Chapter 1 :Basic Arithmetic

Prime number

From the following pick out which are prime numbers : 1,7,13,101,136,139,47,56.

HCF Sums

1) find hcf of 98 and 182

2) find prime factor for 72,60and 96
3) find hcf of 108,288,360
4) what is the hcf of 850, 680
5) find hcf of : a)210, 385, 735 b)200,250 c)204,1190,1445

LCM

1) Find the LCM of 18,27,54

2) Find the LCM of 63,12,84,28
3) Find the LCM of 16,42,64,70,80,112
4) Find the LCM of 40,48,45
5) Find the LCM of a)15,18,21,8,24 b)80,108,64 c)36,48,64,72

Word problems in LCM ONLY

1) A traffic light at 3 different road crossing change after crossing change after every 48sec,
72 sec and 108 sec respectively. If they change simultaneously at 7:00 a.m. what time
will they change simultaneously again?
2) A clock makes a beep sound after 60 sec, another clock 72sec and the third clock 84sec.
what time will they beep together if they beeped together at 12:00p.m?
3) A railway crossing changes its light at 60,90and 108 sec respectively. What time will they
ring again simultaneously? Last time being 10:00 p.m.

Word problems on HCF AND LCM

1) Find the greatest number which when divided by 527 and 1147 leaves no remainder.
2) Find the greatest number which when divides 167 and 95 leaving 5 as a remainder.
3) Find the smallest number which when divided by 15 and 24 leaves the remainder of 13.
4) Find the lowest number which leaves 3 as the remainder when divided by 8, 12 and 16.
5) MR. Raj ha 6 cans of regular soda and 15cans of diet soda. He wants to create some
identical refreshment tables that will operate during IPL match. He also doesn’t want
any soda left over. What is the greatest number of refreshment soda that Raj can stock?
Percentage

1) What is 13% 0f 78?

2) What is 15% of 80?
3) What is 85% of 620?
4) What % 0f 31 is 11.
5) What & is 9 0f 12.
6) What % of 64 is 28.8
7) What is 200% of 30
8) What % is 12 of 56.
9) 28% of a number is 413. What is the number?
10) 25% of a number is 400. What is the number?
11) 30% of what is 60.
12) Find the Missing figure 1)___% of 250 is 25 2) 20% of what is 60
13) What is 5g of 1kg?
14) What is 50 cm of 8m?
15) *What % is 2/7 of1/35
16) What% is 2/3 of 4/6
17) 48% 0f 280 + 28% 0f 450 is what

Word problems (percentage)

1) 60%of college students are females. There are 240 females students. How many students
are in the college and how many are boys?
2) In a workplace there are 180 male workers 60% of the workers are females. How many
workers are in total and how many are females.
3) A number exceeds 30% of itself by 133. What is the number?
4) If a number is decreased by 70% of itself is 255. What is the number?
5) A number decreased by 25.5% of itself gives 238.40. What is that number?
6) A number increased by 30% of itself gives 1274. What is the number?
7) 12% of 980 – (x% of 450) = 30% of 277. Find the x.
8) What % of 48 is 12.
9) What% of 250 cm of 15 meters
10) What% is 3/5 of 15/6?
11) 35% of what number is 7.
12) What is 150ml of 3.5l
13) A number exceeds 40% of itself by 900. What is the number?
14) A number decreased by 10% of itself is equal to 720 increased by 25%.
 15) 60% of a number is 28 less than 4/5th of that number. What is the number?

More than and less than

1) “B” weighs 30% more than “R”. What %^ of “R” less than “B”.
2) Anne’s salary is 20% more than Tina. How much is Tina’s salary less than Anne?
3) If Ram’s salary is 25% less than Sam’s salary then how much is Sam’s salary more than
that of Ram’s.

Price Increase and Price Decrease

1) The price of sugar falls by 10%. What % does consumption increase so as to not increase
expenditure?
2) The price of tea increases by 20%. How much consumption changes so as to not
increase expenditure?

