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Question1- A container contains 80 of milk. 8 liter of milk was taken

out and replaced with water , this process was further repeated two
times. Find the quantity of Milk and Water in new mixture
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Question2- From 100 litres of milk, 10 litres of water is added and then 20
litres of solution is removed. Next 30 litres of the water is added and 20 litres
of solution is removed. Find the amount of milk, in litres, in the solution now
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Question3- From 1000 l of milk - 100 l is removed & replaced by 200 l water;
in the 2nd step 300 l of sol is removed & replaced with 400 liters of beer; 3rd
step-- 500 l is removed &replaced by 600 l of whisky; 4th step 700 is removed
& replaced by 800 l of vodka; final step -- 900 is removed & replaced by 1000l
of rum. find the final quantity of milk ,water ,vodka ,rum ,beer ,whisky
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Question4- A container contains 80 of milk. 8 liter of milk was taken
out and replaced with 20 liter water, this process was further repeated
two times. Find the quantity of Milk and Water in new mixture
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Question5- A dishonest seller uses a weight of 800g in place
of 1 kg and adds 20 % impurities in suger ...what would be
his profit percentage if he claims to sell sugar at cost price
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Question6- A dishonest trader, at the time of selling and purchasing, weighs
10% less and 20% more per kilogram respectively. Find the percentage
profit earned by treachery. (Assuming he sells at Cost Price)
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Question7- A dishonest retailer cheats his wholesaler and customer both. He
purchases 19% more from the wholesaler and sells 15% less while selling to
its customer. What is profit percentage by selling the goods at cost price?
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Question8- A dishonest dealer marks up the price of the goods by 20%
and then gives a discount of 10%, but he also cheats both his supplier
and buyer by 100 gms instead of a KG. Find the profit %
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Question9-A beaker contains milk and water in the ratio 5 : 3.
If a person removes 6 L of this mixture and replaces it with
pure water, the ratio of milk to water becomes 1 : 1.
What is the amount of milk present in beaker initially?
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Question10- Kejrival fixes the price of his goods 25% above the
cost price & allows 12.5% discount on it. His profit percentage is
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Question11- Trumph at the time of selling and purchasing, weighs 10%

less and 20% more per kilogram respectively. Find the percentage
profit earned by Trumph (Assuming he sells at Cost Price)
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ANSWER KEYS :-
1) 58.32
2) 68.18
3) Milk =62.93
4) 60.68
5) 50%
6) 33.33%
7) 40%
8) 32%
9) 18.75
10) 9.375%
11) 33.33
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Q12. - The breadth of a rectangle decreases by 20.833%. By what
percent should the length be increased so as to maintain the same
area?
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Q 13. When the circumference of a circle decreases from 3P to P,
by what percent does its area decrease?
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Q14. The breadth of a rectangle decreases by 33.33%. By
what percent should the length be increased so as to
maintain the same area?
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Q15) SPs of two articles are same. One is sold at a loss
of 20% and another one at a profit of 20%.What is the net
loss/profit in the whole transaction?
a. 4%loss b. 4%profit c. 3.33%loss d. 3.33% profit
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Q16) Shopkeeper fixes the price of his goods 25% above the cost
price & allows 12.5% discount on it.His profit percentage is?
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Q17. A shopkeeper allows two successive discounts of 10%
and 20%... if he sells an article for Rs. 540,the marked price
of the article is:
a. 750 b. 720 c. 800 d. 810
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Q18. A dishonest milkman sells his milk at cost price but
he mixes it with water and thereby gains 25%. What is
the percentage of water in the mixture?
A. 25% B. 20% C. 22% D. 24%
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Q19. A dishonest retailer cheats his wholesaler and customer
both. He purchases 19% more from the wholesaler and sells
15% less while selling to its customer. What is profit
percentage by selling the goods at cost price?
