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1 Number System
[(888  888  888) – (222  222  222)] 4 5
## =?
[(888  888) + (888  222) + (222  222)] 6 7
[www.examveda.com] Answer: 5
777 888 ## A prime number contains the digit X at
1010 666 d unit’s place. How many such digits of X are
(52)2 – (42)3 possible? [www.sawaal.com]
## = ? [www.competoid.com]
52  52 + 52  42 + 42  42 3 4
10 20 5 6 d
-10 -20 ## Consider the following statements :##If x
Answer: 10 and y are composite numbers, then x + y is
## 2 is a/an – [www.examveda.com] always composite.##There does not exist a
rational number natural number natural number which is neither prime nor
irrational number integer c
composite.
Which of the above statements is/are
## (800 ÷ 64) × (1296 ÷ 36) = ?
correct?
420 460 [www.examveda.com]
500 540 1 only 2 only
None of these Both 1 and 2 Neither 1 nor 2 d
## (AA)2 = DCBA, where A, B, C and D are ## Find the remainder when 1234  1235  1237
distinct digits with B being odd. Find the is divided by 8. [www.sawaal.com]
value of D. [www.lofoya.com]
4 2
4 6 0 6 d
1 1 or 4 a ## If (236 – 1) = 68 a 19476735, where a is any
693 digit, then the value of a is [www.competoid.com]
## 11 * X = [www.examveda.com]
9 1 3
3 5 5 7
7 9 c Answer: 1
## 111, 111, 111, 111 is divisible by : ## If 13 + 23 + ..... + 103 = 3025, then the value of
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23 + 43 + ..... + 203 is : [www.examveda.com]
3 and 37 only
7590 5060
3, 11 and 37 only
24200 12100 c
3, 11, 37 and 111 only
## If m and n are positive integers and (m – n)
3, 11, 37, 111 and 1001 d is an even number, then (m2 – n2 ) will
## -28 as compared to 32 is [www.competoid.com] always be divisible by :
more less [www.examveda.com]
not equal equal 4 6
Answer: more 8 12 a
## 35 + 15 x 1.5 = ? [www.indiabix.com] ## If x + y + z = 0, then x3 + y3 + z3 is equal to :
85 51.5 [www.examveda.com]
57.5 5.25 0 3xyz
None of these c xy + yz + zx
xyz (xy + yz + zx) b
## A number divided by 56 gives 29 as xyz
remainder. If the same number is divided by ## In the sum below, F = 0, and the other letters
8, the remainder will be [www.competoid.com] represent the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6. with
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each digit used exactly once and the two digit ## The digit in the unit's place of a three digit
number AB is a prime number. number is thrice the digit in the ten's place
AB and the digit in the hundreds place is two-
+ CD third of the digit in ten's place. If the sum of
the three digit its of the number is 14, what is
EFG the three digit number ? [www.competoid.com]
Then the value of A + 2B is 932 239
[www.competoid.com] 326 Cannot be determined
10 8 Answer: 239
7 9 1 4 2
Answer: 10 ## The fractions , and written in ascending
3 7 5
## On dividing 50606 by 312, the remainder is order given by – [www.examveda.com]
62. The quotient is. [www.competoid.com] 4 1 2 2 4 1
160 162 < < < <
7 3 5 5 7 3
168 164 1 2 4 4 1 2
Answer: 162 < < < < c
3 5 7 7 3 5
## On dividing an individual number by 342, ## The number 1, 3, 5, 7..... 99 and 128 are
we get 47 as remainder. If the same number multiplied together. The number of zeros at
is divided by 18, what will be the remainder? the end of the product must be –
342 47 [www.examveda.com]
18 19 22
[Exam Taker AUST : Sonali Bank (Officer FF- 7 Nil c
2019)] ## The simplified value of
19 15 (0.0539 – 0.002)  0.4 + 0.56  0.07
13 11 d 0.04  0.25
 =  + [www.examveda.com]
= 342  x + 47 599.6 0.5996
[ =x x = 1, 2, 3, ...] 5.996 59.96 c
 = 342x + 47 ## The smallest five digit number which is
342x + 47 divisible by 12, 18 and 21 is : [www.examveda.com]
18 = 10080 30256
18
342x 47 10224 50321 a
= + ## Three different containers contain different
18 18
quantities of a mixture of milk and water.
47
= 19x + whose measurements are 403 kg, 434 kg and
18
465 kg. What biggest measure be there to
 = 11 measure all the different quantities exactly?
## Square root of a perfect square containing [www.competoid.com]
'n' digits has how many digits? [www.competoid.com] 7 kg 1 kg
n+1 n 31 kg 41 kg
2 2 Answer: 31 kg
Either a or b None of these ## Three friends, returning from a movie,
Answer: Either a or b stopped to eat at a restaurant. After dinner,
## The difference between three times and they paid their bill and noticed a bowl of
seven times of a number comes to 36. What 1
is the number? mints at the front counter. Sita took of the
3
[www.examveda.com] mints, but returned four because she had a
6 8 1
9 10 c monetary pang of guilt. Fatima then took
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of what was left but returned three for ## What decimal of a week is an hour?
similar reasons. Eswari then took half of the [www.examveda.com]
remainder but threw two back into the bowl. 0.0059 0.0062
The bowl had only 17 mints left when the 0.062 0.059 a
raid was over. How many mints were ## What is 0.53 + 0.53 equal to ? [www.sawaal.com]
originally in the bowl? 1.068 1.072
[www.examveda.com] 1.082 1.096 a
38 31 ## What is 170% of 1140? [www.competoid.com]
41 None of these d 1938 1824
## Three gold coins of weight 780gm, 840gm 1995 1881
and 960gm are cut into small pieces, all of Answer: 1938
which have the equal weight. Each piece 3
must be heavy as possible. If one such piece ## What is 25% of 75% of th of 4240?
5
is shared by two persons, then how many [www.competoid.com]
persons are needed to give all the pieces of 595 424
gold coins? [www.lofoya.com] 348 477
86 70 Answer: 477
43 35 a 5
## Three mangoes, four guavas, and five ## What is 27% of 36% of th of 4500?
9
watermelons cost Rs. 750. Ten watermelons, [www.competoid.com]
six mangoes and 9 guavas Cost Rs. 1580. 239 241
What is the cost of six mangoes, ten 243 245
watermelons and 4 guavas? [www.examveda.com] Answer: 243
1280 1180 ## What is the correct arrangement of the
1080 Can't determined b 5 7 13 16 3
fractions , , , and in ascending
3 3 8 12 16 29 4
## Value of 343  – 125 is [www.competoid.com] order of magnitude.
35 – 35 [www.lofoya.com]
7 5 16 7 5 3 13
< < < <
5 7 29 12 8 4 16
Answer: -35 16 7 5 13 3
2 – 3 29 < 12 < 8 < 16 < 4
## Value of 
 5  –2 is [www.competoid.com]
7 16 5 13 3
< < < <
1 12 29 8 16 4
1600 16 5 7 3 13
1600
< < < < a
1 29 8 12 4 16
40
40 ## What is the quotient when 1359 is divided by
Answer: 1600 48?
1 3 [www.sawaal.com]
 29 31
## Value of (242 + 72)2 is [www.competoid.com]
625 1025 30 28 d
15625 10245 ## What is the reflection of the point (6, – 3) in
Answer: 15625 the line y = 2? [www.sawaal.com]
## Value of (− 1)– 13 is [www.competoid.com]
(– 2 , – 3) (6 , 7)
1 –1 (– 6 , 7) (– 2 , 3) b
1 ## What is the remainder left after dividing 1! +
  – 13 2! + 3! ..... + 100! by 7?
13 [www.lofoya.com]

Answer: -1 0 5
14 21 b

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## What is the remainder when 1523 + 2323 is ## x is five digit number. The digit in ten
divided by 19 ? [www.sawaal.com] thousands place is 1. the number formed by
4 3 its digits in units and ten places is divisible
1 0 d by 4. The sum of all the digits is divisible by
## What least value which should be added to 3. If 5 and 7 also divide x, then x will be.
1812 to make it divisible by 7, 11 and 14? [www.examveda.com]
[www.sawaal.com] 14020 12060
12 36 10020 10080 d
72 154 b 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
## + + + + + + + is
## What should be the missing digit so that the 20 30 42 56 72 90 110 132
number 275_476 becomes exactly divisible equal to :
by 11? [www.sawaal.com] [www.examveda.com]
6 4 1 1
2 3 d 8 7
## What will be the remainder when 19100 is 1 1
c
divided by 20? [www.competoid.com] 6 10
19 20 1 1 1
## of a rod is coloured red, orange,
3 1 10 20 30
Answer: 1 1 1 1
yellow, green, blue, black and the
## What will be the unit digit in the 7105? 40 50 60
[www.examveda.com] rest is violet. If the length of the violet part of
5 7 the rod is 12.08 mtr, then the length of the
9 1 b rod is – [www.examveda.com]
## What will come in the place of the question 16 m 18 m
mark (?) in the following number series?305, 20 m 30 m a
338, 404, 503, 635 , (?) ## (?) + 3699 + 1985 - 2047 = 31111 [www.indiabix.com]
[www.sawaal.com] 34748 27474
820 880 30154 27574
800 890 c None of these b
1 3 4 –1
## When of a number is subtracted from the ## (12)  6  432 = ?
7 [www.indiabix.com; www.examveda.com]
number itself, it gives the same value as the 5184 5060
sum of all the angles of a triangle. What is 5148 5084
the number? [www.competoid.com] None of these a
224 210 ## (4300731) -? = 2535618 [www.indiabix.com]
140 350 1865113 1775123
Answer: 210 1765113 1675123
## Which one of the following is an irrational None of these c
number? ## (935421  625) = ? [www.examveda.com; www.indiabix.com]
[www.sawaal.com]
231 575648125 584638125
59059 584649125 585628125 b
593
0.454545.... 0.121122111222 d ## (x2 – a2) is divisible by (x – a) [www.examveda.com]
## Which one of the following is not a prime for all values of n
number? only for even values of n
[www.examveda.com; www.indiabix.com] only for odd values of n
31 61 only for prime values of n a
71 91 ## 10531 + 4813 – 728 = ?  87 [www.examveda.com]
None of these d 168 172
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186 212 1123 11023
None of these a None of these b
## 225 + 440 - 225 is [www.competoid.com] ## 8597 -? = 7429 - 4358 [www.indiabix.com]
10 -10 5426 5706
-100 100 5526 5476
Answer: -10 None of these c
1 ## 8988 � 8 � 4 = ? [www.indiabix.com]
## 25 − {5 + 4 – (3 + 2 – 1 + 3)} is equal to
2 4494 561.75
[www.competoid.com]
2247 280.875
-12 12
None of these d
-21 21 ## 9548 + 7314 = 8362 + (?) [www.indiabix.com]
Answer: 21 8230 8410
## 252 m of pant cloth and 141 m of shirt cloth
8500 8600
are available in a cloth store. To stitch one
None of these c
1 3
pant and one shirt, 2 m and 1 m of cloth 98
2 4 ## 999  99 is equal to : [www.examveda.com]
99
are needed respectively. Then the
approximate number of pants and shirts that 98999 99899
can be made out of it are : [www.examveda.com]
99989 99998 a
(80, 100) (100, 80) ## a and b are real numbers. The relation ab :
(100, 90) (90, 80) b a. b is. [www.competoid.com]
## 3 + 33 + 333 + 3.33 = ? [www.indiabix.com] always true
362.3 372.33 never true
702.33 702 true when a and b are positive
None of these b true when either a or b is non negative
## 4500 x? = 3375 [www.indiabix.com] Answer: true when a and b are positive
2 3 ## A and B have together three times what B
5 4 and C have, while A, B, C together have
1 3 thirty rupees more than that of A. If B has 5
4 5 times that of C, then A has : [www.examveda.com]
None of these b Rs. 60 Rs. 65
## 476 ** 0 is divisible by both 3 and 11. The Rs. 75 Rs. 45 b
non – zero digits in the hundred's and ten's ## A bank issued credit card numbers and the
places are respectively : corresponding PIN (Personal Identification
[www.indiabix.com; www.examveda.com; www.sawaal.com] Number). Both are 3-digit numbers up to
7 and 4 7 and 5 996. Pinaki was the last to get the credit card
8 and 5 None of these c and so he had the last possible credit card
## 64329 is divided by a certain number, 175, number. He was afraid of forgetting his PIN.
114 and 213 appears as three successive He wrote down the number 123 in his diary
remainders. The divisor is – to remember his PIN. He also wrote out the
[www.examveda.com] way to calculate 123 : "Multiply the card
184 224 number by PIN. Divide the product by 997.
234 296 c The remainder is 123". Once, Prafull saw his
## 666 � 6 � 3 = ? [www.indiabix.com] diary in which Pinaki wrote this number
37 333 123. Prafull did a lot of purchasing, as he
111 84 now knows Pinaki's PIN. What is Pinaki's
None of these a PIN? [www.lofoya.com]
## 7589 -? = 3434 [www.indiabix.com] 874 875
4242 4155 876 877 a
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## A boy appeared in CAT for four consecutive The sum of the digits of the number was –
year years, but coincidentally each time his [www.examveda.com]
1 4 8
net score was 75. He told me that there was 6 11 d
3
rd negative marking for every wrong answer ## A magazine publisher publishes a monthly
and 1 mark was allotted for every correct magazine of 84 pages. One I found that in a
answer. He has attempted all the questions magazine 4 pages was missing. One out of
every year, but certainly some answers have them was page number 29 it is known that
been wrong due conceptual problem. Which the page number of the last page of the
is not the total number of questions asked magazine is 84, (including the cover pages).
for CAT in any year, in that period? The numbers printed on the missing pages
[www.examveda.com] were :
231 163 [www.examveda.com]
150 123 29, 52, 53 30, 55, 56
None of these c 28, 52, 53 Cannot determined
## A certain number of the capsule were None of these b
purchased for Rs. 176. Six more capsule ## A man ate 100 grapes in 5 days. Each day he
could have been purchased in the same ate 6 more grapes then those he ate on the
amount if each capsule were cheaper by Rs. earlier day. How many grapes did he eat on
3. What was the number of capsules the first day? [www.examveda.com]
purchased? 8 12
[www.examveda.com] 54 76 a
13 16 ## A man sells chocolates which are in the
17 8 boxes. Only either full box or half a box of
11 b chocolates can be purchased from him. A
## A forester wants to plant 44 apples tree, 66 customer comes and buys half the number of
banana trees and 110 mango trees in equal boxes which the seller had plus half box
rows (in terms of number of trees). Also, he more. A second customer comes and
wants to make distinct rows of tree (i.e. only purchases half the remaining number of
one type of tree in one row). The number of boxes plus half a box. After this the seller is
rows (minimum) that required is : left with no chocolate boxes. How many
[www.examveda.com] chocolate boxes the seller had initially?
2 3 [www.examveda.com]
10 11 2 3
None of these c 4 3.5
## A fraction becomes 4 when 1 is added to None of these b
both the numerator and denominator and it ## A naughty boy Amrit watches a Sachin
becomes 7 when 1 is subtracted from both Tendulkar inning and acts according to
the numerator and denominator. The number of runs he sees Sachin scoring. The
numerator of the given fraction is details are :##run – place one orange in the
[www.competoid.com] basket##runs – place one mango in basket##
2 3 runs – place a pear in the basket##
7 15 runs – remove a pear and a mango from the
Answer: 15 basket
7 One fine day, at the start of the match, the
## A girl was asked to multiply a number by ,
8 basket is empty. The sequence of runs scored
7 by Sachin in that inning are given as
instead she divided the number by and got 11232411234232341121314. At the end of the
8
the result 15 more than the correct result. above inning, how many more oranges were
there compared to mangoes inside the
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basket? (The Basket was empty initially). 4 2
[www.examveda.com] 0 1 b
4 5 1
6 7 c ## A number when subtracted by of itself
7
## A number consists of two digits. If the gives the same value as the sum of all the
number formed by interchange the digits is angles of a triangle. What is the number ?
added to the original number, the resulting [www.competoid.com]
number (i.e., the sum) must be divisible by – 224 210
[www.examveda.com] 140 350
11 9 Answer: 210
5 3 a ## A number which divided by 192 gives a
1 remainder of 54. What remainder would be
## A number exceeds its by 30. What is the
6 obtained on dividing the same number by
number? 16? [www.examveda.com]
[www.sawaal.com]
2 4
120 150
6 8 c
36 24 c
## A number x when divided by 289 leave 18 as
## A number exceeds its two fifth by 75. The the remainder. The same number when
number is : divided by 17 leaves y as a remainder. the
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125 100 value of y is : [www.examveda.com]
5 2
112 150 a
## A number of boys raised Rs. 400 for a 3 1 d
famine relief fund, each boy giving as many ## A perfect cube is an integer whose cube root
25 paise coins as there were boys. The is an integer. For example, 27, 64 and 125
number of boys was – [www.examveda.com]
are perfect cubes. If p and q are perfect
40 16 cubes, which of the following will not
necessarily be a perfect cube? [www.sawaal.com]
20 100 a
8p pq
## A number was divided successively in order
by 4, 5 and 6. The remainders were pq+27 -p c
respectively 2, 3 and 4. The number is: 1
## A person gives of his property to his
[www.indiabix.com] 4
214 476 1 1
daughter, to his sons and for charity.
954 1908 a 2 5
## A number when 35 is subtracted from it is How much has he given away?
reduced in value by 20%. What is four fifth [www.examveda.com]
of that number. [www.competoid.com]
1 19
70 80 20 20
90 140 1 9
b
Answer: 140 10 10
## A number when divide by 6 leaves a ## A person uses the base x for his number
remainder 3. When the square of the system, where x ≤ 10. A student had to add
number is divided by 6, the remainder is: two-digit numbers. None of the digits was 0.
[www.indiabix.com] By oversight, he reversed the digits of both
0 1 the numbers and added them. He later found
2 3 d that the difference between his answer and
## A number when divided by 729 given a the correct answer was $(84)_10. If this
remainder of 56. What will we get as value is the maximum possible for x, then
remainder if the same number is divided by what is the value of x. [www.lofoya.com]
27? [www.examveda.com] 6 7
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8 9 c 63 47 a
## A positive integer when divided by 425 gives ## A thief steals half the total number of loaves
a remainder 45. When the same number is 1
of bread plus loaf from a bakery. A second
divided by 17, the remainder will be : 2
[www.examveda.com] thief steals half the remaining number of
7 8 1
11 10 c loaves plus loaf and so on. After the 5th
2
## A set has exactly five consecutive positive thief has stolen there are no more loaves left
integers starting with 1. What is the in the bakery. What was the total number of
percentage decrease in the average of the loaves did the bakery have at the beginning ?
numbers when the greatest one of the [www.sawaal.com]
numbers is removed from the set? 21 11
[www.lofoya.com] 17 31 d
8.54 12.56 ## A, B and C start at the same time in the
15.25 16.66 d same direction to run around a circular
## A set of S consists of, (i) All odd numbers stadium. A completes a round in 252
from 1 to 55. (ii) All even numbers from 56 seconds, B in 308 seconds and C in 198
to 150. What is the index of the highest seconds, all starting at the same point. After
power of 3 in the product of all the elements what time will they again at the starting
of the set S? [www.lofoya.com] point? [www.examveda.com]
35 48 36 minutes 22 seconds
6 36 a 46 minutes 22 seconds
## A square root radical is in simplest form, if 36 minutes 12 seconds
[www.competoid.com]
46 minutes 12 seconds d
there is no fraction in the radicand
## a, b, c, d and e are five consecutive even
no perfect square is factor of radicand
numbers. If the sum of 'a' and 'd' is 162.
there is no radical in the denominator
what is the Sum of all the numbers ?
all of these d [www.competoid.com]
## A straight fence is to be constructed from 400 380
posts 6 inches wide and separated by lengths 420 None of these
of chain 5 feet long. If a certain fence begins Answer: None of these
and ends with a post, which of the following ## About 4 out of 5 students are left handed. If
could be the length of the fence in feet? (12 there are totally 40 students in an class. How
inches = 1 foot). [www.sawaal.com] many would be left handed ? [www.sawaal.com]
17 18 40 45
19 20 a 32 30 c
## A teacher multiplies 987 by a certain ## After being set up, a company manufactured
number and obtains 556781 as her answer. If 6000 scooters in the third year and 7000
in the answer, both 6 and 7 are wrong but scooters in the seventh year. Assuming that
the other digits are correct, then the correct the production increases uniformly by a
answer will be [www.sawaal.com] fixed number every year, what is the
553681 555181 production in the tenth year? [www.competoid.com]
556581 555681 d 7850 7650
## A teacher wants to arrange his students in 7750 7950
an equal number of rows and columns. If Answer: 7750
there are 1369 students, the number of ## Amit, Sucheta and Neeti start running
students in last row are : around a circular track and complete one
[www.examveda.com]
round in 18,24 and 32 seconds respectively.
37 33
In how many seconds will the three meet
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again at the starting point if they all have friends, then 1 book will remain. If he wants
started running at the same time ? to give these books equally to 3 of his friends,
[www.competoid.com] then 2 books will remain. If he wants to give
196 sec. 288 sec. these books equally to 4 of his friends, then 3
324 sec. Cannot be determined books will remain. What is the number of
Answer: 288 sec. books he had ? [www.sawaal.com]
## Amitabh picks a random integer between 1 19 23
and 999, doubles it and gives the result to 17 15 b
Sashi. Each time Sashi gets a number from ## At a dinner party every two guests used a
Amitabh, he adds 50 to the number, and bowl of rice between them, every three
gives the result back to Amitabh, who guests used a bowl of dal between them and
doubles the number again. The first person, every four used a bowl of meat between
whose result is more than 1000, loses the them. There were altogether 65 dishes. How
game. Let 'X' be the smallest initial number many guests were present at the party ?
that results in a win for Amitabh. The sum [www.sawaal.com]
of the digit of 'X' is : [www.examveda.com] 60 74
3 5 82 58 a
7 9 ## At the first stop on his route, a driver
None of these c unloaded 2/5 of the packages in his van.
## Amit's present age is three times Pratibha's After unloaded another three packages at his
present age and nine-thirteenth of his next stop, 1/2 of the original number of
father's present age. The sum of the present packages remained. How many packages
age of all of them is 150 years. What is the were in the van before the first delivery?
difference between Pratibha's present age [www.competoid.com]
and Amit's father's present age ? 25 10
[www.competoid.com] 30 36
56 years 64 years Answer: 30
60 years Cannot be determined ## Between two distinct rational numbers a and
Answer: 60 years b, there exists another rational number
## An Army Commander wishing to draw up which is : [www.examveda.com]
his 5180 men in the form of a solid square a b
found that he had 4 men less. If he could get 2 2
four more men and form the solid Square, ab a+b
d
the number of men in the front row is 2 2
[www.competoid.com] ## By Goldbach's conjecture, every even
72 68 number greater than 4 can be expressed as a
78 82 sum of [www.competoid.com]
Answer: 72 two even numbers
## Arrangement of the fractions into ascending two odd prime numbers
order : two composite numbers
4 2 7 5 two co-prime numbers
,– ,– , [www.examveda.com]
3 9 8 12 Answer: two odd prime numbers
2 7 4 5 7 2 5 4 1 5
– ,– , , – ,– , , ## By how much is th of 428 smaller than th
9 8 3 12 8 9 12 3 4 6
7 2 4 5 2 7 5 4 of 216?
– ,– , , – ,– , , b
8 9 3 12 9 8 12 3 [www.competoid.com]
## Arun has certain number of books. It is not 61 67
less than 15 and not more than 30. If he 73 79
wants to give these books equally to 2 of his Answer: 73
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3 7 Both 1 and 2 Neither 1 nor 2 a
## By how much is th of 568 lesser than the
4 8 ## Consider the following statements in respect
of 1008? of two integers p and q (both > 1) which are
[www.competoid.com] relatively prime: [www.sawaal.com]
444 448 1 and 2 only 2 and 3 only
452 456 1 and 3 only 1, 2 and 3 d
Answer: 456 ## Find the average of all prime numbers
3 7 between 20 and 50. [www.sawaal.com]
## By how much is th of 968 less than th of
4 8 35.857 35.657
1008? 34.857 36.657 a
[www.competoid.com] ## Find the face value of 6 in 652410.
154 146 [www.competoid.com]
165 None of these 6 × 105 6 × 104
Answer: None of these 6000 6
## By how much of two thirds of 57 is more Answer: 6
than one third of 90. [www.competoid.com] ## Find the LCM and HCF of 2.5, 0.5 and
8 38 0.175.
30 28 [www.examveda.com]
Answer: 8 2.5 5
## By what least number should 1200 be 7.5 17.5 d
multiplied so that it becomes a perfect ## Find the least number of five digits which is
square? [www.sawaal.com] divisible by 333? [www.examveda.com]
2 3 10328 10323
4 5 b 10333 10332 b
## By which least number should 5000 be ## Find the maximum number of girls, among
divided so that it becomes a perfect square? whom 2923 bags and 3239 eyeliners can be
[www.sawaal.com] distributed in such a way that each girl gets
2 5 the same number of bags and eyeliners.
10 15 a [www.competoid.com]
## By which number should 0.022 be multiplied 80 79
so that product become 66? [www.examveda.com] 78 81
3000 3200 Answer: 79
4000 3600 a ## Find the regular polygon whose interior
## Consider the multiplication 999 × abc = angel is 150 more than exterior angle. note
def132 in decimal notation, where a, b, c, the total sum of interior and exterior angle
d, e and f are digits. What are the values should be 180 at one point ? [www.sawaal.com]
of a, b, c, d, e and f respectively? [www.sawaal.com] 12 24
6, 6, 8, 6, 8, 7 8, 6, 8, 6, 7, 8 36 6 b
6, 8, 8, 7, 8, 6 8, 6, 8, 8, 6, 7 d ## Find the remainder when 3164 is divided by
## Consider the following statements for the 162? [www.lofoya.com]
sequence of numbers given below : 0 9
11, 111, 1111, 11111, .....##Each number can 11 81 d
be expressed in the form (4m + 3), where m ## Find the remainder when 54124 is divided by
is a natural number.##Some numbers are 17. [www.examveda.com]
squares. 8 13
Which of the above statements is/are 16 9 b
correct? ## Find the remainder when 65203 is divided by
[www.examveda.com] 7.
1 only 2 only [www.examveda.com]
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4 2 ## Find the sun of the digits of the least natural
1 6 c number P, such that the sum of the cubes of
## Find the remainder when 67107 is divided by the four smallest distinct divisors of P equals
7. 2P. [www.lofoya.com]
[www.examveda.com] 7 8
4 2 9 10 c
1 6 c 1 494
## Find the remainder when 6799 is divided by ## Find the value of + 999  99 = ?
5 495
7. [www.examveda.com]
[www.examveda.com] 90000 99000
4 6 90900 99990 b
1 2 c ## Find the whole number which when
## Find the remainder when 73 × 75 × 78 × 57 × increased by 20 is equal to one-sixth times
197 × 37 is divided by 34. [www.examveda.com] the new number [www.competoid.com]
32 30 7 5
15 28 a 3 4
## Find the remainder when first 1000 digits of Answer: 4
the number P are divided by 16? [www.lofoya.com]
3
7 9 ## For any positive integer – n equals
11 13 d [www.competoid.com]
## Find the square root of 1
(0.064 – 0.008) (0.16 – 0.04) − n3 –n3
(0.016 + 0.08 + 0.04) (0.4 + 0.2)3 1
–3
[www.examveda.com] n−3 n
2 1 Answer: n−−√−3n−3
3 3 ## For numbers a and b. define * as a ∗ b = (a +
3 b) ÷ (a − b). Then the value of (1 * 2) * 3 is
3 b
2 [www.competoid.com]
## Find the sum of all positive multiples of 3 2 1
−3 −5
less than 50 :
[www.examveda.com] 1
400 404 0
2
408 412 c Answer: 0
## Find the sum of all positive multiples of 5 ## For what value of X, 211X will be a perfect
less than 100. square?
[www.examveda.com] [www.sawaal.com]
925 960 4 5
950 990 c 6 9 c
## Find the sum of place and face values of 8 in 1
43836. [www.competoid.com] ## For what value of x, 33x – 5 = ?
9x
88 808 [www.competoid.com]
880 888 1 3
Answer: 808 5 9
## Find the sum of the face values of 9 and 6 in Answer: 1
907364 [www.competoid.com] ## Four of the following five parts numbered 1,
15 20 2, 3, 4 and 5 are equal. Which of the
9 18 following is not equal to the other four?
Answer: 15 [www.competoid.com]
242 − 122 + 112 ÷ 14 =
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17 × 12 + 59 × 4 = 1 2
## How many of together make 41 ?
15 × 28 + 20 = 6 3
27 × 16 + 56 ÷ 8 = [www.examveda.com]
Answer: 27×16+56÷827×16+56÷8 = 125 150
## Given that the polynomial (x2 + ax + b) 250 350 c
leaves that same remainder when by (x – 1) ## How many digits will be there to the right of
or (x + 1) What are the values of a and b the decimal point in the product of 85.44 and
respectively? [www.sawaal.com] .08455 ?
4 and 0 0 and 3 [www.sawaal.com]
7 5
3 and 0 0 and any interger d
## Given that, three numbers are such that the 4 6 d
second number is twice the first and thrice ## How many five digit multiples of 11 are
the third. Also the average of the three there, if the five digits are 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7?
numbers is 44. then the difference of the first Repetition of digits is now allowed?
[www.lofoya.com]
and the third is : [www.examveda.com]
10 11
10 11
12 13 c
12 13 c
## How many natural numbers are there
## Given the numbers : 25555, 33333, between 23 and 100 which are exactly
62222.These can be written in ascending divisible by 6? [www.indiabix.com]
order as [www.competoid.com]
8 11
25555, 33333, 62222
12 13
33333, 25555, 62222
None of these d
25555, 62222, 33333
## How many natural numbers are there lying
62222, 25555, 33333 between 134 and 467 which are divisible by 7
## Given, N = 98765432109876543210 ..... up to ? [www.competoid.com]
1000 digits, find the smallest natural number 46 47
n such that N + n is divisible by 11.
[www.examveda.com]
49 51
2 3 Answer: 47
4 5 d
## How many natural numbers below 660 are
## Half way through the journey from Delhi to divisible by 5 and 11 but not by 3?
[www.lofoya.com]
Lahore Atalji began to look out of the 8 9
window of the Samjhauta Express and
10 11 a
continued it until the distance which was
## How many number between 1000 and 5000
remained to cover was half of what he has
are exactly divisible by 225? [www.examveda.com]
covered. Now at this time how much distance
16 18
he has to cover? [www.examveda.com]
2 1 19 12 b
2 4 ## How many numbers are there from 700 to
950 (including both) which are neither
1 1
c divisible by 3 nor by 7? [www.sawaal.com]
3 6
107 141
## HCF of two numbers each of 4 digits is 103
144 145 c
and their LCM is 19261. Sum of the
## How many numbers between - 11 and 11 are
numbers is [www.competoid.com]
multiples of 2 or 3? [www.competoid.com]
2884 2488
11 14
4288 4882
15 None of these
Answer: 2884
Answer: 14
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## How many numbers divisible by 125 can be ## How many remainders are possible if 16n is
written by using all the digits 2,3,8,7,5 divided by 9 for any positive integral value
exactly once? [www.sawaal.com] of n ? [www.sawaal.com]
4 5 1 2
6 7 a 3 4 c
## How many numbers will be left out of the ## How many terms are in the G.P. 3, 6, 12, 24,
numbers 1 to 40, if all numbers exactly ......., 384 ?
divisible by 4 and having 4 as one of the [www.indiabix.com; www.sawaal.com]
digits are removed. [www.competoid.com] 8 9
30 26 10 11 a
27 None of these ## How many three digit numbers can be
Answer: None of these formed using the digits 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 and 8
## How many numbers will be there between without repeating the digits and such that
300 and 500, where 4 comes only one time? the tens digit is greater than the hundreds
[www.examveda.com] digit and less than the units digit?[www.lofoya.com]
89 99 48 56
110 120 b 64 72 b
## How many numbers with distinct digits are ## IBM-Daksh observes that it gets a call at an
possible product of whose digits is 18? interval of very 10 minutes from Seattle, at
[www.sawaal.com] every 12 minutes from Arizonia, at the
12 8 interval of 20 minutes from New York and
6 4 b after every 25 minutes it gets the call from
## How many pairs (A, B) are possible in the Newark. If in the early morning at 5:00 a.m.
number 479865AB if the number is divisible it has received the calls simultaneously from
by 9 and it is given that the last digit of the all the four destinations, then at which time
number is odd? [www.sawaal.com] it will receive the calls at a time from all
5 6 places on the same day? [www.lofoya.com]
9 11 a 10:00 am 3:00 am
## How many pairs of natural numbers is there 5:00 am Both (A) and (B) a
the difference of whose squares are 45. x
[www.examveda.com] ## If is an integer, which of the following
y
1 2 statements need NOT always be true?
3 4 [www.sawaal.com]
5 c both x and y are integers
## How many prime numbers are there only x is a integer
between 100 to 200? both are negative
[www.examveda.com] none a
21 20 1 1 1 1
16 11 a ## If + + + = where a + b + c not
a b c (a + b + c)
## How many prime numbers exist in 65  359 equals '0', abc not equals '0', What is the
 113 ? value of (a + b) (b + c) (a + c) ? [www.sawaal.com]
[www.sawaal.com]
3 2
29 31
1 0 d
33 27 b
51.84 0.005184
## How many rational numbers are there ## If = 12, then the value of is :
4.32 0.432
between 1 and 1000? [www.competoid.com]
[www.examveda.com]
998 999 0.12 0.012
1000 Infinite 0.0012 1.2 b
Answer: Infinite
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x ## If 20% of a number is 12, the number is.
## If is an integer, which of the following [www.competoid.com]
y
statements need NOT always be true? 40 54
[www.sawaal.com] 60 48
both x and y are integers only x is a Answer: 60
integer 1
## If 22x – 5 = , then the value of x is
both are negative none a 8
3 1 [www.competoid.com]
## If of a number is 7 more than of the 1 2
4 6
5 3 4
number then of the number is : Answer: 1
3
[www.examveda.com] ## If 4x2 – 12x + k is a perfect square. then the
12 18 value of k is? [www.examveda.com]
15 20 d 2 9
4 12 10 b
## If of an estate be worth Rs. 16800, then the ## If 6 years are subtracted from the present
5
3 age of Randheer and the remaining is
value of of it is – [www.examveda.com] divided by 18. then the present age of his
7
Rs. 90000 Rs. 9000 grandson Anup is obtained. If Anup is 2 year
Rs. 72000 Rs. 21000 b younger to Mahesh whose age is 5 years.
## If 1 is added to the both the numerator and what is the age of Randheer? [www.competoid.com]
1 84 years 48 years
the denominator of a fraction, it becomes . 60 years 96 years
4
If 2 is added to both the numerator and the Answer: 60 years
1 3
denominator of that fraction it becomes . ## If 60% of of a number is 36, then the
3 5
The sum of the numerator and the number is
[www.indiabix.com; www.sawaal.com]
denominator and the denominator of the
86 94
fraction is – [www.examveda.com]
100 115 c
8 13
2
22 27 a ## If a (0.4)2 , b = 0.04 and c = , then the
5
## If 1400 x x = 1050. Then, x = ? [www.indiabix.com]
1 3 correct relationship among the three is :
[www.examveda.com]
4 5 b>a>c a>b>c
2 3 a>c>d c>a>b d
3 4 ## If a = 4011 and b = 3989, then value of ab = ?
None of these d [www.examveda.com]
## If 146! Is divisible by 5n, and then find the 15999879 15899879
maximum value of n. [www.examveda.com] 15989979 15998879 a
34 35 ## If a and b are positive integers, a > b and (a
36 37 + b)2 – (a – b)2 > 29. Then the smallest value
Cannot be said b of a is – [www.examveda.com]
## If 15% of 40 is greater than 25% of a 3 4
number by 2, then the number is 6 7 b
[www.competoid.com] ## If a and b are positive integers, and x = 2  3
16 2  7  a, and y = 2  2  8  b, and the values
24 32 of both x and y lie between 120 and 130 (not
Answer: 16 including the two), then a – b = [www.lofoya.com]
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–2 –1 n + 3 is divisible by 5
1 2 b d
## If a and b are two distinct natural numbers, ## If a2 = 12, then a4 = ? [www.sawaal.com]
which one of the following is true? 144 72
[www.examveda.com] 36 24 a
a+b> a+ b a+b= a+ b ## If a3 = b3 + c3 + d3, then least value of 'a' is
[www.competoid.com]
a+b< a+ b ab = 1 c
3 6
## If a and b are two whole numbers, then a-b =
c will be a whole number if [www.competoid.com]
9 12
a<b a>b Answer: 6
## If A381 is divisible by 11, find the value of
a=b both (b) and (c)
the smallest natural number A?
Answer: both (b) and (c) [www.examveda.com]
## If A is rational and B is irrational then AB is. 5 6
7 9
[www.competoid.com]
rational irrational None of these c
an integer real ## If b is the largest square divisor of c and a2
Answer: irrational divides c, then which one of the following is
## If a number is divided by the other number, correct? (where, a, b and c are integers)
[www.competoid.com]
3 b divides a a does not divide b
the division is , if their difference is 28,
5 a divides b a and b are coprime
what is the bigger number of the two? Answer: a divides b
[www.competoid.com]
35 140 ## If each of the three nonzero numbers a, b
and c is divisible by 3, then abc must be
70 -42
divisible by which one of the following the
Answer: -42
numbers? [www.lofoya.com]
## If a number of two digits is k times the sum
8 27
of its digits, then the number formed by
81 121 b
interchanging the digits is the sum of the
digits multiplied by: [www.competoid.com]
## If in a three digits number the last two digits
9+k 10 + k places are interchanged a new number is
formed which is greater than the original
11  k k1
number by 45. What is the difference
Answer: 11-k
between the last two digits of that number?
## If a person makes a row of toys of 20 each, [www.examveda.com]
there would be 15 toys left. If they made to 9 8
stand in rows of 25 each, there would be 20 6 5 d
toys left, if they made to stand in rows of 38 ## If in the following set of numbers, the first
each, there would be 33 toys left and if they and the third digits are interchanged in each
are made to stand in rows of 40 each, there number, which number will be second from
would be 35 toys left. What is the minimum the end if arranged in ascending order after
number of toys the person have? [www.lofoya.com] interchanging the digits ? [www.sawaal.com]
1,255 3,805 404 585
7,595 3,795 d 415 602 c
## If a positive integer n, divided by 5 has a ## If k  0 and k  1, then which of the
remainder 2, which of the following must be following cannot be true? [www.competoid.com]
true? [www.sawaal.com]
k2 > k k2 < k
n is odd
k2 = k Both b and c
n + 1 cannot be a prime number Answer: k2=kk2=k
(n + 2) divided by 7 has remainder 2
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x1 x2 x3
## If n is a natural number and n = p1 p2 p3 14 18
where p1, p2, p3 are distinct prime factors, 24 28
then the number of prime factors for n is : Answer: 14
[www.examveda.com] ## If such numbers which are divisible by 5 and
x1 + x2 + x3 x1  x2  x3 also those which have 5 as one of the digits
(x1 + 1) (x2 + 1) (x3 + 1) None of these are eliminated from the numbers 1 to 60.
b how many numbers would remain?
## If n is a natural number, then (6n2 + 6n) is [www.competoid.com]
always divisible by: [www.indiabix.com] 40 47
6 only 6 and 12 both 53 45
12 only by 18 only b Answer: 40
## If n is an integer, how many values of n will ## If sum of integers from 101 to 200, inclusive
give an integral value of [www.examveda.com] is subtracted from the sum of integers from
2 3 201 to 300 inclusive, then the result is
[www.competoid.com]
4 None of these c
0 100
## If number 'b' is a factor of a number 'a',
then 'a' divided by 'b' gives the remainder 1000 10000
[www.competoid.com] Answer: 10000
any number greater than zero ## If sum of smaller number x and two times
any number less than zero the other number is equal to the sum of two
zero times the Smaller number and 16. The
one difference between the numbers is 6. Find
Answer: zero the smaller number. [www.competoid.com]
## If p = – 0.12, q = – 0.01 and r = – 0.015, then 4 3
the correct relationship among the three is : 6 8
[www.examveda.com] Answer: 4
p<r<q p>r>q ## If the digit in the unit and the ten's places of
p<q<r q>p>r a a two digit number are interchanged, a new
## If p is an integer and p2 is divisible by 3, number is formed, which is grater then the
then p is divisible by 3. This statement is. original number by 63. Suppose the digit in
[www.competoid.com] the unit place of the original number the x.
always true never true Then all the possible value of x are –
true when p is positive true when p is [www.examveda.com]
negative 7, 8, 9 2, 7, 9
Answer: always true 0, 1, 2 1, 2, 8 a
## If p, q, r, s, t are five consecutive odd ## If the digits of a two digit number are
numbers then their average is [www.competoid.com] interchanged the newly formed number is
P+4 more than the original number by 18, and
5 (p + 4) sum of the digit is 8 then what was the
5
(p + 4) (p + 2) original number? [www.competoid.com]
Answer: (p+4)(p+4) 53 26
## If p,q,r are all real numbers then (p – q)3 + 35 Cannot be determined
(q – r)3 + (r – p)3 is equal to : [www.examveda.com] Answer: 35
(p – q) (q – r) (r – p) 3(p – q) (q – r) (r – 5 6 7 8 9
## If the fractions , , , and are
p) 14 11 9 13 10
1 0 b arranged in ascending order of their values.
## If r is the remainder when each of 7654, 8506 which one will be the fourth ? [www.competoid.com]
and 9997 is divided by the greatest number 7 5
at (d > 1), then d -r is equal to [www.competoid.com] 9 14
PHENOM'S BANK MATH BIBLE : 3rd Edition 17
8 9 ## If the numerator of a fraction is increased by
13 10 20% and its denominator by 25%, then the
Answer: 7979 3
fraction so obtained is . What is the original
## If the number 42573 * is exactly divisible by 5
72, then the minimum value of * is: fraction? [www.competoid.com]
[www.indiabix.com] 3 3
4 5 5 8
6 7 5
8 c Cannot be determined
8
## If the number 481 * 673 is completely Answer: 5858
divisible by 9, then the smallest whole ## If the numerator of a fraction is increased by
number in place of * will be: 200% and the denominator of the fraction is
[www.indiabix.com] increased by 150%, the resultant fraction is
2 5 7
6 7 . What is the original fraction?
10
None of these d [www.competoid.com]
## If the number 5 * 2 is divisible by 6, then * = 3 7
? 4 12
[www.indiabix.com] 7 9
2 3 11 11
6 7 a Answer: 712712
## If the number 517*324 is completely ## If the numerator of a fraction is increased by
divisible by 3, then the smallest whole 200% and the denominator is increased by
number in the place of * will be: 1
[www.indiabix.com; www.sawaal.com] 400%, the resultant is 1 . What was the
0 1 20
2 None of these c
original fraction ? [www.competoid.com]
3 11
## If the number 91876 * 2 is completely 1
4 10
divisible by 8, then the smallest whole
number in place of * will be: 6 1
1
[www.indiabix.com] 5 2
1 2 Answer: 134134
3 4 ## If the numerator of a fraction is increased by
None of these c 200% and the denominator is increased by
## If the number 97215 * 6 is completely 5
350%. the resultant fraction is . What was
divisible by 11, then the smallest whole 12
number in place of * will be: the original fraction?
[www.indiabix.com] [www.competoid.com]
3 2 5 5
1 5 9 8
None of these a 7 11
12 12
3 4 6
## If the numbers 9, 9, 25 are arranged in Answer: 5858
ascending order, then the right arrangement ## If the numerator of a fraction is increased by
is – [www.examveda.com] 200% and the denominator of the fraction is
increased by 250%. the resultant fraction is
6 4 3 3 4 6
25, < 20, < 9 9, < 20, < 25 3
. What is the original fraction?
14
6 3 4 4 3 6
25, < 9, < 20 20, < 9, < 25 [www.competoid.com]
c
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1 3 ## If the numerator of a fraction is increased by
2 14 350% and the denominator of the fraction is
1 increased by 300%, the resultant fraction is
None of these 9
6
. What is the original fraction?
Answer: None of these 22
## If the numerator of a fraction is increased by [www.competoid.com]
200% and the denominator of the fraction is 3 5
increased by 120%, the resultant fraction is 4 12
4 7 4
. What is the original fraction? 9 11
11
[www.competoid.com] Answer: 411411
4 3 ## If the numerator of a fraction is increased by
15 11 400% and the denominator is increased by
5 6 20
500%, the resultant fraction is . What is
12 11 27
Answer: 415415 the original fraction ? [www.competoid.com]
## If the numerator of a fraction is increased by 9 11
250% and the denominator of the fraction is 8 12
increased by 400%, the resultant fraction is 3
5 None of these
4
. What is the original fraction?
18 Answer: None of these
[www.competoid.com] ## If the position of the digits of a two digit
4 4 number are interchanged, the number
9 5 obtained is smaller than the original number
8 8 by 27.If the digits of the number are in the
9 11 ratio of 1 : 2. what is the original number ?
Answer: 4949 [www.competoid.com]
## If the numerator of a fraction is increased by 36 63
300% and the denominator is increased by 48 Cannot be determined
11 Answer: 63
100%. the resultant fraction is 1 . What ## If the product 4864*9 P 2 is divisible by 12,
19
was the original fraction? the value of p: [www.sawaal.com; www.indiabix.com]
[www.competoid.com] 1 2
15 13 3 4 a
19 19 ## If the product of two positive numbers be
5 4 1575 and their ration is 7 : 9, then the
9 9 greatest number is : [www.examveda.com]
Answer: 15191519 45 135
## If the numerator of a fraction is increased by 35 63 a
300% and the denominator is increased by ## If the square of sum of three positive
5 consecutive natural numbers exceeds the
500%, the resultant fraction is . What was
12 sum of their squares by 292, then what is the
the original fraction? largest of the three numbers?
[www.competoid.com] [www.sawaal.com]
8 5 5 6
5 11 7 8 d
12 ## If the sum of two numbers is 42 and their
None of these
5 product is 437. then the absolute difference
Answer: None of these between the numbers is: [www.competoid.com]
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3 4 other two digits. What is the third digit of
5 7 the number? [www.examveda.com]
Answer: 4 5 8
## If two numbers are each divided by the same 1 4 a
divisor, the remainder are respectively 3 and ## In a certain series, each number except the
4. If the sum of two numbers be divided by first and second is obtained by adding the
the same divisor, the remainder is 2. The previous two numbers. If the first no is 2 and
divisor is – [www.examveda.com] sixth no is 26, then the seventh number is :
9 7 [www.examveda.com]
5 3 c 52 46
## If V = 12R / (r + R) , then R = [www.sawaal.com] 40 42 d
Vr / (12 - V) Vr + (V /12 ) ## In a class, 50 students play Cricket, 20
V V / (r - 12 ) a students play Football and 10 students play
## If we divide the unknown two – digit number both Cricket and Football. How many play
by the number consisting of the same digits at least one of these two games?
[www.competoid.com]
written in the reverse order, we get 4 as
10 80
quotient and 3 as remainder. If we divide the
50 60
required number by sum of its digits, we get
8 as a quotient and 7 as a remainder. Find Answer: 60
the number? [www.examveda.com]
## In a class, there are 'z' students. Out of them
81 91 'x' are boys. What part of the class is
composed of girls?
71 72 [www.examveda.com]
None of these c x z
## If we write down all the natural numbers y x
from 259 to 492 side by side get a very large x x
natural number 259260261....491492. How 1– –1 c
z z
many 8's will be used to write this large ## In a division operation, the divisor is 5 times
natural number? [www.lofoya.com]
the quotient and twice the remainder. If the
32 43 remainder is 15, then what is the dividend?
52 53 d [www.competoid.com]
## If x : y be the ratio of two whole numbers 175 185
and z be their HCF, then the LCM of those 195 250
two numbers is : Answer: 195
[www.examveda.com] ## In a division sum, the divisor is 10 times the
yz
yz quotient and 5 times the remainder. If the
y remainder is 46, what is the dividend?
xy [www.competoid.com; www.indiabix.com]
xyz d
z 4236 4306
## If you write down all the numbers from 1 to 4336 5336
100, then how many times do you write 4 ? None of these d
[www.sawaal.com] ## In a fraction, if numerator is increased by
11 20 40%, and denominator is increased by 80%.
17 14 b Then what fraction of the old is the new
## In a 4-digit number, the sum of the first two fraction? [www.competoid.com]
digits is equal to that of last two digits. The 1 7
sum of the first and last digits is equal to 2 9
third digit. Finally, the sum of the second 7
and fourth digits is twice the sum of the Data inadequate
18
Answer: 7979
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## In a meet, persons from five different places ## In what ratio is the segment joining (– 1, –
have assembled in Bangalore High School. 12) and (3, 4) divided by the x-axis?
From the five places the persons come to [www.sawaal.com]
represent are 42, 60, 210, 90 and 84. What is 1:3 3:2
the minimum number of rooms that would 3:1 2:3 c
be required to accommodate so that each ## In ΔABC measure of angle B is 90°. If cosec
room has the same number of occupants and 13
A = , and AB = 10cm, then what is the
occupants are all from the same places? 12
[www.lofoya.com] length (in cm) of side AC? [www.sawaal.com]
44 62 24 12
81 96 c 14 26 d
## In a pair of fractions, fraction 'A' is twice the 27
fraction 'B' and the 2 product of two ## Index form of is [www.competoid.com]
125
2
fractions is . What is the value of fraction
25 33 53
5 3
'A? [www.competoid.com] 4
1 2  3 None of these
5
5 5 Answer: (35)3(35)3
1 ## Indian hockey team won 4 more matches,
Data inadequate
25 3
Answer: 2525 than it lost to Australia. If it won of its
5
## In a two digit number the digit in unit's matches, how many matches did India play?
place is four times the digit in ten's place and [www.competoid.com]
sum of the digits is equal to ten. What is the 20 16
number? [www.competoid.com] 12 8
l4 41 Answer: 20
82 None of these ## K men agree to donate a gift of Rs. L to
Answer: None of these trust. If three men drop out how much more
## In a two digit number, the digit at the unit's will each have to contribute towards the
place is 1 less than twice the digit at the ten's purchase of the gift ?
place. If the digits at unit's and ten's place [www.sawaal.com]
are interchanged, the difference between the L K
new and the original number is less than the (K – 3) (L – 3)
original number by 20. The original number 2K 3L
d
is : 3L – K K (K – 3)
[www.examveda.com] ## Let X be a four-digit number with exactly
59 23 three consecutive digits being same and is a
35 47 d multiple of 9. How many such X’s are
## In a two digit positive number, the digit in possible? [www.lofoya.com]
the unit's place is equal to the square of the 12 16
digit in ten's place,and the difference 19 20 d
between the number and the number ## Let x be an odd natural number. If x is
obtained by interchanging the digits is 54. divided by 6. it leaves a remainder y. If y2 is
What is 40% of the original number ? divided by 4. it leaves remainder of z. Which
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of the following must be true for z ?
15.6 39 [www.competoid.com]
37.2 24 z=3 z=5
Answer: 15.6 z=1 z is even
Answer: z = 1
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x 3 6 y–x ## Of the three numbers, the sum of the first
## lf = , then the value of + = ? two is 55, sum of the second and third is 65,
y 4 7 y+x
[www.competoid.com] and sum of third with thrice of the first is
5 1 110. The third number is –
1
7 7 [www.examveda.com]
1 None of these 25 30
Answer: 1 35 28 c
## Maheshwari wants to buy 7 floors in an 68 ## On a particular day, sweets were to be
storied building whose numbering stars from equally distributed among 495 students of a
1 upto 68. But she has to follow certain rules school. However, on that particular day 396
which are as follows : students from a nearby school also joined
[www.sawaal.com] them. Hence each student present on that
11 17 day got four sweets less. How many sweets
13 19 b were distributed ? [www.competoid.com]
## Mathematical expression for "two multiplied 5445 4950
by one less than the difference of nineteen 4455 3960
and six" is [www.competoid.com] Answer: 4455
2 × {6 – 19 + 1} 2 × {(19 − 6) + 1} ## On a road three consecutive traffic lights
2 × {(19 − 6) − 1} none of these change after 36, 42 and 72 seconds
Answer: 2×{(19−6)−1}2×{(19−6)−1} respectively. If the lights are first switched
## Multiplicative identity of whole number 'a' is on at 9 : 00 AM sharp, at what time will they
[www.competoid.com] change simultaneously? [www.examveda.com]
1 9 : 08 : 04 9 : 08 : 24
1
a 9 : 08 : 44 None of these b
a+1 a–1 ## On a school's Annual Day sweets were to be
Answer: 1 equally distributed amongst 112 children.
## No square of a number ends with But on that particular day. 32 children were
[www.competoid.com] absent. Thus the remaining children got 6
2,3,7 and 8 3,5,6 and 8 extra sweets. How many sweets was each
2,5,7 and 9 2,3,7 and 9 child originally supposed to get?
Answer: 2,3,7 and 8 [www.competoid.com]
## Number of prime numbers from 1 to 50 are 24 18
[www.competoid.com] 15 Cannot be determined
18 15 Answer: 15
12 20 ## On dividing 2272 as well as 875 by 3-digit
Answer: 15 number N, we get the same remainder. The
## Of the three numbers the sum of the first sum of the digits of N is: [www.indiabix.com;
two is 40; the sum of the second and the www.sawaal.com]
third is 48 and the sum of the third and 10 11
thrice the first is 104. Then the third number 12 13 a
is. [www.competoid.com] ## On dividing 44289 by 289, the remainder is
24 32 72. What is the quotient. [www.competoid.com]
16 48 123 143
Answer: 32 153 133
## Of the three numbers, the second is twice the Answer: 153
first and is also thrice the third. If the ## On dividing a number by 357, we get 39 as
average of these three numbers is 44, the remainder. On dividing the same number 17,
largest number is – [www.examveda.com] what will be the remainder? [www.examveda.com;
24 36 www.indiabix.com]
72 108 c 0 3
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5 11 inside the pond. What is the total number of
None of these c swans? [www.competoid.com]
## On dividing a number by 5, we get 3 as 10 14
remainder. What will the remainder when 12 16
the square of the this number is divided by Answer: 16
5? [www.indiabix.com] ## One third of three eighth of a number is 20.
0 1 Then the number is [www.competoid.com]
2 4 d 160 240
## On dividing a number by 56, we get 29 as 480 80
remainder. On dividing the same number by Answer: 160
8, what will be the remainder? [www.indiabix.com] ## One-fifth of a number is 62. What will 73%
4 5 of that number be ? [www.competoid.com]
6 7 b 198.7 212.5
## On dividing a number by 68, we get 269 as 226.3 234.8
quotient and 0 as remainder. On dividing the Answer: 226.3
same number by 67, what will the ## One-third of a number is 96. What will 67%
remainder? [www.indiabix.com] of that number be ? [www.competoid.com]
0 1 192.96 181.44
2 3 b 169.92 204.48 a
## On Republic Day sweets were to be equally ## Out of 80 students in a class, 25 are studying
distributed among 450 children. But on that Commerce, 15 Mathematics and 13 Physics,
particular day,150 children remained 3 are studying Commerce and Mathematics,
absent. Thus, each child got 3 sweets extra. 4 are studying Mathematics and Physics and
How many sweets did each child get? 2 are studying Commerce and Physics, 1
[www.competoid.com] student is studying all the three subjects
6 12 together. How many students are not
9 Cannot be determined studying any of the three subjects?
Answer: 9 [www.competoid.com]
## On the annual day, sweets were to be 35 40
distributed equally amongst 600 children of 20 15
the school. But on that particular day, 120 Answer: 35
children remained absent. Thus, each child ## Philip, Tom and Brad start jogging around a
got 2 extra sweets. How many sweets was circular field and complete a single round in
each Child originally supposed to get ? 18, 22 and 30 seconds respectively. In how
[www.competoid.com] much time will they meet again at the
8 14 starting point? [www.competoid.com]
10 6 8 mins. 15 secs. 21 mins.
Answer: 8 16 mins. 30 secs. 12 mins.
5 Answer: 16 mins. 30 secs.
## One – third of a tower is painted black, th
11 ## Product of digits of a 2-digit number is 18. If
of the remaining part is painted red and the we add 63 to the number, the new number
rest is painted white. If the white part obtained is a number formed by interchange
measures 60 ft.,the total height of the tower of the digits. Find the number.
is – [www.examveda.com] [www.sawaal.com]
100 ft. 154 ft. 92 29
165 ft. 110 ft. c 36 63 b
## One of a group of swans, 7/2 times the ## Product of digits of a 2-digit number is 72. If
square root of the number are playing on the we add 9 to the number, the new number
shore of the pond. The two remaining are
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obtained is a number formed by interchange evenings. How long was their vacation?
of the digits. Find the number. [www.sawaal.com] [www.lofoya.com]
98 89 36 days 14 days
78 87 b 29 days Cannot be determined
## Product of three consecutive odd numbers is c
1287. What is the largest of the three 1 3
## Ram left of his property to his widow and
numbers? [www.sawaal.com] 3 5
9 11 of the remainder to his daughter. He gave
13 17 c the rest to his son who received Rs. 6,400.
## Prof. Suman takes a number of quizzes for a How much was his original property worth?
[www.examveda.com]
course. All the quizzes are out of 100. A
Rs. 16,000 Rs. 24,000
student can get an A grade in the course if
Rs. 30,000 Rs. 32,000 b
the average of her scores is more than or
equal to 90. Grade B is awarded to a student ## Ravi bought equal number of Rs.45, Rs.75
if the average of her scores is between 87 and and Rs.95 valued tickets for a classical music
89 (both included). If the average is below show. He spent a sum of Rs.3870 for all the
87, the student gets a C grade. Ramesh is tickets. How many of each kind of tickets did
preparing for his last quiz and he realizes he buy ? [www.competoid.com]
that he must score a minimum of 97 to get an 18 19
A grade. After the quiz, he realizes that he 17 20
will score 70, and he will just manage a B. Answer: 18
how many quizzes did Prof. Suman take? ## Recently, a small village, in Tamilnadu
[www.examveda.com] where only male shepherd reside with four
6 7 sheep each, was devastated by Tsunami
8 9 waves. Therefore 8 persons and 47 sheep
None of these d were found to be dead and the person who
## Punit, Vinit and Ajit begin to jog around a luckily survived, left the village with one
stadium. They complete their revolutions in sheep each since 21 sheep were too injured to
45 seconds. 54 seconds and 36 seconds move so have left on their on luck, in the
respectively. After how many seconds will village. The number of sheep which were
they be together at the starting point ? earlier in the village was : [www.examveda.com]
[www.competoid.com] 84 sheep 120 sheep
360 sec. 600 sec. 80 sheep 90 sheep
540 sec. 450 sec. Cannot determined c
Answer: 540 sec. ## Some birds settled on the branches of a tree.
## Ram and Shyam take a vacation at their First, they sat one to a branch and there was
grandparents' house. During the vacation, one bird too many. Next they sat two to a
they do any activity together. They either branch and there was one branch too many.
played tennis in the evening or practiced How many branches were there?
Yoga in the morning, ensuring that they do [www.examveda.com]
not undertake both the activities on any 3 4
single day. There were some days when they 5 6
did nothing. Out of the days that they stayed 2 a
at their grandparents' house, they involved ## Sum of square of first number and cube of
in one of the two activities on 22 days. second number together is 568. Also square
However, their grandmother while sending of the second number is 15 less than square
an end of vacation report to their parents of 8. What is the value of three-fifth of the
stated that they did not do anything on 24 first number? (assuming both the numbers
mornings and they did nothing on 12 are positive) [www.competoid.com]
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18 8 quadrilateral is equal to the smallest angle of
9 16 a triangle. One of the angles of the triangle is
Answer: 9 twice the smallest angle of the triangle. What
## Sunil entered a shopping center and spent is the second largest angle of the triangle ?
one half of the money that he had. When he [www.sawaal.com]
finished his purchase he found that he had as 80 degrees 60 degrees
many paise as he had rupees and half as 120 degrees 40 degrees b
many rupees as he had paise when he went. ## The average of 3 consecutive even numbers
How much money did he have when he is A. If next 5 even numbers are added, then
entered? what is the average of these 8 numbers?
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Rs. 75.50 Rs. 98.98 A+3 A+4
Rs. 99.98 None of these c A+5 A+7 c
7 23
## Sunny gets times as many marks in QA as ## The average of 8 consecutive integers is .
9 2
in ENGLISH. If his total combined marks in What is the average of first three integers?
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both the papers is 90. His marks in QA is :
[www.examveda.com] 19
9
50 60 2
70 80 c 8 10 a
## Suppose n is an integer such that the sum of ## The average value of property of Agil,
digits on n is 2, and 1010 < n  10n. The Mugilan and Anithais Rs. 130cr. The
number of different values of n is: Property of Agil is 20cr greater than the
[www.lofoya.com] property value of Mugilan and Anitha
8 9 property value is 50cr greater than the Agil
10 11 d property value. The value ofproperty of
## The sum of three prime numbers is 100. Anitha is [www.sawaal.com]
If one of them exceeds another by 36, 120 cr 170 cr
then one of the numbers is [www.sawaal.com] 100 cr 150 cr b
17 29 ## The co-ordinates of the centroid of a triangle
43 none d ABC are (– 1, – 2) what are the co-ordinates
## The 2nd and 6th term of an arithmetic of vertex C, if co-ordinates of A and B are (6,
progression are 8 and 20 respectively. What – 4) and (– 2, 2) respectively? [www.sawaal.com]
is the 20th term? (– 7, – 4) (7, 4)
[www.sawaal.com] (7, – 4) (– 7, 4) a
56 65 ## The cost of 8 dozen of eggs is of Rs.256.
62 69 c Which calculation is needed to find the cost
## The 3rd and 6th term of an arithmetic of 9 eggs ? [www.competoid.com]
progression are 19 and 37 respectively. What (9 × 256) × (8 ÷ 12) (12 × 256) ÷ (8 × 9)
is the 13th term? [www.sawaal.com] (8 × 256) ÷ (9 × 12) (9 × 256) ÷ (8 × 12)
79 43 Answer: (9×256)÷(8×12)(9×256)÷(8×12)
45 49 a ## The denominator of a fraction is 3 more than
## The age of Mr. Bhagat in 2002 was 1 / 90 of its numerator. If the numerator is increased
his birth year. What is his age in 2006 ? by 7 and denominator is decreased by 2, we
[www.competoid.com] obtain 2. The sum of numerator and
30 yrs 28 yrs denominator of the fraction is –
26 yrs 22 yrs [www.examveda.com]
Answer: 26 yrs 5 13
## The angles of a quadrilateral are in the ratio 17 19 b
of 2:4:7:5. The smallest angle of the
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## The denominator of fraction is 2 more than 973 6973
thrice its numerator. If the numerator as 5994 None of these c
well as denominator is increased by one, the ## The difference between the place value and
1 the face value of 7 in the numeral 967452 is
fraction becomes .What was the original
3 [www.sawaal.com]
fraction? [www.competoid.com] 6393 5831
4 3 6993 6339 c
13 11 ## The difference between the place values of
5 5 two sevens in the numeral 69758472 is
13 11 [www.indiabix.com]
Answer: 311311 0 6993
## The denominators of two fractions are 5 and 699930 None of these c
7 respectively. The sum of these fractions is ## The difference between the sum of four
41 consecutive odd numbers and three
. On interchanging the numerators, their consecutive even numbers together is 20.
35
sum becomes 43354335. The fractions are Also, the largest even number is 5 more than
[www.competoid.com] the largest odd number. What is the sum of
2 4 3 4 the smallest odd number and the smallest
and and even number ? [www.competoid.com]
5 7 5 7
4 2 3 5 75 77
and and 85 Cannot be determined
5 7 5 7
Answer: 3535 and 4747 Answer: 77
## The difference between 20% of a number 3 4
## The difference between the th of th of a
4 2 4 5
and th of the same number is 2499.what is 2
5 7 number and 1616th of th of the same
th of that number? 5
[www.competoid.com] number is 648.What is the number ?
2156 1190 [www.competoid.com]
1090 1465 1110 1215
Answer: 1190 1325 1440
## The difference between a positive proper Answer: 1215
9 ## The difference between two numbers is 3355.
fraction and its reciprocal is . The When the larger number is divided by the
20
fraction is: [www.indiabix.com; www.sawaal.com] smaller one, the quotient is 6 and the
3 3 remainder is 15. The smaller number and
5 10 larger number respectively ? [www.sawaal.com]
4 4 546, 3901 415, 3770
c 668, 4023 404, 3759 c
5 3
## The difference between a two digit number ## The difference of two numbers is 1365. On
and the number obtained by interchanging dividing the larger number by the smaller,
the positions of its digits is 36. What is the we get 6 as quotient and the 15 as remainder.
difference between the two digits of that What is the smaller number?
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number ? [www.competoid.com]
240 270
4 9
295 360
3 Cannot be determined
None of these b
Answer: 4
## The digit in the unit's place of [(251)98 +
## The difference between the place value and
(21)29 – (106)100 + (705)35 – 164 + 259] is :
the face value of 6 in the numeral 856973 is [www.examveda.com]
[www.indiabix.com]
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1 4 80 L 40 L
5 6 b Answer: 40 L
## The digits indicated by * in 3422213** so ## The greatest number among the following :
that this number is divisible by 99 are : 0.6
0.7 + 0.16, 1.02 – , 1.2  0.83, and 1.44
[www.examveda.com] 24
1, 9 3, 7 [www.examveda.com]
4, 6 5, 5 a 0.7 + 0.16 1.44
## The distance between the house of Rajan and 0.6
Raman is 900 km and the house of former is 1.2  0.83 1.02 – b
24
at 100th milestone where as the house of ## The greatest number which will divides :
Raman is at 1000th milestone. There are total 4003, 4126 and 4249, leaving the same
901 milestone at a regular interval of 1 km remainder in each case :
each. When you go to Raman's house from [www.examveda.com]
the house of Rajan which are on same 43 41
highway, you will find that if the last digit 45 None of these b
(i.e. unit digit) of 3 digit number on every ## The greatest number will divide 3026 and
milestone is same as the first (i.e. hundreds 5053 leaving remainders 11 and 13
digit) of the number on the next milestone is respectively? [www.examveda.com]
same, then these milestones must be red 15 30
colour and rest will be of black. Total 40 60 a
number of red colour milestone is : ## The greatest number, which when
[www.examveda.com]
subtracted from 5834, gives a number
179 90
exactly divisible by each of 20, 28, 32, 35 is.
189 100 [www.examveda.com]
Can't be determined 1120 4714
a 5200 5600 b
## The divisor is 25 times of the quotient and 5 ## The highest score in an innings was 2/9 of the
times the remainder. If the quotient is 16, the total score and the next highest was 2 /9 of
dividend is – the remainder. These scores differ by 8 runs.
[www.examveda.com]
What was the total score in the innings?
6400 6480 [www.competoid.com]
400 480 b 152 162
## The expanded notation form of a8 is 142 132
[www.competoid.com]
Answer: 162
8×a a×a×a×a
## The largest 5 digit number exactly divisible
a+a+a+a+a+a+a+a a×a×a×a by 91 is:
×a×a×a×a [www.indiabix.com]
Answer: a×a×a×a×a×a×a×aa×a×a×a×a×a×a×a 99921 99918
## The face value of 6 in the numeral 4627 is? 99981 99971
[www.competoid.com]
None of these b
600 60
## The largest 5 digit number exactly divisible
6000 6
by 95 is ______. [www.sawaal.com]
Answer: 600
99936 99935
## The fuel indicator in a car shows one-fifth of
99940 99933 c
the fuel tank as full. When 22 more litres of
## The largest among the numbers?
fuel are poured into the tank. the indicator [www.examveda.com]
rests at the three-fourth of the full mark.
(0.1)2 0.0121
Find the capacity of the fuel tank.
[www.competoid.com] 0.12 0.0004 c
25 L 35 L
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## The least common multiple of two natural 1225 24505
numbers aa and bb, is 399. What is the 62525 52650
minimum possible sum of the digits of the Answer: 62525
number a(given a>ba>b)? [www.lofoya.com] ## The number obtained by interchanging the
1 3 two digits of a two digit number is less than
5 7 b the original number by 27. If the difference
## The least number of five digit is exactly between the two digits of the number is 3.
divisible by 88 is : What is the original number ? [www.competoid.com;
[www.examveda.com] www.lofoya.com]
10032 10132 74 63
10088 10023 a 85 Cannot be determined
## The least number that must be subtracted Answer: Cannot be determined
from 63520 to make the result a perfect ## The number of employees in Examveda and
square is – [www.examveda.com] Co. is a prime number and less than 300.
30 24 The ratio of the number of employees who
14 16 d are graduates and above, to that of
## The least number that must be subtracted employees who are not, can possibly be :
from 893304 to get a perfect square, is [www.examveda.com]
[www.competoid.com] 101 : 88 87 : 100
9 279 110 : 111 85 : 98
945 1612 97 : 84
Answer: 279 ## The number of numbers from 1 to 200 which
## The least number which must be added to are divisible by neither 3 nor 7 is :
the greatest number of 4 digits in order that [www.examveda.com]
the sum may be exactly divisible by 307 is : 115 106
[www.examveda.com] 103 less than 100 a
132 32 ## The numbers 1 to 29 are written side by side
43 75 a as follows 1234567891011......2829. If the
## The least number which should be added to number is divided by 9, then what is the
2497 so that the sum is exactly divisible by 5, remainder? [www.lofoya.com]
6, 4 and 3 is: [www.competoid.com] 0 1
3 13 2 3 d
23 33 ## The numerator and denominator of a
Answer: 23 fraction are in the ratio 3 : 4. If 9 is
## The least perfect square divisible by 2, 4 and subtracted from the numerator, the resulting
6 is [www.competoid.com] 2
fraction in of the original fraction. The
16 18 3
36 52 numerator of the original fraction is
Answer: 36 [www.examveda.com]
## The least square number which is exactly 27 18
divisible by each of these number 6,9,15 and 36 9 a
20 is [www.competoid.com] ## The owner of a local jewellery store hired 3
400 900 watchmen to guard his diamonds, but a thief
961 1024 still got in and stole some diamonds. On the
Answer: 900 way out, the thief met each watchman, one at
## The natural numbers are divided into 1
a time. To each he gave of the diamonds he
groups as (1), (2, 3), (4, 5, 6), (7, 8, 9, 10) and 2
so on. The sum of the numbers in the 50th had then and 2 more besides. He escaped
group is [www.competoid.com] with one diamond. How many did he steal
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originally? 89 85
[www.examveda.com] 91 83
36 25 Answer: 83
640 None of these a ## The product of two irrationals is
## The pair of numbers which are relatively [www.competoid.com]
prime to each other is [www.competoid.com] rational number irrational number
(68, 85) (65, 91) either (a) or (b) none of these
(92, 85) (102,153) Answer: either (a) or (b)
Answer: (92, 85) ## The product of two numbers is 0.008. One of
## The poduct of four consecutive natural 1
the number is of the other. The smaller
numbers plus one is [www.competoid.com] 5
a non-square always sum of two square number is –
numbers [www.examveda.com]
a square None of the above 0.2 0.4
Answer: a square 0.02 0.04 d
## The positive integers mm and n leave ## The product of two numbers is 120 and the
remainders of 2 and 3, respectively, when sum of their squares is 289. The sum of the
divided by 6. m > n. What is the remainder two number is –
when m – n is divided by 6? [www.lofoya.com] [www.examveda.com]
2 3 23 7
5 6 c 13 169 a
## The prime number 1999 can be Written as ## The product of two successive numbers is
a2−b2 where a and b are natural numbers. 4032. Which is the greater of the two
Then the value of a2 + b2 is [www.competoid.com] numbers ? [www.competoid.com]
1998000 1998001 63 64
1999000 1999001 65 66
Answer: 1998001 Answer: 64
## The product of the age of Harish and Seema ## The product of two successive numbers is
is 240. If twice the age of Seema is more than 9506. Which is the smaller of the two
Harish's age by 4 years, what is Seema's age numbers ? [www.competoid.com]
in years? [www.competoid.com] 96 97
12 years 20 years 98 99
10 years 14 years Answer: 97
Answer: 12 years ## The ratio between two numbers is 2 : 3 one
## The product of two consecutive even number is greater than the other by 15. The
numbers is 7568. What is 150% of the sum numbers are. [www.competoid.com]
of the two numbers? [www.competoid.com] 15, 20 30, 45
204 261 20, 30 30, 50
304 198 Answer: 30, 45
Answer: 261 ## The ratio between two numbers is 5 : 2 and
## The product of two consecutive even their sum is 560. What is the greater of the
numbers is 9408. Which is the greater of the two numbers? [www.competoid.com]
two numbers? [www.competoid.com] 200 500
96 98 300 400
94 92 Answer: 400
Answer: 98 ## The reciprocal of smallest prime number is
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## The product of two consecutive odd numbers
0 1
is 6723. What is the greater number?
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1 divided by 14 is x + 7. Which one of the
2 2
following could mm equal? [www.lofoya.com]
Answer: 1212 45 53
## The reciprocals of the squares of the number 72 85 b
1 1 ## The rightmost non-zero digit of the number
1 and 1 are in the ratio : [www.examveda.com]
2 3 302720 is
64 : 81 8:9 [www.examveda.com]
81 : 64 9:8 a 1 3
## The remainder obtained when any prime 7 9 a
number greater than 6 is divided by 6 must ## The set of real numbers does not satisfy the
be : [www.examveda.com] property of [www.competoid.com]
either 1 or 2 either 1 or 3 distributive prop additive inverse
either 1 or 5 either 3 or 5 c multiplicative identity none of these
8222 + 222888 Answer: none of these
## The Remainder of is : ## The smallest 5 digit number exactly divisible
3
[www.examveda.com] by 41 is:
0 1 [www.indiabix.com]
2 3 1004 10004
None of these a
10045 10025
3997! None of these b
## The remainder of is : [www.examveda.com] ## The smallest number of four digits which on
40
division by 4, 6, 10 and 15 leaves a
39 0
remainder 2 in each case is :
1 13 [www.examveda.com]
None of these c 1020 1022
32
3232 1024 1040 b
## The remainder of : [www.examveda.com]
7 ## The smallest number, which should be added
1 2 to 756896, so as to obtain a multiple of 11, is :
3 4 [www.examveda.com]
None of these d 1 2
## The remainder when 666..∞ is divided by 10 3 5 c
is : ## The smallest positive prime (say p )) such
[www.examveda.com] that 2p – 1 is not a prime is [www.competoid.com]
3 6 5 11
5 0 17 29
Cannot determined b Answer: 11
## The remainder when 71087 is divided by 5 is ## The smallest possible three placed decimal
[www.competoid.com] is –
1 2 [www.examveda.com]
3 4 0.012 0.123
Answer: 3 0.111 None of these d
## The remainder when m + n is divided by 12 ## The smallest prime number is: [www.indiabix.com]
is 8, and the remainder when m – n is 1 2
divided by 12 is 6. If m > n, then what is the 3 4 b
remainder when mnmn divided by 6? ## The smallest prime number, that is the fifth
[www.lofoya.com] term of an increasing arithmetic sequence in
1 2 which all the four preceding terms are also
3 4 a prime, is – [www.examveda.com]
## The remainder when the positive integer mm 17 29
is divided by 7 is x. The remainder when m is
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37 53 b ## The sum of even numbers between 1 and 31
## The square of a number greater than 1000 is :
that is not divisible by three, when divided [www.indiabix.com; www.examveda.com]
by three, leaves a remainder of[www.examveda.com] 6 28
1 always 2 always 240 512
Either 1 or 2 0 None of these c
Cannot be said a ## The sum of five consecutive even numbers of
## The students of a class donated Rs.2401 set-A is 220. What is the sum of a different
Each student donated as many rupees as the set of five consecutive numbers whose second
number of students in the class, then the lowest number is 37 less than double of the
number of students in the class is lowest number of set-A ? [www.competoid.com]
[www.competoid.com] 223 225
25 49 235 None of these
81 119 Answer: None of these
Answer: 49 ## The sum of five consecutive even numbers of
## The students present in an auditorium are set-A is 280. What is the sum of different set
asked to stand in rows. If there were 4 of five consecutive numbers whose lowest
students extra in a row there would be 4 less number is 71 less than double the lowest
rows. However, if 2 students were less in a number of set-A ? [www.competoid.com]
row, there would be 4 more rows. The 182 165
number of students present in the 172 175
auditorium is [www.competoid.com] Answer: 175
80 96 ## The sum of five consecutive numbers is 270.
100 128 What is the sum of the second and the fifth
Answer: 96 number? [www.competoid.com]
## The sum and products of two numbers are 108 107
12 and 35 respectively. The sum of their 110 None of these
reciprocals will be : Answer: None of these
[www.examveda.com] ## The sum of four consecutive two-digit odd
1 1 numbers, when divided by 10, become a
3 5 perfect square. Which of the following can
12 35 possibly be one of these four numbers?
c
35 12 [www.examveda.com]
## The sum of 10 terms of the arithmetic series 21 25
is 390. If the third term of the series is 19. 41 67
Find the first term : 73 c
[www.examveda.com] ## The sum of four numbers is 64. If you add 3
3 5 to the first number. 3 is subtracted from the
7 8 a second number,the third is multiplied by 3
## The sum of all three digit numbers, each of and the fourth is divided by three, then all
which on divide by 5 leaves remainder 3, is – the results are equal. What is the difference
[www.examveda.com] between the largest and the smallest of the
180 1550 original numbers? [www.competoid.com]
6995 99090 d 32 27
## The sum of all two digit numbers divisible by 21 Cannot be determined
5 is Answer: 32
[www.sawaal.com]
## The sum of nine consecutive odd numbers of
945 678
set-A is 621. What is the sum of different set
439 568 a
of six consecutive even numbers whose
PHENOM'S BANK MATH BIBLE : 3rd Edition 31
lowest number is 15 more than the lowest Answer: None of these
number of set-A ? [www.competoid.com] ## The sum of the digits of a two-digit number
498 468 is 14 and the difference between the two
478 None of these digits of the number is 2. What is the
Answer: None of these product of the two digits of the two-digit
## The sum of one-half, one-third and one- number? [www.competoid.com]
fourth of a number exceeds the number by 56 48
12. The number is: [www.competoid.com] 45 Couldn't be
144 154 determined
90 174 Answer: 48
Answer: 144 ## The sum of the digits of a two-digits
## The sum of place values of 2 in 2424 is numbers is 12 and when the digits of the to
[www.competoid.com] digit number are interchanged, the new
4 220 number is 36 more than the original. What is
2002 2020 the Original number? [www.examveda.com]
Answer: 2020 93 48
## The sum of six consecutive even numbers of 39 84
set-A is 402. What is the sum of another set- Cannot be determined b
B of four consecutive numbers whose lowest ## The sum of the digits of two – digit number
number is 15 less than double the lowest is 10, while when the digits are reversed, the
number of set-A ? number decrease by 54. Find the changed
[www.competoid.com] number. [www.sawaal.com; www.examveda.com]
444 442 28 19
440 446 37 46
Answer: 442 82 a
## The sum of squares of three positive integers ## The sum of the four consecutive even
is 323. If the sum of squares of two numbers numbers is 284. What would be the smallest
is twice the third, their product is : number? [www.competoid.com]
[www.examveda.com]
255 260 72 74
265 270 a 68 66
## The sum of the age of 4 members of a family Answer: 68
5 years ago was 94 years. Today, when the ## The sum of the numerator and denominator
daughter has been married off and replaced of a positive fraction is 11. If 2 is added to
by a daughter-in-law, the sum of their age is both numerator and denominator, the
92. Assuming that there has been no other 1
fraction is increased by . The difference of
change in the family structure and all the 24
people are alive, what is the age of the numerator and denominator of the fraction
daughter and the daughter-in-law ? is – [www.examveda.com]
[www.competoid.com] 5 3
22 years 11 years 1 9 c
25 years 19 years ## The sum of the perfect square between 120
Answer: 22 years and 300 is :
## The sum of the digits of a two digit number [www.examveda.com]
is 15 and the difference between the two 1204 1024
digits of the two digit number is 3. What is 1296 1400 d
the product of the two digits of the two-digit ## The sum of the squares of 3 consecutive
number? [www.competoid.com] positive numbers is 365. The sum of the
56 63 numbers is –
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42 None of these
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30 33 ## The sum of three consecutive odd numbers
36 45 b and three consecutive even numbers together
## The sum of the squares of two consecutive is 231.Also, the smallest Odd number is 11
even numbers is 6500. Which is the smaller less than the Smallest even number. What is
numher? [www.competoid.com] the sum of the largest odd number and the
54 52 largest even number ? [www.competoid.com]
48 56 82 83
Answer: 56 74 None of these
## The sum of the squares of two numbers is Answer: None of these
100 and the square of their difference is 4. ## The sum of three digit number is subtracted
What is the product of two numbers. from the number. The resulting number is
[www.competoid.com] always: [www.lofoya.com]
46 48 divisible by 6 not divisible by 6
44 42 divisible by 9 not divisible by 9 c
Answer: 48 ## The sum of three numbers is 2, the 1st
## The sum of the squares of two numbers is 1
169 and their difference is 7. Then the number is times the 2nd and the 3rd number
2
product of time numbers is. [www.competoid.com] 1
77 64 is times the 2nd number. The 2nd number is :
4
49 60 [www.examveda.com]
Answer: 60 7 8
## The sum of the three numbers is 85. If the 6 7
ratio between first and second be 1 : 2 and 9 10
b
the ratio between second and third be 3 : 4, 8 9
then the second number is [www.competoid.com] ## The sum of three numbers is 252. If the first
30 40 number is thrice the second and third
15 60 number is two – third of the first, then the
Answer: 30 second number is : [www.examveda.com]
## The sum of the two digits of a two digit 41 21
number is 12 and the difference between the 42 84 c
two digits of the two digit number is 6. What ## The sum of two numbers is 100 and their
is the two digit number? [www.competoid.com] difference is 28. The difference of their
39 84 squares is [www.competoid.com]
93 Cannot be determined 2800 2400
Answer: Cannot be determined 2600 3000
## The sum of the two numbers is 12 and their Answer: 2800
product is 35. What is the sum of the ## The sum of two numbers is 18. The greatest
reciprocals of these numbers? [www.sawaal.com; product of these two number can be :
www.indiabix.com] [www.examveda.com]
12 1 17 81
35 35 80 Can't determined b
35 7 ## The sum of two numbers is 684 and their
a
8 32 HCF is 57. Find all possible pairs of such
## The sum of three consecutive odd natural numbers. [www.examveda.com]
numbers each divisible by 3 is 63. What is (57, 627) (285, 399) (37, 575) (270, 390)
the largest among them? (45, 495) (30, 330) (45, 575) (280, 890)a
[www.examveda.com] ## The sum of two numbers is twice their
21 24 difference. If one of the numbers is 10, the
27 36 c other number is [www.competoid.com]
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1 5 5
33 30 4 3
1 1 Answer: 3434
30 or – 3 30 or 3 1
3 3
Answer: 30 ## The value of (− 1728)3 is [www.competoid.com]
## The three words "TATA Assets Rock" are – 12 – 14
flashed such that the words individually are – 11 12
switched on at regular intervals of 4, 7 and 9 Answer: -12
seconds respectively and after they are 1
switched on, the words are switched off after ## The value of (− 474552)3 is [www.competoid.com]
2 sec, 4 sec and 5 sec respectively. If at time -68 -58
't' all the words happened to switch off -78 88
simultaneously, find the least time 't' which Answer: -78
all three words will switch on ## The value of (− 9)3 is [www.competoid.com]
simultaneously. [www.lofoya.com]
– 729 729
252 sec 126 sec 739 629
94 sec 38 sec c Answer: -729
1 1 1 1 1 ¯¯ + 0.37
¯¯ ) is :
## The value of + + + + is : ## The value of (0.63 [www.examveda.com]
15 35 63 99 143 100
[www.examveda.com] 1
5 4 99
39 39 99 100
b
2 7 100 33
39 39
a ## The value of (0.3467 ¯¯ + ¯¯ )
0.1333 is :
[www.examveda.com]
9
## The value of is [www.competoid.com] 0.48 ¯¯
0.4801
11 + 2 ¯¯
0.48 0.4¯¯
8 b
( 11 + 22) 9 ( 11 + 2) 1
( 11 – 2) None of these. ## The value of (27 × − 2744)3 is [www.competoid.com]
Answer: (11−−√−2–√)(11−2) -40 -42
5
## The value of   3 is [www.competoid.com]
-22 -32
9 Answer: -42
125 127 ## The value of (33)3 is [www.competoid.com]
727 729 35937 45937
125 125 55937 25937
729 727 Answer: 35937
Answer: 125729125729 1 1 1
## The value of : 1 +  1 +  1 +  .......
## The value of  –
5   2  3  4
 1003 is [www.competoid.com]
1 + 1 
125
−
125  120
1331 1331 [www.examveda.com]
1331 30 40.5
125 None of these 60.5 121 c
Answer: −1251331−1251331 ## The value of 0.¯¯
2 + 0.¯¯ ¯¯ is :
3 + 0.32
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3 27
## The value of is [www.competoid.com]
¯¯
0.87 ¯¯
0. 77
64 ¯¯
0. 82 ¯¯
0. 86 a
3 4
## The value of 2 3 – 3 12 + 5 75 is
4 3 [www.competoid.com]
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4 3 7 5 ## There are two Examination rooms A and B.