Discount

1) Find the net price of computer which costs Rs. 1500 and is given a discount of 15%.
2) A cycle is sold for a price after 35% off the list price was Rs. 1000. What is the Selling
price?
3) Rs. 310 chocolate bar is sold for Rs.248. Find the discount rate.
4) *The selling price of a vacuum cleaner is Rs. 807.5. After a discount of Rs. 142.5. What is
the original price and discount rate?
5) An article is sold at a discount of 12%, originally costing Rs. 1025. Find the Selling Price.
6) *The S.P of a handy bag is Rs. 18 after a discount of 40%. Find the M.P (marked price).
7) A manufacturer sells an article for Rs. 630. What price was it listed (M.P) to get 40%
discount.
8) The selling price of a commodity is RS. 280. The M.P is Rs. 350. What is the discount and
discount %.
9) A customer gets a discount of Rs. 120, discount was 15%. What is the original price?
10) **an appliance dealer bought a T.V. at (M.P) OF Rs. 6400 after which it was given a
series of discount 25; 10; 10. The net price is to be calculated after each discount. Also
find the equivalent discount.[7or5 marker]
11) The S.P of a helmet is given after 25% off the M.P. This discount value is 35. Find the S.P.
 12) The market price of an article is RS. 650. The trader gives 16% off. Find the discount and
selling price.
13) The selling price of an article is Rs. 140, after the discount of 22%. Find the original price.
14) A dealer buys an article costing Rs. 3500 and provides a series of discount, 10; 15; 10.
Find the net price after each discount and equivalent discount rate.

Ratio

1) Find the ratio of the following numbers:

a. 30,200
b. Rs. 27 and 20 paisa
c. 1 hour and 35 mins
2) Find the compound ratio of
2:5, 9:5, 5: 6 and 6:11.
3) Find the duplicate ratio of 3:5 and 1:2
4) Find the sub duplicate ratio of 9:64
5) Find the sub triplicate ratio of 27:125
6) Calculate the compound ratio of 3:8 and 3:5
7) Find the duplicate ratio of 6:5 and find the sub triplicate ratio of 8:64
8) If 2A= 3B. Find A: B.
9) IF 7A = 17B. FIND B: A
10) Share 125 among A and B in the ratio 3:2.
11) Share 1000 among X, Y, Z in the ratio 1:2:3.
12) If 7A = 49B .Find B: A.
13) Two numbers are in the ratio 3:5. If 8 is added to both the numbers the ratio becomes
2:3. Calculate the number.
14) Two quantities are in the ratio 3:4, if 5 is added to each of them, the new ratio is 4:5.
Find the quantities.
15) Two quantities are in the ratio 3:4 and 10 is subtracted from each leaving a remainder
ratio 1:3. Find the quantities.
16) A certain number is subtracted from the term of a ratio 21:35, to give a new ratio 3:10.
Find the number.

Kamal invested Rs. 10000 and Ranjani invested Rs. 15000 in a business, their profit from the
year is 6000. What is the capital contribution ratio and how much will each receive.

Application sums on ratio

 1) The daily incomes of A&B are in the ratio 3:4, while their saving is 1:2. If each spends Rs.
2000. What is the income and what is the saving?
2) The daily incomes of A& B are in the ratio 2:3. If their income increases by Rs. 50 each,
the new ratio is 5:7. What is the original income?
3) **The ratio of daily income of salman and sharukh is 3:4. They spent in the ratio 9:11
and save in the ratio 2:3. Their total savings is Rs. 75. Find their income.
4) *Tom has 20% more than Jerry. Nibble has 20% less than Tom. What is the value of tom,
jerry and nibble?
5) A room in an office is twice as long and thrice as broad as another. Find the ratio of the
areas of two rooms.
6) *A sum of Rs. 391 has to be divided in the ratio 1/2; 2/3 ; 3/4. How much will each
percent get?
7) If a+b : b-a = 7:5 , find b:a.
8) If a:b = 2:3 ; b:c =5:7 , find a: b: c.
9) If a:b = 3: 4 ; b:c =8:10, find a:.c
10) If a:b = 3:7 ; b:c =6:2 , find a: b: c.

Proportion

1) 3:2 :: x:4, find x.

2) Find the proportion of x: 2:: 15: 30.
3) 12: x :: 4:2

Types of proportion

1) Find the mean proportion of 81:4

2) Find the mean proportion of 9:4
3) Find the third proportion of 4 and 2.
4) Find the third proportion of 4: 6.
5) Find the fourth proportion of 3, 2, 6.
6) Find the fourth proportion of 3, 7, 9.