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Q20. On selling a pen at 5% loss and a book at 15% gain, Karim
gains Rs. 7. If he sells the pen at 5% gain and the book at 10%
gain, he gains Rs. 13. What is the cost price of the book in Rupees?
a) 80 b) 85 c)100 d) 95
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Q21. In an examination, the score of A was 10% less than that of B,
the score of B was 25% more than that of C, and the score of C was
20% less than that of D. If A scored 72, then the score of D was
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Q22.. The salaries of Ramesh, Ganesh and Rajesh were in the ratio
6:5:7 in 2010, and in the ratio 3:4:3 in 2015. If Ramesh's salary
increased by 25% during 2010-2015, then the percentage increase in
Rajesh's salary during this period is closest to
a)7 b)8 c)9 d)10
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Q23. Mukesh purchased 10 bicycles in 2017, all at the same
price. He sold six of these at a profit of 25% and the remaining
four at a loss of 25%. If he made a total profit of Rs. 2000,
then his purchase price of a bicycle, in Rupees, was
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Q24. A shopkeeper sells two tables, each procured at cost price p, to Amal
and Asim at a profit of 20% and at a loss of 20%, respectively. Amal sells
his table to Bimal at a profit of 30%, while Asim sells his table to Barun at
a loss of 30%. If the amounts paid by Bimal and Barun are x and y,
respectively, then (x - y) / p equals
a) 1 b) 1.2 c) 0.7 d) 0.50
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Q25. If a seller gives a discount of 15% on retail price, she still makes
a profit of 2%. Which of the following ensures that she makes a
profit of 20%?
a) Give a discount of 5% on retail price b)Give a discount of 2% on
retail price c)Increase the retail price by 2% d)Sell at retail price
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Q26. In a market, the price of medium quality mangoes is half that of
good mangoes. A shopkeeper buys 80 kg good mangoes and 40 kg
medium quality mangoes from the market and then sells all these at
a common price which is 10% less than the price at which he bought
the good ones. His overall profit is
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Q27. If Fatima sells 60 identical toys at a 40% discount on the printed
price, then she makes 20% profit. Ten of these toys are destroyed in
fire. While selling the rest, how much discount should be given on the
printed price so that she can make the same amount of profit?
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Q28. Out of the shirts produced in a factory, 15% are defective,
while 20% of the rest are sold in the domestic market. If the
remaining 8840 shirts are left for export, then the number of
shirts produced in the factory is
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Q29. The manufacturer of a table sells it to a wholesale dealer at a profit
of 10%. The wholesale dealer sells the table to a retailer at a profit of
30%. Finally, the retailer sells it to a customer at a profit of 50%. If the
customer pays Rs 4290 for the table, then its manufacturing cost (in Rs) is
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Q30. Mayank buys some candies for Rs 15 a dozen and an
equal number of different candies for Rs 12 a dozen. He sells
all for Rs 16.50 a dozen and makes a profit of Rs 150. How
many dozens of candies did he buy altogether?
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Q31 .A person spent Rs 50000 to purchase a desktop computer and
a laptop computer. He sold the desktop at 20% profit and the laptop
at 10% loss. If overall he made a 2% profit then the purchase price,
in rupees, of the desktop is
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Q32. In a group of people, 28% of the members are young
while the rest are old. If 65% of the members are literates,
and 25% of the literates are young, then the percentage of
old people among the illiterates is nearest to
59
62
66
55
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Q33. Anil buys 12 toys and labels each with the same selling price. He
sells 8 toys initially at 20% discount on the labeled price. Then he sells
the remaining 4 toys at an additional 25% discount on the discounted
price. Thus, he gets a total of Rs 2112, and makes a 10% profit. With no
discounts, his percentage of profit would have been (CAT 2020)
60
50
55
54
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Q34. In May, John bought the same amount of rice and the same
amount of wheat as he had bought in April, but spent 150 more due
to price increase of rice and wheat by 20% and 12%, respectively. If
John had spent 450 on rice in April, then how much did he spend on
wheat in May? (CAT 2020)
a) 590 b) 580 c) 560 d)570
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Q35. A sum of money is split among Amal, Sunil and Mita so that the
ratio of the shares of Amal and Sunil is 3:2, while the ratio of the shares
of Sunil and Mita is 4:5. If the difference between the largest and the
smallest of these three shares is Rs 400, then Sunil’s share, in rupees, is
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Q36. If the selling price of 10 apples is equal to the cost price of
14 apples, which, in turn is equal to one-third of the total
discount offered upon 70 apples. Then find the profit / loss
percentage when the mark-up percentage is halved and the
discount percentage is decreased by 5 percentage points
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ANSWER KEYS :-
12) 26.3% 25) Sell at retail price
13) 88.88% 26) 8%
14) 50% 27) 28%
15) 4% Loss 28) 13000
16) 9.37% 29) 2000
17) 750 30) 50
18) 20% 31) 50000
19) 40% 32) 66
20) 80 33) 50
21) 80 34) 560
22) 7 35) 800
23) 4000 36) 12.5%
24) 1
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Q37. Ram marks his goods at 35% above its cost price and allows
a discount of 17.5% .What profit per cent does he make ?