3 5 21 3 If 10 candidates are sent from A to B, the
number of students in each room is the same.
Answer: 75–√75
If 20 candidates are sent from B to A, the
3.157  4126  3.198
## The value of : number of students in A is double the
63.972  2835.121 number of students in B. Find the number of
[www.examveda.com]
students in each room. [www.competoid.com]
0.002 0.02
100 in A and 80 in B 80 in A and 100 in
0.2 2 c
B
## There are 50 boxes and 50 persons. Person 1
120 in A and 100 in B 100 in A and 120
keeps 1 marble in every box, person 2 keeps
in B
2 marbles in every 2nd box, person 3 keeps 3
Answer: 100 in A and 80 in B
marbles in every third box. The process goes
## There are two numbers such that the sum of
on till person 50 keeps 50 marbles in the 50th
twice the first number and thrice the second
box. Find the total number of marbles kept
number is 100 and the Sum of thrice the first
in the 50th box. [www.examveda.com]
number and twice the second number is 120.
43 78
Which is the larger number ? [www.sawaal.com;
6 93 d www.competoid.com]
## There are 576 boys and 448 girls in a school 32 12
that are to be divided into equal sections of 14 35 b
either boys or girls alone. Find the total ## There is a 3 digited number. 3rd digit is the
number of sections thus formed? square root of the 1st digit. 2nd digit is the
[www.examveda.com]
sum of 1st and 3rd. And that number is
24 32
divisible by 2,3,6,7. What is that number?
16 20 [www.sawaal.com]
None of these c 121 943
## There are 7 dozen candles kept in a box. If 462 None c
there are 14 such boxes.how many candles ## There is a three digit number. The digit at
are there in all the boxes together? the tenth place is 3. If the place of all the
[www.competoid.com]
digits are replaced with each other
1176 98 symmetrically about the tens position,then
1216 168 the new number obtained is 396 more than
Answer: 1176 the original three digit number. The sum of
## There are four consecutive even integers. the digits at unit & hundredth place is 14.
Sum of the reciprocals of the first two Find out the original number? [www.sawaal.com]
11
number is  . Find the reciprocal of third 513 539
60 439 613 b
largest number of the series. ## Three – fifth of a number is equal to 70% of
[www.sawaal.com]
1 2 another number. What is the ratio between
12 14 the first number and second number?
[www.examveda.com]
1 2 4:7 3:4
c
14 13 7:8 7:6 d
## There are several peacocks and deers in a ## Three numbers which are co – prime to one
cage (with no other types of animals). There another are such that the product of the first
are 72 heads and 200 feet inside the cage. two is 551 and that of last two is 1073. The
How many peacocks are there, and how sum of the three numbers is :
many deers ? [www.sawaal.com] [www.examveda.com]
42 & 24 38 & 26 75 81
36 & 24 44 & 28 d 85 89 c
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## Thrice the square of a natural number ## Two numbers are in the ratio 3 : 4. If their
decreased by four times the number is equal LCM is 240, the smaller of two number is
to 50 more than the number, the number is – [www.examveda.com]
[www.examveda.com] 100 80
6 5 60 50 c
10 6 b ## Two numbers are in the ratio 3 : 5. If each
3 number is increased by 10, the ratio becomes
## To win an election, a candidate needs of
4 5 : 7. The numbers are [www.competoid.com]
2 3, 5 7, 9
the votes cast. if after of the votes have 15, 25 None of these
3
5 Answer: 15, 25
been counted, a candidate has of what he ## Two numbers are such that the ratio
6
needs, then what part of the remaining votes between them is 2 : 3 But if each is increased
does he still need? [www.competoid.com] by 20, the ratio between them becomes 4 : 5,
1 7 then the numbers are [www.competoid.com]
8 12 16, 24 24, 48
1 3 20, 30 10, 30
4 8 Answer: 20, 30
Answer: 7/12 ## Two numbers are such that the sum of twice
## To write all the page numbers of a book, the first number and thrice the second
exactly 136 times digit 1 has been used. Find number is 36 and the sum of thrice the first
the number of pages in the book. number and twice the second number is 39.
[www.examveda.com] Which is the smaller number? [www.competoid.com]
190 195 9 5
210 220 b 7 None of these
## Twice the square of a number is more than Answer: None of these
eleven times the number by 21. The number ## Two prime numbers A, B (A < B) A, are
can have which of the following values ? called twin primes if they differ by 2 (e.g. 11,
[www.competoid.com] 13, or 41, 43 ....). If A and B are twin primes
7 3 with B > 23, then which of the following
4 or − 7 or −
2 2 numbers would always divide A + B?
7 9 [www.lofoya.com]
3 or − or -4 12 8
2 2
Answer: 7 or −32−32 24 None of these a
## Twice the square of a number is six times the ## Two third of one eighth of a number is 40.
other number. What is the ratio between the Find that number. [www.competoid.com]
first number and the second number? 480 420
[www.competoid.com] 460 410
1:4 2:5 Answer: 480
1:3 Cannot be determined ## Two third of one-fourth of a number is forty
Answer: Cannot be determined per cent of another number. Which of the
## Two bus tickets from city K to L and three following statement is true about these
tickets from city K to M cost Rs. 77, but numbers ? [www.competoid.com]
three tickets from city K to L and two tickets The second number is
from city K to M cost Rs. 73. What are the 2.4 times the first number
fares for cities L and M from K ? The first number is 2.4
[www.sawaal.com]
times the second number
Rs. 13 and Rs. 17 Rs. 17 and Rs. 19
The first number is forty
Rs. 23 and Rs. 17 Rs. 13 and Rs. 19 a per cent of the second number
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The second number is 2 3
sixty per cent less than the first number 4 None of these
Answer: The first number is 2.4 times the Answer: 3
second number ## What is the maximum value of mm such that
## Two times a two-digit number is 9 times the 7m divides into 14! evenly? [www.lofoya.com]
number obtained by reversing the digits and 1 2
sum of the digits is 9. The number is 3 4 b
[www.competoid.com] ## What is the minimum number of square
72 54 marbles required to tile a floor of length 5
63 81 metres 78 cm and width 3 metres 74 cm?
Answer: 81 [www.lofoya.com]
## Two-third of the first number is equal to the 176 187
cube of the second number. If the second 540 748 b
number is equal to twelve percent of 50, ## What is the place value of 6 in 65489203?
what is the sum of the first and the second [www.competoid.com]
number? [www.competoid.com] 6 × 105 6 × 104
330 360 6 × 107 6 × 108
390 372 Answer: 6×1076×107
Answer: 330 ## What is the remainder when 91 + 92 + 93 + ....
## Two-third of three-fourth of one-fifth of a + 98 is divided by 6? [www.lofoya.com]
number is 15. What is 30 per cent of that 3 2
number? [www.competoid.com] 0 5 c
45 60 ## What is the remainder when x40 + 2 is
75 30 divided by x4 + 1? [www.competoid.com]
Answer: 45 1 2
## What is the greater of two numbers whose 3 4
product is 1092 and the sum of the two Answer: 3
numbers exceeds their difference by 42? ## What is the right most integer of the
[www.competoid.com] expression 65776759 + 54697467 ?
48 44 [www.sawaal.com]
52 54 4 6
Answer: 52 9 0 c
## What is the greatest of 3 consecutive integers ## What is the sum of all positive integers lying
whose sum is 24 ? [www.sawaal.com] between 200 and 400 that are multiples of 7?
6 7 [www.competoid.com]
8 9 d 8729 8700
## What is the least number of soldiers that can 8428 8278
be drawn up in troops of 12, 15, 18 and 20 Answer: 8729
soldiers and also in form of a solid square? ## What is the unit digit in (4137)754?
[www.examveda.com] [www.indiabix.com]
900 400 1 3
1600 2500 a 7 9 d
## What is the least number of square tiles ## What is the unit digit in {(6374)1793 x (625)317
required to pave the floor of a room 15 m 17 x (341491)}?
cm long and 9 m 2 cm broad? [www.examveda.com] [www.indiabix.com; www.examveda.com]
840 841 0 2
820 814 d 3 5 a
## What is the least value assigned to # so that ## What is the unit place digit in the expansion
the number 63576#2 is divisible by 8? of 773?
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1 3 18 -9
7 9 c Answer: -9
## What is the value of M and N respectively if ## What will be the next set of numbers in the
M39048458N is divisible by 8 and 11, where series? (2,3), (3,5), (5,7), (7,11), (11,13), ___
M and N are single digit integers? [www.sawaal.com]
[www.lofoya.com] 13, 15 15, 17
7, 8 8, 6 13, 17 13, 19 c
6, 4 5, 4 c ## When 242 is divided by a certain divisor the
## What least number must be subtracted from remainder obtained is 8. When 698 is
13601, so that the remainder is divisible by divided by the same divisor the remainder
87 ? [www.sawaal.com; www.indiabix.com] obtained is 9. However, when the sum of the
23 31 two numbers 242 and 698 is divided by the
29 37 c divisor, the remainder obtained is 4. What is
## What least number must be subtracted from the value of the divisor? [www.lofoya.com]
518, so that the sum is completely divisible 11 17
by 13? [www.sawaal.com] 13 23 c
11 10 ## When a two-digit odd number is divided by
9 12 a a two digit even number, the quotient is
## What least value must be given to * so that 0.625. If the odd number is 5 less than the
the number 6487*62 is divisible by 9? even number, then which of the following
[www.competoid.com] will definitely be the ratio of odd and even
2 3 numbers respectively ? [www.competoid.com]
5 7 5:8 8:5
Answer: 3 6:9 Cannot be determined
## What number should be added to 231228 to Answer: 5 : 8
make it exactly divisible by 33? ## When all the students in a school are made
[www.competoid.com] to stand in rows of 54, 30 such rows are
1 2 formed. If the students are made to stand in
3 4 the rows of 45. how many such rows can be
Answer: 3 formed ? [www.competoid.com]
## What number should be subtracted from x3 25 42
+ 4x2 − 7x + 12, if it is to be perfectly 36 32
divisible by x + 3? [www.lofoya.com] Answer: 36
42 39 ## When an integer K is divided by 3 the
13 None of these a remainder is 1, and when K + 1 is divided by
## What should be the maximum value of B in 5, The remainder is '0'. Of the following the
the following equation? possible value of K is – [www.examveda.com]
8A9 – 6B2 + 4C6 = 723 [www.sawaal.com] 62 63
4 1 64 65 c
5 7 d ## When the square of any odd number,
## What smallest number should be added to greater than 1, is divided by 8, it always
4456 so that the sum is completely divisible leaves remainder : [www.examveda.com]
by 6 ? [www.sawaal.com ; www.indiabix.com] 1 6
4 3 8 Cannot be determined
2 1 c a
## What value will you obtain if twenty five per ## When two three digit numbers 6x 3 and 2y 5
cent of 2340 is subtracted from four-ninth of are added together, that number is divisible
square of 36 ? [www.competoid.com] by 9. The largest possible value of x+y is
9 -18 [www.competoid.com]
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2 9 67 912
12 11 Answer: 3737
Answer: 11 ## Which of the following is equivalent to
## When we reverse the digits of the number 0.565656...?
13, the increases by 18. How many other two [www.sawaal.com]
digit numbers increases by 18 when their 56 56
digits are reversed? 100 100
[www.examveda.com] 56 560
c
5 6 99 90
7 8 ## Which of the following is second largest ?
10 b [www.competoid.com]
## When writing numbers from 1 to 10,000, 138.6 - 38.4 + 479.3 36.5 - 844.6 + 1289
how many times is the digit 9 written? 931 - 564 + 156 130 - 461 + 888
[www.lofoya.com] Answer: 130 - 461 + 888
3200 3600 ## Which of the following is the largest ? (You
4000 4200 c are not expected to calculate the exact value)
## Which is the smallest number which, when [www.competoid.com]
multiplied by 3, will give a number entirely (56 × 15) ÷ (4)2 (25 × 72) ÷ (6)2
of 8 digits. (6 × 441) ÷ (7)2 (32 × 48) ÷ (26)
[www.competoid.com] Answer: (32×48)÷(26)(32×48)÷(26)
296 18 ## Which of the following is the smallest ? (You
16 None of these are not expected to calculate the exact value)
Answer: 296 [www.competoid.com]
## Which natural number is nearest to 8485, 1 1
which is completely divisible by 75?
5 of 1250 2  7 of 4112 3
9  13 
[www.indiabix.com; www.sawaal.com]
1 1
8475 8500  5 of 3221 2 15 of 412 2
8550 8525 19  11 
None of these a Answer: (1511of412)12(1511of412)12
## Which natural number is nearest to 9217, ## Which of the following number is divisible
which is completely divisible by 88? by 24?
[www.indiabix.com] [www.examveda.com; www.indiabix.com]
9152 9240 35718 63810
9064 9184 537804 3125736
None of these b None of these d
## Which of the following is a prime number? ## Which of the following numbers always
[www.examveda.com] divides the difference between the squares of
19 20 two consecutive odd integers? [www.competoid.com]
21 22 a 7 3
## Which of the following is a prime number? 8 6
[www.examveda.com] Answer: 8
115 119 ## Which of the numbers given below is NOT
127 None of these c rational?
## Which of the following is a rational number? [www.sawaal.com]
[www.sawaal.com]
3 8 3 64
0.241 1.732
4 All of the above c 64 8 d
## Which of the following is equal to 34.33? ## Which one of the following is a prime
[www.competoid.com] number?
37 312 [www.indiabix.com]
119 187
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247 551 315624 415624 d
None of these ## Which one of the following numbers is not a
## Which one of the following numbers is square of any natural number?
completely divisible by 99? [www.indiabix.com] [www.examveda.com]
3572404 135792 17956 18225
913464 114345 63592 53361 c
None of these d ## While solving a problem, by mistake, Anita
## Which one of the following numbers is squared a number and then subtracted 25
divisible by 11? [www.competoid.com] from it rather than first subtracting 25 from
45678940 54857266 the number and then squaring it. But she got
87524398 93455120 the right answer. What was the given
Answer: 93455120 number? [www.examveda.com]

## Which one of the following numbers is 48 Cannot be determined

exactly divisible by 11? [www.indiabix.com]
13 38 c
235641 245642
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2 H.C.F. & L.C.M. of Numbers

## A man has given one-fourth part of his of container which can measure milk of
property to his daughter, half part to his either container exact number ?
sons and one-fifth part given as charity. How [www.examveda.com]
much part of his property he has given? 1 litre 5 litres
[www.competoid.com] 15 litres 25 litres c
1 19 ## A number x is divided by 7. When this
20 20 number is divided by 8, 12 and 16. It leaves a
1 9 remainder 3 in each case. The least value of
b
10 10 x is = ?
## the difference between the numerator and [www.examveda.com]
the denominator, the fraction is decreased 148 149
1 150 147 d
by 1 . Find the value of the fraction. ## A room is 6 meters 24 centimeters in length
4
[www.examveda.com] and 4 meters 32 centimeters in Width. Find
1 1 the least number of square tiles of equal size
2 required to cover the entire floor of the
6 4
1 room.
3 66 b [www.sawaal.com]
4
## 54, 60 LCM is 107 117
[www.sawaal.com] 127 137 b
600 540 ## Find the greatest number of five digits which
60 54 b when divided by 3, 5, 8, 12 leaves 2 as
## A farmer has 945 cows and sheep. He farms remainder ?
them into flocks, keeping cows and sheep [www.examveda.com]
separate and having the same number of 99999 99948
animals in each flock. If these flocks are as 99962 99722 c
large as possible, then the maximum number ## Find the HCF of 3341 and 3328.
[www.sawaal.com]
of animals in each flock and total number of
257 337
flocks required for the purpose are
respectively ? 13 31 c
[www.examveda.com] ## Find the HCF of 865 and 2595.
15 and 228 9 and 380 [www.sawaal.com]
45 and 76 46 and 75 c
25 2595
## A milk vendor has 21 litres of cow milk, 42 865 5 c
litres of toned milk and 63 litres of double ## Find the least common multiple of 15 and
toned milk. If he wants to pack them in cans, 12?
[www.sawaal.com]
so that each can contains same litres of milk
3 12
and does not want to mix any two kinds of
30 60 d
milk in a can, then the least number of cans
## H.C.F of 3240, 3600 and a third number is
required is = ?
[www.examveda.com] 36 and their L.C.M is 24  35  52  72 . What
3 6 is the third number?
[www.sawaal.com]
9 12 b
47628 49874
## A milkman has 75 litres milk in one cane and
45 litres in another. The maximum capacity 24157 42146 a
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## H.C.F of 4  27  3125, 8  9  25  7 and xy
z xyz d
16  81  5  11  49 is
[www.sawaal.com] ## In a palace, three different types of coins are
180 360 there namely gold, silver and bronze. The
540 1260 a number of gold, silver and bronze coins is
## HCF and LCM of two numbers are 7 and 18000, 9600 and 3600 respectively. Find the
140 respectively, If the numbers are between minimum number of rooms required if in
20 and 45 the sum of the numbers is = ? each room should give the same number of
[www.examveda.com] coins of the same type ?
70 77 [www.sawaal.com]
63 56 c 26 24
## HCF of 1, 2, 3? 18 12 a
[www.sawaal.com] ## L.C.M. of two numbers is 2079 and their
3 2 H.C.F. is 27. If one of the number is 189, the
1 0 c other number is = ?
2 4 6 [www.examveda.com]
## HCF of , and is = ? 297 584
3 5 7
[www.examveda.com] 189 216 a
48 2 ## LCD of 12 and 18
105 105 [www.sawaal.com]
1 24 36 42
b
105 105 12 6 a
## If HCF of two numbers is 8,which of the ## LCM of 80, 85, 90
following can never be their LCM? [www.sawaal.com]
[www.sawaal.com] 11440 11998
32 48 12240 12880 c
60 152 c ## LCM of two co-prime numbers a and b is (a
## If N is the greatest number that will divide is greater than b):
1305, 4665 and 6905, leaving the same [www.sawaal.com]
remainder in each case. What is the sum of a a+b
the digits of N ? ab b c
[www.sawaal.com] ## Let x be the last number, which when
6 8 divided by 5, 6, 7 and 8 leaves a remainder 3
4 9 c in each case but when divided by 9 leaves
## If the HCF of 210 and 55 is expressible in the remainder 0, the sum of digits of x is = ?
form of 210 x 5 + 55P, then value of P = ? [www.examveda.com]
[www.sawaal.com] 24 21
-23 27 22 18 d
16 -19 d ## Let x be the smallest number, which when
## If the product of two numbers is 3026 and added to 2000 make the resulting number
their LCM is 89, then their HCF is : divisible by 12, 16, 18 and 21. The sum of the
[www.sawaal.com] digits of x is = ?
33 34 [www.examveda.com]
35 29 b 6 5
## If x:y be the ratio of two whole numbers and 7 8 c
z be their HCF of those two number is = ? ## The difference between the greatest and least
[www.examveda.com] prime numbers which are less then 100 is = ?
xz [www.examveda.com]
yz 95 96
y
97 94 a
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## The difference of two numbers is 14. Their between 75 and 125 , then that number is
LCM and HCF are 441 and 7. Find the two [www.sawaal.com]
numbers ? 77 88
[www.sawaal.com] 99 110 a
63 and 49 64 and 48 ## The H.C.F of 24 × 32 × 53 × 7, 23 × 33 × 52 ×
62 and 46 64 and 49 a 72 and 3 × 5 × 7 × 11 is = ?
## The greatest 4 - digit number exactly [www.examveda.com]
divisible by 10, 15, 20 is = ? 105 1155
[www.examveda.com] 2310 27720 a
9990 9960 ## The H.C.F of 4 × 27 × 3125, 8 × 9 × 25 × 7
9980 9995 b and 16 × 81 × 5 × 11 × 49 is = ?
## The greatest number for four digits which [www.examveda.com]
when divided by 12,16,and 24 leave 180 360
remainder 2,6 and 14 respectively is = ? 540 1260 a
[www.examveda.com] ## The H.C.F. of two numbers is 11 and their
9974 9970 L.C.M. is 7700. If one of the numbers is 275,
9807 9998 a then the other is: [www.examveda.com; www.indiabix.com]
## The greatest number of four digits which is 279 283
divisible by 15, 25, 40 and 75 is: [www.indiabix.com; 308 318 c
www.examveda.com] ## The H.C.F. of two numbers is 23 and the
9000 9400 other two factors of their L.C.M. are 13 and
9600 9800 c 14. The larger of the two numbers is:
## The greatest number that will divide 729 and [www.examveda.com; www.indiabix.com]
901 leaving remainder 9 and 5 respectively is 276 299
=? 322 345 c
[www.examveda.com] ## The HCF (GCD) of a, b is 12, a, b are
15 16 positive integers and a > b > 12. The smallest
19 20 b values of (a, b) are respectively ?
## The greatest number which on dividing 1657 [www.examveda.com]
and 2037 leaves remainders 6 and 5 12, 34 24, 12
respectively, is: 24, 36 36, 24 d
[www.examveda.com; www.indiabix.com; www.sawaal.com] ## The HCF and LCM of two 2 - did it number
123 127 are 16 and 480 respectively. The numbers
235 305 b are ?
## The greatest number which when divides [www.examveda.com]
989 and 1327 leave remainder 5 and 7 40, 48 60, 72
respectively = ? 62, 80 80, 96 d
[www.examveda.com] ## The HCF and LCM of two numbers are 12
8 16 and 924 respectively. Then the number of
24 32 c such pair is = ?
## The H.C.F and L.C.M of two numbers are [www.examveda.com]
84 and 21 respectively. If the ratio of the 0 1
two numbers is 1 : 4 , then the larger of the 2 3 c
two numbers is ## The HCF and LCM of two numbers are 8
[www.sawaal.com] and 48 respectively. If one of the number is
12 48 24, then the other number is = ?
84 108 c [www.examveda.com]
## The H.C.F and L.C.M of two numbers are 48 36
11 and 385 respectively. If one number lies 24 16 d
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## The HCF of two number 12906 and 14818 is ## The LCM and the HCF of the numbers 28
478. Their LCM is ? and 42 are in the ratio ?
[www.examveda.com] [www.examveda.com]
400086 200043 6:1 2:3
600129 800172 a 3:2 7:2 a
## The HCF of two numbers , each having three ## The LCM of 16, 24, 36, 52 and 54 is?
digits, is 17 and their LCM is 714. The sum [www.sawaal.com]
of the numbers will be ? 5618 5216
[www.examveda.com] 432 5616 d
289 391 ## The LCM of 72 and 84 is:
221 731 c [www.sawaal.com]
## The HCF of two numbers is 11 and their 12 × 6 × 7 6×2×7
LCM is 330. If one of the number is 55. Find 12 × 7 × 3 72 × 84 a
the other number. ## **The LCM of two numbers is 12 times their
[www.sawaal.com] HCF. The sum of HCF and LCM is 403. If
33 66 one number is 93, find the other = ?
44 77 b [www.examveda.com]
## The HCF of two numbers is 8. Which one of 124 128
the following can never be their LCM ? 134 None of these a
[www.examveda.com] ## **The LCM of two numbers is 1820 and
24 48 their HCF is 26. If one number is 130 then
56 60 d the other number is ?
## The L.C.M of 22, 54, 108, 135 and 198 is [www.examveda.com]
[www.sawaal.com] 70 1690
330 1980 364 1264 c
5940 11880 c ## The least multiple of 7, which leaves a
## The L.C.M of two numbers is 495 and their remainder of 4, when divided by 6, 9, 15 and
H.C.F is 5. If the sum of the numbers is 100, 18 is:
then their difference is [www.examveda.com; www.indiabix.com; www.sawaal.com]
[www.sawaal.com] 74 94
10 46 184 364 d
70 90 a ## The least number which when divided by 4,
## The largest 4 - digit number exactly divisible 6, 8 and 9 leave zero remainder in each case
by each of 12, 15, 18 and 27 is? and when divided by 13 leaves a remainder
[www.examveda.com] of 7 is = ?
9690 9720 [www.examveda.com]
9930 9960 b 144 72
## The largest measuring cylinder that can 36 85 b
accurately fill 3 tanks of capacity 98, 182 and ## The least number which when divided by 4,
266 litres each, is of capacity ? 6, 8, 12 and 16 leaves remainder of 2 in each
[www.sawaal.com] case is = ?
7 lts 14 lts [www.examveda.com]
98 lts 42 lts b 46 48
## The LCM and HCF of two numbers are 50 56 c
4284 and 32, respectively. If one of the ## The least number which when divided by 6,
numbers is 672, then the second number is; 9, 12, 15, 18 leaves the same remainder 2 in
[www.sawaal.com] each case is = ?
102 64 [www.examveda.com]
204 92 c 180 176
182 178 c
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## The minimum value of LCM of given 12, 18 and 20 seconds respectively. In how
numbers is ........... the product of all the many minutes will all the three meet again at
given numbers. the starting point.
[www.sawaal.com] [www.sawaal.com]
always greater than always less than 5 8
always equal to None d 12 3 d
## The number nearest to 10000, which is ## Three men step off together from the same
exactly divisible by each of 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 spot. Their steps measure 63 cm, 70 cm and
is = ? 77 cm respectively. The minimum distance
[www.examveda.com] each should cover so that all can cover the
9240 10080 distance in complete steps is = ?
9996 10000 b [www.examveda.com]
## The product of two numbers is 396 × 576 9630 cm 9360 cm
and their LCM is 6336. Find their HCF = ? 6930 cm 6950 cm c
[www.examveda.com] ## Three numbers are in the ratio of 3:4:5 and
36 34 their L.C.M is 3600.Their HCF is:
63 43 a [www.sawaal.com]
## The simplest reduction to the lowest terms 40 60
116690151 100 120 b
of is = ?
427863887 ## **Two numbers are in the ratio 3:4. The
[www.examveda.com] product of their HCF and LCM is 2028. The
3 7 sum of the numbers is = ?
11 11 [www.examveda.com]
11 68 72
3 None of these a 86 91 d
## The smallest number, which when increased ## **Two numbers are in the ratio 3:4. Their
by 5 is divisible by each of 24, 32, 36 and 64 LCM is 84. The greater number is ?
is ? [www.examveda.com]
[www.examveda.com] 21 24
869 859 28 84 c
571 427 c ## **Two numbers are in the ratio 3:5 and
## The traffic lights at three different road their HCF is 20. Their LCM is
crossings change after 24 seconds, 36 [www.sawaal.com]
seconds, and 54 seconds respectively. If they 30 300
all change simultaneously at 10:15:00 AM, 60 10 b
then at what time will they again change ## **Two numbers are in the ratio of 15 : 11. If
simultaneously ? their HCF is 13, then the greater number is?
[www.examveda.com] [www.sawaal.com]
10:16:54 AM 10:18:36 Am 195 125
10:17:02 AM 10:22:12 AM b 175 125 a
## Three different containers contain 1365 ## Two pipes of length 1.5 m and 1.2 m are to
litres, 1560 litres and 1755 litres of mixtures be cut into equal pieces without leaving any
of milk and water respectively. What biggest extra length of pipes. The greatest length of
measure that can measure all the different the pipe pieces of same size which can be cut
quantities exactly ? from these two lengths will be = ?
[www.sawaal.com] [www.examveda.com]
37 lit 97 lit 0.13 m 26 m
129 lit 195 lit d 0.3 m 0.41 m c
## Three friends J, K and L jog around a ## What is the HCF of 6345 and 2160?
[www.sawaal.com]
circular stadium and complete one round in
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45 135 ## What least number must be subtracted from
270 15 b 1936 so that the resulting number when
## What is the least number which when divided by 9,10 and 15 will leave in each case
divided by the number 3, 5, 6, 8, 10 and 12 the same remainder 7 ?
leaves in each case a remainder 2 but when [www.examveda.com]
divided by 22 leaves no remainder ? 37 36
[www.examveda.com] 39 30 c
312 242
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3 Decimal Fractions
5  1.6 – 2  1.4 ## Given, 168 × 32 = 5376 , then 5.376 ÷ 16.8 is
## =? equal to :
1.3 [www.examveda.com]
[www.examveda.com; www.indiabix.com] 0.032 0.32
0.4 1.2 3.2 32 b
1.4 4 d ## If two fractions, each of which has a value
16 between 0 and 1, are multiplied together, the
## =
3 product will be :
[www.sawaal.com] [www.sawaal.com]
5.33 6 always greater than either of the original
5.74 5.68 a fractions always less than
5 either of the original fractions
## as a Decimal Equals To sometimes greater and sometimes less than
8
[www.sawaal.com] either of the original fractions remains the
0.625 0.541 same b
0.258 0.147 a 18 455  61 
## Solve  2  
##
3
as a decimal
4  19   799 = ?
8 [www.examveda.com]
[www.sawaal.com] 6320 6400
1.375 2.375 6350 6430
0.375 3.75 c 6490 c
## Correct expression of 6.46 is 
[www.sawaal.com] ## The correct expression of 6.46 in the
640 640 fractional form is:
99 90 [www.examveda.com; www.indiabix.com]
64000 640 646 64640
99 9
a 99 1000
## 125 over 1000 in Simplest Form? 640 640
d
[www.sawaal.com] 100 99
2 1 3 5 7 17
## The expression : + + + ..... + +
9 8 4 36 144 5184
3 4 19
b is equal to :
8 7 8100
## 34.95 + 240.016 + 23.98 = ? [www.examveda.com]
[www.examveda.com; www.indiabix.com] 0.9 0.95
298.0946 298.111 0.99 1.91 c
298.946 299.09 c ## The least among the following is:
## 3889 + 12.952 - ? = 3854.002
[www.examveda.com; www.indiabix.com] 0.2 1 ÷ 0.2
47.095 47.752 0.2̄ (0.2)2 d
47.932 47.95 d ## The least among the following is:
3 1 [www.indiabix.com]
## Express and as a Decimals?
8 10 0.2 1 ÷ 0.2
[www.sawaal.com] 0.2 (0.2)2 d
1.375 & 1 0.375 & 1
13.75 & 1.1 0.375 & 0.1 d
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## The value of 0.200 0.452 c
0.1  0.1  0.1 + 0.02  0.02  0.02 ## What will be the vulgar fraction of 0.75 ?
0.2  0.2  0.2 + 0.04  0.04  0.04 [www.sawaal.com]
[www.examveda.com] 3 3
0.0125 0.125 5 4
0.25 0.5 b 3 3
b
(0.96)3 – (0.1)3 2 7
## The value of is:
(0.96)2 + 0.096 + (0.1)2 ## When 0.46 is written in simplest form, the
[www.examveda.com; www.indiabix.com] sum of the numerator and the denominator
0.86 0.95 is ?
0.97 1.06 a [www.sawaal.com]
89.1375  0.0483 1.956 69 73
## The value of is 96 41 b
0.0873 92.581  99.749
closest to: ## If the numerator of a fraction is increased
[www.indiabix.com] 1 1
by and the denominator is decreased by ,
0.006 0.06 4 3
0.6 6 b 33
the new fraction obtained is . What was
18 64
## What is the quotient of ? the original fraction ?
1000
[www.sawaal.com] [www.examveda.com]
1.8 0.18 3 5
0.018 0.0018 c 7 7
1 7
## What is as a decimal? Cannot be determined
5 9
[www.sawaal.com] None of these d
0.333 0.666
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4 Simplification
(469 + 174)2 – (469 – 174)2 – (4 – 6)2 – 3 (– 2) + |– 6|
## =? ## Evaluate :
469  174 18 – 9  3  5
[www.examveda.com; www.indiabix.com] [www.examveda.com]
2 4 3 4
295 643 b 8 7
1 1 8 7
4 –2 3 4
c
7 4 1
##  equal ## Free notebooks were distributed equally
1 1 1
3 +1 2+ among children of a class. The number of
2 7 1
2+ notebooks each child got was one-eighth of
1
2+ the number of children. Had the number of
1
5– children been half, each child would have got
5
16 notebooks. Total how many notebooks
to = ? were distributed ?
[www.examveda.com]
[www.examveda.com; www.indiabix.com]
1 4 256 432
3 2 a 512 640
## 0.00060516 is equal to = ? None of these c
[www.examveda.com]
0.0246 0.00246 ## Given that 13 = 3.6 and 130 = 11.4, then
0.246 0.000246 a the value of 13 + 1300 + 0.013 is equal
## to = ?
[www.examveda.com]
36.164 637.254
Error! is equal to = ? 39.714 37.154 c
[www.examveda.com]
12 11 1
## If 3 = 1.7321, then the value of 192 –
2
10 15 c
(7.5)3 + 1 48 – 75, correct to 3 place of decimal, is =
## is equal to = ? ?
(7.5)2 – 6.5
[www.examveda.com] [www.examveda.com]
9 8.661 4.331
2.75 5 1.732 -1.732 c
4.75 8.5 d 1 3 1 3 1 3
## If the expression 2 of   + 
5 2 4 2 2 2 2
## 4 – 1 + 1  part of a journey takes 2 1 2
 – of  is simplified, we get –
 1  3 2 3
 3+
2+ 
1 1 7
 4 2
5
8
3
3 1 2 c
ten minutes, then to complete th of that 8 5
5
1 1
journey, it will take = ? ## If x = then = ?
[www.examveda.com] 1 x
2+
40 minutes 45 minutes 2
48 minutes 36 minutes c [www.examveda.com]
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2 5 ## The price of 2 sarees and 4 shirts is Rs. 1600.
5 2 With the same money one can buy 1 saree
3 1 and 6 shirts. If one wants to buy 12 shirts,
b how much shall he have to pay ?
5 2
547.527 547527 [www.indiabix.com; www.examveda.com]
## If = x, then the value of is = ? Rs. 1200 Rs. 2400
0.0082 82
[www.examveda.com] Rs. 4800 Cannot be determined
10x 100x None of these b
x x ## The simplified value of [(0.111)3 + (0.222)3 –
d (0.333)3 + (0.333)2 (0.222)]3 = ?
100 10
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## Let a = (4 ÷ 3) ÷ 3 ÷ 4, b = 4 ÷ (3 ÷ 3) ÷ 4, c =
4 ÷ 3 ÷ (3 ÷ 4), The maximum value among 0.999 0
the above three is? 0.888 0.111 b
[www.examveda.com] ## The simplified value
a b
c All equal c of 5+ 11 + 19 + 29 + 49 = ?
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1
## On simplification the value of 1 – + 3 2
1+ 2 4 6 a
1
is = ? 32 + 48
1– 2 ## The simplified value of is = ?
8 + 12
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2 2–1 1–2 2 3 2
1− 2 −2 2 b 6 4 b
1 1 2 1 ## The simplified value
+ –
3 4 5 2 of
## Simplify : =?
2 3 3 4
1 of – of
Error!= ?
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[www.examveda.com] 200
37 37 100
101
78 13 202
74 74 200 b
100
a
78 13 0.342  0.684
## Solve : 128.43 + 30.21 + ? = 173 ## The square root of =?
0.000342  0.000171
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35.66 29.66 250 2500
43.66 24.66 2000 4000 c
14.36 (a + b)2
## The number of pairs of natural numbers the ## The value of is = ?
(a2 – b2)
difference of whose squares is 45 will be ? [www.examveda.com]
[www.examveda.com] ab 2ab
2 3 a+b a–b
6 5 b a+b
## The number, whose square is equal to the a–b None of these c
difference of the squares of 75.15 and 60.12, 2 3
is = ? ## The value of  =1
3 5 2 1
[www.examveda.com]  of 1
6 3 4
46.09 48.09
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1 2 0.25 0.09
a ##  is equal to ?
2 3 0.0009 0.36
1 1 1 1
When  – + – 
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Q is divided by
2 4 5 6 5
7
1
2 – 5 + 3 – 7 , then the result is = ? 6 6
3 9 5 18 1
7 8
1
d
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1 1 ## {( 72 – 18)  12} is equal to = ?
510 218
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1 3 3
3 3 a 6
6 10 2
(0.73)3 + (0.27)3 2 6
## =?
(0.73)2 + (0.27)2 – 0.73  0.27 3 2
d
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## 1559.95 - 7.99 × 24.96 - ?2 = 1154
0.27 0.4087 [www.examveda.com]
0.73 1 d 14 24
20 + 8  0.5 32 18
## Find the value in place of (?)
20 – ? 8 a
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## 1888÷32÷8=?1888÷32÷8=? [www.examveda.com]
2 8
7.375 9.485
18 None of these c
29.5 472
## 2 54 – 6 2
– 96 is equal to = ? None of these a
 3  ## 421 ÷ 35 × 299.97 ÷ 25.05 = ?2
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0 1 22 24
2 6–√6 a 28 12
1 18 d
## 100 + is equal to = ?
4 9 |3 – 5| – 5 |4|  10
[www.examveda.com] ## Evaluated :
– 3 (5) – 2  4  2
12.0 11.5 [www.examveda.com]
11.0 10.5 d 9 8
3 11 25 11 33 −
##     =? 10 17
2 5 44 5  15 16 4
[www.examveda.com] − c
19 7
1 2
2 3 ## If 4096 = 64, them the value of 40.96 +
126 101 0.004096 + 0.00004096 up to two place of
5 decimals is = ?
125 125
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None of these 7.09 7.10
225 152 43
##    7.11 7.12 c
836 245 77
## If 12 + 22 + 32 + . . . . . +
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p (p + 1) (2p + 1)
4 1 p2 = 
6
9
6
1  6  , then 12 + 32 + 52 +
2 1 . . . . . + 172 is = ?
3 [www.examveda.com]
8 7 969 1785
None of these c 980 1700 a
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x y z 3 27
## If = = = a, 3 3
(2x + y + z) (x + 2y + z) (x + y + 2z) ## Simplify : – 2197  – 125 2 =?
512
then find a, If x + y + z  0 [www.examveda.com]
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1 1 492 520
3 4 7 3
1 1 554 571
b
2 8
b 7 5
5 7 17 1
a b c  of –
## If = = = k, then find the 3 51 5 3
b+c c+a a+b ## Simplify :
value of k is– 2 5 28 2
 of –
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1 [www.examveda.com]
- 1 1
2 4
1 2
-1 2 d 1
2 4 c
1 1
## If a +  = 6, then a4 +  = ? 1 2 4 1 1 3
 a  a4 –– + – + +
[www.examveda.com] 2 3 5 3 5 4
## Simplify :
1154 1158 1 2 4 1 1 4
+ – + – –
1160 1164 a 2 3 3 3 5 5
(2.644)2 – (2.356)2 [www.examveda.com]
## Simplification of =? 3 10
0.288 − −
[www.examveda.com] 10 3
6.91 7 −2 1 a
6.81 7.1 a 1
## Simplify : 1 +
## Simplify : -7m -[3n -{8m -(4n - 10m)}] 2
1+
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11m - 5n 11m - 7n 2+
4
11n - 7m 13n - 11m b 1+
5
1 1 1 [www.examveda.com]
1+ +
2 4 2 3  2 3 11 5
## Simplify :  + of 117 17
1 7 3 10 1 1
1– –
2 2 3 6 21
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17 17
2 1 2
37 ## Simplify : 1 +
3 2 3
3 3 1+
13 c 4
2 8 1+
5
33 1 1 [www.examveda.com]
## Simplify : 3+  9+ 2 3 =? 7 4
64 7 9
[www.examveda.com] 4 7
45 17 7 3
1 a
256 28 5 7
3 3 ## Simplify :
4 2 d
8 16
Error!  Error! = ?
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100 90 x2 – (y – z)2 y2 – (x – z)2
101 101 ## The value of + +
(x + z)2 – y2 (x + y)2 – z2
20 101 x2 – (x – y)2
101 100
c is = ?
(y + z)2 – x2
## Simplify the value [www.examveda.com]
of -1 0
Error! = ? 1 None of these c
[www.examveda.com] ## The value
1.4 0.054 25 – 5 [2 + 3 {2 – 2 (5 – 3) + 5} – 10]
of =?
0.8 1.0 a 4
## Supply the two missing figures in order [www.examveda.com]
indicated by x and y in the given equation, 5 23.25
1 23.75 25 c
the fractions being in their lowest terms. 5 ## The value
x
3 (x – y)3 + (y – z)3 + (z – x)3
 y = 20 of is = ?
4 (x2 – y2)3 + (y2 – z2)3 + (z2 – x2)3
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3, 1 3, 3 0 1
4, 1 5, 3 b [2(x+y+z)]−1 [(x + y)(y + z)(z + x)]
## The simplest value −1 d
1 1 1 1 1
of  – + –  5 10
2
1
 9– 8 8– 7 7– 6 6 – 5 ## The value of  of 1 = ?
7 1 1 4
 1 – 1 + 1 – 1  is 1 of 1
8 3
3
2
 9– 8 8– 7 7– 6 6 – 5 [www.examveda.com]
=? 1
[www.examveda.com] 1 0.05
2
3−5–√3−5 3
1 2 a
5–√5 5–√−35−3 a
## The value of
## The value (1001)3 is = ? [www.examveda.com]
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− 11a3 + 3b3 7b3 + 3a3
1003003001 100303001
11a3 − 3b3 − (11a3 + 3b3) a
100300301 103003001 a
1 1 1
3 5 7 ## The value of 1 + + + =?
## The value of + + + 4  3 4  32 4  32
12  22 22  32 32  42
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9 11 13 15 121 3
+ + + +
42  52 52  62 62  72 72 + 82 108 2
17 19 31
+ is = ? None of these a
82  92 92  102 2
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1 99 ## The value of 3 –
2
100 100
101 2 1  1 1 – 1 1 1 – 1 – 1 = ?
1 b  4  4 2  2 3 6
100 [www.examveda.com]
## The value of 32 – 128 + 50 correct to 3 1 1
2
places of decimal is 32 – 128 + 50 = ? 2 2
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1.732 1.141 3 9 a
2 2
1.414 1.441 c
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1 2 1 3  7 7 5 5 7 5
## The value of 5  1  10 + =?  +  + 
9 4
1– 
3 1 8 8 6 6 8 3
## What is equal to ?
 5 7 7 5 5
 – 
[www.examveda.com] 8 8 6 6
67 [www.examveda.com]
15
25 41 1
128 128 24 24
a
11 99 41 None of these c
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6 Average
## A pupil's marks were wrongly entered as 83 3 4 c
instead of 63. Due to that the average marks ## 12 boys decided to constribute Rs. 750 each
for the class got increased by half. The to an Orphange. Suddenly few of them boys
number of pupils in the class is : dropped out and consequently the rest had
[www.sawaal.com] to pay Rs. 150 more. Then the number of
45 40 boys who dropped out?
39 37 b [www.sawaal.com]
## The average age of 8 men is increased by 4 6
years when two of them whose ages are 21 2 3 c
years and 23 years are replaced by two new 1
men. The average age of the two new men is ## 123 typists typeed 984 papers in hour.
15
: The number of papers typed for minute by a
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20 30 [www.sawaal.com]
40 50 b 1 2
## Of the three numbers, the average of the 3 5 b
first and the second is greater than the ## 19 friends went to a restaurant for a
average of the second and the third by 15. combined weekend dinner party. 13 of them
What is the difference between the first and spent Rs. 79 each on their dinner and the
the third of the three numbers? rest spent Rs. 4 more than the average
[www.competoid.com] expenditure of all the 19. What was the total
15 45 money spent by them?
60 None of these @@ [www.sawaal.com]
Answer: None of these Rs. 1398.96 Rs. 1457.09
## Out of 4 numbers, whose average is 60, the Rs. 1662.35 Rs. 1536.07 d
first one is one fourth of the sum of the last ## 19 people went to a hotel for combine dinner
three. The first number is: party 13 of them spent Rs. 79 each on their
[www.competoid.com] dinner and rest spent 4 more than the
15 45 average expenditure of all the 19. What was
48 60 @@ the total money spent by them.
Answer: 48 [www.examveda.com; www.sawaal.com]
## 0ut of four numbers, the average of the first 1628.4 1534
three is 15 and that of the last three is 16. If 1492 1496
the last number is 19, the first is: None of these
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## 20 men went to a restaurant. Ninteen of
19 15 them paid Rs.70 each and the twentieth man
16 18 @@ paid Rs.90.25 more than the average of all
Answer: 16 the 20 men. What is the total bill ?
## 10 years ago, the average age of a family of 4 [www.sawaal.com]
members was 24 years. Two children having Rs. 1495 Rs. 548
been born (with age diference of 2 years), the Rs. 850 Rs. 1750 a
present average age of the family is the same. ## 3 years age, the average age of a family of 5
The present age of the youngest child is : members was 17 years. A baby having been
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today. The present age of the baby is : ## A batsman in his 15th inning makes a score
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] of 86 runs and thereby increases his average
1 years 12 years score by 3. What is average score after 15th
2 years 3 years c inning.
## 4 boys and 3 girls spent Rs. 120 on an [www.competoid.com]
average, of which boys spent Rs. 150 on the 50 runs 48 runs
average. The the average amount spent by 44 runs 47 runs @@
the girls is- Answer: 44 runs
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] ## A batsman in his 17th innings makes a score
Rs. 80 Rs. 60 of 85 and their by increasing his average by
Rs. 90 Rs. 100 a 3. What is his average after the 17th innings
## 4.5 years ago, the average age of A, B, C and ?
D was 45 years. With E joining them now, [www.sawaal.com]
the average age of all the five is 49 years. 34 36
How old is E ? 35 37 d
[www.competoid.com] ## A batsman makes a score of 270 runs in the
25 years 40 years 87th inning and thus increase his average by
45 years 64 years @@ a certain number of runs that is a whole
Answer: 45 years number. Find the possible values of the new
## 8 years ago there were 5 members in the average.
Arthur's family and then the average age of [www.examveda.com]
the family was 36 years. Mean while Arthur 98 184
got married and gave birth to a child. Still 12 All of these
the average age of his family is same now. None of these d
What is the age of his wife at the time of his ## A batsman makes a score of 87 runs in the
child's birth was.If the difference between 17th inning and thus increases his average
the age of her child and herself was 26 by 3. Find his average after 17th inning.
years. [www.examveda.com; www.lofoya.com]
[www.sawaal.com] 40 39
25 years 26 years 52 55 b
20 years can't be determined b ## A batsman makes a score of 95 runs in the
## 8 years ago. Jyoti's age was equal to the 13th match and thus increases his average
Swati's present age. If the sum of Jyoti's age runs per match by 4. What is his average
10 years from now and Swatj's age 6 years after the 13th match?
ago is 88 years. What was Kusum's age 14 [www.sawaal.com]
years ago if Kusum is 8 years younger to 47 43
Swati? (in years) 45 49 a
[www.competoid.com] ## A batsman makes a score of 98 runs in the
22 14 19th innings and thus increases his average
25 16 @@ by 4. What is his average after 19th innings?
Answer: 16 [www.competoid.com]
## A and B have their annual average income 22 24
Rs.80,000. B and C have their annual 28 26 @@
average income Rs.75,000. C and A have Answer: 26
their annual average income Rs.78,000. The ## A batsman played three matches in a
annual income of A is ? tournament. The respective ratio between
[www.competoid.com] the scores of 1st and 2nd matches was 5 : 4
Rs.81000 Rs.82000 and that between the scores of 2nd and 3rd
Rs.83000 Rs.84000 @@ matches was 2 : 1. The difference between
Answer: Rs.83000 the 1st and 3rd matches was 48 runs. What
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was the batsman's average score in all the Answer: 48 km/h
three matches? ## A car travels the first 100 km. at a speed of
[www.competoid.com] 40 km/hr and next 200 km at 60 km/hr. Find
2 the average speed?
45 58
3 [www.competoid.com]
2 50 km/hr 52.8 km/hr
70 40 @@
3 51.4 km/hr 51.6 km/hr @@
Answer: 58235823 Answer: 51.4 km/hr
## A batsman scores 26 runs and increases his ## A cicketer bas a certain average for 10
average from 14 to 15. Find the runs to be innings, In the eleventh inning, he scorod 108
made if he wants top increasing the average runs, thereby increasing his average by 6
to 19 in the same match ? runs. His new average is :
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74 79 44 runs 46 runs
72 60 a 48 runs 49 runs c
## A boy secured 42, 78, 69, 51 and 40 marks in ## A class contains 10 students. The marks
an examination of five papers. What is the obtained by them in a test are 43, 48, 65, 57,
average mark he secured in one paper. 31, 60, 37, 48, 78, 59. How many students
[www.competoid.com] obtain marks more than the class average?
56 marks 52 marks [www.competoid.com]
48 marks 49 marks @@ 3 4
Answer: 56 marks 5 7 @@
## A businessman purchased 30 TV sets in Answer: 5
Rs.300000. If the average cost of 15 TV sets ## A cricketer had a certain average of runs for
is Rs.9000, then find out the average cost of his 64 innings. In his 65th innings, he is
remaining TV sets. bowled out for no score on his part. This
[www.competoid.com] brings down his average by 2 runs. His new
Rs.20000 Rs.12000 average of runs is :
Rs.11000 Rs.10000 @@ [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
Answer: Rs.11000 130 128
## A canteen requires 56 kgs of rice for seven 70 68 b
days . The quantity of rice required for the ## A cricketer has a certain average for 10
months of April and May together is innings. In the eleventh innings, he scored
[www.sawaal.com] 216 runs, there by increasing his average by
468 kg 488 kg 12 runs. Find out his new average.
498 kg 508 kg b [www.competoid.com]
## A car travels a certain distance from town A 96 84
to town B at the speed of 42 km/h and from 97 87 @@
town B to town A at a speed of 48 km/h. Answer: 96
What is the average speed of the car? ## A cricketer has a certain average of runs for
[www.competoid.com] his 8 innings. In the ninth innings, he scores
45 km/h 46 km/h 100 runs, thereby increases his average by 9
44 km/h None of the above @@ runs. His new average age of runs is:
Answer: None of the above [www.competoid.com]
## A car travels from A to B with 40 km/h and 20 24
returns from B to A with 60 km / h. Its 28 32 @@
average Speed during the whole journey is Answer: 28
[www.competoid.com] ## A cricketer has a mean score of 60 runs in 10
48 km/h 50 km/h innings. Find out how many runs are to be
45 km/h 60 km/h @@ scored in the eleventh innings to raise the
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mean score to 62 ? taken by him till the last match was :
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83 82 75 85
80 81 b 80 96 b
## A cricketer has a mean score of 60 runs in 10 ## A demographic survey of 100 families in
innings. Find out how many runs are to be which two parents were present revealed
scored in the eleventh innings to raise the that the average age A, of the oldest child is
mean score to 62 ? 1
[www.competoid.com] 20 yr less than the sum of the ages of the
2
83 82 two parents. If F represents the age of one
80 81 @@ parents and M the age of the other parents,
Answer: 82 then which of the following is equivalent to
## A cricketer makes 72, 59, 18,101 and 7 runs A?
respectively in five matches played by him. [www.competoid.com]
Find his average score. F + M – 20 F+M
+ 20
[www.competoid.com] 2 2
50 51 F+M
51.4 None of these – 20 F + M – 10 @@
@@ 2
Answer: 51.4 Answer: F+M2−20F+M2−20
## A cricketer scored some runs in his 21st ## A factory buys 7 machines. 2 Machine A, 2
innings, as a result, his average runs Machine B and rest Machine C. Prices of the
increased by 3. If the present average run is machines are Rs 95000, Rs 75000 and Rs
40, how many runs he scored in the final 43000 respectively. Calculate the average
innings? cost of these machines?
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103 100 71000 67000
85 82 b 75000 65500 b
## A cricketer scored some runs in his ## A fruit seller sold big, medium and small
continuous 9 innings. He scored 100 runs in sizes apples of Rs. 15, Rs. 10 and Rs. 5,
his 10 th innings and increases his average respectively. The total number of apples sold
by 8 runs. What was the average of his runs were in the ratio 3 : 2 : 5. Find the average
at the end of 10 th innings? cost of an apple.
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20 24 8 10
28 32 @@ 9 7 c
Answer: 28 ## A group of boys has an average weight of 36
## A cricketer whose bowling average is 12 runs kg. One boy weighing 42 kg leaves the group
per wicket, takes 5 wickets for 26 runs in the and another boy weighing 30 kg joins the
next innings and thereby decreases his group. If the average now becomes 35.7 kg,
average by 0.4. The number of wickets taken then how many boys are there in the group?
by him till the last match was [www.sawaal.com]
[www.competoid.com] 30 32
64 72 40 56 c
90 85 @@ ## A has 50 coins of 10 paise denominations.
Answer: 90 While B has 10 coins of 50 paise
## A cricketer whose bowling average is 24.85 denominations. C has 20 coins of 25 paise
runs per wickets, takes 5 wickets for 52 runs denominations while D has 25 coins of 20
in next inning and thereby decreases his paise denominations. The average number of
average by 0.85. The number of wickets paise per person is :
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450 paise 500 paise nkr nrk
550 paise 650 paise b None of these d
## A librarian purchased 60 Story books for his ## A man purchased 6 sheep at rate of Rs.150
library. But he found that he could get 4 each, 8 sheep at the rate of Rs.300 each and
extra books by spending Rs.336 more and 11 sheep at the rate of Rs.220 each. What is
then the overall average price per book the average price of a sheep.
would be reduced by Rupees 1. The previous [www.competoid.com]
average price of each book was 230.3 228.8
[www.competoid.com] 240.2 235.5 @@
Rs. 84 Rs. 83 Answer: 228.8
Rs. 68 Rs. 100 @@ ## A man purchased 7 bags of rice at the rate of
Answer: Rs. 100 Rs. 800 each, 8 bags of rice at Rs. 1000 each
## A man bought 13 articles at Rs. 70 each, 15 and 5 bags of rice at the rate of Rs. 1200
at Rs. 60 each and 12 at Rs. 65 each. The each. What is the average cost of one bag of
average price per article is - rice ?
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Rs. 60.25 Rs. 64.75 Rs. 1000 Rs. 980
Rs. 65.75 Rs. 62.25 b Rs. 1120 Rs. 1050 b
## A man divides his total route of journey into ## A man purchases milk for three consecutive
three equal parts and decides to travel the years. In the first year, he purchases milk at
three parts with speed of 15 km/h, 10 km/h the rate of Rs. 7.50 per litre, in the second
and 5 km/h, respectively. Find his average year, at the rate of Rs. 8.00 per litre and in
speed of during journey. the third year, at Rs. 8.50 per litre. If he
[www.competoid.com] purchases milk worth Rs. 4080 each year,
2.28 km/h 9 km/h the average price of milk per litre for the
14 km/h 8.18 km/h @@ three years is :
Answer: 8.18 km/h [www.competoid.com]
## A man had 7 children. When their average Rs. 7.68 Rs. 7.98
age was 12 years, a child aged 6 years died. Rs. 7.54 Rs. 7.83 @@
Then average age of remaining six children Answer: Rs. 7.98
is : ## A man spends an average of Rs.1694.70 per
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] month for the first 7 month and Rs.1810.50
13 years 10 years per month for the next 5 months. His
11 years 14 years a monthly salary if he saves Rs.3084.60 during
## A man has 'n' magical eggs whose average the whole year is
weight is 'k' gm. Each of the 'n' eggs [www.competoid.com]
produces 'n' eggs next day such that the Rs.2400 Rs.3000
average weight of 'n' eggs produced is same Rs.1000 Rs.2000 @@
as that of the parental egg for each 'n' Answer: Rs.2000
groups individually i.e. each egg produces 'n' ## A man spends his three months income in
eggs of next generation and average weight four month time. If his monthly income is
of all the 'n' eggs of next generation is same Rs. 1000 then his annual savings is ?
as the weight of the mother egg. This process [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
is continued without any change in pattern. Rs. 3000 Rs. 9000
What is the total weight of all the eggs of Rs. 4000 Rs. 6000 a
rth generation, where the initial number of ## A man spends Rs. 1800 monthly on an
eggs with man are considered as the eggs of average for the first four months and Rs.
first generation. 2000 monthly for the next eight months and
[www.examveda.com] saves Rs. 5600 a year. His average monthly
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income is orange respectively. What is the average
[www.competoid.com] price of an orange?
Rs. 2000 Rs. 2200 [www.competoid.com]
Rs. 2400 Rs. 2600 @@ RS. 1.91 RS. 2.00
Answer: Rs. 2400 RS. 1.58 RS. 1.80 @@
## A man started his journey from Lucknow to Answer: RS. 1.58
Kolkata, which is 200 km, at the speed of 40 ## A person covers 9 km with a speed of 3
kmph then he went to Banglore which is 300 km/h, 25 km with a speed of 5 km/h and 30
km, at the speed of 20 kmph. Further he km with a speed of 10 km/h. Find out the
went to Ahmedabad which is 500 km, at the average speed of person.
speed of 10 kmph. The average speed of the [www.competoid.com]
man is : 9 5
5 km/h 11 km/h
[www.examveda.com] 11 9
14.27 kmph 14.57 kmph 5 5
9 km/h 5 km/h @@
15.6 kmph 16.1 kmph a 11 11
## A man travels equal distances of his journey Answer: 59115911 km/h
at 40, 30 and 15 km/h. respectively. Find his ## A school has only four classes that contain
average speed for whole journey. 10, 20, 30 and 40 students respectively. The
[www.examveda.com] pass percentage of these classes are 20%,
24 25 30%, 60% and 100% respectively. Find the
27 28 a pass % of the entire school.
## A monthly return railway ticket costs 25% [www.examveda.com]
more than a single ticket. A week's extension 56% 76%
can be had for the former by paying 5% of 34% 66%
the monthly tickets cost. If the money paid None of these d
for the monthly ticket [with extension) is ## A set A consists of integers 27, 28, 30 and 33.
Rs.84, the price of the single ticket is- If integer k is included in the set, the average
[www.competoid.com] of set A will increase by 30%. What is the
Rs.64 Rs.80 value of integer k ?
Rs.48 Rs.72 @@ [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
Answer: Rs.64 68 79
## A number of friends decided to go on a 73.75 75.25 c
picnic and planned to Spend Rs.96 on ## A student finds the average of 10 positive
eatables. Four of them, did not turn up. As a integers. Each integer contains two digits. By
consequence, the remaining ones had to mistake, the boy interchanges the digits of
contribute Rs.4 each extra. The number of one number say ba for ab. Due to this, the
those who attended the picnic was average becomes 1.8 less than the previous
[www.competoid.com] one. What was the difference of the two
8 16 digits a and b?
12 24 @@ [www.examveda.com; www.lofoya.com; www.competoid.com]
Answer: 8 8 6
## A passenger travels from Delhi to Merut at a 2 4 c
speed of 30 kmph and return with a speed of ## A student finds the average of ten, 2 digits
60 kmph. What is the average speed? numbers. If the digits of one of the numbers
[www.examveda.com] interchanged, the average increases by 3.6.
40 45 The difference between the digits of the 2
50 48 a digits number is :
## A person bought some oranges worth Rs.36 [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
from each of the five markets at Rs.1, 4 3
Rs.1.50, Rs. 1.80, Rs.2 and Rs 2.25 per 2 5 a
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## A student, by mistake wrote 64 in place of 46 average is:
as a number at the time of finding the [www.examveda.com]
average of 10 given numbers and got the 20 21
average as 50. The correct average of the 28 32 c
number is ## Amay's present age is 1.5 times of
[www.competoid.com] Himanshu's present age. if after 4 years.
48.2 48 Amay's age will be twice of Himanshu's age
48.1 49 @@ 4 years ago, what is the difference between
Answer: 48.2 their present ages?
## A student's average marks in five subjects is [www.competoid.com]
82. If the average marks of first two subject 13 years 14 years
is 86.5 and the average marks of last two 12 years 15 years @@
subjects is 84. Find the marks of third Answer: 12 years
subject? ## Amithab's average expenditure for the
[www.sawaal.com] January to June is Rs. 4200 and he spends
69 67 Rs.1200 in January and Rs.1500 in july.The
71 73 a average expenditure for the months of
## a, b and c are 3 values, such that a + b = 5, b febraury to July is:
+ c = 7.5 and c + a = 8.5. What will be the [www.sawaal.com]
average of these values? Rs. 4250 Rs. 4520
[www.sawaal.com] Rs. 4060 None of these a
1.5 3 ## Amount five people with monthly income (in
3.5 4.5 c Rs.) 15000, 26000, 16000, 19000, 50000, how
## a, b, c, d, e, f, g are consecutive even many will have income less than the mean
numbers. j, k, l, m, n are consecutive odd income of five people?
numbers. The average of all the numbers is : [www.examveda.com]
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] 1 2
a + n a + d
3
3 4 c
 2   2  ## An Army of 12000 consists of Europeans and
a + b + m + n 3
j + c + n + g
b
Indian. The average height of European is 5
 4   4  feet 10 inches and that of an Indian is 5 feet 9
## Ajay working in a Cellular company as a 3
inches and that of the whole army is 5 feet 9
salesman. His monthly salary is Rs. 200. But 4
he gets bonus as per given rule. If he sells inches. Then the number of Indians in the
sim cards of Rs. X then his bonus will army is?
x  [www.competoid.com]
be  
1002 + 10 . In the first quarter of the 3000 4000
year his average sale was Rs. 3000 per 5500 2700 @@
month. In the next 5 five month his average Answer: 3000
sale was Rs. 5000 per month and for next ## An elevator can carry maximum of 16
four month his average sale was Rs. 8000 per passengers with an average weight of 80 kg.
month. What is the average earning per However, four boys more than the maximum
month for the whole year? carrying capacity of the elevator entered it
[www.examveda.com] making the average weight as 86 kg and
Rs. 3350 Rs. 3610 overloading the elevator. What is the
Rs. 3750 Rs. 3560 average weight of those four boys ?
None of these b [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
## Ajit has a certain average for 9 innings. In 112 kg 108 kg
the tenth innings, he scores 100 runs thereby 110 kg 98 kg c
increasing his average by 8 runs. His new
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## An hour-long test has 60 problems. If a mangoes is Rs. 48. Find the total cost of 24
student completes 30 problem in 25 minutes, apples and 24 mangoes.
then the required seconds he has taken on [www.examveda.com; www.lofoya.com]
average for computing each, of the 1044 2088
remaining problems is 720 3240 b
[www.competoid.com] ## Average marks of 30 boys of a class is 70.
70 seconds 50 seconds Average mark of 20 girls of the class is 80.
40 seconds 30 seconds @@ What is the average mark per student of the
Answer: 70 seconds class.
## Average age of 5 boys is 16 yr. of which that [www.competoid.com]
of 4 boys is 16 yr 3 months. The age of the 70 74
5th boy is 75 80 @@
[www.competoid.com] Answer: 74
15 yr 15 yr 6 months ## Average of 11 numbers is 7. If every number
15 yr 4 months 15 yr 2 months @@ is doubled, then what will be the new
Answer: 15 yr average of the numbers?
## Average age of 6 sons of a family is 8 years. [www.sawaal.com]
Average age of sons together with their 3.5 7
parents is 22 years. If the father is older than 10.5 14 d
the mother by 8 years, the age of mother (in ## Average of 80 numbers are 42. When 5 more
years) is - numbers are included, the average of 85
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] numbers become 45. Find the average of 5
44 52 numbers.
60 68 c [www.examveda.com]
## Average age of 8 men is increased by 3 years 82 89
when two of them whose age are 30 and 34 93 98 c
years are replaced by 2 persons. What is the ## Average of first five multiples of 5 is:
average age of the 2 persons? [www.competoid.com]
[www.competoid.com] 15 15.1
24 years 32 years 15.5 15.3 @@
44 years 48 years @@ Answer: 15
Answer: 44 years ## Average of first five odd multiples of 3 is -
## Average age of a team having 12 players is [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
23 years. If the age of the coach is also 12 16
included, then the average age increases by 2 15 21 c
years. What is the age (inyears) of the coach? ## Average of n numbers is a. The first number
is increased by 2, second one is increased by
[www.sawaal.com] 4, the third one is increased by 8 and so on.
41 47 The average of the new numbers is -
49 51 c [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
## Average age of seven persons in a group is 30 2 (2n – 1) 2n + 1 – 1
a+ a+
years, the average age of five persons of this n n
group is 31 years. What is the average age of 2n + 1 2n – 1
a+ a+2 a
the other two persons in the group? n n
[www.competoid.com] ## Average of ten numbers is 7. If every
55 years 26 years number is multiplied by 12, what will be the
None of these 15 years @@ average of new numbers?
Answer: None of these [www.competoid.com]
## Average cost of 5 apples and 4 mangoes is 7 9
Rs. 36. The average cost of 7 apples and 8 82 84 @@
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Answer: 84 86 kg 85 kg d
## Average of two numbers is 8 and average of ## Average weight of 25 students of a class is 50
other three numbers is 3; the average of the kg. If the weight of the class teacher is
five numbers is : included , the average is increased by 1 kg.
[www.examveda.com; www.sawaal.com; www.competoid.com] The weight of the teacher is ?
2 3 [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
5 6 c 76 kg 77 kg
## Average runs scored by 11 players of a 74 kg 75 kg a
cricket team is 23 runs. If the first player ## Average weight of 3 men A, B, C is 84 kg.
scored 113 runs. Find the average runs of the Another man D joins the group and the
remaining players. average now becomes 80 kg. If another man
[www.competoid.com] E whose weight is 3 kg more than that of D
8 runs 12 runs replaces A then the average weight of B, C,
14 runs 27 runs @@ D and E becomes 79 kg. The weight of A in
Answer: 14 runs kg is:
## Average score of a class of 50 students in an [www.competoid.com]
exam is 34. Average score of the students 80 72
who have passed is 52 and the average score 75 70 @@
of students who have failed is 16. How many Answer: 75
students have failed in the exam? ## Average weight of three boys P, T and R
[www.competoid.com] 1
25 20 is 54 kg while the average weight of three
3
15 18 @@ boys. T, F and G is 53 kg. What is the
Answer: 25 average weight of P, T, R, F and H?
## Average score of Rahul, Manish and Suresh [www.competoid.com]
is 63. Rahul's score is 15 less than Ajay and 53.8 kg 52.4 kg
10 more than Manish. If Ajay scored 30 53.2 kg Data inadequate @@
marks more than the average score of Rahul. Answer: Data inadequate
Manish and Suresh, what is the sum of ## B was born when A was 4 year 7 month old
Manlsh's and Suresh's scores? and C was born when B was 3 year 4 month
[www.competoid.com] old. When C was 5 year 2 month old, then
120 111 their average age was:
117 Cannot be determined [www.competoid.com; www.examveda.com]
@@ 8 years 9 months 7 years 3 months
Answer: 111 8 years 7 months 8 years 11 months @@
## Average weight of 19 men is 74 kg and the Answer: 8 years 11 months
average weight of 38 women is 63 kg. What ## Calculate the average of the cubes of first
is the average weight (rounded off to the five natural numbers?
nearest integer) of all the men and the [www.competoid.com]
women together? 55 65
[www.competoid.com] 45 35 @@
59 kg 65 kg Answer: 45
69 kg 67 kg @@ ## David obtained 76, 65, 82, 67 and 85 marks
Answer: 67 kg (out of 100) in English, mathematics, physics,
## Average weight of 25 persons is increased by chemistry and biology. What are his average
1 kg when one person weighing 60 kg is marks?
replaced by a new person. Weight of new the [www.examveda.com; www.sawaal.com; www.lofoya.com]
person is- 65 69
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] 75 None of these c
50 kg 61 kg
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## Deepak travels to Sohna 150 km away at an 41% 56%
average speed of 55 km per hour and return 40% 38%
at 45 km per hour. His average speed for the 39% a
whole journey in km per hour is ## Find the average of 1.11, 0.01, 0.101, 0.001,
[www.competoid.com] 0.11 = ?
52.5 48.5 [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
49.5 47.5 @@ 0.2664 0.2554
Answer: 49.5 0.1264 0.1165 a
## Distance between two stations A and B is ## Find the average of cubes of first 49 positive
778km. A train covers the journey from A to integers.
B at 84 km per hour and returns back to A [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
with a uniform speed of 56 km per hour. 30625 1225
Find the average speed of train during the 30125 6235 a
whole journey. ## Find the average of first 50 natural
[www.examveda.com] numbers?
60 km/hr 30.5 km/hr [www.sawaal.com]
57 km/hr 67.2 km/hr d 25 25.5
## Due to a price hike of 20% , 4 kg less sugar is 26 26.5 b
available for Rs. 120 . What is the initial ## Find the average of first 97 natural numbers.
price per kg of sugar ? [www.examveda.com]
[www.sawaal.com] 47 37
Rs. 5 Kg Rs. 4 Kg 48 49
Rs. 6 Kg Rs. 5.5 Kg a 49.5 d
## Eight consecutive numbers are given. If the ## Find the average of the following set of
average of the two numbers that appear in scores 253, 124, 255, 534, 836, 375, 101, 443,
the middle is 6, then the sum of the eight 760
given numbers is : [www.competoid.com]
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] 427 413
54 64 141 409 @@
36 48 d Answer: 409
## Fifteen movie theatres average 600 ## Find the average of the following set of
customers per theatre day. If six of the scores. 124, 856, 331, 227, 963, 338, 259 and
theatres close down but the total theatre 662.
attendance stays the same , then the average [www.competoid.com]
daily attendance per the remaining theatres 570 660
is 141 470 @@
[www.competoid.com] Answer: 470
900 1000 ## Five boxes of bananas sell for Rs. 30. how
1100 1200 @@ many boxes can you buy for Rs.9?
Answer: 1000 [www.sawaal.com]
## Find average of all prime numbers between 2 1.5
60 and 80? 1.25 2.5 b
[www.competoid.com] ## Five years ago, the average age of P and Q
72 70.2 was 15 yr. Now, average age of P, Q and R is
74 73.6 @@ 20 yr. What would be the age of R after 10
Answer: 70.2 yr?
## Find the average increase rate, if increase in [www.competoid.com]
the population in the first year is 30% and 35 yr 40 yr
that in the second year is 40%. 30 yr 50 yr @@
[www.examveda.com] Answer: 30 yr
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## Five years ago, the average age of P and Q whole boxes did each coworker get?
was 25. The average age of P, Q and R today [www.sawaal.com]
is 25. Age of R after 5 years will be : 2 2.5
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] 3 3.5 c
15 years 20 years ## If a certain amount is fully distributed
40 years 35 years b among A, B & C in such a way that A
## For the data given below. find the sum of 1 1
receives of the amount, B receives of the
mode. median and mean.6, 3, 8, 4, 3, 11, 7, 4, 2 3
5, 4. amount and C receives ₹ 1200, then how
[www.sawaal.com] much money would A receive
13.5 13 [www.sawaal.com]
14 14.5 c 4000 1600
## Four numbers are written in a row. The 3600 1800 c
average of first two numbers is 7, the ## If a, b, c, d, e are five consecutive odd
average of the middle two terms is 2.3 and numbers, their average is
the average of the last two numbers is 8.4. [www.competoid.com]
The average of first number and the last abcde
5(a + 4)
number is 5
[www.competoid.com] 5 (a + b + c + d + e) a + 4
5.9 10.7 @@
13.1 cannot be determined Answer: a + 4
@@ ## If average of 20 observations x1, x2, . . . . .
Answer: 13.1 x20 is y, then the average of x1 - 101, x2 -
## From a class of 24 boys, a boy, aged 10 years, 101, x3 - 101, . . . . . x20 - 101 is :
leaves the class and in his place a new boy is [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
admitted. As a result the average age of the y - 20 y - 101
class is increased by 2 months. What is the 20y 101y b
age of the new boy ? ## If out of 10 selected students for an
[www.competoid.com] examination, 3 were of 20 years, 4 of 21
12 years 15 years years and 3 of 22 years, the average age of
14 years 13 years @@ the group is
Answer: 14 years [www.competoid.com]
## From a class of 42 boys, a boy aged 10 years 22 years 21 years
goes away and in his place, a new boy is 21.5 years 20 years @@
admitted. If on account of this change, the Answer: 21 years
average age of the boys in that class ## If the algebraic sum of deviations of 20
increases by 2 months, the age of the observations measured from 23 is 70, mean
newcomer is : of these observations would be
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] [www.competoid.com]
19 years 17 years 24 25
10 years 6 months 12 years 2 months b 26 None of the above @@
## How many window coverings are necessary Answer: None of the above
to span 50 windows, if each window covering ## If the arithmetic mean of 7, 5, 13, x and 9 is
is 15 windows long? 10, then the value of x is :
[www.sawaal.com] [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
4 15 10 12
3 50 a 14 16 d
## Ian has 14 boxes of paper and divides them ## If the average height of boys in a hall is 180
evenly between 4 coworkers. How many cm and that of girls is 150 cm. If the average
height of the gathering is 165 cm, then find
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the number of girls present in the hall if the 1
number of boys present in the hall are 78 ? ## If the average of x and (x ≠ 0) is M, then
x
[www.sawaal.com] 1
56 64 the average of x2 and is:
x2
87 78 d [www.competoid.com]
## If the average marks of three batches of 55, 1 − M2 1 − 2M2
60 and 45 students respectively is 50, 55, 60, 2
2M − 1 2M2 + 1 @@
then the average marks of all the students is: Answer: 2M2−12M2−1
[www.examveda.com; www.indiabix.com; www.competoid.com] ## If the average weight of 6 students is 50 kg.
53.33 54.68 If two student of average weight of 51 kg are
55 None of these b added and two other students of average
## If the average of 5 consecutive integers is x weight of 55 kg are also added then the
then, find the average of next to next 5 average weight of all the students is :
consecutive integers. [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
[www.examveda.com] 61 kg 51.5 kg
x+5 x-5 52 kg 51.2 kg d
x + 10 x + 25 c ## If the difference between the average of x, y
## If the average of 6 consecutive even number and y, z is 12, then the difference between x
is 25, the difference between the largest and and z is :
the smallest number is : [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] 6 48
8 10 24 12 c
12 14 b ## If the mean of 4 observations is 20, when a
## If the average of eight consecutive even constant 'c' is added to each observation, the
numbers be 93, then the greatest number mean becomes 22. The value of c is :
among them is [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
[www.competoid.com] 6 2
100 102 2 4 c
86 98 @@ ## If x + y + z = 13, then the maximum value of
Answer: 100 (x - 2 )(y + 1)(z - 3) is
## If the average of m numbers is n2 and that of [www.competoid.com]
n numbers is m2 , then the average of (m + 25 30
n) numbers is- 54 27 @@
[www.examveda.com] Answer: 27
m-n mn 1 1
m ## If a + = 2 then the vealue of a5 5 5 will be
m+n b a a
n [www.sawaal.com]
## If the average of the ages of Rakesh and 0 1
Mohan is 15, average of the ages of Mohan 3 2 b
and Ramesh is 12 and the average of the ages ## In 2011, the arithmetic mean of the annual
of Rakesh and Ramesh is 13, then the age of incomes of Ramesh and Suresh was Rs. 3800.
Mohan, is The arithmetic mean of the annual incomes
[www.competoid.com]
of Suresh and Pratap was Rs. 4800, and the
16 13 arithmetic mean of the annual incomes of
14 12 @@ Pratap and Ramesh was Rs. 5800. What is
Answer: 14 the arithmetic mean of the incomes of the
three?
[www.examveda.com; www.lofoya.com]
Rs. 4000 Rs. 4200
Rs. 4400 Rs. 4800 d
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## In a 20 over match, the required run rate to is the number of girls in the class?
win is 7.2. If the run rate is 6 at the end of [www.sawaal.com]
the 15th over, the required run rate to win 25 26
the match is : 27 28 a
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] ## In a class of 39 students there are 26 girls.
1.2 13.2 The average weight of these girls is 42 Kgs
10.8 12 c and average weight of the full class is 48 kgs.
## In a boat there are 8 men whose average What is the average weight (in kgs) of the
weight is increased by 1 kg when 1 man of 60 boys of the class?
kg is replaced by a new man. What is weight [www.sawaal.com]
of new comer? 54 66
[www.examveda.com] 60 62 c
70 years 66 years ## In a class of 40 students 5 were absent for a
68 years 69 years c test. The average marks in it came out of 60.
## In a certain examination, the average marks 5 students wrote a retest and the average
of an examinee is 64 per paper. If he had marks calculated for all the 40 students came
obtained 18 more marks for his mathematics out as 60. The total marks scored by those
paper and 4 more marks for his English candidates were
paper, his average per paper would have [www.competoid.com]
been 66. How many papers were there in the 0 100
examination? 300 None of these @@
[www.competoid.com] Answer: 300
11 13 ## In a class of 60 students there are 30 girls.
9 15 @@ The average weight of these girls is 58 Kg
Answer: 11 and average weight of the full class is 63 kgs.
## In a certain year, the average monthly What is the average weight of the boys of the
income of a person was Rs. 3,400. For the class?
first eight months of the years, his average [www.sawaal.com]
monthly income was Rs. 3,160 and for the 67 66
last five months, it was Rs. 4,120. His income 68 65 c
in the eighth month of the year was : ## In a class of 65 students there are 39 girls.
[www.competoid.com] The average weight of these girls is 60 Kg
Rs. 3,160 Rs. 5,080 and average weight of the full class is 64 kgs.
Rs. 15,520 Rs. 5,520 @@ What is the average weight of the boys of the
Answer: Rs. 5,080 class?
## In a cinema hall for the matinee show which [www.sawaal.com]
started at 2.30 pm and ended at 5.30 pm the 69 66
vehicle parking lot had only three wheelers 68 70 d
(auto rickshaws) and four wheelers. Today ## In a class of 78 students 41 are taking
the wheels of the vehicles parked was French, 22 are taking German. Of the
counted and found to be 240. What could be students taking French or German, 9 are
the number of three wheelers parked therein taking both courses. How many students are
? not enrolled in either course?
[www.sawaal.com] [www.sawaal.com]
48 41 6 12
45 43 a 24 18 c
## In a class of 100 students, the average weight ## In a class there were 28 boys and some girls.
is 30 kg. If the average weight of the girls is In a test the mean score obtained by the boys
24 kg and that of the boys is 32 kg, then what was 12.5 while that obtained by the girls was
14.5. If the overall average was 13.1, what
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was the total number of students in the was 5.5 runs/over. Team B chased the target
class? and lost by 10 runs. Find the average runs
[www.sawaal.com] per over scored by team B. (team B played
42 44 all the 50 overs).
40 38 c [www.sawaal.com]
## In a class, there are 40 boys and their 4.4 5.2
average age is 16 years. One boy, aged 17 4.7 4.6 c
years, leaving the class and another joining, ## In a match, average of runs scored by 7
the average age becomes 15.875 years The players is 53. If the runs scored by 6 players
age of the new boy is : are 121, 40, 26, 56, 37 and 48, then how
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] many runs did the 7th player scored?
12 years 14.5 years [www.sawaal.com]
15 years 17 years a 26 37
## In a class, there were 9 boys and some girls. 43 48 c
In a test the mean score obtained by the boys ## In a mixture of three varities of oils , the
was 12 while that obtained by the girls was ratio of their weight is 4 : 5 : 8. If 5 kg of oils
14. If the overall average was 13.1, what was of the first variety, 10 kg of the second
the total number of students in the calss? variety and some quantity of oils of the third
[www.sawaal.com] variety are added to the mixture, the ratio of
21 20 the weights of three varieties of oils becomes
22 19 b as 5 : 7 : 9 in the final mixture, find the
## In a family of 5 members, the average age at quantity of third variety of oil was ?
present is 33 years. The youngest member is [www.sawaal.com]
9 years old. The average age of the family 15 kg 25 kg
just before the birth of the youngest 35 kg 45 kg d
members was : ## In a particular week the average number of
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] people who visited the Park is 40. If we
30 years 29 years exclude the holidays then the average is
25 years 24 years a increased by 16. Further if we exclude also
## In a family of 8 adults and some minors, the the day on which the maximum number of
average consumption of rice per head per 112 people visited the Park, then the average
month is 10.8 kg: while the average, becomes 42. The number of holidays in the
consumption for adults is 15 kg per head and week is
for minors it is 6 kg per head. The number of [www.sawaal.com]
minors in the family is : 1 2
[www.competoid.com] 3 4 b
8 6 ## In a pre school, the average weight of 30
7 9 @@ girls in a class among 50 students is 16 kg
Answer: 7 and that of the remaining students is 15.5 kg.
## In a group of 5 friends, the sum of age (in What is the average weight of all the
years) of each group of 4 of them are 124, students in the class ?
128, 130, 136 and 142. The age (in years) of [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
the youngest of them is 15.2 kg 15.8 kg
[www.competoid.com] 15.4 kg 15.6 kg b
18 21 ## In a school with 600 students, the average
23 27 @@ age of the boys is 12 years and that of the
Answer: 23 girls is 11 years. If the average of the school
## In a match of 50 overs, team A’s average is 11 years 9 months, then the average the
runs for first thirty overs was 4.5 runs/over number of girls in the school is :
while for the remaining 20 overs the average [www.examveda.com]
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150 250 were 50. His average mark in Maths,
350 450 a Science, Social Studies and Craft were 70. If
## In a school, the average age of students is 6 the average mark in all seven subjects is 58,
years, and the average age of 12 teachers is his score in Maths was -
40 years. If average age of combined group [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
of all the teachers and students is 7 years, 50 52
then the number of students is: 60 74 d
[www.competoid.com] ## In an exam, the average marks obtained by
396 400 the students was found to be 60. After
408 416 @@ omission of computational errors, the
Answer: 396 average marks of 100 candidates had to be
## In a set of three numbers, the average of first changed from 60 to 30 and the average with
two numbers is 2, the average of the last two respect to all the examinees came down to 45
numbers is 3, and the average of the first marks. The total number of candidates who
and the last numbers is 4. What is the took the exam, was
average of three numbers? [www.competoid.com]
[www.examveda.com; www.lofoya.com] 200 210
2 2.5 240 180 @@
3 3.5 c Answer: 200
## In a village the average age of n people is 42 ## In an examination average marks obtained
years. But after the verification it was found by the girls of a class is 85 and the average
that the age of a person had been considered marks obtained by the boys of the same class
20 years less than the actual age, so the new is 87. 1f the girls and boys are in the ratio 4 :
average, after the correction,increased by 1. 5, average marks of the Whole class
The value of n is : (approx.) is closest to
[www.sawaal.com] [www.competoid.com; www.examveda.com]
21 20 86.5 85.9
22 None of these b 86.4 86.1 @@
## In a yoga class there were 12 members . Two Answer: 86.1
members left the class and 4 new members ## In an examination, the average of marks was
joined. If the average age decreased by 4 found to be 50. For deducting marks for
years and the total age decreased by 2 years, computational errors, the marks of 100
what is the new average age of the class? (in candidates had to be changed from 90 to 60
years) each and so the average of marks came down
[www.competoid.com] to 45. The total number of candidates, who
22 27 appeared in the examination, was:
23 28 @@ [www.competoid.com]
Answer: 23 600 300
## In a Zumba class. the average age of all the 200 150 @@
members was 43.5 years. 10 members left the Answer: 600
class and 6 new members joined. if the ## In an NGO the daily average wages of 20
average age increased by 2 years and the illiterate employees is decreased from Rs.25
total age decreased by 110, what was the to Rs.10, thus the average salary of all the
number of members in the class initially? literate and illiterate employees is decreased
[www.competoid.com] Rs.10 per day. The No. of educated
34 36 employees working in the NGO is :
32 40 @@ [www.sawaal.com]
Answer: 36 15 20
## In an exam, the average marks obtained by 10 Data Insufficient c
Jhon in English, Math, Hindi and Drawing
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## In the afternoon, a student read 100 pages at Answer: 58
the rate of 60 pages per hour. In the evening, ## lf the average of m numbers is n2 and that of
when she was tired, she read 100 more pages n numbers m2, then the average of (m +
at the rate of 40 pages per hour. What was n) number is
her average rate of reading the pages per [www.competoid.com]
hours ? m
m+n
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] n
60 70 mn m-n @@
48 50 c Answer: mn
## In the first 32 overs of a cricket match, the ## Mean of 10 numbers is 30. Later on it was
run rate was 7.2 runs/over. What is the observed that numbers 15, 23 are wrongly
required run rate in the remaining 18 overs taken as 51, 32. The correct mean is :
to reach the target of 297 runs? [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
[www.sawaal.com] 25.5 32
4.3 4.9 30 34.5 a
3.1 3.7 d ## Mr. Bundda travels in his car and covers 1/4
## In the first 39 overs of a cricket match, the part of his journey with 8 km/h, 3/5 part
run rate was 4.6 runs/over. Calculate the with 6 km/h and remaining 3/20 part with a
required run rate in the remaining 11 overs speed of 10 km/h. Find out his average speed
to reach the target of 252 runs? during the whole journey.
[www.sawaal.com] [www.competoid.com]
7.2 5.7 6.83 km/h 9 km/h
6.3 6.6 d 4 km/h 8.5 km/h @@
## In three numbers, the first is twice the Answer: 6.83 km/h
second and thrice the third. If the average of ## Mr.Danny spends Rs.10000 monthly on
these three numbers is 44, then the first average for the first four months and
number is - Rs.12000 monthly for the next eight months
[www.competoid.com] and saves Rs.26000 a year. His average
72 24 monthly income is
36 44 @@ [www.competoid.com]
Answer: 72 Rs. 12500 Rs. 14500
## In which of the following the average is 100 Rs. 13500 Rs.1400 @@
[www.competoid.com] Answer: Rs. 13500
100, 105, 110, 112, 120 94, 95, 96, 97, ## Mukesh has twice as much money as Soham.
100 Soham has 50% more money than Pankaj. If
94, 99, 100 101,106 None of these the average money with them is Rs. 110, then
@@ Mukesh has :
Answer: 94, 99, 100 101,106 [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
## It costs Rs. p each to send the first thousand Rs. 155 Rs. 160
messsages and Rs. q to send each subsequent Rs. 180 Rs. 175 c
one . If r is greater than 1,000, how many ## Navaneet has thrice the money Poonam has
Rupees will it cost to send r messages ? and Poonam has 25% more money than
[www.sawaal.com] Hebah. If the average money of the three is
1000 (r - p) + pq 1000 p + qr Rs. 350, What is the amount that Navaneet
1000 (r - q) + pr 1000(p - q) + qr d has ?
## lf 47a + 47b = 5452, What is the average of a [www.sawaal.com]
and b? Rs. 175 Rs. 220.75
[www.competoid.com] Rs. 218.55 Rs. 656.25 d
116 23.5 ## Nine friends have dinner in a hotel. Eight of
96 58 @@ them spent Rs 12 each on their meals and the
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ninth spent Rs. 16 more than the average 48 36
expenditure of all the nine. Find out the total 72 60 @@
money spent by them. Answer: 72
[www.competoid.com; www.examveda.com; www.lofoya.com] ## Of the three numbers, the first is twice the
Rs. 126 Rs. 135 second and the second is twice the third. The
Rs. 111 Rs. 141 @@ average of the reciprocal of the numbers is
Answer: Rs. 126 [www.examveda.com]
## Nine students of a class contribute a certain 16, 8, 4 20, 10, 5
sum of money. Seven of them gave Rs. 50 24, 12, 6 36, 18, 9 c
each and the other two gave respectively Rs. ## Of the three numbers, the first is twice the
50 and Rs. 90 more than the others. The second and the second is twice the third. The
average contribution of the class of 9 average of these numbers is 21. Find the
students is largest number out of these.
[www.sawaal.com] [www.competoid.com]
Rs. 70 Rs. 50 36 38
Rs. 100 Rs. 120 a 47 48 @@
## Of the 5 subjects, the average marks of Answer: 36
Rakesh in first 3 Subjects was 79 and the ## Of the three numbers, the first is twice the
average marks in the last 3 subjects was 86. second and the second is thrice the third. If
If his marks in the third subject was 80, then the average of the three numbers is 10, the
what was his average marks in all the 5 largest number is :
subjects? [www.competoid.com]
[www.sawaal.com] 12 15
81 82 18 30 @@
83 85 c Answer: 18
1 ## On 5 days the price of the gold was Rs.380
## Of the following, which is greater than ?
2 on each day. On the next 10 days the price
[www.sawaal.com] was Rs.390 on each day. What was the daily
2 4 average price?
5 7 [www.competoid.com]
4 5 Rs.385.00 Rs.386.67
b
9 11 Rs.390.00 None of these @@
## Of the four numbers, whose average is 60, Answer: Rs.386.67
the first is one-fourth of the sum of the last ## On a certain day, temperatures recorded in
three. The first number is : Noida are as follows:
[www.sawaal.com] Time: 6 A.M. 12 A.M. 6 P.M. 12 P.M.
17 29 Temp 25C 26.5C 25.5C 23C
36 48 d The average temperature for the day is
## Of the three numbers Whose average is 60, [www.competoid.com]
the first is one fourth of the sum of the whole 25.8C 25C
number. The first number is : 25.2C 25.4C @@
[www.competoid.com] Answer: 25∘C25∘C
30 36 ## On a school’s Annual day sweets were to be
42 45 @@ equally distributed amongst 112 children.
Answer: 45 But on that particular day, 32 children were
## Of the three numbers, second is twice the absent. Thus the remaining children got 6
first and is the thrice the third. If average of extra sweets. How many sweets was each
the three numbers is 44, then largest number child originally supposed to get ?
is [www.sawaal.com]
[www.competoid.com] 14 16
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12 15 d 120 160
## On mixing two classes A and B of students 80 60 a
having average marks 25 and 40 ## P, Q, R, S, T and U are six consecutive odd
respectively, the over all average obtained is numbers and their average is 52. What is the
30. Find the ratio of the students in the product of P and U ?
classes A and B. [www.sawaal.com]
[www.competoid.com] 2212 2154
2:1 5:8 2349 2679 d
5:6 3:4 @@ ## Rambabu has twice as much as Santosh and
Answer: 2 : 1 Santosh has 50% more money that what
## One-fourth of certain journey is covered at Sunil has. If average money with them is
the rate of 25 km/h, one-third at the rate of Rs.110, then Rambabu has
30 km/h and the rest at 50 km/h. Find the [www.competoid.com]
average speed for the whole journey. Rs. 160 Rs. 175
[www.examveda.com] Rs. 170 Rs. 180 @@
6005360053 km/h 120053120053 km/h Answer: Rs. 180
180053180053 km/h 160053160053 km/h ## Ram's present age is three times his son's
None of these c present age and two-fifth of his father's
## Out of 20 boys, 6 are each of 1 m 15 cm present age. The average of the present age
height, 8 are of 1 m 10 cm and rest of 1 m 12 of all of them is 46 years. What is the
cm. The average height of all of them is : difference between the Ram's son's present
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] age and Ram's father's present age?
1 m 12.1 cm 1 m 21.1 cm [www.competoid.com]
1 m 21 cm 1 m 12 cm a 68 years 88 years
## Out of four numbers the average of the first 58 years None of these @@
three is 16 and that of the last three is 15. If Answer: None of these
the last number is 20, than first number is : ## Roshan bought 5 pants at Rs.25 each, 10
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] shirts at Rs.50 each and 15 ties at Rs.35 each.
25 21 Find the average price of all the articles.
23 28 c [www.competoid.com]
## Out of four numbers, the average of first Rs.38.33 Rs.45
three is 16 and that of the last three is 15. If Rs.60 Rs.45.33 @@
last number is 18, then first number is Answer: Rs.38.33
[www.competoid.com] ## Sachin Tendulkar has a certain average for
22 21 11 innings. In the 12th innings he scores 120
24 19 @@ runs and thereby increases his average by 5
Answer: 21 runs. His new average is :
## Out of the five integral numbers C is the [www.examveda.com]
average of A and D. B is greater than C and 60 62
less than D.Also B is the average of A and E . 65 66 c
The middle most number in the sequence ## Seema's present age is four times her son's
[www.sawaal.com] present age and four-seventh of her father's
A B present age. The average of the present age
C D b of all three of them is 32 years. What is the
## Out of three numbers, the first is twice the difference between the Seema's son's present
second and is half of the third. If the average age and Seema's father's present age?
of the three numbers is 56, what will be the [www.competoid.com]
sum of the highest number and the lowest 44 years 48 years
number? 46 years Cannot be determined
[www.sawaal.com] @@
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Answer: 48 years 76 73 a
## Seven friends spent Rs 14 each on a project ## Starting with 8000 workers, the company
and the eighth friend spent Rs 21 more than increases the number of workers by 5%,
the average expenditure of all eight of them. 10% and 20% at the end of first, second and
What is the amount of total money (in Rs) third year respectively. The number of
spent by them? workers in the fourth yearwas
[www.sawaal.com] [www.sawaal.com]
133 136 10188 11088
141 155 b 11008 11808 b
## Seven years ago, the average age of A, B and ## Students of three different classes appeared
C was 51 years. If A is 3 years older than B in common examination. Pass average of 10
and B is 3 years older then C then the students of first class was 70%, pass average
present ages of A, B and C are ( in year) of 15 students of second class was 60% and
[www.sawaal.com] pass average of 25 students of third class was
61, 58 and 55 54, 51, and 48 80% then what will be the pass average of all
55, 58, and 61 48, 51 and 54 a students of three classes?
## Six consecutive numbers are arranged in [www.examveda.com]
decreasing order. The average of the first 74% 75%
five numbers is 30 and the average of the last 69% 72% d
five numbers is 25. The difference of the first ## The age of Jaya 10 years ago is equal to
and the last numbers is: Simaran's present age. The sum of Jaya's
[www.competoid.com] age 8 years hence from today and Simaran's
5 20 age 12 years ago is 90 years. What was the
25 30 @@ age of Komal 13 years ago from now if
Answer: 5 Komal is 9 years younger than Simaran ?
## Six tables and twelve chairs were bought for [www.competoid.com]
Rs. 7,800. If the average price of a table is 42 years 33 years
Rs. 750, then the average price of a chair 20 years 22 years @@
would be : Answer: 20 years
[www.competoid.com; www.examveda.com] ## The ages of three sisters in a family are 16,12
Rs. 250 Rs. 275 and 5 years respectively. What is their
Rs. 150 Rs. 175 @@ average?
Answer: Rs. 275 [www.competoid.com]
## Some students planned a picnic. The budget 11 13
for food was Rs.500. But 5 of them failed to 15 17 @@
go and thus the cost of food for each member Answer: 11
increased by Rs.5. How many students ## The arithmetic mean (average) of the first 10
attend the picnic? whole number is
[www.competoid.com] [www.competoid.com]
15 25 5 4
20 30 @@ 5.5 4.5 @@
Answer: 20 Answer: 4
## Sripad has scored average of 65 marks in ## The arithmetic mean of the following
three objects. In no subjects has he secured numbers : 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5, 5, 5, 5,
less than 58 marks. He has secured more 5, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6 and 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7 is -
marks in Maths than other two subjects. [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
What could be his maximum score in Maths 4 5
? 14 20 b
[www.sawaal.com] ## The average (arithmetic mean) amount of
79 77 savings of ten students is Rs. 600. Three of
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the students have no savings at all and each 19 years 1 month 19 years 6 months
of the others have at least Rs.250 including 19 years 11 months 19 years 5 months
Nihar, who has exactly Rs. 1300. The largest c
amount in Rs. that any one student could ## The average age of 120 members of a society
have is is 60.7 years. By addition of 30 new
[www.competoid.com] members, the average age becomes 56.3
3250 3450 years. What is the average age (in years) of
3650 3850 @@ newly joined members?
Answer: 3450 [www.sawaal.com]
## The average (arithmetic mean) of 330, 36.5 37.2
360 and 390 is : 38.3 38.7 d
[www.examveda.com] ## The average age of 14 girls and their
327 + 357 + 387 329 + 359 + 389 teacher's age is 15 yr. If teacher's age is
360 3177 b excluded, then the average reduced by 1.
## The average (arithmetic mean) of x and y is What is the teacher's age?
40. If z = 10, then what is the average of x, y [www.competoid.com]
and z? 29 yr 35 yr
[www.competoid.com] 32 yr 30 yr @@
2 Answer: 29 yr
163 30
## The average age of 15 students of a class is
1 15 years. Out of these, the average age of 5
25 17 @@
2 students is 14 years and that of the other 9
Answer: 30 students is 16 years, The age of the 15th
## The average (arithmetic mean) student is :
of 330,360 and 390 is [www.sawaal.com]
[www.competoid.com] 11 12
327 + 357 + 387 329 + 359 + 389 13 14 a
60
3 3177 @@ ## The average age of 15 students of a class is
Answer: 329+359+389329+359+389 15 years. Out of these the average age of 5
## The average age of 10 children is 9 years 9 students is 14 years and that of the other 9
months. The average of 9 children is 8 years students is 16 years. The age of the 15th
11 months. What is the age of the tenth child student is:
? [www.competoid.com]
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] 11 years 15 years
17 years 3 months 18 years 4 months 2
17 years 5 months 18 years 3 months a 15 years 14 years @@
7
## The average age of 11 players of a cricket Answer: 11 years
team decreases by 2 months when two new ## The average age of 20 boys in a class is 12
players are included in the team replacing years. 5 new boys are admitted to the class
two players of age 17 years and 2 years. The whose average age is 7 years. The average
average age of new players is : age of all the boys in the class becomes:
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
17 years 1 month 17 years 7 month 8.2 years 9.5 years
17 years 11 month 18 years 3 month b 12.5 years 11 years d
## The average age of 11 players of a cricket ## The average age of 20 students in a class is
team is increased by 2 months when two of 15 years. One more boy Joins the class and
them aged 18 years and 20 years are thereby increases the average by 4 months.
replaced by two new players. The average What is the age of the new boy?
age of the new players is : [www.competoid.com]
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] 24 years 23 years
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22 years 21 years @@ ## The average age of 30 students of a class is
Answer: 22 years 14 year 4 month. After admission of 5 new
## The average age of 24 boys and the teacher is student in the class the average becomes 13
15 years. When teacher's age is excluded, the year 9 month. The youngest one of the five
average decreases by 1. What is the age of new students is 9 year 11 month old. The
the teacher? average age of the remaining 4 new students
[www.competoid.com; www.examveda.com] is
38 years 39 years [www.competoid.com; www.examveda.com]
40 years 36 years @@ 10 years 4 months 12 years 4 months
Answer: 39 years 11 years 2 months 13 years 6 months @@
## The average age of 24 students is 12 years. It Answer: 10 years 4 months
was observed that while calculating the ## The average age of 30 women decreases by 3
average age, the age of a student was taken months if a new person Priyanka is included
as 14 years instead of 8 years. What will be in place of a 25 yr old woman. Calculate the
the correct average age (in years)? age of Priyanka
[www.sawaal.com] [www.competoid.com]
11.25 11.5 17.5 yr 20 yr
11.75 12.25 c 30 yr 22 yr @@
## The average age of 30 boys in a class in 15 Answer: 17.5 yr
years. One boy, aged 20 years, left the class, ## The average age of 36 students in a group is
but two new boys came in his place whose 14 years. When teacher's age is included to
age differs by 5 years. If the average age of it, the average increases by one. What is the
all the boys now in the class becomes 15 teacher's age in years ?
years, the age of the younger newcomer is : [www.sawaal.com]
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] 35 years 45 years
20 years 15 years 51 years 54 years c
10 years 8 years b ## The average age of 36 students in a group is
## The average age of 30 girls is 13 yr. The 14 years. When the teacher's age is included
average of first 18 girls is 15 yr. Find out the in it, the average increases by one year. The
average age of remaining 12 girls. teacher's age in years is:
[www.competoid.com] [www.competoid.com]
12 yr 10 yr 31 51
16 yr 10.5 yr @@ 36 50 @@
Answer: 10 yr Answer: 51
## The average age of 30 students is 9 years. If ## The average age of 4 members of a family is
age of their teacher is included, it becomes 25 yr. If head of the family is included in this
10 years. The age of teacher (in years) is group, then average age increases by 20%.
[www.competoid.com; www.examveda.com] Find out the age of the head.
27 years 31 years [www.competoid.com]
35 years 40 years @@ 45 yr 50 yr
Answer: 40 years 55 yr 60 yr @@
## The average age of 30 students of a class is Answer: 50 yr
12 years. The average age of a group of 5 of ## The average age of 40 students of a class is
the students is 10 years and that of another 15 years. When 10 new students are
group of 5 of them is 14 years. What is the admitted, the average is increased by 0.2
average age of the remaining students? year. The average age of the new students is
[www.competoid.com] :
8 years 10 years [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
12 years 14 years @@ 15.2 years 16 years
Answer: 12 years 16.2 years 16.4 years b
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## The average age of 40 students of class is 18 ## The average age of 8 men is increased by 2
years. When 20 new students are admitted to years when two of them whose age are 21
the same class, the average age of the and 23 years replaced by two new men. The
students of the class is increased by 6 average age of the two new men is :
months. The average age of newly admitted [www.competoid.com]
students is ? 22 years 24 years
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] 28 years 30 years @@
19 years 19 years 6 months Answer: 30 years
20 years 20 years 6 months b ## The average age of 80 boys in a class is 15
## The average age of 5 boys in a class is 20 years. The average age of a group of 15 boys
years. A new boy joins and the makes their in the class is 16 years and the average age of
average by 21 years. What is the age of the another 25 boys in the class is 14 years.
new comer? What is the average age of the remaining
[www.competoid.com] boys in the class?
23 years 24 years [www.sawaal.com]
26 years 27 years @@ 15.25 years 14 years
Answer: 26 years 14.75 years Cannot be determined
## The average age of 5 boys is 12 years. The a
average age of 3 others is 16 years. The ## The average age of 80 boys in a class is 15
average age of all the 8 boys is: years. The average age of a group of 15 boys
[www.competoid.com] in the class is 16 years and the average age of
1 another 25 boys in the class is 14 years.
13 years 14 years
2 What is the average age of the remaining
1 boys in the class?
122 years 13 years @@ [www.competoid.com]
Answer: 13121312 years 15.25 years 14 years
## The average age of 5 members of a family is 14.75 years Cannot be determined
25 yr. If the servant of the family is included, @@
the average age increases by 40%. What is Answer: 15.25 years
the age of servant? ## The average age of 80 girls was 20 years. the
[www.competoid.com] average age of 20 of them was 22 years and
85 yr 90 yr that of another 20 was 24 years. Find the
73 yr 55 yr @@ average age of the remaining girls.
Answer: 85 yr [www.competoid.com]
## The average age of 7 boys is increased by 1 17 years 19 years
year when one of tem whose age is replaced 21 years 15 years @@
by a girl. What is the age of the girl ? Answer: 17 years
[www.sawaal.com] ## The average age of 9 students and their
33 yrs 27 yrs teacher is 16 years. The average age of the
21 yrs 29 yrs d first four students is 19 years and that of the
## The average age of 7 members of a family is last five is 10 years. The teacher's age is -
40 years. In the family, there are three men, [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
three women and one boy. If the average age 36 years 34 years
of three men is 48 years and average age of 30 years 28 years b
three women is 44 years, then the age of the ## The average age of A and B is 20 years. If A
boy is: is to be replaced by c, the average would be
[www.competoid.com] 19 years, The average age of C and A is 21
6 years 2 years years. The ages of A, B and C in order (in
4 years 8 years @@ years) are
Answer: 4 years [www.competoid.com]
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18, 22, 20 18, 20, 22 27.14 years 12.5 years
22, 18, 20 22, 20, 18 @@ 1
14.28 years 11 years d
Answer: 22, 18, 20 9
## The average age of a class is 15.8 years. The ## The average age of a family of 5 members is
average age of the boys in the class is 16.4 20 years. If the age of the youngest member
years while that of the girls is 15.4 years. The be 10 years then what was the average age of
ratio of boys to girls in the class is: the family at the time of the birth of the
[www.competoid.com] youngest member?
3:5 2:3 [www.examveda.com; www.lofoya.com]
3:4 1:2 @@ 13.5 14
Answer: 2 : 3 15 12.5 d
## The average age of a class is 19 years. While ## The average age of a family with 5 members
the average age of girls is 18 and that of boys is 28. If one of the 5 members of age 20 is
is 21. If the number of girls in the class is 16, excluded the average age of the family
Find the number of Boys in the class? becomes -
[www.sawaal.com] [www.examveda.com]
12 10 25 20
8 6 c 30 24 c
## The average age of a class of 39 students is ## The average age of a husband and his wife
15 years. If the age of the teacher is included, was 27 years when the child was born, the
then the average increases by 3 months. Find average age of the husband, the wife and a
the age of the teacher. new-born child is 21 years now. The present
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] age of the child is :
30 years 25 years [www.competoid.com]
35 years 40 years b 4 years 3 years
## The average age of a committee of 11 2 years 1 year @@
persons increases by 2 yr when 3 men of 32 Answer: 3 years
yr, 34 Yr and 33 yr are replaced by 3 ## The average age of a husband and wife, who
women. What will be the average age of were married 4 years ago, was 25 years at
those 3 women? the time of their marriage. The average age
[www.competoid.com] of the family consisting of husband, wife and
40 yr 41134113 yr a child, born during the interval is 20 years
41 yr 40134013 yr @@ today. The age of the child is:
Answer: 40134013 yr [www.competoid.com]
## The average age of a cricket team of 11 1 years 2 years
players is the same as it was 3 years back 2.5 years 3 years @@
because 3 of the players whose current Answer: 2 years
average age of 33 years are replaced by 3 ## The average age of eleven cricket players is
youngsters. The average age of the new 20 years. If the age of the coach is also
comers is : included, the average age increased by 10%.
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] The age of the coach is :
23 years 21 years [www.competoid.com]
22 years 20 years c 48 years 44 years
## The average age of a family of 10 members is 40 years 36 years @@
20 years. If the age of the youngest member Answer: 44 years
of the family is 10 years, then the average ## The average age of family with 5 members is
age of the members of the family just before 28 .If one of the members of age 20 is
the birth of the youngest member was excluded the average age of the family
approximately. becomes
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25 20 ## The average age of P, Q and R is 15 years
30 24 @@ more than R's age. If the total age of P and
Answer: 30 Q together is 39 years, then R's age is ?
## The average age of four boys A, B, C and D [www.competoid.com; www.examveda.com]
is 5 years and the average age A, B, D, E is 6 12 years 24 years
years. C is 8 years old. The age of E is (in 16 years 14 years a
years) : ## The average age of Ram and his two
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] children is 17 years and the average age of
12 13 Ram's wife and the same children is 16
14 15 a years. If the age of Ram is 33 years, the age
## The average age of four brothers is 12 years. of his wife is (in years) :
If the age of their mother is also included, [www.competoid.com; www.examveda.com]
the average is increased by 5 years. The age 31 years 32 years
of the mother (in years) is : 35 years 30 years d
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] ## The average age of some males and 15
37 years 43 years females is 18 years. The sum of the ages of 15
48 years 53 years a females is 240 years and average age of
## The average age of group of 20 girls is 15 males is 20 years. Find the number of males.
years and that of another group of 25 boys it [www.competoid.com]
is 24 years. The average age of the two 8 7
groups mixed together is : 10 15 @@
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] Answer: 15
19.5 yearas 20 years ## The average age of students of a class is 15.8
21 yearas 21.5 years b yr. The average age of boys in the class is
## The average age of husband and his wife was 16.4 yr and that of the girls is 15.4 year. Find
23 years at the time of their marriage. After out the ratio of the number of boys to the
five tears they have a one-year old child. The number of girls in the class
average age of the family of three, when the [www.competoid.com]
child was born, was- 3:1 5:2
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] 2:3 3:7 @@
23 years 24 years Answer: 2 : 3
18 years 20 years c ## The average age of the district level hockey
## The average age of husband and wife who team of eleven is 22 years.The average age
were married 7 years ago was 25 years then. gets increased by 1 year when the coach age
The average age of the family including the is also included.what is the age of the coach ?
husband, wife and the child born, during the [www.sawaal.com]
interval is 22 years now. How old is the child 33 yrs 34 yrs
now? 35 yrs 36 yrs b
[www.competoid.com] ## The average age of the family of five
2 years 7 years members is 24. If the present age of youngest
4 years 3 years @@ member is 8 years. then what was the
Answer: 2 years average age of the family at the time of the
## The average age of mother and her six birth of the youngest member?
chi1dren is 12 years, which is reduced by 5 [www.competoid.com]
years if the age of mother is excluded. The 20 years 16 years
age of the mother (in yrs) is: 12 years 18 years @@
[www.competoid.com; www.examveda.com] Answer: 16 years
40 50 ## The average age of three boys is 15 years. If
42 48 @@ their ages are in ratio 3 : 5 : 7, the age of the
Answer: 42
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youngest boy is the average expenditure is Rs.40 when there
[www.examveda.com] are 20 Guests. If it is known that there are
21 years 18 years some fixed expenses irrespective of the
15 years 9 years number of guests then the average
12 years d expenditure per guest whe there are 40
## The average age of three boys is 15 yr. If the guests in the hotel.
ratio of their ages is 3 : 5 : 7, what is the age [www.sawaal.com]
of the oldest boy? Rs. 30 Rs. 25
[www.competoid.com] Rs. 20 can't be determined a
7 year 14 year ## The average height of 16 students is 142 cm.
20 year 21 year @@ lf the height of the teacher is included, the
Answer: 21 year average height increases by 1 cm. The height
## The average age of two boys and their father of the teacher is
is greater than the average age of those two [www.competoid.com]
boys and their mother by 3 yr. The average 156 cm 159 cm
age of the four is 19 yr, If the average age of 158 cm 157 cm @@
the two boys be 5-1/2 yr, then find the age of Answer: 159 cm
the father and mother. ## The average height of 27 persons was
[www.competoid.com] recorded as 162 cm. If the height of Shreya
37 yr and 28 yr 47 yr and 38 yr was deleted from the observation, the
50 yr and 41 yr 35 yr and 32 yr @@ average height reduced by 1 cm. What was
Answer: 37 yr and 28 yr Shreya's height?
## The average daily income of 7 men, 11 [www.competoid.com]
women and 2 boys is Rs. 257.50. If the 184 cm. 226 cm.
average daily income of the men is Rs. 10 179 cm. None of these @@
more than that of women and the average Answer: None of these
daily income of the women is Rs. 10 more ## The average height of 30 boys out of a class
than that of boys the average daily income of of 50 is 160 cm. If the average height of the
a man is - remaining boys is 165 cm, the average height
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] of the whole class (in cm) is :
Rs. 277.50 Rs. 250 [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
Rs. 265 Rs. 257 c 161 162
## The average expenditure of a man for the 163 164 b
first five months is Rs.160 and the next seven ## The average height of the basketball team A
months is Rs.180. His monthly average is 5 ft. 11 inches and that of B is 6 ft. 2
income if he saves Rs.340 In that year is inches. There are 20 players in team A and
[www.competoid.com] 18 players in team B. The overall average
Rs.250 Rs.200 height is
Rs.300 Rs.340 @@ [www.competoid.com]
Answer: Rs.200 72.42 inches 71.00 inches
## The average expenditure of a man for the 70.22 inches 70.00 inches @@
first five months of a year is Rs.5,000 and for Answer: 72.42 inches
the next seven months is Rs. 2,300 during a ## The average income of 40 persons is Rs. 4200
year. His average monthly expenditure is: and that of another 35 persons is Rs. 4000.
[www.competoid.com] The average income of the whole group is :
Rs. 5,000 Rs. 5,446 [www.competoid.com]
Rs. 3,425 Rs. 5,600 @@
1
4100 4106
Answer: Rs. 3,425 3
## The average expenditure of the hotel when 2 2
4106 4108 @@
there are 10 guests is Rs. 60 per guests and 3 3
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Answer: 410623410623 ## The average marks obtained by a class of 60
## The average income of A, B and C is Rs. students is 65. The average marks of half of
12,000 per month and average income of B, the students is found to be 85. The average
C and D is Rs. 15,000 per month. If the marks of the remaining students is :
average salary of D be twice that of A, then [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
the average salary of B and C is in Rs. : 35 45
[www.examveda.com] 55 65 b
8,000 18,000 ## The average marks obtained by a student in
13,500 9,000 c 6 subjects is 88. On subsequent verification it
## The average income of sample A is 300 and was found that the marks obtained by him in
the average income of sample B is 200. Their a subject was wrongly copied as 86 instead of
sizes are 10 and 15 respectively. Find the 68. The correct average of the marks
combined average. obtained by him is:
[www.competoid.com] [www.competoid.com]
240 20 87 86
230 None of these @@ 85 84 @@
Answer: 240 Answer: 85
## The average mark of student in 4 subjects is ## The average marks of 120 students are 35. If
75. If the student obtained 80 marks in the the average of passed students was 39 and
fifth subject, then the new average is- failed students was 15, then find the number
[www.examveda.com] of students who have passed.
72.5 76 [www.competoid.com]
77 77.5 b 80 100
## The average marks in English subject of a 120 140 @@
class of 24 students is 56. lf the marks of Answer: 100
three students were misread as 44, 45 and 61 ## The average marks of 14 students was 71.
of the actual marks 48, 59 and 67 But it was found that for two students, the
respectively, then what would be the correct marks were entered wrongly as 42 instead of
average? 56 and 74 instead of 32. Then the correct
[www.competoid.com] average is
56 55 [www.competoid.com; www.examveda.com]
57.5 None of these @@ 66 76
Answer: None of these 69 68 @@
## The average marks obtained by 120 Answer: 69
candidates was 35. The average marks of ## The average marks of 30 students are 45 but
passed candidates was 39 and that of failed after checking, there are two mistakes found.
candidates was 15. Then the number of After adjustment, if a student got 45 more
candidates passed In the examination was marks and other student got 15 less marks,
[www.competoid.com] then what will be the adjusted average?
100 125 [www.competoid.com]
85 65 @@ 45 44
Answer: 100 47 46 @@
## The average marks obtained by 40 students Answer: 44
of a class is 86. If the 5 highest marks are ## The average marks of 32 boys of section A of
removed, the average reduces by one mark. class X is 60 whereas the average marks of
The average marks of the top 5 students is 40 boys of section B of class X is 33. The
[www.competoid.com] average marks for both the sections
92 96 combined together is :
93 97 @@ [www.competoid.com]
Answer: 93 44 45
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1 1 Section A is 77.5 and that of Section B is 70.
462 452 @@
The ratio of the number of students of
Answer: 45 Section A and B is :
## The average marks of 40 students in an [www.competoid.com]
examination was 34. It was later found that 7:8 7:5
the marks of one student had been wrongly 8:7 8:5 @@
entered as 62 instead of 26. what is the Answer: 8 : 7
correct average? ## The average monthly expenditure of a family
[www.sawaal.com] was Rs.2200 during the first 3 months;
33.1 33.3 Rs.2250 during the next 4 months and
33.5 33.7 a Rs.3120 during the last 5 months of a year. If
## The average marks of 50 students in a class the total savings during the year were 1260.
is 72. The average marks of boys and girls in then the average monthly income was-
that subject are 70 and 75 respectively. The [www.competoid.com]
number of boys in the class is: Rs.2605 Rs.2805
[www.competoid.com] Rs.2705 Rs.2905 @@
30 20 Answer: Rs.2705
35 25 @@ ## The average monthly income (in Rs.) of
Answer: 30 certain agricultural workers is S and that of
## The average marks of 8 students was found other workers is T. The number of
to be 80. However it was later found that the agricultural workers is 11 times that of other
value 90 was wrongly copied as 82. What is workers. Then the average monthly income
the corrected average? (in Rs.) of all the workers is :
[www.competoid.com] [www.competoid.com]
82 81 A + 11T S+T
80 79 @@
12 12
Answer: 81 11S + T 1
+T @@
## The average marks of a class of 35 children 12 11S
is 35. the marks of one of the student, Who Answer: 11S+T1211S+T12
got 35, was incorrectly entered as 65. What ## The average monthly income of 4 earning
is the correct average of the class? members of a family is Rs.7350. One
[www.competoid.com] member passes away and the average
33.76 34.14 monthly income becomes Rs.6500. What was
35.24 36.5 @@ the monthly income of the person, who is no
Answer: 34.14 more?
## The average marks of a student in 7 subjects [www.competoid.com]
is 85. His average marks in 6 subjects except Rs.6928 Rs.8200
English is 83. What is his marks in English ? Rs.9900 Rs.13850 @@
[www.sawaal.com] Answer: Rs.9900
97 98 ## The average monthly income of A and B is
92 93 a Rs. 14000, that of B and C is Rs. 15600 and
## The average marks of four subjects is 120. If A and C is Rs. 14400. The monthly income of
33 was misread as 13 during the calculation, C is :
what will be the correct average? [www.examveda.com]
[www.examveda.com] Rs. 16000 Rs. 15000
122 120 Rs. 14000 Rs. 15500 a
125 121 c ## The average monthly income of A and B is
## The average mathematics marks of two Rs. 15,050, the average monthly income of B
Sections A and B of class IX in the annual and C is Rs. 15,350 and the average income
examination is 74. The average marks of of A and C is Rs. 15,200. The monthly
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income of A is. salary increases by Rs. 400. What is the
[www.competoid.com] manager's monthly salary ?
Rs. 15,200 Rs. 14,900 [www.sawaal.com]
Rs. 15,500 Rs. 15,900 @@ Rs. 8840 Rs. 11,500
Answer: Rs. 14,900 Rs. 12,800 Rs. 9450 b
## The average monthly income of A and B is ## The average monthly salary of all the
Rs.14000, that of B and C is Rs. 15600 and A employees in a factory is Rs. 8840. If the
and C is Rs. 14400. The monthly income of C average salary of all the officers is Rs.15000
is and that of the remaining employees is Rs.
[www.competoid.com] 8000 then what is the percentage of the
16000 15000 officers among the employees ?
14000 15500 @@ [www.competoid.com]
Answer: 16000 12% 15%
## The average monthly income of P and Q is 1
8 % 16% @@
Rs. 6000; that of Q and R is Rs. 5,250; and 3
that P and R is Rs. 5,500. What is P’s Answer: 12%
monthly income? ## The average monthly salary of all the
[www.examveda.com] employees in an industry is Rs. 12,000. The
Rs. 3500 Rs. 4500 average salary of male employees is Rs.
Rs. 6250 Rs. 4800 c 15,000 and that of female employees is Rs.
## The average monthly salary of 12 workers 8,000. What is the ratio of male employees to
and 3 managers in a factory was Rs. 600. female employees ?
When one of the manager whose salary was [www.competoid.com]
Rs. 720, was replaced with a new manager, 5:2 3:4
then the average salary of the team went 4:3 2:5 @@
down to 580. What is the salary of the new Answer: 4 : 3
manager? ## The average monthly salary of employees
[www.examveda.com; www.lofoya.com] consisting of officers and workers of an
640 690 organization is Rs.3000. The average salary
420 570 c of an officer is Rs.10000 while that of a
## The average monthly salary of 19 members worker is Rs.2000 per month. If there are
of a group is Rs. 16000. If one more member total 400 employees in the organization, find
whose monthly salary is Rs. 20,000 has the number of officers and workers
joined the group, then the average salary of separately.
the group is [www.competoid.com]
[www.competoid.com] 50, 350 350, 450
Rs. 18250 Rs. 16200 50, 275 325, 350 @@
Rs. 18000 Rs. 16250 @@ Answer: 50, 350
Answer: Rs. 16200 ## The average monthly salary of the workers
## The average monthly salary of 20 employees in a workshop is Rs.8,500. If the average
in an organisation is Rs. 1500. If monthly salary of 7 technicians is Rs.10,000
the manager's salary is added, then the and average monthly salary of the rest is Rs.
average salary increases by Rs. 100. What is 7,800, the total number of workers in the
the manager's monthly salary ? workshop is:
[www.sawaal.com] [www.competoid.com]
3600 3700 18 20
3800 3900 a 22 24 @@
## The average monthly salary of 24 employees Answer: 22
in an organisation is Rs. 1500. If the ## The average of 10 items was found to be 80
manager's salary is added, then the average but while calculating, one of the items was
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counted as 60 instead of 50. Then the correct players is-
average would have been : [www.examveda.com]
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] 17 years 1 month 17 years 7 months
69 79.25 17 years 11 months 18 years 3 months
79 79.5 c b
## The average of 10 numbers is 40.2. Later it is ## The average of 11 results is 50. If the average
found that two numbers have been wrongly of the first six results is 49 and that of the
added. The first is 18 greater than the actual last six is 52, the sixth number is -
number and the second number added is 13 [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
instead of 31. Find the correct average. 48 50
[www.competoid.com] 52 56 d
40.2 40.4 ## The average of 13 results is 60. If the average
40.6 40.8 @@ of first 7 results is 59 and that of last 7 result
Answer: 40.2 is 61, what will be the seventh result?
## The average of 10 numbers is 7. If each [www.competoid.com]
number is multiplied by 12, then the average 90 50
of the new set of numbers will be 75 60 @@
[www.competoid.com] Answer: 60
7 19 ## The average of 15 numbers is 7. If the
82 84 @@ average of the first 8 numbers be 6.5 and the
Answer: 84 average of the last 8 numbers be 9.5, then the
## The average of 10 numbers is calculated as middle number is:
15. It is discovered later on that while [www.competoid.com]
calculating the average one number, namely 20 21
36, was wrongly read as 26. The correct 23 18 @@
average is : Answer: 23
[www.competoid.com] ## The average of 15 numbers is 7. If the
20 18 average of the first 8 numbers is 6.5 and the
16 14 @@ average of the last 8 numbers is 8.5 then
Answer: 16 middle number is
## The average of 100 numbers is 44. The [www.competoid.com]
average of these 100 numbers and 4 other 10 23
new numbers is 50. The average of the four 13 15 @@
new numbers will be : Answer: 15
[www.competoid.com] ## The average of 20 numbers is 12. The
800 200 average of the first 12 numbers is 11 and
176 24 @@ that of the next 7 numbers is 10. The last
Answer: 200 number is ?
## The average of 11 numbers is 36. Out of [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
these 11 numbers, the average of 9 numbers 40 38
is 34. If the ratio of remaining two numbers 48 50 b
is 2 : 3, find out the smaller number. ## The average of 20 numbers is 15 and the
[www.competoid.com] average of first five numbers is 12. The
18 36 average of the rest is:
54 48 @@
[www.competoid.com]
Answer: 36 16 15
## The average of 11 players of a cricket team is 14 13 @@
decreased by 2 months when two of them Answer: 16
aged 17 years and 20 years are replaced by ## The average of 20 students is 12 years, if the
two new players. The average age of the new teacher's age is included, average increases
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by one. The age of the teacher is: 25 50 @@
[www.examveda.com] Answer: 24
30 years 33 years ## The average of 4 consecutive even numbers
28 years 35 years b is 27. What is the greatest number?
## The average of 21 numbers is 12. The [www.competoid.com]
average of the first 11 numbers is 9 and the 28 26
average of the last 11 numbers is 15. What is 32 30 @@
the value of the middle number? Answer: 30
[www.sawaal.com] ## The average of 5 consecutive integers
10 11 starting with 'm' is n. What is the average of
12 13 c 6 consecutive integers starting with (m + 2)?
## The average of 24 boys and their teacher is [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
15 years. When the teacher's age is excluded. (2n + 5)
2 (2n + 2)
The average age decreased by one year. The
age of the teacher Is (2n + 9)
[www.competoid.com] (n + 3) a
2
38 years 39 years ## The average of 5 consecutive odd positive
40 years 41 years @@ integers is 9. The least one among them is
Answer: 39 years [www.competoid.com]
## The average of 25 observations is 13. It was 5 3
later found that an observation 73 was 1 7 @@
wrongly entered as 48. The new average is - Answer: 5
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] ## The average of 5 members of a family is 24
12.6 14 years. If the youngest member is 8 years old,
15 13.8 b then what was the average age (in years) of
## The average of 25 results is 18. The average the family at the time of the birth of the
of first 12 of those is 14 and the average of youngest member?
last 12 is 17. What is the 13th result? [www.sawaal.com]
[www.examveda.com] 16 20
74 75 24 30 b
69 78 d ## The average of 5 numbers is 306.4. The
## The average of 26,29,n,35 and 43 lies average of the first two numbers is 431 and
between 25 and 35. If n is always an integer the average of the last two numbers is 214.5.
and greater than the average of the given What is the third number?
integers then the value of n is : [www.competoid.com]
[www.sawaal.com] 108 52
33 34 321 None of these @@
33 None of these c Answer: None of these
## The average of 30 numbers is 40 and that of ## The average of 5 numbers is 65. The average
other 40 numbers is 30. The average of all of the first two numbers is 81 and the
the numbers is : average of the last two numbers is 38. What
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] is the third number?
2 [www.competoid.com]
34 35
7 63 87
34 34.5 a 99 Cannot be determined
## The average of 30 results is 20 and the @@
average of other 20 results is 30. What is the Answer: 87
average of all the results? ## The average of 5 numbers is 7. When 3 new
[www.competoid.com] numbers are added, the average of the eight
24 48 numbers is 8.5. Average of the three new
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numbers is ## The average of 8 consecutive natural
[www.competoid.com] numbers is 38.5. What is the largest of these
11 7.75 8 numbers?
8.5 7 @@ [www.sawaal.com]
Answer: 11 41 39
## The average of 50 consecutive natural 42 45 c
numbers is x. What will be the are average ## The average of 8 numbers 15A and the
when the next four natural numbers are also average of four of these is B. If the average
included? of remaining four is C, then
[www.sawaal.com] [www.competoid.com]
x+1 x+2 2A = B + C A = B + 2C
x+4 x + (x/54) b A = 2B + C A = 2A + 2B @@
## The average of 50 numbers 38. If two Answer: 2A = B + C
numbers, namely 45 and 55 are discarded, ## The average of 8 numbers is 14. The average
the average of the remaining numbers is of 6 of these numbers is 16. What is the
[www.competoid.com] average of the remaining two numbers?
37.5 37.9 [www.competoid.com]
36.5 37 @@ 12 6
Answer: 37.5 8 10 @@
## The average of 50 numbers is 30. If two Answer: 8
numbers, 35 and 40 are discarded, then the ## The average of 9 numbers is 30. The average
average of the remaining numbers is nearly: of first 5 numbers is 25 and that of the last 3
[www.examveda.com; www.lofoya.com] numbers is 35. What is the 6th numbers ?
28.32 29.68 [www.competoid.com]
28.78 29.27 b 20 30
## The average of 6 numbers is 8. What is the 40 50 @@
seventh number so that average becomes 10. Answer: 40
[www.competoid.com] ## The average of 9 observations was found to
26 22 be 35. Later on, it was detected that an
18 24 @@ observation 81 was misread as 18. The
Answer: 22 correct average of the observation is -
## The average of 6 observations is 45.5. If one [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
new observation is added to the previous 28 42
observations, then the new average becomes 32 45 b
47. The new observation is- ## The average of a collection of 20
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] measurements was calculated to tb 56 cm.
46 50 But later it was found that a mistake had
56 58 c occurred in one of the measurement which
## The average of 7 consecutive numbers is 103. was recorded as 64 cm., but should have
The largest of these numbers is been 61 cm. The correct average must be -
[www.competoid.com] [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
106 105 53 cm 54.5 cm
104 107 @@ 55.85 cm 56.15 cm c
Answer: 106 ## The average of a group of men is increased
## The average of 7, 11, 15, x, 14, 21, 25 is 15, by 5 years when a person aged of 18 years is
then the value of x is: replaced by a new person of aged 38 years.
[www.competoid.com] How many men are there in the group?
3 14.5 [www.examveda.com]
12 13.3 @@ 3 4
Answer: 12 5 6
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7 b ## The average of any 5 consecutive odd
## The average of a man and his two twin sons natural numbers is k . If two more such
born on the same day is 30 yr. The ratio of numbers , just next to the previous 5
the ages of father and one son is 5 : 2, what is numbers are added , the new average
the father's age? becomes
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50 yr 30 yr 2(k+1) 2k-3
45 yr 20 yr @@ 2k+1 k+2 d
Answer: 50 yr ## The average of first five multiples of 3 is:
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square is 11 times the number. The number 9 10
is ? 8 11 a
[www.sawaal.com] ## The average of first five odd natural
22 21 numbers is
11 17 a [www.competoid.com]
## The average of a non-zero number and its 3 4.5
square is 5 times the number. The number 5 6 @@
is- Answer: 5
[www.examveda.com] ## The average of first ten prime numbers is :
9 17 [www.competoid.com]
29 295 a 10.1 10
## The average of a, b and c is 12. If the 12.9 13 @@
average, of b and c is 15, the value of a is Answer: 12.9
[www.competoid.com] ## The average of first three numbers is thrice
4 10 the fourth number. If the average of all the
8 6 @@ four numbers is 5, then find the fourth
Answer: 6 number.
## The average of a,b,c is 20 and that of b,c,d is [www.competoid.com]
25; if d=30, then the value of a is 4.5 5
[www.competoid.com] 2 4 @@
25 45 Answer: 2
30 15 @@ ## The average of five consecutive numbers is x.
Answer: 15 If the next two numbers are included, how
## The average of all odd numbers upto 100 is shall the average vary?
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51 50 It shall increase by 1 It shall remain the
49.5 49 @@ same
Answer: 50 It shall increase by 1.4 It shall increase by
## The average of all the numbers between 6 2 a
and 50 which are divisible by 5 is ## The average of five consecutive odd numbers
[www.competoid.com] is 61. What is the difference between the
27.5 30 highest and lowest numbers :
28.5 22 @@ [www.sawaal.com]
Answer: 27.5 4 8
## The average of all the odd integers between 2 12 16 b
an 22 is ? ## The average of five different positive
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] numbers is 25. x is the decrease in the
13 12 average when the smallest number among
11 14 b them is replaced by 0. What can be said
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about x? increasing order) is 51. What is the product
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x is less than 5 x is greater than 5 [www.competoid.com]
x is equal to 5 Cannot be determined 2592 2400
a 2600 None of these @@
## The average of five numbers is 27. If one Answer: None of these
number is excluded, the average becomes 25. ## The average of four consecutive numbers A,
The excluded number is ? B, C, and D is 49.5. What is the product of B
[www.sawaal.com; www.competoid.com; www.examveda.com] and D?
25 27 [www.competoid.com]
30 35 d 2499 2352
## The average of five numbers is 56. If the 2450 2550 @@
average of first four numbers is 54. what is Answer: 2499
the value of the fifth number? ## The average of fruits offered in a temple in a
[www.competoid.com] week was 75. The average of fruits offered in
68 72 six days excluding Tuesday was 72. How
56 64 @@ many fruits were offered on Tuesday?
Answer: 64 [www.sawaal.com]
## The average of five numbers is 7. If three 90 93
new numbers would be added, then the new 72 92 b
average comes out to be 8.5. What is the ## The average of marks in 3 subjects is 224.
average of those three new numbers ? The first subject marks is twice the second
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] and the second subject marks is twice the
9 10.5 third. Find the second subject marks ?
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## The average of five observations x1, x2, x3, x4 384 96
and x5 is 24. The average of first three 192 206 c
observations x1, x2, x3 is 10 less than the ## The average of marks in Mathematics for 5
average of last three observations x3, x4 and students was found to do 50. Later, it was
x5. If the average of first two observations x1 discovered that in the case of one student the
and x2 is 16.5, what is the value of the third marks 48 were misread as 84. The correct
observation [x3]? average is :
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24 25 40.2 40.8
29 14 @@ 42.8 48.2 c
Answer: 24 ## The average of marks obtained by 120
## The average of four consecutive even candidates in a certain examination is 35. If
numbers is 15. The 2nd highest number is: the average marks obtained by passed
[www.competoid.com; www.examveda.com] candidates are 39 and those of the failed
12 18 candidates are 15, what is the number of
14 16 @@ candidates who passed the examination ?
Answer: 16 [www.competoid.com]
## The average of four consecutive even 100 120
numbers is 9. Find the largest number. 150 140 @@
[www.competoid.com] Answer: 100
12 6 ## The average of marks of 17 students in an
8 10 @@ examination was calculated as 71. But it was
Answer: 12 later found that the mark of one student had
## The average of four consecutive even been wronglyentered as 65 instead of 56 and
numbers P, Q, R and 8 respectively (in another as 24 instead of 50. The correct
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average is the average becomes :
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70 71 21.5 19.5
72 73 c 20 21 @@
## The average of marks scored by the students Answer: 20
of a class is 68. The average of marks of the ## The average of six numbers is 20 . If one
girls in the class is 80 and that of the boys is number is removed, the average becomes 15.
60. What is the percentage of boys in the What is the number removed ?
class? [www.competoid.com; www.examveda.com]
[www.competoid.com] 5 35
40 % 60% 112 45 @@
65% 70% @@ Answer: 45
Answer: 60% ## The average of six numbers is 3.95. The
## The average of n numbers x1, x2..... xn is = x. average of two of them is 3.4, while the
n
average of the other two is 3.85. The average
Then the value of  (xi – x̄) is equal to
i=1 of the remaining two numbers is :
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n 0 4.6 4.8
n=xn=x =x=x @@
4.5 4.7 a
Answer: 0 ## The average of six numbers is 32. If each of
## The average of nine consecutive numbers is first three numbers is increased by 2 and
11. If the next two numbers are also included each of the remaining three numbers is
the new average will be decreased by 4, then the new average is ?
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increase by 2 remain the same 35 34
increase by 1.5 increase by 1 @@
31 30 c
Answer: increase by 1 ## The average of six observations is 12. The
## The average of nine consecutive odd average decreases by 1 when a new
numbers is 53. The least odd number is : observation is included. What is the seventh
[www.competoid.com] observation?
22 27 [www.competoid.com]
35 45 1 3
@@
Answer: 45 5 6 @@

