5.3%
(1) Nil (2) 1,440 6. A single discount equivalent to the
(3) 2,500 (4) 4,000 successive discounts of 10%, 20% and 25%
is
2. Successive discounts of 10% and 30% are (1) 55% (2) 45%
equivalent to a single discount of: (3) 46% (4) 60%
(1) 40% (2) 35%
(3) 38% (4) 37% 7. A shopkeeper gives two successive discounts
on an article marked 450. The first discount
3. The marked price of a watch was 720/-. A given is 10 per cent. If the customer pays
man bought the same for 550.80, after 344.25 for the article, the second discount
getting two successive discounts, the first at given is
10%. What was the second discount rate? (1) 14 per cent (2) 10 per cent
(1) 12% (2) 14% (3) 12 per cent (4) 15 per cent
(3) 15% (4) 18%
8. A company offers three types of successive
4. An item is marked for 240 for sale. If two discounts: (i) 25% and 15%, (ii) 30% and
successive discounts of 10% and 5% are 10%, (iii) 35% and 5%. Which offer is the
allowed on the sale price, the selling price of best for a customer?
the article will be (1) First offer
(1) 205.20 (2) 204 (2) Second offer
(3) 34.80 (4) 36 (3) Third offer
(4) Any one; all are equally good
5. The price of an article is raised by 30% and
then two successive discounts of 10% each 9. An article is listed at 900 and two successive
are allowed. Ultimately the price of the discounts of 8% and 8% are given on it. How
article is much would the seller gain or lose, if he
(1) increased by 10%

gives a single discount of 16%, instead of 1
two discounts? 12 % on the marked price, his gain percent
(1) Gain of 4.76 (2) Loss of 5.76 2
(3) Gain of 5.76 (4) Loss of 4.76 will be
(1) 4.5% (2) 5%
10. The marked price of a T.V. is 16,000. After (3) 7.5% (4) 8%
two successive discounts it is sold for 19. A seller marks his goods 30% above their
11,400. cost price but allows 15% discount for cash
If the first discount is 5%, then the rate of payment. His percentage of profit when sold
second discount is in cash is
(1) 15% (2) 20% (1) 10.5% (2) 15%
(3) 30% (4) 25% (3) 9% (4) 8.5%
11. The difference between successive discounts 20. A tradesman marks his goods at 25% above
of 40% followed by 30% and 45% followed by its cost price and allows purchasers a
20% on the marked price of an article is Rs. 1
12. The marked price of the article is: discount of 12 % for cash payment. The
2
(1) 800 (2) 400 profit, he thus makes, is
(3) 200 (4) 600
3 1
(1) 9 % (2) 9 %
12. Buy 4 Get 1 free is equivalent to a discount 8 2
of 1 3
(1) 15% (2) 20% (3) 8 % (4) 8 %
(3) 30% (4) 25% 2 8
13. Buy 7 Get 3 free is equivalent to a discount 21. What price should a shopkeeper mark on an
of article costing him 200 to gain 35% after
(1) 15% (2) 20% allowing a discount of 25%?
(3) 30% (4) 25% (1) 270 (2) 300
(3) 330 (4) 360
14. Buy 3 Get 1 free + 20% more discount is
equivalent to a discount of 22. A trader marks his goods 40% above cost
(1) 25% (2) 30% price and allows a discount of 25 %. The
(3) 35% (4) 40% profit he makes, is:
(1) 15% (2) 10 %
15. Buy 4 Get 1 free + 10% more discount is (3) 5 % (4) 2 %
equivalent to a discount of
(1) 22% (2) 24% 23. A dealer marks his goods 20% above their
(3) 26% (4) 28% cost price. He then allows some discount on
marked price so that he makes a profit of
16. A trader marked the selling price of an 10%. The rate of discount is
article at 10% above the cost price. At the 1 1
time of selling, he allows certain discount (1) 10 % (2) 9 %
and suffers a loss of 1%. He allowed the
3 3
discount of: 2 1
(3) 8 % (4) 8 %
(1) 11% (2) 10% 3 3
(3) 9% (4) 10.5%
24. In a shop, shirts are usually sold at 40%
17. A shopkeeper marks his goods at 30% above above the cost price. During a sale, the
the cost price but allows a discount of 10% shopkeeper offers a discount of 10% off the
at the time of sale. His gain is usual selling price. If he manages to sell 72
(1) 21% (2)20% shirts for 13,608, then his cost price per
(3) 18% (4)17% shirt, (in) is
(1) 210 (2) 150
18. A shopkeeper marks the price of an item (3) 149 (4) 125
keeping 20% profit. If he offers a discount of

25. If a shopkeeper marks the price of goods 28. A dozen pair of socks quoted at 80 are
50% more than their cost price and allows a available at a discount of 10%. How many
discount of 40%, what is his gain or loss pairs of socks can be bought for 24?
percent? (1) 4 (2) 5
(1) Gain of 10% (2) Loss of 10% (3) 3 (4) 6
(3) Gain of 20% (4) Loss of 20% 29. If an electricity bill is paid before due date,
one gets a reduction of 4% on the amount of
26. The marked price of a shirt and trousers are the bill. By paying the bill before due date a
in the ratio 1 : 2. The shopkeeper gives 40% person got a reduction of 13. The amount of
discount on the shirt. If the total discount his electricity bill was
on the set of the shirt and trousers is 30%, (1) 125 (2) 225
the discount offered on the trousers is (3) 325 (4) 425
(1) 15% (2) 20%
(3) 25% (4) 30% 30. A shopkeeper lists the price of an article as
500. But he gives a certain discount which
27. A retailer purchases a grinder at a discount allows the buyer to pay 500 for the article
of 15% and sells it for 1955 at a profit of including 10% sales tax. The rate of
15%. The amount of discount received by discount is
the retailer from the wholesaler was 1
(1) 270 (2) 290 (1) 10% (2) 10 %
(3) 300 (4) 330 11
1
(3) 9 % (4) 11%.
11
ANSWER KEY
1. (2) 2. (4) 3. (3) 4. (1) 5. (2) 6. (3) 7. (4) 8. (3) 9. (2) 10. (4)
11. (4) 12. (2) 13. (3) 14. (4) 15. (4) 16. (2) 17. (4) 18. (2) 19. (1) 20. (1)
21. (4) 22. (3) 23. (4) 24. (2) 25. (2) 26. (3) 27. (3) 28. (1) 29. (3) 30. (3)
PRACTICE SHEET 5
1. A person sells two machines at 396 each. On (3) Gain of 1,000 (4) Loss of 1,200
one he gains 10% and on the other he loses
10%. His profit or loss in the whole 4. A man had 100 kgs of sugar, part of which
transaction is : he sold at 7% profit and rest at 17% profit.
(1) no gain no loss (2) 1% loss He gained 10% on the whole. How much did
(3) 1% profit (4) 8% profit he sell at 7% profit?
(1) 65 kg (2) 35 kg
2. A dealer sold two types of goods for 10,000 (3) 30 kg (4) 70 kg
each. On one of them, he lost 20% and on
the other he gained 20%. His gain or loss per 5. A man bought two goats for 1008. He sold
cent in the entire transaction was one at a loss of 20% and other at a profit of
(1) 2% loss (2) 2% gain 44%. If each goat was sold for the same
(3) 4% gain (4) 4% loss price, the cost price of the goat which was
sold at loss, was:
3. A television and a refrigerator were sold for (1) 648 (2) 360
12,000 each. If the television was sold at a (3) 568 (4) 440
loss of 20% of the cost and the refrigerator
at a gain of 20% of the cost, the entire 6. Two bicycles were sold for 3990 each,
transaction resulted in gaining 5% on one and losing 5% on other.
(1) No loss or gain (2) Loss of 1,000

The gain or loss per cent on the whole (1) 1% loss (2) 1% profit
transaction is : (3) 2% loss (4) 2% profit
(1) neither gain nor loss
(2) 2.5% gain 13. A man buys 3 type-I cakes and 6 type-II
(3) 2.5% loss cakes for Rs. 900. He sells type-I cakes at a
(4) 0.25% loss profit of 15% and type-II cakes at a loss of
10%. If his overall profit is Rs.30, the cost
7. A man sold two watches for 240 each. On price (in Rs.) of a type-I and of a type-II
one he gains 20% and incurs a loss of 20% cakes is
on another. What is his gain or loss per cent (1) 100, 100 (2) 160, 70
in this transaction? (3) 180, 60 (4) 120, 90
(1) 1% profit (2) 2% loss
(3) 4% profit (4) 4% loss 14. A merchant buys 25 litres of milk daily at
the rate of Rs. 12 per litre. He mixes 5 litres
8. When the price of cloth was reduced by 25%, of water in it and sells at the rate Rs. 10.40
the quantity of cloth sold increased by 20%. per litre. His gain is :
What was the effect on gross receipt of the (1) 8% profit (2) 2% profit
shop? (3) 4% profit (4) 6% profit
(3) 10% increase (4) 10% decrease 15. A trader had 22 quintals of wheat. He sold a
part of it at 23% profit and the rest at 33%
9. A cloth merchant sold half of his cloth at profit, so that he made a total profit of 27%.
20% profit, half of the remaining cloth at How much wheat did he sell at 33% profit?
20% loss and the rest was sold at his cost (1) 1320 kg. (2) 440 kg.
price. In the total transaction, his gain or (3) 880 kg. (4) 1760 kg.
loss will be
(1) 5% profit 16. A milkman mixes water with milk and sells
(2) Neither loss nor gain the mixture at the cost price of pure milk.
(3) 5% loss The volume of water in litres to be mixed
(4) 10% profit with each litre of milk to get a 25% profit is
1
10. The total cost price of two watches is 840. (1)
One is sold at a profit of 16 per cent and the 4
other at a loss of 12 per cent. There is no 1
loss or gain in the whole transaction. The (2)
5
cost price of the watch on which the
shopkeeper gains, is 1
(3) 1
(1) 360 (2) 370 4
(3) 380 (4) 390 (4)cannot be calculated without knowing the
cost price of milk
11. A shopkeeper purchased 510 eggs at the
rate of Rs. 20 per dozen. 30 eggs were 17. The difference between the selling prices of
broken on the way. In order to make a gain an article at a profit of 15% and at a profit of
of 20%, he must sell the remaining eggs at 10% is 10. The cost price of the article is
the rate of (1) 100 (2) 120
(1) Rs. 22.50 per dozen (3) 150 (4) 200
(2) Rs. 25.50 per dozen
(3) Rs. 26 per dozen 18. The difference between the selling price and
(4) Rs. 26.50 per dozen cost price of an article is 210. If the profit
percent is 25, then the selling price of the
12. A sells a watch to B and makes a loss of article is
1 (1) 950 (2) 1,050
12%. B makes a profit of 12 % by selling (3) 1,150 (4) 1,250
2
the watch to C. If A sells the watch to B at 19. A sells a cycle to B at a profit of 10%, B sells
the cost of which C purchased it, then the to C at a profit of 20%. If C pays 264 for it,
percentage of loss or profit of A will be how much did A pay for it?

(1) 200 (2) 220 loss nor gain on selling the mixed sugar at
(3) 225 (4) 234 the rate of 16 per kg, is
(1) 2 : 1 (2) 1 : 2
20. A man purchased an article and sold it to B (3) 4 :1 (4) 1 : 4
at a profit of 25% and B sold it to C at a loss
of 10% and C paid 675 for it. For how much 26. The ratio in which the Darjeeling tea at 32
did A purchase it (in)? per kg is mixed with the Assam tea at 25 per
(1) 625 (2) 575 kg so as to gain 20% by selling the mixture
(3) 600 (4) 550 at 32.40 per kg is
21. A milkman makes 20% profit by selling milk (1) 4 : 3 (2) 3 : 4
mixed with water at 9 per litre. If the cost (3) 5 : 2 (4) 2 : 5
price of 1 litre pure milk is 10, then the ratio
of milk and water in the said mixture is 27. 7 kg of tea costing 280 per kg is mixed with
(1) 3 : 1 (2) 4 : 1 9 kg of tea costing 240 per kg. The average
(3) 3 : 2 (4) 4 : 3 price per kg of the mixed tea is
(1) 255.80 (2) 257.50
22. Nita blends two varieties of tea-one costing (3) 267.20 (4) 267.50
180 per kg and another costing 200 per kg
in the ratio 5 : 3. If she sells the blended 28. A shopkeeper bought 15kg of rice at the rate
variety at 210 per kg, then her gain percent of 29 per kg and 25kg of rice at the rate of
is 20 per kg. He sold the mixture of both types
(1) 10% (2) 11% of rice at the rate of 27 per kg. His profit in
(3) 12% (4) 13% this transaction is
(1) 125 (2) 150
23. In what ratio Darjeeling Tea costing 320 per (3) 140 (4) 145
kg be mixed with Assam Tea costing 250 per
kg so that there is a gain of 20% by selling 29. Costs of two watches were in the ratio of 16 :
the mixture at 324 per kg ? 23. The cost of first watch increases by 10%
(1) 1 : 2 (2) 2 : 3 and that of second by Rs. 477. Now the
(3) 3 : 2 (4) 2 : 5 costs of two watches are in a ratio of 11 : 20.
The price of the second watch (in Rs.) in the
24. The ratio, in which tea costing 192 per kg is beginning was
to be mixed with tea costing 150 per kg so (1) 932 (2) 1219
that the mixed tea, when sold for 194.40 per (3) 1696 (4) 848
kg, gives a profit of 20%, is
(1) 2 : 5 (2) 3 : 5 30. The liquids, X and Y are mixed in the ratio of
(3) 5 : 3 (4) 5 : 2 3 : 2 and the mixture is sold at Rs. 11 per
litre at a profit of 10%. If the liquid X costs
25. The ratio of the quantities of sugar, in which Rs. 2 more per litre than Y, the cost of X per
sugar costing 20 per kg. and 15 per kg. litre is (in Rs.) :
should be mixed so that there will be neither (1) 10.80 (2) 11.75
(3) 9.50 (4) 11
ANSWER KEY
1. (2) 2. (4) 3. (2) 4. (4) 5. (1) 6. (4) 7. (4) 8. (4) 9. (1) 10. (1)
11. (2) 12. (1) 13. (2) 14. (3) 15. (3) 16. (2) 17. (4) 18. (2) 19. (1) 20. (3)
21. (1) 22. (3) 23. (4) 24. (1) 25. (4) 26. (4) 27. (2) 28. (4) 29. (2) 30. (1)

CDS PYQ
1. A trader marks 10% higher than the cost 7. A man buys a television set which lists for
price. He gives a discount of 10% on the 5000 at 10% discount. He gets an additional
marked price. In this kind of sales how 2% discount (after the first discount) for
much percent does the trader gain or loss? paying cash. What does he actually pay for
[CDS 2011 I] the set?
(a) 5% gain (b) 2% gain [CDS 2012 II]
(c) 1% loss (d) 3% loss (a) Rs 4410 (b) Rs 4400
2. A fruit-seller buys lemons at 2 for a rupee (c) Rs 4000 (d) Rs 4500
and sells them at 5 for three rupees. What is
his gain per cent? 8. A merchant earns a profit of 20% by selling
[CDS 2011 II] a basket containing 80 apples which cost is
(a) 10% (b) 15% 240 but he gives one-fourth of it to his friend
(c) 20% (d) 25% at cost price and sells the remaining apples.
In order to earn the same profit, at what
3. A man sold two watches, each for Rs 495. If price must he sell each apple?
he gained 10% on one watch and suffered a [CDS 2012 II]
loss of 10% on the other, then what is the (a) Rs 3.00 (b) Rs 3.60
loss or gain percentage in the transaction? (c) Rs 3.80 (d) Rs 4.80
[CDS 2011 II]
(a) 1% gain (b) 1% loss 9. A cloth store is offering buy 3, get 1 free.
(c) 100/99% loss (d) No gain no loss What is the net percentage discount being
offered by the store?
4. A person sold an article for Rs 136 and got [CDS 2012 II]
15% loss. Had he sold it for Rs x, he would (a) 20% (b) 25%
have got a profit of 15%. Which one of the 1
following is correct? (c) 30% (d) 33 %
3
[CDS 2012 I]
10. Two lots of onions with equal quantity, one
(a) 190<x< 200 (b) 180 <x< 190
costing 10 per kg and the other costing Rs
(c) 170 <x< 180 (d) 160 <x< 170
15 per kg, are mixed together and whole lot
is sold at Rs 15 per kg. What is the profit or
5. The cost of two articles are in the ratio 3: 5.
loss?
If there is 30% loss on the first article and
[CDS 2013 II]
20% gain on the second article, what is
(a) 10% loss (b) 10% profit
overall percentage of loss or gain?
(c) 20% profit (d) 20% loss
[CDS 2012 I]
(a) 2.25% gain (b) 5.25% loss
11. A person sold an articles from Rs 3600 and
(c) 2% loss (d) None of these
got a profit of 20%. Had he sold the article
for Rs 3150, how much profit would he have
6. A person bought 8 quintal of rice for certain
got?
rupees. After a week, he sold 3 quintal of
[CDS 2013 II]
rice at 10% profit, 3 quintal of rice with
(a) 4% (b) 5%
neither profit nor loss and 2 quintal at 5%
(c) 6% (d) 10%
loss. In this transaction, what is the profit?
[CDS 2012 I]
(a) 10% (b) 20%
(c) 25% (d) None of these

12. On a 20% discount sale, an article costs cm longer than a normal metre scale. He
596. What was the original price of the claims to sell cloth at the cost price to his
article? customers, but while selling uses a scale
[CDS 2014 I] which is 10 cm shorter than a normal metre
(a) Rs 720 (b) Rs 735 scale. What is his gains?
(c) Rs 745 (d) Rs 775 [CDS 2016 I]
(a) 20% (b) 21%
13. A person selling an article for 96 finds that 2
his loss per cent is one-fourth of the amount (c) 22 % (d) 23%
9
of rupees that he paid for the article, What
can be the cost price?
19. The cost of 2.5 kg rice is Rs 125. The cost of
[CDS 2014 II]
9 kg rice is equal to that of 4 kg pulses. The
(a) Only Rs 160
cost of 14 kg pulses is equal to that of 1.5 kg
(b) Only Rs 240
tea. The cost of 2 kg tea is equal to that of 5
(c) Either Rs 160 or Rs 240
kg nuts. What is the cost of 11 kg nuts?
(d) Neither Rs 160 nor Rs 240
[CDS 2016 II]
(a) Rs 2310 (b) Rs 3190
14. A shopkeeper sells his articles at their cost
(c) Rs 4070 (d) Rs 4620
price but uses a faulty balance which reads
1000g for 800g.What is his actual profit
20. A shopkeeper increases the cost price of an
percentage ?
item by 20% and offers a discount of 10% on
[CDS 2014 II]
this marked price. What is his percentage
(a) 25% (b) 20%
gain ?
(c) 40% (d) 30%
[CDS 2016 II]
(a) 15% (b) 12%
15. A man buys 200 oranges for R 1000. How
(c) 10 % (d) 8%
many oranges for 100 can be sold, so that
his profit percentage is
21. Rajendra bought a mobile with 25%
[CDS 2014 II]
discount on the selling price. If the mobile
(a) 10 (b) 14
cost him 4,875, what is the original selling
(c) 16 (d) 20
price of the mobile?
[CDS 2017 I]
16. The value of a single discount on some
(a) Rs 6,300 (b) Rs 6,400
amount which is equivalent to a series of
(c) Rs 6,500 (d) Rs 6,600
discounts of 10%, 20% and 40% on the
same amount, is equal to
22. Sudhir purchased a chair with three
[CDS 2015 II]
consecutive discounts of 20%, 12.5% and
(a) 43.2% (b) 50%
5%. The actual deduction will be
(c) 56.8% (d) 70%
[CDS 2017 II]
(a) 33.5% (b) 30%
17. A milkman claims to sell milk at its cost
(c) 32% (d) 35%
price only. Still he is making a profit of 20%
since he has mixed some amount of water in
23. Ram buys 4 chairs and 9 stools for Rs
the milk. What is percentage of milk in the
1,340. If he sells chairs at 10% profit and
mixture?
stools at 20% profit, he earns a total profit of
(a) 200/3 % (b) 75%
Rs 188. How much money did he have to
(c) 80% (d) 250/3 %
pay for the chairs?
[CDS 2017 II]
18. A cloth merchant buys cloth from a weaver
and cheats him by using a scale which is 10

(a) Rs 200 (b) Rs 400 (a) 20% (b) 25%
(c) Rs 800 (d) Rs 1,600 (c) 30% (d) 40%
24. An article is sold at a profit at 32%. If the 30. If a television set is sold at Rs x, a loss of
cost price 1S increased by 20% and the sale 28% would be incurred. If it is sold at Rs y, a
price remains the same, then the profit profit of 12% would be incurred. What is the
percentage becomes ratio of y to x ?
[CDS 2018 I] [CDS 2020 II]
(a) 10% (b) 12% (a) 41 : 9 (b) 31 : 9
(c) 15% (d) 20% (c) 23 : 9 (d) 14 : 9
25. A milk vendor bought 28 litres of milk at the 31. A person sold an article for Rs 75 which cost
rate of Rs 8.50 per litre. After adding some him Rs x. He finds that he realised x % profit
water he sold the mixture at the same price. on his outlay. What is x equal to ?
If his gain is 12.5% , how much water did he [CDS 2020 II]
add ? (a) 20 (b) 25
[CDS 2018 II] (c) 50 (d) 100
(a) 4.5 litres (b) 4 litres
(c) 3.5 litres (d) 3 litres 32. A trader gives successive discounts of 20%,
10% and 5% respectively. What is the overall
26. If an article is at a gain of 6% instead of a discount ?
loss of 6%, the seller gets Rs 6 more. What is [CDS 2021 I]
the cost price of the article ? (a) 30% (b) 31.6%
[CDS 2019 I] (c) 32.5% (d) 35%
(a) Rs 18 (b) Rs 36
(c) Rs 42 (d) Rs 50 33. The cost price of 100 mangoes is equal to
the selling price of 80 mangoes. What is the
27. A trader sells two computers at the same profit percentage?
price , making a profit of 30% on one and a [CDS 2021 I]
loss of 30% on the other. What is the net (a) 16% (b) 20%
loss or profit percentage on the transaction? (c) 24% (d) 25%
[CDS 2019 II]
(a) 6% loss (b) 6 % gain 34. A person bought chair and a table for Rs
(c) 9 % loss (d) 9 % gain 750. He sold the chair at a gain of 5% and
the table at a gain of 20%. He gained 16% of
28. A person sells two items each at Rs 990, one the whole. What is the original cost of the
at a profit of 10% and another at a loss of table?
10%. What is the combined percentage of [CDS 2021 II]
profit or loss for two items? (a) Rs 400 (b) Rs 450
[CDS 2019 II] (c) Rs 550 (d) Rs 600
(a) 1% loss (b) 1% profit
(c) No profit no loss (d) 0.5% profit 35. A shopkeeper marks the price of an article at
`200. After allowing a discount of 10%, he
29. A shopkeeper sells his articles at their cost still gains 20% on the cost price. What is the
cost price of the article?
price but uses a faulty balance which reads
[CDS 2022- I]
1000gm for 800gm. What is the actual profit (a) `170 (b) `160
percentage? (c) `150 (d) ` 120
[CDS 2020 II]