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Q38. After getting two successive discounts Ram got a shirt at
Rs. 136 whose marked price is Rs. 200. If the second discount
is 15% find the first discount.
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Q39. A fruit-seller buys some oranges and by selling 40% of them he realizes the
cost price of all the oranges. As the oranges being to grow over-ripe, he reduces
the price and sells 60% of the remaining oranges at one third of the previous
rate of profit. The rest of the oranges being rotten are thrown away. The overall
percentage of profit is
a) 54% b) 60% c) 70% d) 43%
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Q40. Ram allows 4% discount on the marked price. What price must be
marked on a bedsheet that cost Rs. 480 so as to make a profit of 10%?
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Q41. Hemant had 1 bicycle and 1 car. He sold the bicycle at a profit of 15%
and the car at a loss of 8% and earned a profit of Rs 1150 in total. If he had
sold the bicycle for Rs 54000 he would have earned a profit of 20%, find the
sum of the selling price of both the items.
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Q42. I sell 16 sheep at a gain of 12.5% and 20 more at a certain gain percent. If 1
gain 25% on the whole, how much percent gain did I make on the latter number?
a) 20% b)25% c)30% d)35%
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Q43. Ram sold a pair of Tshirt and jeans at 25% profit. The profit obtained on
Tshirt was 20%. Had he reduced the both cost price of the Tshirt and selling price
of the Tshirt by Rs. 200, his profit on the pair would have risen to 30%. Earlier cost
price of the jeans was Rs.80 less than half of the selling price of the Tshirt. What
price should he mark on a pair of Tshirt and jeans to earn a profit of 50%?
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Q44. A bought an old Car and spent Rs. 1500 on its repairs. Then A sold
it to B at a prolit of 20%. B sold it to C at a loss of 10%. C finally sold it
for Rs. 12100 at a profit of 10%. How much did A pay for the Car ?
a) Rs 8685 b) Rs 9000 c) Rs 10000 d) Rs 11000
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Q45. Besharm buys 240 cows. He sells some of them at a gain of 20% and
the remaining at a gain of 30%. If he gains 28% on the whole, then how
many did he sell at a gain of 20%?
a) 40 b)48. c)54 d)28
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Q46. If Cofees are bought at the rate 18 for a rupee, then how many of
them must be sold for a rupee to gain 20%?
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Q47. A person sold his watch for Rs.75 and got a percentage of profit
equal to the cost price. The cost price of the watch is.
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Q48. A shopkeeper purchases several articles at the rate of 11 for Rs.10 and
sells them at the rate of 10 for Rs.11. What would be the profit earned by him?
a) 11%. b)10% c)20% d)21%
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Q49. The cost price of 12 articles is the same as the selling price of 8 articles.
What is the profit percent?
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Q50. In order to increase revenue, a dealer announces 20% reduction in the
unit price of an article. As a result, his sales volume increases by 20%. What is
the overall gain/loss to the dealer?
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Q51. A dealer offers three successive discounts of 50%, 20% and 10%
on an article. What is the single effective discount rate?