## The average of nine number is 50. The Answer: 5

average of first five numbers is 54 and that ## The average of some natural numbers is 15.
of the last three numbers is 52. Then the If 30 is added to the first number and 5 is
sixth number is : subtracted from the last number the average
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] becomes 17.5 then the number of natural
30 34 numbers is -
24 44 c [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
## The average of runs scored by a cricketer in 20 30
his 99 innings is 99. How many runs will he 15 10 d
have to score to his 100th innings so that his ## The average of the 9 consecutive positive
average of runs in 100 innings will become integers is 63, The product of the largest and
100 ? smallest integer is
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100 99 3935 3953
199 101 c 3853 3835 @@

## The average of seven numbers is 18. If one of Answer: 3953

the number is 17 and if it is replaced by 31,
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## The average of the first 3 Whole numbers in 15 17
a given series is 24 and the average of the 19 Data inadequate @@
remaining whole numbers is 18. what will be Answer: 19
the average of all the numbers of this series ? ## The average of three numbers is 135. The
[www.competoid.com] largest number is 180 and the difference
Less than 18 Between 18 and 24 between the others is 25. The smallest
More than 24 Cannot be determined number is
@@ [www.competoid.com]
Answer: Between 18 and 24 130 125
## The average of the first five multiples of 9 is: 120 100 @@
[www.examveda.com] Answer: 100
20 27 ## The average of three numbers is 135. The
28 30 b largest number is 195 and the difference
## The average of the first nine integral between the other two is 20.The smallest
multiples of 3 is number is
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21 12 65 95
15 18 @@ 105 115 @@
Answer: 15 Answer: 95
## The average of the largest and smallest 3 ## The average of three numbers is 40. The first
digit numbers formed by 0,2 and 4 would be number is twice the second and the second
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one is thrice the third number. The
312 222
difference between the largest and the
213 303 @@ smallest numbers is
Answer: 312 [www.competoid.com]
## The average of the marks obtained in an 30 36
examination by 8 students was 51 and by 9 46 60 @@
other students was 68. The average marks of Answer: 60
all 17 students was: ## The average of x number is y and average of
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y numbers is x. Then the average of all the
59 59.5
numbers taken together is
60 60.5 @@ [www.competoid.com]
Answer: 60 x+y 2xy
## The average of the squares of first ten 2xy x+y
natural numbers is- x2 + y2 xy
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x+y x+y
35.5 36
Answer: 2xyx+y2xyx+y
37.5 38.5 d
## The average of x numbers is y2 and the
## The average of the three numbers x, y and z
average of y numbers is x2. So the average of
is 45. x is greater than the average of y and z all the numbers taken together is :
by 9. The average of y and z is greater than y [www.competoid.com; www.examveda.com]
by 2. Then the difference of x and z is : x3 + y3
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] xy
x
3 5 2 2
x +y
7 8 c
x
xy2 + yx2 @@
## The average of three consecutive odd
Answer: xy
number is 12 more than one third of the first
## The average of X, Y, Z is 24. Also, X:Y = 2:3
of these numbers. What is the last of the
and X+Y = 60, then find the value of (X-Z)?
three numbers ? [www.sawaal.com]
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11 12 d Rs.24000 Rs.25200
## The average pocket money of 3 friend A, B, Rs.45000 None of these @@
C is Rs. 80 in a particular month. If B spends Answer: None of these
double and C spends triple of what A spends ## The average salary of all staff of a school is
during that month and if the average of their Rs. 10,000. The average salary of 20 teaching
unspent pocket money is Rs. 60, then A staff is Rs. 12,000 and that of non teaching
spends (in Rs.)- staff is Rs. 5000, the number of non teaching
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] staff will be
Rs. 10 Rs. 20 [www.competoid.com]
Rs. 30 Rs. 40 a 7 8
## The average rainfall for a week excluding 10 12 @@
Saturday was 0.5 cm. But there was a heavy Answer: 8
rain on Saturday and the average rainfall for ## The average salary of all the associates in a
the week raised by 1.5 cm. Then the rainfall team is 16000. The average salary of 7 senior
on Saturday is: associates is 24000 and the average salary of
[www.competoid.com] the rest is 12000. How many associates work
6 cm 7.5 cm in that team ?
11 cm 6.5 cm @@ [www.competoid.com]
Answer: 11 cm 21 22
## The average run of a player is 32 out of 10 23 24 @@
innings. How many runs must he made in Answer: 21
the next inning so as to increase his average ## The average salary of all workers in a
by 6 ? workshop is Rs.12000. The average salary of
[www.competoid.com] 7 technicians is Rs.15000 and the average
98 6 salary of the rest is Rs.9000. The total
40 38 @@ number of workers in the workshop is
Answer: 98 [www.sawaal.com]
## The average run scored by cricketer in 42 12 13
innings is 30. The difference between his 14 15 c
maximum and minimum scores in an innings ## The average salary of the entire staff in an
is 100. If these two innings are not taken into office is Rs.500 per day. The average salary
consideration, then the average score of the of officers is Rs.750 and that of non-officers
remaining 40 innings is 28. Calculate the is Rs.250. If the number of officers is 15,
maximum runs scored by him in an innings? then find the number of non-officers in the
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125 120 [www.competoid.com]
110 100 @@ 25 10
Answer: 120 15 20 @@
## The average runs conceded by a bowler in 5 Answer: 15
matches is 45 and 15.75 in other 4 matches. ## The average salary per head of all workers
What is the average runs conceded by the of an institution is Rs.60. The average salary
bowler in 9 matches? per head of 12 officers is Rs.400. The
[www.sawaal.com] average salary per head of the rest is Rs.56.
15 32 Then, the total number of workers in the
35 53.5 b institution is
## The average salary of 20 workers in an office [www.competoid.com; www.examveda.com]
is Rs.1900 per month. If the manager's 1030 1032
salary Is added, the average becomes 1062 1060 @@
Rs.2000 per month The manager's salary is Answer: 1032
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## The average salary per head of the entire Answer: 26
staff of an office including the officers and 5
## The average speed of a car is th of that of a
clerks is Rs.90. The average salary per head 7
of the officers is Rs.600 and that of clerks is bus. The bus covers 750 km. in 10 hours.
Rs.84. If the number of officers Is 12, find How much distance (in km) will the car
the number of clerks in the office. cover in 7 hours?
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1032 1020 375 285
1000 1010 @@ 365 295 @@
Answer: 1020 Answer: 375
## The average salary per month of 30 ## The average temperature for Monday,
employees in G.K. Publishers (P) Ltd. is Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday was 48
Rs.4000. If manager's salary is added, the degrees and for Tuesday, Wednesday,
average salary increases to Rs.4300, what is Thursday and Friday was 46 degrees. If the
the salary of the manager? temperature on Monday was 42 degrees.
[www.competoid.com] Find the temperature on Friday ?
Rs.13500 Rs.12500 [www.sawaal.com]
Rs.12300 Rs.13300 @@ 34 36
Answer: Rs.13300 38 40 a
## The average score of a batsman for a ## The average temperature for Monday,
number of innings was 57.5. In the next four Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday was 48°
innings he score 25, 65, 35 and 10 runs and . The average temperature for Tuesday,
his average for all innings fell by 5 run. How Wednesday, Thursday and Friday was 52°,
many innings all he played? If the temperature on Monday was 42°, then
[www.competoid.com] the temperature on Friday was (in degrees)
19 15 [www.sawaal.com]
11 None of these. @@ 58 56
Answer: 19 52 50 a
## The average score of a cricketer for ten ## The average temperature for Wednesday,
matches is 38.9 runs. If the average for the Thursday and Friday was 40°C. The average
first six matches is 42, then find the average for Thursday, Friday and Saturday was 41°
for the last four matches. C. If temperature on Saturday was 42° C,
[www.examveda.com; www.lofoya.com] what was the temperature on Wednesday?
33.25 33.5 [www.examveda.com]
34.25 35 c 39° C 44° C
## The average score of boys in an examination 38° C 41° C a
in a school is 71 and that of the girls is 73. ## The average temperature of a place on
The average score of the school is 71.8. The Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and
ratio of the number of boys to that of the Thursday was found to be 60C and average
girls that appeared in the examination is temperature of Tuesday to Friday was 63C.
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Now the ratio of temperature of Monday and
1:2 3:2 Friday Is 21 : 25. Find the temperature on
2:3 4:2 @@ these days.
Answer: 3 : 2 [www.competoid.com]
## The average seven consecutive positive 63C − 75C 75C − 63C
integers is 26. The smallest of these integers
62C − 74C 62C − 76C @@
is:
[www.competoid.com] Answer: 63∘C−75∘C63∘C−75∘C
21 23 ## The average temperature of Delhi for four
25 26 days in a particular month is 48°C. If the
@@
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average temperature of second and third ## The average temperature on Wednesday,
days is 34°C and the ratio of the Thursday and Friday was 20°. The average
temperatures of first and fourth days is 9 : temperature on Thursday, Friday and
11, then find out the temperatures of first Saturday was 24°. If the temperature on
and fourth days. Saturday was 27°, what was the temperature
[www.competoid.com] on Wednesday?
45.5∘45.5∘, 49.9∘49.9∘ [www.examveda.com; www.lofoya.com]
32.4∘32.4∘, 39.8∘39.8∘ 24° 21°
43.4∘43.4∘, 68.2∘68.2∘ None of the 27° 30° d
above.. @@ ## The average value of property of Mittal,
Answer: None of the above.. Ambani and Singhania is Rs.11111 crore.
## The average temperature of first 3 day The property of Singhania is as less than the
is 26∘26∘ and the next 3 days is 29∘29∘. If the property of Mittal is greater than the
average temperature of the whole week average property of both the Singhania and
is 28∘28∘, then the temperature of the last Mittal. The value of property of Ambani is :
day is [www.sawaal.com]
[www.competoid.com] Rs.111 crore Rs. 1111 crore
27∘27∘ 32∘32∘ Rs. 11111 crore can't be determined c
26∘26∘ 31∘31∘ @@ ## The average wages of a worker during a
Answer: 31∘31∘ fortnight comprising 15 consecutive working
## The average temperature of Monday, days was Rs.90 per day. During the first 7
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday is 60°, days, his average wages was Rs.87/day and
the average for Tuesday, Wednesday, the average wages during the last 7 days was
Thursday and Friday is 63° ; if the ratio of Rs.92 /day. What was his wage on the 8th
temperature for Monday and Friday is 21 : day?
25, then what is the temperature of Friday? [www.examveda.com; www.lofoya.com]
[www.competoid.com] 83 92
70° 73° 90 97 d
75° 78° @@ ## The average weight of 10 parcels is 1.7 kg.
Answer: 75° Addition of a new parcel reduces the average
## The average temperature of the first four weight by 60 gram. What is the weight (in
days of a week is 40.2C and that of the last kg) of the new parcel ?
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four days is 41.3C. If the average
1.04 1.08
temperature for the whole week is 40.6C,
then the temperature on the fourth day is 1.4 1.8 @@
[www.competoid.com] Answer: 1.04
40.8C 38.5C ## The average weight of 10 women is increased
by 1 kg if 2 women of 42kg and 38 kg are
41.3C 41.8C @@
replaced by 2 men. Find the average weight
Answer: 41.8∘C41.8∘C of both the men.
## The average temperature on Tuesday, [www.competoid.com]
Wednesday, and Thursday was 41 degrees, 46 kg 45 kg
and on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday 42 kg 44 kg @@
was 40 degrees. If on Friday it was exactly 39 Answer: 45 kg
degrees, then what was the temperature on ## The average weight of 100 students is 32 kg.
Tuesday? The average weight of first 49 students is 30
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kg and of last 50 students is 34 kg. What is
42 degrees 46 degrees
the weight (in kg) of the 50th student?
23 degrees 26 degrees a [www.sawaal.com]
25 30
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32 33 b weight 42.3 kg, 39.7 kg and 39.5 kg join the
## The average weight of 12 crew men in a boat class, the average weight of the 43 children
1 in the class is:
is increased by kg, when one of the [www.competoid.com]
3
crewmen whose weight is 55 kg is replaced 39.2 kg 36.5 kg
by a new man. What is the weight of that 38.35 kg 37.3 kg @@
new man ? Answer: 36.5 kg
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] ## The average weight of 45 students in a class
58 kg 60 kg was calculated as 36 kg. It was later found
57 kg 59 kg @@ that the weight of two students in the class
Answer: 59 kg was wrongly calculated. The actual weight of
## The average weight of 12 parcels is 1.8 kg. one of the boys in the class was 32 kg, but it
Addition of another new parcel reduces the was calculated as 34 kg. and the weight of
average weight by 50 gm. What is the weight another boy in the class was 45 kg: whereas
of the new parcel ? it was calculated as 40 kg. What is the actual
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] average weight of the 45 students in the
1.50 kg 1.10 kg class? (Rounded off to two-digits after
1.15 kg 1.01 kg c decimal)
## The average weight of 12 persons is [www.competoid.com]
increased by 5 kg. When one of them whose 36.07 kg. 36.16 kg.
weight is 46 kg is replaced by a new man. 35.84 kg. Cannot be determined
The weight of the new man is @@
[www.competoid.com] Answer: 36.07 kg.
106 kg 51 kg ## The average weight of 45 passengers in a bus
71 kg 54 kg @@ is 52 kg. 5 of them whose average weight is
Answer: 106 kg 48 kg leave the bus and other 5 passengers
## The average weight of 15 students in a class whose average weight is 54 kg join the bus at
increases by 1.5 kg when one of the students the same stop. What is the new average
weighing 40 kg is replaced by a new student. weight of the bus?
What is the weight (in kg) of the new student [www.sawaal.com]
? 54.21 kgs 51.07 kgs
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] 52.66 kgs 53.45 kgs c
64.5 kg 56 kg ## The average weight of 47 balls is 4 g. if the
60 kg 62.5 kg d weight of the bag (in which the balls are
## The average weight of 16 boys in a class is kept) be included; the calculated average
50.25 kg and that of the remaining 8 boys is weight per ball increases by 0.3 g. What is
45.15 kg. Find the average weights of all the the weight of the bag?
boys in the class. [www.examveda.com]
[www.examveda.com; www.indiabix.com] 14.8 g 14.4 g
47.55 kg. 48 kg. 15 g 18.6 g
48.55 kg. 49.25 kg. c None of these
## The average weight of 20 students in a class ## The average weight of 50 boys in a class is 45
is increased by 0.75 kg when one student of Kg. When one boy leaves the class, the
35 kg replaced by a new student. Weight of average reduces by 100g. Find the weight of
the new student (in kg) is : the boy who left the class.
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35 40 50 Kg 50.8 Kg
45 50 d 49 Kg 49.9 Kg d
## The average weight of 40 children of a class ## The average weight of 60 students in a class
is 36.2 kg. When three more children with was calculated to be 40 kg. Later, it was
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found out that the weight of one of the discovered that the weight of one of the girls
students was calculated as 36 kg. Whereas was read as 45 kgs. Whereas her actual
his actual weight was 33 kg. What is the weight was 25 kgs. What is the actual
actual average weight of the students in the average weight of the group of 75 girls? (
class? Rounded off to two digits after decimal).
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39.90 kg 39.95 kg 34 36
39 kg 38 kg @@ 30 None of these d
Answer: 39.95 kg ## The average weight of a group of boys is 30
## The average weight of 8 persons increases by kg. After a boy of weight 35 kg joins the
2.5 kg when a new person comes in place of group, the average weight of the group goes
one of them weighing 65 kg. What might be up by 1 kg. Find the number of boys in the
the weight of the new person ? group originally ?
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70 kg 75 kg 6 8
80 kg 85 kg d 4 5 c
## The average weight of a class of 15 boys and ## The average weight of A, B and C is 45 kg. If
10 girls is 38.4 kg. If the average weight of the average weight of A and B be 40 kg and
the boys is 40 kg, then what is the average that of B and C be 43 kg, then the weight of
weight of the girls? B is:
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36.5 kg 35 kg 17 kg. 20 kg.
36 kg 35.6 kg @@ 26 kg. 31 kg. d
Answer: 36 kg ## The average weight of A, B, C is 56 kg. lf the
## The average weight of a class of 40 students Average weight of A and B is 45 kg. and the
is 40 kg. the weight of the teacher is average weight of B and C is 47 kg, then the
included, the average weight increases to 41 weight of B is
kg. Find the weight of the teacher. [www.competoid.com]
[www.competoid.com] 36 kg 16 kg
78 Kgs. 79 Kgs. 28 kg 42 kg @@
80 Kgs. 81 Kgs. @@ Answer: 16 kg
Answer: 81 Kgs. ## The average weight of first 11 persons
## The average weight of a class of 40 students among 12 persons is 95 kg. The weight of
is 50 kg. If the teacher is also included, the 12th person is 33 kg more than the average
average weight Increases to 50.5 kg. The weight of all the 12 persons. The weight of
weight of the teacher is. the 12th person is :
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70.5 kg. 71.5 kg. 128.75 131
72.5 kg. 75 kg. @@ 128 97.45 b
Answer: 70.5 kg. ## The average weight of five persons sitting in
## The average weight of a group of 20 boys a boat is 38 kg. The average weight of the
was calculated to be 89.4 kg and it was later boat and the persons sitting in the boat is 52
discovered that one weight was misread as kg. What is the weight of the boat ?
78 kg instead of 87 kg. The correct average [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
weight is - 228 kg 122 kg
[www.competoid.com; www.examveda.com] 232 kg 242 kg b
88.95kg 89.25 kg ## The average weight of M, N and O is equal
89.55 kg 89.85 kg d to 65 kg. The average weight of M and N is
## The average weight of a group of 75 girls equal to 69.5 kg. The average weight of N
was calculated as 47 kgs. It was later
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and O is 66.5 kg. What is the weight of N? was 20, 18.6, 17, 21.4, 19 and 19.8. It
[www.competoid.com] was known that the average of the whole
74 kg, 75 kg week was 19.5Â. The minimum
77 kg 80 kg @@ temperature on Sunday was
Answer: 77 kg [www.competoid.com]
## The average weight of P, Q and R is 47 kg. If 16.9 11.6
the average weight of P and Q be 32.5 kg and 20.7 12.8 @@
that of Q and R be 48.5 kg, then what is the Answer: 20.7∘20.7∘
weight of Q (in kgs)? ## The difference between the present age of
[www.sawaal.com]
Arun and Deepak is 14 years. Seven years
25 29
ago the ratio of their ages was 5:7
21 33 c respectively. What is Deepak's present age?
## The average weight of the students in four [www.competoid.com]
sections A, B, C and D is 60kg. The average 49 years 42 years
weight of the students in A, B, C and D 63 years None of these @@
individually are 45 Kg, 50 Kg, 72 Kg and 80 Answer: None of these
Kg respectively. If the average weight of the ## The difference between two angles of a
students of section A and B together is 48 Kg triangle is 24°. The average of the same two
and that of B and C together is 60 Kg, what angles is 54°. Which one of the following is
is the ratio of the number of students in the value of the greatest angle of the
sections A and D? triangle?
[www.competoid.com] [www.examveda.com; www.lofoya.com]
12 : 7 4:3 45° 60°
3:2 8:5 @@ 66° 72° d
Answer: 4 : 3 ## The distance between two stations A and B is
## The average weight of two players P and Q X mts. A train while going from A to B, its
of a football team is 38 kg. The average average speed is 80 kmph and while coming
weight of P, Q and their coach T is 49 kg. back from B to A, its average speed is 120
What is the weight (in kg) of coach? kmph. Find the average speed during the
[www.sawaal.com]
whole journey.
71 46 [www.competoid.com]
76 91 a 96 kmph 98 kmph
## The average weight. of a class of 35 students 95 kmph 97 kmph @@
is 47.5 kgs. If the weight of the teacher be Answer: 96 kmph
included, the average raises by 500 gms. ## The frequency distribution data is given
What is the weight of the teacher? below. If the average age is 17 years, the
[www.competoid.com]
value of m is
65 kgs. 62.5 kgs.
Age (in years): 8 20 26 29
64.5 kgs. 65.5 kgs. @@ No. of people : 3 2 m 1
Answer: 65.5 kgs. [www.competoid.com]
## The average. of three number is 28, the first 1 2
number Is half of the second number and the 3 4 @@
third number is twice the second, then the Answer: 1
third number is ## The marks obtained by 11 students in
[www.competoid.com]
Computer Science are as follows: 94, 94, 91,
48 36 89, 87, 92, 97, 88, 90, 98, 92. How many of
24 18 @@ the above values are below the average.
Answer: 48 [www.competoid.com]
## The daily minimum temperature of a place 5 4
in a certain week, beginning from Monday 3 2 @@
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Answer: 5 The correct mean is
## The mean deviation of the data 3, 10, 10, 4, 7, [www.competoid.com]
10, 5 is : 33.64 34.64
[www.sawaal.com] 32.64 64.34 @@
49 19 Answer: 34.64
7 7 ## The mean of 11 numbers is 35. If the mean of
50 18 first 6 numbers is 32 and that of the last six
d
7 7 numbers is 37, find the sixth number.
## The mean height of 25 boys in a class is 150 [www.competoid.com]
cm, and the mean height of 35 girls in the 28 29
same class is 145 cm. The combined mean 30 27 @@
height of 60 students in the class is ___ (app) Answer: 29
[www.sawaal.com] ## The mean of 15 different natural numbers is
146 143 13. The maximum value of the second largest
147 145 c of these numbers is
## The mean marks obtained by seven students [www.competoid.com]
in a group is 226. If the marks obtained by 53 52
six of them are 340, 180, 260, 56, 275 and 307 51 50 @@
respectively, find the marks obtained by the Answer: 51
seventh student. ## The mean of 20 items is 55. If two items 45
[www.competoid.com] and 30 are removed, the new mean of the
164 226 remaining items is :
340 Cannot be determined [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
@@
65.1 65.3
Answer: 164 56.9 56 c
## The mean of 100 items was 46. Later on it ## The mean of 21 observations (all different) is
was discovered that an item 16 was misread 40. If each observation greater than the
as 61 and another item 43 was misread as 34. median is increased by 21, then the mean of
It was also found that the number of item observations will become:
was 90 and not 100. Then what is the correct [www.sawaal.com]
mean ? 50 30
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] 50.5 45 a
50 50.7 ## The mean of 50 numbers is 30. Later it was
52 52.7 b discovered that two entries were wrongly
## The mean of 100 observations is 40. It is entered as 82 and 13 instead of 28 and 31.
found that an observation 84 was misread as Find the correct mean.
48. Then the correct mean is ? [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
[www.sawaal.com] 36.12 30.66
40.36 41.24 29.28 38.21 c
41.92 42.05 a ## The mean of 50 observations was 36. It was
## The mean of 100 observations was calculated found later that an observation 48 was
as 40. It was founder later on that one of the wrongly taken as 23. The corrected new
observation was misread as 83 instead of 53. mean is :
The correct mean is : [www.sawaal.com; www.competoid.com]
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] 35 36.5
39 39.7 40 42 b
40.3 42.7 b ## The mean of 9 observation is 16. One more
## The mean of 100 observations was calculates observation is included and the new mean
as 35. It was found later on that one of the becomes 17. The 10th observation is :
observations was misread as 73 instead of 37. [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
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9 16 ## The mean weight of 34 students of a school is
26 30 c 42 kg. If the weight of the teacher be
## The mean of n observations is x1. If the first included, the mean rises by 400 grams. Find
observation is increased by 1, second by 2 the weight of the teacher (in kg.)
and so on, then their mean is x2. The value [www.examveda.com]
of x2 – x1 is 55 kg 57 kg
[www.competoid.com] 66 kg 56 kg d
n ## The mean weight of 34 students of a school is
n +1
2 42 kg. If the weight of the teacher be
n (n + 1) (n + 1) included, the mean rises by 400 g. Find the
@@ weight (in kg) of the teacher.
2 2
Answer: (n+1)2(n+1)2 [www.competoid.com]
## The mean of 12,22,32,42,52,62.......502 is 66 56
[www.competoid.com] 55 57 @@
850.5 858.5 Answer: 56
854.5 852.5 @@ ## The mean weight of 34 students of a school is
Answer: 858.5 42 kg. If the weight of the teacher be
## The mean value of 20 observations was included, the mean rises by 400 grams. Find
found to be 75, but later on it was detected the weight of the teacher (in kg.)
that 97 was misread as 79. Find the correct [www.competoid.com]
means. 55 kg 57 kg
[www.competoid.com] 66 kg 56 kg @@
75.7 75.8 Answer: 56 kg
75.9 75.6 @@ ## The median of the numbers 14, 12, 12, 16, 13
Answer: 75.9 and 18 is
## The mean weight of 100 students in a class is [www.sawaal.com]
46 kg. The mean weight of boys is 50 and of 13 14
girls is 40 kg. Therefore, the number of boys 14.5 13.5 d
is: ## The mode of the data 12, 1, 10, 1, 9, 3, 4, 9, 7,
[www.examveda.com] 9 is
50 60 [www.sawaal.com]
70 65 b 9 12
## The mean weight of 150 students in a certain 1 7 a
class is 60 Kg. The mean weight of the boys ## The number of heat wave days in the Indian
from the class is 70 kg, while that of girls is sub continent in 1995 was 29 and deaths due
55 kg. What is the number of girls in the to heat wave were 406. What was the
class? average of deaths per heat wave day in
[www.competoid.com] 1995?
105 100 [www.competoid.com]
95 60 12 13
@@
Answer: 100 14 15 @@
## The mean weight of 150 students in a class is Answer: 14
60 kg. The mean weight of boys is 70 kg and ## The present age of a father is 3 years more
that of girls is 55 kg. What is the number of than three times the age of his son. Three
boys in the class? years hence, father's age will be 10 years
[www.competoid.com] more than twice the age of the son. The
50 60 father's age is :
75 100 [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
@@
Answer: 50 33 years 39 years
45 years 40 years a
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## The present age of Romila is one fourth of 135 km/hr 120 km/hr d
that of her father. After 6 years the father's ## The sum of 8 consecutive odd numbers is
age will be twice the age of Kapil. If Kapii 656. Also average of four consecutive even
celebrated fifth birth day 8 years ago. What numbers is 87. What is the sum of the
is Romila's present age? smallest odd number and second largest
[www.competoid.com] even number?
7 years 7.5 years [www.competoid.com]
8 years 8.5 years @@ 165 175
Answer: 7.5 years 163 Cannot be determined
## The present average age of a family of four @@
members is 36 years. If the present age of the Answer: 163
youngest member of the family be 12 years, ## The sum of a non-zero number and ten times
the average age of the family at the time of its reciprocal is 7. Find the number.
birth of the youngest member was : [www.sawaal.com]
[www.competoid.com] 4 3
48 years 40 years 5 6 c
32 years 24 years @@ ## The sum of eight consecutive even numbers
Answer: 32 years of set-A is 376. What is the sum of different
## The ratio of number of boys and girls in a set of five consecutive numbers whose lowest
class is 2 : 3. The average weight of boys and number is 15 more than the mean of set-A?
girls in the class is 18 kg and 21 kg [www.competoid.com]
respectively. What is the average weight (in 296 320
kgs) of all the boys and girls together? 324 284 @@
[www.sawaal.com] Answer: 320
99 101 ## The sum of five numbers is 290. The average
5 5 of the first two numbers is 48.5 and the
109 96 average of last two numbers is 53.5. What is
a
6 5 the third number?
## The ratio of speeds of a car, a train and a [www.competoid.com]
bus is 5:9:4. The average speed of the car, 72 84
the bus and the train is 72 km/hr together. 96 None of these @@
What is the average speed of the car and the Answer: None of these
train together ? ## The sum of five numbers is 555. The average
[www.sawaal.com] of first two numbers is 75 and the third
84 km/hr 96 km/hr number is 115. What is the average of last
72 km/hr 60 km/hr a two-numbers?
5 [www.competoid.com]
## The simple interest on a sum for 20 years is 145 150
4
of the principal. What is the per annum rate 265 290 @@
(in percentage) of interest? Answer: 145
[www.sawaal.com] ## The sum of seven consecutive even numbers
6.25 12.5 of a set is 532. What is the average of first
2.5 5 a four consecutive even numbers of the same
## The speed of the train going from Nagpur to set?
Allahabad is 100 km/h while when coming [www.competoid.com]
back from Allahabad to Nagpur, its speed is 76 Years 75 years
150 km/h. find the average speed during 74 years 73 years @@
whole journey. Answer: 73 years
[www.examveda.com] ## The sum of the present ages of P and Q is 25
125 km/hr 75 km/hr years more than the age of R. The present
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age of Q is 5 years more than that of R. Find girls in the school.
the present age of P. [www.sawaal.com]
[www.competoid.com] 80 60
20 years 25 years 40 120 b
21 years 22 years @@ ## There are three categories of jobs A, B and
Answer: 20 years C. The average salary of the student who got
## The sum of three consecutive even numbers the job of A and B categories is 26 lakh per
is 28 more than the average of these three annum. The average salary of the students
number. Then the smallest of these number who got the job of B and C category is 44
is - lakh per annum and the average salary of
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] those students who got the job of A and C
6 16 categories is 34 lakh per annum. The most
12 14 c appropriate (or closet) range of average
2 + 3 4  2 salary of all the three categories (if it is
## The value of  – 3  is known that each student gets only one
2 – 3 
[www.sawaal.com]
category of jobs i.e. , A, B and C):
[www.examveda.com]
36 336
lies between 30 and 44 lies between 28
49 49+3 c
and 34
## The weight (in kilograms) of 10 students are
lies between 34 and 44 lies between 27
52, 45, 31, 35, 40, 55, 60, 38, 44, 36. If 44 is
and 44
replaced by 46 and 40 is replaced by 35, then
None of these a
the new median will be
[www.competoid.com] ## There are two groups A and B of a class,
42 40.5 consisting of 42 and 28 students respectively.
40 41.5 If the average weight of group A is 25 kg and
@@
Answer: 41.5 that of group B is 40 kg, find the average
## There are 10 balls; some of them are red and weight of the whole class.
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
the others white. The average cost of all the
69 kg 31 kg
balls is Rs. 28, average cost of red balls Rs.
70 kg 30 kg b
25 and that of white balls is Rs. 30, the
## There is a number consisting of two digits,
number of white balls is :
[www.competoid.com] the digit in the units place is twice than digit
3 5 in the tens place and if 2 subtracted from the
6 7 1
@@ sum of the digits, the difference is equal to
Answer: 6 6
## There are 14 members in a yoga training th of the number. The number is
[www.competoid.com]
centre. Four members of it leave and 6 new
23 25
members join the centre. As a result. the
average age of the members of the centre 26 24 @@

decreases by 5 years and the sum of all Answer: 24

members also decreases by 20 years. What is ## Three maths classes: A, B and C take an
the new average age of the members? algebra test. The average score of class A is
[www.competoid.com] 83. The average score of class B is 76. The
28 years 27 years average score of class C is 85. The average
25 years 29 years @@
score of class A and B is 79 and average
Answer: 25 years score of class B and C is 81. What is the
## There are a total of 200 students in a school, average score of classes A, B, C ?
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7
of which th are boys. Find the number of 81 78
10
80.5 81.5 d

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## Total weekly emoluments of the workers of a 395 359
factory is Rs. 1534. Average weekly 495 459 @@
emolument of a worker is Rs. 118. The Answer: 459
number of workers in the factory is : ## What will be the cost of building a fence
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] around a square plot with area equal to 289
16 14 sq ft, if the price per foot of building the
13 12 c fence is Rs. 58 ?
## What is the average of first 19 odd numbers? [www.sawaal.com]
[www.sawaal.com] Rs. 3748 Rs. 3847
9.5 15.5 Rs. 3944 Rs. 3154 c
19 38 c ## When a student weighing 45 kgs left a class,
## What is the average of first 7 multiples of 7? the average weight of the remaining 59
[www.sawaal.com] students increased by 200g. What is the
7 14 average weight of the remaining 59
28 21 c students?
## What is the average of first 93 natural [www.examveda.com; www.lofoya.com]
numbers? 57 56.8
[www.sawaal.com] 58.2 52.2 a
45 46 ## When all the students in a school are made
47 49 c to stand in rows of 54, 30 such rows are
## What is the average of four tenths and five formed. If the students are made to stand in
thousandths rows of 45, how many such rows will be
[www.sawaal.com]
formed ?
25002 2502 [www.sawaal.com]
0.2025 none c 22 36
## What will be the average of the following set 32 26 b
of numbers? 678, 193, 285, 494, 342, 762
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7 Problems on Numbers
## 0ut of three given numbers, the first number ## The sun of the squares of three numbers is
is twice the second and thrice the third. If 138, while the sum of their product taken
the average of these three numbers is 154, two at a time is 131. Their sum is :
then what is the difference between the first [www.examveda.com]
and the third numbers? [www.competoid.com] 20 30
126 42 40 None of these a
168 52 c ## X, Y and Z had taken a dinner together. The
## A chocolate has 12 equal pieces. Manju gave cost of the meal of Z was 20% more than
1 1 1 5
th of it to Anju, rd of it to Sujata and th that of Y and the cost of the meal of X was
4 3 6 6
of it to Fiza. The number of pieces of as much as the cost of the meal of Z. If Y
chocolate left with Manju is paid Rs.100, then what was the total amount
[www.competoid.com] that all the three of them had paid?
1 2 [www.competoid.com]
3 4 c Rs.285 Rs.300
## A number consists of two digits. The sum of Rs.355 320 d
the digits is 10. On reversing the digits of the ## The difference between a two-digit number
number, the number decreases by 36. What and the number obtained by interchanging
is the product of the two digits? the two digits of the number is 18. The sum
[www.competoid.com] of the two digits of the number is 12. What is
21 24 the product of the digits of two-digit
36 42 a number? [www.competoid.com]
## If the sum of numbers is 33 and their 32
difference is 15, the smaller number is ? 27
[www.examveda.com] 35
9 12 Couldn't be determined c
15 18 a
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8 Problems on Ages
## A father said to his son, "I was as old as you ## The ages of Harsh and Sumit are 40 Yrs and
are at the present at the time of your birth". 60 yr, respectively. How many years before
If the father's age is 38 years now, the son's the ratio of their ages was 3:5?
age five years back was: [www.competoid.com]
15 yr 20 yr
14 years 19 years 37 yr 10 Yr @@
33 years 38 years a Answer: 10 Yr
## At present, the ratio between the ages of ## The difference between the age of two
Arun and Deepak is 4 : 3. After 6 years, persons is 15 years, 20 years ago the elder
Arun's age will be 26 years. What is the age one was, twice as old as the younger one. The
of Deepak at present ? present age of the elder person is
[www.examveda.com; www.indiabix.com] [www.competoid.com]
12 years 15 years 50 years 60 years
19 and half 21 years 48 years None of these @@
None of these b Answer: 50 years
## In a family, the average age of father and ## The difference between the ages of Meena
mother is 35 yr. The average age of the and Seema is 3 yr and the ratio between
father, mother and their only son is 27 yr. their age is 7 : 8. What is the sum of their
What is the age of the son? ages?
[www.competoid.com] [www.competoid.com]
12 yr 11 yr 43 yr 41 yr
10.5 yr 10 yr @@
45 Yr 48 Yr @@
Answer: 11 yr Answer: 45 Yr
## Raman's present age is three times his ## The present ages of Reena and Usha are 24
daughter's and nine-thirteenth of his and 36 yr, respectively. What was the ratio
mother's present age. The sum of the present between the ages of Usha and Reena
ages of all three of them is 125 yr What is the respectively 8 yr ago?
[www.competoid.com]
difference between the present ages of
7:4 4:7
Raman's daughter and Raman's mother?
[www.competoid.com] 11 : 8 8 :11 @@
45 yr 40 yr Answer: 7 : 4
50 yr Cannot be determined ## The ratio between the present ages of Tarun
@@
and Varun is 3: 7, respectively. After 4 yr,
Answer: 50 yr Varun's age will be 39 yr. What was Tarun's
## Ravi's brother is 3 yr elder to him. His age 4 yr ago?
father was 28 yr of age when his sister was [www.competoid.com]
born, while his mother was 26 yr of age 12 yr 13 yr
when he was born. If his sister was 4 yr of 19 yr None of the above @@
age when his brother was born, the ages of Answer: None of the above
Ravi's father and mother respectively when ## The ratio of the ages of Ram and Rahim 10
his brother was born were yr ago was 1: 3. The ratio of their ages five
[www.competoid.com] years hence will be 2: 3. Then, the ratio of
32 yr and 23 yr 32 yr and 29 yr their present ages is
35 yr and 29 yr 35 yr and 33 yr [www.competoid.com]
@@
Answer: 32 yr and 23 yr 1:2 3: 5
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3: 4 2: 5 b ## The sum of the ages of the father and son is
Answer: 3: 5 48 years. After 4 years, the age of the father
## The sum of ages of 5 children born at the will be three times that of his son. Their ages
intervals of 3 years each is 50 years. What is respectively are
the age of the youngest child? [www.competoid.com]
38 years, 10 years 42 years, 6 years
4 years 8 years 35 years, 13 years 42 years, 8 years a
10 years None of these a Answer: 38 years, 10 years
## The sum of ages of 5 children born at the ## A person was asked to state his age in years.
intervals of 3 years each is 50 years. What is His reply was , "Take my age 3 years hence,
the age of the youngest child? multiply it by 3 and subtract 3 times my age
[] 3 years ago and you will know how old I
4 years 8 years am." What was the age of the person ?
10 years None of these a [www.sawaal.com]
18 20
24 30 a
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11 Percentage
3 ## 15 litres of a mixture contains alcohol and
## of a number is equal to 75% of 600. The water in the ratio 1 : 4, If 3 litres of Water is
4
number is mixed in it, the percentage of alochol in the
[www.competoid.com] new mixture will be:
600 450 [www.competoid.com]
3 2
of 450 180 15% 16 %
7 @@ 3
Answer: 600 1
17% 18 % @@
2 2
## % of 336 = ? Answer: 1623%1623%
3
[www.competoid.com] ## 15% of 45% of a number is 105.3. What is
318 224 24% of that number.
672 336.66 @@ [www.examveda.com]
Answer: 224 385.5 374.4
## . If radius of a circle is increased by 50 %, 390 375 b
then area of the circle will be increased by ## 18% of which number is equal to 12% of 75
[www.competoid.com] ?
50% 150% [www.competoid.com; www.examveda.com]
125% 200% @@
50 100
Answer: 125% 3
2 @@
## 0.001 is equivalent to : [www.examveda.com; 2
www.competoid.com] Answer: 50
10% 1% ## 2 is What percent of 50 ? . '
0.01% 0.1% d [www.competoid.com]
1 2% 2.5%
## 0.15% of 33 % of Rs. 10000 is: 4% 5%
3 @@
[www.competoid.com] Answer: 4%
Rs. 5 Rs.150 ## 200 litres of a mixture contains 15% water
Rs. 0.05 Rs. 105 @@ and the rest is milk. The amount of milk that
Answer: Rs. 5 must be added so that the resulting mixture
## 1% of 1% of 25% 1000 is: contains 87.5% milk is:
[www.examveda.com] [www.competoid.com]
0.025 0.0025 30 litres 35 litres
0.25 0.000025 a 40 litres 45 litres @@
5 7 Answer: 40 litres
## 12 of 26% of of 38% of of 10000 = ? ## 220% of a number X is 44. What is 44% of
78 152
[www.competoid.com] X.
38 35 [www.examveda.com]
41 52 @@
8.8 8.9
Answer: 35 6.6 7.7 a
## 125% of 860 + 75% of 480 = ? ## 23% of 8040 + 42% of 545 = ? % of 3000
[www.examveda.com] [www.examveda.com]
1415 1385 56.17 63.54
1435 None of these c 69.27 71.04
None of these c
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## 25% of 120 + 40% of 380 = ? of 637 30000 66775 c
[www.competoid.com] ## 40 litres of a mixture of milk and water
2 1 contains 10% of water, the water to be
7 7 added, to make the water content 20% in the
4 3 new mixture is :
@@
7 7 [www.competoid.com]
Answer: 2727 6 litres 6.5 litres
## 25% of 120 + 40% of 380 = ? of 637 5.5 litres 5 litres @@
[www.examveda.com] Answer: 5 litres
2 1 ## 40% of the students in a college play Basket
7 7 ball, 34% of the students play Tennis and the
4 3 number of students who play both the games
a
7 7 is 234. The number of students who play
## 25% of the candidates who appeared in an neither Basketball nor Tennis is 52%.
examination failed and only 450 student, Determine the student population in the
qualify the exam. The number of students college.
who appeared in the examination was: [www.competoid.com]
[www.competoid.com; www.examveda.com] 800 1050
700 600 900 850 @@
550 500 @@ Answer: 900
Answer: 600 ## 405 sweets were distributed equally among
## 25% of what amount of money is equal children in such a way that the number of
1 sweets received by each child is 20% of the
to 12 % of Rs.180 = ?
2 total no. of children. How many sweets did
[www.competoid.com] each child receive ?
Rs.120 Rs.75 [www.competoid.com]
Rs.80 Rs.90 @@ 15 45
Answer: Rs.90 9 18 @@
## 30% of a 3-digit number is 190.8. What will Answer: 9
be 125% of that number? ## 48% of the last number is 60% of the 2nd
[www.competoid.com] number. What is the ratio of the 1st number
759 785 to the 2nd number?
795 779 @@ [www.competoid.com]
Answer: 795 4:7 3:4
## 30% of a number when subtracted from 91, 5:4 Couldn't be
gives the number itself. Find the number. determined @@
[www.examveda.com] Answer: 5:4
60 65 ## 498 is 17% less than a number then the
75 70 number is :
None of these d [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
## 30% of x is 72. The value of x is: 610 580
[www.competoid.com] 600 620 c
216 240 ## 5% of Rs.10 + 10% of Rs.5 = ?
480 640 @@ [www.competoid.com]
Answer: 240 30 20
## 31% of employees pay tax in the year 2008. 5 1 @@
Non-tax paying employees are 20700. The Answer: 1
total number of employees is : [www.examveda.com; ## 50 kg is what per cent of 250 kg?
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31160 64750 26% 15%
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20% 18% @@ ## 75% of what area is 15 square metres?
Answer: 20% [www.competoid.com]
## 50 minutes is what percentage of a day 10m 2
15m 2

