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Cia - 1 - Assignment - Iii Year

This document contains 40 questions related to mathematics, speed, time, distance, ratio and proportions. The questions cover topics like profit/loss calculations, average speed, ratio of speeds of trains, time/distance/speed word problems, percentage profit/loss, and data sufficiency questions.

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RAMAKRISHNAN COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING


CENTRE FOR TRAINING AND PLACEMENT
ASSIGNMENT - III YEAR
1) A man sells an article at a profit of 25%. If he had bought it at 20% less and sold it for Rs. 10.50 less, he would have
gained 30%. Find the CP of the article.
2) A shopkeeper purchases goods at 19/20 of its marked price and sells them at 14% more than its marked price. Find
his profit per cent
3) A man purchased two articles for Rs. 10000 each. On selling first, he gains 20% and on the other, he loses 20%. What
is profit/loss in the transaction?
4) A man sold two articles for Rs. 10000 each. On selling first, he gains 10% and on the other, he loses 10%. What is
profit/loss in the transaction.
5) A reduction of 10% in the price of sugar enables a man to buy 25 kg more for Rs. 225. What is the original price of
sugar (per kilogram)?
6) A man purchases an electric heater whose printed price is Rs.160. If he received two successive discounts of 20%
and 10%; he paid :
7) A discount series of 10%, 20% and 40% is equal to a single discount of :
8) A person bought an article and sold it at a loss of 10%. If he had bought it for 20% less and sold it for Rs.55 more, he
would have had a profit of 40%. The C.P.of the article is :
9) A merchant sold his goods for Rs.75 at a profit percent equal to C.P. The C.P was :
10) By selling 45 lemons for Rs 40, a man loses 20 %. How many should he sell for Rs 24 to gain 20 % in the transaction ?
11) The cost price of 20 articles is the same as the selling price of x articles. If the profit is 25%, then the value of x is:
12) The percentage profit earned by selling an article for Rs. 1920 is equal to the percentage loss incurred by selling the
same article for Rs. 1280. At what price should the article be sold to make 25% profit?
13) Due to reduction of 25% in price of oranges a customer can purchase 4 oranges more for Rs. 16. what is original
price of an orange?
14) A person incurs a loss of 5% be selling a watch for Rs. 1140. At what price should the watch be sold to earn 5% profit.
15) If the cost price is 25% of selling price. Then what is the profit percent.
16) Cost of 3 cricket balls = cost of 2 pairs of leg pads. Cost of 3 pairs of leg pads = cost of 2 pairs of gloves.Cost of 3 pairs
of gloves = cost of 2 cricket bats.If a cricket bat costs Rs 54, what is the cost of a cricket ball.
17) A shopkeeper fixes the marked price of an item 35% above its cost price. The percentage of discount allowed to gain
8% is
18) How many minutes does Aditya take to cover a distance of 400 m, if he runs at a speed of 20 km/hr
19) A person crosses a 600 meter long street in 5 minutes. What is the speed in Km/hr
20) A man is walking at the rate of 5 km/hr crosses a bridge in 15 minutes. The length of the bridge is
21) A train covers a distance in 50 minutes, if it runs at a speed of 48kmph on an average. Find the speed at which the
train must run to reduce the time of journey to 40 minutes.
22) Two boys starting from the same place walk at a rate of 5kmph and 5.5kmph respectively. What time will they take
to be 8.5km apart, if they walk in the same direction?
23) Excluding stoppages, the speed of a bus is 54 kmph and including stoppages, it is 45 kmph. For how many minutes
does the bus stop per hour ?
24) 2 trains starting at the same time from 2 stations 200 km apart and going in opposite direction cross each other at a
distance of 110 km from one of the stations. What is the ratio of their speeds ?
25) A man complete a journey in 10 hours. He travels first half of the journey at the rate of 21 km/hr and second half at
the rate of 24 km/hr. Find the total journey in km.
26) A Man travelled a distance of 61 km in 9 hours. He travelled partly on foot at 4 km/hr and partly on bicycle at 9
km/hr. What is the distance travelled on foot?
27) In a flight of 600 km, an aircraft was slowed down due to bad weather. Its average speed for the trip was reduced by
200 km/hr and the time of flight increased by 30 minutes. What is the duration of the flight ?
28) A man on tour travels first 160 km at 64 km/hr and the next 160 km at 80 km/hr. Find the average speed for first
320 km of tour.
29) Robert is travelling on his cycle and has calculated to reach point A at 2 P.M. if he travels at 10 kmph, he will reach
there at 12 noon if he travels at 15 kmph. At what speed must he travel to reach A at 1 P.M.?
30) The distance between two cities A and B is 330 Km. A train starts from A at 8 a.m. and travel towards B at 60 km/hr.
Another train starts from B at 9 a.m and travels towards A at 75 Km/hr. At what time do they meet?
31) A man in a train notices that he can count 41 telephone posts in one minute. If they are known to be 50 metres apart,
then at what speed is the train travelling?
32) A train traveled at an average speed of 100 km/hr, stopping for 3 minutes after every 75 km. How long did it take to
reach its destination 600 km from the starting point.
33) Two trains running in opposite directions cross a man standing on the platform in 27 seconds and 17 seconds
respectively and they cross each other in 23 seconds. The ratio of their speeds is ?
34) A train has to travel the distance between Mumbai and Chennai, equal to 1000km, at a constant speed. It travelled
half of the way with the specified speed and stopped for 2 hours, to arrive at Chennai on time, it had to increase its
speed by 40km/h for the rest of the way. What is the ratio between the train’s speed in first half and that in second
half?
35) Two trains A & B are running in opposite directions and cross each other 8 sec.Train A crosses train B in 56 sec when
both trains are running in same direction. If length of train B is increased by 25%, then train A cross train B in 62 sec
while running in same direction. If length of trains A is 60 meters more than length of train B, then in how much time
train A will cross a bridge, whose length is 25 % more than length of train A?

Statement and Conclusions:


(A) If only conclusion I follows
(B) If only conclusion II follows
(C) If either I or II follows
(D) If neither I nor II follows and
(E) If both I and II follow.

36)Statements: In a one day cricket match, the total runs made by a team were 200. Out of these 160 runs were made by
spinners.
Conclusions:
I)80% of the team consists of spinners.
II)The opening batsmen were spinners.
37)Statements: The T.V. programmes, telecast specially for women are packed with a variety of recipes and household
hints. A major portion of magazines for women also contains the items mentioned above.
Conclusions:
I)Women are not interested in other things.
II)An average woman's primary interest lies in home and specially in the kitchen.
38)Statements: The distance of 900 km by road between Bombay and Jafra will be reduced to 280 km by sea. This will lead
to a saving of Rs. 7.92 crores per annum on fuel.
Conclusions:
I)Transportation by sea is cheaper than that by road.
II)Fuel must be saved to the greatest extent
39)Statements: Nation X faced growing international opposition for its decision to explode eight nuclear weapons at its test
site.
Conclusions:
I)The citizens of the nation favoured the decision.
II)Some powerful countries do not want other nations to become as powerful as they are.
40)Statements: Jade plant has thick leaves and it requires little water.
Conclusions:
I)All plants with thick leaves require little water.
II)Jade plants may be grown in places where water is not in abundance.

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