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Q52. The cost prices of three items, A, B and C, are in the ratio 2 : 3 : 4
respectively. If these three items are sold such that a profit of 20% is registered
on A, a profit of 25% is registered on B and a loss of 10% is incurred on C, then
which of the following gives the overall percentage of profit/loss made in the
three transactions put together?
a) 8.33%profit. b) 8.33%loss. c) 10%profit. d) 10%loss
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Q53. A seller buys mangoes at Rs. 2 for 3 mangoes and trade them at
a rupee each. To make a profit of Rs. 10, he must sell:
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Q54. A man would gain 25% by selling a chair for rs 47.5 and would gain 15% by
selling a table for rs 57.5 . He sells the chair for Rs 45 , what is the least price for
which he must sell the table to avoid any loss on the two together ?
a) 41.2 b) 48.5 c) 42.5 d) 43
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Q55. By what percent should the cost price of an article be marked up such
that even after allowing a discount of 50%, a profit of 50% is made?
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Q56. A shopkeeper marked a product, 20% above the cost price and sold the
product for Rs. 3888 by giving two successive discounts of 10% each. Find the
cost price of the product and the loss percentage of the shopkeeper.
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Q57. The C.P of A is 10% more than C.P of B. The shopkeeper marked up A at 20%
above the C.P and B at 30% above the C.P. Find the sum of marked price of 4 A
and 5 B, if shopkeeper allowed discount of 20% on B and 25% on A and the
difference between selling prices of both is Rs. 50.
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Q58. A vender sells lemons at the rate of 5 for Rs. 14, gaining thereby 40%. For
how much did he buy a dozen lemon?
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Q59. A and B sold their Gifts at Rs. 5457 each but A incurred a loss of 15%, while
B gained 2%. What is the ratio of the cost price of the Gifts of A to that of B ?
a) 3:4 b)6:5 c)5:6 d)1:2
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Q60. A costs twice as much as B. A is sold at a loss of 10% and B is sold at 7/5th
of its price. If selling price of A is Rs. 1200 more than selling price of B, what is
the cost price of A?
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Q61. A vehicle dealer bought 5 second hand tractors for Rs. 2,00,000. He spent Rs.
2,00,000 additional on the maintenance and repairing of these 5 tractors. He sold
one of the tractors for Rs. 1,50,000. What should be the average selling price of
rest of the four tractors, if he makes 40% profit on the whole transaction?
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ANSWER KEYS :-
Ans 37- 11.375% Ans 52- 8.33% profit
Ans 38 - 20% Ans 53- 30
Ans 39 - 54% Ans 54- Rs 43
Ans 40- Rs 550 Ans 55- 200
Ans 41- Rs 116150 Ans 56- 4000, 2.8%
Ans 42- 35% Ans 57. 11780
Ans 43- Rs 1800 Ans 58. Rs 24
Ans 44- Rs 8685 Ans 59. 6:5
Ans 45- 48 Ans 60- Rs 6000
Ans 46- 15 Asn 61- Rs. 1,02,500
Ans 47 - 50
Ans 48- 21%
Ans 49- 50%
Ans 50- 4% loss
Ans 51- 64%
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Q62. P can do (1/4)th of work in 10 days, Q can do 40% of work in 40 days
and R can do (1/3)rd of work in 13 days. Who will complete the work first?
a) P
b) Q
c) R
d) Both P and R
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Q63. A can do a piece of work in 24 days, B in 52 days and C in
64 days. All begin to do it together but A leaves after 6 days
and C leaves 6 days before the completion of the work. How
many days did the work last?
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Q64. 2 men and 5 women can do a work in 12 days. 5 men and 2 women
can do that work in 9 days. Only 3 women can finish the same work in
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Q65. A can do a piece of work in 20 days and B in 30 days. They work together
for 7 days and then both leave the work. Then C alone finishes the remaining
work in 10 days. In how many days will C finish the complete work?
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Q66. A can do a piece of work in 10 days and B can do it in 12 days. They
work together for 3 days. Then B leaves and A alone continues. 2 days after
that C joins and the work is completed in 2 days more. In how many days can
C do it, if he works alone?
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Q67. A is thrice as productive as C. Together they can complete a job in 22.5
days. If B joins them after they have worked for 15 days then in how many
days can they finish the rest of the job if B alone can do the job in 15 days?