(approx.)- 20m2 25m2 @@

[www.examveda.com]
Answer: 20m220m2
3.5% 4%
## 78% of 750 + 34% of x = 30% of 2630. Find
5% 6% a
x.
## 51% of a whole number is 714. 25% of that [www.examveda.com]
number is 960 600
[www.competoid.com]
800 750 b
250 350
b
450 550 @@ ## 8 is 4% of a, and 4 is 8% of b. c equals .
a
Answer: 350
What is the value of c?
## 6 c.c. of a 20% solution of alcohol in water is [www.lofoya.com]
mixed with 4 c.c. of a 60% solution of alcohol 1 1
in water. A glass is filled with 10 parts of 32 4
first liquid and 4 parts of second liquid. The 1 4 b
percentage of water in the new mixture in
## 8% of the voters in an election did not cast
the glass is :
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their votes. In this election, there were only
20% 26% two candidates. The winner by obtaining
36% 40% c
48% of the total votes, defeated his
contestant by 1100 votes. The total number
## 62.385% of 2.560 - 2.560 % of 62.385 = ?
[www.competoid.com] of voters in the election was:
[www.competoid.com]
150.53 152.35
21000 23500
0 1.5 @@
22000 27500 @@
Answer: 0
Answer: 27500
## 65g is what per cent of 2 kg ?
[www.competoid.com] ## 80% of a number added to 80 gives the
13 65 result as the number itself, then the number
% % is :
4 2
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15 13
% % @@ 200 300
8 8
400 480 c
Answer: 134%134%
## 80% of a number is greater than 30% of it
## 72% of the students of a certain class took
by 60. The number is
Biology and 44% took Mathematics. If each [www.competoid.com]
student took at least one subject from 180 130
Biology or Mathematics and 40 took both 90 200 @@
then the total number of students in the class Answer: 200
is : ## 80% of a number is greater than 50% of it
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200 240 by 120. The number is
[www.competoid.com]
250 320 @@ 360 260
Answer: 250 180 400 @@
## 75% of a number when added to 75, Answer: 400
becomes the number itself find the number. ## 80% of a smaller number is 4 less than 40%
[www.competoid.com]
150 200 of a larger number. The larger number is 85
greater than the smaller one. The sum of
225 300 @@
these two number is
Answer: 300 [www.examveda.com]
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325 425 are taken away, Precentage of black balls at
235 500 c present is
1 [www.competoid.com]
## 83 % of Rs.90 is' equal to 60% of ? 50% 25%
3
[www.competoid.com] 1
33 % 40% @@
Rs.122 Rs.125 3
Rs.123 Rs.124 @@ Answer: 3313%3313%
Answer: Rs.125 ## A boy found the answer for the question
## 89% of ? + 365 = 1075.22 1 1
Subtract the sum and from unity and
[www.competoid.com] 4 5
798 897 express the answer in decimals" as 0.45. The
898 752 @@ percentage of error in his answer has
Answer: 798 [www.competoid.com]
## 90% of the students in school passed in 100
% 50%
English, 85% passed in Mathematics and 11
150 students passed in both the subjects. if 200
10% % @@
no student failed in both the subjects, and 11
the total number of students. Answer: 20011%20011%
[www.competoid.com] ## A businessman imported Laptop, worth
120 220 Rs.210000, Mobile phones worth Rs.100000
200 300 @@ and Television sets worth Rs.150000. He had
Answer: 200 to pay 10% duty on Laptops, 8% on Phones
## A basket contains 300 mangoes. 75 mangoes and 5% on Television sets as special case.
were distributed among some students. Find How much total duty (in rupees) he had to
the percentage of mangoes left in the basket pay on all items as per above details?
[www.competoid.com] [www.competoid.com]
70% 72% 36500 37000
76% 75% @@ 37250 37500 @@
Answer: 75% Answer: 36500
## A big cube is formed by rearranging the 160 2
coloured and 56 non-coloured similar cubes ## A businessman sold of his stock at a gain of
3
in such a way that the expouser of the 20% and the rest at a gain of 14%. The
coloured cubes to the outside is minimum. percentage of gain to the businessman is
The percentage of exposed area that is [www.competoid.com]
coloured is: 12% 17%
[www.examveda.com] 18% 20% @@
25.9% 44.44% Answer: 18%
35% 32% ## A businessman's earning by 25% in one year
None of These b but decrease by 4% in the next . Going by
## A book consist of 30 pages, 25 line on each their pattern, after 5 years, his tom earnings
page and 35 characters on each line. If this would be Rs.72000 What is his present
content is written in another note book earning?
consisting 30 lines and 28 characters per line [www.competoid.com]
then the required no. of pages will how much Rs. 10000 Rs. 80000
percent greater than previous pages? Rs. 40000 Rs. 54000 @@
[www.examveda.com] Answer: Rs. 40000
4.16% 5% ## A candidate appearing for an examination
6.66% 7% c has to secure 35% marks to pass. But he
## A box has 100 blue, 50 red balls, 50 black secured only 40 marks and failed by 30
balls, 25% of blue balls and 50% of red balls marks. What would be the maximum marks
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of test ? ## A college has raised 75% of the amount it
[www.competoid.com] needs for a new building by receiving an
280 180 average donation of Rs. 600 from the people
200 150 @@ already solicited. The people already
Answer: 200 solicited represent 60% of the people, the
## A candidate got 25% marks and got failed college will ask for donations. If the college is
by 12 marks. Another candidate got 30% of to raise exactly the amount needed for the
the total marks and got 30% marks more new building, what should be the average
than the necessary pass marks. Find the total donation from the remaining people be
number of marks. solicited?
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252 452 300 250
352 552 @@ 400 500 a
Answer: 252 ## A company has 12 machines of equal
## A candidate scores 20% and fails by 50 efficiency in its factory. The annual
marks, while another candidate who scores manufacturing expenses are Rs. 24,000 and
40% marks, gets 30 marks more than the the establishment charges are Rs. 10,000.
minimum required marks to pass the The annual output of the company is Rs.
examination. Find the maximum marks for 48,000. The annual output and
the examination. manufacturing costs are directly
[www.competoid.com] proportional to the no. of machines while the
500 450 share holders get the 10% profit, which is
300 400 @@ directly proportional to the annual output of
Answer: 400 the company. If 8.33% of machines
## A candidate who gets 20% marks fails by 10 remained close throughout the year. Then
marks but another candidate who gets 42% the percentage decrease in the amount of
marks gets 12% (of max. marks) more than share holders is : [www.examveda.com]
the passing marks. Find the maximum 14.28% 11.11%
marks. 16.66% 8.33%
[www.lofoya.com]
None of these a
50 100
## A company has 6435 bars of soap. If the
150 200
company has sold 20% of its stock, then how
## A candidate who gets 20% marks fails by 30 many bars of soap did it sell ?
marks, but another candidate who gets 32% [www.competoid.com]
marks gets 42 marks more than the 1237 1257
minimum pass marks. The maximum marks 1287 1300 @@
will be Answer: 1287
[www.competoid.com]
## A cooler of Rs.2500 is available at 25%
400 500
discount. The cooler can be purchased for
600 300 @@ [www.competoid.com]
Answer: 600 Rs.2250 Rs.2000
## A clerk received an annual salary of Rs.3,660 Rs.1680 Rs.1875 @@
in the year 1975. This was 20% more than Answer: Rs.1875
his salary in 1974. What was his salary in ## A customer asks for the production of x
1974 ? number of goods. The company produces y
[www.competoid.com]
number of goods daily. Out of which z% are
Rs.3,005 Rs.3,000
units for sale. The order will be completed in
Rs.3,500 Rs.3,050 @@
:
Answer: Rs.3,050 [www.examveda.com]
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x 100yz 10 15
days x days
100y  (1 – z) 5 20 @@
100x 100 Answer: 5
days days 1
(100 – z) y y  (z – 1)
## A jogger desires to run a certain course in
Cannot determined c 4
## A fraction in reduced form is such that when less time than he usually takes. By what per
it is squared and then its numerator is cent must be increase his average running
1 speed to accomplish the goal?
reduced by 33 % and denominator is [www.competoid.com]
3
reduced to 20%, its result is twice the 50% 20%
1
original fraction. The sum of numerator and 25% 33 % @@
denominator is: [www.examveda.com]
3
8 13 Answer: 33133313%
17 15 ## A line of length 1.5 metres was measured as
1.55 metres by mistakes. What will be the
None of these a
value of error percent ? [www.examveda.com;
## A fraction in reduced form is such that when www.competoid.com]
it is squared and then its numerator is 7
increased by 25% and the denominator is 0.05% 3 %
31
5 1
reduced t0 80% it results in of original 3 % 0.08%
8 3
c
fraction. The product of the numerator and ## A litre of water evaporates from 6L of sea
denominator is : water containing 4% salt. Find the
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6 12 percentage of salt in the remaining solution.
[www.examveda.com]
10 7 c 1 1
## A gardener increased the rectangular garden 5 % 3 %
2 2
by increasing its length by 40% and 4
decreasing its width by 20%. The area of the 3% 45 % d
new garden:
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## A man buys a truck for Rs. 2,50,000. The
Has increased by 20% Has increased by annual repair cost comes to 2% of the price
12% of purchase. Besides, he has to pay an annual
Has increased by 8% Is exactly the same tax of Rs. 2000. At what monthly rent must
as the old area b
he rent out the truck to get a return of 15%
on his net invests of the first year?
## 'A' gave 25% of an amount to 'B'. from the [www.examveda.com]
money B got. he spent 30% on a dinner. Out Rs. 3359 Rs. 2500
of the remaining amount. the respective ratio Rs. 4000 Rs. 3212.5 d
between the amount B kept as savings and
## A man calculates that if he lets his house for
the amount he spent on buying a book is 5 : 1
2. HS bought the book for Rs. 460. how Rs.80 per month he would earn 7 % p.a. on
2
much money did A have in the beginning ?
[www.competoid.com] his outlay after allowing for repairs. Actually
Rs. 12600 Rs. 9200 he is able to let it for Rs.76 p.m. and had to
Rs. 12000 Rs. 9000 spend Rs.60 more on repairs. He thus gets
@@
Answer: Rs. 9200 only 6% p.a. on his outlay. The outlay is
[www.competoid.com]
## A is equal to 20% of B and B is equal to 25%
Rs.6,800 Rs.7,200
of C. Then what percentage of C is equal to
Rs.10,000 Rs.7,140 @@
A?
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## A man had certain sum of money. He gave ## A man spends 15% of his income. If his
20% of it to his eldest son, 30% of the expenditure is Rs.75, his income (in rupees)
remaining balance to his younger son, 10% is:
of the remaining he gave in a school for poor [www.competoid.com]
boys, still he had Rs.100.80. Find his total 400 300
sum. 750 500 @@
[www.competoid.com] Answer: 500
Rs.240 Rs.200 ## A man spends 40% of his monthly salary on
Rs.180 Rs.360 @@ food and one-third of the remaining on
Answer: Rs.200 transport. If he saves Rs.4,500 per month
## A man invests a part of Rs.10,000 at 5% and which is equal to half the balance after
the remainder at 6%. The 5% investment spending on food and transport, his monthly
yields annually Rs.76.50 more than the 6% salary is :
investment. The amount invested at 6% is: [www.competoid.com]
[www.competoid.com] Rs.11,250 Rs.22,500
Rs.3,600 Rs.3,550 Rs.25,000 Rs.45,000 @@
Rs.3,850 Rs.4,000 @@ Answer: Rs.22,500
Answer: Rs.3,850 ## A man spends 75% of his income His income
## A man losses 20% of his money. After increased by 20% and he increased his
spending 25% of the remainder, he has expenditure by 15%. His savings will then
Rs.480 left. What is the amount of money he increased by:
originally had? [www.competoid.com]
[www.competoid.com] 1
33% 33 %
600 720 3
800 840 @@ 35% 40% @@
Answer: 800 Answer: 35%
## A man purchased a bag for Rs.360 and sold ## A mixture of 50 litres of milk and water
it the same day for Rs. 360, allowing the contains 10% water. How much water
1 should be added to this so that water may be
buyer a credit of 9 years. If the interest be 7
2 25% in the new mixture.
% then what is the man's gain? [www.lofoya.com] [www.competoid.com]
159 173 10 litres 15 litres
243 287 c 6 litres 12 litres @@
## A man received Rs.8,80,000 as his annual Answer: 10 litres
salary of the year 2007 which was 10% more ## A money lender finds that due to fall in the
than his annual salary in 2006. His annual 3
rate of interest from 8% to 7 %, his yearly
salary in the year 2006 was: 4
[www.competoid.com] income diminishes by Rs.61.50. His capital
Rs.4,80,000 Rs.8,00,000 (in Rupees) is:
Rs.4,00,000 Rs.8,40,000 @@
[www.competoid.com]
Answer: Rs.8,00,000 26000 24600
1 23800 22400 @@
## A man spend 7 % of his money and after Answer: 24600
2
spending 75% of the remaining he had ## A number if reduced by 25% becomes 225.
Rs.370 left. How much money did he have By what percent should it be increased so
[www.competoid.com; www.examveda.com] that it becomes 375 ?
1200 1600 [www.examveda.com]
1500 1400 25% 30%
@@
Answer: 1600 35% 75% a
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1 ## A number when reduced by 10% gives 30 as
## A number increased by 22 % gives 98 as result. The number is :
2
result. The number is: [www.competoid.com] [www.competoid.com]
45 18 1 1
33 33
80 81 2 3
@@
Answer: 80 40 35 @@
## A number is decreased by 10% and the Answer: 33133313
resulting number is again decreased by 20%. ## A number x is mistakenly divided by 10
What is the final percentage of decrease ? instead of being multiplied by 10. what is the
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] percentage error in the result?
25% 26% [www.examveda.com]
27% 28% d -99% -100%
## A number is divided into two parts in such a +99% +100% a
way that 80% of 1st part is 3 more than 60% ## A number, on subtracting 15 from it reduces
of 2nd part and 80% of 2nd part is 6 more to its 80% What is 40% of the number ?
[www.competoid.com]
than 90% of the 1st part. Then the number
75 60
is:
[www.competoid.com] 30 90 @@
125 130 Answer: 30
135 145 @@
## A number, on subtracting 15 from it reduces
Answer: 135 to its 80%. What is 40% of the number ?
[www.examveda.com]
## A number is first increased by 10% and then
75 60
it is further increased by 20%. The original
number is increased altogether by: 30 90 c
[www.competoid.com] ## A person loses 75% of his money in the first
30% 15% bet, 75% of the remaining in the second and
32% 36% @@
75% of the remaining in the third bet and
Answer: 32% returns home with Rs. 2 only. His initial
## A number is increased by 15% and then money was
[www.competoid.com]
decreased by 25% and the number becomes
22 less than the original number. The Rs.64 Rs.128
original number is : Rs.256 Rs.945 @@
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] Answer: Rs.128
140 160 ## A person spends 30% of monthly salary on
120 100 b rent, 25% on food, 20% on children's
## A number is increased by x%; to get back to education and 12% on electricity, and the
the original number, it is to be reduced by? balance of Rs.1,040 on the remaining items.
[www.competoid.com] What is the monthly salary of the person?
10x 100x [www.competoid.com]
% % Rs.8,000 Rs.9,000
10 + x 100x
x Rs.9,600 Rs.10,600 @@
x% 100 + x
% @@ Answer: Rs.8,000
Answer: 100x100x%100x100x% ## A person subscribing to sky cable for a year
## A number when 35 is subtracted from it is pack Rs. 1785. If the monthly subscription is
reduced its value by 20 percent. What is the Rs. 175, how much discount does a yearly
four-fifth of that number? [www.competoid.com] subscriber get?
[www.examveda.com]
70 140
11% 13%
84 108 @@
15% 18% c
Answer: 140
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2 for Rs.770. The original price of rice is
## A person who spends 66 of his income is [www.competoid.com]
3%
able to save Rs. 1200 per month. His Rs.55 per kg Rs.45 per kg
monthly expenses (in Rs. ) is : Rs.65 per kg Rs.37 per kg @@
[www.competoid.com; www.examveda.com] Answer: Rs.55 per kg
1,200 2,400 ## A reduction of 21% in the price fof an item
3,000 3,200 @@ enables a person to buy 3 kg more for
Answer: 2,400 Rs.100. The reduced price of item per kg is:
## A person's salary has increased from [www.competoid.com]
Rs.7200 to Rs.8100. What is the percentage Rs.5.50 Rs.7.50
increase in his salary? Rs.10.50 Rs.7.00 @@
[www.competoid.com] Answer: Rs.7.00
25% 18% ## A report consists of 20 sheets each of 55 lines
2 1 and each such line consist of 65 characters.
16 12 @@
This report is reduced onto sheets each of 65
3 2
Answer: 12121212 lines such that each line consists of 70
## A population of variety of tiny bush in an characters. The percentage reduction in
experiment field increased by 10% in the number of sheets is closer to
first year, increased by 8% in the second [www.examveda.com]
year but decreased by 10% in third year. If 20% 5%
the present number of bushes in the 30% 35%
experiment field is 26730, then the number None of these a
of variety of bushes in beginning was: ## A sales executive gets 20% bonus of the total
[www.examveda.com] sales value and 10% commission besides the
35000 27000 bonus on the net profit after charging such
25000 36000 c commission. If the total sales value be Rs. 10
## A property dealer takes 3% commission. If lakh per annum and the total profit of the
the value of the property is Rs.60,000. Find company be Rs. 1.32 lakh, then his total
his commission. earning per annum will be, given that he is
[www.competoid.com] not entitled to receive any fixed salary from
1200 900 the company :
1800 1000 @@ [www.examveda.com]
Answer: 1800 2.3 lakh 2.32 lakh
## A reduction of 10% in the price of cloth 2.12 lakh 3.2 lakh
enables a man to buy 6 meters of cloth more None of these c
for Rs. 2160. Find the reduced price and also ## A salesman sells two kinds of trousers:
the original price of cloth per meter. cotton and woollen. A pair of cotton trousers
[www.examveda.com] is sold at 30% profit and a pair of woollen
Rs. 36, Rs. 40 Rs. 40, Rs. 36 trousers is sold at 50% profit. The salesman
Rs. 36, Rs. 44 Rs. 44, Rs. 36 a has calculated that if he sells 100% more
## A reduction of 20% In prices of tea enables a woollen trousers than cotton trousers, his
purchase1 to obtain 4 kilos more for Rs. 80. overall profit will be 45%. However, he ends
What is the reduced price per kg? What was up selling 50% more cotton trousers than
the price per kilo before reduction? woollen trousers. What will be his overall
[www.competoid.com] profit
Rs.5 Rs.4 [www.lofoya.com]
Rs.6 Rs.8 @@ 37.5% 40%
Answer: Rs.5 41% 42.33% b
## A reduction of 20% in the price of Wheat ## A sample of 50 litres of glycerine is found to
enables a person to buy 3.5 kg more Wheat be adulterated to the extent of 20%. How
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much pure glycerine should be added to it so x=y Cannot be determined
as to bring down the percentage of impurity a
to 5% ? ## A shop sells floor tiles at Rs. 48 per square
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] meter. A contractor employs a machine that
155 litres 150 litres polishes the tiles that damages 10% of the
150.4 litres 140 litres b total number of tiles which cannot be used
## A saves 20% of his monthly salary. If his any more. Calculate the amount that needs
monthly expenditure is Rs. 6000, then his to be paid by contractor to tile shop owner, if
monthly savings is : [www.examveda.com; the hall is of a square shape and has a
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Rs. 1500 Rs. 1800 [www.examveda.com]
Rs. 1200 Rs. 4800 a Rs. 4,00,000 Rs. 5,00,000
## A scored 72% in a paper with a maximum Rs. 5,28,000 Rs. 3,65,000 c
marks of 900 and 80% in another paper with ## A shopkeeper first raises the price of
a maximum marks of 700. If the result is Jewellery by x% then he decreases the new
based on the combined percentage of two price by x%. After such up down cycle, the
papers, the combined percentage is : price of a Jewellery decreased by Rs. 21025.
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] After a second up down cycle the Jewellery
75.5% 76% was sold for Rs. 484416. What was the
76.5% 77% a original price of the jewellery.
## A screw driver and a hammer currently [www.examveda.com]
have the same price. If the price of a screw Rs. 5,26,000 Rs. 6,00,625
driver rises by 5% and the price of hammer Rs. 5,25,625 Rs. 5,00,000
goes up by 3%, then how much more will it None of these c
cost to buy, 3 screw drivers and 3 hammers ? ## A shopkeeper gives a discount of 12%,
[www.competoid.com] whereas a customer makes cash payment.
3% 4% Let 'p' denotes the percentage, above the
5% 8% @@ cost price, that the shopkeeper must mark
Answer: 4% up the price of the articles ['p' is an integer]
## A shepherd had n goats in the year 2000. In in order to make a profit of x% (x < 100).
2001 the no. of goats increased by 40%. In Which of the following is the possible value
2002 the no. of goats declined to 70%. In (s) of x?
2003 the no. of goats grew up 30%. In 2004, [www.lofoya.com]
he sold 10% goats and then he had only 54 76
34,398 goats. The percentage increase of the 96 32 c
no. of goats in this duration was : ## A shopkeeper sells three items P, Q and R
[www.examveda.com] and incurs a loss of 21, 11 and 10
16.66% 14.66% respectively. The overall loss percentage on
11.33% 20% b selling P and Q items is 14.33 and that of Q
## A shepherd has 1 million sheep at the and R items is 10.4. Find the overall loss
beginning of Year 2000. The numbers grow percentage on selling the three items?
by x during the year. A famine hits his [www.lofoya.com]
village in the next year and many of his 15% 12.16%
sheep die. The sheep population decreases by 13.4% 12.5% b
y during 2001 and at the beginning of 2002 ## A small and medium enterprise imports two
the shepherd finds that he is left with 1 components A and B from Taiwan and
million sheep. Which of the following is China respectively and assembles them with
correct? other components to form a toy. Component
[www.lofoya.com] A contributes to 10 of production cost.
x>y y>x Component B contributes to 20 of the
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production cost. Usually, the company sells 200 250
this toy at 20% above the production cost. 300 150 @@
Due to increase in the raw material and Answer: 200
labour cost in both the countries, ## A student has to score 40% marks to pass.
Component A became 20 costlier and He gets 178 marks and fails by 22 marks.
component B became 40 costlier. Owing to The maximum mark is
these reasons the company increased its [www.competoid.com]
selling price by 15. Considering that cost of 200 500
other components does not change, what will 800 1000 @@
be the profit percentage, if the toy is sold at Answer: 500
the new price? ## A student took five papers in an
[www.lofoya.com] examination, where the full marks were the
15.5% 25.5% same for each paper. His marks in these
35.5% 40% b papers were in the proportion of 6:7:8:9:10.
1 In all papers together, the candidate
## A spider climbed 62 % of the height of the
2 obtained 60% of the total marks then, the
pole in one hour and in the next hour it number of papers in which he got more than
1 50% marks is
covered 12 % of the remaining height. If
2 [www.examveda.com]
pole's height is 192 m, then the distance 1 3
climed in second hour is 4 5
[www.competoid.com; www.examveda.com] None of these c
3m 5m ## A student was asked to measure the length
7m 9m @@ and breadth of a rectangle. By mistake, he
Answer: 9 m measured the length 20% less and the
## A student appeared in the Mock CAT. The breadth 10% more. If its original area is 200
test paper contained 3 sections namely QA, sq cm, then find the area after this
DI and VA. The percentage marks in all VA measurement?
was equal to the average of percentage [www.competoid.com]
marks in all the 3 sections. Coincidentally, if 176 sq cm 206 sq cm
we reverse the digit of the percentage marks 226 sq cm 316 sq cm @@
of QA we get the percentage marks of DI. Answer: 176 sq cm
The percentage marks in VA scored by ## A student was awarded certain marks in an
student could be: examination. However, after re-evaluation,
[www.examveda.com] his marks were reduced by 40% of the
81 48 marks that were originally awarded to him,
66 69 so that the new score now became 96. How
None of these c many marks did the student lose after re-
## A student has to obtain 33% of total marks evaluation?
to pass. He got 25% of total marks and failed [www.competoid.com]
by 40 marks. The number of total marks is : 58 68
[www.competoid.com] 63 64 @@
800 300 Answer: 64
500 600 @@ ## A sum of Rs. 2,236 is divided among A, B
Answer: 500 and C such that A receives 25% more than C
## A student has to score 40% marks to get and C receives 25% less than B. What is A's
through. If he gets 40 marks and fails by 40 share In the amount?
marks, then find the maximum marks set for [www.competoid.com]
the examination. Rs.460 Rs.890
[www.competoid.com] Rs.780 Rs.1280 @@
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Answer: Rs.780 percentage of decreases in its area is
## A sum of Rs.731 is divided among A, B and [www.competoid.com]
C. such that 'A' receives 25% more than 'B' 28% 20%
and 'B' receives 25% less than 'C'. What is 10.08% 10% @@
C's share in the amount? Answer: 28%
[www.competoid.com] ## A vendor sells 60 percent of apples he had
Rs.172 Rs.200 and throws away 15 percent of the
Rs.262 None of these @@ remainder. Next day he sells 50 percent of
Answer: None of these the remainder and throws away the rest.
## A team played 40 games in a season and won What percent of his apples does the vendor
24 of them. What percent of winning? throw?
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70% 40% 17 23
60% 35% @@ 77 None of these b
Answer: 60% ## A vessel contains a mixture of milk and
## A Techno company has 14 machines of equal water in the respective ratio of 14 : 3. 25.5
efficiency in its factory. The annual litres of the mixture is taken out from the
manufacturing costs are Rs 42,000 and vessel and 2.5 litres of pure water and 5
establishment charges are Rs 12,000. The litres of pure milk is added to the mixture. If
annual output of the company is Rs 70,000. the resultant mixture contains 20% water.
The annual output and manufacturing costs what was the initial quantity of mixture in
are directly proportional to the number of the vessel before the replacement ? (in litres)
machines. The shareholders get 12.5 profit, [www.competoid.com]
which is directly proportional to the annual 51 102
output of the company. If 7.14 machines 68 85 @@
remain closed throughout the year, then the Answer: 68
percentage decrease in the amount of profit ## A village lost 12% of its goats in a flood and
of the shareholders would be: 5% of remainder died from diseases. If the
[www.lofoya.com] number left now is 8360. What was the
12% 12.5% original number before the flood ?
13.5% None of these b [www.examveda.com]
## A textile manufacturing firm employees 50 1000 10000
looms. It makes fabrics for a branded 100000 8360 b
company. The aggregate sales value of the ## A wants to secure an annual income of
output of the 50 looms is Rs 5,00,000 and the Rs.1500 by investing in 15% debentures of
monthly manufacturing expenses is Rs face value Rs.100 each and available for
1,50,000. Assume that each loom contributes Rs.104 each. If the brokerage is 1%. then the
equally to the sales and manufacturing sum of money he should invest is
expenses are evenly spread over the number [www.competoid.com]
of looms. Monthly establishment charges are Rs. 19642 Rs. 10784
Rs 75000. If one loom breaks down and Rs. 10504 Rs. 15000 @@
remains idle for one month, the decrease in Answer: Rs. 10504
profit is: ## A water pipe is cut into two pieces. The
[www.lofoya.com] longer piece is 70% of the length of the pipe.
Rs 13,000 Rs 10,000 By how much percentage is the longer piece
Rs 7,000 Rs 5,500 c longer than the shorter piece?
## A towel 50 cm broad and 100cm long. When [www.competoid.com]
bleached, it was found to have lost 20% of its 140% 40034003%
length and 10% of its breadth. The 40% None of these @@
Answer: 40034003%
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## A worker earns a 5% raise. A year later, the Answer: Rs.4800
worker receives a 2.5% cut in pay and now ## After three successive equal percentage rise
his Salary is Rs. 22702.68. What Was his in the salary the sum of 100 rupees turned
salary to begin with ? into 140 rupees and 49 paise. Find the
[www.competoid.com] percentage rise in the salary.
Rs. 22000 Rs. 22176 [www.examveda.com]
Rs. 25000 Rs. 22193 @@ 12% 22%
Answer: Rs. 22176 66% 82%
## A worker suffers a 20% cut in his wage. He 77% a
may regain his original wages by obtaining a ## Akash scored 73 marks in subject A. He
rise of how much % ? scored 56% marks in subject B and x marks
[www.competoid.com] in subject C. Maximum marks in each
27.5% 25.0% subject were 150. The overall percentage
22.5% 20.0% @@ marks obtained by Akash in all the three
Answer: 25.0% subjects together were 54%. How many
## Abhay gave 30% of his money to Vijay. marks did he score in subject C?
2 [www.competoid.com]
Vijay gave rd of what he received to his 84 86
3
5 79 73 @@
mother. Vijay's mother gave th of the Answer: 86
8
money she received from Vijay to the grocer. ## Amit got 1200 marks in an examination.
Vijay's mother is now left With Rs. 600. How Jyoti got 84% marks which is 144 marks
much money did Abhay have initially ? more than Amit. What is the percentage of
[www.competoid.com] marks obtained by Amit ?
Rs. 6,200 Rs. 8,000 [www.competoid.com]
Rs. 6,000 Rs. 8,200 @@ 75% 70%
Answer: Rs. 8,000 76% 80% @@
## After having spent 35% of the money on Answer: 75%
machinery, 40% on raw material and 10% ## An alloy contains the copper and aluminum
on staff, a person is left with Rs. 60000. The in the ratio of 7 : 4 While making the
total amount of money spent on machinery weapons from this alloy, 12% of the alloy got
and raw material is destroyed. If there is 12 kg of aluminum in
[www.competoid.com] the weapon, then weight of the alloy
Rs. 176000 Rs. 170000 required is :
Rs. 300000 Rs. 340000 @@ [www.examveda.com]
Answer: Rs. 300000 14.4 kg 37.5 kg
## After offering a discount of 37.5, Pankaj sold 40 kg 48 kg b
the rice at a profit of 25. Had he offered a ## An army lost 10% of its men in war. 10% of
discount of 41.67, his profit or loss percent the remaining died due to disease and 10%
would have been: of the rest were declared disabled. Thus the
[www.lofoya.com] strength of the army was reduced to 729000
16.66% profit 12% loss active men. The original strength of the
29.17% loss 8.33% profit a army was :
## After spending 35%, on machinery, 20% on [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
building, 15% on raw material and 6% on 1500000 1000000
furniture, Mohan had a balance of Rs.1152, 1200000 1100000 b
total money with him was. ## An article was bought for Rs. 12850 and its
[www.competoid.com] price was marked at 30% above the cost
Rs.4800 Rs.4600 price. It was sold at a discount of 10% on the
Rs.3200 Rs.3600 @@ marked price. What was the profit per cent
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on the cost price ? ## A's marks in Biology are 20 less than 25% of
[www.competoid.com] the total marks obtained by him in Biology,
16 % 17 % Maths and Drawing. If his marks in
15 % 18% @@ Drawings be 50, what are his marks in
Answer: 17 % Maths ?
## An interview panel found that a candidate [www.examveda.com]
has given a wrong detail about his height. 40 45
While filling up his form he filled up 20% 50 Cannot be determined
more than his actual height. His actual d
height is 5 feet 2 inches. By what ## A's salary is 20% less than B's salary. Then
approximate percent should he reduce his B's salary is more than A's salary by
height to get actual height? [www.competoid.com]
[www.competoid.com] 1 2
33 % 16 %
15% 14% 2 3
18% 17% @@ 20% 25% @@
Answer: 17% Answer: 25%
## An ore contains 15% copper. To get 75 kg. of ## A's salary is 40% of B's salary and B's salary
copper, the quantity of ore required is is 25% more than C's salary then C's salary
[www.competoid.com] is how much percentage more than A?
750 kg 600 kg [www.competoid.com]
540 kg 500 kg @@ 50% 100%
Answer: 500 kg 150% 200% @@
## An ore contains 25% of an alloy that has Answer: 100%
90% iron. Other than this, in the remaining ## A's salary is 50% more than that of B. Then
75% of the ore, there is no iron. How many B's salary is less than that of A by
kilograms of the ore are needed to obtain 60 [www.competoid.com; www.examveda.com]
kg of pure iron? 1
50% 33 %
[www.examveda.com] 3
250 kg 275 kg 1 1
33 % 44 % @@
300 kg 266.66 kg d 4 2
## Anurag's annual income is Rs. 6,36,000. He Answer: 3313%3313%
spends 22% of his monthly income on paying ## At a clearance sale, books were sold at 20%
bills, 18% on household items, 12% on reduction. A student purchased a book
paying his children's fees and 4% he donates Rs.120 at the clearance sale. The usual price
to a charity. If two-fifth of the remaining of the book was
amount he invests in mutual funds, what is [www.competoid.com]
the amount left with him every month ? Rs.120 Rs.13
[www.competoid.com] Rs.140 Rs.150 @@
Rs. 17,850 Rs. 12,162 Answer: Rs.150
RS. 9,328 Rs. 13,992 @@ ## At an election there were two candidate got
Answer: Rs. 13,992 38% of votes and lost by 7200 votes. The
## Aryan got 350 marks and Vidya scored 76% total numbers of valid votes were :
marks in the same test. If Vidya scored 296 [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
marks more than Aryan, then what were the 13000 13800
maximum marks of the test? 16200 30000 d
[www.competoid.com] ## At the beginning of a year ,the owner of a
650 900 jewel shop raised the price of all the jewels in
850 950 @@ his shop by x% and lowered them by x%.
Answer: 850 The price of one jewel after this up and
down cycle reduced by Rs. 100. The owner
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carried out the same procedure after a Rs.9,000 Rs.7,000 @@
month. After this second up-down cycle,the Answer: Rs.7,000
price of that jewel was Rs. 2304. Find the ## Bhuvnesh spends 75% of his income and
original price of that jewel(in Rs.) saves the rest. His income is increased by
[www.examveda.com] 20% and he increases his expenditure by
2500 2550 10%. Then the increase in savings (in
2600 2650 percentage) is:
None of these a [www.competoid.com]
## At what price should 1 buy a share, the value 50% 52%
of which is Rs.100, paying a dividend of 8%, 45% 48% @@
so that my yield is 11% ? Answer: 50%
[www.competoid.com] ## Bovina spent Rs.44,668 on her air tickets Rs.
Rs. 70 Rs. 72.72 56,732 on buying gifts for the family
Rs. 75 Rs. 84 @@ members and the remaining 22% of the total
Answer: Rs. 72.72 amount she had as cash with her. What was
## Australia scored a total of X runs in 50 the total amount?
overs. India tied the scores in 20% less overs. [www.competoid.com]
If India's average run rate had been 33.33% Rs.28,600 Rs.1,30,000
higher the scores would have been tied 10 Rs.1,01,400 Rs.33,800 @@
overs earlier. Find how many runs were Answer: Rs.1,30,000
scored by Australia? ## Christy donated 10% of his income to an
[www.examveda.com] orphanage and deposited 20% of the
250 240 remainder in his bank. If he has now Rs.
200 190 7200 left, what is his income : [www.examveda.com;
Can't be determined www.competoid.com]
## Because of scarcity of rainfall, the price of a Rs. 10000 Rs. 8000
land decreases by 12% and its production Rs. 9000 Rs. 8500 a
also decreases by 4%. What is the total effect ## Connie has a number of gold bars, all of
on revenue? different weights. She gives the 24 lightest
[www.competoid.com] bars, which weigh 45% of the total weight, to
Loss of 16% Gain of 15% Brennan. She gives the 13 heaviest bars,
Loss of 15.48% Loss of 15.52% @@ which weigh 26% of the total weight, to
Answer: Loss of 15.52% Maya. She gives the rest of the bars to Blair.
## Bhavana decided to donate 12% of her How many bars did Blair receive?
monthly salary to an orphanage. On the day [www.examveda.com]
ofdonation she changed her mind and 14 15
donated Rs. 2,400 which was 125% of that 16 17
she had decided earlier. How much is 18 b
Bhavana's salaiy? ## Dinesh's monthly income is four times
[www.competoid.com] Suresh's monthly income. Suresh's monthly
Cannotbe determined Other than those income is twenty percent more than Jyoti's
given as options monthly income. Jyoti's monthly income is
Rs. 14,750 Rs. 18,500 @@ Rs.22,000. What is Dinesh's monthly income
Answer: Rs. 18,500 ?
## Bhuvnesh spends 30% of his salary on food [www.competoid.com]
and donates 3% in a Charitable Trust. He Rs.l,06,500 Rs.1,05,600
spends Rs. 2,310 on these two items, then Rs.1,04,500 Rs.1,05,400 @@
total salary for that month is: Answer: Rs.1,05,600
[www.competoid.com] ## Distance between A and B is 72 km. Two
Rs.6,000 Rs.8,000 men started walking from A and B at the
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same time towards each other. The person 350 on the rice and wheat per month. If the
who started from A traveled uniformly with price of wheat is increased by 20% then
average speed of 4 km/hr. The other man what is the percentage reduction of rice
traveled with varying speed as follows: In consumption for the same expenditure of Rs.
the first hour his speed 2 km/hr, in the 350? Given that the price of rice and
second hour it was 2.5 km/hr, in the third consumption of wheat is constant :
hour it was 3 km/hr, and so on. When / [www.examveda.com]
where will they meet each other? 40% 25%
[www.examveda.com] 36% 24%
7 hours after starting 10 hours after Cannot determined c
starting ## Find the : (550% of 250) ÷ 275 = ?
35 km from A Mid-way between A [www.examveda.com]
and B 15 0.5
Can't be determined d 1.5 25
## Due to a 25% increase in the price of rice None of these
per kilogram, a person is able to purchase 20 ## Find the : 38% of 341 = ?
kg less for Rs.400. What is the increased [www.examveda.com]
price of rice per kilogram? 120.68 129.58
[www.competoid.com] 135.78 136.28
Rs.5 Rs.6 None of these b
Rs.10 Rs.4 @@ ## Find the 92.5% of 550 = ?
Answer: Rs.5 [www.examveda.com]
## Due to an increase of 50% in the price of 506.45 508.75
eggs, 4 eggs less are available for Rs.24. The 518.55 521.65
present rate of eggs per dozen is : None of these b
[www.competoid.com] ## Find the missing value :
Rs.24 Rs.27 35568 ÷ ? of 650 = 456
Rs.36 Rs.42 @@ [www.examveda.com]
Answer: Rs.36 12 14
## Each person in a group of 110 investors has 16 18
investments in either equities or securities or None of these a
both. Exactly 25 of the investors in equities ## Find the number : 125% of 3060 - 85% of (?)
have investments in securities, and exactly 40 = 408
of the investors in securities have [www.examveda.com]
investments in equities. How many have 3890 3940
investments in equities? 4015 4020
[www.lofoya.com] None of these d
60 80 ## Find the number :
70 90 b 85% of 420 + ?% of 1080 = 735
## Every day a mango seller sells half his stock, [www.examveda.com]
10% of the stock overnight gets spoiled. If 25 30
1983 mangoes rotted over 3 nights then how 35 40 c
many did hi start with on the first day ? ## Find the value :
[www.examveda.com] 3.2% of 500 × 2.4% of ? = 288
25,000 24,000 [www.examveda.com]
30,000 32,000 600 650
None of these b 700 750 d
## Every month a man consumes 25 kg rice and 100
## Find % of 600
9 kg wheat. The price of rice is 20% of the 3
price of wheat and thus he spends total Rs. [www.examveda.com]
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100 150 weight when it is fresh?
200 225 c [www.competoid.com]
## First and second numbers are less than a 2350 kg 2085 kg
third number by 20% and 40% respectively. 2255 kg 2250 kg @@
The second number is less than the first by: Answer: 2250 kg
[www.competoid.com] ## From 1980-1990, the population of a country
7% 4% was increased by 20%. From 1990-2000, the
3% 25% @@ population of the country was increased by
Answer: 25% 20%. From 2000-2010, the population of the
## Five-ninth of a number is equal to twenty country was increased by 20%. Population
five percent of second number. Second (in percentage) of the country from 1980-
number is equal to one-fourth of third 2010 was increase by
number. The value of third number is 2960. [www.competoid.com]
What is 30 percent of first number? 72.2% 72.8%
[www.competoid.com] 60% 62.8% @@
88.8 99.9 Answer: 72.8%
66.6 Cannot be determined ## From 2000 onwards, till 2003 the price of
@@ computers increased every year by 10%.
Answer: 99.9 After that due to government subsidy the
## For an examination it is required to get 36% price of computers decreases every year by
of maximum marks to pass. A student got 10%. The price of a computer in 2006 will be
113 marks and failed by 85 marks. The approx. how much per cent less than the
maximum marks for the examination are: price in 2000 if the same pattern of price is
[www.examveda.com] continued :
500 550 [www.examveda.com]
565 620 b 2 3
## Forty percent of the employees of a company 4 5 b
are men, and 75 percent of the men earn ## From 2008 to 2009, the sales of a book
more than Rs.25,000 per year. If 45 percent decreased by 80%. If the sales in 2010 was
of the company's employees earn more than the same as in 2008, by what per cent did it
Rs.25,000 per year, what fraction of the increase from 2009 to 2010?
women employed by the company earn [www.competoid.com]
Rs.25,000 per year or less? 80% 100%
[www.lofoya.com] 120% 400% @@
2 1 Answer: 400%
11 4 ## From a vessel containing 'X' litres of milk,
1 3 20% of milk was taken out and replaced
d
3 4 with equal amount of water. Again, 20% of
## Fresh grapes contain 80% water by weight, the mixture of milk and water was taken out
whereas dried grapes contain 15% water by and replaced with equal amount of water.
weight. How many kg of dried grapes can be This process was continued similarly for the
obtained from 3.4 kg of fresh grapes ? third time and the quantity of milk left in the
[www.competoid.com] vessel after the third replacement was 71.68
0.51 kg 0.6 kg litres. What was the initial quantity of milk
0.68 kg 0.8 kg @@ (in litres) in the vessel (value of x) ?
Answer: 0.8 kg [www.competoid.com]
## Fresh grapes contain 80% water, While dry 120 125
grapes contain 10% water. If the weight of 160 140 @@
dry grapes is 500 kg, then what is its total Answer: 140
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## From the salary of an officer, 10% is 500 None of these. @@
deducted as house rent, 20% of the rest, he Answer: 300
spends on conveyance, 20% of the rest he 2
pays as income tax and 10% of the balance, ## How much 66 % of Rs. 312 exceeds Rs. 200
3
he spends on clothes. Then, he is left with Rs. ?
15552. Find his total salary. [www.examveda.com]
[www.examveda.com] Rs. 96 Rs. 4
Rs. 25000 Rs. 30000 Rs. 8 Rs. 104 c
Rs. 35000 Rs. 40000 b x + y 4

## Gaurav spent Rs. 38460 on the renovation of ## if
 x – y = 3 and x  0 then what percentage
his home, Rs. 24468 on buying home theatre (to the nearest integer) of x + 3y is x – 3y?
and the remaining 28% of the total amount [www.lofoya.com]
he had as cash with him. What was the total 20% 25%
amount? 30% 40% d
[www.competoid.com] ## If "basis points" are defined so that 1
Cannotbe determined percent is equal to 100 basis points, then by
Rs. 76,500 how many basis points is 82.5 percent
Other than those given as options greater than 62.5 percent.
Rs. 87,400 @@ [www.competoid.com]
Answer: Rs. 87,400 0.2 20
## Given A is 50% larger than C and B is 25% 200 2000 @@
larger than C, then A is what percent larger Answer: 2000
than B ? ## If 10% of m is the same as 20% of n, then m
[www.competoid.com] : n is equal to :
25% 50% [www.competoid.com]
75% 20% @@ 2:1 1:2
Answer: 20% 1 : 10 1 : 20 @@
## Given that, 10% of A's income = 15% of B's Answer: 2 : 1
income = 20% of C's income. If sum of their ## If 120 is 20% of a number, then 120% of
incomes is Rs. 7800, then B's income is : that number will be : [www.examveda.com;
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Rs.3600 Rs.3000 20 120
Rs.2400 Rs.1800 @@ 480 720 d
Answer: Rs.2400 b+a
## Half percent, written as a decimal, is ## If 120% of a is equal to 80% of b, then
b–a
[www.examveda.com] is equal to
0.2 0.02 [www.competoid.com]
0.005 0.05 c 5 6
## Heinz produces tomato puree by boiling 7 8 @@
tomato juice. Tomato puree has 20% water Answer: 5
whereas tomato juice has 90% water.How ## If 125% of x is 100, then x is :
many litres of tomato puree will be obtained [www.competoid.com]
from 20 litres of tomato juice ? 80 180
[www.examveda.com] 400 125 @@
2 litres 3 litres Answer: 80
2.5 litres 5 litres c ## If 15% of (A + B) = 25% of (A - B), then what
1 1 percent of B equal to A ? [www.examveda.com;
## How many th are there in 37 ?
64 2 www.competoid.com]
[www.competoid.com] 10% 60%
300 400 200% 400% d
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## If 15% of 40 is greater than 25% of a ## If 24-carat gold is considered to be hundred
number by 2, then the number is per cent pure gold, then the percentage of
[www.competoid.com] pure gold in 22-carat gold is :
16 20 [www.competoid.com]
24 32 @@ 3 2
91 % 91 %
Answer: 16 4 3
## If 15% of A is equal to 20% of B, then 25% 1 2
913% 903% @@
of A is equal to what per cent of B?
[www.competoid.com] Answer: 9123%9123%
1 ## If 30% of (x-y) = 20% of (x+y), then what
30% 33 %
3 percent of x is y ?
35% 25% @@ [www.competoid.com]
Answer: 33133313% 25% 20%
## If 20% of (A + B) = 50% of B, then value of 30% 24% @@
2A – B Answer: 20%
is
2A + B 1
## If 30% of A = 0.25 of B = of C, then A : B :
[www.competoid.com] 5
1 1 C is equal to:
2 3 [www.competoid.com]
1 5:6:4 5 : 24 : 5
1 @@
4 6:5:4 10 : 12 : 15 @@
Answer: 1212 Answer: 10 : 12 : 15
1 ## If 30% of A is added to 40% of B, the
## If 20% of A = 30% of B = of C, then A : B : answer is 80% of B. What percentage of A is
6
C is: B?
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2:3:1 3 : 2 : 16 30% 40%
10 : 15 : 18 15 : 10 : 18 @@ 70% 75% d
Answer: 15 : 10 : 18 ## If 35% of A's income is equal to 25% of B's
## If 20% of A = 50% of B, then what percent income, then the ratio of A's income to B's
of A is B ? income is :
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30% 40% 7:5 5:7
25% 15% @@ 4:7 4:3 b
Answer: 40% ## If 50% of (P - Q) = 30% of (P + Q) and Q =
## If 20% of a number is 12, the number is: x% of P, then the value of x is : [www.examveda.com;
[www.competoid.com] www.competoid.com]
40 54 30 25
60 48 @@ 20 50 b
Answer: 60 ## If 50% of the 2 : 3 solution of milk and water
## If 20% of x = 90, find x. is replaced with water, then the
[www.competoid.com] concentration of the solution is reduced by
350 450 [www.competoid.com]
250 550 @@
25 % 33.33 %
Answer: 450 50 % 75 % @@
## If 20% of a = b, then b% of 20 is the same as: Answer: 50 %
## If 50% of x equals the sum of y and 20, then
[www.indiabix.com] what is the value of x – 2y?
4% of a 5% of a [www.lofoya.com]
20% of a None of these a 20 40
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60 80 b ## If 90% of A = 30% of B and B = x% of A,
## If 60% of A = 30% of B, B = 40% of C and C then the value of x is
= x% of A, then value of x is : [www.competoid.com]
[www.examveda.com] 800 300
800% 200% 700 400 @@
300% 500% d Answer: 300
3 ## If 97% of students were present in a school
## If 60% of A = of B, then A : B is and 18 students were absent, then total
4
[www.competoid.com] number of student on the school is
9 : 20 20 : 9 [www.competoid.com]
4:5 5:4 @@
400 450
Answer: 5 : 4 500 600 @@
## If 60% of A = Answer: 600
[www.examveda.com] ## If a 36 inches long strip cloth shrinks to 33
9 : 20 20 : 9 inches after being washed, how many inches
4:5 5:4 d long will the same strip remain after washing
## If 60% of A's income is equal to 75% of B's if it were 48 inches long?
income, then B's income is equal to x% of [www.examveda.com]
A's income. The value of x is : 47 inches 44 inches
[www.examveda.com] 45 inches 46 inches b
70 60 ## If A exceeds B by 60% and B is less than C
80 90 c by 20%, then A : C is
## If 75% of the students in a school are boys [www.competoid.com]
and the number of girls is 420, the number 32 : 25 25 : 32
of boys is: 8:5 4:5 @@
[www.examveda.com] ## If A is equal to 20% of B and B is equal to
1176 1350 25% of C. Then what percentage of C equal
1260 1125 c to A ?
## If 8% of x is the same as 4% of y, then 20% [www.examveda.com]
of x is the same as : 10% 15%
[www.competoid.com] 5% 20% c
10% of y 16% of y ## If a man receives on one-fourth of his capital
80% of y 50% of y @@ 3% interest, on two third 5% and one the
Answer: 10% of y remaining 11%, the percentage interest he
## If 80% of A = 50% of B and B = x% of A, receives on the whole is : [www.examveda.com;
then the value of x is : [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
www.competoid.com] 4.5% 5%
400 300 5.5% 5.2% b
160 150 c ## If a number is increased by 20% and the
## If 80% of a number added to 80 glves the resulting number is again increased by 20%,
result as the number is what percent is the total increase:
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200 300 48% 44%
400 500 @@ 41% 40% @@
Answer: 400 Answer: 44%
## If 90% of A = 30% of B and B = 2x% of A, ## If a number is increased by 25% and the
then the value of x is : [www.examveda.com; resulting number is decreased by 25%, then
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450 400 :
300 150 d [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
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1 per cent less than that of Vandana?
No change Decreased by 6 4% [www.competoid.com]
1 18% 21%
Increased by 6 % Increased by 6% b 20% 24%
4 @@
## If a person spends 40% of his income on Answer: 20%
food, 20% on house rent and 70% of the ## If increasing 20 by P percentage gives the
remaining on children's education, then the same result as decreasing 60 by P
percentage of his income left is percentage, what is P percentage of 70?
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6% 8% 50 140
10% 12% @@
14 35 @@
Answer: 12% Answer: 35
5 ## If length and breadth of a rectangle became
## If A's income is th of B's income, then B's half and double respectively, then what will
6
income is more than A's income by be the resultant area?
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25 25% 55%
% 15% 75% 0
2 @@

20% 25% Answer: 0

@@
Answer: 20% ## If Nita's salary is 25 percent more than
## If A's salary is 25% more than B's salary, Papiya's salary, then the percentage by
then B's salary is how much lower than A's which Papiya's salary is less than Nita's
salary? salary is:
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1 15% 20%
33 % 25% 25% 32%
3 @@

2 Answer: 20%
20% 16 % c ## If price of a book is first decreased by 25%
3
## If b equals 10% of a and c equals 20% of b, and then increased by 20%, the net change
in the price of the book will be:
then which one of the following equals 30% [www.competoid.com]
of c? 10% decrease 5% decrease
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0.006% of a 0.006% of a no change 5% incrase @@

0.06% of a 0.6% of a d Answer: 10% decrease

## If price of kerosene be raised by 10%, then
## If 'basis points' are defined so that 1 percent
how much percent a house holder must
is equal to 100 basis points, then by how
many basis points is 82.5 percent greater reduce his consumption of kerosene so as not
than 62.5 percent.1 to increase his expenditure?
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28% 9.09%
0.2 20
200 2000 d
9.00% 8.25% @@
Answer: 9.09%
## If each side of a cube is increased by 10%
the volume of the cube will increase by: ## If price of sugar be raised by 10%. How
[www.competoid.com] much percent a house holder must reduce
40% 30% his consumption of sugar so as not to
33.1% 25% increase his expenditure?
@@
[www.competoid.com]
Answer: 33.1%
28% 9.09%
## If income of Vandana is 25% more than that
9.00% 8.25% @@
of Aarti, then income of Aarti is how much
Answer: 9.09%
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## If radius of a circle is increased by 100%, ## If tax on a commodity is reduced by 10%,
then area of the circle will be increased by total revenue remains unchanged. What is
[www.competoid.com] the percentage increase in its consumption?
200% 100% [www.competoid.com]
300% 400% @@ 1
11 20 %
Answer: 300% 9
## If radius of a circle is increased by 5%, then 1
10 % 911 @@
the increase in it's area is : [www.examveda.com;
www.competoid.com] Answer: 11191119
10.25% 5.75% ## If the diameter of a circle is increased by
10% 5% a 100% its area is increased by
## If radius of the base and height of a right [www.competoid.com]
circular cylinder are each increased by 20%, 1 3
Then volume of the cylinder will increase by 2 None of these. @@
[www.competoid.com] Answer: 3
40% 60% ## If the duty on an article is reduced by 40%
72.80% 96% @@ of his present rate by how much percent
Answer: 72.80% must its consumption increase in order that
2 the revenue remains unaltered ?
## If Rajdhani 1S 16 % slower than shatabdi,
3 [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
then shatabdi is faster than Rajdhani by: 1
60% 62 %
[www.competoid.com] 3
20% 25% 2
30% 33% 72% 66 % d
@@ 3
Answer: 20% ## If the height of a cylinder is increased by
2 15% and the radius of its base is decreased
## If Rs. 2800 is percent of the value of a
7 by 10% then the percentage change in its
house, the worth of the house (in Rs.) is : curved surface area is :
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800000 980000 2.5% increased 3.5% increased
1000000 1200000 b 2.5% decreased 3.5% decreased b
## If side of an equilateral triangle are ## If the income tax is increased by 19%, the
increased by 20%, then area of the triangle net income is reduced by 1%. The rate of
will be increased by income tax is:
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40% 44% 6% 4%
60% 140% @@ 5% 7.2% @@
Answer: 44% Answer: 5%
## If sides of a square is increased by 100%, ## If the numerator or a fraction increased by
then area of the square will be increased by 200% and the denominator of the fraction is
[www.competoid.com] Increased by 150% the resultant fraction
400% 300% 9
600% 800% is . What is the original fraction?
@@ 35
Answer: 300% [www.competoid.com]
## If sides of a square is increased by 200%, 3 2
then area of the square will be increased by 10 15
[www.competoid.com] 3 2
400% 300% 14 7 @@
600% 800% @@ Answer: 314314
Answer: 800%
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## If the population in a place increases by 1% (exculding sales taxes) is Rs.19000?
in the first year and 2% in the second year [www.competoid.com]
the total percentage increase is Rs.190 Rs.95
[www.competoid.com] Rs180 Rs.90 @@
2 3 Answer: Rs.95
3.02 None of these @@ ## If the total monthly income of 16 persons is
Answer: 3.02 Rs. 80800 and the income of one of them is
## If the population of a town is 64000 and its 120% of the average income, them his
annual increase is 10%, then its population income is :
at the end of 3 years will be : [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] Rs. 5050 Rs. 6060
80000 85184 Rs. 6160 Rs. 6600 b
85000 85100 b ## If three-fifth of sixty percent of a number is
## If the price of a book is first decreased by 36, the number is : [www.examveda.com;
25% and then increased by 20%, then the www.competoid.com]
net charges in the price will be : 100 80
[www.examveda.com] 75 90 a
No change 5% increase ## If two numbers are respectively 30% and
5% decrease 10% decrease d 40% more than a third number, what
## If the price of rice be increased by 38% then percent is the first of the second?
by how much per cent should its [www.examveda.com]
consumption be reduced so that expenditure 6 4
92 % 84 %
does not increase ? 7 5
[www.competoid.com] 80% 75% a
27.5 30 ## If x 80% of y, then what percent of 2x is y ?
32 36 @@ [www.examveda.com]
Answer: 27.5 1
40% 62 %
## If the price of tea falls down by 6%, by how 2
much per cent must a householder increase 2
66 % 80% b
its consumption, so as not to decrease 3
expenditure? ## If X is 20% less then Y, then find the value
[www.competoid.com] Y–X X
16 18 of and : [www.examveda.com;
5 % 4 % Y X–Y
47 67 www.competoid.com]
18 17 1 1
6 % 6 % @@ ,-4 5,
47 47 5 4
Answer: 6184761847% 2 5 3 3
## If the price of the commodity is increased by 5, − 2 5,− 5 a
50% by what fraction must its consumption ## If x is 80% of y, what percent of x is y?
be reduced so as to keep the same [www.competoid.com]
expenditure on its consumption? 75% 80%
[www.examveda.com] 100% 125% @@
1 1 Answer: 125%
4 3 ## If x is less than y by 25% then y exceeds x by
1 2 :
b
2 3 [www.competoid.com]
## If the sales tax on a television set increases 1
33 % 25%25%
1 3
from 7 % to 8%, what more amount will 2
2
75%75% 66 % @@
have to be paid for the television whose price 3
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Answer: 3313%3313% milkman gave 20 litres of this mixture to a
## If x% of y is y% of (?) customer. Then he added equal quantities of
[www.examveda.com] pure milk and water to the remaining
x 100x mixture. As a result the respective ratio of
x y milk and water in the mixture became 2 : 1.
a
100 100 What was the quantity of milk added ?(in
25 litres)
## If x% of is 150, then the value of x is:
2 [www.competoid.com]
[www.competoid.com] 12 16
1000 1200 18 8 @@
1400 1500 @@ Answer: 12
Answer: 1200 ## In a class 60% of the students pass in Hindi
## If y% of one hour is, 1 minute 12 seconds, and 45% pass in Sanskrit. If 25% of them
then y is equal to : [www.examveda.com; pass in both subjects, what percentage of the
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2 1 [www.competoid.com]
1 1 80% 75%
a
2 4 20% 25% @@
## In 2 kg mixture of copper and aluminium, Answer: 20%
30% is copper. How much aluminium ## In a class of 240 students, each student got
powder should be added to the mixture so sweets that are 15% of the total number of
that the quantity of copper becomes 20% ? students. How many sweets were there ?
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900 gms 800 gms 3000 3125
1000 gms 1200 gms c 8640 Cannot be determined
## In 2000, the market shares of the toilet soaps @@
Margo, Palmolive and dove were 40%, 30% Answer: 8640
and 30% respectively. Starting from the next ## In a class of 35 students and 6 teachers. each
year, a new soap enters into the market each student got sweets that are 20% of the total
year and gets 10% of the market share. The number of students and each teacher got
existing soap share the remaining market sweets that are 4000 of the total number of
share in the same ratio as they did in the students. How many sweets were there ?
previous year. What percent of the total [www.competoid.com]
market share will mango have in 2002? 245 161
[www.examveda.com] 406 None of these @@
28% 32% Answer: None of these
32.4% 34% ## In a class of 40 students and 5 teachers, each
None of these c student got sweets that are 15% of the total
## In a 120 litre mixture of milk and water, number of students and each teacher got
water is only 25%. The milkman sold 20 sweets that are 20% of the total number of
litres of this mixture and then he added 16.2 students. How many sweets were there?
[www.competoid.com]
litres of pure milk and 3.8 litres of pure
water in the remaining mixture. What is the 280 240
percentage of water in the final mixture? 320 360 @@
[www.competoid.com] Answer: 280
22 21 ## In a class of 80 students and 5 teachers, each
24 25 @@ student got sweets that are 15% of the total
Answer: 24 number of students and each teacher got
## In a 140 litres of mixture of milk and water, sweets. that are 25% of the total number of
percentage of water is only 30%. The
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students. How many sweets were there? is 3090 of the total undergraduate employees
[www.competoid.com] in the company. what is the total number of
1050 graduate employees in the company?
1060 [www.competoid.com]
Other than those given as options 2185 1955
1040 @@ 2070 2691 @@
Answer: 1060 Answer: 2691
## In a class, the average score of girls in an ## In a company, there are 724 employees. 25%
examination is 73 and that of boys is 71. The employees left the job. Find the number of
average score for the whole class is 71.8. rest of employees.
Find the percentage of girls. [www.competoid.com]
[www.competoid.com] 543 550
40% 50% 578 565 @@
55% 60% @@ Answer: 543
Answer: 40% ## In a competitive test, Raman got 25 marks
## In a class, the no. of boys is more than the more than Rohit. Rohit got 45 marks less
no. of girls by 12% of the total strength. The than Sonia. Rohan got 75 marks which is 10
ratio of boys and girls is: marks more than that of Sonia. Ravi got 50
[www.examveda.com] marks less than the maximum marks of the
15 : 11 11 : 14 test. If Ravi got 25 marks more than that of
14 : 11 8 : 11 c Raman, what is the approximate percentage
## In a class-X of 30 students, 24 passed in first of marks obtained by Ravi in the test ?
class; in another class Y of 35 students, 28 [www.competoid.com]
passed in first class. In which class was the 56% 58%
percentage of students first class more? 60% 65% @@
[www.competoid.com] Answer: 58%
Class X has more percentage of students ## In a factory 60% of the workers are above
getting first class 30 years and of these 75% are male and the
Class Y has more percentage of students rest are females. If there are 1350 male
getting first class workers above 30 years, the total number of
Both classes have equal percentage of students workers in the factory is : [www.examveda.com;
getting first class www.competoid.com]
None of the above @@
3000 2000
Answer: (c) Both classes have equal percentage of 1800 1500 a
students getting first class ## In a factory there are three types of machine
## In a college, 40% of the students were M1, M2 and M3 which produces 25%, 35%
allotted group A, 75% of the remaining were and 40% of the total products respectively.
given group B and the remaining 12 students M1, M2 and M3 produces 2%, 4% and 5%
were given group C. Then the number of defective products, respectively. what is the
students who applied for the group is : percentage of non-defective products ?
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100 60 89% 97.1%
80 92 c 96.1% 86.1%
## In a company YYIZ the respective ratio None of these c
between the total number of under-graduate ## In a group of students, 70% can speak
employees and the total number of graduate English and 65% can speak Hindi. If 27% of
employees is 13 : 23. The Company has only the students can speak none of the the two
two branches. one. in umbai and other in languages, then what percent of the group
Delhi. if the total number of under-graduate can speak both the languages ?
employees in Mumbai branch is 351, which [www.competoid.com]
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38% 62% 20% of mixture. Find the initial quantity of
28% 23% @@ mixture.
Answer: 62% [www.examveda.com]
## In a library 60% of the books are in Hindi, 120 liters 110 liters
60% of the remaining books are in English 125 liters 115 liters a
rest of the books are in Urdu. If there are ## In a motor of 120 machine parts, 5% parts
3600 books in English, then total no. of were defective. In another motor of 80
books in Urdu are: machine parts, 10% parts were defective.
[www.examveda.com] For the two motors considered together. the
2400 2500 percentage of defective machine parts were
3000 3200 a [www.competoid.com]
## In a library, 20% of the books are in Hindi. 7 6.5
50% of the remaining are in English and 7.5 8 @@
30% of the remaining are in French. The Answer: 7
remaining 6,300 books are in regional ## In a particular constituency, 75% of voters
languages. What is the total number of cast their votes, out of which 2% were
books in library? rejected. The winning candidate received
[www.lofoya.com] 75% of the valid votes and bagged a total of
19,500 20,500 9261 votes. The total number of voters in the
21,500 22,500 d constituency is
## In a Lok Sabha Speaker election, a [www.competoid.com]
candidate who got 40% of total votes was 14500 18900
defeated by his rival by 80 votes. The total 16800 24000 @@
number of votes polled was Answer: 16800
[www.competoid.com] ## In a period from January to March,
450 400 Jamshedpur Electronics sold 3150 units of
350 300 @@ Television, having started with a beginning
Answer: 400 inventory of 2520 units and ending with an
## In a mathematics examination, the average inventory of 2880. What was the value of
score of students who passed is x and those order placed (Rupees in thousands) by
who failed is y. If the average score of all the Jamshedpur Electronics during the three
students who appeared in the examination is months period? [Profits are 25 of cost price,
z, then the percentage of students who failed uniformly.]
was [www.lofoya.com]
[www.competoid.com] 26325 22320
100xy 100 (y – z) 25200 28080 d
x2 x–y ## In a school 40% of the students play football
100 (x – y) 100 (x – z) and 50% play cricket. If 18% of the students
@@ neither play football nor cricket, the
x–z x–y
Answer: 100(x−z)x−y100(x−z)x−y percentage of the students playing both is :
## In a metro train there are 600 passengers out [www.competoid.com]
of which 34% are females. Fare of each male 40% 32%
is Rs. 20 and each female's fare is 25% less 22% 8% @@

than each male. What is the total revenue Answer: 8%

generated by all the passengers together? ## In a school 70% of the students are girls.
[www.examveda.com] The number of boys are 510. Then the total
Rs. 10880 Rs. 10980 number of students in the school is :
Rs. 10740 Rs. 10680 b [www.competoid.com]
## In a mixture there is 15% of salt. When 30 850 1700
liter of water is evaporated, salt becomes 1830 1900 @@
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Answer: 1700 3:2 5:2
## In a school examination a candidate who 2:1 4:3 @@
secures 30% of the max. marks fails by 24 Answer: 5:2
marks, and another candidate who secures ## In a school, there are 100 students. 60% of
35% of the maximum marks gets 16 marks the students are boys, 40% of whom play
more than minimum pass marks. The hockey and the girls don't play hockey, 75%
maximum marks are [www.competoid.com] of girls play badminton. There are only two
800 700 games to be played. The number of student
900 400 @@ who don't play any game is:
Answer: 800 [www.examveda.com]
## In a school examination, 37% students fail in 10% 20%
English, 20% fail in Maths and 6% fail in 36% 46%
both. If 490 students pass, find how many Can't be determined
appeared? [www.competoid.com] ## In a test a student got 30% marks and failed
800 1000 by 25 marks. In the same test another
1200 900 @@ student got 40% marks and secured 25%
Answer: 1000 marks more than the essential minimum
## In a school there are 2000 students out of pass marks. The maximum pass marks for
whom 36 per cent are girls. Each boy's the test were? [www.competoid.com]
monthly fee is Rs. 480 and each girl's 400 480
monthly fee is 25 per cent less than a boy. 500 580 @@
What is the total of the monthly fees of girls Answer: 400
and boys together ? [www.competoid.com] ## In a test, A scored 10% more than B and B
Rs.8,73,400 Rs.8,67,300 scored 5% more then C. If C scored 300
Rs.8,76,300 Rs.8,73,600 @@ marks out of 400, then A's marks are
Answer: Rs.8,73,600 [www.competoid.com]
## In a school there are 250 students out of 310 325
whom 12 percent are girls. Each girl's 350 360 @@
monthly fee is Rs.450 and each boy's Answer: 360
monthly fee is 24 percent more than a girl. ## In a test, minimum passing percentage for
What is the total monthly fee of girls and girls and boys is 30% and 45% respectively.
boys together? [www.competoid.com]
Rs.1,36,620 Rs.1,36,260 A boy Scored 280 marks and failed by 80
Rs.1,32,660 Rs.1,32,460 @@
marks. How many more marks did a girl
Answer: Rs.1,36,260 require to pass in the test if she scored 108
## In a school there are 800 students out of marks ?
[www.competoid.com]
whom 45 percent are girls. Monthly fee of
132 140
each boy is Rs.600 and monthly fee of each
160 112 @@
girl is 30 percent less than each boy. What is
Answer: 132
the total monthly fee of girls and boys together
? ## In a test, Rajesh got 112 marks which was 32
[www.competoid.com] more than the passing marks. Sonal got 75%
Rs. 4,25,4OO Rs. 4,14,600 marks which was 70 more than the passing
Rs. 4,19,600 None of these marks. What is the minimum passing
@@
Answer: None of these percentage of the test? [www.competoid.com]
## In a school, 10% of boys are equal to the 35% 45%
one-fourth of the girls. What is the ratio of 40% 48% @@
boys and girls in that school? Answer: 40%
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## In a town, the population was 8000. In one ## In an acoustics class, 120 students are male
year, male population increased by 10% and and 100 students are female. 25% of the
female population increased by 8% but the male students and 20% of the female
total population increased by 9%. The students are engineering students. 20% of
number of males in the town was : the male engineering students and 25% of
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] the female engineering students passed the
4000 4500 final exam. What percentage of engineering
5000 6000 a students passed the exam? [www.lofoya.com]
## In a university election in which there were 5% 10%
only two candidates, 10% of the people on 16% 22% d
the voting list did not vote and 60 votes cast ## In an alloy, there is 12% of copper, to get 69
were declared invalid. The successful kg of copper, how much alloy will be
candidate secured 47% of the total number required?
on voting list and won by a margin of 308 [www.competoid.com]
votes. The number of voters on the voting list 424 kg 575 kg
was 2
[www.competoid.com] 828 kg 1736 kg @@
3
6,000 6,200 Answer: 575 kg
6,500 7000 @@ ## In an election 10% of the voters on the
Answer: 6,200 voter's list did not cast their votes and 60
## In a vessel there is 40 litres mixture of milk voters cast their ballot paper blank. There
and water. There is 15% water in the were only two canditates. The winner was
mixture. The milkman sells 10 litres of supported by 47% of all the voters in the list
mixture to a customer and thereafter adds and he got 308 votes more than his rival. The
12.5 litres of water to the remaining mixture. number of voters on the list was
What is the respective ratio of milk and [www.competoid.com]
water in the new mixture ? 3600 6200
[www.competoid.com] 4575 6028 @@
2:3 3:2 Answer: 6200
3:4 4:3 @@ ## In an election 4% of the votes caste become
Answer: 3 : 2 invalid. Winner gets 55% of casted votes and
## In a village 30% of the population is literate. wins the election by a margin of 4800 votes.
If the total population of the village is 6,600, Find the total number of votes casted.
then the number of literate is: [www.examveda.com]
[www.competoid.com] 45000 48000
1980 4620 50000 52000 c
2200 3280 @@ ## In an election 4% of votes cast are invalid. A
Answer: 1980 candidate gets 55% of casted votes and wins
## In a village, 70% registered voters cast their the election by 4200 votes. Find the total
votes in the election. Only two candidates (A number of votes casted.
and B) contested the election. A won the [www.examveda.com]
election by 400 votes. Had A received 12.5% 30000 43750
less votes, the result would have been tie. 45000 42000 b
How many registered voters are there in the ## In an election between two candidates one
village? got 55% total valid votes. 20% of the votes -
[www.competoid.com] were invalid. If the total votes were 7500,
4200 4500 what was the number of valid votes that the
4000 4250 @@ other persons got?
Answer: 4000 [www.competoid.com]
2700 2900
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3000 3100 @@ candidate by 298 votes. The total number of
Answer: 2700 votes polled is :
## In an election between two candidates, one [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
got 52% of total valid votes.25% of the total 745 1460
votes were invalid. The total number of votes 1490 1500 c
were 8400. How many valid votes did the ## In an election, 4000 votes were polled and
other person get? [www.competoid.com] one of candidates got 40% votes. He was
3276 3196 defeated by
[www.competoid.com]
3024 Cannot be determined
2400 votes 1600 votes
@@
Answer: 3024 800 votes 600 votes @@

## In an election between two candidates, the Answer: 800 votes

candidate getting 60% of the votes polled, is ## In an election, a candidate gets 9% less than
elected by a majority of 14,000 votes. The those obtained by his rival who gets 3100
number of votes obtained by the winning votes. The number of votes cast in favour of
candidates is the loser (the defeated) is
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28,000 32,000 2831 3000
42,000 46,000 @@
2991 2821 @@
Answer: 42,000 Answer: 2821
## In an election between two candidates, the ## In an election, a total of 500000 voters
winner got 65% of the total votes cast and participated. A candidate got 255000 votes
won the election by a majority of 2748 votes. which was 60% of total valid votes. What
What is the total number of votes cast if no was the percentage of invalid votes :
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vote is declared invalid?
[www.examveda.com] 10% 12%
8580 8720 300
15% % c
9000 9160 d 17
## In an election contested by two parties, Party ## In an election, one of the two candidates gets
D secured 12% of the total votes more than 40% of total vote, and still losses by 480
Party R. If party R got 132,000 votes, by how votes. Find the total number of votes.
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many votes did it lose the election?
[www.lofoya.com] 4800 1200
300,000 168,000 2400 3600 @@
36,000 24,000 c Answer: 2400
## In an election only two candidates contested. ## In an election, there are three candidates
30% of the registered votes did not cast their contested. The first candidates got 40% votes
votes and 180 votes were declared invalid. and the second got 36% votes. If total
The winner got 684 votes more than his number of votes polled were 36000, find the
Opponent. The number of valid votes number of votes got by the 3rd candidate.
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received by the winner is 42% of the number
of registered voters. How many registered 8040 8640
voters cast their votes? 9360 9640 @@
[www.competoid.com] Answer: 8640
2660 2260 ## In an Entrance Examination See-ma scored
2160 2520 @@
56 percent marks. Nitya scored 92 percent
Answer: 2520 marks and Meena scored 634 marks. The
## In an election there were only two maximum marks of the examination are 875.
candidates. One of the candidate secured What are the average marks scored by all
40% of votes and is defeated by the other
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the three girls together? 405 450
[www.competoid.com] 360 400 b
1939 817 ## In an examination in which full marks were
680 643 @@ 500. A got 25% more than C, C got 20% less
Answer: 643 than D. If A got 360 marks. What percentage
## In an examination 35% of total students of full marks was obtained by D ?
failed in Hindi, 45% failed in English and [www.competoid.com]
20% failed in boath. Find the percentage of 72% 80%
those students who passed in both the 50% 60% @@
subjects? Answer: 72%
[www.competoid.com] ## In an examination out of 480 students, 85%
45% 35% of the girls and 70% of the boys passed. How
20% 40% @@ many boys appeared in the examination, if
Answer: 40% total pass percentage was 75%?
## In an examination 36% are pass marks. If an [www.competoid.com]
examine gets 17 marks and fails by 10 370 340
marks, what are the maximum marks? 320 360 @@
[www.examveda.com] Answer: 320
90 75 ## In an examination Raman scored 25 marks
60 55 b less than Rohit. Rohit scored 45 more marks
## In an examination 52% students failed in than Sonia. Rohan scored 75 marks which is
English and 28% students failed in 10 more than Sonia. Ravi's score is 50 less
Mathematics. If 18% students failed in both than maximum marks of the test. What
the subjects, find the percentage of those approximate percentage of marks did Ravi
students who passed in both the subjects. score in the examination if he gets 34 marks
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more than Raman ?
3.32 0.38 [www.competoid.com]
0.26 0.62 @@ 90.00% 70.00%
Answer: 0.38 80.00% 60.00% @@
## In an examination 70% of the candidate Answer: 70.00%
passed in English, 80% passed in ## In an examination the percentage of students
Mathematics, 10% failed in both subjects. If qualified to the number of students appeared
144 candidates passed in both, the total from school 'A' is 70%. In school 'B' the
number of candidates was : number of students appeared is 20% more
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] than the students appeared from school 'A'
125 200 and the number of students qualified from
240 375 c school 'B' is 50% more than the students
## In an examination 80% candidates passed in qualified from school 'A'. What is the
English and 85% candidates passed in percentage of students qualified to the
Mathematics. If 73% candidates passed in number of students appeared from school
both these subjects, then what per cent of 'B'?
candidates failed in both the subjects? [www.competoid.com]
[www.examveda.com] 30 % 70%
8 15 87.5 % 78.5 % @@
27 35 a Answer: 87.5 %
## In an examination A got 25% marks more ## In an examination there are three subjects of
than B, B got 10% less than C and C got 100 marks each. A student scores 60% in the
25% more than D. If D got 320 marks out of first subject and 80% in the second subject.
500, the marks obtained by A were : He scored 70% in aggregate. His percentage
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of marks in the third subject is ## In an examination, 52% students failed in
[www.competoid.com] Hindi and 42% in English. If 17% failed in
80 60 both the subjects, what percentage of
65 70 @@ students passed in both the subjects ?
Answer: 70 [www.competoid.com]
## In an examination, 25% students failed in 38% 33%
Mathematics, 20% failed in Economics and 23% 18% @@
5% failed in both. Find the percentage of Answer: 23%
students who passed in both the subjects. ## In an examination, 60% of the candidates
[www.competoid.com] passed in English and 70% of the candidates
60% 45% passed in Mathematics, but 20% failed in
39% 62% @@ both subjects. If 2500 candidates passed in
Answer: 60% both the subjects, the number of candidates
## In an examination, 30% of total students who appeared at the examination was :
failed in Hindi. 45% failed in English and [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
20% failed in both subjects. Find the 3000 3500
percentage of those who passed in both the 4000 5000 d
subjects. ## In an examination, 80% of the total
[www.competoid.com] candidates passed English and 65% passed
35.70% 35.00% in mathematics. While 15% failed in both in
40.00% 45.00% @@ English and mathematic. If 480 candidates
Answer: 45.00% passed in both the subject, find the total
## In an examination, 35% of total students number of candidates who took the
failed in Hindi, 45% failed in English and examination?
20% failed in both. Find the percentage of [www.competoid.com]
those students who passed in both the 600 1000
subjects ? 800 1200 @@
[www.examveda.com] Answer: 800
45% 35% ## In an examination, it is required to get 296
20% 40% d marks out of aggregate marks to pass. A
## In an examination, 40% of the candidates student gets 222 marks and is declared failed
wrote their answers in Hindi and the others by 10% marks. What are the maximum
in English. The average marks of the aggregate marks a student can get?
candidates written in Hindi is 74 and the [www.competoid.com]
average marks of the candidates written in 830 810
English is 77. What is the average marks of 780 740 @@
all the candidates? Answer: 740
[www.competoid.com] ## In an examination, questions were asked in
75.5 75.8 five sections. Out of the total students, 5%
76 76.8 @@ candidates cleared the cut-off in all the
Answer: 75.8 sections and 5% cleared none. Of the rest,
## In an examination, 49% students failed in 25% cleared only one section and 20%
English, 36% students failed in Hindi, while cleared four sections. If 24.5% of the entire
15% failed in both. If total number of passed candidates cleared two sections and 300
students is 450, then how many students did candidates cleared three sections. Find out
appear in the examination? how many candidates appeared at the
[www.competoid.com] examination?
1800 2000 [www.examveda.com]
1100 1500 @@ 1000 1200
Answer: 1500 1500 2000
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1800 b ## In an office in Singapore there are 60%
## In an examination, the marks obtained by female employees. 50 % of all the male
Shantanu is 40% less than the marks employees are computer literate. If there are
obtained by Kamal, then marks obtained by total 62% employees computer literate out of
Kamal is how much per cent more than the total 1600 employees, then the no. of female
marks obtained by Shantanu? employees who are computer literate ?
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2 3 690 674
55 % 44 %
3 5 672 960 c
1 2 ## In an office there were initially N employees.
33 % 66 % @@
The HR manager first hired P% employees
3 3
Answer: 66236623% then after a month Q% employees left the
## In an examination, there were 1000 boys and office, the value of (P - Q) is:
800 girls. If 60% of the boys and 50% of the [www.examveda.com]
girls passed. Find the percentage of the PQ
PQ 100
failed candidates ?
[www.competoid.com] P Q
46.4% 48.4% Q P
44.4% 49.6% @@ None of These b
Answer: 44.4% ## In an office, 40% of the staff is female. 40%
## In an examination. 70% of students passed of the female and 60% of the male voted for
in English and 65% passed in Maths. If 27% me. The percentage of vote I got was
of students failed in both subjects and 248 [www.competoid.com]
students passed in both Subjects. how many 24% 42%
students did appear in the examination ? 50% 52% @@
[www.competoid.com] Answer: 52%
400 375 ## In an organisation the average monthly
425 450 @@ salary of an officer is 140% of that of a clerk
Answer: 400 and 84% of that of a manager. There are 30
## In an exmination 73% of the candidates officers, 45 clerks and 20 managers in the
passed in quantitative aptitude test, 70% organisation. The total annual salary of all
passed in General awareness and 64% the employees is Rs. 649.80 lakh. What is the
passed in both. If 6300 failedin both subject annual salary of an officer ? [In Rs. lakh]
the total number of examinees were [www.competoid.com]
[www.competoid.com] 7.56 8.56
60000 50000 7.65 8.65 @@
30000 25000 @@ Answer: 7.56
Answer: 30000 ## In company there are 75% skilled workers
## In an institute, 60% of the students are boys and reaming are unskilled. 80% of skilled
and the rest are girls. Further 15% of the workers and 20% of unskilled workers are
boys and 7.5% of the girls are getting a fee permanent. If number of temporary workers
waiver. If the number of those getting a fee is 126, then what is the number of total
waiver is 90, find the total number of workers ?
students getting 50% concessions if it is [www.examveda.com]
given that 50% of those not getting a fee 480 510
waiver are eligible to get half fee concession? 360 377 c
[www.examveda.com] ## In order to pass in an exam, a student is
360 280 required to get 780 marks out of the
320 330 aggregate marks. Sonu got 728 mar and was
350 d declared failed by 5%. What are the
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maximum aggregate marks a student can get 9 9
1122% 822%
in the examination?
[www.competoid.com] 11 8
1040 1100 8 % 22 % d
23 11
1000 Cannot be determined ## In the month of March, 2014, Rashmi paid
@@ Emi which was 30% of her monthly salary.
Answer: 1040 The remaining salary she spent on shopping
## In order to pass in an examination, a student of groceries and clothes in the respective
is required to get 342 marks out of the ratio of 4 : 3. She spent Rs. 15000 on
aggregate marks. Neha got 266 marks and shopping of clothes. If in April, 2014, her
was declared fail by 8 per cent. What is the salary increased by 12%, what was her
minimum passing percentage of the salary in April ?
examination ? [www.competoid.com]
[www.competoid.com] Rs. 48,000 Rs. 50,000
28.00% 36.00% Rs. 56,000 Rs. 66,000 @@
33.00% 26.00% @@ Answer: Rs. 56,000
Answer: 36.00% ## In the recent, climate conference in New
## In Sabarmati Express, there as many wagons York, out of 700 men, 500 women, 800
as there are the no. of seats in each wagon children present inside the building
and not more than one passenger can have premises, 20% of the men, 40% of the
the same berth (seat). If the middlemost women and 10% of the children were
compartment carrying 25 passengers is filled Indians. Find the percentage of people who
with 71.428% of its capacity, then find the were not Indian?
maximum no. of passengers in the train that [www.examveda.com]
can be accommodated if it has minimum 77% 73%
20% seats always vacant. [www.examveda.com] 79% 83% c
500 seats 786 seats ## In the Science City, Kolkata the rate of the
980 seats 1060 seats ticket is increased by 50% to increased the
None of These c revenue but simultaneously 20% of the
## In the annual examination Ankita got 10% visitor decreased. What is percentage change
less marks than Eakta in Mathematics. in the revenue. if it is known that the Science
Ankita got 81 marks. The marks of Eakta city collects one revenue only from the
are: visitors and it has no other financial
[www.competoid.com] supports:
90 87 [www.examveda.com]
88 89 @@ +20% -25%
Answer: 90 +30% -30%
## In the Bombay Stock Exchange there are Cannot determined a
45% female employees and thus the number ## In the year 2013. the population of a village
of male employees is exceeded by 72. Hence A was 30% more than the population of
the total no. of employees in the BSE is: village B. The population of village A in 2014
[www.examveda.com] increased by 20% as compared to the
540 720 previous year. if the population of village A
800 550 b in 2014 was 7176. what was the population of
## In the last financial year, a car company sold village B in 2013 ?
41800 cars. In this year, the target is sale [www.competoid.com]
51300 cars. By what percent must the sale be 4000 5000
increased ? 4800 4600 @@
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## In two successive years 100 and 75 students then. How many he ate
of a school appeared at the final [www.competoid.com]
examination. Respectively 75% and 60% of 18 42
them passed. The average rate of pass is: 50 99 @@
[www.competoid.com] Answer: 50
4 ## KK was skeptical that per unit variable cost
68 % 78%
7 might increase by 1010 though the demand
1 might remain same. What will be the
80 % 80% @@
2 expected changes in profit in such a case?
Answer: 6847%6847% [www.lofoya.com]
## In two successive years, 80 and 60 students Profit will increase by 16.67% Profit will
of a school appeared at the final increase will by 15.75%
examination, of which 60% and 80% passed Profit would decrease by 15.75% Profit
respectively. The average rate of students will decrease by 16.67% d
passed ( in percent ) is: ## Krishna's present salary is Rs. 3500. It will
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4 Krishna's salary after the increment ?
68% 68 %
7 [www.examveda.com]
32% 36% @@
Rs. 3850 Rs. 3950
Answer: 6847%6847% Rs. 4000 Rs. 3900 a
## Income of A is 150% of the. income of B and ## Last year, the population of a town was x
income of C is 120% of the income of A. If and if it increases at the same rate, next year
the total income of A, B and C together is ? it will be y. the present population of the
86,000. what is C's income ? town is
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Rs.30,000 Rs.32,000 x+y y–x
Rs.20,000 Rs.36,000 @@
2 2
Answer: Rs.36,000 2xy
x+y xy d
## Income of Suman is first increased by 7%
and then it is decreased by 7%. What is the ## Last year, there were 610 boys in a school.
change in her income? The number decreased by 20% this year.
[www.competoid.com] How many girls are there in the school, if the
0.49% (increase) 0.39% (decrease) number of girls is 175% of the total number
0.39% (increase) 0.49% (decrease) @@ of boys in the school this year?
Answer: 0.49% (decrease) [www.competoid.com]
## Jar A and jar B both contain mixture of milk 854 848
and water. Jar A has 80 litres of mixture out 798 782 @@
of which 20% is water. The mixture in jar B Answer: 854
has 40% of water. The mixture from both ## lf 65% of the students in a school are boys
the jars is poured in an empty jar C. The and the number of girls be 665, the total
resultant respective ratio between milk and number of boys is.
water in the jar C is 5 : 2. What is the [www.competoid.com]
quantity of milk in jar C? (in litres) 1235 1900
[www.competoid.com] 1635 1465 @@
105 120 Answer: 1235
110 100 @@ ## ln a certain town, 60% of the inhabitants
Answer: 100 take rice, 50% take wheat and 20% take
## Kamal has some apples. If he sold 40% both. The percentage inhabitants who take
apples more than he ate if he sold 70 apples neither wheat nor rice is.
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15 10 towards a loan and she shops with the
12 8 @@ remaining amount which was Rs. 2,100.
Answer: 10 What is the monthly salary of Som ?
## Madan's salary is 25% of Ram's Salary and [www.competoid.com]
Ram's salary is 40% of Sudhir's salary. If Rs.24,000 Rs.80,000
total salary of all the three for a month Is Rs.l5,000 Rs.20,000 @@
Rs.12000. How much did Madan earn in the Answer: Rs.24,000
month? ## Mr. Giridhar spends 50% of his monthly
[www.competoid.com] income on household Items and out of the
Rs.800 Rs.1200 remaining he spends 50% on transport, 25%
Rs.1600 Rs.2000 @@ on entertainment, 10% on sports and
Answer: Rs.800 remaining amount of Q“ 900 is saved. What
## Mangulal, a shopkeeper, marks the prices of is Mr. Giridhar's monthly income ?
his goods at 20% higher than the original [www.competoid.com]
price. After that, he allows a discount of 5%. Rs.6,000 Rs.12,000
What profit or loss did he get? Rs.9,000 Cannot be determined
[www.competoid.com] @@
14% (profit) 16% (loss) Answer: Rs.12,000
14% (loss) 16% (profit) @@ ## Mr. Sarang invests 6% of his monthly salary
Answer: 14% (profit) i.e. Rs.2,100 on insurance policies. Also he
## Mantu starts a month with provisions invests 8% of his monthly salary on family
expected to last for the entire month. After Mediclaim policies and another 9% of his
few days, it is discovered that the provisions salary on NSCs. What is the total annual
will, in fact short by 12 days and it is amount invested by Mr. Sarang ?
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calculated that if the stock of provisions left
is immediately tripled, it will be possible to Rs. 11,400 Rs. 96,600
exactly make up for the shortfall. If the stock Rs. 8,050 Rs. 9,500 @@

of provisions left is doubled instead of being Answer: Rs. 96,600

tripled, and simultaneously the strength of ## Mr. Shamin's salary increases every year by
the Mantu is decreased by 25, then the 10% in June. If there is no other increase or
provisions will fall short by reduction in the salary and his salary in June
[www.lofoya.com] 2011 was Rs.22,385, what was his salary in
2 days 1 days June 2009 ?
3 days 4 days a [www.competoid.com]
## Mathew scored 42 marks in Biology. 51 Rs. 18,650 Rs. 18,000
marks in Chemistry, 58 marks in Rs. 19,250 Rs. 18,500 @@

