Equations

Foundation Level

1. Find the number such that the difference between 8 times the number & 3 times
the number is 55?
a) 44 b) 99 c) 55
d) 11 e) None of these

2. The sum of three consecutive numbers is 453. What is the 3rd number?
a) 150 b) 151 c) 152
d) 153 e) None of these

3. Gabbar Singh Purchased 60 kgs of cereals (rice & wheat) for Rs 700. The cost per Kg
of Rice is Rs 15 & that of wheat is Rs 10. Find the quantity of rice & wheat each?
a) 25Kg, 35Kg b) 15 Kg, 45 Kg
c) 10 Kg, 50Kg d) 20 Kg, 40 kg e) None of these

4. The ages of a person A was 7 times that of B 5 years ago. At present the age of A is 4
times of B. What are the present ages of A and B?
a) 30, 10 b) 40,10 c) 10,40
d) 20, 5 e) None of these

5. In a certain farm, there are some horses & chickens. The head count is 36 & no of
legs of horses & chicken equal to 84. Find the number of horses & chickens each?
a) 6,30 b) 25,11 c) 30,6
d) 16,20 e) None of these

6. A two digit number is equal to thrice the sum of its digits. The difference between
the number obtained by interchanging the digits & the original number is 45. Find
the number?
a) 72 b) 27 c) 35
d) 36 e) None of these

7. If a certain two digit number is divided by the sum of its digits, the quotient is 2 &
the remainder is 8. If the digits are interchanged & the resulting number is divided
by the sun of its digits, the quotient is 8 and remainder is 2. Find the number?
a) 46 b) 64 c) 28
d) 82 e) None of these
 8. At present the age of a father is five times that of his son. Three years hence, the
father’s age would be four times that of his son. Find the present ages of the father
and the son.
a) 30, 10 b) 40, 8 c) 10, 40
d) 45, 9 e)None of these

9. When Rs. 250 added to 1/4th of a given amount of money makes it smaller than
1/3rd of the given amount of money by Rs. 100. What is the given amount of money?
a) Rs. 350 b) Rs. 600
c) Rs. 4200 d) Rs.4800

10. In a public school, every 4 students shared a Maths book between them, every 5
students shared a Science book between them and every 6 students shared a
Language book between them. How many students were there in the school if there
were 296 books of Maths, Science and Language together?
a) 60 b) 120
c) 240 d) 480

Moderate Level

11. A two digit number is 4 times sum of its digits. If 27 were added to the number, it
becomes 7 times the sum of digits. Find the number?
a) 36 b) 24 c) 32
d) 20 e) None of these

12. If 5 students are shifted from A to B than there will be equal number of students in both
the rooms A & B. But if 5 students from room B is shifted to room A then the
resulting number of students in room A is double the number students in room B.
Find the total number of student?
a) 60 b) 35 c) 25
d) 80 e) None of these

13. In a family, a couple has a son and a daughter. The age of the father is three times that of
his daughter and the age of son is half of his mother. The wife is 9 years younger to
her husband and the brother is seven years older than his sister. What is the age of
the mother?
a) 40 years b) 45 year
c) 50 years d) 60 years
e) None of these

14. The sum of two numbers is 45. The difference of their squares is 675. Find the
numbers?
a) 20,25 b) 15,30 c) 10, 35
 d) 12, 13 e) None of these

15. Ravi has a total of Rs 29 in 5 – rupee & 2 – rupee denominations. The number of 5 rupee
notes is one-half of 1 less than the number of two rupee notes. How many 5 – rupee
& 2 – rupee notes there with Ravi?
a) 7,3 b) 3,7 c) 2,5
d) 5,2 e) None of these

16. Two men chandu & Dinu start on holiday together. Chandu with Rs 38 & Dinu with Rs
26. During the holiday Dinu spends Rs 4 more than Chandu and when holidays end
Chandu has 5 times as much money as Dinu. How much has each spent?
a) 18,22 b) 20,24 c) 16,20
d) 18,24 e) None of these

17. Father is aged three times more than his son Ronit. After 8 years, he would be two and a
half times of Ronit’s age. After further 8 years, how many times would he be of
Ronit’s age?
1 3
a) 2 times b) 2 times c) 2 times
2 4
d) 3 times e) None of these

18. The age of father is twice that of his elder son. Ten years hence, the age of the father will
be three time that of the younger son. If the difference of ages of two sons is 15
years, the age of the father is
a) 60years b) 90years c) 80years
d) 50 years e) None of these

19. A man is 24 years older than his son. In two years, his age will be twice the age of his
son. The present age of the son is

a) 14years b) 18years c) 20years

21. Isaac and Albert are working on a particular quadratic equation. However, while
writing the equation, Isaac makes a mistake in the sum of the roots and hence gets
the incorrect roots as 1 and 12; while Albert makes a mistake in the product of the
roots and hence gets the roots as 2 and 5. What should be the correct roots of the
equation?
 a)1 & 5 b) 2 & 12
c)1 & 2 d) 3& 4

22. Find the value of

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