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Q68. Working alone A can do the task in 27 hours and B can do it in
54 hours. Find C’s share (in Rs) if A, B and C get paid Rs.4,320 for
completing a task in 12 hours on which they worked together.
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Q69. The time taken by 4 men to complete a job is double the time taken
by 5 children to complete the same job. Each man is twice as fast as a
woman. How long will 12 men, 10 children and 8 women take to complete
a job, given that a child would finish the job in 20 days.
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Q70. Working 7 hours in a day, 4 men can do a piece of work in 8
days. Working 8 hours in a day, the required number of men to
perform the same work in 4 days will be.
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Q71. 12 men and 16 boys can do a piece of work in 5 days and 13 men and
24 boys can do it in 4 days. Compare the daily work done by a man with
that done by a boy.
[1] 3 : 2
[2] 2 : 1
[3] 4 : 7
[4] 3 : 1
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Q72. To do a certain piece of work, B would take three times as long as A and
C together and C twice as long as A and B together. The three men working
together can complete the work in 10 days. How long would B take by
himself to complete the same piece of work?
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Q73. A is as efficient as B and C together. Working together A and B can
complete a work in 36 days and C alone can complete it in 60 days. A and C
work together for 10 days. B alone will complete the remaining work in
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Q74. A and B working together can finish a job in T days. If A works alone
and completes the job, he will take T+5 days. If B works alone and
completes the same job, he will take T+45 days. What is T?
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Q75. A, B, and C can do a work separately in 16, 32 and 48 days respectively.
They started the work together but B left 8 days and C six days before
completion of the work. What was the duration of completion of the work?
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Q76. The task of planting roses along a stretch on the National highway was
assigned to a group of men to be completed in 12 days. 8 men did not turn
up for this task, and the task now took 20 days. How many men turned up
and completed the task?
a. 12
b. 16
c. 20
d. 24
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Q77. Ram and Laxman are assigned the task to build a wall. Ram can
complete the task in 30 days, while laxman can complete the same task in 60
days. When they work together, their efficiency drops to 80%. How long will
they take to complete the task working together?
a. 15 days
b. 20 days
c. 25 days
d. 32 days
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Q78. The work done by a woman in 6 hours is equal to the work done by a
man in 4 hours and by a boy in 12 hours. A task which normally takes 15
women working 6 hours a day 10 days to complete is given to 6 men and 9
boys working 4 hours a day. On which day will the task be completed?
a. 16th day
b. 17th day
c. 18th day
d. 19th day
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Q79. If Amit is 33.33% more efficient than Sumit, Amit worked for x
days and Sumit do the remaining work in x+3 days. The work ratio of
Amit and Sumit is 2 : 3 respectively. Find the value of x?
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Q80. If A and B work together, they will complete a job in 7.5 days. However, if
A works alone and completes half the job and then B takes over and completes
the remaining half alone, they will be able to complete the job in 20 days. How
long will B alone take to do the job if A is more efficient than B?
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Q81. A takes 10 days to complete a work and B takes 25 days to complete a
work . In how many days can A and B together complete the work.
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Q82) Hunny Malhotra can do a work in 10 days . After working for 4 days he
was joined by Abhinav Tyagi . If they complete the remaining work in 2 more
days. In how many days Abhinav alone can complete the work
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Q83) Aashna, Risitha, Vineet can do a work in 15 days. After all three worked
for 2days , Aashna left , Risitha and Vineet worked for 10 more days and
then Risitha left .. Vineet worked for another 40 days and completed the
work . In how many days Aashna alone complete the work If Vineet alone
can complete it in 75 days.
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Q84) Gee-k can do a piece of work in 20 days and Rishi can do the same
in 30 days .. They finished the work with the help of Prateek in 8 days ..
If they earned a total of 5550 rs . what is share of prateek.
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Q85) Two painters, A and B are under contract to paint a certain wall every day.
Their rate of painting is constant and never varies, even from day to day. On day
1, they notice that they can paint the wall together in 'x' minutes. The next day,
A does not turn up and B works alone. B notices that he takes 5 minutes more
than they had taken the previous day to paint the wall. On day 3, B does not turn
up. A calculates the time he took to paint the wall alone and tells B that he had
taken 40 minutes more than B had taken on day 2. What is the value of x?