Mathematics, 35 marks in Physics and 48 Answer: Rs. 18,500

marks in English. The maximum marks, a ## Mr. X salary increased by 20%. On the
student can score in each subject, are 60. increase, the tax rate is 10% higher. The
How much overall percentage did Mathew percentage increase in tax liability is:
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get in this exam?
[www.competoid.com] 20% 22%
76% 82% 23% 24% b
68% 78% @@
## Mr. X spends 20% of his monthly income on
Answer: 78% household expenditure. Out of the remaining
## Monthly salaries of Pia and Som are in the 25% he spends on children's education. 15%
respective ratio of 5 : 4. Pia, from her on transport, 15% on medicine and 10% on
3 entertainment. He is left with Rs. 9.800 after
monthly salary, gives to her mother. 15% incurring all these expenditures: What is his
5
towards her sister's tuition fees, 18%
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monthly income? the number in first generation?
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Rs.35,000 Rs.28,000 1 million 2 million
Rs.65,333 Rs.48,400 @@ 4 million 8 million
Answer: Rs.35,000 None of these a
## Mr. Yadav spends 80% of his monthly ## One fourth of two-fifth of 30% of a number
salary on consumable items and 50% of the x is equal to 15. Find 20% of the same
remaining on clothes and transport. He saves number.
the remaining amount. If his savings at the [www.competoid.com]
end of the year are Rs. 5370, how much 100 120
amount per month he would have spent on 105 80 @@
clothes and transport? Answer: 100
[www.competoid.com] ## One third of a number is 96. What will 67%
Rs. 4,037 Rs. 8,076 of that number be ?
Rs. 9,691.20 None of these @@ [www.examveda.com]
Answer: None of these 192.96 181.44
## Ms. Sujata invests 7% i.e. Rs. 2170 of her 169.92 204.48 a
monthly salary in mutual funds. Later she ## One-fifth of half of a number is 20. Then
invests 18% of her monthly salary in 20% of that number is : [www.examveda.com;
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her salary on NSC's. What is the total 80 60
annual amount invested by Ms. Sujata ? 20 40 d
[www.competoid.com] ## one-third of 1206 is what per cent of 134 ?
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Rs. 1,35,120 Rs. 1,15,320 @@ 100% 150%
Answer: Rs. 1,15,320 200% 300% @@
## Narayan spends 30% of his income on Answer: 300%
education and 50% of the remaining on ## One-third of a number is 96. What will 67%
food. He gives Rs. 1000 as monthly rent and of that number be?
now has Rs. 1800 left with him. What is his [www.competoid.com]
monthly income? 192.96 181.44
[www.examveda.com] 169.92 204.48 @@
Rs. 8000 Rs. 7000 Answer: 192.96
Rs. 9000 Rs. 6000 a ## Out of 2500 people, Only 60% have the
## On increasing the denominator of a fraction saving habit. If 30% save with bank, 32%
by 50% and decreasing the numerator by with post office and the rest with shares. the
1 number of shareholders are:
20% the resulting fraction becomes . What [www.competoid.com]
3
is the original fraction? 450 570
[www.competoid.com] 950 1250 @@
4 5 Answer: 570
7 8 ## Out of his total income, Mr. Kapur spends
8 3 20% on house rent and 70% of the rest on
9 4 @@ household expenses. If he saves Rs.1,800
Answer: 5858 what is his total income (in rupees) ?
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## One bacterium splits into eight bacteria of
Rs.7,800 Rs.7,000
the next generation. But due to environment,
only 50% of one generation can produced Rs.8,000 Rs.7,500 @@

the next generation. If the seventh Answer: Rs.7,500

generation number is 4096 million, what is
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## Out of the total production of iron from ## Pradeep invested 20% more than Mohit.
hematite, an ore of Iron, 20% of the ore gets monthly invested 10% less than Raghu. If
wasted, and out of the remaining iron, only the total sum of their investment is 17,880.
25% is pure iron. If the pure iron obtained how much amount did Raghu invest?
in a year from a mine of hematite was 80,000 [www.competoid.com]
kg, then the quantity of hematite mined from Rs.6,000 Rs.8,000
that mine in the year is Rs.7,000 Rs.5,000 @@
[www.examveda.com] Answer: Rs.6,000
5,00,000 kg 4,00,000 kg ## Present population of a village is 67600, It
4,50,000 kg None of these b has been increasing annually at the rate of
## p and q are inversely proportional to each 4%. What was the population of the village
other and are positive. If p increases by two years ago ?
100%, then q increases by [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
[www.competoid.com] 62500 63000
50 % 100 % 64756 65200 a
150 % 200 % @@ ## Product of one-third of a number and 150%
Answer: 50 % of another number is what percent of the
## p% of a number P is q% more than r% of product of original number?
the number R. If the difference between P [www.competoid.com]
and R is r% of R and if the sum of P and R 80 % 50 %
is 210, then which of the following 75 % 120 % @@
statements is always true ? Answer: 50 %
[www.competoid.com] ## Puneet scored 175 marks in a test and failed
P = 110, R = 100 P = 220, R = 200 by 35 marks. If the passing percentage of
P = 3300, R = 3000 All of these
@@ the test is 35 percent. what are the maximum
Answer: P = 110, R = 100 marks of the test ?
## Population of a country increases every year [www.competoid.com]
by 10%. 1f the population in January 2006 650 700
was 15.8 lakhs, what was the population in 750 600 @@
January 2008? Answer: 600
[www.competoid.com] ## Rajan invests 65% of his intended
Rs.19,11,800 Rs.18,96,000 investment in machinery and 20% on raw
Rs.19. 11,600 Rs.18,94.000 @@ material in his business. If he has a balance
Answer: Rs.19,11,800 of Rs.6000, what was the intended
## Population of a district is 2,96,000 out of investment?
which 1,66,000 are male. 50% of the [www.competoid.com]
population is literate. If 70% males are Rs.21,000 Rs.34,000
literate, then the number of woman who are Rs.40,000 Rs.28,000 @@
literate, is Answer: Rs.40,000
[www.examveda.com] ## Ram saves 14% of his salary while Shyam
32,200 31,800 saves 22%. If both get the same salary and
66,400 48,000 b Shyam saves Rs.1540, what is the savings of
## Population of a town increase 2.5% annually Ram ?
but is decreased by 0.5% every year due to [www.competoid.com]
migration. What will be the percentage Rs.990 Rs.980
increase in 2 years? Rs.890 Rs.880 @@
[www.examveda.com] Answer: Rs.980
5% 4.04% ## Ram sells his goods 25% cheaper than
4% 3.96% b Shyam and 25% dearer than Hari. How
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much percentage is Hari's goods cheaper Rs. 168 Rs. 170
than Shyam? None of these c
[www.competoid.com] ## Reena got 76 marks in Hindi, 48 marks in
1 Science, 84 .marks in Mathematics, 38 marks
25 33
3 in Social Science and 72 marks in English.
40 50 @@ The maximum marks of each subject was
Answer: 40 100. How much over all percentage of marks
## Ram spends 40% of his salary on food, 20% she got?
on house rent, 10% on entertainment and [www.competoid.com]
10% on conveyance. If his savings at the end 63.80% 62.60%
of a month are Rs.1500, then his salary per 63.60% 64.80% @@
month (in Rs. ) is : Answer: 63.60%
[www.competoid.com] ## Romila appeared at a school examination.
Rs.8000 Rs.7500 The marks obtained by Romila in History
Rs.6000 Rs.10000 @@ 2 4
Answer: Rs.7500 is rd of that in Geography and th of that in
3 5
## Raman scored 456 marks in an exam and Science. Her marks in Mathematics were
Sita got 54 percent marks in the same exam 140% of that of Science. Her marks in
which is 24 marks less than Raman. If the Science were 50. How many marks were
minimum passing marks in the exam is 34 obtained by Romila in all the subjects ?
percent. then how much more marks did [www.competoid.com]
Raman score than the minimum passing 220 210
marks? 230 225 @@
[www.competoid.com] Answer: 220
184 196 ## Rubina decided to donate 16% of her
190 180 @@ monthly salary to an NGO. On the day of
Answer: 184 donation she changed her mind and donated
## Raman's salary is increased by 5% this year. Rs. 6,567 which was 75% of what she had
If his present salary is Rs. 1806, the last decided earlier. How much is Rubina's
year's salary was : [www.examveda.com; monthly salary ?
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Rs. 1720 Rs. 1620 Rs.8,756 Rs.54,725
Rs. 1520 Rs. 1801 a Rs.6,56,700 Rs.45696 @@
## Ram's expenditure and savings are in the Answer: Rs.54,725
ratio 5 : 3. If his income increases by 12% ## Ruby's monthly income is three times
and expenditure by 15%, then by how much Gayatri's monthly income' Gayatri's
percent does his savings increase ? monthly income is fifteen percent more than
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Prey's monthly income. Praia's monthly'
12% 7%
income is Rs.32,000. What 15 Ruby's Annual
8% 13% @@ income ?
Answer: 7% [www.competoid.com]
## Reena goes to a shop to buy a radio costing Rs.1,20,300 Rs.13,24,800
Rs. 2568. The rate of sales tax is 7% and the Rs.38,800 Rs.54,600 @@
final value is rounded off to the next higher Answer: Rs.13,24,800
integer. She tells the shopkeeper to reduce ## Sahil earns 10 percent more than Satish and
the price of the radio so that she has to pay satish earns 20 percent more than Swati. if
Rs. 2568 inclusive of sales tax. Find the swati earns rs 17,500 less than Sahil, what is
reduction needed in the price of the radio. the earnings of each?
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Rs. 180 Rs. 210
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Swati = Rs. 35,900.0, Sahil = Rs. 53,400.0, policy together?
Satish = Rs. 58,740.0 Swati = Rs. 39,500.0, [www.competoid.com]
Sahil = Rs. 57,000.0, Satish = Rs. 62,700.0 Rs.3200 Rs.3126
Swati = Rs. 54,687.5, Sahil = Rs. 72,187.5, Rs.3136 Rs.3048 @@

Satish = Rs. 65,625.0 Swati = Rs. 69125.0, Answer: Rs.3136

Sahil = Rs. 86,625.0, Satish = Rs. 95,287.5 c ## Solve (550% of 250) ÷ 275 = (?)
[www.examveda.com]
## Sahil got 45 marks in Hindi, 47 marks in
15 1.5
Science, 49 marks in Mathematics, 45 marks
0.5 None of these d
in Social Science and 32 marks in English.
The maximum marks of each subject is 50. ## Solve : 105.27% of 1200.11 + 11.80% of
How much overall percentage of marks did 2360.85 = 21.99% of (?) + 140.29
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he get? 500 240
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75 56.4 310 550 d
78 87.2 ## Solve this : (23.6% of 1254) - (16.6% of 834)
@@
Answer: 87.2 =?
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## Salary of a person is first increased by 20%, 153.5 155.5
then it is decreased by 20%. Then the
157.5 159.5
percentage change in his salary is
[www.competoid.com] None of these c
4% decreased 8% increased ## Solve this : (7.9% of 134) - (3.4% of 79) = ?
[www.examveda.com]
8% decreased 20% increased @@
7.3 7.8
Answer: 4% decreased
8.1 8.6
## Shatabdi Express has a capacity of 500 seats
of which 10% are in the Executive class and None of these
the rest being chair cars. During one ## Solve this : 15% of 578 + 22.5% of 644 = ?
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journey, the train was booked to 85% of its
231.4 231.6
capacity. If Executive class was booked to
231.8 233.6
96% of its capacity, then how many chair
None of these b
car seats were empty during that journey ?
[www.competoid.com] ## Solve this : 30% of 1225 - 64% of 555 = ?
[www.examveda.com]
75 73
10.7 12.3
71 None of these @@
Answer: 73 13.4 None of these b
## Six-eleventh of a number equal to twenty ## Solve this : 32% of 825 + 25% of 1440 = 1025
two percent of second number. Second - (?)
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number is equal to the one-fourth of third 456 206
number. The value of the third number is
223 401 d
2400. What is the 45% of first number?
[www.competoid.com] ## Solve this : 36% of 365 + (?)% of 56.2 =
107.6 131.1 156.69
[www.examveda.com]
115.4 None of these @@
30 35
Answer: None of these
40 45
## Sohan spends 23% of an amount of money
None of these d
on an insurance policy, 33% on food, 19%
on children's education and 16% on ## Solve this : 85% of 485.5 = 50% of ?
[www.examveda.com]
recreation. He deposits the remaining 675.75 735.65
amount of Rs.504 in bank, How much total
825.35 915.5
amount does he spend on food and insurance
None of these c
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4 18 she scores 907 marks less than Sujata?
## Solve this : of 25% of 57 = ? [www.competoid.com]
3 19
[www.examveda.com] 35 % 40 %
36 8 45 % 36 % @@
18 12 c Answer: 40 %
## Solve this : (12% of 555) + (15% of 666) = ? ## Sumitra has an average of 56% on her first 7
[www.examveda.com] examinations. How much she should make
166.5 167.5 on her eighth examination to obtain an
168.5 None of these a average of 60% on 8 examinations?
## Solve this : 12% of 5000 = ? [www.competoid.com]
[www.examveda.com] 88% 78%
600 620 98% Cannot be determined
680 720 a @@
## Solve this : Answer: Cannot be determined
(0.56% of 225) × (3.25% of 430) = ? ## Sunil scored 54 percent marks in a test. Ravi
[www.examveda.com] scored 450 marks in same test which is 300
15.3195 15.6175 less than Sonu. Sunil's score is 60 more
17.3075 17.6085 marks than Sonu. If Ram scored 900 marks
None of these d in the test. What is Ram's percentage ?
## Solve this : [www.competoid.com]
(0.85% of 405) + (2.25% of 550) = ? 0.8 0.65
[www.examveda.com] 0.75 0.6 @@
13.8175 14.7125 Answer: 0.6
15.7150 16.7175 ## Suppose x and y are inversely proportional
None of these and positive. If x increases by 10%, then y
## Sonali invests 15% of her monthly salary in decreases by
insurance policies. She spends 55% of her [www.competoid.com]
monthly salary in shopping and on 10
10 %
household expenses. She saves the remaining 11
amount at Rs.12750. What is Sonali's 1 1
9 @@
monthly income? 11 11
[www.competoid.com] Answer: 91119111
Rs.42500 Rs.38800 ## The actual area of a rectangle is 60 Cm2, but
Rs.40000 Rs.35500 @@ while measuring its length a student
Answer: Rs.42500 decreases it by 20% and the breadth
## Sonika spent Rs. 45,760 on the interior increases by 25%. The percentage error in
decoration for her home. Rs. 27896 on area, calculated by the student is :
buying air conditioner and the remaining [www.examveda.com]
28% of the total amount she had as cash 5% 15%
with her. What was the total amount ? 20% No change d
[www.competoid.com] ## The allowance of an employee constitutes
Rs. 98540 Rs. 102300 165% of his basic pay. If he receives
Rs. 134560 Cannot be determined Rs.11925 as gross salary, then his basic pay
@@ is (in Rs.):
Answer: Rs. 102300 [www.competoid.com]
## Sujata scored 2240 marks in an examination 4000 5000
that is 128 marks more than the minimum 4500 5500 @@
passing percentage of 64%. What is the Answer: 4500
percentage of marks obtained by Meena if ## The amount of work in a leather factory is
increased by 50%. By what percent is it
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necessary to increase the number of workers Then the total increase in the cost of the 5
to complete the new amount of work in cars and 10 bikes is:
previously planned time, if the productivity [www.examveda.com]
of the new labour is 25% more. 3
17.5% 16 %
[www.examveda.com] 7
60% 66.66% 18.5% 18.25% b
40% 33.33% c ## The cost of a house-plot is Rs.1,50,000. After
## The average of marks obtained by 100 1 year, the cost of the plot increases by 10%.
candidates in a certain examination is 30. If At the end of the second year, the cost of the
the average marks of passed candidates is 35 plot increases by 15% over its cost after the
and that of the failed candidates is 10, what first year. The cost of the plot at the end of
is the number of candidates who passed the the second year will be
examinations ? [www.competoid.com]
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] Rs.1,65,000 Rs.1,74,750
60 70 Rs.1,87,500 Rs.1,89,750 @@
80 90 c Answer: Rs.1,89,750
## The average weight of a class of students is ## The cost of packaging of the mangoes is 40%
67.5 kg. The weight of the class teacher is the cost of fresh mangoes themselves. The
25% more than the average weight of the cost of mangoes increased by 30% but the
class. The average weight of the class is less cost of packaging decreased by 50%, then
than the class teacher by x%. The value of x the percentage change of the cost of packed
is: mangoes, if the cost of packed mangoes is
[www.examveda.com] equal to the sum of the cost of fresh mangoes
33.335 25% and cost of packaging :
20% 22% b [www.examveda.com]
## The bus fare and train fare of a place from 14.17% 7.14%
Kolkata were Rs.20 and Rs.30 respectively. 8.87% 6.66% b
Train fare has been increased by 20% and ## The cost of raw material of a product
the bus fare has been increased by 10%. The increases by 30, the manufacturing cost
ratio of new train fare to new bus fare is: increases by 20 and the selling price of the
[www.competoid.com] product increases by 6060. The raw material
11: 18 18:11 and the manufacturing cost, originally,
5:3 3:5 @@ formed 40 and 60 of the total cost
Answer: 18:11 respectively. If the original profit was one-
## The capital of a company is made up of fourth the original manufacturing cost, find
50000 preferred shares with dividend of the approximation new profit percentage.
20% and 20000 common shares, the par [www.lofoya.com]
value of each type of share being Rs. 10. The 48.39% 54.68%
company had a total profit of Rs. 180000 out 62.48% 42.36% a
of which Rs. 30000 was kept in reserve fund ## The difference between 78% of a number
and the remaining distributed to and 59% of the same number is 323. What is
shareholders. Find the dividend per cent to 62% of that number?
the common shareholders. [www.competoid.com]
[www.competoid.com] 1054 1178
20 % 35 % 1037 1159 @@
25 % 30 % @@ Answer: 1054
Answer: 25 % ## The difference between the population of a
## The cost of a car is 400% greater than the city two consecutive years ago from today is
cost of a bike. If there is an increase in the 5000. If there is 10% increase in population
cost of the car is 15% and that of bike 20%. per year from the previous year, what is the
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present population of the. city ? ## The income of a company increases 20% per
[www.competoid.com] annum. If its income is Rs. 2664000 in the
66000 65550 year 2012. Then its income in the year 2010
56660 67500 @@ was :
Answer: 65550 [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
## The difference between the value of the Rs. 2120000 Rs. 1850000
number increased by 20% and the value of Rs. 2820000 Rs. 2855000 b
the number decreased by 25% is 36. Find the ## The income of C is 20% more 5 than B's and
number ? the income of B is 25% more than A's. Find
[www.examveda.com, www.competoid.com] by how much percent is C's income more
7.2 0.8 than A's ?
720 80 d [www.competoid.com]
## The difference of two numbers is 15% of 150% 50%
larger sum. The ratio of the larger number 25% 35% @@
to the smaller number is : [www.examveda.com; Answer: 50%
www.competoid.com] ## The length of a rectangle is decreased by
23 : 17 11 : 9 20%. By what percent breadth of the
17 : 11 23 : 11 a rectangle must be increased so that area of
## The enhanced salary of a man becomes the rectangle remains unaltered?
Rs.24,000 after 20% increment. His previous [www.competoid.com]
salary was: 2
25% 16 %
[www.competoid.com] 3
Rs.2,0000 Rs.21000 120% 80% @@
Rs.16,000 Rs.18,000 @@ Answer: 25%
Answer: Rs.2,0000 ## The length of a rectangle is increased by
## The equivalent discount of three successive 10%. By what percent breadth of the
discounts 10%, 20% and 30% is rectangle must be reduced so that area of the
[www.competoid.com] rectangle remains unchanged?
59.40% 60% [www.competoid.com]
58% 49.60% @@ 1
Answer: 49.60% 10% 119%
## The expenses on rice, fish and oil of a family 1 1
are in the ratio 12 : 17 : 3. The price of these 9 % 1 % @@
11 10
articles are increased by 20%, 30% and 50% Answer: 91119111%%
respectively. The total expenses of family on ## The length, breadth and height of a room are
these articles are increased by: in ratio 3:2:1. If breadth and height are
[www.competoid.com] halved while the length is doubled, then the
1 1 total area of the four walls of the room will
14 % 7 %
8 8 [www.examveda.com]
1 remain the same decrease by 13.64%
28 % None of these @@
8 decrease by 15% decrease by 18.75%
Answer: 2818%2818% decrease by 30%
## The Government reduced the price of sugar ## The length, breadth and height of a room in
by 10 per cent. By this a consumer can buy the shape of a cuboid are increased by 10%,
6.2 kg more sugar for Rs.837. The reduced 20% and 50% respectively. Find the
price per kg of sugar is: percentage change in the volume of the
[www.competoid.com] cuboid.
Rs.12.50 Rs.13.00 [www.examveda.com]
Rs.13.50 Rs.14.00 @@ 77% 75%
Answer: Rs.13.50 88% 98%
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99% d 0% 25%
## The marked price is. 10% higher than the 25
20% % @@
cost price. A discount of 10% is given on the 4
marked price. ln the kind of sale, the seller. Answer: 254254%
[www.competoid.com] ## The number of Gypsy-cars sold in 1998 was
bears no loss, no gain gains 1% 16,500 and that sold in 1997 was 16,580. How
loses 10% loses 1% @@ much was the percentage decrease in the
Answer: loses 1% sales of the Gypsy-cars from 1997 to 1998?
## The marked price of brand A watches is [www.competoid.com]
15% higher than its original price. Due to More than 1 per cent less than 1 per cent
increase in demand, the price is further Zero per cent Cannot be determined
increased by 10%. How much profit will be @@
obtained in selling the watches? Answer: less than 1 per cent
[www.competoid.com] ## The number that is to be added to 10% of
25% 35% 320 to have the sum as 30% of 230 is :
26.5% 27% @@ [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
Answer: 26.5% 37 32
## The marks scored in History by P, Q, R and 23 73 a
S form a geometric progression in that 1
## The numbers are respectively 12 %
order. If the marks scored by R were 2
(dfrac{275}{9}%) less than the sum of the and 25% more than a third number. The as
marks scored by P and Q, then marks scored a percentage of the second number is :
by S were what percent more than the marks [www.examveda.com]
scored by Q? (Assume that everyone scored 50% 60%
positive marks). 75% 90% d
[www.lofoya.com] ## The of the number of boys and girls in school
56.25% 55.55% at 8 : 12. If 50% of boys and 25% of girls are
64% 67.75% a getting scholarship for their studies, what is
## The monthly income of a person is Rs.5000. the percentage of school students who are
If his income is increased by 30%, then what not getting any scholarships ?
is his monthly income now? [www.examveda.com]
[www.competoid.com] 65% 66%
Rs.7000 Rs.5500 67% 68% a
Rs.4500 Rs.6500 @@ ## The percentage increase in the surface area
Answer: Rs.6500 of a cube when each side is doubled is :
## The monthly income of a person was Rs. [www.examveda.com]
13,500 and his monthly expenditure was Rs. 200% 300%
9,000. Next year his income increased by 150% 50% b
14% and his expenditure increased by 7%. ## The population of a city is 250000. It is
The percentage increase in his savmgs was: increasing at the rate of 2% every year. The
[www.competoid.com] growth in the population after 2 yr is?
7% 21% [www.competoid.com]
28% 35% @@ 2500 10000
Answer: 28% 252000 10100 @@
## The number of employees working in a farm Answer: 10100
is increased by 25% and the wages per head ## The population of a city is 35000. On an
are decreased by 25%. If it result in x% increase of 6% in the number of men and an
decrease in total wages, then the value of x increase of 4% in the number of women, the
is: population would become 36760. What was
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the number of women initially? ## The population of a town is 126800. It
[www.examveda.com] increase by 15% in the 1st year and decrease
18000 19000 by 20% in the 2nd year. What is the
17000 20000 c population of the town at the end of 2 yr?
## The population of a country reduces 10% In [www.competoid.com]
the 1st year and increases by 10% in the 174984 135996
second year. If at the end the 2nd year 116656 145820 @@
population was 20790. Calculate the Answer: 116656
population in the beginning? [www.competoid.com] ## The population of a town is 3,11,250. The
21000 24000 ratio of women men is 43 : 40. If there are
25000 36000 @@ 24% literate among women and 10%
Answer: 21000 illiterate, among men, the total number of
## The population of a town 2 years ago was literate persons in the town is:
62,500. Due to migration to big cities, it [www.competoid.com]
decreases every year at the rate of 4%. The 1.70.700 1.73.700
present population of the town is : 1.75.700 1.73.200 @@
[www.competoid.com] Answer: 1.73.700
57,600 56,700 ## The population of a town is 705600. If it
76,000 75,000 @@ increases at the rate of 5% per annum, then
Answer: 57,600 what will be its population 2 yr hence?
## The population of a town increased from [www.competoid.com]
1,75,000 to 2,62,500 in a decade. The average 777924 777881
percent increase of population per year is: 778781 797724 @@
[www.indiabix.com] Answer: 777924
4.37% 5% ## The population of a town is 9000. It increases
6% 8.75% b by 10% during first year and by 20% during
## The population of a town is 10,000. In the a second year. The population after 2 years
first year it increased by 10% and in the 2nd will be [www.competoid.com]
year it decreased by 10%. At the end of two 12000 11880
years it will become 12060 11860 @@
[www.competoid.com] Answer: 11880
10000 11,000 ## The population of a town is increased from
9900 12200 @@ 50,000 to 52,000.The increase in percentage
Answer: 9900 is
## The population of a town is 10,000. It [www.competoid.com]
increases in the first year by 20% and 4% 3%
second year by 10%. At the end of 2 years it 2% 1% @@
will become Answer: 4%
[www.competoid.com] ## The population of a village has increased
13000 13200 annually at the rate of 25%. If at the end of 3
13500 14400 @@ years it is 10000, the population in the
Answer: 13200 beginning of the first year was :
## The population of a town is 1058400. If it [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
increases at the rate of 5% per annum, then 5120 5000
find the population of the town 2 yr ago. 4900 4500 a
[www.competoid.com] ## The population of a village increase by 5%
949000 930000 annually. If its present population is 4410,
960000 950000 @@ then its population 2 years ago was:
Answer: 960000 [www.examveda.com]
4500 4000
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3800 3500 b ## The population or a city increases by 15%
## The population of a village increases by 20% during 2002 and 20% during 2003. In the
in one year and decrease by 20% by the next end of 2003 the population of city was 27.6
year. If at the beginning of the third year, lakh. What was the population of the city in
the population is 5184, what was the the end of 2001 ? (in lakh)
population in the first year? [www.competoid.com]
[www.competoid.com] 18 20
5400 5500 21.2 22.2 @@
5600 5800 @@ Answer: 20
Answer: 5400 ## The pouplation of a town increases each year
## The population of a village is 5,000. In 6 by 4% of its total at the beginning of the
years, it will become 6,000. If it continues year. If the population on 1st january 2001
increasing at the same rate, then in 18 years was 500000, what was it on 1st January,
it will become 2004?
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18000 8000 562432 652432
9624 8640 @@ 465223 564232 @@
Answer: 8640 Answer: 562432
## The population of a village is 5000 and it ## The price of 10% increased of an article of
increases at the rate of 2% every year. After Rs.100, then again 10% increased the price.
2 years, the population will be: How much is increased in total price?
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5116 5202 20 21
5200 5204 b 110 121 @@
## The population of a village was 9800. In a Answer: 21
year with the increase in population of males ## The price of a car depreciates in the first
by 8% and that of females by 8%, the year by 25% in the second year by 20% in
population of the village became 10458. third year by 15% and so on. The final price
What was the number of males in the village of the car after 3 years, if the present cost of
before increase ? the car is Rs. 10,00,000 :
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4200 4410 7,80,000 1,70,000
5600 6048 @@ 6,90,000 5,10,000 d
Answer: 5600 ## The price of a certain article is Rs.15000. But
## The population of Noida is 500,000 if it due to slump in the market, its price
increases by 10% in the first and by 20% in decreases by 8%. Find the new price of the
the second year. The population at the end of article.
these two years will be [www.competoid.com]
[www.competoid.com] Rs.14000 Rs.13800
600000 660000 Rs.16500 Rs.12600 @@
800000 760000 @@ Answer: Rs.13800
Answer: 660000 ## The price of a commodity has increased by
## The population of village is 1,00,000. The 60%. By what percent must a consumer
rate of increase is 10% per annum. Find the reduce the consumption of the commodity so
population at the start of the third year? as not to increase the expenditure ?
[www.examveda.com] [www.competoid.com]
1,33,100 1,21,000 37% 37.5%
1,18,800 1,20,000 40.5% 60% @@
None of these b Answer: 37.5%
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## The price of a school bag and a shoe are in 17% 16.36% @@
the ratio 7 : 5. The price of the school bag is Answer: 17.36%
Rs.200 more than the price of the shoe. Then ## The price of an edible oil is increased by
the price of the shoe is: 25%. To maintain the budget, Sushma
[www.competoid.com] reduces the consumption of this oil by 20%.
Rs.200 Rs.700 The increase inexpenditure due to this edible
Rs.500 Rs.1,200 @@ oil is:
Answer: Rs.500 [www.competoid.com]
## The price of a thing is reduced by 25% but 0% 1%
its consumption is increased by 20%. How 2% 3% @@
many percent of the increased consumption Answer: 0%
should they increase more so as to keep the ## The price of an item changed from Rs. 120 to
same expenditure? Rs. 100. Then later the price decreased again
[www.competoid.com] from Rs. 100 to Rs. 80. Which can be said
1 7 about the two decreases in percentage term?
159% 119%
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7 1st decrease is larger 2nd decrease is
10 % None of these @@
9 larger
Answer: 11791179% both are equal nothing can be said b
## The price of an antique is reduced by 20% ## The price of apples falls by 10%, which
and then this price is again reduced by 10%. enable a man to buy 50% more apples for
The total reduction of the price is Rs.225. The reduced price for 100 apples will
[www.competoid.com] be
25% 23% [www.competoid.com]
30% 28% @@ Rs.35 Rs.55
Answer: 28% Rs.46 Rs.45 @@
## The price of an articale is decreased by 10% Answer: Rs.45
to restore it to its former value, the new ## The price of ghee is increased by 32%.
price must be increased by: Therefore, a family reduces its consumption,
[www.competoid.com] so that the increment in price of ghee is only
1 10%. If consumption of ghee is 10 kg before
9 % 10%
11 the increment, then what is the consumption
1 now?
11% 11 % @@
9 [www.competoid.com]
Answer: 1119%1119% 1 3
8 kg. 8 kg.
## The price of an article is reduced by 25% 3 4
but the daily sale of the article is increased 1
8 kg. 9 kg. @@
by 30%. The net effect on the daily sale 2
receipts is: Answer: 813813kg.
[www.competoid.com] ## The price of Maruti car rises by 30 percent
1 1 while the sales of the car come down by
2 % increase 2 % increase
2 2 20%. What is the percentage change in the
2% increase 2% decrease @@ total revenue?
Answer: 212%212% decrease [www.examveda.com]
## The price of an article was increased two - 4% - 2%
times successively by 10% each time. By + 4% + 2%
what percent should the new price be None of these c
reduced so as to restore the original price. ## The price of petrol is increased by 25%. By
[www.competoid.com] how much percent a car owner should
15% 17.36% reduce his consumption of petrol so that the
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expenditure on petrol would not be reduction in consumption and the original
increased ? consumption is:
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25% 30% 1:3 1:4
50% 20% @@ 1:6 1:5 @@
Answer: 20% Answer: 1 : 6
## The price of raw materials has gone up by ## The price of sugar is increased by 25%. If a
15%, labor cost has also increased from 25% family wants to keep its expenses on sugar
of the cost of raw material to 30% of the cost unaltered, then the family will have to
of raw material. By how much percentage reduce the consumption of sugar by
should there be reduction in the usage of raw [www.competoid.com]
materials so as to keep the cost same? 20% 21%
[www.examveda.com] 22% 25% @@
28% 17% Answer: 20%
27% 24% ## The price of sugar is reduced by 20%. Now a
Cannot determined b person can buy 500g more sugar for ? 36.
## The price of rice decreases by 6.25% and The original price of the sugar per kilogram
because of this reduction, Vandana is able to was:
buy 1 kg more for Rs.120. Find the reduced [www.competoid.com]
rate of rice. Rs. 14.40 Rs.18
[www.competoid.com] Rs.15.60 Rs.16.50 @@
Rs.7.50 per kg Rs.9 per kg Answer: Rs.18
Rs.5.50 per kg Rs.19 per kg @@ ## The price of sugar is reduced by 25% but its
Answer: Rs.7.50 per kg consumption is increased by 20%. How
## The price of rice falls by 20%. How much many percent of the increased consumption
rice can be bought now with the money that should they increase more so as to keep the
was sufficient to buy 20 kg of rice same expenditure?
previously? [www.competoid.com]
[www.examveda.com] 1 1
15 % 11 %
5 kg 15 kg 9 9
25 kg 30 kg c 7 1
10 % 10 % @@
## The price of rice has increased by 60%. In 9 9
order to restore the original price, the new Answer: 11191119%
price must be reduced by ## The price of the sugar rise by 25%. If a
[www.competoid.com] family wants to keep their expenses on sugar
1 1 the same as earlier, the family will have to
33 % 37 %
3 2 decrease its consumption of sugar by
40% 45% @@ [www.examveda.com]
Answer: 3712%3712% 25% 20%
## The price of rice is reduced by 5%. How 80% 75% b
many kilogrames of rice can now be bought ## The prices of two articles are as 3: 4. If the
for the money, which was sufficient to buy 50 price of the first article is increased by 10%
kg of rice earlier? and that of the second by Rs.4, one original
[www.competoid.com] ratio remains the same. The original price of
52.63 kg 50.40 kg the second article is
42.30 kg 60.50 kg @@ [www.competoid.com]
Answer: 52.63 kg Rs.40 Rs.10
## The price of sugar is increased by 20%. If Rs.30 Rs.35 @@
the expenditure on sugar has to be kept the Answer: Rs.40
same as earlier, the ratio between the
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## The radius of a Circle is increased by 100%. ## The ratio of the prices of two house A and B
The percentage increase in its area is was 4 : 5 last year. This year, the price of A
[www.competoid.com] is increased by 25% and that of B by
50 100 Rs.50000. If their price are now in the ratio 9
150 300 @@ : 10. the price of A last year was
Answer: 300 [www.competoid.com]
## The rate of increase of the price of sugar is Rs. 360000 Rs. 450000
observed to be two percent more than the Rs. 480000 Rs. 500000 @@
inflation rate expressed in percentage. The Answer: Rs. 360000
price of sugar, on January 1, 1994 is Rs. 20 ## The ratio of two numbers is 4 : 5. when the
per kg. The inflation rates of the years 1994 first is increased by 20% and the second is
and 1995 are expected to be 8% each. The decreased by 20% , then the ratio of the
expected price of sugar on January 1, 1996 resulting numbers is:
would be [www.competoid.com]
[www.examveda.com] 4:5 5:4
Rs. 23.60 Rs. 24 5:6 6:5 @@
Rs. 24.20 Rs. 24.60 Answer: 6 : 5
None of these c ## The red blood cells in a blood sample grows
## The ratio 5 : 4 expressed as a percent equals by 10% per hour in first two hours,
: decreases by 10% in next one hour, remains
[www.competoid.com] constant in next one hour and again
125% 80% increases by 5% per hour in next two hours.
40% 12.5% @@ If the original count of the red blood cells in
Answer: 125% the sample is 40000, find the approximate
## The ratio of number of boys and girls in a red blood cell count at the end of 6 hours.
school 720 students is 7 : 5. How many more [www.competoid.com]
girls should be admitted to make the ratio 1 : 40000 45025
1? 48025 50025 @@
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] Answer: 48025
90 120 ## The respective ratio between the monthly
220 240 b salaries of Rene and Som is 5 : 3. Out of her
## The ratio of the number of boys and girls in 1 1
school is 8 : 12. If 50% of boys and 25% of monthly salary Rene gives % th as rent, th
6 5
girls are getting scholarships for their to her mother. 30% as her ed ucation loan
studies, what is the percentage of school and keeps 25% aside for miscellaneous
students who are not getting any expenditure. Remaining Rs. 5000 she keeps
scholarships ? as savings. What is Som's monthly salary '?
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65% 66% Rs. 21000 Rs. 24000
67% 68% @@ Rs. 27000 Rs. 36000 @@
Answer: 65% Answer: Rs. 36000
## The ratio of the number of boys to that of ## The respective ratio between total number of
girls in a school is 4 : 1. If 75% of boys and students studying in College A and College B
70% of the girls are scholarship holders, is 5 : 8. In College B, out of the total number
then the percentage of students who do not 1
get scholarship is : of students. , th are boys. out of which 6000
5
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] study Commerce and the remaining 800
50% 28% boys study in other streams. What is the
75% 26% d total number ofstudents in College A?
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## The single discount equivalent to a series of
[www.competoid.com] discounts 20%, 10% and 25% is
1500 2500 [www.competoid.com]
1200 2000 @@ 35% 40%
Answer: 2000 46% 55% @@
## The salary of a person is decreased by 25% Answer: 46%
and then the decreased salary is increased by ## The single equivalent discount of two
25%. His new salary in comparison with his successive discounts 20% and 10% is
original salaary is: [www.competoid.com]
[www.competoid.com] 30% 32%
the same 6.25% more 35% 28% @@
6.25% less 0.625% less @@ Answer: 28%
Answer: 6.25% less ## The square of a positive number is 2000%
## The salary of an employee of a company greater than the number itself, then the
increases every month by 4%. If his salary in square of that number is :
August was Rs.6300, then what would be his [www.examveda.com]
approximate salary in month of October of 1762 1635
the same year? 441 139 c
[www.competoid.com] ## The strength of a school increases and
Rs.6552 Rs.6967 decreases every alternate year. It starts with
Rs.6814 Rs.6627 @@ increase by 10% and thereafter the
Answer: Rs.6814 percentage of increase/decrease is the same.
## The schedule working hour of a labour in a Which of the following is definitely true
week if 48 hours and he gets Rs. 480 for that. about the strength of the school in 2000 as
Over time rate is 25% more than the the compared to that in 1996?
basic salary rate. In a week a labour gets Rs. [www.competoid.com]
605, how many hours altogether he works in Increase approximately
that week. by 2%
[www.examveda.com] Decrease approximately
49 hours 52 hours by 2%
55 hours 58 hours d Increase approximately
## The selling price of a certain commodity was by 20%
reduced by 25%. As a result of it, the sale Decrease approximately
was increased by 30%. What was the effect by 20% @@
of it on cash collected by daily sale? Answer: Decrease approximately by 2%
[www.competoid.com] ## The strength of a school increases and
5% increase 5% decrease decreases in every alternate year by 10%. It
2.5% increase 2.5% decrease @@ started with increase in 2000, then the
Answer: 2.5% decrease strength of the school in 2003 as compared to
## The shopkeeper increased the price of a that in 2000 was:
product by 25% so that customer finds [www.competoid.com]
difficult to purchase the required amount. increased by 8.9% dcreased by 8.9%
But Somehow the customer managed to increased by 9.8% decreased by 9.8% @@
purchase only 70% of the required amount. Answer: increased by 8.9%
What is the net difference in the expenditure ## The sum of 15% of a positive number and
on that product ? 20% of the same number is 126. What is
[www.examveda.com] one-third of that number?
55 more 10% more [www.competoid.com]
12.5% less 17.5% less 360 1080
None of these c 120 40 @@
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Answer: 120 90
Rs. 10000 Rs. 1002 × 100
## The tank-full of petrol in Arun's motor-cycle  
lasts for 10 days. If he starts using 25% more 100
Rs.  2 × 8100 Rs. 9801 a
everyday, how many days will the tank-full 101
of petrol last? ## The value of a property depreciates every
[www.competoid.com] year by 10% of its value at the beginning of
5 6 the year. The present value of the property is
7 8 @@ Rs.8100. What was its value 2 years ago ?
Answer: 8 [www.competoid.com]
## The tax imposed on an article is decreased Rs.10,000
by 10% and its consumption is increased by
10%. Find the percentage change in revenue ( )
Rs. 90100 2×100(90100)2×100
from it.
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( )
Rs. 100101 2×8100(100101)2×8100
Rs.9801 @@
10% increase 2% decrease
Answer: Rs.10,000
1% decrease 11% increase c
## The value of an equipment depreciates by
## The time duration of 1 hour 45 minutes is 20% each year. How much less will the value
what percent of a day? of the equipment be after 3 years ?
[www.competoid.com]
[www.competoid.com]
7.218 7.291 48.8% 51.2%
8.3 8.24 @@ 54% 60% @@
Answer: 7.291 Answer: 48.8%
## The total emoluments of A and B are equal. ## The value of the machinery depreciates 20%
However, A gets 65% of his basic salary as annually. What will be its value after 2 years
allowances and B gets 80% of his basic if its present value is Rs. 6400.
salary as allowances. What is the ratio of the [www.competoid.com]
basic salaries of and B? Rs.4800 Rs.5096
[www.examveda.com]
Rs.5200 Rs.4096 @@
16 : 13 5:7
Answer: Rs.4096
12 : 11 7:9 c
## The value of which of the following fractions
## The value of a machine depreciates by 5% is less than twenty percent ?
every year. If its present value is Rs.2,00,000, [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
its value after 2 years will be: 5 2
[www.competoid.com] 61 3
Rs.1,80,500 Rs.199,000 2 1
Rs.1,80,000 Rs.2,10,000 @@ 5 4
Answer: Rs.1,80,500 2
## The value of a machine is Rs. 6250. It
11
decreases by 10% during the first year, 20%
## The volume of the sphere Q is
during the second year and 30% during the
(dfrac{37}{64}%)less than the volume of
third year, What will be the value of the
sphere P and the volume of sphere R is
machine after 3 years ?
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] (dfrac{19}{27}%) less than that of sphere Q.
Rs. 2650 Rs. 3050 By what is the surface area of sphere R less
Rs. 3150 Rs. 3510 c than the surface area of sphere P?
[www.lofoya.com]
## The value of a property depreciates every
77.77% 87.5%
year by 10% of its value at the beginning of
75% 67.5% c
the year. The present value of the property is
## The weight of an empty bottle is 20% of the
Rs. 8100. What was its value 2 years ago ?
[www.examveda.com] weight of bottle when filled with some liquid.
Some of the liquid has been removed. Then,
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the bottle, along with the remaining liquid, was 100., 90 and 80 respectively. The pass
weighed half of the original weight. What Percentage of the whole set is
fractional part of the liquid has been [www.competoid.com]
removed ? 2 2
88 % 84 %
[www.competoid.com] 3 3
2 3 1 1
3 9 88 % 84 % @@
3 3
2 Answer: 8823%8823%
None of these @@
5 ## Ticket for all but 100 seats in a 10000 seat
Answer: None of these stadium were sold. Of the ticket sold, 20%
## There are 1240 employees in an were sold at half price and the remaining
organisation. Out of which, 25% are tickets were sold at the full price of Rs. 20.
promoted. How many such employees are The total revenue from the ticket sales, (in
there who got promotion? Rs.) was :
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398 345 158400 178200
310 372 @@ 180000 198000 b
Answer: 310 ## Tom gave 20% of a certain amount of money
## There are five boxes in a cargo hold. The to Ali. From the money Ali received. he
weight of the first box is 200 kg and the spent 25% on school fees and 35% on buying
weight of the second box is 20% higher than school uniform. After the mentioned
the weight of the third box, whose weight is expenses. All had Rs. 2800 remaining with
25% higher than the first box. The fourth him. How much money did Tom have
box at 350 kg is 30% higher than the fifth inlially?
box. The difference in average weight of the [www.competoid.com]
four heaviest boxes and the four lightest Rs. 21,000 Rs. 35.000
boxes is Rs. 30,000 Rs. 27.000 @@
[www.competoid.com] Answer: Rs. 35.000
51.5 kg 75 kg ## Tulsiram's salary is 20% more then that of
37.5 kg 112.5 kg @@ Kashyap. If Tulsiram saves Rs. 720 which is
Answer: 75 kg 4% of his salary, then Kashyap's salary is :
## There is a 4% increase in volume when a [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
liquid freezes to its solid state. The Rs. 15000 Rs. 12000
percentage decrease when solid melts to Rs. 10000 Rs. 22000 a
liquid again, is ## Twenty per cent of Anuj's annual salary is
[www.competoid.com] equal to seventy five percent of Raj's annual
3 salary. Rat's monthly salary is 60% of Ravt's
3 % 4%
13 monthly salary. If Ravi's annual salaiy isRs.
1 11 1.44 lacs, what is Anuj's monthly salary ?
4 % 3 % @@
13 13 [www.competoid.com]
Answer: 31113%31113% Rs.2,70,000 Rs.27,000
## There is a ratio of 5 : 4 between two Rs.3,24,000 Rs.5,400 @@
numbers. If 40% of the first number is 12, Answer: Rs.27,000
then what would be 50% of the second ## Two candidates fought an election. One of
number ? them got 6400 of the total votes polled and
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] won with 992 votes. What was the total
12 24 number of votes polled?
18 Data Inadequate a [www.competoid.com]
## Three sets of 40,50 and 60 students appeared 1500 1580
for an examination and the pass percentage 1550 None of these @@
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Answer: None of these second number ?
## Two discount of 8% and 12% are equal to a [www.competoid.com]
single discount of: 100% 150%
[www.examveda.com] 80% 120% @@
20% 19.04% Answer: 80%
22.96% 22% b ## Two numbers are respectively 20% and 50%
## Two merchants sell, each an article for more than a 3rd number. What is the
Rs.1000. If Merchant A computes his profit percentage of 2nd with respect to 1st?
on cost price, while Merchant B computes [www.competoid.com]
his profit on selling price, they end up 125% 90%
making profits of 25% respectively. By how 80% 75% @@
much is the profit made by Merchant BB Answer: 125%
greater than that of Merchant A? ## Two numbers are respectively 20% and 50%
[www.lofoya.com] of a third number. What per cent is the first
Rs.50.00 Rs.66.67 number of second? [www.examveda.com;
Rs.75.00 Rs.150.00 a www.competoid.com]
## Two number are respectively 20% and 50% 10% 20%
more than a third number. Then the ratio of 30% 40% d
the two numbers is: ## Two persons contested an election of
[www.competoid.com] Parliament. The winning candidate secured
2:5 3:5 57% of the total votes polled and won by a
4:5 6:7 @@ majority of 42000 votes. The number of total
Answer: 4 : 5 votes polled is :
## Two numbers are in the ratio 2 : 3. If 20% of [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
the smaller number added to 20, is equal to 500000 600000
the sum of 10% of the larger number and 25, 300000 400000 c
the the smaller number is : [www.examveda.com; ## Two persons Raj and Ramu started working
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100 160 1991. Raj's initial monthly salary was Rs
180 200 a 400, which increases by Rs 40 after every
## Two numbers are less than a third number year. Ramu's initial monthly salary was Rs
by 30% and 37% respectively. The percent 500 which increases by Rs 20 after every six
by which the second number is less than the months. If these arrangements continue till
first is: December 31, 200. Find the total salary they
[www.competoid.com] received during that period.
10% 7% [www.lofoya.com]
4% 3% @@ Rs 1,08,000 Rs 1,44,000
Answer: 10% Rs 1,32,000 Rs 1,52,400 d
## Two numbers are less than the third number ## Vaishali spent f 31,897 on the air conditioner
by 50% and 54% respectively. By how for her home Rs.38,789 on buying plasma
television and the remaining 2300 of the total
much per cent is the second number less amount she had as cash with her. What was
than the first number ? the total amount?
[www.competoid.com]
13.00% 10.00%
12.00% None of these @@ [www.competoid.com]
Answer: None of these Rs.74,625 Rs.86,750
## Two numbers are more than the third Rs.91,800 Cannot be determined
number by 20% and 50% respectively . Find @@
the first number is what percent of the Answer: Rs.91,800
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## Veena spends 25% of her monthly income on ## Vishakha spent Rs. 68,357 on the renovation
household expenses. Her annual income is for her home. Rs. 25,675 on buying music
Rs.4.32 lakh. What is the total amount that system
Veena spends on household expenses in 8
months together? and the remaining 28% of the total amount
[www.competoid.com] she had as cash with her. What was the total
Rs.74000 Rs.71000 amount?
Rs.73000 Rs.72000 @@ [www.competoid.com]
Answer: Rs.72000 Rs. 94, 032 Rs. 36,568
## Vessel A contains a mixture of orange juice Rs.1,30,600 Cannot be determined
and apple juice in the respective quantities of @@
16 litres and 4 litres, vessel B contains a Answer: Rs.1,30,600
mixture of orange juice and apple juice in ## Water tax is increased by 20% but its
the respective quantities of 24 litres and 6 consumption is decreased by 20%. Then the
litres. Mixtures from vessels A and B, are increase or decrease in the expenditure of
both mixed together in Vessel C. What is the the money is
resultant percentage of Apple juice in vessel [www.competoid.com]
C? 4% increase 4% decrease
[www.competoid.com] No change 5% decrease @@
20 25 Answer: 4% decrease
10 30 @@ ## What % of a day is 30 minutes ?
Answer: 20 [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
## Vicky's salary is 75% more than Ashu's. 2.83 2.083
Vicky got a raise of 40% on his salary while 2.09 2.075 b
Ashu got a raise of 25% on his salary. By ## What is 20% of 25% of 300 ?
what percent is Vicky's salary more than [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
Ashu's? 150 60
[www.examveda.com] 45 15 d
96% 51.1% 5
## What is 27% of 36% of of 4500 ?
90% 52.1% a 9
## Village A has a population of 6800, which is [www.competoid.com]
decreasing at the rate of 120 per year. 239 241
Village B has a population of 4200, which is 243 245 @@
increasing at the rate of 80 per year. In how Answer: 243
many years will the population of the two 3
## What is 32% of th of 5000? [www.competoid.com]
villages be equal? 8
[www.competoid.com] 606 610
9 yr 11 yr 580 600 @@
13 yr 15 yr @@ Answer: 600
Answer: 13 yr ## What is 5% of 50% of 500?
## Vipul decided to donate 5% of his salary. On [www.competoid.com]
the day of donation he changed his mind and 12.5 25
donated Rs.. 1687.50 which was 75% of what 1.25 6.25 @@
he had decided earlier. How much is Vipul's Answer: 12.5
salary? ## What is 60% of a number whose 200% is
[www.competoid.com] 120.
Rs. 37.500 Rs.45,000 [www.competoid.com]
Rs. 33,750 Cannot be determined 45 36
@@ 60 80 @@
Answer: Rs.45,000 Answer: 36
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## What is a percent of b divided by b percent ## What percent of Rs. 2650 is Rs. 1987.50 ?
of a? [www.examveda.com]
[www.examveda.com] 60% 75%
a b 80% 90% b
1 10 ## What should come in place of the question
100 c mark (?), so that it satisfies equality of the
## What is the difference between 0.6 and 0.6% given equation? 32% of 750 = ?
? [www.competoid.com]
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] 23% of 600 46% of 207
5.94 0.594 98% of 250 75% of 320 @@
60 54 b Answer: 75% of 320
2 ## What will be 25% of 64?
## What is the number whose 16 % is 40. [www.competoid.com]
3
[www.competoid.com] 16 48
200 240 84 64 @@
120 320 @@ Answer: 16
Answer: 240 ## What will be the answer : 140% of 56 + 56%
## What is the percentage change in the result of 140 = ?
when we add 50 to a certain number x, [www.examveda.com]
instead of subtracting 50 from the same 78.4 87.4
number x? 156.6 158.6
[www.examveda.com] None of these
50% 75% ## What will be the percentage of increase in
100% 300% the area of square when each of the its sides
Can't be determined is increased by 10%?
## What is to be added to 15% of 160 so that [www.competoid.com]
the sum may be equal to 25% of 240 ? 20 11
[www.competoid.com] 121 21 @@
24 84 Answer: 21
60 36 @@ ## What would be the break-even point
Answer: 36 (defined as no profit, no loss situation) for
## What percent of 3.6 kg is 72 gms.? KK’s factory in term of sales?
[www.competoid.com; www.examveda.com] [www.lofoya.com]
32% 22% Rs 80 lac Rs 100 lac
12% 2% @@ Rs 120 lac Rs 140 lac a
Answer: 2% ## Wheat is now being sold at Rs.27 per kg.
## What percent of 7.2 kg is 18 gms ? During last month, its cost was Rs.24 per kg.
[www.examveda.com] Find by how much per cent a family reduces
0.025% 0.25% its consumption, so as to keep the
2.5% 25% b expenditure fixed.
## What percent of 80 is 4? [www.competoid.com]
[www.competoid.com] 10.2% 12.1%
50 5 12.3% 11.1% @@
0.5 10 @@ Answer: 11.1%
Answer: 5 ## When 25% of a number is added to 60, the
## What percent of 88 is 33 ? result is the number again. Find the number.
[www.examveda.com] [www.competoid.com]
34.5% 35.5% 60 90
36.5% 37.5% d 120 80 @@
Answer: 80
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## When 35 is subtracted from a number, it ## When the price of sugar decreased by 10%,
4 a man could buy 1 kg more for Rs.270. Then
reduces to its 80%. What is th of that
5 the original price of sugar per kg is:
number? [www.competoid.com]
[www.competoid.com] Rs.25 Rs.30
70 90 Rs.27 Rs.32 @@
120 140 @@ Answer: Rs.30
Answer: 140 ## Which number is 40% less than 60.
## When 60 is subtracted from 60% of a [www.competoid.com]
number, the result is 60. The number is : 36 24
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] 46 60 @@
120 150 Answer: 36
180 200 d ## Which number is 40% less than 90% of 100?
## When 60% of a number is subtracted from [www.competoid.com]
another number, the second number reduces 36 54
to its 52%, the ratio of the first number to 50 60 @@
the second number is : [www.examveda.com; Answer: 54
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6:5 5:3 a number to be increased by 25.3% ?
5:4 4:5 d [www.competoid.com]
## When 75 added to 75% of a number, the 12.53 125.3
answer is the number. Find 40% of that 1.253 1253 @@
number. Answer: 1.253
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] ## Which one of the following is the same as
100 80 20% of 30% of 480?
120 160 c [www.competoid.com]
## When processing flower-nectar into 15% of 40% of 240 40% of 15% of 480
honeybees' extract, a considerable amount of 10% of 60% of 240 20% of 60% of 360
water gets reduced. How much flower-nectar @@
must be processed to yield 1kg of honey, if Answer: 40% of 15% of 480
nectar contains 50 water, and the honey ## x * 12 = 75% of 336 Find x.
[www.examveda.com]
obtained from this nectar contains 15 water?
[www.lofoya.com] 27 25
1.5 kgs 1.7 kgs 21 19 c
3.33 kgs None of these b ## X earns Rs. 8000 per month. He spends 80%
## When the price of an article was reduce by of it for his house. From the balance he
20%, its sale increased by 80%. What was spends 20% for entertainment. What is the
the net effect on the sale ? [www.examveda.com; amount left with him.
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44% increase 44% decrease Rs.1200 Rs.1250
66% increase 75% increase a Rs.1280 Rs.1300 @@
## When the price of cloth was reduced by Answer: Rs.1280
25%, the quantity of cloth sold increased by ## X has twice as much money as that of Y and
20%. What was the effect on gross receipt of Y has 50% more money than that of Z. If the
the shop? average money of all of them is Rs. 110, then
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10% increase 10% decrease Rs. 55 Rs. 60
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## X's income is 20% more than that of Y. 1
30% 333% @@
What per cent is Y's income less than X ?
[www.competoid.com] Answer: 20%20%
1 2 ## In 1998, ratio of the numbers of students
83 % 16 %
3 3 taking examinations in x and z states are
2 1 respectively 3 : 5 : 6. Next year, the numbers
83 % 16 % @@
3 3 of students are increased by 20%, 10% and
Answer: 1623%1623% 20% respectively. If ratio of the numbers of
## A reduction in the price of apples enable students in states x and z is 1 : 2, then find
person to purchase 3 apples for Rs.1 instead the number of students who sit to take
of Rs.125. What is the % of reduce examination in 1998. [www.competoid.com]
[www.competoid.com] 5000 6000
20% 25% 75000 Data is insufficient @@
Answer: Data is insufficient
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## 10% discount and then 20% discount in 4
20% 28 %
succession is equilvalent to total discount of 7
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15% 30% 25% 28 % b
7
24% 28% d ## A book vendor sold a book at loss of 10% .
## 12 copies of a book were sold for Rs. 1800/- Had he sold it for Rs. 108 more, he would
there by gaining cost price of 3 copies. The have earned a profit of 10% . Find the cost
cost price of a copy is : of the book = ?
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Rs. 120/- Rs. 150/- Rs. 442 Rs. 540
Rs. 1200/- Rs. 1500/- @@ Rs. 648 Rs. 740 b
Answer: Rs. 120/- ## A book-seller bought 200 textbooks for Rs.
## 4% of the selling price of article is equal to 12,000. He wanted to sell them at a profit so
5% of its cost price. Again 20% of the selling that he got 20 books free. At what profit
price is Rs. 120 more than 22% of its cost percent should he sell them ?
price. The ratio of cost price & selling price [www.competoid.com]
is 10 11
[www.competoid.com] 11.5 12 a
2:3 3:2 ## A bookseller procures 40 books for Rs. 3200
4:5 5:4 @@ and sells them at a profit equal to the selling
Answer: 4 : 5 price of 8 books. What is the selling price of
## A & B jointly made a profit of Rs. 1650 and one dozen books, if the price of each book is
they decided to share it such that 1/3 of As same? [www.examveda.com]
profit is equal to 2/5 of B's profit. Then Rs. 720 Rs. 960
profit of B is [www.competoid.com]
Rs. 1200 Rs. 1440 c
Rs. 700 Rs. 750 ## A bought an article, paying 5% less than the
Rs. 850 Rs. 800 b original price. A sold it with 20% profit on
## A bicycle is sold for Rs.935 at a profit of the price he had paid. What percent of profit
10%. The actual profit or loss if it had been did A earn on the original price = ?
sold for Rs.810 will be [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
[www.competoid.com] 10 13
Rs.50 Rs.42 14 172 c
Rs.40 Rs.30 c ## A business man allows a discount of 15% on
## A bicycle marked at Rs. 2,000, is sold with the marked price for cash and he makes a
two successive discount of 20% and 10%.An profit of 20%. What is the marked price of
additional discount of 5% is offered for cash an article which costs him Rs.170?
payment. The selling price of the bicycle at [www.competoid.com]
cash payment is: [www.examveda.com] Rs.240 Rs.360
Rs. 1,368 Rs. 1,468 Rs.480 Rs.540 a
Rs. 1,568 Rs. 1,668 a ## A cloth merchant sold half of his cloth at
## A book seller allowed 10% discount on 40% profit, half of remaining at 40% loss
printed price. He gets 30% commission from and the rest was sold at the cost price. In the
publisher. His profit in percent will be? total transaction his gain or loss will be = ?
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20% gain 25% loss
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10% gain 15% loss c was sold at loss, was = ?
## A dairyman pays Rs.6.4 per litre of milk. He [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
adds water and sells the mixture at Rs.8 per Rs. 648 Rs. 360
litre, thereby making 37.5% profit. The Rs. 568 Rs. 440 a
proportion of water to milk received by the ## A man buys a cycle for Rs. 1400 and sells it
customers is [www.competoid.com] at a loss of 15%. What is the selling price of
1 : 15 1 :10 the cycle?
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1 : 20 1 : 21 b
Rs. 1090 Rs. 1160
## A dishonest dealer professes to sell his goods
at cost price but uses a weight of 875 gms for Rs. 1190 Rs. 1202 c
the kilogram weight. His gain in the ## A man buys a field of agricultural land for
percentage is = ? Rs. 3,60,000. He sells two-fifths at a gain of
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] 25%. At what price must he sell the
5 remaining field so as to make an overall
17% 4 % profit of 10%?
7
2 [www.competoid.com]
14 % 14% c Rs. 1,00,000 Rs. 1,15,000
7
Rs. 2,16,000 Rs. 1,25,000 @@
## A dishonest dealer professes to sell his goods
at the cost price but uses a false weight of Answer: Rs. 2,16,000
850 g. instead of 1 kg. his gain percent is = ? ## A man purchased an article for Rs. 1500 and
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] sold it at 25% above the cost price. If he has
12 11 to pay Rs. 75 as tax on it his net profit
17 % 17 % percentage will be = ?
17 17
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11 11
71 % 11 % b 25% 30%
17 17
15% 20% d
## A dishonest grocer sells rice at a profit of
1
10% and uses weight which are 20% less ## A manufacturer fixes his selling price 33 %
3
than the marked weight. The total gain
earned by him will be = ? over the cost of production. If cost of
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] production goes up by 12% and
37.5% 32% manufacturer raises his selling price by 10%
30.5% 35% a , his percentage profit is = ? [www.examveda.com;
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## A got 30% concession on the label price of
5 20
an article and sold for Rs. 8750 with 25% 36 % 30 %
9 21
profit on the price he bought. The label price
3
was = ? 35% 28 % b
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Rs. 13000 Rs. 16000 ## A merchant fixed the selling price of his
Rs. 12000 Rs. 10000 d articles at Rs.700 after adding 40% profit to
## A man bought two cows for Rs.4800. He sold the cost price. As the sale was very low at
one at a loss of 15% and another at a profit this price level. he decided to fix the selling
of 15% and found that each of the cow was price at 10% profit. Find the new selling
sold for the same price. Find the cost price of price
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each cow? [www.competoid.com]
Rs.450 Rs.490
Rs.2040, Rs.2760 Rs.2800, Rs.2000
Rs.3000, Rs.1800 Rs.2600, Rs.2200 a Rs.500 Rs.550 d
## A man bought two goats for Rs. 1008. He ## A merchant fixes the sale price of his goods
sold one at a loss of 20% and other at a at 15% above the cost price. He sells his
profit of 44% if each goat was sold for the goods at 12% less than the fixed price. His
same price the cost price of the goat which
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percentage of profit is: 20% on the whole?
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1 1 30% 32%
2 1
2 5 34% 35% d
1 ## A person purchased 11 articles for Rs.10 and
1 2 @@
2 at 10 articles for Rs.11. Find the gain
Answer: 115115 percentage.
## A milkman makes 20% profit by selling milk [www.competoid.com]
mixed with water at Rs. 9 per litre, if the cost 22 20
price of 1 litre pure milk is Rs. 10, then the 1 21 d
ratio of milk and water in the said mixture is ## A person purchased a horse and a carriage
=? for Rs.1800. He sold the horse at a profit of
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] 20% and the carriage at a profit of 30%. His
3:1 4:1 5
total profit was 25 %. Find the cost price of
3:2 4:3 a 6
## A person buys 100 cups at Rs. 10 each. On the horse. [www.competoid.com]
the way 20 cups are broken. He sells the Rs.1050, 750 Rs.1000, 800
remaining cups at Rs. 11 each. His loss per Rs.1200, 600 Rs.1100, 700 a
cent is [www.competoid.com] ## A person sold an article at 20% protit on the
15 10 selling price. After wards, when the cost
1 price reduced by 10%, then he also reduced
17 12 d
2 the selling price by 10%. His percentage of
## A person buys a bag at 25% discount on its profit cost price wil be [www.competoid.com]
original price. After few days, he sells it to 30 25
his friend at 40% increase on the original 22.5 12.5 b
price. What is his profit percentage (approx) ## A piece of land came to a person through
? three middleman each gaining 20%. If the
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] person purchased the land for Rs. 345600
75% 80% the original cost of the land was =
87% 85% c [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
## A person buys an article for Rs. p and sells it Rs. 100000 Rs. 150000
for Rs. q thereby gaining r% . The selling Rs. 175800 Rs. 200000 d
price in terms of cost price may be written as ## A publisher printed 2000 copies of a book at
- [www.examveda.com] a cost of Rs. 70000. He distributes 400 copies
pr r (100 + p) free as specimen copies. He ave 30%
100 100 discount on marked price of each book
p (100 + r) p (100 – r) which is Rs. 75. What is his gain or loss
c
100 100 percent age = ?
## A person had deposited Rs.13200 in a bank [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
which pays 14% interest. He withdraws the 20% gain 20% loss
money and invests in Rs.100 stock at Rs.110 10% loss 10% gain a
which pays a dividend of 15%. How much ## A radio dealer sold a radio at a loss of 2.5%.
does he gain or loss? [www.competoid.com] Had he sold it for Rs. 100 more. he would
Loss Rs.48 Gain Rs. 48 1 1
have gained 7 %. In order to gain 12 % he
Loss Rs.132 Gain Rs.132 @@
2 2
Answer: Loss Rs.48 should sell it for [www.competoid.com]
## A person having bought goods for Rs. 400 Rs. 1080 Rs 1125
sells half of it at a gain of 5%, at what gain Rs. 850 Rs. 925 b
% must he sell the remainder so as to gain
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## A refrigerator and a camera were sold for 13 13
Rs. 21817 Rs.20717
Rs. 12000 each. The refrigerator was sold at
a loss of 20% of the cost and camera at a 13 13
gain of 20% of the cost. The entire Rs.225 Rs.211 d
17 17
transaction results in which one of the ## A shopkeeper cheats to the extent of 10%
following? while buying as well as selling, by using false
[www.competoid.com] weights. His total gain is -
No loss or gain Loss of Rs. 1000 [www.examveda.com]
Gain of Rs. 1000 Loss of Rs. 2000 b 10% 11%
## A salesman expects a gain of 13% on his cost 20% 21% d
price. If in a month, his sale was Rs.791000, ## A shopkeeper purchased a TV for Rs. 2000
what was his profit? and a radio for Rs. 750. He sells the TV at a
[www.competoid.com] profit of 20% and the radio at a loss of 5%.
Rs.91000 Rs.97786 The total loss or profit is = ?
Rs.85659 Rs.88300 a [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
## A seller offers 25% discount on marked Gain Rs. 352.50 Gain Rs. 362.50
price and thus gain 20%. If his profit in Loss Rs. 332 Loss Rs. 300 b
selling an article is Rs.40, then its market ## A sold a motor cycle to B at a gain of 15%, B
price will be sold it to C at a gain of 20%. If C paid
[www.competoid.com] Rs.897, then A would have paid
Rs.300 Rs.320 [www.competoid.com]
Rs.350 Rs.375 @@ Rs.350 Rs.1,210
Answer: Rs.320 Rs.750 Rs.650 d
## A seller uses 920 g in place of one kg to sell ## A sold a tape - recorder to B for Rs. 4860 at
his goods. When he sells his article at 15% a loss of 19% . Again B sold it to C at price
gain on cost price, the actual percentage of that would give A a profit of 17% . The gain
profit is of B is = ?
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20% 15% 2 1
25% 30% 22 % 33 %
@@ 9 3
Answer: 25% 4 2
## A sells a bicycle to B at a profit of 20% . B 44 % 66 % c
9 3
sells it to C at a profit of 25% . If C pays Rs. ## A sold a watch at a gain of 5% to B and B
225 for it, the cost price of the bicycle for A sold it to C at a gain of 4%. If C paid Rs. 91
is = ? for it, then the price paid by A is:
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Rs. 110 Rs. 125 Rs. 84.33 Rs. 83
Rs. 120 Rs. 150 d Rs. 82.81 Rs. 83.33 d
## A sells a cycle to B at a profit of 10% , B sells ## 'A' sold an article for Rs.8000 and incurred a
to C at a profit of 20% . If C pays Rs. 264 for loss. Had he sold the article for Rs.9800. his
it, how much did A pay for it ? gain would have been twice the amount of
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loss. At what price should the article he sold
Rs. 200 Rs. 220 to earn 20% profit?
Rs. 225 Rs. 234 a [www.competoid.com]
## A shopkeeper buys a product of Rs. 150 per Rs.10,840 Rs.9,820
kg. 15% of product was damaged. At what Rs.10,320 Rs.9,840 c
price (per kg) should he sell the remaining so ## A store sells a watch for a profit of 25% of
as to earn a profit of 20%? the cost prize. Then the percentage of profit
[www.competoid.com]
against selling price is [www.competoid.com]
22% 20%
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18% 15% b apples per kg?
## A style cloth emporium the shopkeeper [www.competoid.com]
measures 20% less for every metre of cloth 49.5 48
also he marks-up goods by 20%. What is the 46 47 @@
profit percentage? Answer: 49.5
[www.examveda.com] ## A trader bought two horses for Rs. 19500, he
50% 65% sold one at a loss 20% and the other at a
75% 85% a profit of 15%. If the selling price of each
## A te1evision and a refrigerator were sold for horse is the same, then their cost prices are
Rs. 12,000 each If the television was sold at a respectively ?
loss of 20% of the cost and the refrigerator [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
at a gain of 20% of the cost, the entire Rs. 10000 and Rs. 9500 Rs. 11500 and
transaction resulted in Rs. 8000
[www.competoid.com] Rs. 12000 and Rs. 7500 Rs. 10500 and
No loss or gain Loss of Rs. 1,000 Rs. 9000 b
Gain of Rs. 1,000 Loss of Rs. 1,200 @@ ## A tradesman allows a discount of 15% on
Answer: Loss of Rs. 1,000 the marked price. How much above the cost
## A total profit of Rs. 3,600 is to be distributed price must he mark his goods as to gain 19%
amongst A, B and C such that A : B = 5 : 4 ?
and B : C = 8 : 9. The share of C in the profit [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
is: 34% 40%
[www.examveda.com] 25% 30% b
Rs. 1,200 Rs. 1,500 ## A tradesman sold an article at a loss of 20%.
Rs. 1,650 Rs. 1,700 a If the selling price had been increased by Rs.
## A trade man marks his goods 30% above 100, there would have been a gain of 5%.
1 The cost price of the article (in Rs.) was
cost price. If he allows his customer 12 % [www.competoid.com]
2
discount, how much profit % does he make? 100 200
[www.competoid.com] 400 500 c
13.75 % 6% ## A vendor bought toffees at 6 for a rupee.
20 % 24 % @@ How many for a rupee must he sell to gain
Answer: 13.75 % 20%?
## A trader allows 15% trade discount and [www.examveda.com]
10% cash discount. The selling price of an 3 4
article, if its marked price is Rs.400, is 5 6 c
[www.competoid.com] ## An article passing through two hands is sold
Rs.300 Rs.325 at a profit of 40% at the original cost price.
Rs.31 Rs.306 @@ If the 1st dealer makes a profit of 20%, then
Answer: Rs.306 the profit per cent made by the second is
## A trader allows a discount of 10% on the [www.competoid.com]
marked price. He still has a profit of 17% on 2 2
15 16
the cost price. Find the profit percentage. If 3 3
he sells at the marked price = ? 2 2
13 11 b
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27% 33% ## An article was sold at a profit of 12% . If the
30% 19% c cost price would be 10% less and selling
## A trader bought 10 kg of apples for Rs. 405 price would be Rs. 5.75 more, there would be
out of which 1 kg of apples were found to be a profit of 30 %. Then at what price it
rotten. If he wishes to make a profit of 10% should be sold to make a profit of 20% = ?
at what rate should he sell the remaining [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
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Rs. 115 Rs. 120 20% 22% b
Rs. 138 Rs. 215 c ## By selling 4 articles for 1 rupee, a man losses
## An article was sold at Rs. 950 allowing 5% 4%. Had he sold three articles per rupee, the
discount on the marked price. The marked profit would have been = ?
price of the article was = ? [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] 30% 28%
Rs. 960 Rs. 1000 16% 12% b
Rs. 955 Rs. 945 b ## By selling 8 dozen pencils, a shopkeeper
## An increase of 20% in the price of mangoes gains the selling price of 1 dozen pencils.
enables a person to purchase 4 mangoes less What is the gain?
for Rs. 40. The price of 15 mangoes before [www.competoid.com]
increase was 1 1
12 13
[www.competoid.com] 2 7
Rs. 10 Rs. 15 2 1
14 87 c
Rs. 20 Rs. 25 d 7 2
## Arun buys one kilogram of apples for Rs. ## By selling 80 ball pens for Rs. 140 a retailer
120 and sells it to Swati gaining 25%. Swati losses 30%. How many ball pens should he
sells it to Divya and Divya again sells it for sell for Rs. 104 so as to make a profit of 30%
Rs. 198, making a profit of 10%. What is the ? [www.examveda.com www.competoid.com]
profit percentage made by swati? 32 52
[www.competoid.com] 48 42 a
25% 20% ## By selling a table for Rs.350 instead of
16.67% 15% b Rs.400, loss percent increases by 5%. The
## Arvind purchased a wrist watch with 30% cost price of the table is:
discount on the labelled price. He sold it with [www.competoid.com]
40% profit on the price he bought. What was Rs.435 Rs.417.50
his percent loss on the labelled price ? Rs.1000 Rs.1050 c
[www.competoid.com] ## By selling a towel for Rs.126.90, a draper
2 6 loses 6%. For how much should he sell the
4 8 @@ towel to gain 4%?
Answer: 2 [www.competoid.com]
## Bhuvnesh sell two tape recorders at the same Rs.130 Rs.140.40
price. On one, he gains 10% and on the other Rs.145.05 Rs.160 b
he loses 10%. The total gain or loss in the 3
transaction is = ? ## By selling an article at of selling price, a
4
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trader incurred a loss of 10%. The
1% gain 1% loss Profit/loss percentage, when it is sold at the
No loss or gain 2% loss b original selling price, is = ?
## By selling 14 watches of equal cost price at [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
the rate of Rs. 450 each, there is profit equal 20% loss 120% profit
to the cost price of 4 watches. The cost price 32.50% loss 20% profit d
of the watch is = ? ## By what fraction selling price must be
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multiplied to get the cost price, if the loss is
Rs. 350 Rs. 360 20% = ?
Rs. 375 Rs. 400 a [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
## By selling 33 m of cloth, a shopkeeper gains 4 8
the price of 11 m of cloth. His gain per cent 5 5
is 5 6
[www.competoid.com] c
4 5
7% 50%
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## By what percent must the cost price he 20% 22% b
raised in fixing the sale price in order that ## David sells his Laptop to Goliath at a loss of
there may be a profit of 20% after allowing a 20% who subsequently sells it to Hercules at
commission of 10% ? a Profit of 25%. Hercules, after finding some
[www.competoid.com] defect in the laptop, returns it to Goliath but
1 could recover only Rs. 4.50 for every Rs. 5 he
25 133
3 had paid. Find the amount at Hercules' loss
1 if David had paid Rs. 1.75 lakh for the
33 30 c
3 laptop.
## Charu purchased a dinner set at 3/10th of its [www.examveda.com]
selling price and sold it at 10% more than its 3500 2500
CP. Find the gain per cent. [www.competoid.com] 17,500 20,000
15% 8% None of these c
9% 10% d ## Dinesh bought two radios for Rs. 1,920. he
## Cost of 4 fans and 3 blowers is Rs.16,500. sold one at a profit of 20% and the other at a
Also cost of 2 fans. 2 tables and 2 blowers is 2
loss 6 %. If the selling price of both radios
Rs.12000. Cost of one table is Rs.1,000. What 3
is the cost of 3 fans and one blower? are same, then find the cost price of both
[www.competoid.com] radios.
Rs.8,000 Rs.7,500 [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
Rs.8,500 Cannot be determined Rs. 800 and Rs. 1,120 Rs. 840 and Rs.
a 1,080
## Cost of a packet of coffee powder and a litre Rs. 860 and Rs. 1,060 Rs. 900 and Rs.
of milk are Rs.20 and Rs.30 respectively. 10 1,020 b
cups of coffee is made with one packet coffee ## Due to 25% fall in the rate of eggs one can
powder and for each cup 200 ml of milk is buy 2 dozen eggs more than before by
used. If coffee is sold at 25% profit, the investing Rs. 162. The the original rate per
selling price of each cup of coffee is dozen of the eggs is = ?
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Rs.12.50 Rs.6.25 Rs. 22 Rs. 24
Rs.8 Rs.10 d Rs. 27 Rs. 30 c
## Cost price = Rs.360, Selling price Rs.270. ## Find the difference of amount if 40%
What is the loss% [www.competoid.com] discount is given on Rs. 500 and two
30 % 25 % consecutive discount 30% and 10% are
40 % 35 % b given on the same amount.
## Cost price of 12 oranges is equal to the [www.examveda.com]
selling price of 9 oranges and the discount on Rs. 15 Rs. 0
10 oranges is equal to the profit on 5 Rs. 20 Rs. 10 a
oranges. What is the percentage point ## Find the selling price of goods if two
difference between the profit percentage and salesmen claim to make 25% profit each, one
discount percentage? [www.examveda.com] calculating it on cost price while another on
20 22.22 the selling price, the difference in the profits
16.66 15 earned being Rs. 100 and selling price being
None of These b the same in both the cases?
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## Cost price of 28 articles is equal to selling
Rs. 1200 Rs. 1600
price of 21 articles, then percentage of profit
is = ? Rs. 2400 Rs. 2500
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1 ## For Rs. 25,500, a furniture shop sells 3
12% 33 % computer tables and 5 chairs or 2 computer
3
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tables and 9 chairs. If one wants to buy a set ## If a man purchased 11 books for Rs.10 and
of only 1 computer table and 1 chair, how sold all the of 10 books for Rs.11 the profit
much does he need to pay? percentage is
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Rs. 1,500 Rs. 5,100 10 % 11 %
Rs. 6,000 Rs. 7,500 d 21 % 20 % @@
## How much percentage above the cost price Answer: 21 %
should a shopkeeper mark on his goods so ## If a man were to sell his chair for Rs. 720, he
that after allowing a discount of 10% he would lose 25%. To gain 25% he should sell
should gain 26% ? it for:
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140% 25% Rs. 1,200 Rs. 1,000
16% 40% d Rs. 960 Rs. 900 a
## I sold two watches for Rs. 300 each, one at ## If a manufacturer gains 10 percent,
loss of 20% and other at the profit of 20%. wholesaler 15 percent and retailer 25
What is the percentage of loss (-) or profit percent, then the production cost of an
(+) that resulted from the transaction? article, whose retail price is Rs. 1,265, is
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(+)4 ()1 Rs. 700 Rs. 750
(+)1 ()4 d Rs. 800 Rs. 900 c
## If 10% loss is made on selling price, then the ## If a Pen is sold at 4% profit instead 4% loss,
rate of loss on the cost price will be the seller gets Rs.6 more. Find out the cost
[www.competoid.com] price of the article?
1 1 [www.competoid.com]
11 % 9 % Rs.40 Rs.75
9 11
10% 11% a Rs.150 Rs.100 @@
## If 3 toys are sold at the cost price of 4 toys of Answer: Rs.75
the same kind, the profit will be: ## If a shirt cost Rs. 64, after 20% discount is
[www.competoid.com] allowed, what was its original price in Rs. ?
1 [www.competoid.com]
25% 33 % 76.80 80
3
2 88 86.80 b
66 % 50% b ## If a shopkeeper wants to give 20% discount
3
## If a commission at the rate of 10% is given to on cost prize of a toy, he has to sell it for Rs.
a bookseller on the marked price of a book 300. If he sells it at Rs. 405, then his gain
by the publisher, the publisher gains 20% . percent is
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If the commission is increased to 15% , then
the gain percent would be = ? 5% 8%
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] 6% 4% b
2 1 ## If an article is sold at 5% gain instead of 5%
6 % 13 % loss, the man gains Rs. 5 more. Find the cost
3 3
5 1 price of that article
15 % 12 % b [www.competoid.com]
6 2
Rs. 100 Rs. 105
## If a man estimates his loss as 20% of the
selling price, then his loss percent is = ? Rs. 50 Rs. 110 c
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] ## If bananas are bought at the rate of 4 for a
20% 25% rupee, how many must be sold for a rupee so
40 50 1
% % d as to gain %.
3 3 3
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4 3 1
5% 119% d
2.5 2 b
## If books bought at prices from Rs. 150 to Rs. ## If the cost price is 95% of the selling price,
300 are sold at prices ranging from Rs. 250 what is the profit percent = ?
to Rs. 350. What is the greatest possible [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
profit that might be made in selling 15 books 4% 4.75%
? [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] 5% 5.26% d
Cannot be determind Rs. 750 ## If the cost price of 12 oranges is equal to
Rs. 4250 Rs. 3000 d selling price of 10 oranges, then the
## If by selling an article for Rs. 390 a percentage of profit is
[www.competoid.com]
shopkeeper gains 20%, then the cost is = ?
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] 2
16 % 20%
Rs. 370 Rs. 325 3
Rs. 350 Rs. 300 b 18% 25% b
## If cost price of 20 articles is equal to the ## If the cost price of 16 tables be equal to the
selling price of 25 articles, then loss percent selling price of 12 tables, the gain per cent is
in the transaction is [www.competoid.com]
[www.competoid.com] 1
33 20%
5% 20% 3
25% 30% b 30% 15% a
## If on selling 12 notebooks any seller makes a ## If the cost price of 18 articles is equal to the
profit equal to the selling price of 4 selling price of 16 articles, the gain or loss is
notebooks. what is his per cent profit =?
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50% 25% 25% gain 25% loss
2 1 1
16 % Data inadequate a 12 % loss 12 % gain d
3 2 2
## If the cost of 12 pencils is equal to the selling ## If the cost price of 20 articles is equal to the
price of10 pencils, the profit per cent in the selling price of 15 articles, find the profit per
transactions is cent.
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2 1 1
16 % 18% 33 33
3 2 3
20% 25% c 1 1
33 33 @@
## If the cost of pins reduces by Rs. 4 per dozen, 5 7
12 more pins can be purchased for Rs. 48. Answer: 33133313
The cost of pins per dozen after reduction is: ## If the cost price of 50 oranges is equal to the
[www.competoid.com] selling price of 40 oranges, then the profit
Rs. 8 Rs. 12 per cent is
Rs. 16 Rs. 20 b [www.competoid.com]
## If the cost price and selling price of an article 5% 10%
are in the ratio of 10 : 11, then the 20% 25% @@
percentage profit is Answer: 25%
[www.competoid.com] 5
10% 9% ## If the cost price of an item is of its marked
9
3% 1% a price and the profit is 20% , then the
## If the cost price is 90% of the selling price, percentage of discount is = ?
what is the profit percent ? [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] 1
20% 63 %
4% 4.75% 3
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1 1 ## If the selling price of an article is doubled,
703% 333% d
then its loss profit percent is converted into
## If the difference between the selling prices of equal profit percent. The loss percent on the
an article at profit of 6% and 4% is Rs.3, article is = ?
then the cost price of the article should be [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
[www.competoid.com] 2623% 33%
Rs.100 Rs.150 3313% 34% c
Rs.175 Rs.200 b ## If the selling rice of a product is increased by
## If the loss of percent on article is 15%. Then Rs.162, then the business would make a
the ratio of the cost price and selling price profit of 17% instead of a loss of 13%. What
will be = ? is the cost Price of the product?
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17 : 20 20 : 17 Rs.540 Rs.450
23 : 15 15 : 23 b Rs.360 Rs.600 b
## If the manufacturer gains 10%, the ## If the successive discounts by 20%, 10% and
wholesale dealer 15% and the retailer 25%, 5%, then the single equivalent rate of
then the cost of production of an article discount is
whose retail price is Rs.1265. is: [www.competoid.com]
[www.competoid.com] 31.6% 31.5%
Rs.632.50 Rs.800 31% 31.4% a
Rs.814 Rs.834.34 b ## If the total cost of 73 articles having equal
## If the price of eraser is reduced by 25%. A cost is Rs. 5110 and the total selling price of
person can buy 2 more erasers for a rupee. 89 such articles is Rs. 5607, then in the
How many erasers are available for a rupee transaction, there will be = ?
after reduction ? [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] A loss of 15% A gain of 10%
8 6 A loss of 10% A gain of 15% c
4 2 a ## If toys are bought at Rs. 5 each and sold at
## If the profit on selling an article for Rs. 425 Rs. 4.50 each, then the loss is:
is the Same as the loss on selling it for Rs. [www.competoid.com]
355, then the cost price of the article is 10% 115%
[www.competoid.com] 12% 13% @@
Rs. 410 Rs. 380 Answer: 10%
Rs. 400 Rs. 390 d ## In the Bargaining Bazar everyone purchase
## If the profit per cent got on selling an article with a fair bargaining, so the traders
is numerically equal to its cost price in markup the prices too much. A trader
rupees and the selling price is Rs. 39, then marked up an article at Rs. M expected huge
cost price (in Rs.) will be: profit if it is sold on marked price. But a
[www.examveda.com] customer purchased it at
20 22 [www.examveda.com]
28 30 d 33.33% 50%
1 1 60% 66.66%
## If the sales tax be reduced from 3 % to 3 None of these
2 3 b
%, what difference does it make to person ## James and Vaibhav are gamblers. Last year,
who purchases an article whose marked the ratio between money lost by James and
price is Rs. 8,400? Vaibhav was 4 : 5. The ratios of their
[www.competoid.com] individual losses of the last year and present
Rs. 20 Rs. 15 year are 3 : 5 and 2 : 3 respectively. If total
Rs. 14 Rs. 10 @@ loss incurred to both of them this year is Rs.
Answer: Rs. 14
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357000 the present loss of James is = ? 7
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] ## Kumar purchased a tape recorder at of
10
Rs. 170000 Rs. 159000 its selling price and sold it at 4% more than
Rs. 168000 Rs. 137000 c its selling price. His gain is
## Joseph's salary is reduced by 10% . In order [www.competoid.com]
to have his salary back to his original 2 2
54 % 56 %
amount, it must be raised by = ? 7 7
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] 2 4
1 60 % 48 % d
12.5% 11 % 7 7
9 ## Last year Mr. A bought two paintings. This
10% 11% b year he sold them for Rs. 20000 each. On
## Kamal bought a house, whose sale price was one, he made a 25% profit and of the other
Rs. 8 lakh. He availed 20% discount as an he had a 25% loss. Then his net profit or loss
early bird offer and then 10% discount due is = ?
to cash payment. After that he spent 10% of [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
the cost price in interior decoration and lawn He loss more then Rs. 2000 He loss more
of the house. At what price should he sell the than Rs. 2000
house to earn a profit of 25%? He earned more than Rs. 2000 He earned
[www.examveda.com] less than Rs. 2000 a
Rs. 9 lakh Rs. 7.99 lakh ## lf a retailer marks prices at 20% profit and
Rs. 7.92 lakh Rs. 7 lakh then allows 10% discount, he makes a profit
None of These c of
## Kamya purchased an item of Rs.46,000 and [www.competoid.com]
sold it at a loss of 12 percent. With that 12% 10%
amount she purchased another item and sold 8% None of these. c
it at a gain of 12 percent. What was her ## List price of a book is Rs. 100. A dealer sells
overall gain / loss? three such books for Rs. 274.50 after
[www.competoid.com] allowing discount at a certain rate, find the
Loss of Rs.662.40 Profit of Rs.662.40 rate of discount = ?
Loss of Rs.642.80 Profit of Rs.642.80 b [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
## Krishna bought a camera and paid 20% less 8.33% 8.16%
than its original price. He sold it at 40% 8.50% 8.34% c
profit on the price he had paid. The ## List price of T.V is Rs. 2300 and discount
percentage of profit earned by krishna on series found to be 25% ans 10%. Then the
the original price was selling price of T.V is = ?
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22 32 Rs. 1255.50 Rs. 1525.50
12 15 @@ Rs. 1552.50 Rs. 1555.20 c
Answer: 12 ## Loss of 20% on selling prize is equal to x%
## Krishna purchased a number of articles at loss in cost price. What is x?
Rs. 10 for each and the same number for Rs. [www.competoid.com]
14 each. He mixed them together and sold 20% 20
them for Rs. 13 each. Then his gain or loss 2
16 % 16 c
percent is = ? 3
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1 2 ## Mahesh purchased a radio at of its selling
Loss 8 % Gain 8 % 10
3 3 price and sold it at 8% more than its orginal
2 8 selling price. His gain percent is:
Loss 8 % Gain % d
3 13 [www.competoid.com]
20% 18%
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10% 8% a Rs.220 Rs.230
## Meena purchased two fans each at Rs.1200. Rs.260 Rs.280 c
She sold one fan at the loss of 5% and other ## Niraj incurred a loss of 55% on selling an
at the gain of 10%. Find total gain or loss article for Rs.9549. What was the cost price
per cent. of the article?
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1.2% loss 1.2% profit Rs.27700 Rs.25600
2.5% profit 2.5% loss c Rs.21220 Rs.29000 c
## Meera purchased 23 bracelets at the rate of ## On a Rs. 1000 payment order, a person has
Rs.160 per bracelet. At what rate per choice between 3 successive discounts of
bracelet should she sell the bracelets so that 10%, 10% and 30%, and 3 successive
profit earned is 15%? discounts of 40%, 5% and 5%. By choosing
[www.competoid.com] the better one he can save (in rupees)
Rs.184 Rs.186 [www.examveda.com]
Rs.192 Rs.198 a 200 255
## Mohan bought 25 books for Rs. 2,000 and 400 433 b
sold them at a profit equal to the selling ## On selling a pen at 5% loss and a book at
price of 5 books. The selling price of 1 book 15% gain, Karim gains Rs.7. If he sells the
is: pen at 5% gain and the book at 10% gain,
[www.competoid.com] then he gains Rs.13. The actual price of the
Rs. 100 Rs. 120 book is
Rs. 150 Rs. 200 a [www.competoid.com]
## Mohan purchased a radio set and sold it to Rs.100 Rs.80
Shyam at profit. Shyam sold it to Ram at Rs.10 Rs.400 @@
10% loss and if Raman paid Rs.675, how Answer: Rs.80
much did Mohan purchased that radio. ## On selling an article at Rs.530, the gain is
[www.competoid.com] 20% more than the loss incurred on selling it
Rs.800 Rs.600 at Rs.475. In order to gain 20%. the selling
Rs.500 Rs.750 @@ price will be
Answer: Rs.600 [www.competoid.com]
## Mr. Kapur purchased two toy cycles for Rs. Rs.900 Rs.600
750 each. He sold these cycles, gaining 6% Rs.700 Rs.500 @@
on one and losing 4% on the other. The gain Answer: Rs.600
or loss percent in the whole transaction is = ? ## On selling an article for Rs. 105 a trader
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] loses 9%. To gain 30% he should sell the
1% loss 1% gain article at
1.5% loss 1.5% gain b [www.competoid.com]
## My friend collects antique stamps. She Rs. 126 Rs. 144
purchased two. but found that she needed to Rs. 150 Rs. 139 @@
raise money urgently. So. she sold them for Answer: Rs. 150
Rs.8000 each. On one she made 20% profit ## On selling an article for Rs. 651, there is a
and on the other she lost 20%. How much loss of 7%. The cost price of that article is =
did she gain or loss in the entire transaction? ?
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No loss/profit Rs.667 loss Rs. 744 Rs. 751
Rs.667 profit Rs.658 profit b Rs. 793 Rs. 700 d
## Neeta got profit of 10% on selling an article ## Oranges are bought at the rate of 10 for Rs.
in Rs.220. To get the profit of 30%, she 25 and sold at the rate of 9 for Rs. 25. The
should sell the article in how many rupees? profit is
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1 13
911% 10% ## Raghavan purchase a scooter at of its
15
1 1 selling price and sold it at 12% more than its
11 % 12 % c
9 2 selling price. His gain is -
## Pankaj purchased an item for Rs.7500 and [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
sold it at the gain of 24%. From that amount 3
20% 29 %
he purchased another item and sold it at the 13
loss of 20%. What is his overall gain/loss? 1
30% 38 % b
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Loss of Rs.140 Gain of Rs.60 ## Raghuvir purchased 10 calculators and 16
Loss of Rs.60 Neither gain nor loss watches for Rs. 56100 and sold them so as to
@@ earn an overall profit of 20%. At what total
Answer: Loss of Rs.60 price should he sell 15 calculators and 24
## Pawan kaul earns 15 percent on an watches together so as to earn the same
investment but loses 10 percent on another percentage profit?
investment. If the ratio of two investments is [www.examveda.com]
3 : 5, then the combined loss percent is = ? Rs. 100980 Rs. 116176
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] Rs. 121176 Rs. 100660
5 4 Rs. 124132 a
– % – %
7 5 ## Rahim buys mangoes at the rate of 3 kg for
8 5 Rs.21 and sells them at 5kg for Rs. 50. To
– % – % d
5 8 earn Rs. 102 as profit, he must sell
## Pooja wants to sell a watch at a profit of [www.competoid.com]
20% . She bought it at 10% less and sold it 34 kg 52 kg
at Rs. 30 less, but still she gained 20%. The 26 kg 32 kg a
cost price of watch ## Raj sold an item for Rs.6384 and incurred a
[www.competoid.com] loss of 30%. At what price should he have
Rs. 240 Rs. 250 sold the item to have gained a profit of 30%
Rs. 220 Rs. 225 b [www.competoid.com]
## Prof. Chatteijee bought a car and got 15% of Rs.14656 Rs.11856
its original price as a dealer's discount. He Rs.13544 Cannot be determined
then sold it at 20% profit on his purchase b
price. What percentage profit did he get on ## Rajan buys lemons at the rate of 9 for 80p
the original price? and sells them at 11 for 120p. His gain per
[www.competoid.com] lemon is
2% 12% [www.competoid.com]
5% 17% @@
250 11
Answer: 2% 11 99
## Profit on selling 10 candles equals selling 120 11
a
price of 3 bulbs. While loss on selling 10 99 6
bulbs equal selling price of 4 candles. Also ## Rajan buys mangoes at the rate of 3 kg for
profit percentage equals to the loss Rs.21 and sells them at 5 kg. for Rs.50. To
percentage and cost of a candle is half of the earn Rs.102 as profit, he must sell
cost of a bulb. What is the ratio of selling [www.competoid.com]
price of candles to the selling price of a bulb? 34 kg 52 kg
26 kg 32 kg a
[www.examveda.com] ## Ram has two articles A and B. The total cost
5:4 3:2 of both articles is Rs.8000. Ram sells article
4:5 3:4 b A at the profit of 20% and article B at a loss
of 12%. There is neither profit nor loss in
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the whole transaction. At what price should ## Some articles were bought at 6 articles for
the article B be sold to gain 25%? Rs. 5 and sold at 5 articles for Rs. 6. Gain
[www.competoid.com] percent is:
Rs.6250 Rs.6350 [www.examveda.com; www.indiabix.com]
Rs.3750 Rs.3850 a 1
30% 33
## Ramesh sold a book at a loss of 30%. If he 3
has sold it for Rs. 140 more, he would have 35% 44% d
made a profit of 40%. The cost price of the ## Some toffees were bought at the rate of 11
book is = ? for Rs. 10 and the same number at the rate
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] of 9 for Rs.10. If the Whole toffees was sold
Rs. 280 Rs. 200 at one rupee per toffee, then the gain or loss
Rs. 260 Rs. 300 b in the whole transaction was
## Ran sold a cow to Rahim at 20% profit. [www.competoid.com]
Rahim sold it to Robert at 25 % profit. If loss of 1% gain of 1%
Robert paid Rs. 900, then Ram had neither gain nor loss gain of 1.5%
purchased the cow (in rupees) for a
[www.competoid.com] ## Sumit purchased an item for Rs.4000 and
600 700 sold it at the gain of 35%. From that
750 800 a amount, he purchased another item and sold
## Ravi buys some toffees at 2 for a rupee and it at the loss of 20%. What is his overall
sells them at 5 for a rupee. His loss percent is gain/loss?
=? [www.competoid.com]
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] Loss of Rs.340 Gain of Rs.320
120% 90% Loss of Rs.360 Neither gain nor loss
30% 60% d b
## Rehaan purchased a bike for Rs. 54,000. He ## Suresh bought 25 kg of wheat at Rs.30 per
sold it at a loss of 8 per cent. With that kg. and 15 kg of wheat at Rs.40 per kg. He
money he again purchased another bike and mixed the two varieties together and sold it
sold it at a profit of 10 per cent. What is his at Rs.45.50 per kg. Find out the profit he got.
overall loss/ profit? [www.competoid.com]
[www.competoid.com] Rs.470 Rs.480
Loss of Rs.657 Profit of Rs. 567 Rs.460 Rs.370 a
Loss of Rs.648 Profit of Rs.648 @@ ## Tarun bought a TV with 20% discount on
Answer: Profit of Rs.648 labeled price. Had he bought it with 25%
## Seema purchased an item for Rs.9,600 and discount, he would have saved Rs.500. At
sold it for a loss of 5 percent. From that what price did he buy the T,V,
money she purchased another item and sold [www.competoid.com]
it for a gain of 5 percent. What is her overall Rs. 5,000 Rs.10,000
gain/loss? Rs.12,000 Rs. 8,000 d
[www.competoid.com] ## The accountants of a company show sales of
Loss of Rs.36 Profit of Rs.24 Rs. 12,600. The primary cost is 35% of sales
Loss of Rs.54 None of these d and trading cost accounts for 25% of the
15 gross profit. Gross profit is arrived at by
## Sita buys a fridge at of its original value excluding the primary cost plus the cost of
16
and sells it for 10% more than its value. advertising expenses of Rs. 1400, director's
Then, gain per cent is salary of Rs. 650 per annum plus 2% annual
[www.competoid.com] sales as miscellaneous costs. Find the
15.55% 11.67% percentage profit (approx) on a capital
16.67% None of these d investment of Rs. 14,000?
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35% 31% Rs. 1750 Rs. 2350
28% 26% Rs. 1150 Rs. 1975
Cannot be determined None of these d
b ## The cost price : selling price of an article is a
## The C.P of 10 articles is equal to the S.P of : b . Ifb is 200% of a then the percentage of
15 articles. What is the profit or loss profit on cost price is
percentage? [www.competoid.com]
[www.competoid.com] 75% 125%
25.5% 35% 100% 200% @@
10% 33.3% @@ Answer: 100%
Answer: 33.3% ## The cost price of 15 articles is same as the
## The cost of manufacture of a tape recorder is selling price of 10 articles. The profit percent
Rs. 1,500. The manufacturer fixes the is:
marked price 20% above the cost of [www.competoid.com]
manufacture and allows a discount in such a 30% 40%
way as to get a profit of 8%. The rate 3 of 50% 45% @@
discount is Answer: 50%
[www.competoid.com] ## The cost price of 20 tables is the same as the
12 8 selling price of 15 of them. The gain per
20 10 @@ percentage is
Answer: 10 [www.competoid.com]
## The cost of servicing of a Maruti car at 1
33 % 25 %
Maruti care Pvt. Ltd. is Rs. 400. Manager of 3
service centre told me that for the second 75% None of these @@
service within a year a customer can avail a Answer: 33133313%
10% discount and further for third and ## The cost price of 36 books is equal to the
fourth servicing he can avail 10% discount selling price of 30 books. The gain per cent is
of the previous amount paid, within a year. :
Further if a customer gets more than 4 [www.competoid.com]
services within a year, he has to pay just 4
20% 16 %
60% of the servicing charges on these 6
services. A customer availed 5 services from 2
18% 82 % a
the same servicing station, what is the total 6
percentage discount fetched by the ## The cost price of 400 lemons is equal to the
customer? selling price of 320 lemons. then the proiit
[www.examveda.com] percent is
19.42% 18.5% [www.competoid.com]
17.6% 26% 15% 20%
None of these a 25% 40% @@
## The cost of setting up a magazine is Rs. 2800. Answer: 25%
The cost of paper and ink etc is Rs. 80 per ## The cost price of a radio is Rs. 600. The 5%
100 copies and printing cost is Rs. 160 per of the cost price is charged towards
100 copies. In last month 2000 copies were transportation. After adding that, if the net
printed but only 1500 copies could be sold at profit to be made is 15%, then the selling
Rs. 5 each. Total 25% profit on the sale price price of the radio must be = ?
was realized. There is one more resource of [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
income from magazine which is advertising. Rs. 704.50 Rs. 724.50
What sum of money obtained from the Rs. 664.50 Rs. 684.50 b
advertising in magazine? ## The cost price of an article is 80% of its
[www.examveda.com] marked price for sale. How much per cent
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does the tradesman gain after allowing a article is = ?
discount of 12%? [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
[www.examveda.com] Rs. 950 Rs. 1050
20% 12% Rs. 1150 Rs. 1250 b
10% 8% c ## The difference between the selling price of
## The cost price of an article is Rs. 800. After an article at a profit of 15% and at a profit
allowing a discount of 10%, a gain of 12.5% of 10% is Rs. 10. The cost price of the article
is made. Then the marked price of the article is = ?
is [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
[www.competoid.com] Rs. 100 Rs. 120
Rs. 1,000 Rs. 1,100 Rs. 150 Rs. 200 d
Rs. 1,200 Rs. 1,300 @@ ## The income of a broker remains unchanged
Answer: Rs. 1,000 though the rate of commission is increased
## The cost price of article A is Rs.100 more from 4 per cent to 5 per cent. The percentage
than the cost price of article B. Article A was of slump in business is:
sold at 40% profit and article B was sold at [www.competoid.com]
40% loss. If the overall profit earned after 10 per cent 15 per cent
selling both the articles is 5%, what is the 20 per cent 30 per cent c
cost price of article B? ## The list price of an article is Rs. 900. It is
[www.competoid.com] available at two successive discounts of 20%
Rs.300 Rs.400 and 10% . The selling price of the article is =
Rs.250 Rs.350 d ?
## The currencies in countries M and N are [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
denoted by m and n respectively. The Rs. 640 Rs. 648
exchange rate in 1990 was lm. 0.6n the price Rs. 540 Rs. 548 b
level in 2006 in M and N are 150 and 400 ## The manufacturer of a machine sells it to a
respectively with 1990 as a base of 100. The distributor at a profit of 20%. The
exchange rate in 2006 based solely on the distributor in turn sells it to a stockist at a
purchasing power parity consideration is 1 gain of 10%. The stockist sells it to customer
m: for Rs.1,45,200 at a gain of' 10%. The cost
[www.competoid.com] price of the machine for the manufacturer is
0.225 n 0.625 n [www.competoid.com]
1.6 n 3.6 n a Rs.87,000 Rs.1,00,000
## The difference between a discount 40% on Rs.1,05,000 Rs.1,20,000 b
Rs. 500 and two successive discounts of 30% ## The marked price of a CD is Rs. 250. It is
and 10% the same amount is: sold for Rs. 225. The rate of discount is = ?
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Rs. 20 Rs. 10 1
11 % 25%
Rs. 15 Rs. 0 c 9
## The difference between successive discounts 2.5% 10% d
of 40% followed by 30% and 45% followed ## The marked price of a laptop is Rs. 12000. In
by 20% on the marked price of an article is a clearance sale it is sold at a discount of
Rs. 12. The marked price of the article is = ? 15%, incurring a lose of 400. What is the
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] cost price of the laptop?
Rs. 400 Rs. 800 [www.competoid.com]
Rs. 600 Rs. 200 c Rs. 10200 Rs. 10625
## The difference between the selling price and Rs. 11200 Rs. 10272 b
cost price of an article is Rs. 210. If the profit ## The marked price of a radio is 20% more
percent is 25, then the selling price of the than its cost price. If a discount of 10% is
given on the marked price, the gain per cent
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is: ## The price of a refrigerator and a television
[www.examveda.com] set are in the ratio 5 : 3. If the refrigerator
15 12 costs Rs. 5500 more than the television set,
10 8 d then the price of the refrigerator is = ?
## The marked price of an article is 10% higher [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
than cost price. A discount of 10% is given Rs. 27500 Rs. 8250
on marked price. In this kind of seller bears Rs. 13750 Rs. 16500 c
=? ## The price of a shirt after 15% discount, is
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] Rs. 119. What was the marked price of the
No loss No gain A loss of 5% shirt before discount
A gain of 1% A loss of 1% d [www.competoid.com]
## The marked price of an article is 30% higher Rs. 129 Rs. 140
than the cost price. If a trader sells the Rs. 150 Rs. 160 b
articles allowing 10% discount to customer, ## The price of an article by 30% and then two
then the gain percent will be = ? successive discounts of 10% each are
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] allowed. Ultimately, the price of the article is
17% 20% -
19% 15% a [www.examveda.com]
## The marked price of watch was Rs. 820. A Decreased by 5.3% Increased by 3%
man bought the same for Rs. 570.72 after Increased by 5.3% Decreased by 10% c
getting two successive discounts was - ## The price of an article reduces to 576 after
[www.examveda.com] two successive discounts. The markup is
12% 13% 80% above the cost price of Rs. 500. What is
15% 18% b the new profit percentage if instead of two
## The owner of a cell phone shop charges his successive discounts the markup price was
customer 28% more than the cost price. If further increased successively two times by
the customer paid Rs.8960 for the cell phone, the same percentage?
what was the cost price of the cell phone? [www.examveda.com]
[www.competoid.com] 259.2% 157%
Rs.7800 Rs.7000 159.2% 300%
Rs.6900 Rs.6850 b None of these c
## The percentage of loss when an article is sold ## The profit earned after selling a pair of shoes
at Rs. 50 is the same as that of the profit for Rs.2033 is the same as the loss incurred
when it is sold at Rs. 70. The after selling the same pair of shoes for
abovementioned percentage of profit or loss Rs.1063. What is the cost price of the shoes?
on the article is [www.competoid.com]
[www.competoid.com] Rs.1650 Rs.1548
1 Rs.1532 Rs. Cannot be
10% 16 %
2 determined b
2 ## The profit earned after selling an article for
20% 22 % b
3 Rs.1,516 is the same as loss incurred after
## The price of a jewellery, passing through selling the article for Rs.1,112. What is the
three hands. Rises on the whole by 65%. If cost price of the article?
the first and the second sellers earned 20% [www.competoid.com]
and 25% profit respectively, the profit Rs.1,314 Rs.1,343
earned by the third seller is = ? Rs.1,414 Rs.1,434 a
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] ## The profit earned by a shopkeeper by selling
20% 15% a bucket at a gain of 8% is Rs. 28 more than
10% 5% c when he sells it at a loss of 8%. The cost
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price (in Rupees) of the bucket is = ? ## The selling price of 20 articles is equal to the
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] cost price of 22 articles. The gain percentage
Rs. 170 Rs. 190 is
Rs. 175 Rs. 165 c [www.competoid.com]
## The profit percentage on three articles A, B 12% 9%
and C is 10%, 20%, and 25% and the ratio 10% 11% @@
of the cost price is 1 : 2 : 4. Also the ratio of Answer: 10%
number of articles sold of A, B and C is 2 : 5 ## The selling price of 6 bananas is equal to the
: 2, then overall profit percentage is: cost price of 8 bananas. Then the percentage
[www.examveda.com] of profit is
18.5% 21% [www.competoid.com; www.examveda.com]
23% 27% b 1
20 33
## The ratio of cost price and selling price 25 : 3
26. The percent of profit will be 25 30 b
[www.competoid.com] Answer: 33133313
26% 25% ## The selling price of 8 articles is same as the
1% 4% d cost price of 10 articles. What is profit % ?
Answer: 4% [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
## The ratio of cost price and selling price of an 25% 30%
article is 20 : 21. The gain percent on it is = ? 22% 33% a
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] ## The SP of 20 bicycles is equal to CP of 25
4 5 bicycles. The profit in percent is
6 10 b [www.competoid.com]
## The ratio of the C. P. and S. P. of an article 20% 25%
is 20: 21. What is the gain per cent ? 30% none of these b
[www.competoid.com] Answer: 25%
5% 5.5% ## The value of machine depreciates at the rate
6% 6.25% @@ of 12 per cent per annum. It was purchased
Answer: 5% three years ago. Its present value is
## The ratio of the cost price and selling price is Rs.29644,032. what was the purchase price
5 : 4, the loss percent is = ? of the machine?
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] [www.competoid.com]
20% 25% Rs.48700 Rs.43500
40% 50% a Rs.38900 Rs.39000 b
## The reduction of Rs. 12 in the selling price of ## There would be a loss of 10% if an article is
1 sold for 43.20. At what price should it be sold
an article will changes 5% gain into 2 %
2 to gain 10% ?
lose. The cost price of the article is = ? [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] Rs. 48.80 Rs. 52.80
Rs. 140 Rs. 160 Rs. 56.20 Rs. 56.80 b
Rs. 80 Rs. 100 b ## Three partners A, B and C started a business
## The sale price of an article including the with an investment of Rs.14000 each. A
sales tax is Rs.616. The rate of sales tax is withdrew Rs.2000 after two months. B
10%. If the shopkeeper has made a profit of invested Rs.2000 more and C invested
12%, then the cost price of the article is Rs.4000 more at the same time. Total profit
[www.competoid.com] earned at the end of the year was Rs.54400.
Rs.500 Rs.515 Find A's share in the profit.
Rs.550 Rs.600 @@ [www.competoid.com]
Answer: Rs.500 Rs.12800 Rs.14600
Rs.14680 Rs.15800 @@
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Answer: Rs.12800 Rs.2500 less than the price at which the first
## To gain 10% on selling the mixture of milk was sold. If the overall profit earned by
and water at the cost price of pure milk, the selling both the mobile phones was 5%, what
quantity of water to be mixed with 50 kg of was the cost price of one mobile phone?
pure milk is = ? [www.competoid.com]
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] Rs.8000 Rs.5000
2.5 kg 5 kg Rs.6000 Rs.4500 b
7.5 kg 10 kg b ## Two motor cars were sold for Rs.9900 each,
## Two - third of a consignment was sold at a gaining 10% on one and losing 10% on the
profit of 5% and the remainder at a loss of other. The gain or loss per cent in the whole
2%. If the total profit was Rs. 400. Then the transaction is
value of the consignment was = ? [www.competoid.com]
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] neither loss nor gain 1% gain
Rs. 15000 Rs. 15500 100
% 1% loss d
Rs. 16000 Rs. 16500 a 99
## Two bicycles were sold for Rs. 3990 each ## Two successive discount of 10% and 20%
gaining 5% on one and losing 5% on other. are equivalent to a single discount of:
The gain or Loss per cent on the whole [www.examveda.com]
transaction is : 30% 28%
[www.competoid.com] 26% 25% b
neither gain nor loss 2.5% gain ## Two successive price increase of 10% and
2.5% loss 0.25% @@ 10% of an article are equivalent to a single
Answer: 0.25% price increase of:
## Two blends of a commodity costing Rs. 35 [www.examveda.com]
and Rs. 40 per kg respectively are mixed in 2
26 25%
the ratio 2 : 3 by weight. If one-fifth of the 3
mixture is sold at Rs. 46 per kg and the 1
21% 33 c
remaining at the rate Rs. 55 per kg, the 3
profit percent is ## Vishal goes to a shop to buy a radio costing
[www.competoid.com] Rs.2568. The rate of sales tax is 7%. He tells
50 20 the shopkeeper to reduce the price of the
40 30 c radio to such an extent that he has to pay
## Two items A and B are sold at a profit of Rs.2568, inclusive of sales tax. Find the
10% and 15% respectively. If the amount of reduction needed in the price of the radio.
profit received is the same, then the cost [www.competoid.com]
price of A and B may be = ? Rs.179.76 Rs.170
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] Rs.168 Rs.169 @@
Rs. 1000, Rs. 1500 Rs. 5000, Rs. 2000 Answer: Rs.168
Rs. 3000, Rs. 2000 Rs. 3000, Rs. 5000 c ## What is the single profit equivalent to two
## Two mobile phones are sold at Rs. 6000 successive profits of 20% and 15%?
each. The first mobile is sold at 20% profit [www.competoid.com]
and the other one at 25% loss. What is the 38% 35%
percentage of loss or profit incurred during 30% 20% a
the deal? ## What profit/loss per cent did Ravi earn if he
[www.competoid.com] purchased an item of Rs.5.600 and sold it at
7.7% loss 8.3 loss three-fourth of its cost price?
9 % loss 2% profit a [www.competoid.com]
## Two mobile phones were purchased at the Loss of 20 per cent Gain of 25 per cent
same price. One was sold at a profit of 30% Neither gain nor loss None of these
and the second was sold at a price which was d
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## When a discount of 42 is allowed on the Rs.2,640 for it, what did it cost to X.
marked price of an article, the new reduced [www.competoid.com]
price becomes 86% of the original price. Rs.1500 Rs.1700
Find the marked price. Rs.2000 Rs.2500 c
[www.competoid.com] ## A bought 4 bottles of beer and B bought one
Rs. 250 Rs. 300 bottle of larger, larger per bottle costing
Rs. 350 Rs. 400 @@ twice that of the beer. C bought nothing but
Answer: Rs. 300 paid Rs.50, for his share of the drink which
## When the price of cloth was reduced by they mixed together and shared equally. If
25%, the quantity of cloth consumption C's Rs.50 covered his share, then what is the
increased by 20% what was the effect on cost of the larger? [www.competoid.com]
gross receipt of the shop? Rs.50 Rs.75
[www.competoid.com] Rs.30 Rs.46 a
5% increase 5% decrease ## A calculator is bought for Rs.350 and sold at
10% increase 10% decrease c a gain of 15%. What will be the selling price
## While selling a watch, a shopkeeper gives a of calculator (in Rs.)
discount of 5%. If he gives a discount of 7%, [www.competoid.com]
he earns Rs. 15 less as profit. The marked Rs.385 Rs.375
price of the watch is Rs.472 Rs.402.5 d
[www.competoid.com] ## A cloth merchant has announced 25%
697.5 712.5 rebate in prices. If one needs to have a
750 None of these c rebate of Rs. 40 then how many metres of
## While selling to the retailer, a company cloth costing Rs. 32 per metre he should
allows 30% discount on the marked price of purchase = ? [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
their products. If the retailer sells those 6m 5m
products at marked price, his profit % will 10m 7m b
be = ? ## A coconut merchant finds that the cost price
[www.examveda.com]
17 of 2750 coconuts is the same as the selling
30% % price of 2500 coconuts. His loss or gain will
2
be = ?
6 [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
40% 42 % d
7 5% 10% gain
## With a 5% discount on the cost of sugar a 15% loss 20% gain b
buyer could purchase 2 kg more sugar for ## A company charges a fixed rental of Rs. 350
Rs. 608. Selling Price of Sugar is: per month. It allows 200 calls free per
[www.examveda.com]
month. Each call is charge at Rs. 1.4 when
Rs. 15.20 Rs. 15
the number of calls exceed 200 per month
Rs. 16.50 Rs. 2 a and it charges Rs. 1.6 when the number of
## x sells two articles for Rs. 4000 each with no calls exceeds 400 per month and so on. A
loss and no gain in the transaction. If one customer made 150 calls in February and
was sold at a gain of 25% the other is sold at 250 calls in march. By how much percent
a loss of = ? each call is cheaper in March than each call
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
2 in February. [www.examveda.com]
25% 18 % 28% 25%
9
2 18.5% 16%
16 % 20% c None of these a
3
## A company offers three types of successive
## X sold an article to Y at a gain of 10%. Y
discounts
sold it to Z at a gain of 20%. lf Z paid
i. 25% and 15%
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ii. 35% and 10% Rs. 45000 Rs. 47500
iii. 35% and 5% Rs. 50000 Rs. 52500 c
Which offer is the best for a customer ? ## A dealer marks his goods 20% above cost
[www.examveda.com] price. He then allows some discount on it and
First offer Second offer makes a profit of 8%. The rate of discount is
Third offer Any one,all are equally [www.competoid.com]
good c 4% 6%
## A customer saves Rs. 320 at the rabate of 10% 12% c
20% on marked price of an article. If the ## A dealer purchased a washing machine for
cost price of the article for shopkeeper is Rs. Rs. 7660. After allowing a discount of 12%
1000, then the profit percent of shopkeeper on its marked price, he still gains 10% . Find
is: the marked price of the washing machine = ?
[www.competoid.com] [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
30% 28% Rs. 9575 Rs. 8426
20% 25% b Rs. 8246 Rs. 9755 a
## A dealer allows a discount of 15%. A ## A dealer sold an article at 6% loss. Had he
customer pays an amount of Rs. 318.75 for sold it for Rs. 64 more, he would have made
an article. At what price is the article listed ? a profit of 10%. Then the cost of the article
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] is [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
Rs. 366.50 Rs. 375.00 Rs. 400 Rs. 200
Rs. 350.00 Rs. 431.25 b Rs. 164 Rs. 464 a
## A dealer bought 80 cricket bats for Rs. 50 ## A dealer sold three-fourth of his articles at a
each. He sells 20 of them at a gain of 5%. gain of 24% and the remaining at the cost
What must be the gain percentage of the price. Percentage of gain in the whole
remaining bats, so as to get 10% gain on the transaction is [www.competoid.com]
whole? [www.competoid.com] 15 18
2 1
3 12 24 32 b
11 2 3
2 ## A dealer sold of his articles at a gain of
11 Rs. 3350 c 4
3
20% and the remaining at cost price. The
## A dealer fixed the price of an article 40% gain per cent earned by him in the whole
above the cost of production. While selling it transaction is [www.competoid.com]
he allows a discount of 20% and makes a 13 14
profit of Rs. 48. The cost of production (in 15 16 c
Rs.) of the article is [www.competoid.com]
## A discount of 10% is given by a salesman for
320 400
cash payment. What should be the marked
420 360 b price if he wants to earn a profit of 5% ?
## A dealer is selling an article at a discount of [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
5% on the marked price. If the marked price 16.67% 15%
is 12% above the cost price and the article 22% 10% a
was sold for Rs. 532 then the cost price is (in ## A discount series of p% and q% on an
Rs.) [www.competoid.com] invoice is the same as a single discount of -
500 525 [www.examveda.com]
505 520 a p + q + pq  % p – q + pq  %
## A dealer makes a profit of 20% even after  100  100
giving a 10% discount on the advertised pq
100 – p + q + % None of these
price of a scooter. If he makes a profit of Rs.  100
7500 on the sale of the scooter. the advertised d
price was [www.competoid.com]
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## A dishonest dealer marks up the price of his customer. What is the overall profit
goods by 20% and gives a discount of 10% to percentage?
the customer. He also uses a 900 gram [www.examveda.com]
weight instead of a 1 kilogram weight. Find 50% 60%
his percentage profit due to these 70% 80%
maneuvers? [www.examveda.com] None of these d
8% 12% ## A driver of auto rickshaw makes a profit of
20% 16% c 20% on every trip when he carries 3
## A dishonest dealer marks up the price of his passengers and the price of petrol is Rs. 30 a
goods by 20% and gives a discount of 10% to litre. Find the % profit for the same journey
the customer. Besides, he also cheats both his if he goes for 4 passengers per trip and the
supplier and his buyer by 100 grams while price of petrol reduces to Rs. 24 litres?
buying or selling 1 kilogram. Find the (revenue per passenger is same)
percentage profit earned by the shopkeeper? [www.examveda.com]
[www.examveda.com] 20% 33.33%
20% 25% 100% 65.66%
32% 46.66% Data inadequate c
50% c ## A fruit seller buys 700 oranges at the rate of
## A dishonest dealer purchases goods at 20% Rs.500 for 100 oranges and another variety
discount of the cost price of Rs. X and also of 500 oranges at the rate of Rs.700 for 100
cheats his wholesaler by getting 20% extra oranges and sells them at Rs.84 per dozen.
through false weighing, per kg. Then he The profit per cent is [www.competoid.com]
marks up his goods by 80% of x, but he gives 20% 40%
a discount of 25% besides he cheats his 30% 10% a
customer by weighing 10% less than the ## A fruit seller buys some oranges and by
required. What is his overall profit selling 40% of them he realizes the cost price
percentage? [www.examveda.com] of all the oranges. As the oranges being to
125% 100% grow over-ripe, he reduces the price and
98.66% 120% sells 80% of the remaining oranges at half
None of these a the previous rate of profit. The rest of the
## A dishonest shopkeeper, using a faulty oranges being rotten are thrown away. The
balance makes a profit of 5% while buying overall percentage of profit is: [www.examveda.com]
as well as while selling his goods. His actual 80 84
gain percent in the whole process amounts to 94 96 b
[www.competoid.com] ## A furniture seller sells two tables at Rs.1500
11 10 each. He earned a profit of 20% on one table
10.25 10.5 c and suffered a loss of 20% on the another
## A dishonest trader claims that his selling table. Net profit or loss in this deal is
price is equal to C. P. but weighs 900 gm [www.competoid.com]
instead of 1 kg. Find his percentage gain. 4% loss 4% profit
[www.competoid.com] Neither profit nor loss 10% loss
2 4 a
18 % 16 %
9 9 ## A grocer professes to sell goods at the cost
1 1 100
119% 199% c price but uses false weights. He gains %
9
## A dishonest trader marks up his goods by in this manner. He uses a weight of
80% and gives discount of 25%. Besides he [www.examveda.com]
gets 20% more amount per kg from 950gms 900gms
wholesaler and sells 10% less per kg to 930gms 940gms b
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## A grocery dealer cheats to the extent of 10% 1 2
while buying as well as selling by using false 3 4 d
weight. What is his increase in the profit ## A man bought 20 dozen eggs for Rs. 720.
percentage = ? What should be the selling price of each egg
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] if he wants to make a profit of 20%?
20% 21% [www.competoid.com]
22% None of these b Rs. 3.25 Rs. 3.30
## A horse and a carriage together cost Rs. 3.50 Rs. 3.60 d
Rs.8000. If by selling the horse at a profit of ## A man bought 25 crates of oranges for
10% and the carriage at a loss of 10% a total 10000. He lost 5 crates. In order to earn a
profit of 2.5% is made, then what is the cost total profit of 25% of the total cost, he would
price of the horse? [www.competoid.com] have to sell each of the remaining crates at =
Rs.3000 Rs.3500 ? [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
Rs.4000 Rs.5000 d Rs. 650 Rs. 625
## A house and a shop were sold for Rs. 1 lakh Rs. 600 Rs. 575 b
each. In this transaction, the house sale ## A man bought 50 dozen eggs of a rate of Rs.
resulted into 20% loss whereas the shop sale 4 per dozen. He finds 40 eggs rotten, In
resulted into 20% profit. The entire order to gains 5%, he should sell eggs at
transaction resulted in - [www.examveda.com] [www.competoid.com]
1 Rs. 4.50 per dozen Rs. 5 per dozen
No loss, no gain Loss of Rs. lakh
12 Rs. 5.50 per dozen Rs. 6.50 per dozen a
1 1 ## A Man bought 500 metre of electric wire at
Loss of Rs. 18 lakh Gain of Rs. 24 lakh 50 paise per metre he sold 50% part at the
b profit of 5%, at what % profit he sold
## A house costs C rupees. Later it was sold for remaining as to gain 10% on the whole
a profit of 25%. What is the capital gains tax transaction? [www.competoid.com]
if it is 50% of the profit (in rupees)? 13% 12.5%
[www.competoid.com] 15% 20% c
C C ## A man bought a horse and a cart. If he sold
24 8 the horse at 10 % loss and the cart at 20 %
C C gain, he would not lose anything; but if he
b
4 2 sold the horse at 5% loss and the cart at 5%
## A house was sold for Rs. by giving a discount gain, he would lose Rs. 10 in the bargain.
of x% , then the list price was = ? The amount paid by him was Rs. — for the
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] horse and Rs. — for the cart. [www.examveda.com]
100y 100x 500, 300 200, 400
1–x 100 – y 400, 200 300, 500 c
1400y 100x ## A man bought a horse and sold it at a gain of
c
100 – x 100 – x 10%. If he had bought the horse at 20% less
## A house worth Rs. 150000 is sold by X at a and sold it for Rs.100 more he would have a
5% profit to Y, Y sells the house back to X at profit of 40%. The C.P of horse is
a 2% loss. Then find profit and loss in the [www.competoid.com]
entire transaction = ? Rs.2000 Rs. 4000
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] Rs.5000 Rs.6000 c
X gains Rs. 4350 X loses Rs. 4350 ## A man bought oranges at the rate of 8 for
X gains Rs. 3150 X loses Rs. 3150 c Rs. 34 and sold them at the rate of 12 for Rs.
## A loss of 20% is incurred when 6 articles are 57. How many oranges should be sold to
sold for a rupee. To gain 20% how many earn a net profit of Rs. 45 ?
articles should be sold for a rupee ? [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
[www.competoid.com] 90 100
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135 150 a Rs. 300 Rs. 350 c
## A man buys 12 articles for Rs. 12/- and sells ## A man buys a toy for Rs. 25 and sells it for
them at the rate of Rs. 1.25 per article. His Rs. 30. His gain percent is = ? [www.examveda.com;
gain percentage is: www.competoid.com]
[www.competoid.com] 20% 10%
20 25 5% 2.5% a
15 18 b ## A man gains 10% by selling an article for a
## A man buys 3 cows and 8 goats in Rs. 47,200. certain price. If he sells it at double the price,
Instead of he would have bought 8 cows and then the profit made is [www.competoid.com]
3 goats he had to pay Rs. 53,000 more. Cost 120% 20%
of one cow is : 40% 100% a
[www.competoid.com] ## A man gains 20% by selling an article for a
Rs. 11,000 Rs. 12,000 certain price. If he sells it at double the price,
Rs. 13,000 Rs. 10,000 b the percentage of profit will be :
## A man buys 4 tables and 5 chairs for Rs. [www.competoid.com]
1000. If he sells the tables at 10 % profit and 40 140
chairs at 20% profit, he earns a profit of 100 120 b
Rs.120. What is the cost of one table? ## A man gets Rs. 13 more by selling an article
[www.competoid.com] 1
Rs. 200 Rs. 220 at a profit of 12 % than selling it at a
2
Rs. 240 Rs. 260 a 1
## A man buys a certain number of oranges at loss 12 %. The cost price of the article is :
2
20 for Rs. 60 and an equal number at 30 for [www.competoid.com]
Rs. 60. He mixes them and sells them at 25 Rs.25.50 Rs. 38
for Rs. 60. What is gain or loss percent ? Rs.52 Rs. 65 c
[www.competoid.com]
## A man loses 10% by selling an article for
Gain of 4% Loss of 4%
Rs.180. At what price should he sell it to gain
Neither gain nor loss Loss of 5% 10%? [www.competoid.com]
b
Rs.220 Rs.217.80
## A man buys a chair and table for Rs. 6000.
Rs.200 Rs.216 a
He sells the chair at a loss of 10% and the
table at gain of 10%. He still gains Rs. 100 ## A man purchased a bedsheet for Rs. 450 and
on the whole. Cost price of chair is: sold it at a gain of 10% calculated on the
[www.examveda.com] selling price. The selling price of the
Rs. 2500 Rs. 2850 bedsheets was [www.competoid.com]
Rs. 3050 Rs. 3500 a Rs. 460 Rs. 475
## A man buys a field of agricultural land for Rs. 480 Rs. 500 d
Rs. 3,60,000. He sells one-third at a loss of ## A man purchased some eggs at 3 for Rs. 5
20% and two-fifths at a gain of 25%. At and sold them at 5 for Rs.12. Thus he gained
what price must he sell the remaining field Rs. 143 in all. the number of egges he bought
so as to make an overall profit of 10%? is
[www.examveda.com] [www.competoid.com]
Rs.1,00,000 Rs. 1,15,000 210 200
Rs. 1,20,000 Rs. 1,25,000 c 195 190 c
## A man buys a table and a chair for 500. He ## A man purchased some fruits for Rs. 1000.
sells the table at a loss of 10% and the chair He sold fruits worth 400 at 10% profit. At
ata gain of 10%. He still gain Rs. 10 on the what profit per cent, must he sell the rest in
whole. The cost price of chair in rupees is order to gain 20% on the whole?
[www.competoid.com] [www.examveda.com]
Rs. 200 Rs. 250
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2 the Cost price of article.
263% 25% [www.competoid.com]
1 Rs.280 Rs.260
30% 33 % a Rs.160 Rs.180 c
3
## A man purchased the articles for Rs. 123684. ## A man sells calculator at the rate of Rs.250
He sold 60% of those at a profit of 16.66% each which includes a profit of 14%. What
and rest at a loss. Find the loss percentage on amount of profit will he earn in 19 days, if he
the remaining if the overall loss is 14%? sells seven calculators per day?
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20% 30% Rs.4665 Rs.4565
60% 66.66% c Rs.4545 Rs.4083 d
## A man purchases some oranges at the rate of ## A man sells two flats at the rate of Rs. 1.995
3 for Rs. 40 and the same quantity at 5 for lakhs each. On one he gains 5% and on the
Rs. 60. If he sells all the oranges at the rate other, he loses 5% . His gain or loss percent
of 3 for Rs. 50, find his gain or loss percent ( in the whole transaction is -
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to the nearest integer ) = ?
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] 0.25% loss 0.25% gain
34% loss 31% profit 2.5% loss 25% loss a
31% loss 32% profit d ## A man sells two horses for Rs.6000 each
## A man purchases two fans for Rs. 2,160. By neither losing nor gaining in the deal. If he
selling one fan at a profit of 15% and the sold one horse at a gain of 25%, the other
other at a loss of 9% he neither gains nor horse is sold at a loss of [www.competoid.com]
loss in the whole transaction. Find the cost 1
16 % 24 %
price of each fan in Rs. 3
[www.competoid.com] 20 % 16 % c
710,1450 1530,630 ## A man sells two pipes at Rs. 12 each. He
810,1350 1340,820 c gains 20% on one and loses 20% on the
## A man sells a car to his friend at 10% loss. If other. In the whole transaction, there is
the friend sells it for Rs. 54,000 and gains [www.competoid.com]
20%, the original cost price of the car was neither loss nor gain Profit of Rs. 1
[www.competoid.com] Loss of Rs. 1 profit of Rs. 2 5 c
Rs. 25,000 Rs. 35,000 ## A man sold 20 apples for Rs. 100 and gained
Rs. 45,000 Rs. 50,000 d 20%. How many 51pples did he buy for Rs.
## A man sells an article at 15% profit. If he 100?
had sold it for. Rs. 6 more, he would have [www.competoid.com]
gained 18% The man bought the article for 20 22
[www.competoid.com] 24 25 c
100 150 ## A man sold his watch at a loss of 10%. Had
200 250 c he sold it for Rs.140 more, he would have
## A man sells an article at 5% profit. If he had gained 10%. Find the cost price of the
bought. it at 5% less and sold it for Re.1 less, watch?
he would have gained 10%. The cost price of [www.competoid.com]
the article is Rs.700 Rs.600
[www.competoid.com] Rs.750 Rs.690 a
Rs.200 Rs.150 ## A man sold his watch at a loss of 5%. Had he
Rs.250 Rs.240 a sold it for Rs. 56.25 more, he would have
## A man sells an article at a profit of 30%. If gained 10%. What is the cost price of the
he had bought it at 10% loss, and sold it for watch (in Rs.)? [www.examveda.com]
Rs.28 less he would have gained 25%. Find 365 370
375 390 c
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## A man sold horses for Rs.960 each. On one ## A man sold two huts for Rs.900 each gaining
he gains 20% and on another he losses 20%. 10% on the one and losing 10% on the other.
How much does he gain or lose in the whole His gain or loss is
transaction? [www.competoid.com] [www.competoid.com]
Profit 4 % Loss 8 % gain of 1% loss of 1%
Profit 8 % Loss 4 % d 1 1
gain of % loss of % b
## A man sold some articles at a gain of 10%. 2 2
He spent his total sale proceeds to purchase ## A man sold two watches, each for Rs.495. If
such articles again. This time, while selling he gained 10% on one watch and suffered a
them, he incurred a loss of 10%. His loss or loss of 10% on the other, then what is the
gain in the transaction was [www.competoid.com] loss or gain percentage in the transaction?
1% loss 1% gain [www.competoid.com]
1% gain 1% loss
no profit no loss 2% loss. a
100
## A man sold two articles at Rs. 375 each. On Neither gain nor loss
99
one, he gains 25% and on the other, he kises
25%. The gain or loss% on whole a
## A man wanted to sell an article with 20%
transaction is [www.competoid.com]
1 profit: but he actually sold at 20% loss for
6% loss 46% profit Rs. 480, at what price he wanted to sell it to
earn the profit = ?
1 [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
Rs. 50 profit 6 % loss d
4 Rs. 720 Rs. 840
## A man sold two chairs at Rs. 1,200 each. On Rs. 600 Rs. 750 a
one he gained 20% and on the other he lost ## A manufacturer of a certain item can sell all
20%. His gain or loss in the whole he can produce at the selli6ng price of Rs.60
transaction is: [www.examveda.com] each. It costs him Rs. 40 in materials and
1% loss 2% loss labour to produce each item and he has
4% loss 15 gain c overhead expenses of Rs.3000 per week in
## A man sold two horses for Rs.3000 each order to operate that plant. The number of
gaining 25% on the one and losing 25% on units he. should produce and sell in order to
the other. His loss percent is make a profit of at least Rs.1000 per week is:
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1 1 250 800
73 % 64%
400 200 d
1 5 ## A merchant blends two varieties of tea from
8 % 5 % b
3 9 two different tea gardens, one costing Rs.45
## A man sold two horses for Rs.990 each per kg and other Rs.60 per kg in the ratio of
gaining 10% on the one and losing 10% on 7 : 3 respectively. He sells the blended
the other. His total gain or loss is variety at Rs.54.45 per kg. His profit percent
[www.competoid.com] is
gain of Rs.20 loss of Rs.20 [www.competoid.com]
gain of Rs.25 loss of Rs.25 b 5% 10%
## A man sold two houses for Rs.96000 each. In 1 1
the sale of the first house, he incurred 20% 911% 116% b
profit and in the sale of the second, he ## A merchant buys 25 litres of milk daily at
Incurred 20% loss. What is the gain or loss the rate Rs. 12 per litre. He mixes 5 litres of
percentage in total? [www.competoid.com] water in it and sells at the rate [www.competoid.com]
6% gain 6% loss 8% profit 2% profit
4% gain 4% loss d 4% profit 6% profit c
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## A merchant buys an article for Rs. 27 and 1
85 % 7%
sells it at a profit of 10% of the selling price.
The selling price of the article is : 2 1
[www.competoid.com] 8 % 7 % d
5 7
Rs. 29.70 Rs. 30 ## A milkman mixed the water with milk to
Rs. 37 Rs. 32 b gain 25% by selling the mixture at cost price.
## A merchant buys two items for Rs.7500. One The ratio of water and milk is:
item he sells at a profit of 16% and the other [www.competoid.com]
item at 14% loss. In the deal the merchant 5:4 1:5
makes neither any profit nor any loss. What 4:5 1:4 d
is the difference between selling price of both ## A motorcycle is sold at a profit of 16%. Had
the items? (in rupees) [www.competoid.com] it been sold for Rs.1000 more, the profit
Rs.625 Rs.610 would have been 20%. It's CP is
Rs.620 Rs.630 c [www.competoid.com]
## A merchant earns a profit of 20% by selling Rs.20000 Rs.22500
a basket containing 80 apples whose cost is Rs.25000 Rs.27500 c
Rs.240 but he gives one fourth of it to his ## A person bought 50 pens for Rs. 50. He sold
friend at cost price and sells the remaining 40 of them at a loss of 5%. He wants to gain
apples. In order to earn the same profit, at 10% on the whole. Then his gain percent on
what price must he sell each apple? the remaining pens should be = ?
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Rs. 3.00 Rs. 3.60 15% 40%
Rs. 3.80 Rs. 4.80 c 50% 70% d
## A merchant finds his profit as 20% of the ## A person bought 8 quintal of rice for certain
selling price. His actual profit is rupees. After a week, he sold 3 quintal of rice
[www.competoid.com] at 10% profit, 3 quintal of rice with neither
20% 22% profit nor loss and 2 quintal at 5% loss. In
25% 30% c this transaction what is the profit?
## A merchant has announced 25% rebate on [www.competoid.com]
prices of ready-made garments at the time of 10% 20%
sale. If a purchaser needs to have a rebate of 25% None of these d
Rs. 400, then how many shirts, each costing ## A person bought a certain number of books
Rs. 320, should he purchase? for Rs. 80. If he had bought 4 more books for
[www.examveda.com] the same sum, each book would have cost Rs.
10 7 1 less. What is the price of each book?
6 5 d [www.competoid.com]
## A merchant marked the price of an article Rs. 10 Rs. 8
by increasing its production cost by 40%. Rs. 5 Rs. 4 c
Now he allows 20% discount and gets a ## A person bought a certain quantity of rice at
profit of Rs. 48 after selling it. The the rate of Rs. 150/quintal. 10% of the rice
production cost is = ? was spoiled. At what rate(per quintal) should
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] he sell the remaining rice to earn 20% profit.
Rs. 320 Rs. 360 [www.examveda.com]
Rs. 400 Rs. 440 c Rs. 180 Rs. 200
## A milkman bought 70 litres of milk for Rs. Rs. 210 Rs. 220 b
630 and added 5 litres of water. If sells it at ## A person bought an article and sold it at a
Rs. 9.00 per litres, his profit percentage is = loss of 10%. If he had bought for 20% less
? and sold it for Rs.55 more, he would have
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]] had a profit of 40%. Then Cost Price of the
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article is. 4% 5%
[www.competoid.com] 6% 10% b
Rs.200 Rs.225 ## A pharmaceutical company made 3000 strips
Rs.250 None of these c of tablets at a cost of Rs. 4800. The company
## A person bought two articles A and B for Rs. gave away 1000 strips of tablets to doctors as
5,000. he sold A at 20% profit and B at 10% free samples. A discount of 25% was allowed
loss. He thus gained 2% on his out lay. The on the printed price. Find the ratio profit if
cost price of A was the price is raised from Rs. 3.25 to Rs. 4.25
[www.competoid.com]
per strip and if at the latter price, samples to
Rs. 3,000 Rs. 2,500 doctors were done away with. (New profit /
Rs. 2,000 Rs. 3,500 c Old profit).
## A person bought two bicycles for Rs. 1600 [www.examveda.com]
and sold the first at 10% profit and the 55.5 63.5
second at 20% profit. If he sold the first at 75 99.25
20% profit and the second at 10% profit. he 80 b
would get Rs. 5 more. The difference of the ## A photographer allows a discount of 10% on
cost price of the two bicycles was: the advertised price of a camera. The price
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(in Rs.) that must be marked on the camera,
Rs. 50 Rs. 40
which cost him Rs. 600 to make a profit of
Rs. 25 Rs.75 a 20% would be [www.competoid.com]
## A person buys a book for Rs.200 and sells it 60 800
for Rs.225. What will be his gain percent? 700 850 b
[www.competoid.com]
13% 14% ## A piece of cloth costs Rs.35. If the length of
18.4% 12.5% d
the piece would have been 4 m longer and
each metre costs Rs.1 less, the cost would
## A person buys some pencils at 5 for a rupee
have remained unchanged. How long is the
and sells them at 3 for a rupee. His gain per
piece? [www.competoid.com]
cent will be:
[www.competoid.com] 14 m 10m
2 2 12m 9m b
66 % 76 % ## A producer of tea blends two varieties of tea
3 3
2 2 from tea gardens one costing Rs.18 per kg
563% 463% a and another Rs.20 per kg in the ratio 5 : 3. If
## A person sells 400 mangoes at the cost price he sells the blended variety at Rs.21 per kg,
of 320 mangoes. His percentage of loss is then his gain percentage is
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10 15 18 8
20 25 c 10 12 d
## A person sells an article for Rs. 75 and gains ## A profit of 20% is made if an article is sold
as much percent as the cost price of the at Rs.48. The selling price, it is actually sold
article in rupees. The cost price of the article at a loss of 10% would be
[www.competoid.com]
is = ?
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] Rs.44 Rs.40
Rs. 37.50 Rs. 40 Rs.38 Rs.36 d
Rs. 50 Rs. 150 c ## A radio is sold for Rs. 990 at a profit of 10%
## A person sold an article for Rs.3600 and got . What would have been the actual profit or
a profit of 20%. Had he sold the article for loss on it had it been sold for Rs. 890 ?
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Rs.3150, how much profit would he have
Rs. 10 loss Rs. 10 profit
got?
[www.competoid.com] Rs. 90 loss Rs. 90 profit a
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## A reduction of 10% in the price of tea the price by 30% and then allowed a
enables a dealer to purchase 25 kg more tea discount of 8% on each set. His profit will be
for Rs. 22500. What is the reduced price per =? [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
kg of tea? [www.examveda.com] 19% 78.4%
Rs. 70 Rs. 80 22% 19.6% d
Rs. 90 Rs. 100 c ## A retailer purchases a sewing machine at a
## A reduction of 15% in the price of the sugar discount of 15% and sells it for Rs.1955. In
enables to get 3 kg. more for Rs.170. What is the bargain he makes a profit of 15%. How
the reduced price per kg. What was the much is the discount which he got from the
original price per kg before reduction. whole sale'.
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Rs.8.5, Rs10 Rs.9, Rs.10 Rs.270 Rs.290
Rs.17, Rs.20 None of these a Rs.300 None of these c
## A reduction of 20% in the price of sugar ## A sells a cycle to B at a profit of 20% and B
enables a housewife to purchase 6 kg more sells it to C at a loss of 25% . If C bought the
for Rs. 240. What is original price per kg of cycle for Rs. P, then the cost price of it for A
sugar. was = ?
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Rs. 10 per Kg Rs. 8 per Kg 1 9
Rs. P Rs. P
Rs. 6 per Kg Rs. 5 per Kg a 20 20
## A reduction of 20% in the price of sugar 9 10
Rs. P Rs. P d
1 10 9
enables a purchaser to obtain 2 kg more for
2 ## A sells a suitcase to B at 10% profit. If B
Rs.160. Find the original price per kg of pays Rs. 2860 for it, then the price of which
sugar. [www.competoid.com] A bought is = ?
Rs.12 Rs.15 [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
Rs.16 Rs.18 c Rs. 1000 Rs. 1600
## A reduction of 20% in the price of sugar Rs. 2600 Rs. 2500 c
enables me to purchase 5 kg more for Rs. ## A sells a watch to B and makes a loss of
600. Find the price of sugar per kg before 1
12%. B makes a profit of 12 % by selling
reduction of price. 2
[www.competoid.com] the watch to C. If A sells the watch to be at
Rs. 24 Rs.30 the cost of which C purchased it, then the
Rs. 32 Rs. 36 b percentage of loss or profit of A will be = ?
## A retailer gets a discount of 40% on the [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
printed price of an article. The retailer sells 1% loss 1% profit
it at the printed price. His gain percent is 2% loss 2% profit a
[www.competoid.com] ## A sells an article to B at a profit of 10% B
40 55 sells the article back to A at a loss of 10%. In
2 this transaction:
66 75 c [www.examveda.com]
3
## A retailer increase the selling price by 25% A neither losses nor gains A makes a
due to which his profit percentage increase profit of 11%
from 20% to 25%. What is the percentage A makes a profit of 20% B loses 20%
increase in cost price ? b
[www.examveda.com] ## A sells an article to B at gain of 25% B sells
20% 30% it to C at a gain of 20% and C sells it to D at
25% 50% a a gain 10%. If D pays Rs. 330 for it, how
## A retailer purchased radiosets at the rate of much did it cost to A?
Rs. 400 each from a wholesaler. He raised [www.examveda.com]
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Rs. 200 Rs. 250 transport and sold the table for Rs.208.
Rs. 275 Rs. 290 a What will be his profit percentage?
## A sells an item at 20% profit to B. B sells it [www.competoid.com]
to C at 10% profit. C sells it to D at Rs.116 35% 40%
profit Difference between the cost price of D 30% 45% c
and Cost price of A was Rs.500. How much ## A shopkeeper bought 15 kg of rice at the rate
did B pay to A for the item? of Rs. 29 per kg and 25 kg of rice at the rate
[www.competoid.com] of Rs. 20 per kg. He sold the mixture of both
Rs.1,240 Rs.1,250 types of rice at the rate of Rs. 27 per kg. His
Rs.1.440 Rs.1.450 c profit in this transaction is = ?
## A sells his goods 10% cheaper than B and [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
10% nearer than C. How much would a Rs. 125 Rs. 150
customer of B save by purchasing Rs.100 Rs. 140 Rs. 145 d
worth of goods from C. ## A shopkeeper bought 80 kg of sugar at the
[www.competoid.com] rate of Rs. 13.50 per kg.He mixed it with
2 120kg of sugar costing Rs. 16 per kg in order
Rs.22 Rs.30
9 to make a profit of 20%, he must sell the
1 mixture at
Rs.33 Rs.25 a [www.competoid.com]
3
## A shopkeeper after allowing a discount of Rs.18 per kg Rs.17 per kg
10% on the marked price, makes a profit of Rs.16.40 per kg Rs.15 per kg a
8%. How much percent above the cost price ## A shopkeeper calculate percentage profit on
is marked price. the buying price and another on the selling
[www.competoid.com] price. What will be their difference in profits
8% 48 % if both claim a profit of 20% on goods sold
20 % 24 % c for Rs. 3000?
## A shopkeeper allows 23% commission on his [www.examveda.com]
advertised price and still makes a profit of Rs. 200 Rs. 100
10% . If he gains Rs. 56 on one item, his Rs. 150 Rs. 400
advertised price of the item, in Rs. is = ? None of these b
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] ## A shopkeeper gains 20% while buying the
820 780 goods and 30% while selling them. Find his
790 800 d total gain per cent.
## A shopkeeper allows 25% discount on his [www.competoid.com]
advertised price and to make a profit 25% 50% 36%
on his outlay. What is the advertised price in 56% 40% c
Rs. on which he gains Rs. 6000? ## A shopkeeper gives 10% discount 0n printed
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] price of a certain article and yet he earns
Rs. 36000 Rs. 40000 20% profit. If his profit is Rs.45, what is the
Rs. 39000 Rs. 42500 b cost price of the article.
## A shopkeeper allows a discount of 10% on [www.competoid.com]
the marked price of a camera. Marked price Rs.250 Rs.275
of the camera, which cost him Rs. 600, to Rs.225 Rs.300 c
make a profit of 20% should be: ## A shopkeeper increases the price of an object
[www.competoid.com] by 40% and then sells it at 25% discount on
Rs. 800 Rs. 650 the marked price. If the selling price of such
Rs. 750 Rs. 700 a an object be Rs. 2100, its cost price for the
## A shopkeeper bough a table marked at shopkeeper was?
Rs.200 at successive discounts of 10% and [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
15% respectively. He spent Rs.7 on Rs. 3000 Rs. 1500
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Rs. 1750 Rs. 2000 d Rs.1200 Rs.1400 c
## A shopkeeper marked the price of an article ## A shopkeeper sells an article at 15% gain.
12.5% more than its cost price. Mr. Sharma Had he sold it for Rs. 18 more, he would
purchased the same article at a discount of have gained 18%. The cost price (in Rs.) of
20% on the marked price of the article but the article is [www.competoid.com]
also paid VAT of 12% on the discounted 540 318
price. Mr. Shanna then gave the article to his 600 350 c
cousin for Rs.5200 and thereby earned a ## A shopkeeper sells his goods at 20% profit.
profit of 30% on the original cost price of the He weighs 10% less. His gain % is
product. At what mice did Mr. Shanna
purchase the article from the shopkeeper? 25% 30%
[www.competoid.com] 1
Rs.4400 Rs.4500 33 % 40% c
3
Rs.4000 Rs.4032 d ## A shopkeeper sells notebooks at the rate of
## A shopkeeper marks his goods 15% above Rs.45 each and a commission of 4%. He also
the cost price, but allows 20% discount for sells pencil box at the rate or Rs.80 each and
cash. His net loss is = ? earns a commission of 20%. How much
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amount of commission will he earn in two
3% 5%
weeks if he sells 10 notebooks and 6 pencil
8% 10% c
boxes a day?
## A shopkeeper purchased 50 dozen cups for [www.competoid.com]
Rs. 3000. Out of these, 60 cups were broken Rs.1,956 Rs.1,586
and could not be sold. At what rate per Rs.1,496 Rs.1,596 d
dozen should he sell the remaining cup to ## A shopkeeper sells rice at 10% profit and
make a profit of 20% ? uses weight 30% less the actual measure. His
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gain percent is = ?
Rs. 60 Rs. 75 [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
Rs. 80 Rs. 90 c 2 1
## A shopkeeper purchased 510 eggs at the rate 57 % 57 %
3 7
of Rs. 20 per dozen. 30 eggs were broken on 2 3
the way. In order to make a gain of 20%, he 57 % 57 % b
5 7
must sell the remaining eggs at the rate of ## A shopkeeper sold his goods at half the list
[www.competoid.com]
Rs. 22.50 per dozen Rs. 25.50 per dozen price and thus lost 20%. If he had sold on
the listed price, his gain percentage would be
Rs. 26 per dozen Rs. 26.50 per dozen b [www.competoid.com]
## A shopkeeper purchases two items for Rs. 60% 72%
520. One of them is sold gaining 16% and 20% 35% a
the other at a loss of 10%, thus making no ## A shopkeeper wishes to give 5% commission
profit or loss. What is the selling price of the on the marked price of an article but also
item sold at loss ? wants to earn a profit of 10%. If his cost
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Rs. 288 Rs, 232 price is Rs. 95, then marked price is:
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Rs. 320 Rs. 200 a Rs. 100 Rs.110
## A shopkeeper sells a transistor at 15% above Rs. 120 Rs. 130 b
its cost price. If he had bought It at 5% more ## A shopkeper placed on display some shirts
than what he paid for it and sold it for Rs.6 each with a marked price. He then posted a
more, he would have gained 10%. The cost 1
price of the transistor is board off on shirts". If the cost of a shirt
4
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Rs.870 Rs.1000
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2 1
was of the price at which it was actually ## A trader sells an article and loses 12 %. The
3 2
sold, the ratio of cost and marked price 01' ratio of cost price to the selling price is -
shirt was [www.examveda.com]
[www.competoid.com] 7:8 9:8
1:2 1:3 8:7 8:9 c
2:3 3:4 a ## A trader sells an article at Rs. 130 which he
## A shopman bought pens at the rate of 7 for had bought for Rs. 90. The gain is
Rs. 10 and sold them at a profit of 40%. How [www.competoid.com]
many pens would a customer get for Rs. 10? 4 4
34 42
[www.competoid.com] 9 9
6 4 4
44 44 c
5 3 c 9
## A started a business with an investment of ## A trader sells two brands of petrol; one is
6 Extra Premium and other one is speed. He
Rs.14,000. After 2 months B joins in with
7 mixes 12 litres Extra Premium with 3 litres
of the amount that A invested and A of speed and by selling this mixture at the
withdraws Rs.4000. After 2 more months, C price of Extra Premium he gets the profit of
joins with Rs.8000 and A again withdraws 9.09. If the price of Extra Premium Rs. 48
Rs.2000. After an year, If C received per litre, then the price of Speed is:
Rs.2,656 as his share then what was the total [www.examveda.com]
profit? (in Rs.) Rs. 38 per litre Rs. 42 per litre
[www.competoid.com] Rs. 28 per litre Rs. 18 per litre
Rs.16,954 Rs.11,668 None of These c
Rs.12,284 Rs.14,326 c ## A trader sells two bullocks for Rs. 8400 each,
Answer: Rs.12,284 neither losing nor gaining in total. If he sold
## A trader marked the price of a commodity of one of the bullocks at a gain of 20%, the
so as to include a profit of 25% , but allow other is sold at a loss of = ? [www.examveda.com;
discount of 16% on the marked price. His www.competoid.com]
actual profit will be = ? 2
20% 18 %
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16% 25% 2
5% 9% 14 % 21% c
c 7
## A trader mixes 26 kg of rice at Rs. 20 per kg ## A tradesman fixed his selling price of goods
with 30 kg of rice of other variety at Rs. 36 at 30% above the cost price. He sells half the
per kg and sells the mixture at Rs. 30 per kg. stock at this price, one-quarter of his stock at
His profit percent is: a discount of 15% on the original selling
[www.examveda.com; www.indiabix.com] price and rest at a discount of 30% on the
No profit, no loss 5% original selling price. Find the gain
8% 10% percentage altogether?
None of these b [www.examveda.com]
## A trader sells 145 metres of cloth for 14.875% 15.375%
Rs.12,325 at the profit of Rs.10 per metre of 15.575% 16.375%
cloth. What is the cost price of 1 metre of 16.5% b
cloth? ## A vegetable seller sells his vegetables at 20%
[www.competoid.com] profit. At the same time he uses false
Rs.65 Rs.75 weights, which is 10% less than the actual
Rs.95 Rs.85 b weight. What will be his total gain
percentage?
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25% 30% instead of 15% in one time. What is the
7 actual discount availed by Chetan?
33.33% 18 % c [www.examveda.com]
9
## A vendor purchased 40 dozen bananas for 15% 15.5%
Rs. 250. Out of these 30 bananas were rotten 14.5 % 16.5%
and could not be sold. At what rate per Cannot determined c
dozen should he sell the remaining bananas ## An article costing Rs.300 is being sold at
to make a profit of 20%? 15% loss. If the price is further reduced by
[www.competoid.com] 6% the selling price will be
Rs. 12 Rs. 10 [www.competoid.com]
Rs. 8 Rs. 6 c Rs.260 Rs.240
## A vendor sells lemons at the rate of 5 for Rs. Rs.255 Rs.230 b
14. gaining thereby 40%. For how much did ## An article is listed at Rs. 920. A customer
he buy a dozen lemons? pays Rs. 742.90 for it after getting two
[www.competoid.com] successive discounts. If the rate of first
Rs. 20 Rs. 21 discount is 15%, the rate of 2nd discount is:
Rs. 24 Rs. 28 c [www.examveda.com]
## A watch costing Rs. 120 was sold at a loss of 3% 5%
15%. At what price was it sold? 8% 12% b
[www.examveda.com] ## An article is sold at 5% profit. The ratio of
Rs. 112 Rs.102 selling Price and cost price will be
Rs. 135 Rs. 110 b [www.competoid.com]
## A watch dealer pays 10% .customs duty on a 1:5 20 : 21
watch which costs Rs. 500 abroad . He 21 : 20 5:1 c
desires to make a profit of 20% after giving ## An article is sold at a loss of 10%. Its cost
a discount of 25% to the buyer. The marked price is Rs.800. A discount of 20% was
price should be offered on the labeled price while selling.
[www.competoid.com] What is the loss per cent at the labeled
Rs. 950 Rs. 800 price?
Rs. 880 Rs. 660 c [www.competoid.com]
## A wholesaler gives 10% discount and then 10% 15%
20% discount. The total discount is 20% 25% c
[www.competoid.com] ## An article is sold at a profit of 25%. If the
30 % 28% selling price is doubled, the profit % will be:
25% None of these b [www.competoid.com]
## After allowing a discount of 11.11%, a 200% 150%
trader still makes a gain of 14.28%. At how 100% 50% b
many percent above the cost price does he ## An article marked at Rs. 540 is sold at Rs.
mark on his goods? 496.80 in an off - season offer. Then the rate
[www.examveda.com] of discount offered (in percent) is = ?
28.56% 35% [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
22.22% None of these a 7% 7.5%
## Ajay bought a motor cycle for Rs. 50,000. 2 8% 10% c
years later he sold it to Vijay at 10% less of ## An article was sold for Rs.5220 at a loss of
the cost price. Vijay spend 5% of the 42% of the cost price. What will be the
purchasing price on its maintenance. Later selling price of the article for a profit of
Vijay displayed the sale price of his 42%?
motorcycle Rs. 50,000. Chetan wanted to [www.competoid.com]
purchase it at 15% discount but Vijay gave Rs.12580 Rs.17280
him two successive discounts of 10% and 5% Rs.12780 Rs.15280 c
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## An article which costs Rs.240 was sold at a ## By selling 12 kg of potatoes for 63, a
profit of 5%.What was the selling price? shopkeeper gains 5%. What does his gain or
[www.competoid.com] loss percent by selling. 50 kg of the same
Rs.262 Rs.252 potatoes for 247.50 ?
Rs.250 Rs.232 b [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
## An article which is marked at Rs. 975 is sold 1% profit 1% loss
for Rs. 897. The % discount is = ? No profit no loss 2.5% profit b
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] ## By selling 144 hens Mahesh suffered a loss
12% 10% equal to the selling price of 96 hens. His loss
6% 8% d per cent is
## An egg seller sells his eggs only in the packs [www.competoid.com]
of 3 eggs, 6 eggs, 9 eggs, 12 eggs etc., but the 40 30
rate is not necessarily uniform. One day 50 41 a
Raju (which is not the same egg seller) ## By selling 15 mangoes, a fruit seller gains the
purchased at the rate of 3 eggs for a rupee selling price of 3 mangoes. His gain is
and the next hour he purchased equal [www.competoid.com]
number of eggs at the rate of 6 eggs for a 25% 16%
rupee. Next day he sold all the eggs at the 24% 27% a
rate of 9 eggs for Rs. 2. What is his ## By selling 150 mangoes, a fruit seller gains
percentage profit or loss? the selling price for 30 mangoes. His gain is
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10% loss 11.11% loss 25% 16%
3% loss 2.5% profit 24% 17% a
None of These b ## By selling 18 chocolates, a vendor loses the
## An item costing Rs. 840 was sold by a selling price of 12 chocolates. Find his loss
shopkeeper at a gain of 10% and it was percent.
again sold by the new buyer at a loss of 5%. [www.competoid.com]
Find selling price of the item is = ? 9% 10%
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] 11% 12% b
Rs. 877.80 Rs. 798 ## By selling 25 pens, a man loses the cost price
Rs. 924 Rs. 37.80 a of 5 pens. His losses is
## Anita purchased a bicycle at a cost of Rs. [www.competoid.com]
3200. She sold it at a loss of Rs.240. At what 25% 20%
price did she sell the bicycle? 16% 24% b
[www.competoid.com] ## By selling a basket for Rs. 119.50, a
Rs.2960 Rs.2690 shopkeeper gains 30%. For how much
Rs.3440 Rs.3360 a should he sell it to gain 40%?
## Arun bought toffees at 6 for a rupee. How [www.competoid.com]
many for a rupee he should sell to gain 20%? Rs. 21 Rs. 21.50
Rs.24 Rs. 23 a
[www.examveda.com] ## By selling a cellphone for Rs.2400, a
2 3 shopkeeper make a profit of 25%. Then, his
4 5 d profit percentage, if he had sold it for
## At what percentage above the cost price Rs.2040, is
must an article be marked so as to gain 33% [www.competoid.com]
after allowing a customer a discount of 5% ? 10% 6.25%
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] 6.50% 15% b
40% 45% ## By selling a cycle for Rs.2345, a student loses
35% 47% a 19%. His cost price is nearly
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Rs.4000 Rs.5000 been = ?
Rs.3000 Rs.3500 c [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
## By selling an article at Rs. 1250, a gain of 10% 11%
25% is made on the cost price . At what 21% 100% c
price should the article be sold in order that 8
## If selling price of an article is times of its
a loss of 20% made on the selling price. 5
[www.competoid.com] cost price, the profit percent on it is = ?
Rs. 800 Rs. 850 [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
1 2 120% 160%
Rs. 833 Rs. 833 a 40% 60%
3 3 d
## By selling an article at Rs.310, a merchant ## If the cost price of 10 chairs be equal to
loses 7% on his outlay. The percentage of selling price of 18 chairs then the loss
profit or loss when he sells the article at percent is
Rs.350 will be [www.competoid.com] [www.competoid.com]
loss 5% profit 5% 4
9.6 449
loss 10% profit 7.5% a
## By selling an article for Rs. 364, a man loses 20 37.5 @@