ANSWER KEY
1. (c) 2. (c) 3. (b) 4. (b) 5. (d) 6. (d) 7. (a) 8. (c) 9. (b) 10. (c)
11. (b) 12. (c) 13. (c) 14. (a) 15. (c) 16. (c) 17. (d) 18. (c) 19. (d) 20. (d)
21. (c) 22. (a) 23. (c) 24. (a) 25. (c) 26. (d) 27. (c) 28. (a) 29. (b) 30. (d)
31. (c) 32. (b) 33. (d) 34. (c) 35. (c)
CAPF PYQ
1. If 9 mangoes cost as much as 5 oranges, 5 pieces whose weights are in the ratio 2:3,
oranges as much as 3 apples, 4 apples as then what is the profit or loss incurred?
much as 9 pineapples and if 3 pineapples [CAPF 2020]
(a) 280 profit (b) 280 loss
cost Rs 48, what will a mango cost?
(c) 720 profit (d) 720 loss
[CAPF 2013]
(a) Rs 9 (b) Rs 12
(c) Rs 18 (d) Rs 27 6. In a stock clearance sell, a shopkeeper, gives
40% off on all his items. He incurs a loss of
2. By selling an article of Rs 270 a man loses 25% by selling by selling a item of marked
10% . If he would sell it at Rs 360 his gain price Rs 2000, Which one of the following is
percent is the cost price of item?
[CAPF 2013]
[CAPF 2021]
(a) 10 (b) 15
(c) 20 (d) 25 (a) Rs 1800 (b) Rs 1200
(c) Rs 1600 (d) Rs 1400
3. A', B' and 'C' started their independence
businesses with equal amounts of capital. 7. A shopkeeper gives two consecutive
During the first year 'A' made 10% profit, 'B' discounts of 10% and 5% respectively on his
incurred 10% loss and 'C" made a profit of items, He then add 20% GST on his items. If
5%. In the second year 'A' incurred of 20% an item has marked price Rs 2000, how
loss, B' made profit of 20% and 'C' made much more or less of the actual price of the
profit of 5%. Which of the following is FALSE item a customer has to pay?
at the end of second year? [CAPF 2021]
[CAPF 2015] (a) 2.6% less (b) 2.6% more
(a) 'C' is the richest (b) A' is the poorest (c) same price (d) 5.2% more
(c) 'B' is the richest (d) 'C' is richer than 'B
8. A person buys an item from a shop for
4. By selling an article for Rs 2700, a man
which the shopkeeper offers a discount of
loses 10%. If he sells it for Rs 3600, his gain
per cent is 10% on the marked price. The person pays
[CAPF 2019] using an e-wallet which gives 10% cash
(a) 15 (b) 18 back. Which one of the following is the value
(c) 20 (d) 25 of effective discount?
[CAPF 2022]
5. The cost of gold varies directly as the cube of (a) 20% (b) 18%
its weight. A gold piece weighing 20
decigram costs 1,000. If it is broken into two (c) 19% (d) 21%
ANSWER KEY
1. (b) 2. (c) 3. (c) 4. (c) 5. (d) 6. (c) 7. (b) 8. (c)

7 INTEREST
PRACTICE SHEET 1
1. What sum of money must be given as simple yearly income diminishes by 61.50. His
interest for six months at 4% per annum in capital is
order to earn 150 interest? (1) 22400 (2) 23800
(1) 5000 (2) 7500 (3) 24600 (4) 26000
(3) 10000 (4) 15000
9. A lends 2500 to B and a certain sum to C at
2. A sum of 1600 gives a simple interest of 252 the same time at 7% annual simple interest.
in 2 years and 3 months. The rate of interest If after 4 years, A altogether receives 1120 as
per annum is: interest from B and C, the sum lent to C is
(1) 5.5 % (2) 8% (1) 700 (2) 6500
(3) 7% (4) 6% (3) 4000 (4) 1500
3. A sum of money lent at simple interest 10. A certain sum of money amounts to 756 in 2
amounts to 880 in 2 years and to 920 in 3 years and to 873 in 3 and half years at a
years. The sum of money (in rupees) is certain rate of simple interest. The rate of
(1) 700 (2) 760 interest per annum is
(3) 784 (4) 800 (1) 10% (2) 11%
(3) 12% (4) 13%
4. At some rate of simple interest, A lent 6,000
to B for 2 years and 1,500 to C for 4 years 11. What sum will amount to 7000 in 5 years at
and received 9,00 as interest from both of 1
them together. The rate of interest per 3 % simple interest?
annum was 3
(1) 5% (2) 6% (1) 6300 (2) 6500
(3) 8% (4) 10% (3) 6000 (4) 5000
5. A lent 5000 to B for 2 years and 3000 to C 12. A man took a loan from a bank at the rate of
for 4 years on simple interest at the same 12% per annum at simple interest. After 3
rate of interest and received 2200 in all from years he had to pay 5,400 as interest only
both as interest. The rate of interest per for the period. The principal amount
annum is borrowed by him was:
(1) 7% (2) 5% (1) 2,000 (2) 10,000
(3) 7.125% (4) 10% (3) 20,000 (4) 15,000
6. What sum of money will amount to 520 in 5 13. A sum of money at simple interest amounts
years and to 568 in 7 years at simple 1
to 1,012 in 2 years and to 1,067.20 in 4
interest? 2
(1) 400 (2) 120 years. The rate of interest per annum is :
(3) 510 (4) 220 (1) 2.5% (2) 3%
(3) 4% (4) 5%
7. 500 was invested at 12% per annum simple
interest and a certain sum of money 14. A sum of money lent out at simple interest
invested at 10% per annum simple interest. amounts to 720 after 2 years and to 1020
If the sum of the interest on both the sum after a further period of 5 years. The sum is :
after 4 years is 480, the latter sum of money (1) 500 (2) 600
is: (3) 700 (4) 710
(1) 450 (2) 750
(3) 600 (4) 550 15. The sum of money, that will give 1 as
interest per day at the rate of 5% per annum
8. A money lender finds that due to fall in the simple interest is
annual rate of interest 8% to 7.75 %, his (1) 3650 (2) 36500
(3) 730 (4) 7300

7 23. At what rate of simple interest per annum
16. A sum of money becomes of itself in 3 7
6 will a sum become of itself in 4 years?
years at a certain rate of simple interest. The 4
rate per annum is : 1
5 5 (1) 18% (2) 18 %
(1) 5 % (2) 6 % 4
9 9 3 1
(3) 18% (4) 25% (3) 18 % (4) 18 %
4 2
41 1 24. A sum of money at a certain rate per annum
17. A sum of money becomes of itself in
40 4 of simple interest doubles in the 5 years and
years at a certain rate of simple interest. The at a different rate becomes three times in 12
rate of interest per annum is years. The lower rate of interest per annum
(1) 10% (2) 1% is
(3) 2.5% (4) 5% (1) 15% (2) 20%
3 2
18. A certain sum of money becomes three times (3) 15 % (4) 16 %
of itself in 20 years at simple interest. In 4 3
how many years does it become double of
itself at the same rate of simple interest ? 25. In how many years will a sum of money
(1) 8 years (2) 10 years 1
double itself at 6 % simple interest per
(3) 12 years (4) 14 years 4
annum?
19. At what rate per cent per annum will the (1) 24 years (2) 20 years
2 (3) 16 years (4) 12 years
simple interest on a sum of money be of
5
the amount in 10 years? 26. At a certain rate of simple interest, a certain
(1) 4% (2) 6% sum of money becomes double of itself in 10
years. It will become treble of itself in
2 2 (1) 15 years (2) 18 years
(3) 5 % (4) 6 %
3 3 (3) 20 years (4) 30 years
20. 6,000 becomes 7,200 in 4 years at a certain 27. In how much time, will a sum of money
rate of simple interest. If the rate becomes become double of itself at 15% per annum
1.5 times of itself, the amount of the same simple interest?
principal in 5 years will be 1 1
(1) 8,000 (2) 8,250 (1) 6 years (2) 6 years
(3) 9,250 (4) 9,000 4 2
1 2
(3) 6 (4) 6 years
21. A sum of money at simple interest trebles 3 3
itself in 15 years. It will become 5 times of
itself in 28. In how many years will a sum of money
(1) 40 years (2) 36 years double itself at 12% per annum?
(3) 30 years (4) 25 years (1) 8 yrs. 6 months (2) 6 yrs. 9 months
(3) 8 yrs. 4 months (4) 7 yrs. 6 months
22. If a sum of money at simple interest doubles
in 12 years, the rate of interest per annum is 29. A sum amounts to double in 8 years by
2 simple interest. Then the rate of simple
(1) 16 % (2) 7.5% interest per annum is
3
(1) 10% (2) 12.5%
1 (3) 15% (4) 20%
(3) 8 % (4) 10%
3

30. A sum doubles itself in 16 years, then in (1) 25 years (2) 24 years
how many years will it triple itself; rate of (3) 48 years (4) 32 years
interest being simple
ANSWER KEY
1. (2) 2. (3) 3. (4) 4. (1) 5. (4) 6. (1) 7. (3) 8. (4) 9. (4) 10. (4)
11. (3) 12. (4) 13. (3) 14. (2) 15. (4) 16. (1) 17. (1) 18. (2) 19. (4) 20. (2)
21. (3) 22. (3) 23. (3) 24. (4) 25. (3) 26. (3) 27. (4) 28. (3) 29. (2) 30. (4)
PRACTICE SHEET 2
2 6. The simple interest on a certain sum at 5%
1. In what time will the simple interest be of per annum for 3 years and 4 years differ by
5 42. The sum is :
the principal at 8 per cent per annum? (1) 210 (2) 280
(1) 8 years (2) 7 years (3) 750 (4) 840
7. The difference between the simple interest
2. The simple interest on a sum after 4 years is received from two different sources on 1500
1 for 3 years is 13.50. The difference between
of the sum. The rate of interest per
5 their rates of interest is:
annum is: (1) 0.1% (2) 0.2%
(1) 4% (2) 5% (3) 0.3% (4) 0.4%
(3) 6% (4) 8%
4
Simple interest on a certain sum for 6 years 8.
The simple interest on a sum of money is
3. 9
9 of the principal and the number of years is
is of the sum. The rate of interest is:
25 equal to the rate percent per annum. The
rate per annum is:
1
(1) 6% (2) 6 % 2
2 (1) 5% (2) 6 %
1 3
(3) 8% (4) 8 % 1
2 (3) 6% (4) 7 %
5
4. The simple interest on a sum for 5 years is
one fourth of the sum. The rate of interest 9. The simple interest on a certain sum for 8
per annum is months at 4% per annum is 129 less than
(1) 5% (2) 6% the simple interest on the same sum for 15
(3) 4% (4) 8% months at 5% per annum. The sum is :
(1) 2,580 (2) 2400
5. On a certain sum, the simple interest at the (3) 2529 (4) 3600
1 3
end of 6 years becomes of the sum. The 10. Mohan lent some amount of money at 9%
4 8 simple interest and an equal amount of
rate of interest is money at 10% simple interest each for two
(1) 5% (2) 6% years. If his total interest was Rs. 760, what
(3) 7% (4) 8% amount was lent in each case?
(1) 1700 (2) 1800
(3) 1900 (4) 2000

11. A sum of 1550 was lent partly at 5% and yearly income increases by 1250. His
partly at 8% simple interest. The total principal (in rupees) is
interest received after 3 years is 300. The (1) 50,000 (2) 45,000
ratio of money lent at 5% to that at 8% is : (3) 60,000 (4) 65,000
(1) 5 : 8 (2) 8 : 5
(3) 31 : 6 (4) 16 : 15 19. A sum was invested on simple interest at a
certain rate for 2 years. Had it been put at
12. A person lent 5,000 partly at the rate of 4 3% higher rate, it would have fetched 72
per cent and partly at the rate of 5 per cent more. The sum is
per annum simple interest. The total interest (1) 1,200 (2) 1,500
after 2 years is 440. To find the sum of (3) 1,600 (4) 1,800
money lent at each of the above rates, 5,000
is to be divided in the ratio : 20. A sum of money was lent at simple interest
(1) 4 : 5 (2) 3 : 2 at a certain rate for 3 years. Had it been lent
(3) 5 : 4 (4) 2 : 3 at 2.5% per annum higher rate, it would
have fetched 540 more. The money lent was:
13. A person borrows some money for 5 years (1) 6400 (2) 6472
and loan amount : total interest amount is 5 (3) 6840 (4) 7200
: 2. The ratio of loan amount : interest rate
is equal to : 21. A sum of money was invested at a certain
(1) 2 : 25 (2) 2 : 1 rate of simple interest for 2 years. Had it
(3) 5 : 2 (4) 25 : 2 been invested at 1% higher rate, it would
have fetched 24 more interest. The sum of
14. A person invests money in three different money is :
schemes for 6 years, 10 years and 12 years (1) 1200 (2) 1050
at 10 per cent, 12 per cent and 15 per cent (3) 1000 (4) 9600
simple interest respectively. At the
completion of each scheme, he gets the same 22. A person who pays income tax at the rate of
interest. The ratio of his investment is 4 paise per rupee, find that a fall of interest
(1) 6 : 3 : 2 (2) 2 : 3 : 4 rate from 4% to 3.75% diminishes his net
(3) 3 : 4 : 6 (4) 3 : 4 : 2 yearly income by 48. What is his capital ?
(1) 24,000 (2) 25,000
15. With a given rate of simple interest, the ratio (3) 20,000 (4) 18,000
of principal and amount for a certain period
of time is 4 : 5. After 3 years, with the same 23. A sum was lent at simple interest at a
rate of interest, the ratio of the principal and certain rate for 2 years. Had it been lent at
amount becomes 5 : 7. The rate of interest is 3% higher rate, it would have fetched 300
(1) 4% (2) 6% more. The original sum of money was
(3) 5% (4) 7% (1) 5000 (2) 6000
(3) 7000 (4) 4000
16. A sum of 400 amounts to 480 in 4 years.
What will it amount to if the rate of interest 24. A sum of 2,400 amounts to 3,264 in 4 years
is increased by 2%? at a certain rate of simple interest. If the rate
(1) 484 (2) 560 of interest is increased by 1%, the same sum
(3) 512 (4) None of these in the same time would amount to
(1) 3,288 (2) 3,312
17. A man loses 55.50 yearly when the annual (3) 3,340 (4) 3,360
rate of interest falls from 11.5% to 10%. His
capital (in rupees) is 25. 800 amounts to 920 in 3 years at simple
(1) 3700 (2) 7400 interest. If the interest rate is increased by
(3) 8325 (4) 11100 3%, it would amount to
(1) 1,056 (2) 1,112
18. If the annual rate of simple interest (3) 1,182 (4) 992
1
increases from 10% to 12 %, a man’s
2

26. A sum of 10,000 is lent partly at 8% and (1) 2.1 per cent (2) 3 per cent
remaining at 10% per annum. If the yearly (3) 3.25 per cent (4) 3.3 per cent
interest on the average is 9.2%, the two
parts are : 29. The effective annual rate of interest,
(1) 4000, 6000 (2) 4500, 5500 corresponding to a nominal rate of 6% per
(3) 5000, 5000 (4) 5500, 4500 annum payable half yearly, is :
(1) 6.06% (2) 6.07%
27. A sum of 1000 is lent out partly at 8% and (3) 6.08% (4) 6.09%
the remaining at 10% per annum. If the
yearly income on the average is 9.2%, the 30. A person lends 40% of his sum of money at
two parts respectively are 15% per annum, 50% of rest at 10% per
(1) 400, 600 (2) 450, 550 annum and the rest at 18% per annum rate
(3) 500, 500 (4) 550, 450 of interest. What would be the annual rate of
interest, if the interest is calculated on the
28. An old article is available for 12,000 at cash whole sum?
payment or is available for 7,000 cash (1) 13.4% (2) 14.33%
payment and a monthly installment of 630 (3) 14.4% (4) 13.33%
for 8 months. The rate per cent per annum
is
ANSWER KEY
1. (3) 2. (2) 3. (1) 4. (1) 5. (2) 6. (4) 7. (3) 8. (4) 9. (4) 10. (4)
11. (4) 12. (2) 13. (4) 14. (1) 15. (3) 16. (3) 17. (1) 18. (1) 19. (1) 20. (4)
21. (1) 22. (3) 23. (1) 24. (4) 25. (4) 26. (1) 27. (1) 28. (1) 29. (4) 30. (3)
PRACTICE SHEET 3
1. At what percent per annum will 3000/- 1
amounts to 3993/- in 3 years if the interest (3) 2 years (4) 3 years
is compounded annually? 2
(1) 9% (2) 10%
(3) 11% (4) 13% 5. The principal, which will amount to 270.40
in 2 years at the rate of 4% per annum
2. The compound interest on 10,000 in 2 years compound interest, is
at 4% per annum, the interest being (1) 200 (2) 225
compounded half-yearly, is : (3) 250 (4) 220
(1) 636.80 (2) 824.32
(3) 912. 86 (4) 828. 82 6. A sum of money on compound interest
amounts to 10648 in 3 years and 9680 in 2
3. In how many years will 2,000 amounts to years. The rate of interest per annum is
2,420 at 10% per annum compound (1) 5% (2) 10%
interest? (3) 15% (4) 20%
1 7. At what rate per cent per annum will 2304
2 amount to 2500 in 2 years at compound
1 interest ?
(3) 2 years (4) 1 years 1 1
2 (1) 4 % (2) 4 %
2 5
4. In what time will 1000 becomes 1331 at 10% 1 1
per annum compounded annually ? (3) 4 % (4) 4 %
6 3
1
2

8. A sum becomes 1,352 in 2 years at 4% per (1) 7,000 (2) 7,200
annum compound interest. The sum is (3) 7,500 (4) 7,700
(1) 1,225 (2) 1,270
(3) 1,245 (4) 1,250 17. A certain sum amounts to 5,832 in 2 years
at 8% per annum compound interest, the
9. The compound interest on 16,000 for 9 sum is
months at 20% per annum, interest being (1) 5,000 (2) 5,200
compounded quarterly, is (3) 5,280 (4) 5,400
(1) 2,520 (2) 2,524
(3) 2,522 (4) 2,518 18. The compound interest on 6,000 at 10% per
1
10. If the rate of interest be 4% per annum for annum for 1 years, when the interest being
first year, 5% per annum for second year 2
and 6% per annum for third year, then the compounded annually, is
compound interest of 10,000 for 3 years will (1) 910 (2) 870
be (3) 930 (4) 900
(1) 1,600 (2) 1,625.80
(3) 1,575.20 (4) 2,000 19 In what time 8,000 will amount to 9,261 at
10% per annum compound interest, when
11. The compound interest on 2000 in 2 years if the interest is compounded half yearly?
the rate of interest is 4% per annum for the 1 1
first year and 3% per annum for the second 2 2
year, will be
1
(1) 142.40 (2) 140.40 (3) 2 years (4) 2 years
(3) 141.40 (4) 143.40 2
12. At what rate per annum will 32000 yield a 20. At what rate per cent per annum will a sum
compound interest of 5044 in 9 months of 1,000 amounts to 1,102.50 in 2 years at
interest being compounded quarterly? compound interest?
(1) 20% (2) 32% (1) 5% (2) 5.5%
(3) 50% (4) 80% (3) 6% (4) 6.5%
13. The compound interest on 8,000 at 15% per 21. In how many years will a sum of 800 at 10%
annum for 2 years 4 months, compounded per annum compound interest, compounded
annually is: semi-annually becomes 926.10 ?
(1) 2980 (2) 3091 1 2
(3) 3109 (4) 3100 (1) 1 years (2) 1 years
2 3
14. In what time wi l l 10,000 amount to 13310 1 1
at 20% per annum compounded half yearly? 3 2
1
(1) 1 years (2) 2 years 22. An amount of 6,000 lent at 5% per annum
2
compound interest for 2 years will become
1 (1) 600 (2) 6,600
2 (3) 6,610 (4) 6,615
15. A certain sum of money yields 1261 as 23. In what time will 1000 amounts to 1331 at
compound interest for 3 years at 5% per 20% per annum, compounded half yearly ?
annum. The sum is 1
(1) 9000 (2) 8400 (1) 1 years (2) 2 years
2
(3) 7500 (4) 8000
1
(3) 1 year (4) 2 years
16. A certain sum, invested at 4% per annum 2
compound interest, compounded half yearly,
amounts to 7,803 at the end of one year.
The sum is