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Q86) A and B , working together can build a wall , 221 m long in 100/9
days . If they work on alternate days , with A starting the work , it takes
89/4 days to build the same wall . If A and B work together and build a
similar wall but of twice the length and earn a total of Rs. 1800 for it .
then B's Share of the earnings will be
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Q87) Gopal can complete a piece of work in 6 hrs, Hemant in 3 hrs, Indu in 2
hrs, Jasdeep in 1 hr 30 minutes, Keira in 1 hr 12 minutes and Lolita in 1 hr.
These 6 people make two teams, Humpy and Dumpy such that one team has
twice the number of people than the other. Team Humpy takes twice the
time to complete the work as compared to the team Dumpy. How many
such pairs of Humpy and Dumpy are possible?
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Q88) To complete a certain job, A, working alone, takes twice as long as B
and C together take, whereas B, working alone, takes 11 times as long as A
and C together take. If all the three of them together can complete the job in
four days, find the time taken by B, working alone, to complete the job
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Q89) 2 men and 4 boys can complete a piece of work in 8 days . 4 men and
2 boys can complete the same work in 6 days . How much time does a man
and a boy working together require to complete the work
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Q90) )A can do a piece of work in 24 days. If B is 60% more efficient than
A, then the no of days required by B to do the same piece of work?
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Q91) A man builds 1/8th part of a wall every day . Out of the length of the wall
built per day , 20% falls off at the end of the day till the wall is completely built
. In how many days can he complete the construction of the wall ?
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Q92) The ratio of efficiency of a is to c is 5:3. the ratio of number of days taken
by b is to c is 2:3. a takes 6 days less than c,when a and c completes the work
individually.b and c started the work and left after 2 days .the number of days
taken by a to finish the remaining work is
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Q93) A and B working alone can do a certain piece of work in 40 days and 120
days respectively . A and B start working together on that work but after having
worked for 10 days, additional work came in . The additional work is such that B
would take 40 days working alone to complete it . In order to cope with the
additional load , C is induced and the remaining work is finished in 5 days . Find
the number of days that C alone would take to complete the original work.
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Q94) On a certain Day , Ram works at 11/7 th of his usual rate of doing work and
completes a work 28 minutes earlier than the usual time required . Had Ajay worked
at 7/11 th of usual rate of doing work , then the time taken by him to complete the
work would have been how much more than the usual time required ?
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Q95) Six men and fourteen women can complete a work in 5 days ,whereas
two men and three women can complete one-fourth of the same work in four
days . If one man and two women take up and complete the same work ,
earning a total wage of Rs. 11791 for the same , What is the total share of the
two women in this amount.
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Q96) A piece of work can be done by 11 men and 16 boys in 2 days . The same
work can be done by 5 men and 11 boys in 4 days . In how many days can 1 man
and 4 boys complete the same work .
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Q 97) A group of 15 workers take 9 hours to plough a field . If the group
starts the work at 9:00 AM . and one worker per hour is then added to the
group , starting from 12:00 noon , at what time will the work get completed
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Q 98) Aman, Baman and Chaman can finish a job working alone in 15, 20 and
25 days respectively. However, while working with somebody the efficiency of
Aman, Baman and Chaman reduces by 30%, 20% and 50% respectively. If none
of them is allowed to work for three consecutive days, then what is the
maximum possible fraction of the job that they can complete in four days.
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Q99) B is twice as efficient as A. A does a piece of work in 15days. A started the
work and B joined a few days later. They completed the work in 11 days. For
how many days they worked together?
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Q100) If 15 men or 24 women or 36 boys can complete a piece of work in 12
days by working 8 hours a day, then how many men must be required to work
with 12 women and 6 boys to complete another piece of work 9/4 times the
previous piece of work in 30 days by working 6 hours a day?
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Q101) (CAT 2019)= At their usual efficiency levels, A and B together finish a
task in 12 days. If A had worked half as efficiently as she usually does, and B
had worked thrice as efficiently as he usually does, the task would have been
completed in 9 days. How many days would A take to finish the task if she
works alone at her usual efficiency?