9%. His gian or loss percent if he sells it for ## If the cost price of an article is 80% of its
Rs. 420 is selling price, the profit percent is :
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No loss no gain Loss 5% 1
20% 22 %
Gain 5% None of these c
2
## By selling an article for Rs. 960 a man incurs 24% 25% @@

a loss of 4%; what was the cost price ? Answer: 25%

[www.competoid.com] ## Rita bought a television set with 20%
Rs. 1,000 Rs. 784 discount on the labelled price. She made a
Rs. 4,984 Rs. 300 a profit of Rs. 800 by selling it for Rs. 16,800.
## Hotel Aditya has 10 single AC rooms, 5 The labelled price of the set was
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double AC rooms and 18 non AC rooms. The
fixed monthly rent of hotel is 150,000. The Rs.18,000 Rs. 20,000
per day maintenance cost is Rs. 100 for Rs. 20,800 Rs. 24,000 b
double AC room, Rs. 75 for single AC room Answer: Rs. 20,000
and Rs. 40 for non AC room. The per day ## Salary is reduced by 40% and then increased
charges are Rs. 600 for double AC room, Rs. by 50%. Then there is.
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400 for single AC room and Rs. 250 for non
gain of 10% loss of 10%
AC room. In April 2003, the occupancy rate
of non A/C room was 50%, 70% of single no loss, no gain none of these b
AC room and 40% of double AC rooms. ## The profit earned after selling an article for
Find the profit/loss % for that particular Rs.625 is same as the loss incurred after
month. selling the article for Rs.435. The cost price
[www.examveda.com] of the article is
10.33% (profit) 10.33% (loss) [www.competoid.com]
Rs.5220 Rs.530
5.67% (loss) 5.67% (profit)
No profit, no loss b
Rs.540 Rs.550b
## If I would have purchased 11 articles for Rs.
10 and sold all the articles at the rate of 10
for Rs. 11, the profit percent would have
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13 Ratio and Proportion

## 15 years ago the average age of a family of of A's age at that time will be less than B's
four members was 40 years. Two children age at that time by 2 years. What is B's
were born in that span of 15 years. The present age?
present average age of the family remained [www.competoid.com]
unchanged. Among the two children who 10 years 14 years
were born in between the 15 years. If the 12 years 5 years @@
older child at present is 8 Years more than Answer: 10 years
the younger one, What is the respective ratio ## 49 kg of blended tea contain Assam and
between the present age of the older child Darjeeling tea in the ratio 5 : 2 then the
and the present age of the younger child? quantity of Darjeeling tea is to be added to
[www.competoid.com] the mixture to make the ratio of Assam to
9:4 7:3 Darjeeling tea 2 : 1 is
7:6 9:5 @@ [www.competoid.com]
Answer: 9 : 5 4.5 kg 3.5 kg
## 20 boys and 25 girls form a group of social 5 kg 6 kg @@
workers. During their membership drive, the Answer: 3.5 kg
same number of boys and girls joined the ## 8 litres are drawn from a cask filled with
group (e.g. if 7 boys joined, 7 girls joined). wine and is then filled with water. This
How many members does the group have operation is performed three more times.
now. if the, ratio of boys to girls is 7 : 8? The ratio of the quantity of wine now left in
[www.competoid.com] cask to that of the total solution is 16 : 81.
75 65 How much wine did the cask hold originally?
70 60 @@
Answer: 75 [www.examveda.com] [www.competoid.com]
## 200 litres of a mixture contains milk and 24 litres 45 litres
water in the ratio 17 : 3. After the addition of 49 litres 44 litres a
some more milk to it, the ratio of milk to ## 94 is divided into two parts in such a way
water in the resulting mixture becomes 7 : 1. that fifth part of the first and the eighth part
The quantity of milk added to it was =? of the second are in the ratio 3 : 4. The first
[www.examveda.com] [www.competoid.com] part is = ?
20 Litres 40 Litres [www.examveda.com] [www.competoid.com]
60 Litres 80 Litres b 30 36
## 24 litre of a mixture contains milk and water 40 28 a
in the ration 7 : 5. How much more water is ## A : b : c = 2 : 3 : 4 and 2a - 3b + 4c = 33, then
to be added to get a new mixture containing the value of c is = ?
milk and water in the ratio of 5 : 7? [www.examveda.com]
[www.competoid.com] 6 9
10 litre 6.9 litre 66
12 c
9 litre 9.6 litre @@ 7
Answer: 9.6 litre ## A and B are two alloys in which ratios of
1 gold and copper are 5 : 3 and 5 : 11
## 4 years ago, the respective ratio between of respectively. If these equally amount of two
2
A's age at that time and four times of B's age alloys are melted and made alloy C. What
1 will be the ratio of gold and copper in alloy
at that time was 5 : 12. Eight years hence
2
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C? Rs. 3350 Rs. 3250
[www.examveda.com] [www.competoid.com] Rs. 2700 Rs. 2800 c
25 : 23 33 : 25 ## A and B together can complete a task in 15
15 : 17 17 : 15 c days. B and C together can complete the
## A and B are two alloys of gold and copper same task in 20 days. A and C together can
prepared by mixing metals in proportion 5 : complete the same task in 30 days. What is
2 and 5 : 6 respectively. If equal quantities of the respective ratio of the number of days
alloys are melted to form a third alloy C, the taken by A while completing the same task
proportion of gold and copper in C will be. alone to the number of days taken by C
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while completing the same task alone?
9:8 8:9 [www.competoid.com]
45 : 32 32 : 45 @@ 2:3 1:4
Answer: 45 : 32 1:3 3:1 @@
## A and B enter in to a partnership and A Answer: 1 : 3
invests Rs. 10,000 in the partnership. At the ## A and B together have Rs. 158, C has Rs. 101
end of 4 months he withdraws Rs.2000. At less than what A and B together have, and B
the end of another 5 months, he withdraws has Rs. 23 more than C. The amount of A is :
another Rs.3000. If B receives Rs.9600 as his [www.competoid.com]
share of the total profit of Rs.19,100 for the Rs. 80 Rs. 78
year, how much did B invest in the Rs. 57 Rs. 88 @@
company? Answer: Rs. 78
[www.lofoya.com] ## A bag contains an amount of Rs.214.50 made
Rs. 12,000 Rs. 8,000 up of one dollar, 50 cents and 25 cents coins
Rs. 6,000 Rs. 96,000 b in the ratio 5: 6 : 7. What is the total number
## A and B have money in the ratio 2 : 1. If A of coins in the bag?
gives 2 to B ,The money will be in ratio 1: 1. [www.competoid.com]
What were the initial amounts they had ? 360 396
[www.competoid.com] 540 576 @@
Rs. 12 and Rs. 6 Rs. 16 and Rs. 8 Answer: 396
Rs. 8 and Rs. 4 Rs. 6 and Rs. 3 @@ ## A bag contains coins of Rs. 1, 50 paise and 25
Answer: Rs. 8 and Rs. 4 paise in the ratio 2 : 3 : 5. If the total value of
## A and B have their monthly incomes in the these coins is Rs. 228, then the number of 50
ratio 8 : 5 while their monthly expenditures paise coins in that bag was
are in the ratio 5 : 3. If they have saved Rs. [www.competoid.com]
12,000 and Rs. 10,000 monthly respectively, 144 124
then the difference in their monthly incomes 112 96 @@
is Answer: 144
[www.competoid.com] ## A bag contains Rs.216 in the form of one
Rs. 42,000 Rs. 52,000 rupee, 50 paise and 25 paise coins in the
Rs. 46,000 Rs. 44,000 @@ ratio of 2 : 3 : 4. The number of 50 paise
Answer: Rs. 42,000 coins is
## A and B start an enterprise together, with A [www.competoid.com]
as active partner. A invests Rs. 4000 and Rs. 96 144
2000 more after 8 months. B invests Rs. 5000 114 141 @@
and withdraws Rs. 2000 after 9 months. Answer: 144
Being the active partner, A takes Rs. 100 per ## A bag contains three types of coins 1 rupee-
month as allowance,from the profit. What is coins, 50p-coins and 25 p-coins totalling 175
the share of B if the profit for for the year is coins. If the total value of the coins of each
6700 ? kind be the same, the total amount in the bag
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is bundles respectively are in the ratio of 3 : 22
[www.competoid.com] then the weight of the papers ( in grams ) is
75 175 [www.examveda.com] [www.competoid.com]
300 126 @@ 30680 grams 30710 grams
Answer: 75 31500 grams 31680 grams @@
## A besieged army camp had food for 2400 Answer: 31680 grams
men for 18 days at 3.5 kgs a soldier a day. ## A box has 1 rupee, 50 paise and 25 paise
However, if they reckon that it will take 42 coins in the ratio 3 : 2 : 5 worth Rs. 252. The
days for external support to rescue them, number of 25 paise coins in the box is = ?
what proportion of the soldiers will go [www.examveda.com] [www.competoid.com]
hungry everyday if they decide to cut down 96 144
the ration to 1.8kgs a day per soldier. 240 48 c
[www.competoid.com] ## A box has 210 coins of denominations one-
1 out of every 8 soldiers rupee and fifty paise only. The ratio of their
will go hungry each day. respective values is 13 : 11. The number of
1 out of every 6 soldiers one-rupee coin is
will go hungry each day. [www.examveda.com]
1 out of every 10 soldiers 65 66
will go hungry each day. 77 78 d
1 out of every 9 soldiers ## A bucket contains a mixture of two liquids A
will go hungry each day. @@
& B in the proportion 5 : 3. If 16 litres of the
Answer: 1 out of every 6 soldiers will go hungry mixture is replaced by 16 litres of liquid B,
each day. then the ratio of the two liquids becomes 3 :
## A bottte is full of dettol. One-third of it is 5. How much of the liquid B was there in the
taken out and then an equal amount of water bucket?
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is poured into the bottle to fill it, This
operation is done four times. Find the final 25 litres 15 litres
ratio of dettol and water in the bottle. 18 litres 24 litres
[www.competoid.com] None of these
13 : 55 20 : 74 ## A bucket contains a mixture of two liquids A
16 : 65 10 : 48 @@ and B in the proportion 7 : 5. If 9 litres of
Answer: 16 : 65 mixture is replaced by 9 liters of liquid
## A box contains 420 coins of 1 rupee, 50 paise B,then the ratio of the two liquids becomes 7
and 20 paise coins. The ratio of their values : 9. How much of the liquid A was there in
is 13 : 11 : 7. The number of 50 paise coins is the bucket ?
=? [www.examveda.com]
[www.competoid.com] [www.examveda.com] 21 liters 23 liters
42 78 25 liters 27 liters a
66 132 d ## A bus and a truck are available to cross a
## A box contains Rs. 56 in the form of coins of jungle. The speed of the truck is thrice that
1 rupee, 50 paise and 25 paise. The number of the bus. The capacity of the truck is 50
of 50 paise coins is double the numbers of 25 persons and that of bus is 30 persons. The
paise coins and four times the number of one average occupancy of the bus is twice that of
rupee coins. How many 50 paise coins are the truck. The tickets for the bus and the
there in the box? truck cost Re 1 and Re 1.50 respectively.
[www.examveda.com] [www.competoid.com] What is the ratio of the average rupee
52 64 collection of the truck to that of the bus in a
32 16 b day? Assume there is no wastage time
## A box filled with paper bundles weights 36 between trips and the occupancy of the
kg. If the weight of the box and paper bus/truck is defined as the ratio of the actual
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number of persons boarding it and its double the time, the ratio of the two speeds is
capacity. [www.competoid.com]
[www.lofoya.com] 4:1 1:4
15 : 41 15 : 2 2:1 1:2 @@
15 : 8 15 : 7 a Answer: 1 : 4
## A canister holds 36 litres of mixture of milk ## A certain number is divided into two parts
and water in the ratio 3 : 1. 15 litres of milk such that 5 times the first part added to 11
is added to the canister. The new ratio of the times the second part makes 7 times the
mixture is: whole. The ratio of the first part to the
[www.competoid.com] second part is
12 : 5 14 : 3 [www.competoid.com]
7:4 9:4 @@ 2:1 5 : 11
Answer: 14 : 3 1:2 2:3 @@
## A certain amount of money is divided among Answer: 2 : 1
x, y and z. If x receives 25% more than y and ## A container contains 60 litre of milk. From
y receives 25% less than z, then x : y : z is this container 6 litre of milk was taken out
equal to and replaced by water. This process was
[www.competoid.com] repeated further two times. The quantity of
14 : 12 : 13 15 : 12 : 16 milk left in the container is
10 : 9 : 12 12 : 10 : 11 @@ [www.competoid.com]
Answer: 15 : 12 : 16 34.24 litre 39.64 litre
## A certain amount was divided between Ram 43.74 litre 47.6 litre @@
and Ravi in the ratio 4 : 3. If Ravi's share is Answer: 43.74 litre
Rs.9000, the amount is ## A contractor employed 25 labourers on a
[www.competoid.com] job. He paid Rs.275 for the work. After
Rs.21000 Rs.16000 retaining 20% of this sum, he distributed the
Rs.46000 Rs.18000 @@ remaining amount amongst the labourers. If
Answer: Rs.21000 the number of men to women labourers was
## A certain amount was to be distributed in the ratio 2 : 3 and their wages in the ratio
among A, B and C in the ratio 2 : 3 : 4 5 : 4, what wages did a woman labourer get?
respectively. but was erroneously distributed [www.competoid.com]
in the ratio 7 : 2 : 5 respectively. As a result Rs.10 Rs.8
of this, B got Rs.40 less. What is the amount? Rs.12 Rs.15 @@
[www.competoid.com] Answer: Rs.8
Rs.210 Rs.270 ## A fort has provisions for 60 days. If after 15
Rs.230 Rs.280 @@ days 500 men strengthen them and the food
Answer: Rs.210 lasts 40 days longer, how many men are
## A certain amount was to be distributed there in the fort?
among A. B and C in the ratio 3 : 4 : 5 [www.lofoya.com]
respectively, but. was erroneously 3500 4000
distributed in the ratio 9 : 4 : 7 respectively. 6000 None b
As a result of this B got Rs.60 less. What is ## A fruit seller sold big, medium and small
the amount? sized apples for Rs.15 , Rs.10 and Rs. 5
[www.competoid.com] respectively .The total number of apples sold
Rs.480 Rs.460 were in the ratio 3 : 2 : 5. Find the average
Rs.450 Rs.440 @@ cost of an apple
Answer: Rs.450 [www.competoid.com]
## A certain distance is covered at a certain Rs. 8 Rs. 10
speed . If half of this distance is covered in Rs. 9 Rs. 7 @@
Answer: Rs. 9
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## A invests Rs.4500 in a business. At the end of nephew and each son receives five times as
four months he withdraws Rs.500. At the much as each nephew, how much does each
end of another 4 months, he withdraws daughter receive ?
another Rs.1000. 8 joins him as a partner at [www.competoid.com]
the end of six months. If 'B' takes home Rs. 100 Rs. 600
Rs.6000 out of a total profit of Rs.10,600 for Rs. 800 Rs. 1000 @@
the year, how much did 'B' invest in the Answer: Rs. 800
business? ## A milkman makes 20% profit by selling milk
[www.competoid.com] mixed with water at Rs. 9 per litre. If the
Rs.15,000 Rs.12,000 cost price of 1 litre pure milk is Rs. 10, then
Rs.10,000 Rs.14,000 @@ the ratio of milk and water in the mixture is
Answer: Rs.10,000 [www.competoid.com]
## A jar contains a mixture of two liquids A 3:1 4:1
and B in the ratio 4 : 1. When 10 litres of the 3:2 4:3 @@
mixture was taken out and 10 litres of liquid Answer: 3 : 1
B was poured into the jar, this ratio became ## A mixture contains alcohol and water in the
2 : 3. The quantity of liquid A contained in ratio 4 : 3. If 5 litres of water is added to the
the jar initially was mixture the ratio becomes 4 : 5. The quantity
[www.competoid.com] of alcohol in the given mixture is 1
4 litres 8 litres [www.competoid.com] [www.examveda.com]
16 litres 40 litres @@ 3 litres 4 litres
Answer: 16 litres 15 litres 10 litres @@
## A man divided his wealth so that his son's Answer: 10 litres
share to his wife's share and the wife's share ## A mixture contains milk and water in the
to his daughter's share are both in the ratio ratio 5 : 1. On adding 5 litres of water, the
4: 1 and the daughter's share is Rs.80,000. ratio of milk and water becomes 5 : 2. The
What is the value of the total Wealth? quantity of milk in the mixture is:
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Rs.16,80,000 Rs.14,70,000 16 litres 25 litres
Rs.12,60,000 Rs.10,50,000 @@ 32.5 litres 22.75 litres @@
Answer: Rs.16,80,000 Answer: 25 litres
## A man divides his wealth of Rs.200,000 ## A noodles merchant buys two varieties of
between his sons equally. How much did noodles the price of the first being twice that
each son get? of the second. He sells the mixture at Rs
[www.competoid.com] 17.50 per kilogram thereby making a profit
Rs.40,000 Rs.75,000 of 25. If the ratio of the amounts of the first
Rs.50,000 Rs.1,00,000 @@ noodles and the second noodles in the
Answer: Rs.1,00,000 mixture is 2 : 3, then the respective costs of
## A man has in all Rs. 640 in the each noodles are
denominations of one-rupee, five-rupee and [www.lofoya.com]
ten-rupee notes. The number of each type of Rs. 20, Rs. 10 Rs. 24, Rs. 12
notes are equal. What is the total number he Rs. 16, Rs. 8 Rs. 26, Rs. 13 a
has? ## A particular sum was divided among A, B
[www.competoid.com] and C in the ratio 2 : 6 : 7 respectively. If the
150 120 amount received by A was Rs.4,908, what
100 90 @@ was the difference between the amount
Answer: 120 received by B and C?
## A man leaves Rs. 8,600 to be divided among [www.competoid.com]
5 sons, 4 daughters and 2 nephews, If each Rs.2,454 Rs.3,494
daughter receives four times as much as each Rs.2,135 Rs.2,481 @@
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Answer: Rs.2,454 amount of money of A and C together?
## A ratio is equal to 4 : 5. if its antecedent is [www.competoid.com]
180, find its consequent. RS.8352 RS.6998
[www.competoid.com] RS.9784 RS.7456 @@
220 225 Answer: RS.8352
260 245 @@ ## A sum of money is to be distributed among
Answer: 225 P, Q and R in the ratio 6 : 19 : 7. If R gives
## A sail boat moves at the speed of 12 miles an Rs.200 from his share to Q. the ratio of P, Q
hour with no one on board. The speed of the and R becomes 3 : 10 : 3. what is the total
boat decreases by a quantity that varies sum?
directly as the cube root of the number of [www.competoid.com]
passengers who board the boat. With eight Rs. 6400 Rs.12800
passengers on board, it travels at a speed of Rs. 3200 Data inadequate @@
8 miles an hour. How many passengers Answer: Rs. 6400
should board the boat so that it stops ## A sum of money is to be divided among four
moving? persons in the ratio of 2 : 3 : 4 : 5. 0ut of the
[www.competoid.com] four, one person gets Rs.200 more than the
180 Passengers 218 Passengers other and Rs.100 less than another. What is
216 Passengers 246 Passengers @@ the sum?
Answer: 216 Passengers [www.competoid.com]
## A sink contains exactly 12 L of water. If Rs.2800 Rs.1400
water is drained from the! sink until it holds Rs.4200 Cannot be determined
exactly 6 L of water less than the quantity @@
drained away, how many litres of water were Answer: Rs.1400
drained away? ## A sum of money is to be divided equally
[www.competoid.com] among P, Q and R in the respective ratio of 5
2L 6L : 6 : 7 and another sum of money is to be
3L 9L @@ divided between S and T equally. If S got Rs.
Answer: 9 L 2100 less than P, then how much amount did
## A sum of money is divided among A, B, C Q receive?
and D in the ratio of 3 : 5 : 9 : 13 [www.competoid.com]
respectively. If the share of C is Rs.2412 Rs. 2500 Rs. 2000
more than the share of A, then what is the Rs. 1500 Could not be
total amount of money of B and D together? determined @@
[www.competoid.com] Answer: Could not be determined
Rs.4,422 Rs.7,236 ## A sum of Rs 2000 is divided into two parts
Rs.6,030 Rs.4,824 @@ such that one part is invested at 10 % pa,
Answer: Rs.7,236 simple interest and the second part at 15%
## A sum of money is divided among A,B, C so pa, simple interest. After 2 years, if Rs. 460
that to each rupee A gets , B gets 75 paise are received as interest, then the ration of
and C gets 45 paise. If C's share is Rs. 81, the investments of first and second part is
sum is [www.competoid.com]
[www.competoid.com] 7:4 4:3
Rs. 326 Rs. 639 7 :3 6:4 @@
Rs. 396 Rs. 369 @@ Answer: 7 :3
Answer: Rs. 396 ## A sum of Rs. 15525 is divided among Sunil,
## A sum of money is divided amongst A, B, C Anil and Jamil such that if Rs. 22, Rs. 35 and
and D in the ratio of 3: 7: 9 : 13. If the share Rs. 48 be diminished from their shares
of B is RS. 4872, then what will be the total respectively, their remaining sums shall be in
the ratio 7 : 10 : 13. What would have been
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the ratio of their sums if Rs. 16, Rs. 77, Rs. 35 40
37 respectively were added to their original 45 50 b
shares? ## A sum of RS.7000 is divided among A, B and
[www.competoid.com] C in such a way that the shares of A and B
9 : 13: 17 18 : 26 : 25 are in the ratio 2 : 3 and those of B and C are
36 : 52 : 67 None of these @@ in the ratio 4: 5. The share of B is
Answer: 36 : 52 : 67 [www.competoid.com]
## A sum of Rs. 300 is divided among P, Q and RS.1600 RS.2000
R in such a way that Q gets Rs. 30 more than RS.2400 RS.3000 @@
P and R gets Rs. 60 more than Q. The ratio Answer: RS.2400
of their shares is ## A tiny money bank containing Rs. 1, 50paise
[www.competoid.com] and 25 paise coins in the ratio 1 : 2 : 3. If
5:3:2 2:3:5 their total value is Rs 154, then the number
3:2:5 2:5:3 @@ of 25 paise coins is
Answer: 2 : 3 : 5
## A sum of Rs. 36.90 is made up of 180 coins
which are either 10 paise coins or 25 p coins. [www.competoid.com]
The number of 10 p coins is: 168 112
[www.lofoya.com] 56 156 @@
48 54 Answer: 168
56 60 b ## A track covers a distance of 550 metres in 1
## A sum of Rs. 370 is to be divided among A, B minute whereas a bus covers a distance of 33
A's share B's share 3 kms in 45 minute. The ratio of their speeds
and C such that = = ,
B's share C's share 4 is:
A's share (in taka) is [www.examveda.com]
[www.competoid.com] 4:3 3:5
240 120 3:4 50 : 3 c
100 90 @@ ## A truck covers a distance of 640 km in 10 h.
Answer: 90 A car covers the same distance in 8 h. What
## A sum of Rs. 76 is divided among A, B and C is the respective ratio of the speed of the
in such a way that A gets Rs. 7 more than truck to that of car?
what B gets and B gets Rs. 6 more than what [www.competoid.com]
C gets. The ratio of their share is gets. The 3:4 1:2
ratio of their share is = ? 5:6 4:5 @@
[www.examveda.com] [www.competoid.com] Answer: 4:5
19 : 24 : 33 32 : 25 : 19 ## A vessel contains 64 litres of mixture of milk
32 : 24 : 20 19 : 25 : 33 b and water in the ratio 7 : 3 respectively. 8
## A sum of Rs.221 is divided among X, Y and litres of mixture is replaced by 12 litres of
Z such that X gets Rs.52 more than Y, Y gets milk. What is the ratio of milk and water in
Rs.26 more than Z. The ratio of the shares of the resulting mixture?
X, Y and Z respectively is: [www.competoid.com]
[www.competoid.com] 64 : 21 35 : 22
9:5:3 9:3:5 64 : 23 65 : 21 @@
5:9:3 10 : 6 : 5 @@ Answer: 64 : 21
Answer: 9 : 5 : 3 ## A vessel contains liquid P and Q in the ratio
## A sum of Rs.312 was divided among 100 5 : 3. If 16 L of the mixture are removed and
boys and girls in such a way that the boy gets the same quantity of liquid Q is added, the
Rs.3.60 and each girl Rs.2.40 the number of ratio become 3 : 5. What quantity does the
girls is vessel hold?
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35 L 45 L ## A, B and C have 200, b and c number of
40 L 50 L @@ stamps respectively. If B gives A 20 stamps,
Answer: 40 L he will be left with one fourth as many
## A vessel of capacity 2 litre has 25% alcohol stamps as C has. It 200 more stamps are
and another vessel of capacity 6 litre had added together to their collection, they will
40% alcohol. The total liquid of 8 litre was have 200 stamps on an average with each of
poured out in a vessel of capacity 10 litre and them. How many stamps does B have?
thus the rest part of the vessel was filled with [www.competoid.com]
the water. what is the new concentration of 40 Stamps 36 Stamps
mixture ? 56 Stamps 24 Stamps @@
[www.examveda.com] Answer: 56 Stamps
29% 49% ## A, B and C invest a total of Rs.7200 in a
31% 71% business such that A invests Rs.1200 more
None of these a than B and C invests Rs.600 more than B.
## A, B and C enter into a partnership by How will they share a profit of Rs.1440?
investing Rs 28000, Rs 32000 and Rs 18000. [www.competoid.com]
A is working partner and gets a fourth of the A - Rs.600, B - Rs.360 and C - Rs.480 A -
profit for this services and the remaining Rs.700, B - Rs.160 and C - Rs.580
profit is divided amongst the three in the A - Rs.840, B - Rs.260 and C - Rs.340 A -
ratio of their investments. What is the Rs.760, B - Rs.460 and C - Rs.220 @@
amount of profit that B gets if A gets a total Answer: A - Rs.600, B - Rs.360 and C - Rs.480
of Rs 4995? ## A, B and C play cricket. A's runs are to B's
[www.lofoya.com] runs and B's runs are to C's as 3 : 2. They
Rs. 1665 Rs. 2960 get altogether 342 runs. How many runs did
Rs. 2590 None of these b A make?
## A, B and C enter into a partnership by [www.lofoya.com]
investing Rs.2400, Rs.3000 and Rs.4200. A is 162 108
a working partner and gets a fifth of the 72 None a
profit for his services and the remaining ## A, B and C share Rs.315 in such a way that
profit is divided amongst the three in the for every Rs.2 that A gets, B gets :55 and for
ratio of their investments. What is the every 54 that B gets, C gets 57. How much
amount of profit that B and C get if A gets a does C get?
[www.competoid.com]
total of Rs.6000?
[www.competoid.com] Rs.378 Rs.441
B - Rs.4750 and C - Rs.3250 B - Rs.6500 Rs.252 Rs.175 @@
and C - Rs.8500 Answer: Rs.175
B - Rs.2750 and C - Rs.4250 B - Rs.3750 ## A, B and C work in a company. The ratio of
and C - Rs.5250 @@
A's age to B's age is 4 : 3 and B's age to C's
Answer: B - Rs.3750 and C - Rs.5250 age is 4 : 3. If the sum of the ages of A, B and
## A, B and C enter into a partnership by C is 129.5, what are their respective ages?
[www.competoid.com]
investing Rs.3600, Rs.4400 and Rs.2800. A is
a working partner and gets a fourth of the 40, 30 and 22.5 years 24, 18 and 13.5
profit for his services and the remaining years
profit is divided amongst the three in the 56, 42 and 31.5 years 72, 64 and 40.5
rate of their investments. What is the years @@