24. The compound interest on 30,000 at 7% per (3) 8,000 (4) 21,000
annum for a certain time is 4,347. The time
is 28. A man saves 2000 at the end of each year
(1) 3 years (2) 4 years and invests the money at 5% compound
(3) 2 years (4) 2.5 years interest. At the end of 3 years he will have :
(1) 4305 (2) 6305
25. A sum of 8000 will amount to 8820 in 2 (3) 4205 (4) 2205
years if the interest is calculated every year.
The rate of compound interest is 29. The time in which 80,000 amounts to
(1) 6% (2) 7% 92,610 at 10% p.a. compound interest,
(3) 3% (4) 5% interest being compounded semi annually is:
1
26. A principal of 10,000, after 2 years (1) 1 years (2) 2 years
compounded annually, the rate of interest 2
being 10% per annum during the first year 1
and 12% per annum during the second year 2
(in rupees) will amount to :
(1) 12,000 (2) 12,320 30. A man borrows 21000 at 10% compound
(3) 12,500 (4) 11,320 interest. How much he has to pay annually
at the end of each year, to settle his loan in
27. The sum of money that yields a compound two years?
interest of 420 during the second year at 5% (1) 12000 (2) 12100
p.a is (3) 12200 (4) 12300
(1) 4,000 (2) 42,000
ANSWER KEY
1. (2) 2. (2) 3. (3) 4. (1) 5. (3) 6. (2) 7. (3) 8. (4) 9. (3) 10. (3)
11. (1) 12. (1) 13. (3) 14. (1) 15. (4) 16. (3) 17. (1) 18. (3) 19. (2) 20. (1)
21. (1) 22. (4) 23. (1) 24. (3) 25. (4) 26. (2) 27. (3) 28. (2) 29. (1) 30. (2)
PRACTICE SHEET 4
1. If the compound interest on a certain sum
for 2 years at 3% per annum is 101.50, then 4. If the compound interest on a sum for 2
the simple interest on the same sum at the 1
same rate and for the same time will be years at 12 % per annum is 510, the
(1) 90.00 (2) 95.50 2
(3) 100.00 (4) 98.25 simple interest on the same sum at the same
rate for the same period of time is:
2. If the compound interest on a sum of money (1) 400 (2) 480
for 3 years at the rate of 5% per annum is (3) 450 (4) 460
252.20, the simple interest on the same sum
at the same rate and for the same time is 5. The compound interest on a certain sum of
(1) 220 (2) 240 money at a certain rate for 2 years is 40.80
(3) 245 (4) 250 and the simple interest on the same sum is
40 at the same rate and for the same time.
3. On a certain sum of money the compound The rate of interest is
interest for 2 years is 282.15 and the simple (1) 2% per annum (2) 3% per annum
interest for the same period of time is 270. (3) 4% per annum (4) 5% per annum
The rate of interest per annum is
(1) 6.07% (2) 10% 6. The compound interest on a certain sum of
(3) 9% (4) 12.15% money invested for 2 years at 5% per annum

is 328. The simple interest on the sum, at 14. There is 100% increase to an amount in 8
the same rate and for the same period will years, at simple interest. Find the compound
be interest of 8000 after 2 years at the same
(1) 320 (2) 308 rate of interest.
(3) 300 (4) 287 (1) 2500 (2) 2000
(3) 2250 (4) 2125
7. Compound interest on a sum of money for 2
years at 4 per cent per annum is 2, 448. 15. If the compound interest on a certain sum
Simple interest of the same sum of money at for two years at 12% per annum is 2,544,
the same rate of interest for 2 years will be the simple interest on it at the same rate for
(1) 2,500 (2) 2,400 2 years will be
(3) 2,360 (4) 2,250 (1) 2,400 (2) 2,500
(3) 2,480 (4) 2,440
8. At a certain rate per annum, the simple
interest on a sum of money for one year is 16. The difference between compound and
260 and the compound interest on the same simple interest on a certain sum for 3 years
sum for two years is 540.80. The rate of
at 5% per annum is Rs. 122. The sum is
interest per annum is
(1) 4% (2) 6% (1) 16,000 (2) 15,000
(3) 8% (4) 10% (3) 12,000 (4) 10,000
9. The simple interest on a sum of money at 17. The difference between simple interest and
4% per annum for 2 years is 80. The compound interest of a certain sum of
compound interest in the same sum for the money at 20% per annum for 2 years is 48.
same period is Then the sum is
(1) 82.60 (2) 82.20 (1) 1,000 (2) 1, 200
(3) 81.80 (4) 81.60 (3) 1, 500 (4) 2, 000
10. The compound interest on a certain sum of 18. The difference between the compound
money at 5% per annum for 2 years is 246. interest and simple interest on 10,000 for 2
The simple interest on the same sum for 3 years is 25. The rate of interest per annum
years at 6% per annum is is
(1) 435 (2) 450 (1) 5% (2) 7%
(3) 430 (4) 432 (3) 10% (4) 12%
11. The simple interest and compound interest 19. If the difference between S.I. and C.I. for 2
(compounded annually) on a certain sum of years on a sum of money lent at 5% is 6,
money with a given rate for a period of 2 then the sum is
years are 900 and 954 respectively. The sum (1) 2200 (2) 2400
of money is (3) 2600 (4) 2000
(1) 3700 (2) 3650
(3) 3850 (4) 3750 20. On a certain sum of money lent out at 16%
p.a. the difference between the compound
12. The compound interest on a certain sum of interest for 1 year, payable half yearly, and
money for 2 years at 10% per annum is 420. the simple interest for 1 year is 56. The sum
The simple interest on the same sum at the is
same rate and for the same time will be (1) 1080 (2) 7805
(1) 350 (2) 375 (3) 8750 (4) 5780
(3) 380 (4) 400
21. If the amount is 2.25 times of the sum after
13. If the compound interest on a certain sum 2 years at compound interest (compound
for 2 years at 4% p.a. is 102, the simple annually), the rate of interest per annum is :
interest at the same rate of interest for two (1) 25% (2) 30%
years would be (3) 45% (4) 50%
(1) 200 (2) 50
(3) 150 (4) 100

22. A sum of money doubles itself in 4 years at (1) 10 years (2) 15 years
compound interest. It will amount to 8 times (3) 7 years (4) 20 years
itself at the same rate of interest in :
(1) 18 years (2) 12 years 27. A sum of money at compound interest
(3) 16 years (4) 24 years doubles itself in 15 years. It will become
eight times of itself in
23. A sum borrowed under compound interest (1) 45 years (2) 48 years
doubles itself in 10 years. When will it (3) 54 years (4) 60 years
become fourfold of itself at the same rate of
interest? 28. A sum of 12,000, deposited at compound
(1) 15 years (2) 20 years interest becomes double after 5 years. How
(3) 24 years (4) 40 years much will it be after 20 years?
(1) 1,44,000 (2) 1,20,000
24. A sum of money becomes eight times of itself (3) 1,50,000 (4) 1,92,000
in 3 years at compound interest. The rate of
interest per annum is 29. At what rate percent per annum of
(1) 100% (2) 80% compound interest, will a sum of money
(3) 20% (4) 10% become four times of itself in two years?
(1) 100% (2) 75%
25. A sum of money invested at compound (3) 50% (4) 20%
interest doubles itself in 6 years. At the
same rate of interest it will amount to eight 30. A sum of money becomes double in 3 years
times of itself in : at compound interest compounded annually.
(1) 15 years (2) 12 years At the same rate, in how many years will it
(3) 18 years (4) 10 years become four times of itself?
26. A sum of money placed at compound (3) 6.4 years (4) 7.5 years
interest doubles itself in 5 years. In how
many years, it would amount to eight times
of itself at the same rate of interest?
ANSWER KEY
1. (3) 2. (2) 3. (3) 4. (2) 5. (3) 6. (1) 7. (2) 8. (3) 9. (4) 10. (4)
11. (4) 12. (4) 13. (4) 14. (4) 15. (1) 16. (1) 17. (2) 18. (1) 19. (2) 20. (3)
21. (4) 22. (2) 23. (2) 24. (1) 25. (3) 26. (2) 27. (1) 28. (4) 29. (1) 30. (2)
PRACTICE SHEET 5
1. A sum of money amounts to 4,840 in 2 years
and to 5,324 in 3 years at compound 3. An amount of money at compound interest
interest compounded annually. The rate of grows up to 3,840 in 4 years and up to
interest per annum is : 3,936 in 5 years. Find the rate of interest.
(1) 10% (2) 9% (1) 2.5% (2) 2%
(3) 11% (4) 8% (3) 3.5% (4) 2.05%
2. A certain sum of money amounts to 2,420 in 4. A certain amount of money at r%,

2 years and 2,662 in 3 years at some rate of compounded annually after two and three
compound interest, compounded annually. years becomes 1440 and 1728 respectively. r
The rate of interest per annum is is
(1) 6% (2) 8% (1) 5 (2) 10
(3) 9% (4) 10% (3) 15 (4) 20

5. The compound interest on a certain sum for interest is 4% per annum, compounded
two successive years are 225 and 238.50. yearly, the cash value of the scooter, is
The rate of interest per annum is: (1) 40000 (2) 46824
1 (3) 46000 (4) 50000
(1) 7 % (2) 5%
2 13. Kamal took 6800 as a loan which along with
(3) 10% (4) 6% interest is to be repaid in two equal annual
installments. If the rate of interest is
6. An amount of money appreciates to 7,000
after 4 years and to 10,000 after 8 years at a
1
12 %, compounded annually, then the
certain compound interest compounded 2
annually. The initial amount of money was value of each installment is
(1) 4,700 (2) 4,900 (1) 8100 (2) 4150
(3) 4,100 (4) 4,300 (3) 4050 (4) 4000
7. A sum of money invested at compound 14. A loan of 12,300 at 5% per annum

interest amounts to 650 at the end of first compound interest, is to be repaid in two
year and 676 at the end of second year. The equal annual installments at the end of
sum of money is: every year. Find the amount of each
(1) 600 (2) 540 installment.
(3) 625 (4) 560 (1) 6,651 (2) 6,615
(3) 6,516 (4) 6,156
8. A sum of money invested at compound
interest amounts in 3 years to 2,400 and in 15. A sum of 210 was taken as a loan. This is to
4 years to 2,520. The interest rate per be paid back in two equal installments. If
annum is the rate of interest be 10% compounded
(1) 5% (2) 6% annually, then the value of each installment
(3) 10% (4) 12% is
(1) 127 (2) 121
9. A sum becomes 4500 after two years and (3) 210 (4) 225
6750 after four years at compound interest.
The sum is 16. Rs. 16,820 is divided between two brothers
(1) 4000 (2) 2500 of age 27 years and 25 years. They invested
(3) 3000 (4) 3050 their money at 5% per annum compound
interest in such a way that both will receive
10. A sum of money at compound interest will equal money at the age of 40 years. The
amount to 650 at the end of the first year share (in Rs.) of elder brother is
and 676 at the end of the second year. The (1) 8,280 (2) 8,410
amount of money is (3) 8,820 (4) 8,000
(1) 1,300 (2) 650
(3) 1,250 (4) 625 17. A sum of money is paid back in two annual
installments of Rs. 17, 640 each, allowing
11. A builder borrows 2550 to be paid back with 5% compound interest compounded
annually. The sum borrowed was
compound interest at the rate of 4% per
(1) Rs. 32,800 (2) Rs. 32,200
annum by the end of 2 years in two equal (3) Rs. 32,000 (4) Rs. 32,400
yearly installments. How much will each
installment be? 18. Mr. Dutta desired to deposit his retirement
(1) 1352 (2) 1377 benefit of Rs. 3 lacs partly to a post office
(3) 1275 (4) 1283 and partly to a bank at 10% and 6%
interests respectively. If his monthly interest
12. A man buys a scooter on making a cash income was Rs. 2000, then the difference of
down payment of 16224 and promises to pay his deposits in the post office and in the
two more yearly instalments of equivalent bank was
amount in next two years. If the rate of (1) Rs. 50,000 (2) Rs. 40,000
(3) Nil (4) Rs.1,00,000

19. The income of a company increases 20% per 25. A man gave 50% of his savings of 84,100 to
year. If the income is Rs. 26,64,000 in the his wife and divided the remaining sum
year 2012, then its income in the year 2010 among his two sons A and B of 15 and 13
was : years of age respectively. He divided it in
(1) Rs. 28,55,000 (2) Rs. 18,50,000 such a way that each of his sons, when they
(3) Rs. 28,20,000 (4) Rs. 21,20,000 attain the age of 18 years, would receive the
same amount at 5% compound interest per
20. A person deposited a sum of 6,000 in a bank annum. The share of B was
at 5% per annum simple interest. Another (1) 20,000 (2) 20,050
person deposited 5,000 at 8% per annum (3) 22,000 (4) 22,050
compound interest. After two years, the
difference of their interests will be 26. Find the rate percent per annum, if Rs. 2000
(1) 230 (2) 232 amounts to Rs. 2,315.25 in a year and a
(3) 832 (4) 600 half, interest being compounded half yearly.
(1) 11.5% (2) 10%
21. A money-lender borrows money at 4% per (3) 5% (4) 20%
annum and pays the interest at the end of
the year. He lends it at 6% per annum 27. A sum of money placed at compound
compound interest compounded half yearly interest doubles itself in 5 years. It will
and receives the interest at the end of the amount to eight times of itself at the same
year. In this way, he gains 104.50 a year. rate of interest in
The amount of money he borrows, is (1) 20 years (2) 10 years
(1) 6,000 (2) 5,500 (3) 12 years (4) 15 years
(3) 5,000 (4) 4,500
3 28. The sum of money which when given on
22. A sum of 13,360 was borrowed at 8 % per compound interest at 18% per annum would
4 fetch Rs. 960 more when the interest is
annum compound interest and paid back in payable half yearly than when it was payable
two years in two equal annual installments. annually for 2 years is :
What was the amount of each installment ? (1) Rs.60,000 (2) Rs. 30,000
(1) 5,769 (2) 7,569 (3) Rs. 40,000 (4) Rs. 50,000
(3) 7,009 (4) 7,500
29. The amount on Rs. 25,000 in 2 years at
23. Sita deposited 5,000 at 10% simple interest annual compound interest, if the rates for
for 2 years. How much more money will Sita the successive years be 4% and 5% per
have in her account at the end of two years, annum respectively is :
if it is compounded semiannually. (1) Rs. 30,000 (2) Rs. 26,800
(1) 50 (2) 40 (3) Rs. 27,300 (4) Rs. 28,500
(3) 77.50 (4) 85.50
30. The amount of Rs. 10,000 after 2 years,
24. What does 250 amounts to in 2 years with compounded annually with the rate of
compound interest at the rate of 4% in the interest being 10% per annum during the
1st year and 8% in the second year? first year and 12% per annum during the
(1) 280 (2) 280.80 second year, would be (in rupees)
(3) 468 (4) 290.80 (1) 11,320 (2) 12,000
(3) 12,320 (4) 12,500
ANSWER KEY
1. (1) 2. (4) 3. (1) 4. (4) 5. (4) 6. (2) 7. (3) 8. (1) 9. (3) 10. (4)
11. (1) 12. (2) 13. (3) 14. (2) 15. (2) 16. (3) 17. (1) 18. (3) 19. (2) 20. (2)
21. (3) 22. (2) 23. (3) 24. (2) 25. (1) 26. (2) 27. (4) 28. (4) 29. (3) 30. (3)

CDS PYQ
1. What is the least number of years in which a 7. The principal on which a simple interest of
sum of money at 20% compound interest Rs 55 will be obtained after 9 months at the
will be more than double? 2
[CDS 2011 (I)] rate of 3 % per annum is.
3
(a) 7 (b) 6
[CDS 2013 (I)]
(c) 5 (d) 4
(a) Rs 1000 (b) Rs 1500
(c) Rs 2000 (d) Rs 2500
2. A Sum of money on compound interest
amount to Rs 9680 in 2 years end to Rs
8. When an article is sold at 20% discount, the
10648 in 3 years. What is the rate o interest
selling price is Rs 24. What will be the
per annum?
selling price when the discount is 30%?
[CDS 2011 (I)]
[CDS 2014 (II)]
(a) 5% (b) 10%%
(a) Rs 25 (b) Rs 23
(c) 15% (d) 20%
(c) Rs 21 (d) Rs 20
3. The sum which amounts to 364.80 in 8

9. The difference between compound interest
years at 3.5% simple interest per annum is
and simple interest for 2 yr at the rate of
[CDS 2011 (II)]
10% over principal amount of X is Rs 10.
(a) Rs 285 (b) Rs 280
What is the value of X?
(c) Rs 275 (d) Rs 270
[CDS 2014 (II)]
(a) Rs 100 (b) Rs 1000
4. A certain sum at simple interest amounts to
(c) Rs 500 (d) Rs 5000
Rs 1350 in 5 years and to Rs 1620 in 8
years. What is the sum?
10. A sum of money becomes 3 times in 5 yr at
[CDS 2011 (II)]
simple interest. In how many years, will the
(a) 900 (b) 800
same sum become 6 times at the same rate
(c) 900 (d)1000
of simple interest?
[CDS 2014 (II)]
5. What is the compound interest on 1600 at
(a) 10 yr (b) 12 yr
25% per annum of 2 years compounded
(c) 12.5 yr (d) 10.5 yr
annually?
[CDS 2012 (I)]
11. The difference between compound interest
(a)700 (b) 750
and simple interest at the same rate of
(c) 800 (d)900
interest R per cent per annum on Rs 15,000
for 2 years is Rs 96.What is the value of R?
6. A sum of money becomes 3 times in 5 years.
[CDS 2015 (I)]
In how many years will the same sum
(a) 8
become 6 times at the same rate of simple
(b) 10
interest?
(c)12
[CDS 2012 (II)]
(d) Cannot be determined due to insufficient
(a)15 years (b) 12.5 years
data
(c)10 years (d) 7.5 years
12. There is 60% increase in an amount in 6
years at simple interest. What will be the

compound interest on 12.000 after 3 years compounded annually, then the value of
at the same rate of interest? each installment is
[CDS 2015 (I)] [CDS 2016 (II)]
(a) 2160 (b) 3120 (a) 4,200
(c) 3972 (d) 6240 (b) 4,480
(c) 4,840
13. In how much time would the simple interest (d) None of the above
on a principle be 0.125 time the principal
amount at 10% per annum? 18. The difference between the simple and the
[CDS 2015 (I)] compound interest on a certain sum of
1 3 money at 4% per annum in 2 years is Rs 10.
(a) 1 yrs (b) 1 yrs What is the sum?
4 4
[CDS 2017 (I)]
1 3
(c) 2 yrs (d) 2 yrs (a) 5,000 (b) 6,000
4 4 (c) 6,250 (d) 7,500
14. An automobile financer claims to be lending 19. The difference between the compound
money at simple interest, but he includes interest (compounded annually) and simple
the interest every six months for calculating interest on a sum of money deposited for 2
the principal. If he is charging an interest at years at 5% per annum is Rs 15. What is the
the rate of 10%, the effective rate of interest sum of money deposited?
becomes [CDS 2017 (II)]
[CDS 2015 (I)] (a) 6,000 (b) 4,800
(a) 10.25% (b) 10.5% (c) 3,600 (d) 2,400
(c) 10.75% (d) 11%
20. A person borrowed Rs 5,000 at 5% rate of
15. A sum of Rs 10,000 is deposited for l year at interest per annum and immediately lent it
the rate of interest 10% compounded half at 5.5%. After two years he collected the
yearly. What will be the interest at the end of amount and settled his loan. What is the
one year? amount gained by him in this transaction?
[CDS 2015 (II)] [CDS 2018 (I)]
(a) 1000 (b) 1025 (a) 25 (b) 50
(c) 1050 (d) 1100 (c) 100 (d) 200
16. If a sum of money at a certain rate of simple 21. A merchant commences with a certain
interest per year doubles in 5 years and at a capital and gains annually at the rate of
different rate of simple interest per year 25%. At the end of 3 years he has 10,000.
becomes three times in 12 years, then the What is the original amount that the
difference in the two rates of Simple interest merchant invested?
per year is [CDS 2018 (I)]
[CDS 2016 (I)] (a) 5,120 (b) 5,210
(a) 2% (b) 3% (c) 5,350 (d) 5,500
1
(c) 3 % (d)4%
3 22. The annual income of a person decreases by
Rs 64 if the annual rate of interest decreases
17. A sum of Rs 8,400 was taken as a loan. This from 4% to 3.75%. What is his original
is to be paid in two equal installments. If the annual income?
rate of interest is 10% per annum, [CDS 2018 (I)]
(a) 24,000 (b) 24,000

(c) 25,600 (d) 24,600 interest. After 4 years A received 11200 as
interest from B and C. How much did A lend
23. What is the principle amount with earns Rs to C?
210 as compound interest for the second [CDS 2019 (II)]
year at 5% per annum? (a) Rs 20000 (b) Rs 25000
[CDS 2018 (II)] (c) Rs 15000 (d) Rs 10000
(a) Rs 2,000 (b) Rs 3,200
(c) Rs 4,000 (d) Rs 4,800 29. A sum was put at simple interest at certain
rate of 2 years. Had it been put at 1 %
24. Two equal amounts were borrowed at 5% higher rate of interest, it would have fetched
and 4% simple interest. The total interest Rs 24 more. What is the sum?
after 4 years amounted to Rs 405. What was [CDS 2020 (I)]
the total amount borrowed? (a) Rs 500 (b) Rs 600
[CDS 2018 (II)] (c) Rs 800 (d) Rs 1200
(a) Rs 1075 (b) Rs 1100
(c) Rs 1125 (d) Rs 1150 30. The simple interest on a certain sum is one-
fourth of the sum. If the number of years
25. What is the least number of complete years and the rate of annual interest are
in which a sum of money put at 40% annual numerically equal, then the number of years
compound interest will be more than treble? is
[CDS 2019 (I)] [CDS 2020 (II)]
(a) 3 (b) 4 (a) 2.5 (b) 3
(c) 5 (d) 6 (c) 3.5 (d) 5
26. A person divided a sum of Rs 17200 into 31. A sum of money was invested at simple
three parts and invested at 5%, 6% and 9% interest at a certain rate for 5 years. Had it
per annum simple interest. At the end of two been invested at a 5% higher rate, it would
years, he got the same interest on each part have fetched F 500 more. What was the
of money. What is the money invested at principal amount?
9% ? [CDS 2021 (I)]
[CDS 2019 (I)] (a) 2,000 (b) 1,800
(a) Rs 3,200 (b) Rs 4,000 (c) 1,600 (d) 1,200
(c) Rs 4,800 (d) Rs 5,000
32. The difference between the compound
27. The rate of interest on two different schemes interest (compounded annually) and the of
is the same and it is 20%. But in one of the simple interest on a certain sum of money at
schemes, the interest is compounded half 12% per annum for 2 years is Rs 72. What is
yearly: and in the other the interest is, the principal amount?
compounded annually. Equal amounts are [CDS 2021 (I)]
invested in the schemes. If the difference of (a) 6,500 (b) 6,000
the returns after 2 years is Rs 482, then (c) 5,500 (d) 5,000
what is the. principal amount in each
scheme? 33. A sum of money compounded annually
[CDS 2019 (II)] doubles itself in 5 years. In how many years
(a) 10,000 (b) 16,000 will it become four times of itself?
(c) 20,000 (d) 24,000 [CDS 2021 (II)]
(a) 10 years (b) 12 years
28. A lent 25000 to B and at the same time lent (c) 15 years (d) 20 years
some amount to C at same 7% simple