A. 18 B. 12 C. 24 D.36
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Q102. (CAT 2019)- Three men and eight machines can finish a job in half the time
taken by three machines and eight men to finish the same job. If two machines
can finish the job in 13 days, then how many men can finish the job in 13 days?
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Q103 (CAT 2019)- Anil alone can do a job in 20 days while Sunil alone can do it
in 40 days. Anil starts the job, and after 3 days, Sunil joins him. Again, after a
few more days, Bimal joins them and they together finish the job. If Bimal has
done 10% of the job, then in how many days was the job done?
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Q104) (CAT 2018) When they work alone, B needs 25% more time to finish a
job than A does. They two finish the job in 13 days in the following manner: A
works alone till half the job is done, then A and B work together for four days,
and finally B works alone to complete the remaining 5% of the job. In how
many days can B alone finish the entire job?
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Q105) (CAT 2018) Ramesh and Ganesh can together complete a work in 16
days. After seven days of working together, Ramesh got sick and his efficiency
fell by 30%. As a result, they completed the work in 17 days instead of 16 days.
If Ganesh had worked alone after Ramesh got sick, in how many days would he
have completed the remaining work?
A. 12 B. 14.5 C. 13.5 D.13
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Q106) (CAT 2017)- A person can complete a job in 120 days. He works alone on
Day 1. On Day 2, he is joined by another person who also can complete the job
in exactly 120 days. On Day 3, they are joined by another person of equal
efficiency. Like this, everyday a new person with the same efficiency joins the
work. How many days are required to complete the job
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Q107. (CAT 2018) Humans and robots can both perform a job but at different
efficiencies. Fifteen humans and five robots working together take thirty days
to finish the job, whereas five humans and fifteen robots working together
take sixty days to finish it. How many days will fifteen humans working
together (without any robot) take to finish it?
A. 40 B. 32 C. 36 D.45
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Q108 .(CAT 2017) - Amal can complete a job in 10 days and Bimal can
complete it in 8 days. Amal, Bimal and Kamal together complete the job in 4
days and are paid a total amount of Rs 1000 as remuneration. If this amount is
shared by them in proportion to their work, then Kamal's share, in rupees, is
A. 100 B. 200 C. 300 D.400
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Q109. 10 men and 12 children complete a certain piece of work in 10 days.
Each child takes thrice the time taken by a man to complete the work. The
time taken by 12 men to finish the same work is

[1] 11.66 days

[2] 10 days
[3] 10.33 days
[4] 12.16 days
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Q110 5 men and 8 women can do a job in 8 days, while 4 men and 6 women can
do it in 10 days. How many days will 10 women take to finish the job?
[1] 10 days
[2] 40 days
[3] 20 days
[4] None of these
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Q111. Two men, A and B, working separately can mow a field in 10 and 12
hours respectively. If they work for an hour alternately, B beginning at 9 am,
then at what time will the mowing be finished?
[1] 7:30 pm
[2] 8:00 pm
[3] 8:30 pm
[4] 9:00 pm
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ANSWER KEYS :-
Ans 62) C Ans 79) 3 Ans 96) 16.4
Ans 63) 24.2 Ans 80) 30 Ans 97) 5:00 PM
Ans 64) 36 Ans 81) 50/7 Ans 98) 34%
Ans 65) 24 Ans 82) 5 Ans 99) 2
Ans 66) 40 Ans 83) 30 Ans 100) 8
Ans 67) 3 Ans 84) 1850 Ans 101) 18
Ans 68) 1440 Ans 85) 15 Ans 102) 13
Ans 69) 1 Ans 86) 1000 Ans 103) 13
Ans 70) 7 Ans 87) 3 Ans 104) 20
Ans 71) 2:1 Ans 88) 48 Ans 105) 13.5
Ans 72) 40 Ans 89) 144/7 Ans 106) 15
Ans 73) 110 Ans 90) 15 Ans 107) 32
Ans 74) 15 Ans 91) 9.8 Ans 108) 100
Ans 75) 12 Ans 92) 6 Ans 109) 11.66 days
Ans 76) 12 Ans 93) 6 Ans 110) None of these
Ans 77) 25 Ans 94) 44 Ans 111) 8.00 pm.