amount of profit that B gets if A gets a total Answer: 56, 42 and 31.5 years
of Rs. 8000? ## A, B and C, each of them working alone can
[www.lofoya.com] complete a job in 6, 8 and 12 days
4888.88 9333.33 respectively. If all three of them work
4000 3666.66 a together to complete a job and earn Rs.2340,
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what will be C’s share of the earnings? Rs. 9000 Information
[www.lofoya.com] inadequate d
Rs.520 Rs.1080 ## An amount of money is to be divided among
Rs.1170 Rs.630 a P, Q and R in the ratio of 3 : 5 : 7
## Abhijit invested in three schemes A, B and C respectively. If the amount received by R is
the amounts in the ratio of 2 : 3 : 4 Rs.4,000 more than the amount received by
respectively. If the schemes offered interest Q. what will be the total amount received by
@ 20 p.c.p.a., 16 p.c.p.a. and 15 p.c.p.a. P and Q together?
respectively, what will be the respective ratio [www.competoid.com]
of the amounts after one year? Rs. 8,000 Rs.12,000
[www.competoid.com] Rs.16.000 Cannot be determined
10 : 8 : 5 12 : 14 : 15 @@
12 : 15 : 22 None of these @@ Answer: Rs.16.000
Answer: None of these ## An engine without any wagon attached to it
## Acid and water are mixed in a vessel A in the can travel at 50 mph. Its speed is diminished
ratio of 5 : 2 and If the vessel B in the ratio 8 by a quantity which varies as the square root
: 5. In what proportion should quantities be of the number of wagons attached. With 36
taken out from the two vessels so as to form wagons attached, its speed is 32 mph, Find
a mixture in which the acid and water be in the maximum number of wagons that can be
the ratio of 9 : 4 ? attached, if the speed is not to fall below 20
[www.competoid.com] mph.
7:2 2:7 [www.competoid.com]
7:4 2:3 @@ 100 120
Answer: 7 : 2 90 80 @@
## Amit and Sudesh have invested in the ratio Answer: 100
of 4 : 7. If both invested a total amount of ## An outgoing batch of students wants to gift a
RS. 49500, then find the investment of PA system worth Rs 4,200 to their school. If
Sudesh. the teachers, offer to pay 50% more than the
[www.competoid.com] students and an external benefactor gives
RS.31500 RS.1800 three times the teacher's contribution, then
RS.31000 RS.18500 @@ how much should the teachers donate?
Answer: RS.31500 [www.lofoya.com]
## An alloy contains copper and zinc in the Rs 600 Rs 840
ratio of 5 : 3 and another alloy contains Rs 900 Rs 1,200 c
copper and tin in the ratio of 8 : 5. If equal ## Annual income of Amit and Veer are the
amount of both the alloys are melted ratio 3 : 2, while the ratio of their
together, find the weight of tin the resulting expenditure is 5 : 3. If at the end of the year
alloy per 1 kg. each saves Rs. 1000. The annual income of
[www.competoid.com] Amit is = ?
200 grams 240 grams [www.examveda.com]
192 grams 340 grams @@ Rs. 9000 Rs. 8000
Answer: 192 grams Rs. 7000 Rs. 6000 d
## An amount of money is to be distributed ## Annual incomes of Amit and Veer are in the
among P, Q ans R in the ratio of 2 : 7 : 9. ratio 3 : 2, while the ratio of their
The total of P's and Q's share is equal to R's expenditure is 5 : 3. If at the end of the year
share. What is the difference between the each saves Rs. 1,000. The annual income of
shares of P and Q ? Amit is
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Rs. 5000 Rs. 7500 Rs. 9,000 Rs. 8,000
Rs. 7,000 Rs. 6,000 @@
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Answer: Rs. 6,000 ## At a casino in Mumbai, there are 3 tables A,
7 5 2 B and C. The payoffs at A is 10 : 1, at B is 20
## Arrange the number a = , b = , c = in
10 8 3 : 1 and C is 30 :1. If a man bets Rs. 200 at
descending order = ? each table and win at two of the tables, what
[www.examveda.com] is the maximum and minimum difference
a>b>c a>c>b between his earnings can be ?
b>c>a c>b>a b [www.examveda.com]
7 5 2 Rs. 4000 Rs. 4500
## Arrange the numbers a = , b = , c = in Rs. 2500 Rs. 2000
10 8 3
descending order. None of these a
[www.competoid.com] ## At present, Pia is 6 years older to Ray. The
a>b>c a>c>b respective ratio between the present ages of
b>c>a c>b>a @@ Pia and Mini is 3 : 4. At present Ray is 14
Answer: a > c > b years younger to Mini. What is Ray's
## A's income is Rs. 140 more than B's income present age?
and C's income is Rs. 80 more than D's. If [www.competoid.com]
the ratio of A's and C's income is 2 : 3 and 16 years 20 years
the ratio of B's and D's income is 1 : 2, then 14 years 18 years @@
the incomes of A, B, C and D are Answer: 18 years
respectively. ## 'B' is 3 years older than 'A' and 'B' is also 3
[www.competoid.com] years younger than 'C'. 3 years hence, the
Rs. 60, Rs.120, Rs. 320 and Rs. 240 respective ratio between the ages of A and C
Rs.300, Rs.160, Rs. 600 and Rs. 520 will be 4 : 5. What is the sum of the present
Rs.400, Rs.260, Rs. 600 and Rs. 520 ages of A, B and C?
Rs.320, Rs.180, Rs. 480 and Rs. 360 @@ [www.competoid.com]
Answer: Rs.400, Rs.260, Rs. 600 and Rs. 520 48 years 56 years
## A's income is Rs. 140 more than B's income 63 years 72 years @@
ans C's income is Rs. 80 more than D's Answer: 72 years
income. If the ratio of A's and C's income is ## B is 8 years older than A and 8 years
2 : 3 and the ratio of B's and D's income is 1 younger than C. 12 years hence, respective
: 2, then the incomes of A, B, C and D are ratio of the ages of A and C will be 5 : 9.
respectively = ? What is the sum of present ages of A, B and
[www.examveda.com] C?
Rs. 260, Rs. 120, Rs. 320, Rs. 240 Rs. [www.competoid.com]
300, Rs. 160, Rs. 600, Rs. 520 58 years 46 years
Rs. 400, Rs. 260, Rs. 600, Rs. 520 Rs. 48 years 60 years @@
320, Rs. 180, Rs. 480, Rs. 360 c Answer: 48 years
## As part of a restructuring exercise, a ## B receives 1/10 of the profit of a business as
company reduced its work force by 30%. wages and the rest is divided between B and
However, to motivate the remaining A in proportion of their capitals of Rs.40000
employees, a wage hike was given. The and Rs.50000 respectively. if in a year B
wages, on an average. increased in the ratio receives Rs.5000, then what will be the share
of 25 : 28. If the present wage bill per month of A?
is Rs.4,90,000 what was the wage bill prior to [www.competoid.com]
the downsizing followed by the rise? Rs.8000 Rs.6000
[www.competoid.com] Rs.10000 Rs.5000 @@
Rs.56,25,000 Rs.64,00,000 Answer: Rs.5000
Rs.48,00,750 Rs.36,36,000 @@ ## Between two consecutive years my incomes
Answer: Rs.56,25,000 are in the ratio of 2 : 3 and expenses in the
ratio 5 : 9. If my income in the second year is
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Rs. 45000 and my expenses in the first year four pieces with their weight in the ratio 1 : 2
is Rs. 25000 my total savings for the two : 3 : 4. If the loss in the total value of the
years is - diamond was Rs.70,000. the price of the
[www.examveda.com] original diamond was
Nil Rs. 5000 [www.competoid.com]
Rs. 10000 Rs. 15000 b Rs.1,00,000 Rs.1,40,000
## Brindavan Express leave Chennai Central Rs.1,50,000 Rs.1,75,000 @@
Station every day at 07.50 am and goes to Answer: Rs.1,00,000
Bangalore City Railway station. This train is ## Divide 27 into two part so that 5 times the
very popular among the travelers. On 25th first and 11 times the second together equals
July 2012 number of passengers traveling by to 195. Then ratio of the first and Second
I class and II class was in the ratio 1 : 4. The parts is [www.competoid.com]
fare for this travel is in the ratio 3 : 1. The
total fare collected was Rs. 224000. (Rs. Two 3:2 17 : 10
lakhs twenty four thousand only). What was 2:7 5:4 @@
the fare collected from I class passengers on Answer: 17 : 10
that day? ## Divide Rs. 1250 among A, B, C so that A
[www.examveda.com] 2 3
Rs. 32,000 Rs. 96,000 gets of B's share and C gets of A's share,
9 4
Rs. 1,28,000 Rs. 5,00,000 [www.competoid.com]
None of these b Rs. 200, Rs. 800, Rs. 250 Rs. 200, Rs.
## Brothers A and B had some savings in the 900, Rs. 150
ratio 4 : 5. They decided to buy a gift for Rs. 150, Rs. 800, Rs. 300 Rs. 200,
their sister, sharing the cost in the ratio 3 : 4. Rs.900, Rs. 75 @@
After they bought. A spent two-third of his Answer: Rs. 200, Rs. 900, Rs. 150
amount, while B is left with RS. 145. Then, ## Divide Rs. 1350 between A, B, C in the ratio
the value of the gift is 3:5:7
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RS.70 RS.105 Rs.600, 400, 350 Rs 700, 400, 250
RS.140 RS.175 @@ Rs.500, 400, 450 Rs.270, 450, 310 @@
Answer: RS.140 Answer: Rs.270, 450, 310
## By mistake instead of dividing Rs. 117 ## Divide Rs. 671 among A, B and C such that
1 1 1 if their shares be increased by Rs. 3, Rs. 7
among A, B and the ratio : : it was
2 3 4 and Rs. 9 respectively the remainder shall be
divided in the ratio of 2 : 3 : 4 .Who gains the in the ratio 1 : 2 : 3 .
most and by how much ? [www.examveda.com]
[www.competoid.com] Rs. 110, Rs. 220, Rs. 336 Rs. 112, Rs.
A, Rs. 28 B, Rs. 3 223, Rs. 336
C, Rs. 20 C, Rs. 25 @@ Rs. 105, Rs. 223, Rs. 330 None of these
Answer: C, Rs. 25 b
## By mistake, instead of dividing Rs 117 ## Divide Rs. 7,500 among A, B and C such that
among three persons P, Q and R in the A's share to B's share is in the ratio 5 : 2 and
1  1  1, it was divided in the ratio 2 : 3 : 4. B's share to C's share is in the ratio 7 : 13.
2 3 4 how much will B receive ?
Who gains the most and how much? [www.competoid.com]
[www.lofoya.com] Rs. 1,400 Rs. 3,500
P, Rs. 28 Q, Rs. 35 Rs. 2,600 Rs. 7,000 @@
R, Rs. 25 R, Rs. 27 c Answer: Rs. 1,400
## Cast of a diamond varies directly as the ## Divide RS. 990 into 3 parts in such a way
square of its weight. A diamond broke into that half of the first part, one-third of the
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second part and one-fifth of the third part The required equation
are equal 2 6456
[www.competoid.com] is x = 3
y
198, 494, 298 198, 297, 495 The required equation
200, 300, 490 196, 298, 496 @@ 3456
2
Answer: 198, 297, 495 is x = 3 @@
y
2 Answer: The required equation
## Divide Rs.1500 In three parts. such that th
5 is x2=3456y3x2=3456y3.
4 2 ## Find the three numbers. They are in the
of the first part th of the second part and
9 3 ratio 2 : 3 : 4 such that the sum of their
of the third part are equal. squares is 1044.
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Rs.700, 600, 200 Rs.600, 540, 360 14, 21, 28 16, 25, 34
Rs.500, 400, 600 Rs.650, 550, 400 @@ 12, 18, 24 13, 20, 27 @@
Answer: Rs.600, 540, 360 Answer: 12, 18, 24
## Divide Rs.671 among A, B and C such that if ## Find the value of x.
their shares be increased by Rs.3, Rs.7 and 1 1
Rs.9 respectively, the remainder shall be in Given x : 3 = : 0.13.
4 5
the ratio 1 : 2 : 3. [www.competoid.com]
[www.competoid.com] 7
Rs.110, Rs.220 and Rs.336 Rs.112, 5
4
Rs.223 and Rs.336 10 20 @@
Rs.105, Rs.223 and Rs.330 None of these Answer: 5
@@ ## Find two mean proportionals between 2 and
Answer: Rs.112, Rs.223 and Rs.336 54,
## Divide Rs.7000 between A, B and C in such a [www.competoid.com]
way that A gets 20% more than B and C gets 6 and 18 6 and 12
30% more than B. 12 and 18 6 and 9 @@
[www.competoid.com]
Answer: 6 and 18
Rs.2200, Rs.1800, Rs.3000 Rs.2400,
## Five men, three women and eight boys share
Rs.2000, Rs.2600
Rs.580 among them. Each woman gets twice
Rs.2600, Rs.2400, Rs.2000 Rs.2500, the amount that each boy gets and each man
Rs.2300, Rs.2200 @@
gets as much as a boy and a woman together
Answer: Rs.2400, Rs.2000, Rs.2600 get. How much does each man get?
1 1 2 [www.competoid.com]
## Divide Rs.810 in the ratio. : :
2 3 3 Rs.40 Rs.20
[www.competoid.com] Rs.60 Rs.80 @@
Rs.270, 180, 360 Rs.300, 210, 300 Answer: Rs.60
Rs.250, 250, 310 None of these @@ ## Four numbers are in the ratio 1: 2 :3 :4.
Answer: Rs.270, 180, 360 Their sum is 16. The sum of the first and
## Express 'x' in terms of 'y' if the square of 'x' fourth number is equal to :
varies inversely as the cube of 'y', when x = [www.competoid.com]
4, y = 6. 5 8
[www.competoid.com] 10 80 @@
The required equation Answer: 8
4456 ## Four years ago, the ratio of the age of A and
is x2 = y3
B was 2 : 3 and after four years it will
The required equation become 5 : 7. Find their present age
2 5356 [www.competoid.com]
is x = y3
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36 years and 40 years 32 years and 48 the total number of girls in the college is 100
years 1
and is of the total strength?
40 years and 56 years 36 years and 52 4
years @@ [www.competoid.com]
Answer: 36 years and 52 years 2 5
## Four years ago, the respective ratio between 5 12
the age of Ram and that of Sonu. was 4 : 9. 1
None of these @@
Tina is ten years older than Ram. Tina is ten 5
years younger than Sonu. What is Tina's Answer: None of these
present age? ## Harsha is 40 years old and Ritu is 60 years
[www.competoid.com] old. How many years ago was the ratio of
40 years 36 years their ages is 3 : 5 ?
30 years 20 years @@ [www.examveda.com] [www.competoid.com]
Answer: 30 years 10 years 20 years
## Fourth proportional to (a2 - b2), (a2 - ab), 37 years 5 years a
(a3 + b3) is ## How many sides does a regular polygon have
[www.examveda.com] whose interior and exterior angle are in the
(a - b) a4 + b4 ratio 2 : 1 ?
a(a2 - ab + b2) a3 - a2b2 + b2 c [www.examveda.com] [www.competoid.com]
## From each of the two given unequal 3 5
numbers. half of the smaller number is 6 12 c
subtracted. Then, of the resulting numbers ## IBM and KTC quote for a tender. On the
the larger one is five times of the smaller one tender opening day, IBM realizes that their
. Then the ratio of the larger to the smaller quotations are in the ratio 7 : 4 and hence
one is decreases its price during negotiations to
[www.competoid.com] make it Rs 1 Lakh lower than KTC's quoted
2:1 3:2 price. KTC realizes that the final quotes of
3:1 1:4 @@ the two were in the ratio 3 : 4. What was the
Answer: 3 : 1 price at which IBM won the bid?
## From each of two given numbers, half the [www.lofoya.com]
smaller number is subtracted. After such Rs 7 Lakh Rs 4 Lakh
subtraction, the larger number is 4 times as Rs 3 Lakh Rs 1.5 Lakh c
large as the smaller number. What is the a+b b+c c+a
## If = = = k, then k is equal to
ratio of the numbers ? c a b
[www.competoid.com] -
5:2 1:4 [www.examveda.com]
4:1 4:5 @@ 0 1
Answer: 5 : 2 2 a+b+c c
## Given that 24 carat gold is pure gold, 18 a b c
3 5 ## If = = , then find a : b : c.
7 9 11
carat gold gold and 20 carat gold is gold,
4 6 [www.competoid.com]
the ratio of the pure gold in 18 Carat gold to 11 : 9 : 7 9 : 7 : 11
the pure gold in 20 carat gold is 7 : 9 : 11 11 : 7 : 9 @@
[www.competoid.com] Answer: 7:9:11
5 :8 9 : 10 x 3
15 : 24 8:5 ## If = , the ratio of (3x + 3y) and (3y - 2x) is
@@ y 4
Answer: 9 : 10 =?
## Half the girls and one-third of the boys of a [www.examveda.com]
college reside in the hostel. What fractional 2:1 3:2
part of the student body is hostel dwellers if 3:1 1:1 c
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3x + 5 2 128 men 134 men b
## If = , then the value of x is
5x – 2 3 ## If 30 men, working 8 hours a day can do a
[www.examveda.com] piece of work in 24 days in how many days
11 19 18 men working 10 hours a day will finish
23 7 b double the work.
a b c 2a – 3b + 5c [www.competoid.com]
## If = = = , then find the 64 32
2 3 5 k
value of k. 48 68 @@
[www.competoid.com] Answer: 64
10 30 1
40 20 ## If 30 oxen can plough th of a field in 2 days,
@@ 7
Answer: 20 how many days 18 oxen will take to do the
x y z 2x – 3y + 5z remaining work?
## If = = = , then the value of k
2 3 4 k [www.examveda.com]
is - 30 days 20 days
[www.examveda.com] 15 days 18 days
12 15 21 days b
16 18 b ## If 378 coins consist of 1 rupee, 50 paise and
1 2 1 25 paise coins, whose values are in the ratio
## If of A = of B = of C, then A : B : C is
2 5 3 of 13 : 11 : 7. The number of 50 paise coins
equal to will be
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4:5:6 6:4:5 132 128
5:4:6 4:6:5 @@ 136 133 @@
Answer: 4:5:6 Answer: 132
## If (a + b) : (a – b) = 5 : 3, then find ( a2 + b2) : ## If 3A = 5B and 4B = 6C, then A : C equal to -
( a2 – b2). [www.examveda.com]
[www.competoid.com] 2:5 3:5
17 : 15 25 : 9 4:5 5:2 d
4:1 16 : 1 @@ ## If 3x = 5y = 4z,then x : y : z is equal to
Answer: 17 : 15 [www.competoid.com]
## If (a + b) : (b + c) : (c + a) = 6 : 7 : 8 and (a + 9 : 12 : 16 20 : 12 : 15
b + c) = 14, then the value of c is 15 : 10 : 9 8:5:3 @@
[www.examveda.com] [www.competoid.com] Answer: 20 : 12 : 15
6 7 ## If 4 years ago the ratio between the ages of P
8 14 @@ and Q was 5 : 6 and the sum of their ages at
Answer: 6 present is 52, what is the ratio of their
## If (x3 - y3) : (x2 + xy + y2) = 5 : 1 and (x2 - present ages ?
y2) : (x - y) = 7 : 1, then the ratio 2x : 3y [www.examveda.com] [www.competoid.com]
equals = ? 5:6 6:7
[www.examveda.com] 7:8 4:5 b
3:2 2:3 ## If 40% of a number is equal to two-third of
4:3 4:1 d another number, what is the ratio of first
## If 20 men or 24 women or 40 boys can do a number to the second number?
job in 12 days working for 8 hours a day, [www.examveda.com] [www.lofoya.com] [www.indiabix.com]
how many men working with 6 women and 2 2:5 3:7
boys take to do a job four times as big 5:3 7:3 c
working for 5 hours a day for 12 days? ## If 5 person together can make 5 mats in 5
[www.competoid.com] [www.lofoya.com] hours, then 10 person in 10 hours will make
120 men 122 men
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=? ## If A : B = 1 : 2 , B : C = 3 : 4 , C : D = 6 : 9
[www.examveda.com] [www.competoid.com] and D : E = 12 : 16 then A : B : C : D : E is
20 mats 10 mats equal to
15 mats 5 mats a [www.competoid.com]
## If 5.5 of a = 0.65 of b, then a : b is equal to : 1 : 3 : 6 : 12 : 16 2 : 4 : 6 : 9 : 16
[www.examveda.com] [www.competoid.com] 3 : 4 : 8 : 12 : 16 3 : 6 : 8 : 12 : 16 @@
13 : 11 11 : 13 Answer: 3 : 6 : 8 : 12 : 16
13 : 110 110 : 13 @@ ## If A : B = 1 : 3, B : C = 5 : 7, C : D = 9 : 7,
Answer: 13 : 110 then A : B : C : D = ?
3 [www.competoid.com]
## If 50% of a certain number is equal to th of 15 : 45 : 63 : 49 15 : 49 : 45 : 63
4
another number, what is the ratio between 45 : 15 : 63 : 49 49 : 15 : 45 : 63 @@
the numbers? Answer: 15 : 45 : 63 : 49
[www.competoid.com] ## If A : B = 2 : 3 and B : C = 4 : 5 then A : B :
3:2 2:5 C is
5:2 3:4 @@ [www.examveda.com]
Answer: 3 : 2 2:3:5 5:4:6
## If 7 boys and 2 men working together can do 8 : 12 : 15 6:4:5 c
three times as much work per hour as a boy ## If A : B = 2 : 3, B : C = 4 : 5 and C : D = 5 : 9
and a man together, what will be the then A : D is equal to:
respective ratio of work done by a boy and a [www.examveda.com]
man for the given time? 11 : 17 8 : 27
[www.competoid.com] 5:9 2:9 b
3:1 1:2 ## If A : B = 3 : 4 and B : C = 6 : 5, then C : A is
1:3 1:4 @@
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Answer: 1 : 4 10 : 9 9 : 10
## If 7 spiders make 7 webs in 7 days, then 1 8:9 9:8 @@
spider will make 1 web in how many days? Answer: 10 : 9
[www.competoid.com] ## If A : B = 3 : 4 and B : C = 8 : 9, then A : B :
7 C is = ?
1
2 [www.examveda.com] [www.examveda.com]
7 49 @@
8:6:9 9:8:6
Answer: 7 6:8:9 3 : 32 : 9 c
## If 8, x and 50 are in continued proportion, ## If A : B = 3 : 4, B : C = 5 : 7 and C : D = 8 : 9
then the value of x is then A : D is equal to ?
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30 20 3:7 7:3
5 32 @@
21 : 10 10 : 21 @@
Answer: 20 Answer: 10 : 21
## If a : b : c = 3 : 4 : 7, then the ratio (a + b + c) ## If a : b = 4 : 5, b : c = 5 : 6, and c : d = 6 : 7,
: c is equal to then a : c is:
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2:1 14 : 3 5:6 3:4
7:2 1:2 a 2:3 4:5 @@
## If a : b : c = 7 : 3 : 5, then (a + b + c) : (2a + b Answer: 2 : 3
- c) is equal to ## If A : B = 4 : 9 and A : C = 2 : 3 then (A + B)
[www.competoid.com] : (B + C) is
1:2 2:3 [www.competoid.com]
3:4 5:4 @@
15 : 13 10 : 13
Answer: 5 : 4 13 : 10 13 : 15 @@
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Answer: 13 : 15 15 12 @@
## If a : b = 7 : 9 and b : c = 5 : 7, then what is a Answer: 12
:c? ## If a carton containing a dozen glass is
[www.competoid.com] dropped, which of the following cannot be
5:9 3:5 the ratio of unbroken glasses to broken
7 : 21 7 : 15 @@ glasses
Answer: 5 : 9 [www.competoid.com]
## If A : B = a : b and B : C = p : q, then A : C 2:1 3:1
is equal to 3:2 7:5 @@
[www.competoid.com] Answer: 3 : 2
aq : bp ab : pq ## If a cone is divided in two parts by drawing a
ap : bq bq : ap @@ plane through mid - point of its axis, then
Answer: ap : bq ratio of the volumes of the 2 parts of the cone
## If A : B = m : n, B : C = p : q and C : D = r : is
s, then D : A is equal to [www.competoid.com]
[www.competoid.com] 1:2 1:4
mps : nqr nps : mqr 1:7 1:8 @@
nqs : mpr mrp : nsq @@ Answer: 1 : 7
Answer: nqs : mpr 1 1
1 1 1 1 ## If A is of B and B is of C, then A : B : C is
## If A : B = : and B : C = : , then A, B, 3 2
2 3 2 3 [www.competoid.com]
C is equal to - 1:3:6 2:3:6
[www.examveda.com] 3:2:6 3:1:2 @@
1:2:6 2:3:3 Answer: 1 : 3 : 6
3:2:6 9:6:4 d ## If a, b, c, d and e are in continued
1 1 a
## If A = B and B = C, then find the value of proportion, then is equal to
4 2 e
A : B : C. [www.competoid.com]
[www.competoid.com] a3 a4
8:4:1 4:2:1 b3 b4
1:4:8 1:2:4 @@ b3 b4
Answer: 1:4:8 a3 a4 @@
2 4 Answer: a4/b4a4/b4
## If A = of B and B = of C, then A : B : C is.
3 5 ## If A:B = 3:4 and B:C = 8:9, then find the
value of A:B:C.
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12 : 8: 10 15 : 10 : 8 3:4:5 1:2:3
10 : 15 : 12 8 : 12 : 15 @@ 7:12:17 6:8:9 @@
Answer: 8 : 12 : 15 Answer: 6:8:9
## If A and B are in the ratio 3 : 4, and B and C ## If a:b = 5:6, b:c=6:7 find a:c
in the ratio 12 : 13, then A and C will be in [www.competoid.com]
the ratio 2:5 5:7
[www.examveda.com] [www.competoid.com] 3:7 6:9 @@
3 : 13 9 : 13 Answer: 5 : 7
36 : 13 13 : 9 b ## If A:B=2:3, B:C=5:7 and C:D = 3:10, then
## If A and B are in the ratio 4 : 5 and the what is A:D equal to?
difference of their squares is 81, what is the [www.competoid.com]
value of A ? 1:7 2:7
[www.competoid.com] 1:5 5:1 @@
36 445 Answer: 1:7
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## If m : n = 3 : 2, then (4m + 5n) : (4m - 5n) is ## If Rs. x are divided between A and B in the
equal to : a c
ratio : then A gets rupees -
b d
4:9 9:4 [www.examveda.com]
11 : 1 9:1 @@
adx adx
Answer: 11 : 1 ab  cd ad  bc
## If m : n = 3 : 2, then (4m + 5n) : (4n - 5n) is abx adx
b
equal to = ? ad  bc ac  bd
[www.examveda.com] [www.competoid.com] ## If Rs.1066 are divided among A, B, C and D
4:9 9:4 such that A : B = 3 : 4, B : C = 5 : 6 and C :
11 : 1 9:1 c D = 7 : 5, Who will get the maximum ?
## If N > 1000, what could be the least value of [www.examveda.com]
N? A B
[www.lofoya.com] C D c
1249 1023 ## If the ratio of boys to girls in a class is B and
1202 1246 d the ratio of girls to boys is G, then 3 (B+G) is
## If N 1000, how many biscuits were left after [www.competoid.com]
the fourth man took his share? equal to 3 less than 3
[www.lofoya.com] 1
624 621 more than 3 less than @@
3
252 257 c Answer: more than 3
## If p : q = T : s = t : u = 2 : 3, then (mp + nr + ## If the ratio of the ages of Maya and Chhaya
ot) (mq + ns + ou) is equal to : is 6 : 5 at present, and fifteen years from
[www.competoid.com] now, the ratio will get changed to 9 : 8, then
1:3 1:2 find Maya's present age.
2:3 3:2 @@ [www.examveda.com]
Answer: 2 : 3 24 years 30 years
## If radi of two cylinders are in the ration 3 : 2 18 years 33 years b
and their height in the ratio 4 : 3, then ratio ## If the square of the sum of two numbers is
of their volumes is equal to 4 times of their product, then the
[www.competoid.com] ratio of these numbers is:
9:8 2:1 [www.competoid.com]
3:1 4:1 @@ 2:1 1:3
Answer: 3 : 1 1:1 1:2 @@
## If Rs. 126.50 is divided among A, B and C in Answer: 1 : 1
the ratio of 2 : 5 : 4, the share of B exceeds ## If the sum of two quantities is equal to three
that of A by times of their difference, then the ratio of the
two quantities is
Rs. 36.50 Rs. 35.50 [www.competoid.com]
Rs. 34.50 Rs. 33.50 @@ 1:3 3:1
Answer: Rs. 34.50 2:1 2:3 @@
## If Rs. 782 be divided into three parts, Answer: 2 : 1
1 2 3 ## If the three numbers in the ratio 3 : 2 : 5 be
proportional to : : then the first part is: such that the sum of the squares is equal to
2 3 4
[www.examveda.com] [www.indiabix.com] [www.lofoya.com] 1862 then which number is the middle one.
Rs. 182 Rs. 190 [www.competoid.com]
Rs. 196 Rs. 204 d 16 14
13 15 @@
Answer: 14
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## If there is a reduction in the number of 7 7
workers in a factory in the ratio 15 : 11 and 25 23
an increment in their wages in the ratio 22 : 7 7
25, then the ratio by which the total wage of 29 17 @@

the workers should be decreased is Answer: 729729

[www.competoid.com] ## If x : y = 3 : 4, then the value of (4x - y) : (2x
6:5 5:6 + 3y) is = ?
3:7 3:5 @@ [www.examveda.com]
Answer: 6 : 5 4:9 8:9
## If two - third of A is four-fifth of B, then A : 4:3 8:3 a
B=? ## If x : y = 3 : 5 and x - y = -2, then the value of
[www.competoid.com] x + y is
5:6 6:5 [www.competoid.com]
10 : 9 9 : 10 @@ 8 2
Answer: 6 : 5 3 5 @@
## If two spheres have their radii in the ratio 2 Answer: 8
:3, then ratio of their volumes is ## If x : y = 7 : 5, then what is the value of (5x –
[www.competoid.com] 2y) : (3x + 2y) ?
8 : 27 4:9 [www.competoid.com]
6 : 12 1 : 15 @@ 5 6
Answer: 8 : 27 4 5
## If two times A is equal to three times of B 25 31
and also equal to four times of C, then A : B 31 42 @@

: C is Answer: 25 /31
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1 1
2:3:4 3:4:2 ## If x = y and y = z, then x : y : z is equal to
3 2
4:6:3 6:4:3 d
=?
## If two times of A is equal to three times of B [www.examveda.com] [www.competoid.com]
and also equal to four times of C, then A : B 3:2:1 1:2:6
: C is 1:3:6 2:4:6 c
[www.competoid.com]
## If x runs scored by A, y runs by B and z runs
2:3:4 3:4:2
by C, then x : y = y : z = 3 : 2. If total
4:6:3 6:4:3 @@
number of runs scored by A, B and C is 342,
Answer: 6 : 4 : 3 the runs scored by each would be
## If x : y = 2 : 3 and 2 : x = 1 : 2 the value of 'y' respectively = ?
is: [www.examveda.com] [www.competoid.com]
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144, 96, 64 162, 108, 72
4 6
180, 120, 80 180, 120, 80
8 None of these @@
189, 126, 84 b
Answer: 6
## If x varies as y then x2 + y2 varies as
## If x : y = 3 : 4 , then the value of (4x - y) : (2x [www.examveda.com]
+ 3y) is x+y x-y
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x2 - y2 x3 - y3
4:9 8:9
None of these
4:3 8:3 @@
x 3
Answer: 4 : 9 ## If = , the ratio of (2x + 3y) and (3y - 2x) is
y 4
5x – 2y
## If x : y = 3 : 4 ,then the value of = :
7x + 2y
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2:1 3:2
3:1 1:1 @@
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Answer: 3 : 1 3+3 1– 3
3x + 5 2
## If = , then the value of x is 1+ 3 3–3 a
5x – 2 3
## If (x3 – y3) : (x2 + xy + y2) = 5 : 1 and (x2 – y2)
[www.competoid.com]
: (x – y) = 7 : 1, then the ratio 2x : 3y equals
11 19 [www.competoid.com]
23 7 @@ 3:2 2:3
Answer: 19 4:3 4:1 @@
a c e Answer: 4 : 1
## If = = , then each of them is equal to = ?
b d f ## In 2 kg mixture of copper and aluminium,
[www.examveda.com] [www.competoid.com]
30% is copper. How much aluminium
a + 3c + 5e 3a + 3c – 5e
powder should be added to the mixture so
b+d–f b + 3d – f
that the quantity of copper becomes 20%?
a+c–e a + 3c – 5c [www.competoid.com]
d
b + d – 5f b + 3d – 5f 900 gms 800 gms
a b c b3 + c3 + d3 1000 gms 1200 gms @@
## If = = , then will be equal
b c d a3 + b3 + c3 Answer: 1000 gms
to - ## In 80 litres mixture of milk and water the
[www.examveda.com] ratio of amount of milk to that of amount of
a b water is 7 : 3. In order to make this ratio 2 :
b c 1, how many litres of water should be added
c d ?
d
d a [www.competoid.com]
y y+x x 5 6
## If = = , then find x : y : z.
x–z z y 8 4 @@
[www.competoid.com] Answer: 4
1:2:3 3:2:1 ## In a 45 litres mixture of milk and water, the
4:2:3 2:4:7 @@ ratio of the milk to water is 2 : 1. When some
Answer: 4 : 2 : 3 quantity of water is added to the mixture,
a+b–c c+a–b b+c–a this ratio becomes 1 : 2. The quantity of
## If = = , then what
c b a water added is
is the value of each ratio? [www.competoid.com]
[www.competoid.com] 10 litres 21 litres
1 2 35 litres 45 litres @@
3 5 @@ Answer: 45 litres
Answer: 1 ## In a bag, there are coins of 25 p, 10 p and 5 p
a c 3a + 4c in the ratio of 1 : 2 : 3. If there is Rs. 30 in
## If = = 5, then equals to:
b d 3b + 4d all, how many 5 p coins are there?
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5 20 50 100
60 15 @@ 150 200 c
Answer: 5 ## In a certain school, the ratio of boys to girls
2 is 7 : 5. If there are 2400 students in the
## If of A=75% of B = 0.6 of C, then A : B : C school, then how many girls are there in the
3
is school?
[www.examveda.com] [www.competoid.com] [www.competoid.com]
2:3:3 3:4:5 500 700
4:5:6 9 : 8 : 10 d 800 1000 @@

## If 2 : (1 + 3 ) :: 6 : x, then x is equal to - Answer: 1000

[www.examveda.com] ## In a class of students, if 1 5 girls are taken
out the ratio of the boys and girls becomes
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2:1 . Later, it 40 boys are taken out then the 2 : 5. If the total collection from selling the
ratio of the boys and girls becomes 2:5. What tickets is Rs. 2.5 crores. Find the total
is the number of girls present in the class ? number of tickets sold?
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36 24 5000 4800
40 20 @@ 50000 52000 @@
Answer: 40 Answer: 50000
## In a class, the number of boys and girls is in ## In a factory the salary of each worker is
the ratio of 4 : 5. If 10 more boys join the increased in the ratio 22 : 25 but the number
class, the ratio of numbers of boys and girls 2
of workers is decreased by 26 . The net
becomes 6 : 5. How many girls are there in 3
the class? effect on the salary is:
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20 30 2 1
16 decrease 11 decrease
25 Couldn't be 3 9
determined @@ 10% decrease 20% increase @@
Answer: 25 Answer: 16231623 decrease
## In a college the number of students studying ## In a glass, milk and water are mixed in the
Arts, Commerce and Science are in the ratio ratio 3 : 5 and in another glass they are
of 3 : 5 : 8 respectively. If the number of mixed in the ratio 6 : 1. In what ratio should
students studying Arts, Commerce and the contents of the two glasses be mixed
Science is increased by 20%, 40% and 25% together so that the new mixture contains
respectively, what will be the new ratio of milk and water in the ration 1 : 1 ?
students in Arts,Commerce and Science [www.competoid.com]
respectively? 20 : 7 8:3
[www.competoid.com] 27 : 4 25 : 9 @@
18 : 35 : 50 3 : 10 : 10 Answer: 20 : 7
4:8:5 32 : 35 : 25 @@ ## In a house, there are dogs, cats and parrot in
Answer: 18 : 35 : 50 the ratio 3 : 7 : 5. If the number of cats was
## In a college union, there are 48 students. The more than the number of dogs by a multiple
ratio of the number of boys to the number of of both 9 and 7, what is the minimum of pets
girls is 5 : 3. The number of girls to be added in the house?
in the union, so that the number of boys to [www.lofoya.com]
girls in 6 : 5 is = ? 945 630
[www.examveda.com] [www.competoid.com] 252 238 a
6 7 ## In a mixture of 25 litres the ratio of acid to
12 17 b water is 4 : 1. Another 3 litres of water of
## In a college, the ratio of boys to girls is 31 : water is added to the mixture. The ratio of
23 respectively. When 75 more girls join the acid to water in the new mixture is = ?
college, this ratio becomes 124 : 107. How [www.competoid.com] [www.examveda.com]
many more girls should join the college to 5:2 2:5
make the number of boys and girls equal? 3:5 5:3 a
[www.competoid.com] ## In a mixture of 35 litres, the ratio of milk
75 90 and water is 4 : 1. Another 7 litres of water is
60 85 @@ added to the mixture. Find the ratio of milk
Answer: 85 and water in the resulting mixture.
## In a cricket match there are three types of [www.competoid.com]
tickets say A, B and C each costing Rs. 1000, 3:2 2:1
Rs. 500 and Rs. 200 respectively. The ratio of 4:3 5:1 @@
three ticket sold of category A, B and C is 3 : Answer: 2 : 1
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## in a mixture of 54 litres, the ratio of milk and 21 28 c
water is 2 : 1. If the ratio of milk and water ## In a school having roll strength 286, the ratio
is to be 1 : 2 then the amount of water to be of boys and girls is 8 : 5. If 22 more girls get
further added is admitted into the school, the ratio of boys
[www.competoid.com] and girls becomes
54 litres 60 litres [www.examveda.com]
76 litres 58 litres @@ 12 : 7 10 : 7
Answer: 54 litres 8:7 4:3 d
## In a pocket of A, the ratio of Rs.1 coins, 50p ## In a school if there were 1554 students and
coins and 25p coins can be expressed by the ratio of the number of boys and girls was
three consecutive odd prime numbers that 4 : 3. After few days, 30 girls joined the
are in ascending order. The total value of school but few boys left; as a result the ratio
coins in the bag is Rs 58. If the number of of the boys and girls became 7 : 6. The
Rs.1, 50p, 25p coins are reversed, find the number of boys who left the school is
new total value of coins in the pocket of A? [www.competoid.com]
[www.lofoya.com] 76 84
Rs 68 Rs 43 86 74 @@
Rs 75 Rs 82 d Answer: 76
## In a proportion the multiplication of 1st and ## In a school the number of boys and that of
4th term is 40 and that of 2nd and 3rd term the girls are in the respective ratio of 2 : 3. If
is 2.5x, then the value of x is the number of boys is increased by 20% and
[www.competoid.com] that of girls is increased by 10%, what will
16 36 be the new ratio of number of boys to that of
75 90 @@ the girls?
Answer: 16 [www.competoid.com]
## In a proportion the product of 1st and 14 : 5 5:8
4th terms is 40 and that of 2nd and 13 : 4 None of these @@
3rd terms is 2.5x. Then the value of x is. Answer: None of these
[www.examveda.com] ## In a school, the ratio of boys to girls is 4 : 3
16 26 and the ratio of girls, to teachers is 8: 1. The
75 90 a ratio of students to teachers is :
## In a ratio which is equal to 5 : 8. If the [www.competoid.com]
antecedent is 40, then the consequent is: 56 : 3 55 : 1
[www.competoid.com] 49 : 3 56 : 1 @@
25 64 Answer: 56 : 3
48 None of these @@ ## In a test, a candidate secured 336 marks out
Answer: 64 of maximum marks 'x'. If the maximum
## In a ratio, which equals. to 6:7. If the marks 'x' were converted into 400 marks, he
antecedent is 42, what is the consequent? would have secured 192 marks. What were
[www.competoid.com] the maximum marks of the test?
42 49 [www.competoid.com]
56 63 @@ 700 750
Answer: 63 500 650 @@
## In a regiment the ratio between the number Answer: 700
of officers to soldiers was 3 : 31 before. In a ## In a town, 80 % of the population are adults
battle 6 officers and 22 soldiers were killed of which the men and women are in the ratio
and the ratio become 1 : 13, the regiment of 9 : 7, respectively. If the number of adult
before battle was = ? women is 4.2 lakh, what is the total
[www.examveda.com] [www.competoid.com] population of the town?
31 38 [www.competoid.com]
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12 lakh 9.6 lakh ## In two types of stainless steel the ratio of
9.8 lakh 11.6 lakh @@ chromium and steel are 2 : 11 and 5 : 21
Answer: 12 lakh respectively. In what proportion should the
## In an examination, a candidate scored marks two types be mixed so that the ratio of
in each of the five subjects in the ratio 4 : 5 : chromium to steel in the mixed type becomes
6 : 7 : 8 and got an aggregate of 72%. In 7 : 32 = ?
order to pass, if a candidate has to score [www.examveda.com] [www.competoid.com]
50% of the maximum marks in each subject 2:3 3:4
and the maximum marks for all of the 1:2 1:3 c
subjects are the same, then in how many ## In what respective ratio two varieties of rice
subjects did the candidate fail? costing Rs.36 per kg and Rs.60 per kg be
[www.competoid.com] mixed: so that by selling the mixture for
Four subjets. Three subjects. Rs.54 per kg 20% profit is earned?
Two subjects. One subject. @@
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Answer: One subject. 3:2 7:5
## In an examination, the number of those who 5:3 5:2 @@
passed and the number of those who failed Answer: 5 : 3
were in the ratio 25 : 4. If five more had ## Income of A and B are in the ratio 4 : 3 and
appeared and the number of failures was 2 their annual expenses are in the ratio 3 : 2. If
less than earlier, the ratio of passers to each save Rs. 60000 at the end of the year,
failures would have been 22 : 3. Total the annual income of A is = ?
number who appeared at the examination is [www.examveda.com] [www.competoid.com]
[www.competoid.com] Rs. 120000 Rs. 150000
145 150 Rs. 240000 Rs. 360000 c
155 1180 @@
## Income of two companies A and B are in the
Answer: 150 ratio of 5 : 8. Had the income of company 'A'
## In the previous question, what is the sum of been more by Rs.25 lakhs, the ratio of their
the number of biscuits hidden by the last 2 income would have been 5 : 4 respectively.
men? What is the income of company 'B'?
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142 144 Rs.80 lakhs Rs.50 lakhs
180 178 b Rs.40 lakhs Rs.60 lakhs @@
## In two alloys A and B the ratio of Zinc and Answer: Rs.40 lakhs
Tin is 5 : 2 and 3 : 4 respectively. 7 kg of the ## It takes 60 hours for 6 machine to print a
alloy A and 21 kg of the alloy B are mixed job. In how many hours 15 machine will
together to form a new alloy. What will be print the same job?
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the ratio of Zinc and Tin tin the new alloy ?
[www.examveda.com] [www.competoid.com] 30 15
2:1 1:2 24 40 @@
2:3 1:1 d Answer: 24
## In two types of brass, the ratio of Copper to 2
## Joe's present age is th of his father's resent
zinc are 8 : 3 and 15 : 7 respectively. If the 7
two types of brass be melted and mixed in age. Joe's brother is 3 years older tan Joe.
the ratio 5 : 2 a new type of brass is The respective ratio between present ages of
obtained. The ratio of copper to zinc in this Joe's father and Joe's brother is 14 : 5. What
new type of brass is is Joe's present age?
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3:2 2:3 6 years 15 years
3:4 5:2 @@ 12 years 18 years @@
Answer: 5 : 2 Answer: 12 years
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## Joseph bought two varieties of rice, costing 5 Rs.2000 Rs.1300
cents per ounce and 6 cents per ounce each, Rs.1500 Rs.2600 @@
and mixed them in some ratio. Then he sold Answer: Rs.1300
the mixture at 7 cents per ounce, making a 1
profit of 20 percent. What was the ratio of ## Monthly salary of Dex is th of his father's
4
the mixture? monthly salary. Dex's sister's monthly salary
[www.lofoya.com] 2
1 : 10 1:5 is th of their father's monthly salary. Dex's
5
2:7 3:8 b 1
## lf x : y = 4 : 5, then (3x + y) : (5x + 3y) = sister pays Rs.12,800, which is th of her
4
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3:5 5:3 monthly salary as study loan. Savings and
17 : 35 35 : 17 expenses made out of the monthly salary by
@@
Answer: 17 : 35 Dex is in th respective ratio 3 : 5.How much
does Dex save each month?
## ln a fort ration for 2400 people was sufficient [www.competoid.com]
for 60 days. After 16 days a few more people Rs.12,000 Rs.10,600
came and ration lasted for only 32 days. How Rs.10,400 Rs.12,600 @@
many new comers are there?
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Answer: Rs.12,000
1900 1400 ## Mr. Pandit owned 950 gold coins all of which
900 1200 he distributed amongst his three daughters
@@
Answer: 900 Lalita, Amita and Neeta. Lalita gave 25 gold
## Manish, Rahul and Bharti have some stones coins to her husband, Amita donated 15 gold
coins and Neeta made jewellery out of 30
with each of the. Five times the number of
gold coins. The new respective ratio of the
stones with Rahul equals seven times the
coins left with them was 20 : 73 : 83. How
number of stones with Manish while five
many gold coins did Amita receive from Mr.
times the number of stones with Manish
Pandit?
equals seven times the number of stones with [www.competoid.com]
Bharti. What is the minimum number of 380 415
stones that can be there with all three of 400 350 @@
them put together?
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Answer: 380
113 109 ## Mr. X invested a certain amount in Debit
93 97 b
and Equity funds in the ratio of 4 : 5
respectively. At the end of one year, he
## Marks of two candidates p and Q are in the
earned a total dividend of 30% on his
ratio 2 : 5 if the marks of P are 120, marks of
investment. After one year he reinvested the
Q are
[www.competoid.com] amount including dividend in the ratio of 6 :
120 240 7 in Debit and Equity Funds. If the amount
300 360 reinvested in Equity Funds was Rs.94,500,
@@
Answer: 300 what was the original amount invested in
## Martin, Michael, Lawrence and Joseph Equity Funds?
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bought a used car for Rs.6000. Martin paid
Rs.75,000 Rs.81,007
one half of the sum of the amount paid by
Rs.60,000 Rs.65,007 @@
the other boys, Michael paid one third of the
Answer: Rs.75,000
sum of the amount paid by the other boys;
## Number of students in Arts and Science
and Lawrence paid one fourth of the sum of
faculties in an institute are in the ratio of 5 :
the amount paid by the other boys. How
8 respectively. lf 150 more students join Arts
much did Joseph pay?
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faculty, the respective ratio becomes 3 : 4. angles of the quadrilateral are in ratio 4 : 11
Originally what was the total number of : 9 respectively. What is the sum of the
students in both faculties together? largest and the smallest angles of the
[www.competoid.com] quadrilateral?
1200 1400 [www.competoid.com]
1150 None of these @@ 255 260
Answer: None of these 265 270 @@
## Number of students in institutes A and B Answer: 260∘260∘
were in the ratio of 7 : 15 respectively in ## One of the angles of a triangle is two-third of
2012. In 2013, the number of students in sum of adjacent angles of parallelogram.
institute A increased by 25% and number of Remaining angles of the triangle are in ratio
students in institutes B increased by 26%, 5 : 7 respectively. What is the value of
then what was the respective ratio between second largest angle of the triangle?
number of students in institutes A and B? [www.competoid.com]
[www.examveda.com] 25 40
25 : 56 24 : 55 35 Cannot be determined
24 : 53 25 : 53 @@
25 : 54 Answer: 35∘35∘
## On a certain day, the ratio of the passenger ## One year ago, the ratio between A's and B's
in the 1st class and the second class salary was 4 : 5. The ratio of their individual
travelling by train is 1 : 3. the ratio of the salaries of last year and present year are 3 :
fares collected from each first class and 5 and 2 : 3 respectively. If their total salaries
second class passengers is 30 : 1. If the total for the present year is Rs 6800, the present
amount collected from all the passengers is salary of A is
Rs 1,320. Find the amount in Rs, collected [www.lofoya.com]
from the second class passengers. Rs 4080 Rs 3200
[www.lofoya.com] Rs 4533.40 Rs 2720 b
240 360 ## One year ago, the ratio between Nicholas'
480 120 d and Stephanie's wages was 3: 4. The ratio of
## On mixing two classes A and B of students their individual wages between last year and
having average marks 25 and 40 this year are 4:5 and 2: 3 respectively. At
respectively. The over all average obtained is present, the sum of their wages is Rs.4160.
30. Find the ratio of the students in the class What is the present wage of Nicholas?
A and B. [www.competoid.com]
[www.competoid.com] Rs.1200 Rs.1600
2:1 5:8 Rs.1800 Rs.2200 @@
5:6 3:4 @@ Answer: Rs.1600
Answer: 2 : 1 ## One-half of a certain number is equal to
## One - fourth of sixty percent of a number is 65% of the 2nd number.Find the ratio of 1st
equal to two - fifths of twenty percent of to 2nd number.
another number. What is the respective ratio [www.competoid.com]
of the first number to the second number ? 10 : 13 8 : 13
[www.examveda.com] 13 : 8 13 : 10 @@
4:7 5:9 Answer: 13 : 10
8 : 13 Cannot be determine ## Out of 120 applications for a post, 70 are
None of these males and 80 have a driver license. What is
## One of the angles of a quadrilateral is thrice the ratio of between the minimum to
the smaller angle of a parallelogram. The maximum number of males having driver's
respective ratio between the adjacent angles license.
of the parallelogram is 4:5. Remaining three [www.competoid.com]
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1:2 2:3 Answer: 35 years
3:7 5:7 @@ ## Present age of Ram is equal to Shyam's age 8
Answer: 3 : 7 years ago. 6 years hence, the respective ratio
x2 – 36 x+6 P between Shyam's age and Ram's age will be
## P = 2 and Q = , then the value of 6 : 5 at that time. What is Ram's present
x – 49 x–7 Q
is age?
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x–6 x–6 40 years 24 years
x–7 x+7 28 years 34 years @@
x–7 x+6 Answer: 34 years
x+6 x–7 @@ ## Present age of Seema and Naresh are in the
Answer: x−6x−7x−6x−7 respective ratio of 5:7. Five years hence the
## P, Q and R enter into a partnership with ratio of their age becomes 3 : 4 respectively.
capitals in the ratio 3 : 2 : 1. After 4 months, What is Naresh's present age (in years)?
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P leaves the business and after 4 more
25 40
months Q also leaves the business and R
continues till the end of the year. If R takes 30 None of these @@

10 of the profit for managing the business, Answer: None of these

then what part of the profit does R get? ## Present ages of A and B are in the ratio 5 : 6
[www.lofoya.com] respectively. After seven years this ratio
37% 36% becomes 6 : 7. Then the present age of A in
27% 30% a years is = ?
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## Points A and B are both in the line segment
35 years 33 years
PQ and on the same side of its midpoint. A
divides PQ in the ratio 2 : 3, and B divides 32 years 30 years a
PQ in the ratio 3 : 4. If AB = 2, then the ## Production of company A is 120% of the
length of PQ is: production of company B and 80% of the
[www.lofoya.com] production of company C. What is the ratio
70 75 between the productions of companies A, B
80 85 a and C respectively?
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## Poorvi's age 8 years ago is equal to the sum
6:5:9 6:5:4
of present ages of her son and her daughter.
5 years hence, the ratio between her 12 : 10 : 15 10 : 12 : 15 @@

daughter's age and her son's age will be 7 : 6 Answer: 12 : 10 : 15

respectively. Poorvi's husband is 7 years ## Radha's present age is three years less than
elder than her. His husband's present age is twice her age 12 years ago. Also the
thrice the present age of his son. What is respective ratio between Raj's present age
their daughter's present age? and Radha's present age is 4 : 9. What will
[www.competoid.com] be Raj's age after 5 years?
23 years 24 years [www.competoid.com]
28 years 25 years 12 years 7 years
@@
Answer: 23 years 21 years None of these @@

## Present age of Amit and his father are in the Answer: None of these
ratio of 2 : 5 respectively. Four years hence ## Ram got twice as many marks in English as
the ratio of their age becomes 5 : 11 in Science. His total mark in English, Science
respectively. What was father's age five and Math are 180. If the ratio of his marks
years ago? in English and Maths is 2 : 3, what is the
[www.competoid.com] marks in Science = ?
40 years 45 years [www.examveda.com] [www.competoid.com]
30 years 35 years 30 60
@@
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72 90 a double in number than 1 rupee coins. Value
## Ratio of A's age to B's age is 4 : 3. 'A' will be of 50 paisa coins and 1 rupee coins is Rs.26.
26 years old after 6 years. The age of B now How many 2 rupee coins does he have?
is = ? [www.competoid.com]
[www.examveda.com] [www.competoid.com] 4 2
11 years 21 years 7 Cannot be determined
22 years 15 years d @@
## Ratio of Rams and Komars age is 3 : 5 Answer: 7
respectively. Ratio of Komal's and Pooja's ## Rs 4830 is divided among Abhishek, Dishant
age is 2 : 3 respectively. If Rani is two-fifth of and Prashant such that if Abhishek's share
Pooja's age. what is Rani's age? diminishes by Rs 5, Dishant's share
[www.competoid.com] diminishes by Rs 10 and Prashant's share
10 years 15 years diminishes by Rs 15, their shares will be in
24 years Cannot be determined the ratio 5 : 4 : 3. Find the Dishant's original
@@ share
Answer: Cannot be determined [www.lofoya.com]
## Ratio of the earnings of A and B is 4 : 7 1610 2010
respectively. If the earnings of A increase by 2410 1590 a
50% and the earnings of B decrease by 25% ## Rs 5625 is divided among A,B and C so that
the new ratio of their earnings becomes 8 : 7 A may received 1 / 2 as much as B and C
respectively. What are A's earnings? together receive and B received 1 / 4 of what
[www.competoid.com] A and C together receive. The share of A is
Rs.26,000 Rs.28,000 more than that of B by
Rs.21,000 Data inadequate @@ [www.competoid.com]
Answer: Data inadequate Rs. 750 Rs. 775
2 Rs. 1500 Rs. 1600 @@
## rd of a property is Rs.960. How much will Answer: Rs. 750
3
3 ## Rs. 1087 is divided among A, B and C such
be of that property? that if Rs. 10, Rs. 12 and Rs. 15 are
4
[www.competoid.com] diminished from the shares of A, B and
Rs.1080 Rs.1440 respectively, the remainders will be in the
Rs.1040 Rs. 960 @@ ratio of 5, 7 and 9. What is the share of B ?
Answer: Rs.1080 [www.examveda.com]
## Respective ratio between total number of Rs. 260 Rs. 355
students studying in College A and College B Rs. 362 Rs. 465 c
is 5 : 8. In College B. out of the total number ## Rs. 16000 are to be distributed between B
5 and A such that B gets Rs 4000 less than A
of students, th are boys, out of which 60% The ratio of the amount received by A to
8
study Commerce and the remaining 800 that received by B is
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boys study in other streams. What is the
3:5 5:3
total number of students in College A?
[www.competoid.com] 6:1 1:3 @@
1500 2500 Answer: 5 : 3
1200 2000 @@
## Rs. 1740 is divided among A, B and C such
Answer: 2000 that 0.5 of A = 0.6 of B = 0.75 of C. Then C
## Rohit has some 50 paisa coins, some 2 rupee will get = ?
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coins, some 1 rupee coins and some 5 rupee
Rs. 580 Rs. 696
coins. The value of all the coins is Rs.50.
Rs. 348 Rs. 464 d
Number of 2 rupee coins is 5 more than that
of the 5 rupee coins, 50 paisa coins are
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## Rs. 180 contained in a box consists of one Answer: Rs. 72
rupee , 50 paise and 25 paise coins in the ## Rs. 600 are divided among A, B, C so that
ratio 2 : 3 : 4. What is the number of 50 paise 2
coins ? Rs. 40 more than of A's share, Rs. 20 more
5
[www.competoid.com] 2 9
60 120 than of B's share and Rs. 10 more than
7 17
150 180 @@ of C's share may all be equal. What is A's
Answer: 120 share ?
## Rs. 2010 are to be divided among A, B, C in [www.examveda.com] [www.competoid.com]
such a way that if A gets Rs. 5, then B must Rs. 150 Rs. 170
get Rs. 12 and if B gets Rs. 4, then C must Rs. 200 Rs. 280 a
get Rs. 5.50. The share of C will exceed that ## Rs. 730 were divided among A,B,C in such a
of B by - way that if A gets Rs. 3 then B gets Rs. 4 and
[www.examveda.com] If B gets Rs. 3.5 then C gets Rs. 3. The share
Rs. 270 Rs. 360 of B exceeds that of C by = ?
Rs. 430 Rs. 620 a [www.examveda.com] [www.competoid.com]
## Rs. 2420 were divided among A, B, C, so that Rs. 30 Rs. 40
A : B = 5 : 4 and B : C = 9 : 10 then C gets Rs. 70 Rs. 210 b
[www.competoid.com] ## Rs. 738 is divided among A, B, C so that
680 800 their shares are in the ratio of 2 : 3 : 4. B's
900 950 @@ Share is Rs. 738
Answer: 800 [www.competoid.com]
## Rs. 3,000 is divided between A, B and C so Rs. 328 Rs. 246
1 Rs. 264 Rs. 164 @@
that A receives as much as B and C
3 Answer: Rs. 246
2 ## Rs. 900 is divided among A, B, C the division
together receive and B receives as much as
3 1 1
is such that of A's money = of B's money
A and C together receive. Then the share of 2 3
C is 1
[www.competoid.com] = of C's money. Find the amount ( in
4
Rs. 600 Rs. 525 rupees) received by A, B, C = ?
Rs. 1625 Rs. 1050 @@ [www.examveda.com] [www.competoid.com]
Answer: Rs. 1050 300, 400, 100 350, 450, 100
## Rs. 3400 is divided among A, B, C, D in such 200, 300, 400 400, 150, 350 c
a way that the share of A and B, B and C, C ## Rs.432 is divided amongst three workers A,
and D may be as 2 : 3, 4 : 3 and 2 : 3 B and C such that 8 times A's share is equal
respectively. The sum of shares of B and D to 12 times B's share which is equal to 6
is. times C's share. How much did each of them
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Rs. 2040 Rs. 1680 [www.competoid.com] [www.lofoya.com]
Rs. 2000 Rs. 1720 @@ Rs.90, Rs.60 and Rs.120
Answer: Rs. 2040 Rs.144, Rs.96 and
## Rs. 555 was to be divided among A, B and C Rs.192
1 1 1 Rs.150, Rs.100 and
in the ratio of : : . But by mistake it was
4 5 6 Rs.200
divided in the ratio 4 : 5 : 6. The amount in Rs.120, Rs.80 and
excess received by C was Rs.160 @@
[www.competoid.com] Answer: Rs.144, Rs.96 and Rs.192
Rs. 72 Rs. 75 ## Rs.624 has been divided among A, B, C in
Rs. 22 Rs. 52 @@ such a way that if their shares be diminished
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by Rs. 7, Rs. 8 and Rs. 9 respectively, the Rs.238 Rs.204
remainders are in the ratio 1 : 2 : 3. Then Rs.192 Rs.215 @@
A's share is Answer: Rs.238
[www.competoid.com] ## Shyam, Gopal and Madhur are three
Rs. 170 Rs.117 partners in a business. Their capitals are
Rs.71 Rs.107 @@ respectively Rs 4,000, Rs 8,000 and Rs 6,000.
Answer: Rs.107 Shyam gets 20% of total profit for managing
## Salaries of A, B and C are in the ratio of 2 : 3 the business. The remaining profit is divided
: 5 respectively. If their salaries were among the three in the ratio of their capitals.
increased by 15%, 10% and 20% At the end of the year, the profit of Shyam is
respectively what will be the new respective Rs 2200 less than the sum of the profit of
ratio of their salaries? Gopal and Madhur. profit, Madhur will get?
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3 : 3 : 10 23 : 33 : 60 Rs 1600 Rs 2400
10 : ll : 20 Can't be determined Rs 3000 Rs 5000 b
@@ ## Smallest angle of a triangle is equal to two-
Answer: 23 : 33 : 60 third of the smallest angle of a quadrilateral.
## Salaries of A. B and C were in the ratio 3 : 5 The ratio between the angles of the
: 7, respectively. If their salaries were quadrilateral is 3 : 4 : 5 : 6. Largest angle of
increased by 50%, 60% and 50% the triangle is twice its smallest angle. What
respectively. what will be the new ratio of the is the sum of second largest angle of the
their respective salaries? triangle and largest angle of the
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quadrilateral?
4:5:7 3:6:7 [www.competoid.com]
4 : 15 : 18 9 : 16 : 21 @@ 160 180
Answer: 9 : 16 : 21 190 170 @@
## Salaries of Ravi and Sumit are in the ratio 2 Answer: 180∘180∘
: 3. If the salary of each is increased by Rs. x2 + 7x – 4 x2 + 12x – 7
4000, the new ratio becomes 40 : 57. What is ## Solve for x, if =
7x – 4 12x – 7
Sumit's salary? [www.competoid.com]
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4 6
Rs. 17,000 Rs. 20,000
5 5
Rs. 25,500 Rs. 38,000 d
9 3
## Samartha is five times as old as his daughter @@
5 5
Trisha and Samartha's wife Phalguni's age is
Answer: 3535
26 years more than that of Trisha. The
## Stephen a cross country rider, drives a
difference between thrice the age of Samarth
certain distance in 30 days resting for 8
ten years ago and twice the age of Phalguni
hours each day. How long will Stephen take
ten years ago was 42 years. What will be the
respective ratio of Phalguni's age 12 years to cover thrice the distance at twice the
speed resting each day, one and half times as
hence and Samartha's age 12 years hence?
[www.competoid.com] he does now?
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23 : 26 24 : 29
60 Days 56 Days
19 : 23 21 : 25 @@
48 Days 72 Days @@
Answer: 23 : 26
Answer: 60 Days
## Samira. Mahira and Kiara rented a set of
## The age of A and B are 12 years and 18 years
DVDs at a rent of Rs.578. If they used it for 8
respectively then the ratio between them 12 :
hours, 12 hours and 14 hours respectively,
18 = 2 : 3
what is Kiara's share of rent to be paid? [www.competoid.com]
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2:3 3:5
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4:7 2:5 @@ rates?
Answer: 2 : 3 [www.competoid.com]
## The age of Melwyn and Louis are in the ratio Rs.1400 Rs.1000
of 7 : 10 respectively. After 6 years the ratio Rs.1600 Rs.1200 @@
of their age will be 17 : 23. What is the Answer: Rs.1200
difference in their age? ## The angles of a quadrilateral are in ratio of 3
[www.competoid.com] : 5 : 9 : 7. The second largest angle of the
8 years 4 years quadrilateral is equal to the largest angle of
12 years 10 years @@ a triangle. One of the angles of the triangle
Answer: 12 years is 25. What is the value-of second largest
## The age of Samir and Tanuj are in the ratio angle of the triangle?
of 8 : 15 years respectively. After 9 years the [www.competoid.com]
ratio of their age will be 11 : 18. What is the 60 50
difference (in years) between their age? 40 20 @@
[www.competoid.com] Answer: 50∘50∘
24 years 20 years ## The angles of a quadrilateral are in the ratio
33 years 21 years @@ 7 : 9 : 11 : 3. The largest angle of a triangle is
Answer: 21 years equal to the third largest angle of the
## The age of Sonal and Nitya are in the ratio of quadrilateral. The remaining two angles of
9 : 5 respectively. After 8 years the ratio of the triangle are equal. What are the smaller
their age will be 13 : 9. What is the angle of triangle and the second largest angle
difference (in years) between their age? of quadrilateral?
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4 years 12 years 48, 108 46, 132
6 years 8 years @@ 48, 132 52, 108 @@
Answer: 8 years Answer: 48∘, 108∘48∘, 108∘
## The age of Sulekha and Arunima are in the ## The angles of a quadrilateral are in the ratio
ratio of 9 : 8 respectively. After 5 years the of 2 : 4 : 7 : 5. The smallest angle of the
ratio of their age will be 10 : 9. What is the quadrilateral is equal to the smallest angle of
difference (in years) between their age? a triangle. One of the angles of the triangle is
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twice the smallest angle of the triangle. What
4 years 5 years
is the second largest angle of the triangle?
6 years None of these @@ [www.competoid.com]
Answer: 5 years 80 60
## The age or Khushi and Jagriti are in the 120 Cannot be determined
ratio of 5 : 8 respectively. After 8 years the
@@
ratio of their age will be 3 : 4. What is the Answer: 60∘60∘
difference in their age? ## The annual income of A and B are in the
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ratio 4 : 3 and the ratio of their expenditures
16 years 8 years
is 3 : 2. If each of them saves Rs. 600 in the
10 years None of these @@ year, the annual income of A is = ?
Answer: None of these [www.competoid.com] [www.examveda.com]
## The amount of work done by a man, a Rs. 4800 Rs. 1800
woman and a teenager are in the ratio of 3 : Rs. 1200 Rs. 2400 d
2 : 1; If a farm employed 10 men, 15 women ## The annual salary of A, B, C is in the
and 5 teenagers and paid a total of Rs.130 proportion of 3 : 4 : 5. If C's annual salary is
per hour as wages to them, what wage will Rs 80000 more than that of A, then B's
the farm pay to 14 men, 16 women and 1 monthly salary is
teenager for an 8 hour day at the same [www.competoid.com]
Rs. 13666.67 Rs. 13333.33
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Rs. 14373.67 Rs. 16666.67 @@ Rs.32 is charged for a journey of 8a kms,
Answer: Rs. 13333.33 how much is the fare for a journey of 12b
## The army of two countries A and B number kms?
125,000 and 160,000 men respectively. Each [www.competoid.com]
of them get an additional 10,000 recruits into 64b 36b
their armies. Which country has had a a a
higher proportionate increase in its military 48b 56b
@@
strength? a a
[www.competoid.com] Answer: 48ba48ba
Country 'B' Country 'A' ## The cost of a table and a chair are in the
None Not distinguishable ratio of 5 : 7. If the cost of chair and table is
@@ increased by 20% and 10% respectively,
Answer: Country 'A' then what will be the new ratio?
## The average age of a man and his son is 30 [www.examveda.com]
years. The ratio of their age tom-years ago 16 : 17 55 : 84
was 10 : 3 respectively. What is the 60 : 77 Data inadequate
difference between the present age of the None of these b
man and his son? ## The cost of etching a glass with design varies
[www.competoid.com] directly as the square of its area. It will cost
28 years 16 years Rs.80 to etch a glass plate of 1m  1m
26 years 44 years @@ dimension. What would be the loss to the
Answer: 28 years artist if he were to etch 4 pieces, each
## The average temperature of Gwalior, Agra 1 1
and Lucknow is 37C. The average measuring  instead of the 1m  1m
2m 2m
temperature of Agra, Gwalior and Delhi piece?
is 38C. If the temperature of Delhi is 39C, [www.competoid.com]
find the ratio of' temperature of Delhi to that Rs.60 Rs.40
of Lucknow? Rs.30 Rs.50 @@
[www.competoid.com] Answer: Rs.60
12 : 11 13 : 12 ## The current ages of Sonali and Monali are in
12 : 13 Can't be determined the ratio 5 : 3. Five years from now, their
@@ ages will be in the ratio 10 : 7. Then Monali's
Answer: 13 : 12 current age is = ?
## The average weight of boys in a class is 45 kg [www.competoid.com] [www.examveda.com]
while that of girls is 36 kg. The average 3 years 5 years
weight of the whole class is 42.25 kg. What is 9 years 15 years c
the respective ratio between the number of ## The daily wages of two workers are in the
boys and girls in the class? ratio of 7. 8. 'If each of them gets a rise of
[www.competoid.com] Rs.40, then the ratio of their wages will be 8:
11 : 25 25 : 11 9. What are their respective wages before the
25 : 12 12 : 25 @@ increase?
Answer: 25 : 11 [www.competoid.com]
## The compound ratio of the inverse ratios of Rs.210 and Rs.240 Rs.350 and Rs.400
the ratios x : yz, y : zx, z : xy is: Rs.280 and Rs.320 Rs.315 and Rs.360 @@
[www.competoid.com] Answer: Rs.280 and Rs.320
1 : xyz xyz: 1 ## The diameter of two cones are one metre
1:1 x : yz @@ each. Their curved surface are 198 m2 and
Answer: xyz: 1 220 m2. The ratio of their slant height is
## The cost of a bus fare is directly [www.competoid.com]
proportional to the length of the journey. lt 7: 9 8:9
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9 : 10 10 : 11 @@ ## The incomes of A and B are in the ratio 3 : 2
Answer: 9 : 10 and their expenditure are in ratio 5 : 3. If
## The difference between the present age of each saves Rs. 1000, then, A's income can be:
Anil and Sudhii is 6 years. The ratio between [www.examveda.com]
their age after 4 years will be 3 : 4. What can Rs. 3000 Rs. 4000
be the present age of Sudhir? Rs. 6000 Rs. 9000
[www.competoid.com] Rs. 4500 c
15 years 18 years ## The incomes of A and B are in the ratio 3 : 2
20 years 24 years @@ and their expenses are in the ratio 5 : 3. If
Answer: 20 years both save Rs.200, What is the income of A?
## The difference between two positive [www.competoid.com]
numbers is 10 and the ratio between them is Rs.1500 Rs.1200
5 : 3. Find the product of the two numbers. Rs.1800 Rs.2100 @@
[www.examveda.com] Answer: Rs.1200
375 175 ## The L.C.M of two numbers is 24 and the
275 125 ratio of the two numbers is 2 : 3. What is the
250 a difference between the two numbers?
## The dimensions of a rectangular room when [www.competoid.com]
increased by 4 m are in the ratio of 4 : 3 and 2 8
when decreased by 4 m are in the ratio of 2 : 6 4 @@
1. The dimensions of the room are Answer: 4
[www.competoid.com] ## The largest and the second largest angles of
6 m and 4 m 12 m and 8 m a triangle are in the ratio of 3 : 2
16 m and 12 m 24 m and 16 m @@ respectively. The smallest angle is 20% of
Answer: 12 m and 8 m the sum of the largest and the second largest
## The expenses of a dormitory are partly fixed angles. What is the sum of the smallest and
and partly variable. It costs Rs.12 per head the second largest angles?
per day if there are 20 students and Rs.11 [www.competoid.com]
per head per day if there are 25 students. 80 60
What will be the cost per head per day if the 100 90 @@
number of students increases to 40? Answer: 90∘90∘
[www.competoid.com] ## The largest and the second largest angles of
Rs.12 Rs.10 a triangle are in the ratio of 13 : 12
Rs.9.5 Rs.8 @@ respectively. The smallest angle is 20% of
Answer: Rs.9.5 the sum of the largest and the second largest
## The income of A and B are in the ratio 2 : 3 angles. What is the sum of the smallest and
and their expenditures are in the ratio 1 : 2, the second largest angles?
If each saves Rs. 24,000 . find A's income. [www.competoid.com]
[www.competoid.com] 120 108
Rs. 24,000 Rs. 72,000 100 102 @@
Rs. 19,200 Rs. 48,000 @@ Answer: 102∘102∘
Answer: Rs. 48,000 ## The largest and the smallest angles of a
## The income of A, B and C are in the ratio 7 : triangle are in the ratio of 3 : 1 respectively.
9 : 12 and their spending are in the ratio 8 : The second largest angle of the triangle is
1 equal to 44. What is the value of 150 per
9 : 15. If A saves th of his income then the
4 cent of the largest angle of the triangle?
savings of A, B and C are in the ratio of = ? [www.competoid.com]
[www.competoid.com] [www.examveda.com] 149 129
56 : 99 : 69 69 : 56 : 99 153 173 @@
99 : 56 : 69 99 : 69 : 56 a Answer: 153
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## The Lucknow-Indore Express without its Rs.100, Rs.125 Rs.400, Rs.375
rake can go 24 km an hour, and the speed is Rs.300, Rs.375 Rs.400, Rs.500 @@
diminished by a quantity that varies as the Answer: Rs.400, Rs.500
square root of the number of wagon ## The monthly salaries of A, B and C are in
attached. If it is known that with four the ratio 2 : 3 : 5 .If C's monthly salary is Rs.
wagons its speed is 20 km/h, the greatest 12,000 more than that of A, then B's annual
number of wagons with which the engine can salary is
just move is [www.examveda.com] [www.competoid.com]
[www.examveda.com] Rs. 1,20,000 Rs. 1,44,000
144 140 Rs. 1,80,000 Rs. 2,40,000 @@
143 124 Answer: Rs. 1,44,000
142 c ## The monthly salaries of two persons are in
## The marks of 3 students A, B and C are in the ratio of 4 : 7. If each receives an increase
the ratio 10: 12: 15. If the maximum marks of Rs.25 in the salary, the ratio is altered to 3
of the paper are 100, then the marks of B : 5. Find their respective salaries.
cannot be in the range of [www.lofoya.com]
[www.competoid.com] 120 and 210 80 and 140
20-30 40-50 180 and 300 200 and 350 d
70-80 80-90 @@ ## The most economical speed for this journey
Answer: 80-90 is :
## The mean proportion between 72 and 128 is [www.lofoya.com]
[www.competoid.com] 20 km/hr 30 km/hr
100 90.67 35 km/hr 40 km/hr d
109.34 96 @@ ## The number of oranges in three basket are
Answer: 96 in the ratio 3 : 4 : 5. In which ratio the no. of
## The milk and water in a mixture are in the oranges in first two basket must be increased
ratio 7 : 5. When 15 liters of water are added so that the new ratio becomes 5 : 4 : 3 ?
to it, the ratio of milk and water in the new [www.examveda.com]
mixture becomes 7 : 8. The total quantity of 3:4 2:3
water in the new mixture is: 1:3 2:1
[www.competoid.com] [www.examveda.com] None of these d
35 litres 40 litres ## The number of students in 3 classes is in the
60 litres 96 litres b ratio 2 : 3 : 4. If 12 students are increased in
## The monthly income of two persons are in each class this ratio changes to 8 : 11 : 14.
the ratio 2 : 3 and their monthly expenses The total number of students in the three
are in the ratio 5 : 9. If each of them saves classes in the beginning was
Rs. 600 per month, then their monthly [www.examveda.com]
incomes are 162 108
[www.competoid.com] 96 54 a
Rs. 1,500 : Rs. 2,2250 Rs. 1,200 : Rs. ## The number to be added to each of the
1,800 numbers 7, 16, 43, 79 to make the numbers
Rs. 1,600 : Rs. 2,400 Rs. 1,400 : Rs. in proportion is = ?
2,100 @@ [www.competoid.com] [www.examveda.com]
Answer: Rs. 1,600 : Rs. 2,400 2 3
## The monthly incomes of two persons are in 5 1 c
the ratio of 4 : 5 and their monthly ## The numbers are in the ratio 3 : 5 and their
expenditures are in the ratio of 7 : 9. If each LCM is 225. The smaller number is = ?
saves Rs.50 a month, then what are their [www.examveda.com]
monthly incomes? 45 60
[www.competoid.com] [www.lofoya.com] 75 90 a
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## The present age of A, B and C are in the 34 years 36 years @@
ratio of 8 : 14 : 22 respectively. The present Answer: 36 years
age of B, C and D are in the ratio of 21 : 33 : ## The present ratio of ages of A and B is 4 : 5.
44 respectively. Which of the following 18 years ago, this ratio was 11 : 16. Find the
represents the ratio of the present age of A, sum total of their present ages.
B, C and D respectively? [www.examveda.com]
[www.competoid.com] 90 years 105 years
12 : 21 : 33 : 44 12 : 22 : 31 : 44 110 years 80 years
12 : 21 : 36 : 44 Cannot be determined 95 years a
@@ ## The price of a diamond is proportional to the
Answer: 12 : 21 : 33 : 44 square of its mass, which is measured in
## The present age of Bob is equal to Abby's carats. A 6 carat diamond was broken into
age 8 years ago. Four years hence, the two parts and total price of the two pieces
respective ratio between Bob's age and 5
Abby's age will be 4 : 5 at that time, What is is th of the price of original diamond. The
8
Bob's present age? masses (in carat) of two pieces are
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24 years 32 years 3.5 and 2.5 5 and 1
40 years 28 years @@ 4.5 and 1.5 3.2 and 2.8 @@
Answer: 28 years Answer: 4.5 and 1.5
## The present age of two persons are 36 and 50 ## The price of a refrigerator and a television
years respectively. If after n years the ratio set are in the ratio 5 : 3. If the refrigerator
of their age will be 3 : 4, then the value of n costs Rs.5500 more than the television set,
is then the price of the refrigerator is:
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4 7 Rs. 27500 Rs. 8250
6 3 @@ Rs. 13750 Rs. 16500 @@
Answer: 6 Answer: Rs. 13750
## The present age of Vishal and Shekhar are ## The price of sugar is increased by 20%. If
in the ratio of 14 : 17 respectively. Six years the expenditure is not allowed to increase,
from now, their age will be in the ratio of 17 the ratio between the reduction in
: 20 respectively. What is Shekhar's present consumption and the original consumption is
age? [www.competoid.com]
[www.competoid.com] 1:3 1:4
17 years 51 years 1:6 1:5 @@
34 years 28 years @@ Answer: 1 : 6
Answer: 34 years ## The prices of a scooter and a television set
## The present ages of A and B are as 6 : 4. Five are in the ratio 3 : 2, If a scooter costs
years ago their ages were in the ratio 5 : 3. Rs.6000 more than the television set, the
Find their present ages. price of the television set is
[www.lofoya.com] [www.competoid.com]
42, 28 36, 24 Rs. 1800 Rs.12000
30, 20 25, 15 c Rs.10,000 Rs. 6,000 @@
## The present ages of Ranjana and Rakhi are Answer: Rs.12000
in the ratio of 15 :17 respectively. After 6 ## The proportion of acid and water in three
years, the respective ratio between the age of samples is 2 : 1, 3 : 2 and 5 : 3, A mixture
Ranjana and Rakhi will be 9 : 10. What will containing equal quantities of all three
be the age of Ranjana after 6 years? samples is made. The ratio of acid and water
[www.competoid.com]
in the mixture is:
Other than those given as options 40 years [www.lofoya.com] [www.competoid.com]
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12 : 133 227: 133 the smaller angle of a parallelogram. What is
3:8 5 : 11 @@ the value of adjacent angle of the
Answer: 227: 133 parallelogram?
## The quantity that must be added to each [www.competoid.com]
term of a : b, so as to make it c:d,is 136 126
[www.competoid.com] 94 96 @@
ab – cd ac + bd Answer: 126∘126∘
a–b c+a ## The ratio between the angles of a
ab + bc ad – bc quadrilateral is 7 : 2 : 5 : 6 respectively.
@@
c+d c–d What is the sum of double the smallest angle
Answer: ad−bcc−dad−bcc−d and half the largest angle of the
## The ratio between Sumit's and Prakash's age quadrilateral?
at present is 2 : 3. Sumit is 6 years younger [www.competoid.com]
than Prakash. The ratio of Sumit's age to 162 198
Prakash's age after 6 years will be 99 135 @@
[www.competoid.com] Answer: 135∘135∘
2:3 1:2 ## The ratio between the number of passengers
4:3 3:4 @@ travelling by l and II classes between the two
Answer: 3 : 4 railway stations is 1 : 50, whereas the ratio of
## The ratio between the adjacent angles of a l and II classes fares between the same
parallelogram is 7 : 8 respectively. Also the stations is 3 : 1. If on a particular day,
ratio between the angles of quadrilateral is 5 Rs.1325 were collected from the passengers
: 6 : 7 : 12. What is the sum of the smaller travelling between these stations, then what
angle of parallelogram and second largest was the amount collected from the II class
angle of the quadrilateral? passengers?
[www.competoid.com] [www.competoid.com]
168 228 Rs.750 Rs/1000
156 224 @@ Rs.850 Rs.1250 @@
Answer: 168∘168∘ Answer: Rs.1250
## The ratio between the age of a father and a ## The ratio between the present ages of A and
son at present is 5 : 2 respectively. Four B is 2 : 3 respectively. B's age sixteen years
years hence the ratio between the age of the hence will be twice of A's age four years
son and his mother will be 1 : 2 respectively. hence. What is the difference between the
What is the ratio between the present age of present ages of A and B?
the father and the mother respectively? [www.competoid.com]
[www.competoid.com] 6 years 12 years
3:4 5:4 8 years 4 years @@
4:3 Cannot be determined Answer: 8 years
@@ ## The ratio between the present ages of A and
Answer: Cannot be determined B is 2 : 3 respectively. B's age twenty one
## The ratio between the ages of A and B is 3: 5 years hence will be twice of A's age six years
and the sum of their ages is 56 yr. The ratio hence. What is difference between the
between their ages 7 yr ago was present ages of A and B?
[www.competoid.com] [www.examveda.com] [www.competoid.com]
3:4 3:5 15 years 9 years
1:2 2:3 @@ 8 years 10 years @@
Answer: 1 : 2 Answer: 9 years
## The ratio between the angles of a ## The ratio between the three angles of a
quadrilateral is 3 : 4 : 6 : 7. Half the second quadrilateral is 1 : 4 : 5 respectively. The
largest angle of the quadrilateral is equal to value of the fourth angle of the quadrilateral
PHENOM'S BANK MATH BIBLE : 3rd Edition 35
is 60∘60∘. What is the difference between the ## The ratio between two numbers is 3:4. If
value of the largest and the smallest angles of each numbers is increased by 5, the ratio
the quadrilateral? becomes 4: 5. What are the numbers?
[www.competoid.com] [www.competoid.com]
120 90 16 and 24 18 and 27
110 100C @@ 15 and 20 14 and 21 @@
Answer: 120∘120∘ Answer: 15 and 20
## The ratio between the three angles of a ## The ratio between two numbers is 4 : 5. If
quadrilateral is 1 : 6 : 2 respectively. The their LCM is 240, find the number.
value of the fourth angle of the quadrilateral [www.competoid.com]
is 45. What is the difference between the 48, 60 42, 52
value of the largest and the smallest angles of 34, 51 24, 72 @@