34. A person borrowed `9,000 at 7%, `12,000 at 35.If C is the compound interest on `10,000 for
8% and `15,000 at 9% simple interest per one year at 4% per annum when
annum. He had to pay `50,700 at the end of compounded quarterly, then which one of the
n years. What is the value of n ? following is correct?
[CDS 2022 (I)] [CDS 2022 (II)]
(a) 3 (b) 4 (a) C<`100 (b) `100 < C < `200
(c) 5 (d) 6 (c) `200 < C < `400 (d) C > ` 400
ANSWER KEY
1. (d) 2. (b) 3. (a) 4. (c) 5. (d) 6. (b) 7. (c) 8. (c) 9. (b) 10. (c)
11. (a) 12. (c) 13. (a) 14. (a) 15. (b) 16. (c) 17. (c) 18. (c) 19. (a) 20. (b)
21. (a) 22. (c) 23. (c) 24. (c) 25. (b) 26. (b) 27. (c) 28. (c) 29. (d) 30. (d)
31. (a) 32. (d) 33. (a) 34. (c) 35. (d)
CAPF PYQ
1. The difference between the compound 3. The difference of compound interest and
interest and the simple interest for 2 years simple interest of a sum of money at the
on a sum of money is Rs. 60. If the simple
interest for 2 years is Rs. 1440, what is the rate of 5% per year for 2 years is Rs 250.
rate of interest? The sum is
[CAPF 2017] [CAPF 2021]
1 1 (a) Rs 100000 (b) Rs 80000
(a) 4 % (b) 6 %
6 4 (c) Rs 40000 (d) Rs 120000
1
(c) 8% (d) 8 %
3 4. Suppose a bank gives an interest of 10%
per annum compounded annually for a
2. A sum triples in ten years under compound fixed deposit for a period of two years.
interest at a certain rate of interest; the What should be the simple interest rate
interest is being compounded annually. In per annum if the maturity amount after
how many years, it would become nine times
[CAPF 2020] two years is to remain the same?
(a) 20 yrs (b) 30 yrs [CAPF 2022]
(c) 40 yrs (d) 50 yrs (a) 10% (b) 10.5%
(c) 11% (d) 12%
ANSWER KEY
1. (d) 2. (a) 3. (a) 4. (b)

8 NUMBER SYSTEM
PRACTICE SHEET 1
1. If ‘n’ be any natural number, then by which (1) 7
largest number (n3 – n) is always divisible? (2) 11
(1) 3 (2) 6 (3) 13
(3) 12 (4) 18 (4) Smallest 3-digit prime number
2. If n is an integer, then (n2 – n) is always 11. What least number, of 5 digits is divisible by
divisible by : 41?
(1) 4 (2) 5 (1) 10045 (2) 10004
(3) 2 (4) 7 (3) 10041 (4) 41000
3. If the sum of the digits of any integer lying 12. The digit in unit’s place of the product 81 ×
between 100 and 1000 is subtracted from 82 × 83 × ... × 89 is
the number, the result always is (1) 0 (2) 2
(1) divisible by 6 (2) divisible by 2 (3) 6 (4) 8
(3) divisible by 9 (4) divisible by 5
13. The digit in unit’s place of the product
4. If a number is divisible by both 11 and 13, (2153)167 is:
then it must be necessarily : (1) 1 (2) 3
(1) divisible by (11 + 13) (3) 7 (4) 9
(2) divisible by (13 – 11)
(3) divisible by (11 × 13) 14. The digit in the unit’s place of the product
(4) 429 (2464)1793 ×(615)317 × (131)491 is
(1) 0 (2) 2
5. If * is a digit such that 5824* is divisible by (3) 3 (4) 5
11, then * equals:
(1) 2 (2) 3 15. Unit digit in (264)102 + (264)103 is:
(3) 5 (4) 6 (1) 0 (2) 4
(3) 6 (4) 8
6. If 78*3945 is divisible by 11, where * is a
digit, then * is equal to 16. The digit in the unit’s place of
(1) 1 (2) 0 [(251)98 + (21)29 – (106)100 + (705)35 – 164 +
(3) 3 (4) 5 259] is:
(1) 1 (2) 4
7. If the number 4 8 3 2 7 * 8 is divisible by 11, (3) 5 (4) 6
then the missing digit (*) is
(1) 5 (2) 3 17. The last digit of 340 is
(3) 2 (4) 1 (1) 1 (2) 3
(3) 7 (4) 9
8. Both the end digits of a 99 digit number N
are 2. N is divisible by 11, then all the 18. What will be the unit digit in the product
middle digits are: 7105?
(1) 1 (2) 2 (1) 5 (2) 7
(3) 3 (4) 4 (3) 9 (4) 1
9. If n is a whole number greater than 1, then 19. The unit digit in the expansion of (2137)754 is
n2(n2 – 1) is always divisible by : (1) 1 (2) 3
(1) 16 (2) 12 (3) 7 (4) 9
(3) 10 (4) 8
20. One’s digit of the number (22)23 is
10. A 4-digit number is formed by repeating a 2- (1) 4 (2) 6
digit number such as 2525, 3232, etc. Any (3) 8 (4) 2
number of this form is always exactly
divisible by :

21. The unit digit in the product (122)173 is 26. The unit’s digit in the product 771× 663 × 365
is
(1) 2 (2) 4 (1) 1 (2) 2
(3) 6 (4) 8 (3) 3 (4) 4
22. Find the unit digit of (795 – 358) 27. Find the unit digit of the product of all the
(1) 7 (2) 3 prime number between 1 and 99999
(3) 4 (4) 0 (1) 9 (2) 7
(3) 0 (4) N.O.T.
23. Find the unit digit of 111!
(1) 0 (2) 1 28. Find the unit digit of 11 + 22 + 33+ ......1010.
(3) 5 (4) 3 (1) 9 (2) 7
(3) 0 (4) N.O.T.
24. Unit digit in (264)102+(264)103 is:
(1) 0 (2) 4 29. Find the unit digit of
(3) 6 (4) 8 1324 × 6857 + 2413 × 5768 + 1234 + 5678.
(1) 4 (2) 7
25. Find the unit digit in the product: (4387) 245 × (3) 0 (4) 8
(621)72.
(1) 1 (2) 2 30. The last digit of the following expression is:
(3) 5 (4) 7 (1!)1 + (2!)2 + (3!)3 + (4!)4 + .... +(10!)10
(1) 4 (2) 5
(3) 6 (4) 7
ANSWER KEY
1. (2) 2. (3) 3. (3) 4. (3) 5. (3) 6. (4) 7. (4) 8. (4) 9. (2) 10. (4)
11. (2) 12. (1) 13. (3) 14. (1) 15. (1) 16. (2) 17. (1) 18. (2) 19. (4) 20. (3)
21. (1) 22. (3) 23. (1) 24. (1) 25. (4) 26. (4) 27. (3) 28. (2) 29. (1) 30. (2)
PRACTICE SHEET 2
1. Find the number of zeroes at the end of the 5. Find the number of zeroes at the end of the
product 1000! product 1×3×5×7×9×11........99×101
(1) 200 (2) 249 (1) 24 (2) 5
(3) 248 (4) 250 (3) 2 (4) 0
product 2700! product 35 × 36 × 37 × ......89 × 90
(1) 673 (2) 670 (1) 21 (2) 7
(3) 669 (4) 675 (3) 14 (4) 20
product 10 × 15 × 44 × 28 × 70 product 41 × 42 ..............109 × 110
(1) 2 (2) 3 (1) 26 (2) 9
(3) 4 (4) 5 (3) 17 (4) 25
product 2 × 4 × 6 × ....... 48 × 50 product 25! × 32! × 45!
(1) 6 (2) 12 (1) 10 (2) 23
(3) 7 (4) 5 (3) 22 (4) 7

9. Find the number of zeroes at the end of the 21. When a number is divided by 893, the
product 1140! × 358! × 171! remainder is 193. What will be remainder
(1) 282 (2) 325 when it is divided by 47?
(3) 411 (4) 370 (1) 3 (2) 5
(3) 25 (4) 33
10. Find the number of zeroes at the end of the
product 11! × 22! × 33! × 44! .......1010! 22. 8.31  0.6  0.002 is equal to
(1) 51 (2) 10
(1) 8.912 (2) 8.912
(3) 5! + 10! (4) N.O.T
(3) 8.979 (4) 8.979
11. Find the number of Factors of 1728
(1) 28 (2) 29 23. The value of 0.63  0.37 is
(3) 30 (4) 31 (1) 1 (2) 100/99
(3) 99/100 (4) 100/33
12. Find the Number of Factor of 1420
(1) 12 (2) 13 24. (0.11  0.22)  3 is equal to
(3) 14 (4) 15
(1) 3 (2) 1.9
13. Find the Number of Divisors of 10800
(3) 1 (4) 0.3
(1) 30 (2) 60
(3) 120 (4) 180
25. (1.2  0.03) 
14. Find the No. of Prime Factor of 240. (1) 0.04 (2) 0.036
(1) 4 (2) 5 (3) 1.13 (4) 0.037
(3) 6 (4) 8
15. Find the No. of prime factor (30)26 × (25)51 × 26. The difference between 5.76 and 2.3 is
(12)23 (1) 2.54 (2) 3.73
(1) 249 (2) 250 (3) 3.46 (4) 3.43
(3) 255 (4) 260
16. Find the No. of Prime Factor (30)15 × (22)11 × 27. The value of 0.2  0.3  0.32 is
(15)24 (1) 0.87 (2) 0.77
(1) 110 (2) 115
(3) 0.82 (4) 0.86
(3) 120 (4) 125
28. A number when divided by 280 leaves 115
17. Find the No. of prime factor of (56)20 × (36)31
as remainder. When the same number is
× (42)13 × (13)21
divided by 35, the remainder is
(1) 240 (2) 242
(1) 15 (2) 10
(3) 264 (4) 248
(3) 20 (4) 17
18. Find the prime Factors 210
29. A certain number when divided by 175
(1) 3 (2) 4
leaves a remainder 132. When the same
(3) 5 (4) 6
number is divided by 25, the remainder is:
(1) 6 (2) 7
19. Find the sum of odd factors of 544
(3) 8 (4) 9
(1) 16 (2) 18
(3) 20 (4) 22
30. A positive integer when divided by 425 gives
a remainder 45. When the same number is
20. For the Number 2450 find
divided by 17, the remainder will be
(i) Number of all factors
(1) 11 (2) 8
(ii) Number of even factors
(3) 9 (4) 10
(iii) Number of odd factors
(1) 18,9,9 (2) 18,10,8
(3) 18,8,10 (4) 18,12,6

ANSWER KEY
1. (2) 2. (1) 3. (2) 4. (1) 5. (4) 6. (3) 7. (3) 8. (2) 9. (3) 10. (3)
11. (1) 12. (1) 13. (2) 14. (3) 15. (1) 16. (2) 17. (3) 18. (2) 19. (2) 20. (1)
21. (2) 22. (3) 23. (2) 24. (3) 25. (4) 26. (4) 27. (1) 28. (2) 29. (2) 30. (1)
PRACTICE SHEET 3
1. Find the Remainder when 77× 85 × 73 is (3) 3 (4) 7
divided by 9
(1) 1 (2) 2 10. Find the Remainder 43197 is divided by 7
(3) 4 (4) 7 (1) 42 (2) 41
(3) 1 (d) 6
2. Find the Remainder when 273 + 375 + 478 +
657 + 597 is divided by 25 11. Find the Remainder when (59)28 is divided by
(1) 5 (2) 10 7
(3) 9 (4) 8 (1) 2 (2) 4
(3) 6 (4) 1
3. Find the Remainder when 1330 × 1356 ×
1363 × 1368 × 1397 is divided by 13 12. Find the Remainder when 4177 is divided by
(1) 7 (2) 9 17
(3) 11 (4) 8 (1) 2 (2) 1
(3) 6 (4) 4
4. Find the Remainder when 2327+ 2372 +
2394 + 4624 + 4650 is divided by 23 13. Find the Remainder when 249 is divided by 7
(1) 12 (2) 14 (1) 1 (2) 2
(3) 13 (4) 10 (3) 3 (4) 4
5. Find the Remainder when 6732 is divided by 14. Find the Remainder when (51203 + 249) is
68 divided by 17
(1) 67 (2) 66 (1) 4 (2) 5
(3) 1 (4) 0 (3) 6 (4) None of these
6. Find the Remainder when 9999 is divided by 15. Find the Remainder when 877 is divided by 7
100 (1) 8 (2) 1
(1) 99 (2) 98 (3) 13 (4) 7
(3) 1 (4) 3
16. Find the Remainder when 1!+ 2!+ 3!+ 4!.......
7. Find the Remainder 197130 is divided by 100! is divided by 5 is
196 (1) 0 (2) 1
(1) 1 (2) 195 (3) 2 (4) 3
(3) 7 (4) 5
17. Find the Remainder when 1!+ 2!+ 3!+ 4!.......
8. Find the Remainder 636 is divided by 215 100! is divided by 6 is
(1) 214 (2) 6 (1) 3 (2) 4
(3) 5 (4) 1 (3) 2 (4) 1
9. Find the Remainder 757575 is divided by 37 18. Find the Remainder when 9111 is divided by
(1) 1 (2) 36 11:

(1) 2 (2) 9 (3) 36 (4) 0
(3) 7 (4) 6
25. Find the Remainder when 777777 .........
19. Find the Remainder when 52450 is divided by 363 times is divided by 11
126 (1) 0 (2) 7
(1) 5 (2) 25 (3) 1 (4) 3
(3) 125 (4) 1
26. Find the Remainder when 888888 ........ 184
20. Find the Remainder when 401012 is divided times is divided by 37
by 7 (1) 1 (2) 8
(1) 5 (2) 4 (3) 36 (4) 7
(3) 3 (4) 2
27. Find the Remainder when 999999999 is
21. Find the Remainder when 101+ 10+ 103 + divided by 13
......... 10100 is divided by 6 (1) 8 (2) 11
(1) 4 (2) 6 (3) 5 (4) 12
(3) 2 (4) 3
28. Find the Remainder when 799 is divided by
22. Find the Remainder when 101
+ + 102 103 + 2400
......... 101000 + 101001 is divided by 6 (1) 1 (2) 49
(1) 4 (2) 6 (3) 343 (4) 7
(3) 2 (4) 3
23. Find the Remainder when 666666 ......... 7
134 times is divided by 13 (1) 2 (2) 6
(1) 1 (2) 3 (3) 4 (4) 5
(3) 11 (4) 9
24. Find the Remainder when 555555 ......... 17
244times is divided by 37 (1) 4 (2) 5
(1) 18 (2) 5 (3) 3 (4) 15
ANSWER KEY
1. (2) 2. (1) 3. (2) 4. (2) 5. (3) 6. (1) 7. (1) 8. (4) 9. (1) 10. (3)
11. (2) 12. (3) 13. (2) 14. (4) 15. (1) 16. (4) 17. (1) 18. (2) 19. (2) 20. (4)
21. (1) 22. (3) 23. (1) 24. (2) 25. (2) 26. (2) 27. (2) 28. (3) 29. (2) 30. (1)
PRACTICE SHEET 4
1. (719 + 2) is divided by 6, the remainder is :
(1) 5 (2) 3 3. The remainder when 321 is divided by 5 is
(3) 2 (4) 1 (1) 1 (2) 2
(3) 3 (4) 4
2. If two numbers are each divided by the same
divisor, the remainders are respectively 3 4. 96 – 11 when divided by 8 would leave a
and 4. If the sum of the two numbers be remainder of :
divided by the same divisor, the remainder is (1) 0 (2) 1
2. The divisor is (3) 2 (4) 6
(1) 9 (2) 7
(3) 5 (4) 3

5. If 17200 is divided by 18, the remainder (3) 23 (4) 27
is—
(1) 17 (2) 16 17. Sum of three consecutive even integers is
(3) 1 (4) 2 54. Find the least among them.
(1) 18 (2) 15
6. When 231 is divided by 5 the remainder is (3) 14 (4) 16
(1) 4 (2) 3
(3) 2 (4) 1 18. The sum of three consecutive numbers is 87.
The middle number is
7. (461 + 462 + 463) is divisible by (1) 27 (2) 29
(1) 3 (2) 11 (3) 30 (4) 28
(3) 13 (4) 17
19. What is the sum of two consecutive even
8. (271 + 272 + 273 + 274) is divisible by numbers, the difference of whose square is
(1) 9 (2)10 84?
(3) 11 (4)13 (1) 38 (2) 34
(3) 42 (4) 46
9. (325 + 326 + 327 + 328) is divisible by
(1) 11 (2) 16 20. The sum of all the natural numbers from 51
(3) 25 (4) 30 to 100 is
(1) 5050 (2) 4275
10. (49)15 – 1 is exactly divisible by : (3) 4025 (4) 3775
(1) 50 (2) 51
(3) 29 (4) 8 21. A number when divided successively by 4
and 5 leaves remainder 1 and 4 respectively.
11. The sum of three consecutive odd natural When it is successively divided by 5 and 4
numbers is 147. Then, the middle number the respective remainders will be
is: (1) 4, 1 (2) 3, 2
(1) 47 (2) 48 (3) 2, 3 (4) 1, 2
(3) 49 (4) 51
22. The expression 26n – 42n, where n is a
12. The sum of first 20 odd natural numbers is natural number is always divisible by
equal to : (1) 15 (2) 18
(1) 210 (2) 300 (3) 36 (4) 48
(3) 400 (4) 420
23. When an integer K is divided by 3, the
13. The sum of all natural numbers from 75 to remainder is 1, and when K + 1 is divided by
97 is : 5, the remainder is 0. Of the following, a
(1) 1598 (2) 1798 possible value of K is
(3) 1958 (4) 1978 (1) 62 (2) 63
(3) 64 (4) 65
14. The sum of all natural numbers between
100 and 200, which are multiples of 3 is : 24. Which one of the numbers is divisible by 25?
(1) 5000 (2) 4950 (1) 303310 (2) 373355
(3) 4980 (4) 4900 (3) 303375 (4) 22040
15. The sum of the squares of three consecutive 25. For any integral value of n, 32n + 9n + 5 when
natural numbers is 2030. Then, what is the divided by 3 will leave the remainder
middle number? (1) 1 (2) 2
(1) 25 (2) 26 (3) 0 (4) 5
(3) 27 (4) 28
26. The maximum value of F in the following
16. The sum of three consecutive odd natural equation 5E9 + 2F8 + 3G7 = 1114 is where
numbers is 87. The smallest of these E, F, G each stands for any digit.
numbers is : (1) 8 (2) 9
(1) 29 (2) 31 (3) 7 (4) 5

27. The number 334 × 545 × 7p is divisible by 2, 5, 0, 6 and 8 is (repetition of digits is not
3340 if p is at least. allowed)
(1) 2 (2) 4 (1) 69552 (2) 65925
(3) 3 (4) 1 (3) 65952 (4) 63952
28. The sum of three numbers is 252. If the first 30. A man has some hens and some cows. If the
number is thrice the second and third total number of heads of hens and cows
number is two–third of the first, then the together is 50 and the number of feet of
second number is hens and cows together is 142, then the
(1) 41 (2) 21 number of cows is
(3) 42 (4) 84 (1) 21 (2) 25
(3) 27 (4) 29
29. The difference between the greatest and the
least five-digit numbers formed by the digits
ANSWER KEY
1. (2) 2. (3) 3. (3) 4. (4) 5. (3) 6. (2) 7. (1) 8. (2) 9. (4) 10. (4)
11. (3) 12. (3) 13. (4) 14. (2) 15. (2) 16. (4) 17. (4) 18. (2) 19. (3) 20. (4)
21. (3) 22. (4) 23. (3) 24. (3) 25. (2) 26. (4) 27. (1) 28. (3) 29. (3) 30. (1)
PRACTICE SHEET 5
1. A number divided by 13 leaves a remainder 5. Which one of the following is correct
1 and if the quotient, thus obtained, is regarding the number 222222 ?
divided by 5, we get a remainder of 3. What (1) It is divisible by 3 but not divisible by 7
will be the remainder if the number is (2) It is divisible by 3 and 7 but not divisible
divided by 65 ? by11
(1) 28 (2) 16 (3) It is divisible by 2 and 7 but not divisible
(3) 18 (4) 40 by 11
(4) It is divisible by 3, 7 and 11
2. If two numbers are each divided by the same
divisor, the remainders are respectively 3 6. What is the sum of positive integers less
and 4. If the sum of the two numbers be than 100which leave remainder 1 when
divided by the same divisor, the remainder is divided by 3 and leave a remainder 2 when
2. The divisor is divided by 4?
(1) 9 (2) 7 (1) 416 (2) 620
(3) 5 (4) 3 (3) 1250 (4) 1314
3. A number consists of two digits. If the 7. A three-digit number is divisible by 11 and

number formed by interchanging the digits has its digit in the unit's place equal to 1.
is added to the original number, the The number is 297 more than the number
resulting number (i.e. the sum) must be obtaining by reversing the digits. What is the
divisible by number?
(1) 11 (2)9 (1) 121 (2) 231
(3) 5 (4)3 (3) 561 (4) 451
4. What is the value of x for which x, x + 1 , x + 8. The remainder on dividing given integers a
3 are all prime numbers? and b by 7 are, 5 and 4 respectively. What is
(1) 0 (2) 1 the remainder when ab is divided by 7?
(3) 2 (4) 101 (1) 3 (2) 4
(3) 5 (4) 6

9. Which one of the following is the largest 4 (d) Cannot be determined due to insufficient
digit number divisible by 88? data
(1) 9988 (2) 9966
(3) 9944 (4) 8888 17. Consider the following statements :
If p is a prime number such that p + 2 is
10. The number 2784936 is divisible by which of also a prime then
the following number? I. p(p + 2) + 1 is a perfect square.
(1) 86 (2) 87 II. 12 is a divisor of p + (p + 2), if p > 3
(3) 88 (4) 89 Which of the statements given above is/are
correct
11. If k is any even positive integer, then (k2 + (a) Only I (b) Only II
2k) is (c) Both I and II (d) Neither I nor II
(1) divisible by 24
(2) divisible by 8 but may not be divisible by 18. A number consists of two digits such that
24 the digit in the ten’s place is less by 2 than
(3) divisible by 4 but may not be divisible by the digit in the unit’s place. Three times the
8 6
number added to 7 times the number
(4) divisible by 2 but may not be divisible by
obtained by reversing the digits equals 108.
4 The sum of digits in the number is :
(1) 8 (2) 9
12. What is the number of total three digit
(3) 6 (4) 7
numbers with unit digit 7 and divisible by
11 ? 19. Of the three numbers, the second is twice
(1) 6 (2) 7
the first and it is also thrice the third. If the
(3) 8 (4) 9
average of three numbers is 44, the
difference of the first number and the third
13. In a two digit number if it is known that its
number is :
units digit exceeds its tens digit by 2 and (1) 24 (2) 18
that the product of the given number and
(3) 12 (4) 6
the sum of its digits is equal to 144, then the
number is 20. A two digit number is five times the sum of
(1) 46 (2) 42
its digits. If 9 is added to the number, the
(3) 26 (4) 24 digits interchange their positions. The sum
of digits of the number is :
14. The largest integer that divides product of (1) 11 (2) 9
any four consecutive integers is (3) 7 (4) 6
(1) 4 (2) 6
(3) 12 (4) 24
21. How many numbers less than 1000 are
multiples of both 10 and 13?
15. A ten digit number is divisible by 4 as well
(1) 9 (2) 8
as by 5. What could be the possible digit at (3) 6 (4) 7
ten's place in the given number?
(1) 0, 1, 2, 4 and 6 (2) 1, 2, 4, and 8 22. The number 1, 2, 3, 4,....,1000 are
(3) 2, 3, 4, 6 and 8 (4) 0, 2, 4, 6 and 8
multiplied together. The number of zeros at
the end (on the right) of the product must
16. If 49  3  1 be:
15 1 (1) 30 (2) 200
x
1 (3) 211 (4) 249
y
z
Where x, y, z are natural numbers, then 23. Consider the following assumption and two
what is z equal to? statements:
(a) 1 Assumption: A number, ‘ABCDE’ is divisible
(b) 2 by 11.
(c) 3 Statement I: E – D + C – B + A is divisible by
11.