Direct / Indirect Proportion

 1) 15 chairs cost Rs. 750. How much does 120 chair cost.
2) If the price of 12 eggs is Rs. 96. How many eggs can be bought with Rs. 80?
3) 12 men can do a work in 18 days. How many days will it take for 60 men to do the same
work?
4) 2 men can do a work in a day. How many days will it take a man to complete the same
work.
5) 10 men can do a job in 6 days. How many days will it take for 4 men to complete the job?
6) 36 men can do a work in 25 days. How many days does it take for 16 men to complete
the work?
7) 20m of wallpaper is needed for 18 feet of wall. How many meters is needed for 10 feet of
wall.
8) 20 men can build a wall of 112m in 6 days. What length of wall can be built by 25 men in
3 days?
9) 15 dolls cost Rs. 35. How much 39 doll cost
10) 15 men working 12 hours a day perform a job in 16 days. How long will it take for 2 men
working 10 hours?
11) *10 masons working in 7 hrs can build 8 water tanks in 5 days. How many days will 12
masons working 6 hours take to build 36 water tanks?
12) *20 men can dig a tank, 30 meters long, 20 meters wide, 12 meters deep in 25 days
working 8 hours. How long will it take to dig 3 tanks, 30 meters long, 25 meters wide, 20
meters deep using 80 men working 9 hours.

One Day Work

1) If A can do a work in 8 days and B can do a work in 10 days. How long will it take to do
the work together?
2) If A can complete a piece of work 8 hrs and B alone in 12 hrs. How long will they
complete the work together?
3) A can do a piece of work in 4 days, B can do the same work in 5 days and C in 10 days.
How long do they take to complete the work together?
4) A and B can dig a tunnel together in 12 days which A alone can do in 30 days. How long
will B take to do it alone?
5) *If A & B can complete a work in 12 days, B& C in 15 days, C & B in 20 days. How many
days will it take for all three to complete the work together? Also find how many days A,
B and C alone do the work.
Profit and loss

1) A table is bought for Rs. 550 and sold at a loss of 15%. Find the C. P.
2) Manoj sold a phone for 1500 at 15% profit. What is the C.P.
3) By selling a watch for Rs. 1440, a man loses 10%. What price should he sell to have a gain
of 5%.
4) Anil sold his T.V for Rs. 1600, making a loss 10%. What price should he sell to gain 10%.
5) Guru lost 20% by selling a bicycle for 1536. What % shall he gain by selling it for Rs. 2040?
6) A bag was sold for Rs. 1250, after 10% loss. What is the original price?
7) A sheep is bought for Rs. 75 and sold at a gain of 8%. What is the S.P.?
8) A dealer sold an article for Rs. 1200, which actually costs Rs. 900. What is the gain%?
9) A cupboard was bought for Rs. 295 and sold for Rs. 310. What is the gain?
10) A camel was bought for Rs. 800 and sold for Rs. 920. What is the profit %.
11) Praveen sold a T.V after a loss of 25%, for Rs. 850. What is the C.P.?

Net gain/loss

1) *A man sold two houses for Rs. 28560 each, he got 15% gain on one and 15% loss on the
other. What is his net gain/ loss?
2) *A man sold two T.Vs for Rs. 20000 each. He got 10% gain on one and 15% loss on the
other. What is his net gain or loss?

Backward calculation

1) Anil sells a watch to Binay at 20% gain. Binay sells the watch to Chris at 15% gain. Chris
sells the watch to David at 10% loss. David pays 1863 for the watch. How much did Anil
pay?
2) Kartik sells a house to Babu at 10% loss. Babu sells the house to Sita at 10% loss. Sita
sells to Tom at 15% gain. Tom pays Rs. 1600 for house. How much did Kartik pay?

Cheating sum

1) A fruit seller cheats his customer by weighing his fruit wrong, he weighs 900 grams
instead of 1kg. what is his gain and gain %
2) A frit seller weighs the vegetables 350 grams instead of ½ kg. What is the seller’s gain and
gain%
3) *A fruit seller bought 80 kg of apples costing Rs. 13.5/ kg and mixed it with 120 kg of
apples costing Rs. 16/kg. What rate per kg should he sell to make a gain of 20%