the quadrilateral? Answer: 48, 60

[www.competoid.com] ## The ratio between two positive integers is 7 :
165 140 12. When a single digit positive even
175 150 @@
composite number is added to both the
Answer: 175∘175∘ numerator and the denominator, the ratio
## The ratio between the three angles of a becomes 2:3. What is the sum of the
quadrilateral is 13 : 9 : 5 respectively. The numerator and the denominator of the
value of the fourth angle of the quadrilateral original fraction?
[www.competoid.com]
is 36C. What is the difference between the The numbers which are
largest and the second smallest angles of the
divisible by 19.
quadrilateral?
[www.competoid.com]
the numbers which are
104 108 divisible by 17.
the numbers which are
72 95 @@
divisible by 13.
Answer: 95∘95∘
the numbers which are
## The ratio between two numbers is 2 : 3. If
each number is increased by 4. the ratio divisible by 21. @@

between them becomes 5 : 7, the difference Answer: The numbers which are divisible by 19.
between the numbers is ## The ratio in which a man must mix rice at
[www.competoid.com] Rs. 10.20 per kg and Rs. 14.40 per kg so as to
8 6 make a mixture worth Rs. 12.60 per kg, is
[www.competoid.com]
4 2 @@
4:3 2:5
Answer: 8
18 : 24 3:4 @@
## The ratio between two numbers is 3 : 4. If
each number is increased by 6, the ratio Answer: 3 : 4
becomes 4 : 5. The difference between the ## The ratio of 252.5 : 53 is same as = ?
[www.examveda.com]
numbers is 5:3 5:6
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1 3 1 : 25 25 : 1 d
6 8 ## The ratio of age of two boys is 5 : 6. After
@@
Answer: 6 two years the ratio will be 7 : 8. The ratio of
## The ratio between two numbers is 3 : 7. If their age after 12 years will be = ?
[www.competoid.com] [www.examveda.com]
the L.C.M of the two numbers is 147, then 22 15
what' are the two numbers? 24 16
[www.competoid.com]
27 and 63 30 and 70 17 11
c
24 and 56 21 and 49 18 12
@@
Answer: 21 and 49
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## The ratio of boys and girls in a college is 5 : marks is 275, find the total marks for which
3. If 50 boys leave the college and 50 girls exam was conducted.
join the college, the ratio becomes 9 : 7. The [www.lofoya.com]
number of boys in the college is 150 200
[www.competoid.com] 400 None b
300 450 ## The ratio of milk to water in 80 litres of a
500 600 @@ mixture is 7 : 3. The water (in litres) to be
Answer: 500 added to it to make the ratio 2 : 1 is -
## The ratio of copper and zinc in brass is 13 : [www.examveda.com]
7. How much zinc will be there in 100 kg of 4 5
brass? 6 8 a
[www.competoid.com] ## The ratio of milk to water in three
20 kg. 55 kg containers of equal capacity is 3 : 2, 7 : 3 and
35 kg. 40 kg @@ 11 : 4 respectively. The contents of the three
Answer: 35 kg. containers are mixed together. What is the
## The ratio of ducks and frogs in a pond is 37 : ratio of milk to water after mixing ?
39 respectively. The average number of [www.examveda.com]
ducks and frogs in the pond is 152. What is 19 : 4 7:3
the number of frogs in the pond ? 61 : 29 41 : 18 c
[www.examveda.com] ## The ratio of monthly income of A and B is 6 :
148 152 5 and their expenditure are in the ratio of 4 :
156 144 c 3. If each of them saves Rs. 400 per month,
## The ratio of income of two persons is 5 : 3 find the sum of their monthly incomes ?
and that of their expenditures is 9 : 5. If they [www.competoid.com] [www.examveda.com]
save Rs. 2600 and Rs. 1800 respectively. Rs. 2300 Rs. 2400
Their incomes are : Rs. 2200 Rs. 2500 c
## The ratio of number of balls in bags x,y is 2 :
Rs. 8000 : Rs. 4800 Rs. 6000 : Rs. 3600 3. Five balls are taken from bag y and are
Rs. 10000 : Rs. 6000 Rs. 9000 : Rs. 5400 dropped in bag x, number of balls are equal
@@
in each bag now. Number of balls in each
Answer: Rs. 8000 : Rs. 4800 bag now is
## The ratio of incomes of A and B is 5 : 6. If A [www.competoid.com]
gets Rs. 11,100 less than B, then their total 45 20
income (in rupees ) is 30 25 @@
[www.competoid.com] Answer: 25
9900 122100 ## The ratio of number of boys to the number
14400 10000 @@ of girls in a school of 432 pupils is 5 : 4.
Answer: 122100 When some new boys and girls are admitted,
## The ratio of incomes of Pankaj and Gauri is the number of boys increase by 12 and the
3 : 5 and the ratio of their expenditures is 2 : ratio of the boys to girls Changes to 7 : 6.
3. Who does save more? (You have to The number of new girls admitted is
assume that no one takes any loan from [www.competoid.com]
anywhere) 12 14
[www.lofoya.com] 24 20 @@
Pankaj Gauri Answer: 24
Both save equally Depends upon the ## The ratio of present ages of P and Q is 8 : 5.
incomes of Pankaj and Gauri b After 4 years their ages will be in the ratio 4
## The ratio of marks obtained by Vinod and : 3 respectively. What will be the ratio of P's
Basu is 6 : 5. If the combined average of age after 7 years from now and Q's age now?
their percentage is 68.75 and their sum of the [www.competoid.com]
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3:2 1:2 Answer: 32 yr
2:1 3:1 @@ ## The ratio of the age of' Tina and Rakesh is 9
Answer: 3 : 1 : 10 respectively. Ten years ago the ratio of
## The ratio of squares of first n natural their age was 4 : 5 respectively. What is the
numbers to square of sum of first n natural present age of Rakesh?
numbers is 17 : 325. The value of n is: [www.competoid.com]
[www.lofoya.com] 25 years 20 years
15 25 30 years 24 years @@
35 40 b Answer: 20 years
## The ratio of successful and unsuccessful ## The ratio of the ages of a father to that of his
examinees in an examination in a school is 6 son is 5 : 2. If the product of their ages (in
: 1. The ratio would have been 9 : 1 if 6 more years) is 1000, then find the father's age after
examinees had been Successful. The total 10 yr.
number of examinees are [www.competoid.com]
[www.competoid.com] 50 yr 60 yr
140 120 80 yr 100 yr @@
200 160 @@ Answer: 60 yr
Answer: 140 ## The ratio of the ages of two persons is 4 : 7
## The ratio of the age of a father and son is 17 and the age of one of them is greater than
: 7 respectively. 6 years ago the ratio of their that of the other by 30 years. The sum of
age was 3 : 1 respectively. What is the their ages (in years) is = ?
father's present age? [www.competoid.com] [www.examveda.com]
[www.competoid.com] 110 100
64 yrs 51 yrs 70 40 a
48 yrs Cannot be determined ## The ratio of the first and second class train
@@ fares between two stations is 3 : 1 and that of
Answer: 51 yrs the numbers of passengers travelling
## The ratio of the age of a father to that of his between the two stations by first and second
son is 5 : 2. If the product of their age in classes is 1 : 50. If on a particular day, Rs.
years is 1000, then the father's age (in years) 1,325 are collected from passengers
after 10 years will be: travelling between the two stations. Then the
[www.competoid.com] amount collected from the second class
50 60 passengers is
80 100 @@ [www.competoid.com]
Answer: 60 Rs. 1,250 Rs. 1,000
## The ratio of the age of Ram and Rahim 10 Rs. 850 Rs. 750 @@
years ago was 1 : 3. The ratio of their age Answer: Rs. 1,250
five years hence will be 2 : 3. Then the ratio ## The ratio of the income of A and B as well as
of their present age is B and C is 3 : 2. If one - third of A's income
[www.competoid.com] exceeds one - fourth of C's income by Rs.
1:2 3:5 1000, what is B's income in Rs = ?
3:4 2:5 @@ [www.competoid.com] [www.examveda.com]
Answer: 3 : 5 Rs. 3000 Rs. 2500
## The ratio of the age of the father and the son Rs. 3500 Rs. 4000 a
at present is 7 : 1. After 4 yr, the ratio will ## The ratio of the income to the expenditure of
become 4 : 1. What is the sum of the present a family is 10 : 7. If the family's expenses are
age of the father and the son? Rs. 10,500, then savings of the family is
[www.competoid.com] [www.competoid.com]
29 yr 35 yr Rs. 4,500 Rs. 10,000
32 yr 36 yr @@ Rs. 4,000 Rs. 5,000 @@
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Answer: Rs. 4,500 15 : 25 : 13 Cannot be determined
## The ratio of the length of a school ground to @@
its width is 5 : 2. If the width is 40m, then the Answer: 15 : 25 : 13
length is = ? ## The ratio of the number of students studying
[www.competoid.com] [www.examveda.com] in school A, B and C is 5 : 6 : 8. lf the
200m 100m number of students in each of the schools is
50m 80m b increased by 30%, 25% and 25%
## The ratio of the number of boys and girls in respectively, what will be the new ratio of the
a college is 7 : 8. If the percentage increase in students in schools A, B and C?
the number of boys and girls be 20% and [www.competoid.com]
10% respectively, what will be the new 14 : 15 : 20 13 : 15 : 20
ratio? 13 : 14 : 15 15 : 17 : 19 @@
[www.lofoya.com] [www.examveda.com] [www.indiabix.com] Answer: 13 : 15 : 20
8:9 17 : 18 ## The ratio of the present age of Mahesh and
21 : 22 Cannot be determined Ajay is respectively 3 : 2. After 8 years, ratio
c of their age will be 11 : 8. What will be the
## The ratio of the number of boys and girls in present age of Mahesh's son if his age is half
a school is 3 : 2. If 20% of the boys and 25% of the present age of Ajay?
of the girls are scholarship holders, the [www.competoid.com]
percentage of the school students who are 12 years 24 years
not scholarship holders is 18 years 9 years @@
[www.competoid.com] Answer: 12 years
56 78 ## The ratio of the present age of Meena and
70 80 @@ Fiona is 16 : 13 respectively. Four years ago
Answer: 78 the respective ratio of their age was 14 : 11.
## The ratio of the number of boys and that of What will be Fiona's age four years from
girls in a school having 504 students is 13 : now?
11. What will be the new ratio if 3 , more [www.competoid.com]
girls are admitted ? 28 years 32 years
[www.competoid.com] 26 years None of these @@
7:6 6:7 Answer: None of these
10 : 11 13 : 14 @@ ## The ratio of the present age of Puneet and
Answer: 7 : 6 Appu is 2 : 3. After 3 years the ratio of their
## The ratio of the number of ladies to that of age will be 3 : 4. The present age of Puneet
gents at a party was 3 : 2. When 20 more is:
gents joined the party, the ratio was [www.competoid.com]
reversed. The number of ladies present at 3 years 6 years
the party was - 9 years 4 years @@
[www.competoid.com] [www.examveda.com] Answer: 6 years
16 24 ## The ratio of the present ages of son, mother,
32 36 b father and grand father in a family is
## The ratio of the number of students studying 2:7:8:12 respectively. The average present
in school A, B and C is 5 : 8 : 4 respectively. age of son and mother is 27 years. What will
If the number of students studying in each of be mother's age 7 years hence?
the school is increased by 20%, 25% and [www.competoid.com]
30% respectively, what will be the new 63 years 48 years
respective ratio of the students in school A, B 49 years 79 years @@
and C? Answer: 49 years
[www.competoid.com] ## The ratio of the radii of the taps T1 and T2 is
13 : 25 : 15 20 : 25 : 13 2 : 1. Water flowing through them with the
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same velocity. What is the ratio of the time 33 35 c
required to completely fill two identical ## The ratio of weekly income of A and B is 9 :
drums kept under T1 and T2. 7 and the the ratio of their expenditure is 4 :
[www.competoid.com] 3. If each saves Rs. 200 per week, then the
2:1 1:2 sum of their weekly income is = ?
4:1 1:4 @@ [www.competoid.com] [www.examveda.com]
Answer: 1 : 4 Rs. 3600 Rs. 3200
## The ratio of the volume of water and Rs. 4800 Rs. 5600 b
glycerine in 240cc of mixture is 1 z 3. The ## The ratio of 252.5 : 53 is same as
quantity of water (in cc) that should be [www.competoid.com]
added to the mixture so that the new ratio of 5:3 5:6
the volumes of water and glycerine becomes 1 : 25 25 : 1 @@
2 : 3 is. Answer: 25 : 1
[www.competoid.com] ## The respective ratio between present age of
55 cc 60 cc Manoj and Wasim is 3 : 11. Wasim is 12
62.5 cc 64 cc @@ years younger than Rehana. Rehana's age
Answer: 60 cc after 7 years will be 85 years. What is the
## The ratio of two numbers is 10 : 7 and their present age of Manoj's father who is 25
difference is 105. The sum of these numbers years older than Manoj?
is [www.competoid.com]
[www.competoid.com] 43 years 67 years
595 805 45 years 69 years @@
1190 1610 @@ Answer: 43 years
Answer: 595 ## The respective ratio between the present age
## The ratio of two numbers is 3 : 4 and their Aarti and Savita is 5 : x. Aartl is 9 years
LCM is 48 . The sum of the two numbers is younger than Jahnavi. Jahnavi's age after 9
[www.competoid.com] years will be 33 years. The difference
32 28 between Savita's and Aarti's age is same as
26 24 @@ the present age of Jahnavi. What will come
Answer: 28 in place of x?
## The ratio of two numbers is 3 : 8 and their [www.competoid.com]
difference is 115. The smaller of the two 21 37
numbers is: 17 None of these @@
[www.competoid.com] Answer: None of these
184 194 ## The respective ratio between the present age
69 59 @@ of Ram and Rakesh is 6 : 11. Four years ago
Answer: 69 the ratio of their age was 1 : 2 respectively.
## The ratio of urea and potash in a mixed What will be Rakesh's age after five years?
fertilizer is 7 : 3. Express the quantity of [www.competoid.com]
urea present as percentage of the total 45 years 29 years
amount of fertilizer. 49 years Cannot be determined
[www.examveda.com] @@
20% 50% Answer: 49 years
60% 70% d ## The respective ratio between the present age
## The ratio of water and milk in a 30 liter of Ram, Rohan and Raj is 3 : 4 : 5, If the
mixture is 7 : 3. Find the quantity of water to average of their present age is 28 years then
be added to the mixture in order to make what would be the sum of the age of Ram
this ratio 6 : 1. and Rohan together after 5 years?
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30 32 45 years 55 years
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52 years 59 years @@ length of the largest sides would be = ?
Answer: 59 years [www.competoid.com] [www.examveda.com]
## The respective ratio between the present age 36 cm 12 cm
of son, mother, father and grandfather is 2 : 60 cm 24 cm a
7 : 8 : 12. The average age of son and mother ## The smallest integer, which subtracted from
is 27 years. What will be mother's age after 7 both the terms of 6 : 7 gives a ratio less than
years? 16: 21 is :
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40 years 41 years 5 4
48 years 49 years @@ 3 2 @@
Answer: 49 years Answer: 3
## The respective ratio of present ages of Shruti ## The speeds of three cars are in the ratio of 2:
and Nitin is 3 : 4. The ratio of Nitin's age two 3: 4. Find the ratio between the time taken
years hence and the present age of Vinod is 2 by these cars to cover the same distance.
: 3. The ratio of Shruti's age three years [www.competoid.com]
hence and Vinod's present age is 3 : 5. What 2:3:4 4:3:2
is Shruti's present age? 4:3:6 6:4:3 @@
[www.competoid.com] Answer: 6:4:3
8 years 5 years ## The students in three classes are in the ratio
9 years 6 years @@ 2 : 3 : 5 .If 20 students are increased in each
Answer: 6 years class, the ratio changes to 4 : 5 : 7. originally
## The respective ratio of the present age of a the total number of students was
mother and daughter is 7 : 1. Four years ago [www.competoid.com]
the respective ratio of their age was 19 : 1. 50 90
What will be the mother's age four years 100 150 @@
from now? Answer: 100
[www.competoid.com] ## The students in three classes are in the ratio
42 years 38 years 4 : 6 : 9. If 12 students are increased in each
46 years 36 years @@ class the ratio changes to 7 : 9 : 12. Then the
Answer: 46 years total number of students in the three classes
## The respective ratio of the present age of before the increase is
Swati and Trupti is 4 : 5. Six years hence the [www.examveda.com] [www.competoid.com]
respective ratio of their age will be 6 : 7. 95 76
What is the difference between their age? 100 114 @@
[www.competoid.com] Answer: 76
2 years 3 years ## The students of three classes are in the ratio
4 years Cannot be determined 3 : 4 : 5. If 15 students are increased in each
@@ class, then ratio changes to 6 : 7 : 8. The total
Answer: 3 years number of students before the increase was
## The salaries of A, B and C are in the ratio 1 : [www.competoid.com]
3 : 4. If the salaries are increased by 5%, 70 90
10% and 15% respectively, then the 120 60 @@
increased salaries will be in the ratio Answer: 60
[www.competoid.com] [www.examveda.com] ## The sum of present ages of Ria and Abby is
20 : 66 : 95 21 : 66 : 96 48 years. Today Abby is 4 years older than
21 : 66 : 92 19 : 66 : 92 c Shweta. The respective ratio of the present
## The sides of a triangle are in the ratio of 7 : 9 ages of Ria and Shweta is 4 : 7. What was
: 12. The difference between the length of Abby's age two years ago?
largest and smaller sides is 15 c.m. The [www.competoid.com]
32 years 30 years
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28 years 34 years @@ ## The third proportional of 0.8 and 0.2 is:
Answer: 30 years [www.competoid.com]
## The sum of Shilpa's age after 4 years and 0.05 0.8
Raghu's age 4 years ago is 63 years and the 0.4 0.032 @@
respective ratio between the Shilpa's age Answer: 0.05
four years ago and Raghu's age after 3 years ## The third proportional of 12 and 18 is
is 10 : 21. What is Shilpa's present age? (in [www.competoid.com]
years) 3 6
[www.competoid.com] 27 144 @@
25 34 Answer: 27
24 28 @@ ## The three successive angles of a cycle
Answer: 24 quadrilateral are in the ratio 1 : 3 : 4, find
## The sum of the ages of three friends is 81. the measure of the fourth angle ?
Four years earlier the sum of their ages was [www.examveda.com] [www.competoid.com]
in the ratio of 6 : 8 : 9. What is the present 72° 30°
age of the oldest amongst them? 36° 108° a
[www.competoid.com] ## The total cost for the journey at this most
58 Years 49 Years economical speed is :
40 Years 31 Years [www.lofoya.com]
@@
Answer: 31 Years Rs 6,000 Rs 8,000
## The sum of the three consecutive odd Rs 10,000 Rs 11,000 b
numbers is 285. What is the ratio of the ## The total marks obtained by Arun in English
smallest and largest numbers respectively? and Mathematics are 170. If the difference
[www.competoid.com] between his marks in these two subjects is
97 : 95 93 : 95 10. Then the ratio of his marks in these
95 : 93 93 : 97 @@ subjects is
Answer: 93 : 97 [www.competoid.com]
## The sum of three numbers is 136. If the ratio 7:8 8:7
between first and second be 2 : 3 and that 9:8 9:7 @@
between second and third be 5 : 3, then the Answer: 9 : 8
second number is: ## The total number of students in a School in
[www.competoid.com] 8670. If the number of boys in the school is
40 48 4545, then what Will be ratio of the total
52 60 @@ number of boys to the total number of girls
Answer: 60 in the school?
## The sum of two numbers is 40 and their [www.competoid.com]
difference is 4. The ratio of the numbers is = 303 : 275 275 : 303
? 11 : 12 12 : 11 @@
[www.examveda.com] [www.examveda.com] Answer: 303 : 275
21 : 19 22 : 9 ## The total surface area of a solid iron cube
11 : 9 11 : 18 c and a solid aluminium cuboid are the same.
1 The length, breadth and height of the cuboid
## The sum of th of the number 25% of are in the ratio 1:2:4. Both are melted
5
another number is equal to 40% of the first together in a vessel. What is the ratio of iron
number. What is the ratio of first number and aluminium in the resultant mixture?
[www.lofoya.com]
and the second number ?
[www.competoid.com] 3 3
4:3 5:2
14 2 : 8 14
8:32
3  
5:4 6:5 @@
Answer: 5 : 4
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3 3 ## There are 480 coins of half rupees, quarter
32:8 3
8: 2 a rupees and 10 paise coins and their values
14 14 are proportional to 5 : 3 : 1. The number of
## The total weight of Sanjay and Suresh is 120 coins in each case are
kg. If Sanjay weight 30 kg more than Suresh, [www.competoid.com]
then what is the ratio of the weight of Suresh 100, 200, 180 50, 30, 400
to that of Sanjay? 150, 180, 150 300, 90, 90 @@
[www.competoid.com]
Answer: 150, 180, 150
0.4 0.6
## There are certain numbers of toys in the box.
0.3 0.25 @@
They are divided into such a way that the
Answer: 0.6 1
## The two numbers are in the ratio 2 : 3 and person who gets of the whole gets thrice of
4
their product is 96. The sum of the numbers
what the others get on an average. Find the
is
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number of people amongst whom the toys
5 20 are distributed?
[www.lofoya.com]
101 102 @@
8 10
Answer: 20
12 9 b
## The value of a quantity 'y' varies as the sum
## There are three bottles of mixture of syrup
of two quantities. One varies directly as 'x'
and water of ratio 2 : 3, 3 : 4, 7 : 5. 10 Litres
and the other inversely as 'x'. When x = 1, y
of first and 21 Litres of second bottles are
= 7 and when x = 2, y = 8 What is the
taken. How much quantity from third bottles
equation that represents the relation
is to be taken so that final mixture from
between 'x' and 'y'?
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three bottles will be of ratios 1 : 1
[www.competoid.com]
3 4
y = 3x + y = 3x + 25 Litres 20 Litres
x x
35 Litres 30 Litres @@
5 6
y = 3x + y = 3x + @@ Answer: 30 Litres
x x
## There are three numbers A, B , C such that
Answer: y=3x+4xy=3x+4x
twice A is Equal to thrice B and four times B
## The weight of Mr. Gupta and Mrs. Gupta is equal to five times C, Then the ratio
are in the ratio 7 : 8 and their total weight is between A and C is
120 kg. After taking a dieting course Mr. [www.examveda.com] [www.competoid.com]
Gupta reduces by 6 kg and the ratio between 3:4 8 : 15
their weights change to 5 : 6, so Mrs. Gupta 15 : 8 4:3 @@
has reduced by = ? Answer: 15 : 8
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## There are two containers of equal capacity.
2 kg 4 kg
The ratio of milk to water in the first
3 kg 5 kg b
container is 3 : 1 and in the second container
## There are 336 boys in four classes of a is 5 : 2. If they are mixed up, the ratio of
school. The ratio between VI and VII milk to water in the mixture will be
standard is 8 : 9, that between VII and VIII [www.competoid.com]
is 3 : 4 and between VIII and IX is 12 : 13. 28 : 41 41 : 28
Calculate the number of boys in each class. 15 : 41 41 : 15 @@
What is the strength of standard IX. Answer: 41 : 15
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## There is 81 litres pure milk in a container.
96 104
One-third of milk is replaced by water in the
82 64 @@
container. Again one-third of mixture is
Answer: 104
extracted and equal amount of water is
added. What is the ratio of milk to water in
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the new mixture ? 1 2 3
[www.competoid.com] ## Three numbers are in the ratio : : . The
2 3 4
1:2 1:1 difference between the greatest and the
2:1 4:5 @@ smallest number is 36. The numbers are
Answer: 4 : 5 [www.competoid.com]
## There was a science exhibition in an 72, 84, 108 60, 72, 96
auditorium. On the first day 14 persons 72, 84, 96 72, 96, 108 @@
visited the exhibition. On the second day 12 Answer: 72, 96, 108
persons and on the third day only 10 persons ## Three numbers are in the ratio 3 : 4 : 5. The
visited the exhibition. The ratio of admission sum of the largest and the smallest equals to
fees collected from each of them on these the sum of the second number and 52. The
days was 2 : 3 : 5 respectively. If the total smallest number is = ?
amount collected on these three days was [www.examveda.com] [www.competoid.com]
Rs.4560, what amount was collected on the 20 27
first day? 39 52 c
[www.competoid.com] ## Three numbers are in the ratio 5 : 6 : 7. If
Rs.1120 Rs.1140 the product of the numbers is 5670, then the
Rs.1150 Rs.1160 @@ greatest number is
Answer: Rs.1120 [www.competoid.com]
## Three beakers have capacity of 250ml, 650ml 15 18
and 200ml. 682 ml of Juice is poured into 21 28 @@
them so that the same fraction of each is Answer: 21
filled. The volume filled in the largest beaker ## Three numbers are in the ratio 5 : 7 : 12. If
will be: the sum of the first and the third is greater
[www.lofoya.com] than the second by 50. The sum of the three
415 ml 403 ml numbers is = ?
400 ml 424 ml b [www.examveda.com] [www.competoid.com]
## Three containers have their volumes in the 125 120
ratio 3 : 4 : 5. They are full of mixtures of 95 85 b
milk and water. The mixtures contain milk ## Three numbers are in the ratio of 3 : 2 : 5
and water in the ratio of (4 : 1), (3 : 1) and (5 and the sum of their squares is 1862. The
: 2) respectively. The mixture of all these smallest of these numbers is
three containers are poured into a fourth [www.competoid.com]
container. The ratio of milk and water in the 24 21
fourth container is = ? 14 35 @@
[www.examveda.com] [www.competoid.com] Answer: 14
4:1 151 : 48 ## Three persons walk from place A to place B.
157 : 53 5:2 c Their speeds are in the ratio 4 : 3 : 5. The
## Three film producers A, B and C, together ratio of the time taken by them to reach B
rent a studio in Canada to produce their will be :
respective movies for a month at a total cost [www.competoid.com]
of Rs.138,000. 'A' uses the studio for 6 hours 10 : 15 : 13 2:3:4
a day for 14 days, 'B' uses the studio for 12 15 : 20 : 12 16 : 18 : 15 @@
hours a day for 4 days and 'C' uses the Answer: 15 : 20 : 12
studio for 8 hours a day for 18 days. How ## Three women A, B and C meet for a meal
much should 'B' pay for using the facilities? and share the expenses (in cash and in kind)
[www.competoid.com] equally. A gives 3 cakes, B gives 5 cakes and
Rs.36,000 Rs.24,000 as C does not have any cakes, she gives Rs.8
Rs.48,000 Rs.12,000 @@ to A and B in exchange for her share. How
Answer: Rs.24,000
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much money should A get out of Rs.8? ## Total number of men, women and children
[www.competoid.com] working in a factory is 18. They earn Rs.
Re.3 Rs.1 4000 in a day. If the sum of the wages of all
Rs.5 Rs.7 @@ men, all women and all children is in ratio of
Answer: Rs.1 18 : 10 : 12 and if the wages of an individual
## Three years ago, Raj's age was equal to the man, woman and child is in ratio 6 : 5 : 3,
sum of the present ages of his only son and then how much a woman earn in a day?
only daughter. Three years ago. the [www.examveda.com]
respective ratio between the ages of his Rs. 120 Rs. 150
daughter and his son that time was 12:13. If Rs. 250 Rs. 400
Raj's wife is 5 years younger to him and her None of these c
present age is twice the present age of their ## Twenty five percent of Pranab's annual
daughter. what is the present age of their salary is equal to eighty percent of Surya's
son? (in years) annual salaiy. Surya's monthly salaiy is forty
[www.competoid.com] percent of Dheeru's monthly salary. If
27 years 24 years Dheeru's annual salary is Rs.6 lacs, what is
29 years 25 years @@ Pranab's monthly salary? (At some places
Answer: 25 years annual income and at some place monthly
## Three-fourth of a number is equal to 60% of income are given)
another number. What is the difference [www.competoid.com]
between the numbers? Rs.7.68 lacs Rs.56,000
[www.competoid.com] Rs.8.4 lacs Rs.64,000 @@
18 32 Answer: Rs.64,000
24 Cannot be determined ## Two alloys both are made up of copper and
@@ tin. The ratio of the copper and tin in the
Answer: Cannot be determined first alloy is 1 : 3 and in the second alloy is 2
## Tom is chasing Jerry. In the same interval of : 5. In what ratio should the two alloys be
time Tom jumps 8 times while Jerry jumps 6 mixed to obtain a new alloy in which the
times. But the distance covered by Tom in 7 ratio of tin and copper be 8 : 3 ?
Jumps is equal to the distance covered by [www.examveda.com] [www.competoid.com]
Jerry in 5 Jumps. The ratio of speed of Tom 3:5 4:7
and Jerry is: 3:8 5 : 11 b
[www.examveda.com] [www.competoid.com] ## Two alloys contain tin and iron in the ratio
48 : 35 28 : 15 of 1 : 2 and 2 : 3. If the two alloys are mixed
24 : 20 20 : 21 d in the proportion of 3 : 4 respectively (by
## Total expenses on travel, lodging and weight), the ratio of tin and iron in the newly
boarding spent by a family during a summer formed alloy is = ?
vacation was Rs.2500. If Rs.30. Rs.55 and [www.examveda.com] [www.competoid.com]
Rs.15 were deducted from the amounts spent 14 : 25 10 : 21
on travel, lodging and boarding respectively, 12 : 23 13 : 22 d
then the ratio of the expenses on these heads ## Two bottles contain acid and water in the
would be 12 : 17 : 11 respectively. How much ratio 2 : 3 and 1 : 2 respectively. These are
was spent on travel, lodging and boarding mixed in the ratio 1 : 3. What is the ratio of
during the summer vacation? acid and water in the new mixture = ?
[www.competoid.com] [www.competoid.com] [www.examveda.com]
Rs.750, Rs.1075 and Rs.675 Rs.630, 7 : 13 11 : 57
Rs.905 and Rs.565 23 : 37 1:3 a
Rs.510, Rs.735 and Rs.455 Rs.390, ## Two cogged wheels of which one has 32 cogs
Rs.565 and Rs.345 @@ and other 54 cogs, work into each other. If
Answer: Rs.750, Rs.1075 and Rs.675 the latter turns 80 times in three quarters of
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a minute, how often does the other turn in 8 9 15
seconds? 36 45 c
[www.lofoya.com] ## Two numbers are in ratio 5 : 8. If their
48 24 difference is 48, then the smallest number is
38 None of these b [www.competoid.com]
## Two cones have their heights in the ratiio 1 : 64 80
4 and the radii of their bases are in the ratio 96 128 @@
3 : 1. The ratio of their volume is Answer: 80
[www.competoid.com] ## Two numbers are in ratio 7 : 11. If 7 is
1:3 3:1 added to each of the numbers, the ratio
1:2 2:1 @@ becomes 2 : 3. The smaller number is
Answer: 3 : 1 [www.examveda.com]
## Two cylinders of equal volumes have their 39 49
heights in the ratio 2 : 3. The ratio of their 66 77 b
radii is ## Two numbers are in ratio P : Q. when 1 is
[www.competoid.com] added to both the numerator and the
1:3 3–2 R
denominator, the ratio gets changed to .
3: 2 3– 2 @@ S
Answer: 3–√:2–√3:2 again, when 1 is added to both the
## Two equal glasses filled with alcohol and 1
numerator and denominator, it becomes .
water in the proportions 2 : 1 and 3 : 2 are 2
emptied into a third glass. The proportion of Find the sum of P and Q.
alcohol and water in the third glass will be [www.examveda.com]
[www.competoid.com] 3 4
13 : 17 19 : 17 5 6 c
13 : 11 19 : 11 @@ ## Two numbers are in the ratio 2 : 3. If 9 is
Answer: 19 : 11 added to each number, they will be in the
## Two equal vessels are filled with the ratio 3 : 4. What is the product of the two
mixtures of water and milk in the ratio of 3 : numbers?
4 and 5 : 3 respectively. If the mixtures are [www.competoid.com]
poured into a third vessel, the ratio of water 360 480
and milk in the third vessel will be 486 512 @@
[www.competoid.com] Answer: 486
15 : 12 53 : 59 ## Two numbers are in the ratio 3 : 5 and their
20 : 9 59 : 53 @@ LCM is 225. The smaller number is
Answer: 59 : 53 [www.competoid.com]
## Two men, sitting on the dining table. One 45 60
man has 7 eggs and other had 5 eggs. A third 75 90 @@
man passing by requested them to share Answer: 45
their food in return for money. The three of ## Two numbers are in the ratio 3 : 5. If 6 is
them shared the eggs equally and the third added to both of them, the ratio becomes 2 :
traveller paid the other two a total of Rs 24. 3. The numbers are = ?
Find the difference between the amounts [www.examveda.com] [www.competoid.com]
received by first two men? 21 and 35 30 and 50
[www.lofoya.com] 24 and 40 18 and 30 d
Rs 18 Rs 12 ## Two numbers are in the ratio 3 : 5. If each
Rs 16 Rs 15 b number is increased by 10. the ratio becomes
## Two numbers are in ratio 4 : 5 and their 5 : 7, The smaller number is
LCM is 180. The smaller number is [www.competoid.com]
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15 25 @@ ## Two vessels A and B contain milk and water
Answer: 15 mixed in the ratio 4 : 3 and 2 : 3 respectively.
## Two numbers are in the ratio 5 : 7. On The ratio in which these mixtures containing
diminishing each of them by 40. they become half milk and half water is = ?
in the ratio 17 : 27. The difference of the [www.examveda.com]
numbers is : 7:5 6:5
[www.competoid.com] 5:6 4:3 a
18 52 ## Two vessels A and B contain milk and water
137 50 @@ mixed in the ratio 4 : 3 and 2 : 3 respectively.
Answer: 50 The ratio in which these mixtures be mixed
## Two numbers are in the ratio 9 : 4. If 7 is to form a new mixture containing half milk
added to each of the number, the ratio and half water is
becomes 5 : 3. Find the numbers. [www.competoid.com]
[www.competoid.com] 7:5 6:5
18, 8 36,16 5:6 4:3 @@
45, 20 63, 28 @@ Answer: 7 : 5
Answer: 18, 8 ## Vessels A and B contain mixtures of milk
1 2 and water in the ratio 4 : 5 and 5 : 1
## Two numbers are in the ratio 1 : 2 When respectively. In what ratio should quantities
2 3
each of these is increased by 15, they become of mixture be taken from A and B to form a
in the ratio. The greater of the numbers is = mixture in which milk to water is in the ratio
? 5:4?
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27 36 2:5 4:3
48 64 c 5:2 2:3 @@
## Two numbers are such as the square of one Answer: 5 : 2
is 224 less than 8 times the square of the ## Water in pipes varies inversely as the square
other. If the numbers be in the ratio of 3 : 4 of the radius of the pipes. What is the ratio
their values are of the rates of flow in 2 pipes of diameter 2
[www.competoid.com] cm and 4 cm?
12, 16 6, 8 [www.competoid.com]
9, 12 6, 9 @@
1:2 2:1
Answer: 6, 8 1:8 4:1 @@
## Two types of alloy possess gold and silver in Answer: 4 : 1
the ratio of 7 : 22 and 21 : 37. In what ratio ## Weekly incomes of two persons are in the
should these alloys be mixed so as to have a ratio of 7: 3 and their weekly expenses are in
new alloy in which gold and silver would the ratio of 5 : 2. If each of them saves
exist in the ratio 25 : 62 ? RS.300 per week, then the weekly income of
[www.competoid.com] the first person is
13 : 8 8 : 13 [www.competoid.com]
13 : 12 6:9 @@
RS.7500 RS.4500
Answer: 13 : 8 RS.6300 RS.5400 @@
## Two vessels A and B contain milk 8 : 5 and 5 Answer: RS.6300
: 2 respectively. The ratio in which these two ## What is the least positive integer that when
mixtures be mixed to get a new mixture added to both the numerator and the
3 denominator of the ratio 4 : 7 will make the
containing 69 % milk is =? ratio greater than 2 : 3?
1
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3:5 5:2 0.67 1
5:7 2 :7 d 5 7 @@
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Answer: 0.67 ## What number should be subtracted from
## What is the mean proportional between (15 both the terms of the ratio 11 : 15 so as to
+ 200) and (27 – 648) ? make it as 2 : 3 ?
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4 14 7 2 3
4 5 @@
3 5 3 8 @@
Answer: 3
Answer: 35–√5
## What sum of money is to be divided among 3
## What is the ratio in Rs. 2.80 and 40 paise?
persons in the ratio 3 : 4 : 7, so that the
second person receives RS. 12 only?
1:7 2:7 [www.competoid.com]
7:1 1 : 14 c RS.21 RS.32
## What is the value of the least of the three RS.9 RS.42 @@
numbers that are in the ratio of 4 : 3 : 7, if Answer: RS.42
the sum of three numbers is 84? ## What will be the simplest form of the ratio 3
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hours : 1 day?
24 18 [www.examveda.com]
42 36 @@ 1:3 1:6
Answer: 18 1:8 1 : 25 c
## What must be added to each term of the ## When 30% of one number is subtracted
ratio 7 : 11, So as to make it equal to 3 : 4? from another number, the second number
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reduces to its own four-fifth. What is the
8 7.5
ratio between the first and the second
6.5 5 d
numbers respectively?
## What number has to be added to the terms 3 [www.competoid.com]
: 5 to make the ratio 5 : 6 ? 4:7 3:2
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2:5 None of these @@
6 7
Answer: None of these
12 13 b
## When a number is added to a second
## What number must be added to each of 2, 1
16, 20, 52 so that the results are in number, the sum is 333 percent of the
3
proportion?
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second number. What is the ratio between
19 14 the first number to the second number?
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12 13 @@ 3:7 7:4
Answer: 12 7:3 Data inadequate @@
## What number must be added to each of the Answer: 7 : 3
numbers 17, 25, 28, 58 such that the result
## When X is subtracted from the numbers 9,
will be in proportion?
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15 and 27, the remainders are in continued
-17 -13 proportion. What is the value of X?
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-11 -9 @@ 8 6
Answer: -13
4 None of these @@
## What number should be added to each of Answer: None of these
6,14,18 and 38, so that the resulting numbers
## Which number when added to each of the
make a proportion?
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numbers 6,7,15,17 will make the resulting
1 2 numbers proportional ?
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3 4 @@ 6 5
Answer: 2 4 3 @@
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Answer: 3 ## y varies directly as (x + 3) and y = 8 when x =
## Which of the following is the lowest ratio ? 1. What is the value of y when x = 2 ?
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7 : 15 15 : 23 6 10
17 : 25 21 : 39 a 12 16 b
## Which of the following represents a correct ## Zinc and copper are in the ratio 5 : 3 in 400
proportion ? gm of an alloy. How much of copper (in
[www.examveda.com] [www.competoid.com] grams ) should be added to make the ratio 5
12 : 9 :: 16 : 12 13 : 11 :: 5 : 4 :4?
30 : 45 :: 13 : 24 3 : 5 :: 2 : 5 a [www.competoid.com]
## 'x' and 'y' enter into a partnership and 50 gm 66 gm
invest Rs.650 and Rs.350 respectively. If they 72 gm 200 gm @@
split half of the profit equally for their Answer: 50 gm
efforts and the balance in the ratio of their ## Zinc and Copper are in the ratio of 5 : 3 in
investments and x got 5180 more than y, 200 gm of an alloy. How much grams of
what is the total profit? copper be added to make the ratio as 3 : 5 ?
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Rs.1200 Rs.2400 1 1
133
Rs.3600 Rs.4800 @@ 3 200
Answer: Rs.1200 72 66 @@
Answer: 1331313313
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14 Partnership
## 3 brothers divided 1620 among them in such ## A invests Rs.6000 in a business for a year.
5 How much B should invest in order that the
a way that the share of second is equal to
13 profit after one year may be divided in the
of share of other two, combined. What is the ratio 3 : 5 [www.competoid.com]
share of the second one ? Rs.7000 Rs.10000
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] Rs.18000 Rs.30000 @@
Rs. 1170 Rs. 450 Answer: Rs.10000
Rs. 540 Rs. 500 b ## A starts business with a capital of Rs. 14,000,
## A and B are two partners in a firm sharing five months later B joins and further two
the profit in the ratio 4 : 5. If the firm earns months later C joins them. If the profit
a profit of Rs. 14130, then profit to be sharing ratio in the end of year is 4 : 3 : 2,
received by B ? then the money invested by C was:
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Rs. 6280 Rs. 7850 Rs. 18,000 Rs. 16,800
Rs. 1570 Rs. 3140 b Rs. 18,600 Rs. 10,800 @@
## A and B invest Rs. 3000 and Rs. 2400 Answer: Rs. 16,800
respectively in a business. If after one year ## A starts business with Rs. 3500 and after 5
there is a loss Rs. 720, how much loss will B months, B joins with A as his partner. After
bear? (loss or profit is in proportion to their a year, the profit is divided in the ratio 2 : 3.
investment) [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] What is B's contribution in the capital?
Rs. 72 Rs. 320 [www.examveda.com; www.indiabix.com]
Rs. 400 Rs. 360 b Rs. 7500 Rs. 8000
## A and B started a business by investing Rs. Rs. 8500 Rs. 9000 d
36000 and Rs. 45000 respectively. After 4 ## A, B and C enter into a partnership,
4 investing Rs. 6000. A invests Rs. 1000 and B
months B withdraws of his investment. Its 2 : 3. Find the profit of C, when the annual
9
1 profit is Rs. 2400 ?
5 months after she again invested of its [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
19
Rs. 600 Rs. 1200
original investment. If the total earned profit
at the end of the year, is Rs. 117240, then Rs. 1800 Rs. 1950 b
who will get more money as a share of profit ## A, B and C invested Rs. 47000 for a business.
and how much ? If A subscribes Rs. 7,000 more than B and B
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] Rs. 5,000 more than C, then out of total
Rs. 15500 Rs. 12450 profit of Rs. 4700, C receives.
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Rs. 14245 Rs. 13560 d
Rs. 1200 Rs. 4500
## A invested an amount of Rs. 25,000 and
started a business. B joined him after one Rs. 1000 None of these @@

year with an amount of Rs. 30,000. After two Answer: Rs. 1000
years from starting the business, they earned 1 1
## A, B and C share profit in the ratio of : :
the profit of Rs. 46,000. What will be B's 4 6
share in the profit? [www.competoid.com] 7
. If C retires, they share the profit of C in
Rs. 14,000 Rs. 12,000 12
Rs. 17,250 Rs. 20,000 @@
the ratio of 4 : 5 respectively. The new profit
Answer: Rs. 17,250 sharing ratio of A and B will be :
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55 : 53 53 : 55 ## Rahul and Bharti are partners in a business.
5:3 3:5 @@ 1
Rahul contributes th capital for 15 months
Answer: 55 : 53 4
## A, B and C share the profit in the ratio of 2 : 2
and Bharti received of profit. For how long
3 : 7. If the average gain is Rs. 8000, then B's 3
share is ? Bharti money was used. [www.examveda.com]
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] 8 months 10 months
Rs. 2000 Rs. 1000 11 months 17 months b
Rs. 1500 Rs. 6000 d ## RS. 504 is divided between A, B and C, so
## A, B, C subscribes Rs.5100 for a business A that for every RS. 4. A receives, B receives
subscribes Rs.900 more than B, B subscribes RS. 10, and for every RS. 6, B receives C
Rs.600 more than C. Out of total profit of receives RS. 14. Their shares will be
Rs.1020, A receives. [www.competoid.com] [www.competoid.com]
Rs.500 Rs.450 Rs. 154, Rs.125, Rs. 225
Rs.400 Rs.550 @@ Rs. 250, Rs. 138, Rs. 66
Answer: Rs.500 Rs.54, Rs. 135, Rs. 315
## Four milkmen rented a pasture. M put to None of these
graze 16 cows for 3 months and N 20 cows @@
for 4 months, O 18 cows for 6 months and P Answer: Rs.54, Rs. 135, Rs. 315
42 cows for 2 months. If M's share of rent be ## Srikanth and Vividh started a business
Rs. 2400, the rent paid by O is ? investing amounts of Rs.185000 and Rs.
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] 225000, respectively. If Vividh's share in the
Rs. 3200 Rs. 4200 profit earned by them is Rs. 9000, what is the
Rs. 4000 Rs. 5400 d total profit earned by them together.
## Mr.'X' invested certain amount in two [www.competoid.com]
different schemes 'A' & 'B'. Scheme 'A' Rs. 17400 Rs.16400
offers simple interest at 12 p.c.a. and Scheme Rs.16800 Rs.17800 @@
'B' offers compound interest at 10 p.c.p.a. Answer: Rs.16400
Interest accrued on the amount invested in ## Three partners started a business by
Scheme A in 2 years was Rs.3,600 and the investing Rs.60,000, Rs.80,000 and Rs.
total amount invested was Rs.35,000. What 1,20,000 respectively. First partner left the
was interest accrued on the amount invested business after 4 months, second after 9
in Scheme 'B'? [www.competoid.com] months and third remained in the business
Rs.4,800 for the whole year. At the end of year the
Rs.4,200 total profit earned is Rs. 1,60,480, then find
Rs.4,000 their shares of profit.
Cannot be determined [www.competoid.com]
@@
Answer: Rs.4,200 Rs. 16840, Rs. 44188, Rs. 92686
## Mrudul invested an amount of Rs.29,500 in Rs. 16048, Rs. 48144, Rs. 96288
order to start a business. Shalaka joined her Rs. 16042, Rs. 14842, Rs. 9862
4 months later by investing an amount of Rs. 15000, Rs. 13423, Rs. 7562 @@
Rs.33,500. If the business earned a profit of Answer: Rs. 16048, Rs. 48144, Rs. 96288
Rs.1,20,575 at the end of two years, what was ## Two brother invested Rs. 50000 and Rs.
Mrudul's share of the profit? [www.competoid.com] 70000 respectively in a business and agreed
Rs.60,725 Rs.61,950 that 70% of the profits should be divided
Rs.59,250 Rs.58,625 @@
equally between them and the remaining
Answer: Rs.61,950 profit in the ratio of investment. If one
brothers gets Rs. 90 more than the other.
Find the total profit made in the business ?
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Rs. 1200 Rs. 1400 ## X and Y are partners in a business. They
Rs. 1600 Rs. 1800 d invest in the ratio 5 : 6, at the end of 8
## Two partners invest Rs. 125000 and Rs. months X withdraws his capital. If they
85000 respectively in a business and agree receive profits in the ratio of 5 : 9. Find how
that 60% of the profit should be divided long Y's investment was used ?
equally between them and the remaining [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
profit is to be divided into ratio of their 12 months 10 months
capitals. If one partner gets Rs. 300 more 15 months 14 months a
than the other. Find the total profit made in ## X and Y enter into a partnership with
the business ? capitals in the ratio 5 : 6 and at the end of 8
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] months, X withdraws. If they receive profit
Rs. 3739.50 Rs. 3937.50 in the ratio of 5 : 9. Find how long Y's
Rs. 3749.50 Rs. 3947.50 b capital was used. [www.examveda.com;
## Two partners invest Rs.125000 and www.competoid.com]
Rs.85000, respectively in a business and 8 months 9 months
agree that 60% of the profit should be 11 months 12 months d
divided equally between them and the ## X and Y enter into a partnership with their
remaining profit is to be treated as interest capitals in the ratio 7 : 9. At the end of 8th
on capital. If one partner gets Rs.600 more month, X withdraws his capital. If they
than the other, find the total profit made in receive the profits in the ratio 8 : 9, Find how
the business. [www.competoid.com] long Y's capital was used. [www.competoid.com]
Rs.8800 Rs.8885 4 months 6 months
Rs.8995 Rs.7875 @@
7 months 8 months @@
Answer: Rs.7875 Answer: 7 months
## Two persons A and B start a business with ## X and Y entered into a partnership,
investments of Rs.24000 and Rs.28000 investing Rs. 16,000 and Rs. 12,000
respectively. After 4 months C also joined respectively. After 3 months X withdrew Rs.
them with certain investment. Total profit at 5000, while Y invested 5000 more. After 3
the end of the year was Rs.19950. C's share months more Z joins the business with a
in profit was Rs.7600. What was the C's capital of Rs. 21,000. After a year they
investment in the business? [www.competoid.com] obtained a profit of Rs. 26,400. By what
Rs.48000 Rs.45000 amount does the share of Y exceed the share
Rs.50000 Rs.40000 @@
of Z.
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Answer: Rs.48000
Rs. 3600 Rs. 3800
## Vijay, Ram and Ravi started a shop by
Rs. 4600 Rs. 4800 @@
investing Rs.2700, Rs.8100 and Rs.7200
respectively. At the end of one year, the Answer: Rs. 3600
profit was distributed. If Ram's share was ## X and Y make a partnership. X invests
Rs.3600, then total profit was [www.competoid.com] Rs.8000 for 8 months and Y remains in the
Rs.10800 Rs.11600 business for 4 months. Out of the total profit,
Y claims 2 / 7 of the profit. How much
Rs. 8000 None of these @@
money was contributed by Y? [www.competoid.com]
Answer: Rs. 8000
Rs.5000 Rs.5400
## We have to divided a sum of Rs. 13950
Rs.7400 Rs.6400 @@
among three persons A, B and C. B must get
the double of A's share and C must get 50 Answer: Rs.6400
less than the double of B's share. The share ## X and Y take a grass ground on lease for Rs.
of A will be ? [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
300 for grazing their animals. If X grazes 10
Rs. 1950 Rs. 1981.25 animals for 5 weeks and Y grazes 15 animals
for 7 weeks. The ratio in which they should
Rs. 2000 Rs. 2007.75 c
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1:2 10 : 21 Rs. 100, Rs. 160, Rs. 880 Rs. 110, Rs.
11 : 20 2:1 @@ 140, Rs. 860
Answer: 10 : 21 Rs. 120, Rs. 150, Rs. 840 Rs. 140, Rs.
## X and Z invest capital in the ratio of 2 : 1 170, Rs. 830 @@
while X and Y invest capital in the ratio of 3 Answer: Rs. 100, Rs. 160, Rs. 880
: 2. If their annual profit is Rs. 157300 then ## X, Y and Z were sharing profits in the ratio
what is Y share ? 4:3:2. Y retired from the firm and X and Z
[www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] decide to share profits in the ratio 3:2.
Rs. 48400 Rs. 58809 Calculate the gaining ratio. [www.competoid.com]
Rs. 48810 Rs. 47782 a 7:8 5:9
## X starts a business with Rs. 25,000. After 4 4:7 5:8 @@
months Y joins him with Rs. 20,000. What Answer: 7:8
will be the ratio of their profit at the end of ## Yogesh started a business investing Rs.
the year. 45000. After 3 months, Pranab joined him
[www.competoid.com] with a capital of Rs. 60000. After another 6
4:8 5 : 10 months, Atul joined them with a capital of
15 : 8 9 : 18 @@ Rs. 90000. At the end of the year, they made
Answer: 15 : 8 a profit of Rs. 20000. What would be Atuls
## X starts a business with Rs.300000 and y share in it?
joins him after 3 months with Rs. 1200000. [www.examveda.com]
Find the ratio of the profits at the end of the Rs. 7000 Rs. 6000
year. Rs. 5000 Rs. 4000 d
[www.competoid.com] ## A , B and C are three partners in a business.
2:5 3:5 3
5:1 1:3 The profit share of A is of the total profit
@@ 16
Answer: 1 : 3 1
## X, Y and Z are partner in a business. If X's and B's share is of the total profit. If C
4
capital, is twice of Y's capital and Y's capital
receives Rs. 243, then the amount received
is three times to that of Z's capital then find
by B will be : [www.competoid.com]
the ratio of their investments.
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Rs. 90 Rs. 96
6:3:1 3:8:1 Rs. 108 Rs. 120 @@

4:9:3 3:1:5 Answer: Rs. 108

@@
Answer: 6 : 3 : 1 ## A , B and C invest RS. 2,000, RS. 3,000 and
## x, y and z can do a work in 12, 18, 21 days RS. 4,000 in a businees. After 1 year, A
respectively. They undertook to finish the removed his money but B and C continued
work together for Rs.4700, then the shares of for 1 more year. If net profit after 2 years be
x exceeds y by. RS. 3,200, then A's share in the profit is
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Rs.700 Rs.1400 RS. 1,000 RS. 800
Rs.1000 Rs.1200 RS. 600 RS.400 @@
@@
Answer: Rs.700 Answer: RS.400
## X, Y and Z enter into partnership. X ## A ,B and C jointly start a business A puts in
1 Rs. 15,000 for 8 months B puts in Rs. 12,000
invests part of total capital for one-fourth for 9 months and C puts in Rs. 8,000, for the
4
of the time. Y contributes one fifth of the whole year. In the end of the year there is a
capital for half of the time. Z contributes the profit of Rs. 10,800. The difference between
remaining capital for the whole time. How A's share and C share in the profit will be:
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should they divided a profit of Rs. 1140? Rs. 800 Rs. 600
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Rs. 1200 Rs. 1,800 @@ respectively. condition of partnership is that
Answer: Rs. 800 B got Rs. 100 per month for management of
## A and B enter into partnership investing Rs. the business. After paying 5% interest on the
48,000 and Rs. 60,000 respectively. After 3 capital, annual profit has distributed in the
months, A withdraws Rs. 8,000 while B ratio of their investment. Find the share of
invests Rs. 6,000 after 6 months of starting of their profit, if the annual profit is Rs. 4000.
business. Out of the total amount of profit, if [www.competoid.com]
A gets Rs. 12,000 as his share at the end of Rs. 3000 each Rs. 2500 each
the year total profit is : [www.competoid.com] Rs. 1500 each Rs. 2000 each @@
Rs. 24,000 Rs. 30,000 Answer: Rs. 2000 each
Rs. 36,000 Rs. 37,000 @@
## A and B started a business investing amount
Answer: Rs. 30,000 of Rs. 1,85,000 and Rs. 2,25,000 respectively.
## A and B enter into partnership. At the end of if B's share in the profit earned by them is
9 months B withdraws but A's capitals is Rs. 9,000 then what is the total profit earned
used for one month more . If they receive by them together?
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profit in the ratio of 5 : 6 then the ratio of
Rs. 17,400 Rs. 16,400
their capital is [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
3:4 4:3 Rs. 16,800 Rs. 17,800 @@
Answer: Rs. 16,400
5:6 6:5 @@
## A and B started a business with the
Answer: 3 : 4
investments in the ratio of 5:3 respectively.
## A and B invest in a business in the ratio 3 : 2.
After 6 months from the start ofthe business,
If 5% of the total profit goes to charity and
C joined them and the respective ratio
A's share is Rs. 855, the total profit is:
[www.examveda.com; www.indiabix.com] between the investments of B and C was 2:3.
Rs. 1425 Rs. 1500 If the annual profit earned by them was
Rs. 1537.50 Rs. 1576 b Rs.12,300. What was the difference between
## A and B stared a boutique investing amounts B's share and C's share in the profit?
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of Rs. 35,000 and Rs. 56,000 respectively. If
Rs.900 Rs.800
A's share in the profit earned by them need
Rs.600 Rs.400 @@
is Rs. 45,000, then what is the total profit
Answer: Rs.900
earned? [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
## A and B started business with Rs.20000 and
Rs. 81,000 Rs. 1,27,000
Rs.35000 respectively. They agreed to share
Rs. 72,000 Rs. 1,17,000 @@
the profit in the ratio of their capital. C joins
Answer: Rs. 1,17,000
the partnership with the condition that A,B
## A and B started a business by investing and C will share profit equally and pays
Rs.18,000 and Rs.24,000 respectively. At the Rs.220000 as premium for this, to be shared
end of 4th month from the start of the between A and B. This is to be divided
business. C joins with Rs.15,000. At the end between A and B in the ratio of
of 10th month B quits at which time C [www.competoid.com]
invests Rs.3000 more. At the end of 10th 10 : 1 1 : 10
month B rejoins with the same investment. If 9 : 10 10 : 9 @@
profit at the end of the year is Rs.12,005. Answer: 10 : 1
what is B's share in the profit? ## A began a business with RS. 2100 and is
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joined afterwards by B with RS. 3,600. After
Rs.4,000 Rs.4,440
how many month did B join if profit at the
Rs.4,360 Rs.4,900 @@
end of the year are divided equally?
Answer: Rs.4,900 [www.competoid.com]
## A and B started a business in partnership by 5 6
investing Rs. 10,000 and Rs. 4000 7 Can't say @@
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Answer: 5 How much money will each son get?
## A began a business with RS. 4,500 and was [www.competoid.com]
later joined by B with RS. 5,400. If profits at Rs.50,333.33 Rs.48,233.33
the end of the year are divided in the ratio 2 Rs.53,333.33 Data inadequate @@
: 1, then find after how many months did B Answer: Rs.53,333.33
join? [www.competoid.com] ## A start a business with Rs. 45000. After 6
3 months 5 months months B enters in his business with Rs.
7 months 8 months @@ 80000. After one year C invests Rs. 120000.
Answer: 7 months In what ratio the profit will be divided
## A began a business with Rs.2250 and was among A, B and C ? [www.examveda.com]
joined afterwards by B with Rs. 2700. If the 9 : 16 :24 3:4:4
profit at the end of the year were divided in 3:4:8 3:3:8 b
the ratio of 2 : 1, after how much time B ## A started a business by investing Rs. 42000.
joined the business? [www.competoid.com] After few months B joined by investing Rs.
5 months 6 months 49,000. If at the end of year A got Rs. 9000
3 months 7 months @@ and B got Rs.7000 as a share of their profit.
Answer: 7 months Then after how many months B joined the
## A' began a small business with a certain business. [www.competoid.com]
amount of money. After four months from 1 month 4 months
the start of the business. 'B' joined the 2 months 3 months @@
business with an amount which was Rs.6,000 Answer: 4 months
less than 'A's initial investment. 'C' joined ## A started a business by investing Rs. 50,000.
the business after seven months from the After 6 months B joined her by investing Rs.
start of business with an amount which was 75,000. After its 6 months C joined with Rs.
Rs.2,000 less than A's initial investment. At 1,25,000. What is the ratio of profit shared
the end of the year total investment repented after 2 years among A, B and C ?
was Rs.1,42,000. What will be A's share in [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
the profit. if B received Rs.8,000 as profit 4:5:6 8 : 9 : 10
share? (in Rupees) [www.competoid.com] 8 : 9 : 12 4:5:8 @@
Rs.48,000 Rs.46.500 Answer: 8 : 9 : 10
Rs.46.000 Rs.42,000 @@
## A started a business by investing some
Answer: Rs.48,000 money and B invested Rs. 5000 each more
## A man gave 20% of his salary to his only son than that of A. A remained in business for 5
and only daughter. The ratio of amount months and B remained in business 1 month
given to son and daughter is 3:2 respectively. more than A. Out of the total profit of Rs.
Twice the amount what he gave to his 26000, B got Rs. 6000 more than A. Find the
daughter, he invested in LIC. Out of the capitals invested A and B ? [www.examveda.com;
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remaining amount he gave one-fourth to his
Rs. 29000, Rs. 18000 Rs. 25000, Rs. 3000
wife. After that he was left with Rs.16800.
Find out the amount invested in LIC. Rs. 15000, Rs. 10000 Rs. 15000, Rs.
[www.competoid.com] 20000 d
Rs.5600 Rs.5400 ## A started the business investing RS.
Rs.5800 Rs.6200 @@
35,000.After 6 month B Joined him with a
Answer: Rs.5600 capital of RS. 60,000. At the end of the year,
## A man has divided his total many in his will total profit was RS. 26,000. What Will be the
in such a way that half of it goes to his wife, difference between shares of profits of A and
2/3 rd of the remaining among his three sons B?
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equally and the rest among his four daughter
RS.1000 RS.2000
equally. If each daughter gets Rs.20,000.
RS.2500 RS.3000 @@
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Answer: RS.2000 being the only working partner receive?
## A starts a business with a capital of [www.competoid.com]
Rs.15000. B joins the business 6 months later Rs.11,375 Rs.10,000
from the start of the business and C joins the Rs.12,375 Rs.11,275 @@
business 8 month later from the start of the Answer: Rs.11,375
business. End of the year their respective ## A starts some business with Rs.50,000. After
share in profit was in ratio of 5:3:3. What is 3 months B joins him with Rs. 70,000. At the
the sum of amount put in the business by B end of the year, in what ratio should they
and C together? share the profit ? [www.competoid.com]
[www.competoid.com] 1:3 3:2
Rs.3300 Rs.3500 1:5 None of these @@
Rs.4200 Rs.4500 @@ Answer: None of these
Answer: Rs.4500 ## A sum of RS. 1,000 is divided between A and
## A starts a business with an initial investment 1
of Rs.18000. After 4 months, B enters into B such that RS. 10 more than of A's share
2
the partnership with an investment of 1
Rs.24000. Again after two months C enters and RS. 20 more than of B's share are
3
with an investment of Rs.30000. If C receives equal, then A's share is
Rs.1845 in the profit at the end of the year. [www.competoid.com]
what is the total annual profit ? RS. 412 RS. 420
[www.competoid.com] RS. 588 RS.500 @@
Rs.6027 Rs.6327 Answer: RS. 412
Rs.6527 Rs.6080 @@ ## A working partner gets 20% as his
Answer: Rs.6027 commission of the profit after his
## A starts a business with an investment of commission is paid. If the working partner's
Rs.16000. After 3 months B joins the commission is Rs. 8000, then what is the total
partnership profit in the business ? [www.examveda.com;
with an investment equal to 5/8th of A's www.competoid.com]
investment and A withdraws Rs.2000 from Rs. 47000 Rs. 45000
the business. After 3 months more C joins Rs. 48000 None of these c
the partnership with an investment of ## A, B and C are partners in a business
Rs.9000. In the end of the year, C gets partnership. A invested Rs. 4000 for whole
Rs.1026 as his share in profit. Find A's share year. B invested Rs. 6000 initially but
in the profit. increased this investment upto Rs. 8000 at
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the end of 4 months, while C invested Rs.
Rs.3300 Rs.3306 8000 initially, but withdraw Rs. 2000 at the
Rs.3406 Rs.3506 @@ end of 9 months, At the end of year total
Answer: Rs.3306 earned profit is Rs. 16950, find their share of
## A starts a small business by investing a profit. [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
certain sum of money. B joins A after three Rs. 3600, Rs. 6600, Rs. 6750
months from the start of the business by Rs. 2000, Rs. 3050, Rs. 5400
investing 1.5 times A's investment. Three
Rs. 2450, Rs. 2460, Rs. 1456
months after B joined the business. C joins A
None of these
and B by investing half of A's investment. It
@@
was agreed that the working partner would Answer: Rs. 3600, Rs. 6600, Rs. 6750
receive 10% of the profit and the share
## A, B and C enter into a partnership investing
according to the investment proportion from Rs 35000, Rs 45000 and Rs 55000 resp. The
the rest of the profit. If total profit at the end respective share of A,B and C in an annual
of the year was Rs.23750. How much will A,
profit of Rs 40500 are.
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Rs. 11500, Rs. 13500, Rs. 16500 of each in profit ? [www.examveda.com;
Rs. 10500, Rs. 12500, Rs. 16500 www.competoid.com]
Rs. 10500, Rs. 13500, Rs. 15500 Rs. 20000, Rs. 25000, Rs. 18000
Rs. 10500, Rs. 13500, Rs. 16500 d Rs. 15500, Rs. 27200, Rs. 20450
## A, B and C have invested a sum of Rs. Rs. 22500, Rs. 6750, Rs. 5400
125000 in a business. B invested R. 15000 Rs. 10350, Rs. 21540, Rs. 12050 c
more than A and C invested RS. 20,000 more ## A, B and C start a business partnership with
than B. If the total earned profit is Rs. 37450 respective initial investments of Rs.4200,
at the end of year, then find their share of Rs.3600 and Rs.2400. After 4 months from
profit. [www.competoid.com] the start of the business A invests an
Rs. 7490, Rs. 11984, Rs. 17976 additional amount of Rs.1000 in the
Rs. 8480, Rs. 7550, Rs. 8560 business. After 6 months from the start of
Rs. 7940, Rs. 7054, Rs. 17500 the business B and C invest additional
Rs. 5100, Rs. 6943, Rs. 7140 amounts in the respective ratio of 1:2. After
10 months they get a total profit of Rs.2820.
@@
Answer: Rs. 7490, Rs. 11984, Rs. 17976 If the Share of A in profit be Rs.1200, what
## A, B and C hire a meadow for RS. 4,650. A was the additional investment made by B?
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puts in 10 oxen for 20 days, B puts in 50 oxen
Rs.420 Rs.400
for 8 days and C puts in 16 oxen for 9 days.
Rs.440 Rs.450 @@
The rent paid by B is
[www.competoid.com] Answer: Rs.400
RS. 1,005 RS.1,500 ## A, B and C started a business by investing
RS. 1,550 RS. 2,500 Rs. 24,000, Rs. 32000 and Rs.18000
@@
Answer: RS. 2,500 respectively. A and B are active partners and
## A, B and C hired a car for Rs. 4,160. A used get 15% and 12% of total profit and
it for 7 hours. B for 8 hours and C used it for remaining profit is to be distributed among
11 hours. The rent shared by A Will be : them in the ratio of their investment. If C got
[www.competoid.com] total Rs.65700 as a profit, what was the total
Rs. 960 Rs. 1120 amount of profit ?
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Rs. 1,260 Rs. 1,760 @@
Answer: Rs. 1120 Rs. 4,70,000 Rs. 3,70,000
## A, B and C hired a pasture. A grazed 12 Rs. 3,45,000 Rs. 1,57,000 @@

cows 2 hours every day for 4 months, B Answer: Rs. 3,70,000

grazed 16 cows, 4 hours every day for 6 ## A, B and C started a business by investing
months and C grazed 6 cows 9 hours Rs.20,000 Rs.28,000 and Rs.36,000
everyday for 2 months. If B has paid Rs. respectively. After 6 months, A and B
1152 as a share of fare. Find the amount of withdrew an amount of Rs.8,000 each and C
total Rent. [www.competoid.com]
invested an additional amount of Rs.8,000.
Rs. 1413 Rs. 1214 All of them invested for equal period of time.
Rs. 1764 Rs. 1102 If at the end of the year, C got Rs.12,550 as
@@
his share of profit, what was the total profit
Answer: Rs. 1764
1 earned ? [www.competoid.com]
## A, B and C invested money in the ratio of : Rs.25,100 Rs.26,600
2
Rs.24,300 Rs.22,960 @@
1 1
: in a business. After 4 months A doubled Answer: Rs.25,100
3 5
## A, B and C started a business in partnership
his investment and after 6 months B halves
with investments of Rs.12000, Rs.26000 and
his investment. If the total profit at the end
Rs.32000 respectively. After 4 months A
of the year be Rs. 34650 then find the share
leaves. After 6 months B leaves and A joins
with an amount equal to his earlier
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investment. After 10 months C leaves and B RS. 3,500 RS. 3,000
joins with his prior investment. At the end of RS. 2,000 None of these @@
the year they earn a Profit of Rs.53622. Find Answer: RS. 3,000
the share B in the annual profit ## A, B, C are the partners of a business. A
[www.competoid.com] 1
Rs.17221 Rs.17212 contributes of the whole capital. While B
3
Rs.17222 Rs.18212 @@ contributes as much as A and C together
Answer: Rs.17212 contribute. If the profit at the end of the year
## A, B and C started a business with is Rs.42000. What would each receive
investments of Rs.1,600, Rs.2,000 and [www.competoid.com]
Rs.1800 respectively. After 6 months from Rs.24000, 16000, 2000 Rs.14000, 21000,
the start of the business, A invested Rs.200 7000
more. After 8 months from the start of the Rs.21000, 14000, 7000 Rs. 7000,
business, B and C invested additional 21000,14000 @@
amounts in the respective ratio of 4:1. If they Answer: Rs.14000, 21000, 7000
received an annual profit of Rs.3780 and A's ## A, B, C rent a pasture. A puts 10 oxen for 7
share in the profit is Rs.10810, what was the months, B puts 12 oxen for 5 months and C
additional amount that C invested? puts 15 oxen for 3 months for grazing. If the
[www.competoid.com] rent of the pasture is Rs. 175, how much
Rs.200 Rs.300 must C pay as his share of rent?
Rs.400 Rs.270 @@ [www.examveda.com; www.indiabix.com]
Answer: Rs.270 Rs. 45 Rs. 50
## A, B and C started a business with their Rs. 55 Rs. 60 a
investment in the ratio 1:3:5. After 4 months ## A, B, C started a business by investing
A invested the same amount as before and B Rs.6000, Rs.9000 and Rs.12,000 respectively.
as well as C withdrew half of their If at the end of the year the business earned
investments. The ratio of their profits at the a profit of Rs.3600 How should they divide
end of the year was : [www.competoid.com] the profit? [www.competoid.com]
5:6:10 6:5:10 1600 1200
10:5:6 4:3:5 @@ 1800 1400 @@
Answer: 5:6:10 Answer: 1600
## A, B and C started a business with their ## A, B, C started a shop by investing Rs.27000,
investments in the ratio 1 : 2 : 4. After 6 Rs.81000 and Rs.72000 respectively. At the
month A invested the half amount more as end of one year B's share in total profit was
before and B invested same the amount as Rs.36000. What was the total profit?
1 [www.competoid.com]
before while C withdrew th of the his
4 Rs.108000 Rs.116000
investments. Find the ratio of their profits at Rs.80000 Rs.92000 @@
the end of the year. Answer: Rs.80000
[www.competoid.com] ## A, Band C enter into partnership by making
5 : 12 : 13 5 : 11 : 14 investments in the ratio 3 : 5 : 7. After a
5 : 12 : 14 None of these @@ year, C invests another Rs.337600. While A
Answer: 5 : 12 : 14 with draws Rs.45600. The ratio of
## A, B, and C invest RS. 5,000, RS. 6,000 and investments then changes to 24 : 59 : 167.
RS. 4,000 in a business. A gets 30% of the How. much did A invest initially?
profit as Manager's salary and the [www.competoid.com]
remaining part of the profit is distributed Rs.45600 Rs.96000
among them in the ratio of their investments. Rs.141600 None of these @@
If A gets RS. 200 more than B and C receive Answer: Rs.141600
together, then total profit is [www.competoid.com]
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## Aarti, Vinita and Kamala became partners ## Dheeraj distributed his total assets to his
in a business by investing money in the ratio wife, three sons, two daughters and five
of 5 : 7 : 6. Next year, they increased their grandchildren in such a way that each
investments by 26%, 20% and 15%, grandchild got one-eighth of each son or one-
respectively. In what ratio should profit tenth of each daughter. His wife got 40 per
earned during 2 nd year be distributed? cent of the total share of his sons and
[www.competoid.com] daughters together. If each daughter
21 : 28 : 23 23 : 28 : 21 received asset of worth Rs.1.25 lakh. what
28 : 23 : 21 35 : 41 : 7 @@ was the total worth of the assets received by
Answer: 21 : 28 : 23 his wife and the three grandchildren
## Amit and Brijesh started a business with together ?
initial investments in the ratio of 12 : 11 and [www.competoid.com]
their annual profits were in the ratio of 4 : 1. Rs.32,500 Rs.2,57,500
If Amit invested the money for 11 months, Rs.2,82,500 Cannot be determined
then for what time Brijesh invested the @@
money? [www.competoid.com] Answer: Rs.2,57,500
9 months 3 months ## Dilip and Manohar start a business by
5 months 10 months @@ investing RS. 1,00,000 and RS. 1,50,000
Answer: 3 months respectively. The share of each out of a profit
## Amitabh, Brijesh and Kamesh enters a of RS. 2,400 will be [www.competoid.com]
7 4 RS. 960, RS. 1450 RS. 1000, RS. 1400
partnership with shares in the ratio of : : RS. 380, RS. 1600 RS. 960, RS. 1440 @@
2 3
6 Answer: RS. 960, RS. 1440
. After 4 months, Amitabh increases his ## Dilip, Ram and Amar started a shop by
5
share by 50%. If the total profit at the end of investing RS. 27,000, RS. 81,000 and RS.
the year be Rs.21600, what will be the share 72,000 respectively. At the end of 1 year, the
of Brijesh in the profit? [www.competoid.com] profit was distributed. If Ram's share of
Rs.8000 Rs.12000 profit be RS. 36,000, then total profit was
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Rs.4000 Rs.7000 @@
RS. 1,16,000 RS. 1,08,000
Answer: Rs.4000
RS. 80,000 None of these @@
## Avinah, Manoj and Arun started a business
Answer: RS. 80,000
in partnership investing in the ratio of 3 : 2 :
## Four milkmen rented a pasture. A grazed 18
5 respectively. At the end of the year, they
cows for 4 months, B grazed 25 cows for 2
earned a profit of Rs.45000 which is 15% of
months, C grazed 28 cows for 5 months and
their total investment. How much did Manoj
D grazed 21 cows for 3 months. If A's share
invest? [www.competoid.com]
of rent be RS. 360, then total rent of the field
Rs.60000 Rs.180000
is [www.competoid.com]
Rs.30000 Rs.90000 @@
RS. 1,500 RS. 1,600
Answer: Rs.60000
RS. 1,625 RS. 1,650 @@
## Ayush and Babloo are partners in a
Answer: RS. 1,625
1
business. Aayush contributes of the capital ## Geeta, Shweta and Sita Started a business
4
with investmem of Rs.4200, Rs.8400 and
2
for 15 months and Babloo received of the Rs.5400 respectively. In the end of the year
3
there was a profit of Rs.24000. Sita invested
profit. How long Babloo's money was used? 32% of her share in profit in the business.
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The remaining amount of profit with Sita is
10 months 9 months [www.competoid.com]
11 months 7 months @@ Rs.4986 Rs.4689
Answer: 10 months Rs.4886 Rs.4896 @@
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Answer: Rs.4896 the total gain is Rs. 7,400, then Q's Share is :
## If we divide RS. 541 in three parts such that [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com]
4 times the first may be equal to 6 times the Rs. 1,900 Rs. 2,100
second and 11 times the third, then three Rs. 3,200 Data are incomplete
parts are in the ratio [www.competoid.com] @@
4 : 6 : 11 1/4 : 1/6 : 1/11 Answer: Rs. 1,900
11 : 6 : 4 5:4:3 @@
## Manoj got RS. 6,000 as his share out of total
Answer: 1/4 : 1/6 : 1/11 profit of RS. 9,000 which he and Ramesh
## In a business, A and C invested amounts in earned at the end of 1 year. If Manoj
the ratio 2 : 1 , whereas the ratio between invested RS. 2,000 for 6 month whereas
amounts invested by A and B was 3 : 2 . If Ramesh invested his amount for the whole
Rs. 157300 was their profit, how much year, the amount invested by Ramesh was
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amount did B receive? [www.examveda.com]
RS. 4,000 RS. 3,000
Rs. 48000 Rs. 48200
RS. 1,000 RS. 500 @@
Rs. 48400 Rs. 48600 c
Answer: RS. 500
1
## In a partnership X invests th of the capital ## Mr. A opened a workshop investing 40,000.
6
He invested additional amount of 10,000
1 1 1
for th of the time, Y invests rd capital for every year. After two years his Student B
6 3 3 joined him with an amount of 85,000.
rd time and Z invests the remaining capital Thereafter B did not invest any additional
for the whole time. If at the end of the year amount. On completion of four year form
the profit earned is Rs. 23000 then what will the opening of workshop they earned an
be Y share? [www.competoid.com] profit of 1,95,000. What will be A's share in
Rs. 5500 Rs. 5000 the earning. [www.competoid.com]
Rs. 6000 Rs. 4000 @@ 85000 110000
Answer: Rs. 4000 135000 95000 @@
## Jeevan started the business investing RS. Answer: 110000
50,000 4 month after he started Anil joined ## Mr.Shivkumar started a business investing
him with a capital of RS. 90,000. If at the end Rs.25,000 in 1996. In 1997 he invested an
of year, total profit in the bussiness was RS. additional amount of Rs.10,000 and
22,000, then what will be Anil's share in it? Mr.Rakesh joined him with an amount of
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Rs.35,000 in 1998.
RS.16,000 RS. 15,000
Mr.Shivkumar invested another additional
RS. 12,000 RS.10,000 @@
amount of Rs.10,000 and Mr.Suresh joined
Answer: RS. 12,000
them with an amount of Rs.35,000. What
## Karan starts a business by investing will be Rakesh's share in the profit of
Rs.60,000. six months later Shirish joins him Rs.1,50,000 earned at the end of three years
by investing Rs.1,00,000. At the end of one from the start of the business in 1996?
year from commencement of the business, [www.competoid.com]
they earn a profit of Rs.1,51,800. What is the Rs.70,000 Rs.50,000
Shirish's share in the profit? [www.competoid.com] Rs.45,000 Rs.75,000 @@
Rs.55200 Rs.82800 Answer: Rs.50,000
Rs.62500 None of these @@ ## Out of total capital required to start a
Answer: None of these 2
## M, P and Q together started a business. M business A invested 30%, B invested th and
5
invested Rs. 6,500 for 6 months, P invested C invested the remaining capital. At the end
Rs. 8,400 for 5 months and Q invested Rs. of one year sum of Rs. 4000 is earned as a
10,000 for 3 months. M is working member profit which is 20% of the capital given by B,
for which he gets 5% of total profit extra. If
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then find how much C invested in the Answer: Rs.38,40,000
business ? [www.examveda.com; www.competoid.com] ## Ram, Shyam and Kamal together starts a
Rs. 25000 Rs. 10000 business in partnership. The ratio of their
Rs. 15000 Rs. 12450 c capitals is 3 : 4 : 7. If their annual profit be
## P, Q, R enter into a partnership. P initially Rs.21000, what will be Kamal's share in this
invests 25 lakh & adds another 10 lakhs profit? [www.competoid.com]
after one year. Q initially invests 35 lakh & Rs.12500 Rs.10500
withdrawal 10 lakh after 2 years and R Rs.15000 Rs. 10000 @@
invests Rs 30 Lakhs . In what ratio should Answer: Rs.10500
the profit be divided at the end of 3 years? ## Ramesh and Priya started a business initially
[www.examveda.com] with Rs. 5100 and Rs.6600, respectively.
18 : 19 : 19 18 : 18 : 19 Investments done by both the persons are in
19 : 19 : 18 18 : 19 : 19 c for different time periods. If the total profit
## Rakesh Yadav Reader publication makes a is Rs.5460, what is the profit of Ramesh?
profit of 9,00,000, 20% of which is paid as [www.competoid.com]
taxes. If the rest is divided among the Rs. 1530 Rs. 1600
1 Rs. 1400 Data inadequate @@
partners P , Q and R in the ratio of 1: 1 : 2, Answer: Data inadequate
2
then the shares of P, Q and R are ## Reena, Reema and Meera take a car on rent
respectively. [www.competoid.com] and they use that car for 14h, 16hr and 22hr
Rs. 2,40,000; Rs. respectively. What amount will be paid by
3,20,000; Rs. 1,60,000 Meera, if total rent of the car is Rs.2080?
Rs. 3,20,000; Rs. [www.competoid.com]
2,40,000; Rs. 1,60,000 Rs. 880 Rs. 1280
Rs. 1,60,000; Rs. Rs. 1040 Rs. 960 @@

3,20,000; Rs. 2,40,000 Answer: Rs. 880

Rs. 1,60,000; Rs. ## Rs. 700 is divided among A, B, C so that A
2,40,000; Rs. 3,20,000 receives half as much as B and B half as
much as C. Then C's share is [www.examveda.com;
@@
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Answer: Rs. 1,60,000; Rs. 2,40,000; Rs. 3,20,000
Rs. 200 Rs. 300
## Rakesh, Dinesh and Mahesh start a business
Rs. 400 Rs. 500 c
by investing Rs.5000, Rs.8000 and Rs.12000
respectively. At the end of year, they got ## Rs.73,689 are divided between A and B in
profit of Rs.12500. What is the share of the ratio 4:7. What is the difference between
Dinesh in profit? [www.competoid.com]
thrice the share of A and twice the share of
Rs.4000 Rs.4500 B? [www.competoid.com]
Rs.36,699 Rs.46,893
Rs.6000 Rs.7500 @@
Answer: Rs.4000 Rs.20,097 Rs.13,398 @@

## Raksha invested an amount of Rs.60,000 to Answer: Rs.13,398

start a software business. After six months, ## Sam invested Rs.7000 in a shop and Gupta
Kamal joined her with an amount of joined him after 4 months by investing
Rs.90,000. After one year from the Rs.3000. After one year if the net profit be
commencement of the business. Raksha put Rs.13500, then Gupta's share in the profit is
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in an additional amount of Rs.20,000. At the Rs.3600 Rs.3000
end of three years, they earned a profit of
Rs.3800 Rs.3900 @@
Rs.71,20,000. What is Raksha's share in the
Answer: Rs.3000
profit? [www.competoid.com]
## Sunetra invested an amount of Rs.50,000 to
Rs.35,20,000 Rs.26,40,000
start a software business. After six months
Rs.27,00,000 Rs.38,40,000 @@
Nikhil joined her with an amount of
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Rs.80,000. At the end of 3 years they earned ## Three partners A, B and C invest RS. 3,000
a profit of Rs.24,500. What is Sunetra's RS. 4,000 and RS. 5,000 respectively. A get
share in the profit? [www.competoid.com] 15% of the profit as manager's salary and B
Rs.14,000 Rs.9423 gets 10% of the profit as Asst. Manager's
Rs.10,250 None of these @@ salary. The remaining part of the profit is
Answer: None of these distributed among them in the ratio of their
## Three men A,B and C start a business investments. If A receives RS. 540, the shares
together. They invest Rs.30000, Rs.24000 of B and C respectively are [www.competoid.com]
and Rs.42000 respectively in the beginning. RS. 560, RS. 500 RS.500, RS. 560
After 4 months. B took out Rs.6000 and C RS. 160, RS. 500 none of these @@
took out Rs.10000. They get a profit of Answer: RS. 560, RS. 500
Rs.11960 at the year. B's share in the profit ## Three partners A, B and C invested in the
is [www.competoid.com] 5 4 6
ratio of : : in a business. After 3 months
Rs.2700 Rs.2803 4 5 5
Rs.2900 Rs.2785 @@ A increased his capital by 50%. If the total
Answer: Rs.2803 profit of Rs. 35,700 earned at the end of
## Three milk man rented a pasture A grazed year, find What was the A's share of Profit?
20 cows for 6 months, B grazed 40 cows for 4 [www.competoid.com]
months and C grazed 30 cows for 5 months. Rs. 12,000 Rs. 16,500
If A's share of rent is Rs.240, then the total Rs. 13,000 Rs. 15,600 @@
rent of the field is [www.competoid.com] Answer: Rs. 16,500
Rs.860 Rs.600 ## Three partners A, B and C start a business.
Rs.640 Rs.840 @@
Twice the Investment of A is equal to thrice
Answer: Rs.860 the capital of B and capital of B is 4 times the
## Three partner A, B and C started a business capital of C. The difference of profits of B
by investing Rs. 48000 each after 6 months, and C out of a total profit of RS. 2, 97,000
A left the business after 10 months B left the will be [www.competoid.com]
business and after 12 months C left the RS. 1,62,000 RS. 1,08,000
business. If total earned profit is Rs. 5250, RS. 27,000 RS. 81,000 @@
then find the share of A, B and C? Answer: RS. 81,000
[www.competoid.com] ## Three partners invest RS. 2000, RS. 2500
Rs. 1125, Rs. 1825, Rs. 2250 and RS. 1100 in a business and earn a profit
Rs. 1125, Rs. 1800, Rs. 2200 of RS. 560. Then share of the person who
Rs. 1125, Rs. 1875, Rs. 2250 invested RS. 2500 is [www.competoid.com]
Rs. 1175, Rs. 1256, Rs. 2350 @@ RS. 200 RS. 250
Answer: Rs. 1125, Rs. 1875, Rs. 2250 RS. 300 RS. 350 @@
Answer: RS. 250
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15 Chain Rule
## A garrison of 500 men had provisions for 27 per day 9 men can complete a work in 6
days. After 3 days a reinforcement of 300 days, then in how many days can 12 men, 12
men arrived. For how many more days will women and 12 boys together finish the same
the remaining food last now ? work, working 8 hours per day ?
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15 16 1
1 days 3 days
1 2
172 18 a
2 1
3 days 4 days a
## The work done by a women in 8 hours is 3 2
equal to the work done by a man in 6 hours
and by a boy in 12 hours. If working 6 hours
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