Statement II: E – D + C – B + A = 0 27. If a and b are odd numbers, then which of
Which one of the following is correct ? the following is even ?
(a) Only statement I can be drawn from the (1) a + b + ab (2) a + b – 1
assumption (3) a + b + 1 (4) a + b + 2ab
(b) Only statement II can be drawn from the
assumption 28. If two numbers x and y separately divided by
(c) Both the statements can be drawn from a number d, remainders obtained are 4375
the assumption and 2986 respectively. If the sum of the
(d) Neither of the statements can be drawn numbers i.e (x+y) is divided by the same
from the assumption number d remainder obtained is 2361. The
value of number d is:
24. The product of two numbers is 0.008. One of (1) 7361 (2) 5000
the number is
1
of the other. The smaller (3) 4000 (4) 2542
5
number is
29. A farmer divides his herd of n cows among
(1) 0.2 (2) 0.4
his four sons so that the first son gets one –
(3) 0.02 (4) 0.04
half the herd, the second son gets one –
fourth, the third son gets one – fifth and the
25. I multiplied a natural number by 18 and
fourth son gets 7 cows. The value of n is
another by 21 and added the products.
Which one of the following could be the (1) 80 (2) 100
(3) 140 (4) 180
sum?
(1) 2007 (2) 2008
(3) 2006 (4) 2002 30. In an examination, a student scores 4 marks
for every correct answer and loses 1 mark
for every wrong answer. A student attempted
26. If the sum of two numbers be multiplied by
all the 200 questions and scored in all 200
each number separately, the products so
marks. The number of questions, he
obtained are 247 and 114. The sum of the
numbers is answered correctly was
(1) 82 (2) 80
(1) 19 (2) 20
(3) 68 (4) 60
(3) 21 (4) 23
ANSWER KEY
1. (4) 2. (3) 3. (1) 4. (3) 5. (4) 6. (1) 7. (4) 8. (4) 9. (3) 10. (3)
11. (2) 12. (3) 13. (4) 14. (4) 15. (4) 16. (3) 17. (3) 18. (3) 19. (3) 20. (2)
21. (4) 22. (4) 23. (3) 24. (4) 25. (1) 26. (1) 27. (4) 28. (2) 29. (3) 30. (2)

CDS PYQ
1. Consider the following statements: (a) 327.86638 (b) 327.86638
I.Every composite number is a natural
number. (c) 327.86683 (d) 327.8668
II.Every whole number is a natural number.
Which of the statements given above is/are 9. Consider the following statements:
correct I. If n is a prime number greater than 5,
[CDS 2012 (I)] then n4 – 1 is divisible by 240.
(a) Only I (b) Only II II. Every square number is of the form 5n,
(c) Both I and II (d) Neither I nor II (5n – 1) or (5n + 1), where n is a whole
number.
2. If a positive integer leaves remainder 28 Which of the above statements is/are
when divided by 143, then what is the correct?
remainder obtained on dividing the same [CDS 2012 (II)]
number by 13 ? (a) Only I (b) Only II
[CDS 2012 (I)] (c) Both I and II (d) Neither I nor II
(a) 0 (b) 2
(c) 9 (d) 10 10. If the sum of an integer and its reciprocal is
10/3, then the integer is equal to
3. How many numbers between – 11 and 11 [CDS 2012 (II)]
are multiples of 2 or 3 ? (a) 3 (b) 6
[CDS 2012 (I)] (c) 12 (d) 13
(a) 11 (b) 14
(c) 15 (d) None of these 11. Which one of the following is neither prime
number nor composite number ?
4. What number should be added to 231228 to [CDS 2012 (II)]
make it exactly divisible by 33 ? (a) 1 (b) 2
[CDS 2012 (I)] (c) 3 (d) None of these
(a) 1 (b) 2
(c) 3 (d) 4 12. Which one of the following has least number
of divisors?
5. How many rational numbers are there [CDS 2012 (II)]
between 1 and 1000? (a) 88 (b) 91
[CDS 2012 (I)] (c) 96 (d) 99
(a) 998 (b) 999
(c) 1000 (d) Infinite 13. Consider the following statements:
I. Every integer is a rational number.
6. The pair of numbers which are relatively II. Every rational number is a real number.
prime to each other is Which of the above statements is/are
[CDS 2012 (I)] correct?
[CDS 2012 (II)]
(a) (68, 85) (b) (65, 91) (a) Only I (b) Only II
(c) (92, 85) (d) (102, 153) (c) Both I and II (d) Neither I nor II
7. The number 58129745812974 is divided by 14. If we divide a positive integer by another

[CDS 2012 (I)] positive integer, what is the resulting
(a) 11 (b) 8 number?
(c) 4 (d) None of these [CDS 2012 (II)]
(a) It is always a natural number
(b) It is always an integer
8. What is the value of 0.007  17.83  310.0202  (c) It is a rational number
[CDS 2012 (I)] (d) It is an irrational number?

15. What is the value of 0.242424.....? (c) Irrational unless m is the nth power of
[CDS 2012 (II)] an integer
(a) 23/99 (b) 8/33 (d) Irrational unless m is the n are coprime
(c) 7/33 (d) 47/198
23. If x is positive even integer and y is negative
16. The two digit number, which when divided odd integer, then xy is:
by sum of the digit and product of the digits, [CDS 2013 (2)]
respectively. The remainder is same and the (a) Odd integer (b) Even integer
difference of quotients is one, is (c) Rational number (d) None of these
[CDS 2013 (I)]
(a) 14 (b) 23 24. The paid of rational number that lies
(c) 32 (d) 41
between 1 and 3 is:
4 4
17. Which one of the following numbers is
[CDS 2013 (2)]
divisible by 11?
[CDS 2013 (1)]
(a) 45678940 (b) 54857266 262 752 24 78
(a) , (b) ,
(c) 87524398 (d) 93455120 1000 1000 100 100
18. If N, (N + 2) and (N + 4) are prime number, 9 31 252 748

(c) , (d) ,
then the number of possible solution for N 40 40 1000 1000
are:
[CDS 2013 (1)]
(a) 1 (b) 2
25. What is the last digit in 7402+3402?
(c) 3 (d) None of these
[CDS 2013 (2)]
(a) 0
19. The smallest positive prime (say p) such that
(b) 4
2p –1 is not a prime is:
(c) 8
[CDS 2013 (1)]
(d) None of the above
(a) 5 (b) 11
(c) 17 (d) 29
26. What is 262+972 equal to?
[CDS 2013 (2)]
20. Consider the following statements:
(a) 272 + 932 (b) 342 + 932
I.There are a finite number of rational
(c) 822 + 412 (d) 792 + 622
numbers between any two rational numbers.
II.There is an infinite number of rational
27. Every prime number of the form 3k + 1 can
numbers between any two rational numbers
be represented in the form 6m + 1 (where, k
III.There are a finite number of irrational
and m are integer), when:
numbers between any two rational numbers
[CDS 2013 (2)]
Which of the above statements is/are
(a) k is odd
correct?
(b) k is even
[CDS 2013 (1)]
(c) k can be both odd and even
(a) Only I (b) Only II
(d) No such form is possible
(c) Only III (d) Both I and II
28. If k is a positive integer, then every square
21. Representation of 0.2341 in the form p/q , integer is of the form:
where p and q are integers , q ≠ 0 , is [CDS 2013 (2)]
[CDS 2013 (1)] (a) Only 4k (b) 4k or 4k + 3
(a) 781/3330 (b) 1171/4995 (c) 4k + 1 or 4k + 3 (d) 4k or 4k + 1
(c) 2341/9990 (d) 2339/9990
m 29. If b is the largest square divisor of c and a2
22. If m and n are natural number, then n is:
divides c, then which one of the following is
[CDS 2013 (2)]
correct (where a, b and c are integers)?
(a) Always irrational
[CDS 2013 (2)]
(b)Irrational unless n is the mth power of an
integer

(a) b divides a (a) 1 (b) 2
(b) a does not divide b (c) 4 (d) None of these
(c) a divided b
(d) Neither 10 nor 20 36. 710 – 510 is divisible by:
[CDS 2014 (2)]
30. 195 + 215 is divisible by: (a) 10 (b) 7
[CDS 2013 (2)] (c) 5 (d) 11
(a) Only 10
(b) Only 20 37. The multiplication of a three digits number
(c) Both 10 and 20 XY5, with digit Z yields X215. What is X + Y
(d) Neither 10 nor 20 + Z equal to?
[CDS 2014 (2)]
31. Consider the following statements: (a) 13 (b) 15
I. 7710312401 is divisible by 11 (c) 17 (d) 18
II. 173 is a primer number
Which of the statements given above is/are 38. If N2 – 33, N2 – 31 and N2 – 29 are prime
correct? numbers, then what is the number of
[CDS 2013 (2)] possible values of N, where N is integer?
(a) Only I (b) Only II [CDS 2014 (2)]
(c) Both I and II (d) Neither I nor II (a) 1 (b) 2
I. To obtain prime number less than 121, we 39. How many pairs of positive integers m and n
have to reject all the multiples of 2,3, 5 and
7 satisfy the equation 1  4  1 , where n is
m n 12
II. Every composite number less than 121 is
an odd inters less than 60?
divisible by a prime number less than 11
[CDS 2014 (2)]
Which of the statements given above is/are
(a) 7 (b) 5
correct?
(c) 4 (d) 3
[CDS 2013 (2)]
40. Consider all those two digits positive
(c) Both I and II (d) Neither I nor II
integers less than 50, which when divided by
4 yield unity as remainder. What is their
sum?
[CDS 2014 (2)]
I.No integer of the form 4k + 3, where k is an
(a) 310 (b) 314
integer can be expressed as the sum of two
(c) 218 (d) 323
squares.
II.Square of an odd integer can expressed in
41. How many pairs of X and Y are possible in
the form 8k + 1, where k is an integer.
the number 763X4Y2, if the number is
Which of the statements given above is/are
divisible by 9?
correct?
[CDS 2014 (2)]
[CDS 2014 (1)]
(a) 8 (b) 9
(c) 10 (d) 11
(c) Both I and II (d) Neither I nor II
42. What is the remainder when 41012 is divided
34. If n is a whole number greater than I, then
by 7 ?
n2 (n2–1) is always divisible by:
[CDS 2014 (2)]
[CDS 2014 (1)]
(a) 1 (b) 2
(a) 12 (b) 24
(c) 3 (d) 4
(c) 48 (d) 60
43. What is the remainder when (1723 + 2323 +
2923) is divided by 23?
by 7?
[CDS 2014 (2)]
[CDS 2014 (1)]

(a) 0 (b) 1 [CDS 2015 (1)]
(c) 2 (d) 3 (a) 3 (b) 7
(c) 8 (d) 16
44. p, q and r are prime numbers such that p <
q < r < 13. In how many cases would (p + q + 51. What is the maximum value of m if the
r) also be a prime number? number
[CDS 2014 (2)] N = 35 × 45 × 55 × 60 ×124 × 75 is divisible
(a)1 (b) 2 by 5m?
(c) 3 (d) None of these [CDS 2015 (1)]
(a) 4 (b) 5
45. What is the number of divisors of 360? (c) 6 (d) 7
[CDS 2014 (2)]
(a) 12 (b) 18 52. A person goes to a market between 4 pm
(c) 24 (d) None of these and 5 pm. When he comes back, he finds
that the hour hand and minute hand have
46. If 37  2  1 interchanged their position. For how much
13 1 time (approximately) was he out of his
x house?
1
y [CDS 2015 (1)]
z
Where x, y, z are natural numbers, then (a) 55.25minutes (b) 55.30minutes
what is z equal to? (c) 55.34minues (d) 55.38minutes
[CDS 2015 (1)] 2
(a) 1 53. When a ball bounces, it rises to 3 of the
(b) 2 height from which if fell. If the ball is
(c) 3 dropped from a height of 36m, how high will
(d) Cannot be determined due to insufficient it rise at the third bounce?
data [CDS 2015 (1)]
1
47. The digit in the units place of the product 81 (a) 10 m 2
3 (b) 10 3 m
× 82 × 83 × 84 × ...... × 99 is:
[CDS 2015 (1)] 1 2
(a) 0 (b) 4 (c) 12 m (d) 12 m
3 3
(c) 6 (d) 8
54. A light was seen regularly at an interval of
48. A student was asked to multiply a number
13 seconds. It was seen for the first time at
by 25. He instead multiplied the number by
1 hour 54 minutes 50 seconds (am) and the
52 and got the answer 324 more than the
last time at 3 hours 17 minutes 49 seconds
correct answer. The number to be multiplied
(am). How many times was the light seen?
was:
[CDS 2015 (1)]
[CDS 2015 (1)]
(a) 375 (b) 378
(a) 12 (b) 15
(c) 283 (d) 384
(c) 25 (d) 32 x x x
55. If n is natural number and n = p1 1 p2 2 p3 3 ,
49. What is the number of possible pairs of (P, where p1, p2, p3 are distinct prime factors,
Q) if the number 357P25Q is divisible by then the number of prime factors for n is:
both 3 and 5? [CDS 2015 (1)]
[CDS 2015 (1)] (a) x1 + x2 + x3
(a)7 (b) x1x2x3
(b) 6 (c) (x1 + 1) (x2 + 1) (x3 + 1)
(c) 5 (d) None of the above
56. Consider the following statements for the
50. The difference between the square of two sequence of numbers given below:
consecutive odd integers is always divisible 11, 111, 1111, 11111 …………
by:

1.Each number can be expressed in the form (c) 2 (d) 1
(4m + 3), where m is a natural number
2.Some numbers are squares. 63. Let p be a prime number other than 2 or 5.
Which of the above statements is/are One would like to express the vulgar fraction
correct? l/p in the form of a recurring decimal. Then
[CDS 2015 (1)] the decimal will be
(a) 1 only (b) 2 only [CDS 2015 (1)]
(c) Both 1 and 2 (d) Neither 1 nor 2 (a) a pure recurring decimal and its period
will be necessarily ( p − 1)
57. Consider the following statements: (b) a mixed recurring decimal and its period
1.There exists only one prime number p will be necessarily ( p − 1)
such that (17p + 1) is a square (c) a pure recurring decimal and its period
2.If x is the product of 10 consecutive prime will be some factor of ( p − 1)
numbers starting from 2, then (x+1) is also (d) a mixed recurring decimal and its period
prime number. will be some factor of ( p − 1)
correct? 64. The number of values of x satisfying x+
[CDS 2015 (1)] 100
(a) 1 only (b) 2 only  50 , where x is a natural number less
x
(c) Both 1 and 2 (d) Neither 1 nor 2
than or equal to 100 is:
[CDS 2015 (2)]
58. Out of 532 saving accounts held in a post
(a) 51 (b) 53
office, 218 accounts have deposits over Rs
(c) 55 (d) 57
10,000 each. Further, in 302 accounts, the
first or sole depositors are men, of which the
65. The largest natural number which divides
deposits exceed Rs 10,000 in 102 accounts.
every natural number of the form (n3 – n) (n
In how many accounts the first or sole
– 2), where n is a natural number greater
depositors are women and the deposits are
than 2 is:
up to Rs 10,000 only?
[CDS 2015 (2)]
[CDS 2015 (1)]
(a) 6 (b) 12
(a) 116
(c) 24 (d) 48
(b) 114
(c) 100
66. The digit in the units place of the resulting
(d)Cannot be determined from the given data
number of the expression (234)100 + (234)101
is:
59. If x + y + z = 0 Then x3 + y3 + z3 + 3xyz is
[CDS 2015 (2)]
equal to:
(a) 6 (b) 4
[CDS 2015 (1)]
(c) 2 (d) 0
(a) 0 (b) 6zyz
(c) 12 xyz (d) xyz
67. The seven digit number 876p37q is divisible
by 225. The values of p and q can be
60. The last digit in the expansion of 17256 is:
respectively:
[CDS 2015 (1)]
[CDS 2015 (2)]
(a) 9 (b) 7
(a) 9,0 (b) 0,0
(c) 3 (d) 1
(c) 0,5 (d) 9,5
61. What is the remainder obtained when 1421
68. Let x and y be positive integers such that x >
× 1423 × 1425 is divided by 12?
y. The expressions 3x + 2y and 2x + 3y when
[CDS 2015 (1)]
divided by 5 leave remainder 2 and 3
(a) 1 (b) 2
respectively. What is the remainder when (x–
(c) 3 (d) 4
y) is divided by 5?
[CDS 2015 (2)]
(a) 4 (b) 2
by 6?
(c) 1 (d) 0
[CDS 2015 (1)]
(a) 4 (b) 3

69. A number consists of two digits, whose sum (c) 11–k (d) k–1
is 7. If the digits are reversed, the number is
increased by 27. The product of digits of the 76. Let S be a set of first fourteen natural
number is: numbers. The possible number of pairs (a,
[CDS 2015 (2)] b), where a, b,  S and a  b such that ab
(a) 6 (b) 8 leaves remainder 1 when divided by 15, is:
(c) 10 (d) 12 [CDS 2016 (1)]
(a) 3
70. Consider all positive two digit numbers each (b) 5
of which when divided by 7 leaves a (c) 6
remainder 3. What is their sum? (d) None of the above
[CDS 2015 (2)]
(a) 661 (b) 666 77. A clock strickes once 1 O’clock, twice at 2
(c) 676 (d) 777 O’clock and thrice at 3 O’clock and so on. If
it takes 8 seconds to strike at 5 O’clock, the
71. The value of 0.63  0.37 is time taken by it to strike at 10 O’clock is:
[CDS 2015 (2)] [CDS 2016 (1)]
(a) 1 (b) 100/91 (a) 14 seconds
(c) 100/99 (d) 1000/99 (b) 16 seconds
(c) 18 seconds
72. Consider the following statements in respect (d) None of the above
of the expression
78. What is the maximum value of m, if the
Sn = n  n  1 , where n is an integer. number N=90 × 42 × 324 × 55 is divisible by
2 3m?
1.There are exactly two values of n for which [CDS 2016 (1)]
Sn = 861 (a) 8 (b) 7
2.Sn = S–(n+1) and hence for any integer m, we (c) 6 (d) 5
have two values of n for which Sn = m.
Which of the above statement is/are correct? 79. Consider the following statements:
[CDS 2016 (1)] 1.Every natural number is a real number
(a) 1 Only (b) 2 Only 2.Every real number is a rational number
(c) Both 1 and 2 (d) Neither 1 nor 2 3.Every integer is a real number
73. Consider the following statements in respect 4.Every rational number is a real number
of two different non-zero integers p and q. Which of the above statements are correct?
I. For (p+q) to be less than (p–q), q must be [CDS 2016 (1)]
negative. (a) 1, 2 and 3 (b) 1, 3 and 4
II.For (p+q) to be greater than (p–q), both p (c) 2 and 3 only (d) 3 and 3 only
and q must be positive.
Which of the above statements is/are 80. Consider the following statements:
correct? 1.There exists a positive real number m
[CDS 2016 (1)] such that cos x = 2m+1.
(a) 1 Only (b) 2 Only 2.mn  m + n for all m, n belonging to set of
(c) Both 1 and 2 (d) Neither 1 nor 2 natural numbers.
74. 710–510 is divisible by: correct?
[CDS 2016 (1)] [CDS 2016 (1)]
(a) 5 (b) 7 (a) 1Only (b) 2 Only
(c) 10 (d) none (c) Both 1 and 2 (d) Neither 1 nor 2
75. Let a two digit number be k times the sum of 81. A person goes to a market between 4pm and
its digits. If the number formed by 5pm. When he comes back, he finds that the
interchanging the digit is m times the sum of hour hand and the minute hand of the clock
the digits, then the value of m is: have interchanged their positions. For how
[CDS 2016 (1)] much time (approximately) was he out of his
(a) 9–k (b) 10–k house?

[CDS 2016 (1)] [CDS 2016 (2)]
(a) 55.38 minutes (b) 55.48 minutes (a) 252 (b) 256
(c) 55.57 minutes (d) 55.67 minutes (c) 258 (d) 260
82. If m and n are distinct natural numbers, 87. A boy saves Rs 4.65 daily. What is the least
then which of the following is/are number of days in which he will be able to
integer/integers? save an exact number of rupees?
[CDS 2016 (2)]
1. m  n (a) 10 (b) 20
n m
(c) 21 (d) 25
2. mn  
m n  2 2
  m n
 n m
 88. What is the unit digit of 7139 ?
[CDS 2016 (2)]
mn
3. (a) 9 (b) 7
m2  n 2 (c) 6 (d) 3
Select the correct answer using the code
given below: 89. Which of the following rational number has
[CDS 2016 (1)] non terminating and repeating decimal
(a) 1 and 2 (b) 2 only expansion ?
(c) 2 and 3 (d) 3 only [CDS 2016 (2)]
(a) 15/1600 (b) 23/8
83. Outside a meeting room, Madhukar was told (c) 35/50 (d) 17/6
by a person that each meeting takes place
after 13/4 hours. The last meeting has been 90. The sum of squares of two positive integers
over just 45 minutes ago and the next is 208. If the square of the larger number is
meeting will take place at 2 pm. At what 18 times the smaller number, then what is
time did Madhukar receive this information? the difference of the larger and smaller
[CDS 2016 (1)] number?
(a) 10:20am (b) 11:30am [CDS 2016 (2)]
(c) 11:40am (d) 11:50am (a) 2 (b) 3
(c) 4 (d) 6
84. If 61  3  1 91. What is the remainder when 2100 is divided
19 1 by 101?
x
1 [CDS 2016 (2)]
y
z (a) 1 (b) 11
Where x, y, z are natural numbers, then (c) 99 (d) 100
what is z equal to?
[CDS 2016 (1)] 92. Which one of the following is correct in
(a) 1 respect of the number 1729?
(b) 2 [CDS 2016 (2)]
(c) 3 (a) It cannot be written as the sum of the
(d) Cannot be determined due to insufficient cube of two positive integers
data (b) It can be written as the sum of the cubes
of two positive integers in one way only
85. What would be the maximum value of Q in (c) It can be written as the sum of the cubes
the equation 5P9 + 3R7 + 2Q8 = 1114? of two positive integers in two way only
[CDS 2016 (2)] (d) It can be written as the sum of the cubes
(a) 9 (b) 8 of two positive integers in three way only
(c) 5 (d) 4
93. Consider the following statements in respect
86. In an examination, a student was asked to of positive odd integers x and y :
divide a certain number by 8. By mistake he 1. x2 + y2 is even integer.
multiplied if by 8 and got the answer 2016 2. x2 + y2 is divisible by 4
more than the correct answer. What was the Which of the above statements is/are
number? correct?

[CDS 2016 (2)] 101. If the points P and Q represent the real
numbers 0.8 3 and 0.62 on the number line,
(a) 1 only (b) 2 only then the distance between P and Q is
(c) Both 1 and 2 (d) Neither 1 nor 2 [CDS 2017 (2)]
(a) 21/90 (b) 19/90
94. What is the remainder when 135 + 145 + 155 (c) 21/100 (d) 56/90
+ 165 is divided by 29 ?
[CDS 2016 (2)] 102. Three numbers which are co-prime to each
(a) 8 (b) 5 other, are such that the product of the first
(c) 3 (d) 0 two is 286 and that of the last two is 770.
What is the sum of the three numbers?
95. What is the difference between the sum of [CDS 2018 (1)]
the cubes and that of squares of first ten (a) 85 (b) 80
natural numbers? (c) 75 (d) 70
[CDS 2016 (2)]
(a) 2280 (b) 2640 103. All odd prime numbers upto 110 are
(c) 3820 (d) 4130 multiplied together. What is the unit digit in
this product?
96. What is the remainder when the number [CDS 2018 (1)]
(4444)4444 is divided by 9? (a) 0
[CDS 2017 (1)] (b) 80
(a) 4 (b) 6 (c) 5
(c) 7 (d) 8 (d) None of the above
97. The number of prime numbers which are 104. Which one of the following is correct?
less than 100 is: [CDS 2018 (1)]
[CDS 2017 (1)] (a)Decimal expansion of a rational number
(a) 24 (b) 25 is terminating.
(c) 26 (d) 27 (b)Decimal expansion of a rational number
is non-terminating.
98. Consider the following statements: (c)Decimal expansion of an irrational
1.Of two consecutive integers, one is even number is terminating.
2.Square of an odd integer is of the form (d)Decimal expansion of an irrational
8n+1 number is non-terminating and non-
Which of the above statements is/are repeating.
correct?
[CDS 2017 (1)]
105. What is the difference between 0.9 and 0.9 ?
(a) 1 only (b) 2 only
(a) 0 (b) 0.099
99. (NP–1 – 1) is a multiple of p, if N is prime to p (c) 0.1 (d) 0.09
and p is a:
[CDS 2017 (1)] 106. Which one of the following decimal number
(a) Prime number is a rational number with denominator 37 ?
(b) Rational number [CDS 2018 (1)]
(c) Real number (a) 0.459459459... (b) 0.459459459
(d) Composite number (c) 0.045949459... (d) 0.00459459...
100. Which one of the following is largest 107. The sum of a number and its square is 20.
[CDS 2017 (1)] Then the number is
(a) 7/9 (b) 11/14 [CDS 2018 (1)]
(c) 3/4 (d) 10/13 (a) –5 or 4 (b) 2 or 3
(c) –5 only (d) 5 or –4

108. What is the largest power of 10 that divides 114. The number of all pairs (m, n), where m
the product 1 × 2 × 3 × 4 ................ × 23 × and n are positive integers, such that
24 × 25? 1 1 1 2
[CDS 2018 (1)]    is:
m n mn 5
(a) 2
[CDS 2018 (2)]
(b) 4
(c) 5
(a) 6 (b) 5
(c) 4 (d) 2
109. How many five digit numbers of the form
115. The sum of all possible product taken two
XXYXX is/are divisible by 33?
at a time out of the numbers 1, 2, ±3, ±4
[CDS 2018 (2)]
is:
(a) 1 (b) 3
[CDS 2018 (2)]
(c) 5 (d) Infinite
(a) 0 (b) –30
(c) 30 (d) 55
110. A five digit number XY235 is divisible by 3
where X and Y are digits satisfying X + Y ≤
116. What is the remainder when (1729 + 1929) is
5. What is the number of possible pairs of
divisible by 18?
values of (X, Y)?
[CDS 2019 (1)]
[CDS 2018 (2)]
(a) 6 (b) 2
(a) 5 (b) 6
(c) 1 (d) 0
(c) 7 (d) 9
117. What is the largest value of n such that 10n
111. The number of divisors of the number
divides the product:
38808, exclusive of the divisors 1 and itself,
25 × 33 × 48 × 53 × 67 × 76 × 812 × 99 × 106 ×
is:
1512 × 2014 × 2211 × 2515 ?
[CDS 2018 (2)]
[CDS 2019 (1)]
(a) 74 (b) 72
(a) 65 (b) 55
(c) 70 (d) 68
(c) 50 (d) 45
112. If  and  are two real numbers such that 
118. How many pairs (A, B) are possible in the
q r number 479865AB if the number is
+  = – and   , where 1 < p < q < r,
p p divisible by 9 and it is given that the last
then which one of the following is the digit of the number is odd?
greatest? [CDS 2019 (1)]
[CDS 2018 (2)] (a) 5 (b) 6
1 1 1 (c) 9 (d) 11
(a) (b) 
  
119. Consider the multiplication 999 × abc =
1  def132 in decimal notation, where a, b, c, d,
(c) – (d)
  e and f are digits. What are the values of a,
b, c, d, e and respectively?
113. Consider the following statements in [CDS 2019 (1)]
respect of three 3-digit numbers XYZ, YZX (a) 6,6,8,6,8,7 (b) 8,6,8,6,7,8
and ZXY: (c) 6,8,8,7,8,6 (d) 8,6,8,8,6,7
1.The sum of the numbers is not divisible
by (X+Y+Z). 120. Which of the following statements is not
2.The sum of the numbers is divisible by true?
111. [CDS 2019 (1)]
Which of the above statements is/are (a)The difference of two prime numbers,
correct? both greater than 2, id divisible by 2.
[CDS 2018 (2)] (b)For two different integers m, n and a
(a) 1 only (b) 2 only prime number p, if p divisible the product
(c) Both 1 and 2 (d) Neither 1 nor 2 m × n, then p divides either m or n.

(c)If a number is of the form 6n–1 (n being a
natural number), then it is a prime 127. The number 3521 is divided by 8. What is
number. the remainder?
(d)There is only one set of three prime [CDS 2019 (1)]
numbers such that there is a gap of 2 (a) 1 (b) 3
between two adjacent prime numbers. (c) 7 (d) 9
121. The sum of three prime numbers is 100. If 128. A prime number contains the digit X at
one of them exceeds another by 36, then unit’s place. How many such digits of X are
one of the number is: possible?
[CDS 2019 (1)] [CDS 2019 (1)]
(a) 17 (a) 3 (b) 4
(b) 29 (c) 5 (d) 6
(c) 43
(d) None of the above 129. The expression 52n–23n has a factor:
[CDS 2019 (1)]
122. What is the unit place digit in the (a) 3
expansion of 773? (b) 7
[CDS 2019 (1)] (c) 17
(a) 1 (b) 3 (d) None of the above
(c) 7 (d) 9
130. Consider two digit numbers which remain
123. Suppose n is a positive integer such that the same when the digits interchange their
(n2 + 48) is a perfect square. What is the positions. What is the average of such digit
number of such n? numbers?
[CDS 2019 (1)] [CDS 2019 (1)]
(a) One (b) Two (a) 33 (b) 44
(c) Three (d) Four (c) 55 (d) 66
124. Consider the following statements in 131. Consider the following statements:
respect of two integers p and q (both > 1) 1.Unit digit in 17174 is 7:
which are relatively prime: 2.Difference of the squares of any two odd
1.Both p and q may be prime numbers numbers is always divisible by 8.
2.Both p and q may be composite numbers 3.Adding 1 to the product of two
3.One of p and q may be prime and the consecutive odd numbers makes it a perfect
other composite square.
Which of the above statements are correct? Which of the above statements are correct?
[CDS 2019 (1)] [CDS 2019 (2)]
(a) 1 and 2 only (b) 2 and 3 only (a) 1, 2 and 3 (b) 1 and 2 only
(c) 1 and 3 only (d) 1, 2 and 3 (c) 2 and 3 only (d) 1 and 3 only
125. Which is 0.53  0.5 3 equal to? 132. When N is divided by 17, the quotient is
[CDS 2019 (1)] equal to 182. The difference between the
(a) 1.068 (b) 1.068 quotient and the remainder is 175. What is
the value of N?
(c) 1.068 (d) 1.068 [CDS 2019 (2)]
(a) 2975 (b) 3094
126. Which one of the following is an irrational (c) 3101 (d) 3269
number?
[CDS 2019 (1)] 133. Consider the following statements:
(a) 59049 1.If p is relatively prime to each of q and r,
231 then p is relatively prime to the product qr.
2.If p divides the product qr and if p divides
(b) 593
q, then p must divide r.
(c) 0.45454545....... Which of the above statements is/are
(d) 0.12112211122211112222...... correct?

[CDS 2019 (2)] 140. What is the sum of all integer values of n
(a) 1 only (b) 2 only for which n2 + 19n + 92 is a perfect square?
(a) 21 (b) 19
134. Let x be the smallest positive integer such (c) 0 (d) –19
that when 14 divides x, the remainder is 7;
and when 15 divides x, the remainder is 5. 141. The number 2 × 3 × 5 × 7 × 11 +1 is:
Which one of the following is correct? [CDS 2020 (2)]
[CDS 2019 (2)] (a) A prime number
(a) 20 < x < 30 (b) 30 < x < 40 (b) Not a prime, but power of prime
(c) 40 < x < 50 (d) x > 50 (c) Not a power of a prime, but a composite
even number
135. Consider the following statements: (d)Not a power of a prime, but a composite
1. 75 is a rational number odd number
2.There exists at least a positive integer x
4x 7 142. If the sum of digit of a number 10n–1, where
such that   . n is natural number is equal to 3798, then
5 8 what is the value of n?
3. x  2  1 for all real values of x. [CDS 2020 (1)]
x (a) 421 (b) 422
4.4.232323....... can be expressed in the (c) 423 (d) 424
p
form where p and q are integer.
q 143. If m is the number of prime numbers
between 0 and 50; and n is the number of
Which of the above statements are correct?
prime numbers between 50 and 100, then
[CDS 2019 (2)]
what is (m –n) equal to?
(a) 1 and 2 (b) 2 and 3
[CDS 2020 (1)]
(c) 3 and 4 (d) 2 and 4
(a) 4 (b) 5
(c) 6 (d) 7
136. If 10n divides 623 × 759 × 1052, then what is
the largest value of n?
144. Which one of the following is the largest
[CDS 2019 (2)]
divisor of 3x + 3x+1 + 3x+2, if x is any natural
(a) 20 (b) 22
number?
(c) 23 (d) 28
[CDS 2020 (1)]
(a) 3 (b) 13
137. What is the digit in the unit’s place of the
(c) 39 (d) 117
number represented by 398 – 389?
[CDS 2019 (2)]
145. A two digit number is 9 more than four
(a) 3 (b) 6
times of the number obtained by
(c) 7 (d) 9
interchanging its digits. If the product of
digits in the two digit number is 8, then
138. How many pairs of natural numbers are
what is the number?
there such that the difference of their
[CDS 2020 (1)]
squares is 35?
(a) 81 (b) 42
[CDS 2019 (2)]
(c) 24 (d) 18
(a) 1 (b) 2
(c) 3 (d) 4
146. If m and n are positive integers such that
mn = 1331, then what is the value of
139. Which one of the following is not correct?
(m–1)n–1 ?
[CDS 2019 (2)]
[CDS 2020 (1)]
(a) 1 is neither prime nor composite
(a) 1 (b) 100
(b) 0 is neither positive nor negative
(c) 121 (d) 125
(c) If p × q is even, then p and q are always
even
(d) 2 is an irrational number

147. If the points P and Q represent real [CDS 2020 (2)]
numbers 0.73 and 0.56 on the number line, (a) 1 (b) 3
then what is the distance between P and Q? (c) 7 (d) 9
[CDS 2020 (1)]
155. If 172020 is divided by 18, then what is the
1 1
(a) (b) remainder?
6 5 [CDS 2020 (2)]
(c)
16
(d)
11 (a) 1 (b) 2
45 90 (c) 16 (d) 17
148. The number of three digit numbers (all 156. The sum of all possible products taken two
digits are different) which are divisible by 7 at a time out of the numbers 1, 2, 3, ±4,
and also divisible by 7 on reversing the 5 is:
order of the digits, is: [CDS 2020 (2)]
[CDS 2020 (1)] (a) 0 (b) –30
(a) Six (b) Five (c) –55 (d) 55
(c) Four (d) Three
157. Let d(n) denote the number of positive
149. Let XYZ be a 3-digit number. Let S = XYZ + divisors of a positive integer n. Which of the
YZX + ZXY. What of the following following are correct?
statements is/are correct? 1. d(5) = d(11)
1.S is always divisible by 3 and (X+Y+Z) 2. d(5).d(11) = d(55)
2.S is always divisible by 9 3. d(5) +d(11) =d(16)
3.S is always divisible by 37 Select the correct answer using the code
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
given below: [CDS 2020 (2)]
[CDS 2020 (1)] (a) 1 and 3 only (b) 1 and 2 only
(a) 1only (b) 2 only (c) 2 and 3 only (d) 1, 2 and 3
(c) 1 and 2 (d) 1 and 3
158. If An = Pn + 1, where Pn is the product of
150. x + x + 16 is exactly divisible by x, where
3 2 the first n prime numbers, then consider
x is a positive integer. The number of all the following statements:
such possible values of x is: 1.An is always a composite number
[CDS 2020 (2)] 2.An + 2 is always an odd number
(a) 3 (b) 4 3.An + 1 is always an even number
(c) 5 (d) 6 Which of the above statements is/are
correct?
151. The number of (a, b, c) where, a, b, c are [CDS 2020 (2)]
positive integers such that abc = 30, is: (a) 1 only (b) 2 only
[CDS 2020 (2)] (c) 3 only (d) 2 and 3 only
(a) 30 (b) 27
(c) 9 (d) 8 159. The sum of the digits of a two digit number
is 13 and the difference between the
152. If the number 23P62971335 is divisible by number and that formed by reversing the
the smallest odd composite number, then digits is 27. What is the product of the
what is the value of P? digits of the number?
[CDS 2020 (2)] [CDS 2020 (2)]
(a) 4 (b) 5 (a) 35 (b) 40
(c) 6 (d) 7 (c) 45 (d) 54
153. What is the remainder when the sum 15 + 160. If radius of a sphere is rational, then which
25 + 35 + 56 is divided by 4? of the following is/are correct?
[CDS 2020 (2)] 1.Its surface are is rational
(a) 0 (b) 1 2.Its volume is rational
(c) 2 (d) 3 Select the correct answer using the code
given below:
154. What is the digit in the unit place of 399? [CDS 2020 (2)]

(a) 1 only (b) 2 only (c) 246 (d) 235
169. A two digit number is such that the product
161. If the number 413283P759387 is divisible of the digits is 8. If 63 is added to this
by 13, then what is the value of P? number, the digits interchanged their
[CDS 2021 (1)] places. What is the sum of the digit in the
(a) 3 (b) 6 number?
(c) 7 (d) 8 [CDS 2021 (2)]
162. What is the remainder when 21000000 is (a) 6 (b) 7

divided by 7? (c) 8 (d) 9
[CDS 2021 (1)]
(a) 1 (b) 2 170. Consider the following statements:
(c) 4 (d) 6 1.The sum of the cubes of three consecutive
163. Consider the pairs of prime numbers (m,n) natural numbers is divisible by 9.
between 50 and 100 such that m–n=6. How 2.Every even power of every odd number
many such pairs are there? (>1) when divided by 8 gives 1 as
[CDS 2021 (1)] remainder.
(a) 2 (b) 3 Which of the above statements is/are
(c) 4 (d) 5 correct?
[CDS 2022 (1)]
164. What is the unit digit in the expansion of (a) 1 only (b) 2 only
6732? (c) Both 1 and 2 (d) Neither 1 nor 2
[CDS 2021 (1)]
(a) 1 (b) 3 171. What is the number of divisors of 1000
(c) 7 (d) 9 (excluding 1 and 1000)?
[CDS 2022 (1)]
165. What are distinct prime factors of the (a) 12 (b) 13
number 26381? (c) 14 (d) 16
[CDS 2021 (2)]
(a) 29, 17, 37 (b) 31, 17, 47 172. 275 + 313 is divisible by:
(c) 19, 37, 13 (d) 23, 31, 37 [CDS 2022 (1)]
(a) 8 (b) 10
166. What is the remainder after dividing the (c) 12 (d) 21
number 371000 by 9?
[CDS 2021 (2)] 173. Let p = 22n+2 + m and q = 24n – m (where n
(a)1 (b) 3 is even natural number). What should be
(c) 7 (d) 9 the least value of m such that p as well as q
is divisible by 5?
167. If x is negative real number, then which of [CDS 2022 (1)]
the following are not correct? (a) –1 (b) 1
1.There is some natural number k such (c) 4 (d) 6
that kx > 0
2.x2 + x > 0 always 174. Let a, b, c, d be positive integers. If
3.2x < x < –x 1 17
4. x2 is always a rational number =
1 60
Select the correct answer using the code a
1
given below: b
[CDS 2021 (2)] 1
c
(a) 1, 2 and 3 (b) 1, 2 and 4 d
(c) 1, 3 and 4 (d) 2, 3 and 4 then what is the product of a, b, c, d?
[CDS 2022 (1)]
168. How many zeros are there in the product (a) 24 (b) 51
150  249  348  ….  501? (c) 68 (d) 102
[CDS 2021 (2)]
(a) 262 (b) 261

175. What is the value of least value of n if (a) 8 (b) 9
194480 + n = m4, where m and n are (c) 10 (d) 12
natural numbers?
[CDS 2022 (1)] 180. Consider the number N = 126  38  53.
(a) 1 (b) 2 Which of the following statements is/are
(c) 3 (d) 4 correct?
1. the number of odd factors of N is 60
176. 4143 + 4343 is divisible by 2. the number of even factors of N is 720
[CDS 2022 (1)] Select the correct answer using the code
given below:
(a) 80 (b) 84 [CDS 2022 (II)]
(c) 86 (d) 88 (a) only 1 (b) only 2
(c) both 1 and 2 (d) neither 1 nor 2
177. 461 + 462 + 463 + 464 is divisible by:
[CDS 2022 (1)] 181. Consider the question and two statements
(a) 7 (b) 9 given below:
(c) 11 (d) 17 A 2-digit number is added to the number
formed by reversing the digits of the 2-digit
178. There are two natural numbers x and y, number.
where x>y. when x is divided by 6, it leaves Question: What is the 2-digit number?
the remainder 2 and; when y is divided by Statement-1: The sum is divisible by 9
6, it leaves the remainder 3. What is the Statement-2: The sum is divisible by 2.
remainder when (x–y) is divided by 6? Which one of the following is correct in
[CDS 2022 (II)] respect of the question and the statements?
(a) 1 [CDS 2022 (II)]
(b) 3 (a)Statement-1 alone is suffering to answer
(c) 5 the question
(d) Remainder cannot be determined (b)Statement-2 alone is suffering to answer
the question
179. If three times the greater of two numbers is (c)Both statement-1 and statement-2 are
divided by the smaller number, the quotient suffering to answer the question
will be 6 and the remainder will be 6. If five (d)Both statement-1 and statement-2 are
items the smaller number is divided by the not suffering to answer the question
greater number is divided by the greater
number, the quotient will be 2 and the
remainder will be 3. What is the difference
between the numbers?
[CDS 2022 (II)]

ANSWER KEY
1. (a) 2. (b) 3. (c) 4. (c) 5. (d) 6. (c) 7. (a) 8. (b) 9. (c) 10. (a)
11. (a) 12. (b) 13. (c) 14. (c) 15. (b) 16. (c) 17. (d) 18. (a) 19. (b) 20. (b)
21. (d) 22. (b) 23. (c) 24. (d) 25. (c) 26. (d) 27. (b) 28. (d) 29. (c) 30. (c)
31. (c) 32. (c) 33. (a) 34. (a) 35. (c) 36. (d) 37. (a) 38. (c) 39. (d) 40. (a)
41. (d) 42. (d) 43. (a) 44. (b) 45. (c) 46. (b) 47. (a) 48. (a) 49. (a) 50. (c)
51. (c) 52. (d) 53. (b) 54. (d) 55. (b) 56. (a) 57. (c) 58. (b) 59. (b) 60. (d)
61. (c) 62. (a) 63. (a) 64. (c) 65. (c) 66. (d) 67. (c,d) 68. (a,c) 69. (c) 70. (c)
71. (c) 72. (c) 73. (c) 74. (d) 75. (c) 76. (d) 77. (b) 78. (b) 79. (b) 80. (d)
81. (a) 82. (b) 83. (b) 84. (c) 85. (a) 86. (b) 87. (b) 88. (d) 89. (d) 90. (c)
91. (a) 92. (c) 93. (a) 94. (d) 95. (b) 96. (c) 97. (b) 98. (c) 99. (a) 100. (b)
101. (b) 102. (d) 103. (c) 104. (d) 105. (c) 106. (a) 107. (a) 108. (d) 109. (b) 110. (c)
111. (c) 112. (c) 113. (b) 114. (c) 115. (b) 116. (d) 117. (a) 118. (a) 119. (d) 120. (c)
121. (d) 122. (c) 123. (c) 124. (d) 125. (a) 126. (d) 127. (b) 128. (d) 129. (c) 130. (c)
131. (c) 132. (c) 133. (a) 134. (b) 135. (d) 136. (a) 137. (b) 138. (b) 139. (c) 140. (d)
141. (a) 142. (b) 143. (b) 144. (b) 145. (a) 146. (b) 147. (a) 148. (c) 149. (d) 150. (c)
151. (b) 152. (a) 153. (b) 154. (c) 155. (a) 156. (a) 157. (b) 158. (d) 159. (b) 160. (c)
161. (d) 162. (b) 163. (d) 164. (a) 165. (d) 166. (a) 167. (b) 168. (a) 169. (d) 170. (b)
171. (c) 172. (b) 173. (b) 174. (a) 175. (a) 176 (b) 177. (d) 178. (c) 179. (b) 180. (c)
181. (d)

CAPF PYQ
1. If the product of n positive numbers is unity, (a)1 (b) 2
then their sum is: (c) 4 (d) 6
[CAPF 2017]
(a)A positive integer 8. On simplifications the product (x 1 + y1) (x2 +
(b)Divisible by n y2) ….. (x10 + y10), how many such terms are
(c)Equal to n+ 1/n there which will have only single x and rest
(d)Never less than n y’s ?
[CAPF 2018]
2. Consider the following number n = [(6374) 1793 (a) 210 (b) 10
 (625)317  (313)49]. (c) 20 (d) 1
Which one of the following is the digit at unit
place of n. 9. What is the natural number n for which 39 +
[CAPF 2017] 312 + 315 + 3n is a perfect cube of an integer?
(a) 0 (b) 1 [CAPF 2019]
(c) 2 (d) 5 (a)10 (b) 11
(c)13 (d) 14
3. What is the largest value four n (natural
number) such that 6n divides the product of 10. When the digits of two-digit numbers are
the first 100 natural numbers. reversed, the number increases by 27, the
[CAPF 2018] sum of such two-digit numbers is:
(a)18 (b) 33 [CAPF 2019]
(c) 44 (d) 48 (a) 235 (b) 249
(c) 213 (d) 180
4. Suppose 72 = m  n, where m and n are
positive integers such that 1 < m < n. How 11. Which one of the following is the greatest
many possible values of m are there? number by which the product of three
[CAPF 2018] consecutive even numbers would be exactly
(a) 5 (b) 6 divisible?
(c) 10 (d) 12 [CAPF 2020]
(a) 12 (b) 24
5. Suppose xyz are three positive integers such (c) 48 (d) 64
that x  y  z and xyz and xyz = 72. Which
one of the following values of S yields more 12. A is the smallest positive integer which when
than one solution to the equation x + y + z = divided by 9 and 12 leaves remainder 8. B is
S? the smallest positive integer which when
[CAPF 2018] divided by 9 and 12 leaves remainder 5.
(a)13 (b) 14 Which one of the following is the value of A –
(c)15 (d) 16 B?
[CAPF 2020]
6. If the number 2  5  4  10  6  15 
2 4 6 8 10 12 (a) 3 (b) 2
814  2016  1018  2520 is divisible by 10n. (c) 1 (d) 0
Then which one of the following is maximum
value of n? n n2
13. Suppose the nth term of a series is 1+  .
[CAPF 2018] 2 2
(a) 78 (b) 85 If there are 20 terms in the series, then the
(c) 89 (d) 98 sum of the series is equal to:
[CAPF 2021]
7. Which one of the following is the remainder (a) 1360 (b) 1450
when 1020 is divided by 7? (c) 1500 (d) 1560
[CAPF 2018]

ANSWER KEY
1. d 2. a 3. d 4. c 5. b 6. d 7. b 8. b 9. d 10. b
11. b 12. a 13. d

9 SIMPLIFICATION
PRACTICE SHEET 1
1. The value of 12. The number of perfect square numbers between
50 and 1000 is
(0.03)  (0.21)   0.065 
2 2 2
(a) 21 (b) 22
(0.003) 2  (0.021) 2   0.0065 
2
(c) 23 (d) 24
(1) 0.1 (2) 10
(3) 102 (4) 103 13. The smallest number which should be added to
the number 8958 so that the result is a perfect
2. The sum of square is
(a) 69 (b) 67
0.01  0.81  1.21  0.0009 is
(c) 77 (d) 79
(1) 2.1 (2) 2.13
(3) 2.03 (4) 2.11
14. The largest number of five digits, which is a
perfect square is
(6.1)2  (61.1)2   611.1
2
3. The value of (a) 99999 (b) 99976
(0.61)2  (6.11)2   61.11
2 (c) 99856 (d) 99764
(1) 0.1 (2) 1.1 15. How many perfect squares lie between 120 and
(3) 10 (4) 100 300 ?
(a) 5 (b) 6
4. The value of 5  11  19  29  49 is (c) 7 (d) 8
(1) 3 (2) 9
16. The smallest number that must be subtracted
(3) 7 (4) 5
from 1000 to make the resulting number a
perfect square is
5. 0.081 0.484 is equal to (a) 37 (b) 38
0.0064  6.25 (c) 39 (d) 40
(1) 9 (2) 0.9
(3) 99 (4) 0.99
17. 42  42  42  .......... =
6. The simplified value of 900  0.09  0.000009 is (a) 7 (b) 6
(c) 8 (d) 9
(1) 30.27 (2) 30.297
(3) 30.097 (4) 30.197
18. 56  56  56  .......... =
7. Which of the following is not a perfect square (a) 7 (b) 6
(1) 678976 (2) 157609 (c) 8 (d) 9
(3) 536582 (4) 419904
8. The smallest 4-digit number, which is a perfect 19. 9 9 9 9........ =

square, is (a) 7 (b) 6
(1) 1009 (2) 1016 (c) 8 (d) 9
(3) 1024 (4) 1025
9. The smallest number added to 680621 to make 20. 2  2  2  2  ........ =

the sum a perfect square is :
(1) 4 (2) 5 (a) 0 (b) 1
(3) 6 (4) 8 (c) 2 (d) 3
10. The smallest positive integer, when multiplied by 21. What2 number must be added to the expression
392, the product is a perfect square, is 16a –12a to make it a perfect square ?
(a) 6 (b) 5 (1) 9/4 (2) 11/2
(c) 3 (d) 2 (3) 13/2 (4) 16
9 1
4
11. Which smallest number must be added to 2203 x x4
so that we get a perfect square ? 22. What value should come in place of x in 
(a) 1 (b) 3
324 9
(a) 27 (b) 362
(c) 6 (d) 8
(c) 6 (d) 36

23. One-third of the square root of which number is 27. If 5416 * 6 is a perfect square, then the digit at *
0.001? is :
(1) 0.0009 (2) 0.000001 (1) 9 (2) 4
(3) 0.00009 (4) None of the above (3) 6 (4) 5
28. 4(10 + 15 ÷ 5 × 4 − 2 × 2 ) =
24. 7  48 = (a) 56 (b) 24
(a) 4 + √2 (b) 2 + √3 (c) 48 (d) 72
(c) 3 − √2 (d) 4 − √2
29. The sum of squares of three positive integers is
25. If the sum of the squares of three consecutive 323. If the sum of squares of two numbers is
natural numbers is 110, then the smallest of twice the third, their product is
these natural numbers is : (1) 255 (2) 260
(1) 8 (2) 6 (3) 265 (4) 270
(3) 7 (4) 5
30. The difference between two numbers is 9 and the
26. Which of the following is true? difference between their squares is 207. The
(1) √5 + √3 >√ 6 + √2 numbers are:
(2) √5 + √3 <√ 6 + √2 (1) 17 and 8 (2) 16 and 7
(3) √5 + √3 = √6 + √2 (3) 15 and 6 (4) 23 and 14
(4) (√5 + √3 ) (√ 6 + √2 ) = 1
ANSWER KEY
1. (b) 2. (b) 3. (c) 4. (a) 5. (d) 6. (b) 7. (c) 8. (c) 9. (a) 10. (d)
11. (c) 12. (d) 13. (b) 14. (c) 15. (c) 16. (c) 17. (a) 18. (c) 19. (d) 20. (c)
21. (a) 22. (c) 23. (d) 24. (b) 25. (d) 26. (a) 27. (a) 28. (d) 29. (a) 30. (b)
PRACTICE SHEET 2
1 7 4. Simpliafy 4 1
1. If x = 1  then the value of 2 x  is 1  (10  2)
1 4 3 2
1 2
1 1
1 5
1 2
1 (a) 1 (b) 0
2 (c) - 15/2 (d) - 1/2
(1) 3 (2) 4
(3) 5 (4) 6
5. The value of 1  a is
2. The simplification of gives 1
5 1
a
3
3 1
2 1 a
1 (a) a (b) 1 - a
3
(a) 5 (b) 5/3 (c) 1 (d) 0
(c) 5/12 (d) 3/5
6. Simplify :
3. If 2 = x + 1 , then the value of x is 1  1  1 1  1 1 1  
8  3  1  1    
1 2  4  4 2  2 3 6  
1
1 1 1
3 (a) 4 (b) 4
4 2 6
(a) 18/17 (b) 21/17
(c) 13/17 (d) 12/17 1 2
(c) 9 (d)
2 9

7. The value of 0.008 × 0.01 × 0.072 ÷ (0.12 × 3 4
0.0004) is : 19. Which of the following is largest 4, 6 , 6 15 ,
(1) 1.2 (2) 0.12 12
245
(3) 0.012 (4) 1.02
3 4
(a) 4 (b) 6
8. The value of 2 3 is (c) 6
(d) 12
245
× 15
3 5 2 1
÷ of1
6 3 4 1 1 1
20. The value of + +
(a) 2 (b) 1
2 +1 3+ 2 4+ 3
(c) 1/2 (d) 2/3
1 1 1 1 1
+ + + +
9. 2 3 1 7 5+ 4 6+ 5 7+ 6 8+ 7 9+ 8
9  1 of 3  5 of is equal to
9 11 7 9 (a) 0 (b) 1
(a) 8 (b) 9 (c) 2 (d) 3
3
(c) 7 (d) 21. What is the square root of 9  2 14 ?
4
(1) 1 2 2 (2) 3 6
10. The value of 1 ÷ [1 + 1 ÷ {1 + 1 ÷ (1 + 1 ÷ 2)}] is (3) 2 7 (4) 2 5
(1) 1 (2) 5/8
(3) 2 (4) 1/2
22. The sum of the square of a number and the square
of the reciprocal of the number, is thrice the
11.
1 1 1 1 1 1 =
     difference of the square of the number and the
2 6 12 20 30 42 square of the reciprocal of the number. What is
(a) 5/7 (b) 6/7 the number?
(c) 2/7 (d) 1 (1) 1 (2) (2)1/4
(3) (3)1/3 (4) (4)1/4
1 1 1 1 1 1 =
12.      23. What is/are the real value(s) of (256)0.16 ×(16)0.18 ?
12 20 30 42 56 72
(1) Only – 4 (2) Only 4
(a) 2/9 (b) 4/9
(3) 4, – 4 (4) 2, – 2
(c) 3/4 (d) 5/9
13. 1 1 1 1 1 = 24. Assertion (A):

5041 is rational
+ + + +
1.3 3.5 5.7 7.9 9.11 6889
(a) 5/11 (b) 10/11 Reason (R): The square root of a rational number
(c) 6/11 (d) 3/11 is always rational.
(1) A and R are correct and R is correct
14. 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 = explanation of A
15 35 63 99 143 (2) A and R are correct but R is not correct
(a) 6/39 (b) 10/39 explanation of A
(c) 5/39 (d) 4/39 (3) A is correct but R is wrong
(4) A is wrong but R is correct
15. 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 =
6 12 20 30 42 56 25. What is the square of (2 + √2 ) ?
(a) 3/8 (b) 5/8 (1) A rational number
(c) 7/8 (d) 1/8 (2) An irrational number
(3) A natural number
16. (16)0.16 × (16)0.04 × (2)0.2 is equal to : (4) A whole number
(1) 1 (2) 2
(3) 4 (4) 16 26. If (ab−1)2x−1 = (ba−1)x−2
(1) 1 (2) 2
17. The square root of 14 + 6√5 is (3) 3 (4) 4
(1) 2 + √5 (2) 3 + √5
(3) 5 + √3 (4) 3 + 2√5 27. What is the value of
√7.84 + √0.0784 + √0.000784 + √0.00000784 ?
 
(1) 3.08 (2) 3.108
18. 2  7  2 10 is equal to (3) 3.1008 (d) 3.1108
(a) √2 (b) √7
(c) √5 (d) 2√5

28. What is the value of (3) 8n + 3 (4) 8n + 15
1 1 1
 +........+ 30. The number √0.0001 is
1+ 2 2+ 3 15 + 16
(a) a rational number less than 0.01
(1) 0 (2) 1
(b) a rational number
(3) 2 (4) 3
(c) an irrational number
(d)neither a rational number nor an irrational
29. If 27×(81)2n+3 - 3m = 0 , then what is m equal to?
number
(1) 2n + 5 (2) 5n + 6
ANSWER KEY
1. (3) 2. (3) 3. (2) 4. (2) 5. (4) 6. (2) 7. (2) 8. (1) 9. (1) 10. (2)
11. (2) 12. (1) 13. (1) 14. (2) 15. (1) 16. (2) 17. (2) 18. (3) 19. (1) 20. (3)
21. (3) 22. (2) 23. (2) 24. (3) 25. (2) 26. (1) 27. (4) 28. (4) 29. (4) 30. (2)
CDS PYQ
1. If a = 2+√3 , then what is the value of (a2 + (d) a real number but not a rational number
a−2)?
[CDS 2012(II)]
7. If x 2  6  6  6  6  .......... , then what is one
(a) 12 (b) 14
(c) 16 (d) 18 of the values of x equal to
[CDS 2013(II)]
(a) 6 (b) 5
2. If10  3 x = 4 , then what is the value of x? (c) 4 (d) 3
[CDS 2012(II)]
(a) 150 (b) 216 8. Which is the smallest number among the
(c) 316 (d) 450 following?
[CDS 2013(II)]
3. The least number of four digits which is a 2
   
2
perfect square is (a)  5 2  2
 (b)  5 2 2 
[CDS 2012(II)]    
 2
   
2
(c)  2
5 2 
(d)  2
(a) 1204 (b) 1024 5 2 
(c) 1402 (d) 1420    
4. What is the value of 6  6  6  .......... 9. Consider the following in respect of the

[CDS 2013(I)] numbers 2 , 3 3 , 6 6
(a) 2 (b) 3 1. 6 6 is the greatest number
(c) 3.5 (d) 4 2. 2 is the smallest number
Which one of the above statements is/are
5. If 16×8n+2 = 2m, then m is equal to correct ?
[CDS 2013(I)] [CDS 2014(I)]
(a) n + 8 (b) 2n + 10 (a) Only 1 (b) Only 2
(c) 3n + 2 (d) 3n + 10 (c) Both 1 and 2 (d) Neither 1 nor 2
2 10. The product of four consecutive natural


  
2
The expression numbers plus one is
6.  2  gives
[CDS 2014(I)]
[CDS 2013(I)] (a) a non-square
(a) a natural number (b) always sum of two square numbers
(b) an integer and not a natural number (c) a square
(c) a rational number but not an integer (d) None of these

11. The difference of cubes of two consecutive [CDS 2016(II)]
integers 1 1
(a) 2008  (b) 2007 
[CDS 2014(I)] 2008 2007
(a) is odd or even 1 1
(b) is never divisible by 2 (c) 2007  (d) 2008 
(c) is always even 2008 2009
(d) None of these
19. What is 0.064  6.25 equal to ?
12. What are the possible solutions for x of the 0.081 4.84
equation x x  n
x x , where n and x are [CDS 2017(I)]
(a) 10/99 (b) 100/99
positive integers
(c) 9 (d) 99
[CDS 2015(I)]
(a) 0, n (b) 1 , n
(c) n , n2 (d) 1, n2 20. What is the value of
12
is ?
3 4
25
13. What is the value of
5  10 [CDS 2017(II)]
5 5  2 20  32  50 (a) 1
3 (b) 1
2
equal to 5 5
[CDS 2015(I)] (c) 1
4 (d) 2
2
(a) 5 (b) 5√2 5 5
(c) 5√5 (d) √5
21. If a3 = 335 +b3 and a = 5+b , then what is the
1 1
14. If x = √3 + √2 , then the value of x  x   3
3 value of a+b (a>0, b>0)
x x [CDS 2017(II)]
is (a) 7 (b) 9
[CDS 2015(II)] (c) 16 (d) 49
(a) 10√3 (b) 20√3
(c) 10√2 (d) 20√2 22. Consider the following numbers :
1. 2222
15. Which one of the following is correct ? 2. 11664
[CDS 2015(II)] 3. 343343
4. 220347
(a) 2  4 6  3 4 (b) 2  4 6  3 4
Which of the above are not perfect squares?
(c) 4
6 234 (d) 4
6 234 [CDS 2017(II)]
(a) 1, 2 and 3 (b) 1, 2 and 4
16. The sum of first 47 terms of series (c) 2, 3 and 4 (d) 1, 3 and 4
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
        ....... is 23. The smallest integer with 4 digits which is a
4 5 6 4 5 6 4 5 6
[CDS 2015(II)] perfect square is
1 [CDS 2018(I)]
(a) 0 (b)  (a) 1000
6 (b) 1024
1 9 (c) 1089
(c) (b)
6 20 (d) None of the above
17. What is
62  72  82  92  102 is equal to ? 5 3 5 3 ?
24. What is the value of 
74 3  42 3 5 3 5 3
[CDS 2016(II)] [CDS 2018(I)]
(a) 330 (b) 340 (a) −2√15 (b) 2√15
(c) 355 (d) 366 (c) √15 (d) −√15
18. What is
1 1 1 1 1 1
1  2  2  1  2  2  ....  ...... 1  
1 2 2 3 20072 20082

25. What is the value of [CDS 2021(I)]
1 1 1 (a) 98 (b) 99
ba c a
 a b c b
 a c
(c) 100 (d) 101
1 x x 1 x x 1 x  xbc
34. For what integral value of x is
[CDS 2018(I)] 12
(a) −1 (b) 0  x?
6
(c) 1 (d) 3 7
3
7
5 x
26. What is the value of 2  2  2  ..... [CDS 2021(I)]
(a) 4 (b) 3
[CDS 2019(I)]
(c) 2 (d) 1
(a) 1 (b) 2
(c) 3 (d) 4
35. What is the square root of 15−4√14 ?
[CDS 2021(I)]
27. What is the square root of 16 + 6√7 ?
(a) 2√2 −√7 (b) 3√2 −2√17
[CDS 2019(II)]
(c) √15 −√7 (d) √5 −√3
(a) 4 +√7 (b) 4−√7
(c) 3 + √7 (d) 3−√7
36. What is the square root of 23–4√15?
[CDS 2021(II)]
28. If a  7  4 3 , then what is the value of a  1 (a)√6 − 3√2 (b)7–3√5
a
[CDS 2019(II)] (c) √3 − 2√5 (d) √5 − 4√3
(a) 2 (b) 3
(c) 4 (d) 7 37. What is
1

1

1
+ … +
1 2 2 3 3 4
29. What is 1 1 ?
 1
equal to?
a mn  1 a n m  1
[CDS 2020(I)] 2020  2021
(a) 1 (b) −1 [CDS 2022(I)]
(c) 0 (d) 2am−n (a) 2020  1 (b) 2021 1
(c) 2020  2021 1 (d) 2021 1
30. If x = 2 , y = 3 3 and z = 6 6 then which one
the following is correct ? 38. What is the smallest natural number from
[CDS 2020(I)] the following which must be subtracted from
(a) y < x < z (b) z < x < y 9410 to make the remaining number a
(c) z < y < x (d) x < y < z perfect square?
[CDS 2022(I)]
(a) 4 (b) 3
31. What is the value of (c) 2 (d) 1
1 1 1
 +........+
1+ 2 2+ 3 99 + 100 39. What is the value of the following?
1[CDS 2020(II)]
1 1
(1) 1 (2) 5  
5 4 4 5 6 5 5 6 7 6 6 7
(3) 9 (4) 10
1 1
+ 
8 7 7 8 9 8 8 9
32. If x m = 14 x x x , then what is the value of
[CDS 2022(I)]
m?
1 1
[CDS 2020(II)] (a) (b)
2
(a) 1/8 (b) 1/4 6
1
(c) 3/4 (d) 7/4 (c) 1 (d)
6
33. 1 1 1 1 99 then
   .......... 
1 2 2  3 3  4 n(n  1) 100
what is the value of n ?

40. If x2 – 20 [CDS 2022 (II)]
(a) 4 (b) 5
= 20  20  20  20  ....infinite terms , then (c) √5 (d) 2√5
what is x equal to?
ANSWER KEY
1. (b) 2. (b) 3. (b) 4. (b) 5. (d) 6. (a) 7. (d) 8. (c) 9. (d) 10. (c)
11. (b) 12. (d) 13. (d) 14. (b) 15. (a) 16. (b) 17. (a) 18. (a) 19. (b) 20. (a)
21. (b) 22. (d) 23. (b) 24. (a) 25. (c) 26. (b) 27. (c) 28. (c) 29. (b) 30. (b)
31. (c) 32. (a) 33. (b) 34. (c) 35. (a) 36. (c) 37. (d) 38. (d) 39. (d) 40. (b)
CAPF PYQ
1. Which one of the following is the smallest 2. The least integer when multiplied by 2940
number by which 2880 must be divided in becomes a perfect square is:
order to make it a perfect square? [CAPF 2019]
[CAPF 2017] (a)10 (b) 15
(a) 3 (b) 4 (c) 20 (d) 35
(c) 5 (d) 6
ANSWER KEY
1. c 2. b

10 LCM AND HCF
PRACTICE SHEET 1
1. The LCM of two numbers is 30 and their (1) 40 (2) 42
HCF is 5. One of the numbers is 10. The (3) 50 (4) 52
other is
(1) 20 (2) 25 10. The H.C.F. of two numbers is 96 and their
(3) 15 (4) 5 L.C.M. is 1296. If one of the numbers is 864,
the other is
2. The product of two numbers is 1280 and (1) 132 (2) 135
their H.C.F. is 8. The L.C.M. of the number (3) 140 (4) 144
will be:
(1) 160 (2) 150 11. The LCM of two numbers is 4 times their
(3) 120 (4) 140 HCF. The sum of LCM and HCF is 125. If
one of the number is 100, then the other
3. The H.C.F. and L.C.M. of two numbers are 8 number is
and 48 respectively. If one of the numbers is (1) 5 (2) 25
24, then the other number is (3) 100 (4) 125
(1) 48 (2) 36
(3) 24 (4) 16 12. Product of two co-prime numbers is 117.
Then their L.C.M. is
4. The H.C.F and L.C.M of two numbers are 12 (1) 117 (2) 9
and 336 respectively. If one of the numbers (3) 13 (4) 39
is 84, the other is
(1) 36 (2) 48 13. The product of two numbers is 2160 and
(3) 72 (4) 96 their HCF is 12. Number of such possible
pairs is
5. The product of two numbers is 216. If the (1) 1 (2) 2
HCF is 6, then their LCM is (3) 3 (4) 4
(1) 72 (2) 60
(3) 48 (4) 36 14. LCM of two numbers is 2079 and their HCF
is 27. If one of the number is 189, the other
6. The HCF and LCM of two numbers are 18 number is
and 378 respectively. If one of the numbers (1) 297 (2) 584
is 54, then the other number is (3) 189 (4) 216
(1) 126 (2) 144
(3) 198 (4) 238 15. The product of two numbers is 2028 and
their HCF is 13. The number of such pairs is
7. The HCF and product of two numbers are 15 (1) 1 (2) 2
and 6300 respectively. The number of (3) 3 (4) 4
possible pairs of the numbers is
(1) 4 (2) 3 16. The LCM and the HCF of the numbers 28
(3) 2 (4) 1 and 42 are in the ratio:
(1) 6 : 1 (2) 2 : 3
8. The HCF of two numbers is 15 and their (3) 3 : 2 (4) 7 : 2
LCM is 225. If one of the number is 75, then
the other number is: 17. If the ratio of two numbers is 2 : 3 and their
(1) 105 (2) 90 L.C.M. is 54, then the sum of the two
(3) 60 (4) 45 numbers is
(1) 5 (2) 15
9. The LCM of two numbers is 520 and their (3) 45 (4) 270
HCF is 4. If one of the number is 52, then
the other number is 18. The ratio of two numbers is 4 : 5 and their
L.C.M. is 120. The numbers are

(1) 30, 40 (2) 40, 32 25. The LCM of two numbers is 48. The
(3) 24, 30 (4) 36, 20 numbers are in the ratio 2 : 3. The sum of
the numbers is
19. Three numbers are in the ratio 2 : 3 : 4 and (1) 28 (2) 32
their H.C.F. is 12. The L.C.M. of the (3) 40 (4) 64
numbers is
(1) 144 (2) 192 26. The ratio of two numbers is 4 : 5 and their
(3) 96 (4) 72 H.C.F. is 8. Then their L.C.M. is
(1) 130 (2) 140
20. Two numbers are in the ratio 3 : 4. If their (3) 150 (4) 160
LCM is 240, the smaller of the two number
is 27. The ratio of two numbers is 3 : 4 and their
(1) 100 (2)80 HCF is 5. Their LCM is :
(3) 60 (4)50 (1) 10 (2) 60
(3) 15 (4) 12
21. Two numbers are in the ratio 3 : 4. Their
L.C.M. is 84. The greater number is 28. Three numbers are in the ratio 1 : 2 : 3 and
(1) 21 (2) 24 their HCF is 12. The numbers are
(3) 28 (4) 84 (1) 12, 24, 36 (2) 5, 10, 15
(3) 4, 8, 12 (4) 10, 20, 30
22. Two numbers are in the ratio 3 : 4. If their
HCF is 4, then their LCM is 29. If x : y be the ratio of two whole numbers
(1) 48 (2) 42 and z be their HCF, then the LCM of those
(3) 36 (4) 24 two numbers is
(1) yz (2)xz/y
23. The ratio of the sum to the LCM of two (3) xy/z (4) xyz
natural numbers is 7 : 12. If their HCF is 4,
then the smaller number is : 30. The H.C.F. and L.C.M. of two numbers are
(1) 20 (2) 16 21 and 84 respectively. If the ratio the two
(3) 12 (4) 8 numbers is 1 : 4, then the larger of the two
numbers is
24. Two numbers are in the ratio 3 : 4. The (1) 12 (2) 108
product of their H.C.F. and L.C.M. is 2028. (3) 48 (4) 84
The sum of the numbers is
(1) 68 (2) 72
(3) 86 (4) 91
ANSWER KEY
1. (3) 2. (1) 3. (4) 4. (2) 5. (4) 6. (1) 7. (3) 8. (4) 9. (1) 10. (4)
11. (2) 12. (1) 13. (2) 14. (1) 15. (2) 16. (1) 17. (3) 18. (3) 19. (1) 20. (3)
21. (3) 22. (1) 23. (3) 24. (4) 25. (3) 26. (4) 27. (2) 28. (1) 29. (4) 30. (4)

PRACTICE SHEET 2
1. The least number which when divided by 4, 9. Let the least number of six digits which
6, 8, 12 and 16 leaves a remainder of 2 in when divided by 4, 6, 10, 15 leaves in each
each case is: case same remainder 2 be N. The sum of
(1) 46 (2) 48 digits in N is :
(3) 50 (4) 56 (1) 3 (2) 5
(3) 4 (4) 6
2. The least number, which when divided by
12, 15, 20 or 54 leaves a remainder of 4 in 10. Which is the least number which when
each case, is: doubled will be exactly divisible by 12, 18,
(1) 450 (2) 454 21 and 30 ?
(3) 540 (4) 544 (1) 2520 (2) 1260
(3) 630 (4) 196
3. Find the greatest number of five digits which
when divided by 3, 5, 8, 12 have 2 as 11. The smallest square number divisible by 10,
remainder: 16 and 24 is
(1) 99999 (2) 99958 (1) 900 (2) 1600
(3) 99960 (4) 99962 (3) 2500 (4) 3600
4. The least multiple of 13, which on dividing 12. If the students of a class can be grouped
by 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 leaves remainder 2 in exactly into 6 or 8 or 10, then the minimum
each case is: number of students in the class must be
(1) 2520 (2) 842 (1) 60 (2) 120
(3) 2522 (4) 840 (3) 180 (4) 240
5. A, B, C start running at the same time and 13. The least number which when divided by 4,
at the same point in the same direction in a 6, 8 and 9 leave zero remainder in each case
circular stadium. A completes a round in and when divided by 13 leaves a remainder
252 seconds, B in 308 seconds and C in 198 of 7 is :
seconds. After what time will they meet (1) 144 (2) 72
again at the starting point ? (3) 36 (4) 85
(1) 26 minutes 18 seconds
(2) 42 minutes 36 seconds 14. The smallest number, which when divided
(3) 45 minutes by 12 and 16 leaves remainder 5 and 9
(4) 46 minutes 12 seconds respectively, is :
(1) 55 (2) 41
6. Find the largest number of four digits such (3) 39 (4) 29
that on dividing by 15, 18, 21 and 24 the
remainders are 11, 14, 17 and 20 15. The greatest number of four digits which
respectively. when divided by 12, 16 and 24 leave
(1) 6557 (2) 7556 remainders 2, 6 and 14 respectively is
(3) 5675 (4) 7664 (1) 9974 (2) 9970
(3) 9807 (4) 9998
7. The least perfect square, which is divisible
by each of 21, 36 and 66 is 16. When a number is divided by 15, 20 or 35,
(1) 214344 (2) 214434 each time the remainder is 8. Then the
(3) 213444 (4) 231444 smallest number is
(1) 428 (2) 427
8. The least number, which when divided by 4, (3) 328 (4) 338
5 and 6 leaves remainder 1, 2 and 3
respectively, is 17. The smallest number, which, when divided
(1) 57 (2) 59 by 12 or 10 or 8, leaves remainder 6 in each
(3) 61 (4) 63 case, is

(1) 246 (2) 186 24. Let N be the greatest number that will divide
(3) 126 (4) 66 1305, 4665 and 6905 leaving the same
remainder in each case. Then, sum of the
18. The traffic lights at three different road digits in N is :
crossings change after 24 seconds, 36 (1) 4 (2) 5
seconds and 54 seconds respectively. If they (3) 6 (4) 8
all change simultaneously at 10 : 15 : 00
AM, then at what time will they again 25. What is the greatest number that will divide
change simultaneously? 307 and 330 leaving remainders 3 and 7
(1) 10 : 16 : 54 AM respectively?
(2) 10 : 18 : 36 AM (1) 19 (2) 16
(3) 10 : 17 : 02 AM (3) 17 (4) 23
(4) 10 : 22 : 12 AM
26. Which greatest number will divide 3026 and
19. From a point on a circular track 5 km long 5053 leaving remainders 11 and 13
A, B and C started running in the same respectively?
1 (1) 18 (2) 30
direction at the same time with speed of 2 (3) 45 (4) 60
2
km per hour, 3 km per hour and 2 km per 27. A farmer has 945 cows and 2475 sheep. He
hour respectively. Then on the starting point farms them into flocks, keeping cows and
all three will meet again after sheep separate and having the same number
(1) 30 hours (2) 6 hours of animals in each flock. If these flocks are
(3) 10 hours (4) 15 hours as large as possible, then the maximum
number of animals in each flock and total
20. Four runners started running number of flocks required for the purpose
simultaneously from a point on a circular are respectively
track. They took 200 seconds, 300 seconds, (1) 15 and 228 (2) 9 and 380
360 seconds and 450 seconds to complete (3) 45 and 76 (4) 46 and 75
one round. After how much time do they
meet at the starting point for the first time ? 28. A milk vendor has 21 litres of cow milk, 42
(1) 1800 seconds (2) 3600 seconds litres of toned milk and 63 litres of double
(3) 2400 seconds (4) 4800 seconds toned milk. If he wants to pack them in cans
so that each can contains same litres of milk
21. The maximum number of students among and does not want to mix any two kinds of
whom 1001 pens and 910 pencils can be milk in a can, then the least number of cans
distributed in such a way that each student required is
gets same number of pens and same (1) 3 (2) 6
number of pencils, is : (3) 9 (4) 12
(1) 91 (2) 910
(3) 1001 (4) 1911 29. The greatest number that divides 411, 684,
821 and leaves 3, 4 and 5 as remainders,
22. The greatest number, which when divide respectively, is
989 and 1327 leave remainders 5 and 7 (1) 254 (2) 146
respectively, is : (3) 136 (4) 204
(1) 8 (2) 16
(3) 24 (4) 32 30. Find the greatest number which will exactly
divide 200 and 320.
2 4 6 (1) 10 (2) 20
23. H.C.F of , , is
3 5 7 (3) 16 (4) 40
(1) 48/105 (2) 2/105
(3) 1/105 (4) 24/105

ANSWER KEY
1. (3) 2. (4) 3. (4) 4. (3) 5. (4) 6. (2) 7. (3) 8. (1) 9. (2) 10. (3)
11. (4) 12. (2) 13. (2) 14. (2) 15. (1) 16. (1) 17. (3) 18. (2) 19. (3) 20. (1)
21. (1) 22. (3) 23. (2) 24. (1) 25. (1) 26. (3) 27. (3) 28. (2) 29. (3) 30. (4)
CDS PYQ
1. What is the least number of square tiles 7. The sum of two numbers is 232 and their
required to pave the floor of a room 9 m 99 HCF is 29. What is the number of such pairs
cm long and4 m 7 cm broad? of numbers satisfying the above condition?
[CDS 2011(I)] [CDS 2012(I)]
(a) 247 (b) 277 (a) One (b) Two
(c) 297 (d) 307 (c) Four (d) None of these
2. What is the HCF of 3.0, 1.2 and 0.06 ? 8. The HCF and LCM of two natural numbers
[CDS 2011(I)] are 12 and 72 respectively. What is the
(a) 0.6 (b) 0.06 difference between the two numbers, if one
(c) 6.0 (d) 6.06 of the numbers is 24?
[CDS 2012(I)]
3. If the HCF of three numbers 144, x and 192 (a) 12 (b) 18
is 12, then the number x cannot be (c) 21 (d) 24
[CDS 2011(I)]
(a) 180 (b) 84 9. What is the greatest number that divides
(c) 60 (d) 48 13850 and 17030 and leaves a remainder 17?
[CDS 2012(II)]
4. The least number which when divided by (a) 477 (b) 159
5,6,7 and 8 leaves a remainder 3 is (c) 107 (d) 87
[CDS 2011(II)]
(a) 423 (b) 843 10. Three planets revolve round the Sun once in
(c) 1683 (d) 2523 200, 250 and 300 days, respectively in their
own orbits. When do they all come relatively
2 7 14 to the same position as at a certain point of
5. What is the LCM of , , ? time in their orbits?
3 9 3
[CDS 2012(II)]
[CDS 2011(II)]
(a) After 3000 days (b) After 2000 days
(a) 7/3 (b) 14/3
(c) After 1500 days (d) After 1200 days
(c) 2/3 (d) 1/3
11. The product of HCF and LCM of 18 and 15 is
6. The product of two numbers is 6912 and
[CDS 2012(II)]
their GCD is 24. What is their LCM?
(a) 120 (b) 150
[CDS 2011(II)]
(c) 175 (d) 270
(a) 280 (b) 286
(c) 288 (d) 296
12. The LCM of two numbers is 2376 while their
HCF is 33. If one of the numbers is 297,
then the other number is
[CDS 2013(I)]

(a) 216 (b) 264 19. What is the number of integral solutions of
(c) 642 (d) 792 the equations HCF (a, b)=5 and a + b = 65?
[CDS 2014(I)]
13. The HCF of two numbers is 98 and their (a) None (b) Infinitely many
LCM is 2352. The sum of the numbers may (c) Less than 65 (d) Exactly one
be
[CDS 2013(II)] 20. The LCM of two integers is 1237. What is
(a) 1372 (b) 1398 their HCF ?
(c) 1426 (d) 1484 [CDS 2014(II)]
(a) 37 (b) 19
14. If for integers a, b and c, if HCF (a, b) =1 and (c) 1 (d) Cannot be determined
HCF (a, c)= 1, then which one of the
following is correct? 21. There are 48 cricket balls, 72 hockey balls
[CDS 2013(II)] and 84 tennis balls and they have to be
(a) HCF (a, bc)=1 (b) HCF (a, bc)=a arranged in several rows in such a way that
(c) HCF (a, bc)=b (d) None of these every row contains the same number balls of
15. In a fire range, 4 shooters are firing at their balls of one type. What is the minimum
respective targets. The first, the second, the number of rows required for this to happen?
third and the fourth shooters hit the target [CDS 2014(II)]
once is every 5 s, 6 s, 7s and 8s, (a) 12 (b) 16
respectively. If all the them hit their target at (c) 17 (d) 19
9:00 am, when will they hit their target
together again? 22. The HCF of two natural numbers m and n is
[CDS 2014(I)] 24 and their product is 552. How many sets
(a) 9:04 am (b) 9:08 am of values of m and n are possible?
(c) 9:14 am (d) None of these [CDS 2014(II)]
(a) 1
16. For any integer n, what is HCF (22n+ 7, (b) 2
33n+ 10) equal to? (c) 4
[CDS 2014(I)] (d) No set of m and n is possible satisfying
(a) n (b) 1 the given conditions
23. The LCM of two numbers is 90 times their
17. For any integers 'a' and "b' with HCF (a,b)=1, HCF. The sum of LCM and HCF is 1456. If
what is HCF (a + b, a - b) equal to ? one of the numbers is 160, then what is the
[CDS 2014(I)] other number?
(a) It is always 1 (b) It is always 2 [CDS 2014(II)]
(c) Either 1 or 2 (d) None of these (a) 120 (b) 136
(c) 144 (d) 184
18. If a and b be positive integers, then HCF
 a b  24. What is the sum of digits of the least
 ,  equal to ? multiple of 13, which when divided by 6, 8
 HCF (a, b) HCF (a, b)  and 12 leaves 5, 7 and 11 respectively as the
[CDS 2014(I)] remainders ?
(a) a (b) b [CDS 2015(II)]
a (a) 5 (b) 6
(c) 1 (d)
HCF (a, b) (c) 7 (d) 8
25. A number when divided by 7 leaves a

remainder 3 and the resulting quotient when

divided by 11 leaves a remainder 6. If the 30. The HCF of two expressions p and q is 1.
same number when divided by 11 leaves a What is the reciprocal of their LCM?
remainder m and the resulting quotient [CDS 2017(I)]
when divided by 7 leaves a remainder n. (a) p + q (b) p − q
What are the values of m and n respectively? (c) pq (d) (pq)-1
[CDS 2015(II)]
(a) 1 and 4 (b) 4 and 1 31. There are two numbers which are greater
(c) 3 and 6 (d) 6 and 3 than 21 and their LCM and HCF are 3003
and 21 respectively. What is the sum of
26. The LCM of two numbers is 12 times their these numbers?
HCF. The sum of HCF and LCM is 403. If [CDS 2018(I)]
one of the numbers is 93, then the other (a) 504 (b) 508
number is (c) 514 (d) 528
[CDS 2015(II)]
(a) 124 (b) 128 32. Walls (excluding their roofs and floors) of 5
(c) 134 (d) 138 identical rooms having length, breadth and
27. Consider the following in respect of natural height 6 m, 4 m and 2.5 respectively are to
numbers a, b and c: be painted. Paints are available only in cans
1. LCM (ab, ac)= a LCM (b, c) of l L and one litre of paint can be used for
2. HCF (ab, ac)= a HCF (b, c) painting 20 square metres, What is the
3. HCF (a, b) < LCM (a, b) number of cans required painting?
4. HCF (a, b) divides LCM (a, b) [CDS 2018(I)]
Which of the above are correct? (a) 10 (b) 12
[CDS 2016(I)] (c) 13 (d) 14
(a) 1 only (b) 3 and 4 only
(c) 1,2 and 4 only (d) 1,2,3 and 4 33. The highest four digit number which is
divisible by each of the numbers
28. There are two numbers p and q such that 16,36,45,48 is
their HCF is 1. Which of the following [CDS 2018(II)]
statements are correct? (a) 9180 (b) 9360
1.Both p and q may be prime. (c) 9630 (d) 9840
2.One number may be prime and the other
composite, 34. The product of two integers p and q , where
3.Both the numbers may be composite. p > 60 and q > 60 , is 7168 and their HCF is
Select the correct answer using the code 16. Then the sum of two integers is
given below:, [CDS 2018(II)]
[CDS 2016(II)] (a) 256 (b) 184
(a) 1 and 2 only (b) 6) 2 and 3 only (c) 176 (d) 164
(c) 1 and 3 only (d) 1,2 and 3
35. HCF of two numbers is 12. Which one of the
29. Consider the following statements: following can never be their LCM
I. If a = bc with HCF (b, c)= 1, [CDS 2019(II)]
then HCF (c, bd) = HCF (c, d). (a) 80 (b) 60
II. a= bc with HCF (b, c)= 1, (c) 36 (d) 24
then LCM (a, d) = LCM (c, bd).
Which of the above statements is/are 1 5 2 4
correct? 36. What is the LCM of , , , ?
3 6 9 27
[CDS 2017(I)]
[CDS 2019(II)]
(a) 1 only (b) 2 only

(a) 5/18 (b) 1/27 43. The LCM of two prime numbers p and q is
(c) 10/27 (d) 20/3 2231, where p > q. What is the value of p–q?
[CDS 2021(II)]
37. A number divides 12288, 28200 and 44333 , (a) 67 (b) 70
so as to leave the same remainder in each (c) 74 (d) 81
case. What is that number ?
[CDS 2020(I)] 44. Three runners are running in a circular
(a) 272 (b) 232 track, and they complete one round in 20,
(c) 221 (d) 120 30 and 35 minutes respectively. When will
they next meet at the starting point?
38. Two unequal pairs of numbers satisfy the [CDS 2021(II)]
following conditions (a)After 3 hour 30 minutes
(i) The product of the two numbers in each (b)After 4 hour 30 minutes
pair is 2160 (c)After 3 hours
(ii) The HCF of the two numbers in each pair is 12. (d)After 7 hours
If x is the mean of the numbers in the first
pair and y is the mean of the numbers in the 45. Suppose p and q are LCM and HCF
second pair, then what is the mean of x and y? respectively of two positive numbers. If p : q =
[CDS 2020(I)] 14 : 1 and pq = 1134, then what is the
(a) 60 (b) 72 difference between the two numbers?
(c) 75 (d) 78 [CDS 2022(I)]
(a) 27
(b) 35
39. What is the least perfect square which is (c) 45
divisible by 3, 4, 5 , 6 and 7 ? (d)cannot be determined due to insufficient
[CDS 2020(I)] data
(a) 1764 (b) 17640
(c) 44100 (d) 176400 46. If x is the HCF and y is the LCM of
3 6 9 27
, , , , then which one of the following
40. The LCM of two numbers is 28 times their 5 25 20 50
HCF. The sum of LCM and HCF is 1740. If is correct?
one of the number is 240, then the other [CDS 2022 (II)]
number is (a) y=90x (b) y=180x
[CDS 2020(II)] (c) y=270x (d) y=360x
(a) 420 (b) 640
(c) 820 (d) 1040 47. Consider the question and two statements
given below:
LCM of two numbers x and y is 481 where x –
41. The Euclidean algorithm is used to calculate
y.
the Question: What is the value of (3x – 2y) ?
[CDS 2020(II)] Statement-1: y > 1
(a) square root of an integer Statement-2: HCF of x and y is 1.
(b) cube root of an integer Which one of the following is correct in
(c) square of an integer respect of the question and the statements?
(d) HCF of two integers [CDS 2022 (II)]
(a)Statement-1 alone is suffering to answer
the question
42. The sum of LCM and HCF of two numbers is (b)Statement-2 alone is suffering to answer
536 and the difference between LCM and the question
HCF is 296. If one of the numbers is 104, (c)Both statement-1 and statement-2 are
then what is the other number? suffering to answer the question
[CDS 2021(II)] (d)Both statement-1 and statement-2 are not
(a) 420 (b) 480 suffering to answer the question
(c) 484 (d) 506

ANSWER KEY
1. (c) 2. (b) 3. (d) 4. (b) 5. (b) 6. (c) 7. (b) 8. (a) 9. (b) 10. (a)
11. (d) 12. (b) 13. (a) 14. (a) 15. (c) 16. (b) 17. (c) 18. (c) 19. (c) 20. (c)
21. (c) 22. (d) 23. (c) 24. (d) 25. (a) 26. (a) 27. (c) 28. (d) 29. (c) 30. (d)
31. (a) 32. (c) 33. (b) 34. (c) 35. (a) 36. (d) 37. (c) 38. (b) 39. (c) 40. (a)
41. (d) 42. (b) 43. (c) 44. (d) 45. (d) 46. (d) 47. (c)
CAPF PYQ
1. The smallest number which when added to 2. Which one of the following is the difference
10000 becomes divisible by 20, 24 and 30 of the sum of cubes of first ten natural
is: numbers and the sum of squares of first ten
[CAPF 2021] natural numbers?
(a)120 (b) 800 [CAPF 2022]
(c) 80 (d) 83 (a) 2400 (b) 2640
(c) 2880 (d) 2000
ANSWER KEY
1. c 2. b

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1. RATIO AND PROPORTION 2 4 3 3 4 3 3 1 1 3 1 1 0 2

3. TIME AND WORK 1 2 3 2 4 5 2 3 2 1 2 3 1 3

4. TIME AND DISTANCE 5 5 4 5 4 4 4 1 3 5 3 2 4 4

6. PROFIT AND LOSS 1 2 1 2 1 1 1 2 - 3 2 1 1 0

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