Ans. 78) 17th Ans 95) 1814
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Q102. If 6 men working 5 days for 8 hours each can finish a

task. How many men would be needed for 4 days for 6 hours
each to finish half the task
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Q103. 12 examiners (men) work 16 hours a day to check

24000 answer sheets in 18 days. Now, 24 examiners would
work how many hours per day to check 36000 answer sheets
in 36 days?
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Q104. 12 examiners work 16 hours a day to check 24000

answer sheets in 18 days. Now, 24 examiners would check
how many answer sheets working 6 hours a day in 36 days?
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Q105. A certain number of men can complete a piece of work in
180 days. If there are 30 men less, it will take 20 days more for
the work to be completed. How many men were there originally?
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Q106. A garrison is provided with ration for 90 soldiers to last
for 70 days. For how much more time would the whole ration
last if 10 additional soldiers join them after 20 days?
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Q107. A 100 m long 3 m high and 30 cm wide wall is built by 30 men, 20 women
and 50 children working 9 hours a day in 20 days. How long a wall 1.5 m high 30
cm wide can be built by 15 men, 25 women and 35 children working 2 hour a
day in 15 days (given men, women and children are equally efficient)?
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Q108. 15 workers working 4 hours a day for 25 days can build a platform
of width 120 meters, length 10 meter and height 14 meters. How many
days will 12 workers working 5 hours a day will take if they have to build
a platform of width 600 meters, length 14 metres and height 12 metre
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Q109. A contractor agreed to finish a piece of work in 150 days. He
employed 75 men and made them work for 8 hours per day. However, after
90 days, he realized that only (2/7 th) of the work was completed. How
many more men would he need to employ to complete the work on time if
he intended to make everybody work for 10 hours per day henceforth?
(a) 75 (b) 100. (c) 150 (d) 225
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Q110. A certain construction job could Finished in 150 days if 50
men are working full time. 60 men started working on the job and
after 20 days, 20 more men are added. But after 80 days 50 men
quit the job. How long could it take for them to finish the job
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Q111. If 15 men or 24 women or 36 boys can complete a piece of work in

12 days by working 8 hours a day, then how many men must be required
to work with 12 women and 6 boys to complete another piece of work 9/4
times the previous piece of work in 30 days by working 6 hours a day?
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Q112. Pipes A and B can fill a tank in 5 and 6 hours
respectively. Pipe C can empty it in 12 hours. If all the three
pipes are opened together, then the tank will be filled in:
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Q113. Two pipes A and B can fill a tank in 15 minutes and 20 minutes
respectively. Both the pipes are opened together but after 4 minutes,
pipe A is turned off. What is the total time required to fill the tank?
A.10 min. 20 sec. B.11 min. 45 sec. C.12 min. 30 sec. D.14 min. 40 sec.
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Q114. 3 pipes can fill a reservoir in 10,15 and 20 hours
respectively . If three taps are opened one after another in the
given order . with a certain fixed time gap between them . The
reservoir fills in 5 hours . find the time gap
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Q115. A tank has four inlet pipes such that each inlet pipe while working
independently can fill the tank in 4 hours. The tank also has two outlet
pipes such that each outlet pipe while working independently can empty
the tank in 3 hours. If all the six pipes are opened simultaneously, then in
how much time will the tank get filled completely?
(a) 2.0 hours
(b) 3.0 hours
(c) 2.5 hours
(d) 7.0 hours
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Q116. It takes 30 hours for an inlet pipe to fill an empty tank completely.
When 5 identical inlet pipes and 4 identical outlet pipes operate
together, the same empty tank get filled completely in 10 hours.
How much time (in hours) will an outlet pipe take to empty the same
tank when it’s filled upto half its volume?
a) 15 (b) 20 (c) 24 (d) 3
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Q117 (CAT 2017)A tank has an inlet pipe and an outlet pipe. If the
outlet pipe is closed then the inlet pipe fills the empty tank in 8 hours.
If the outlet pipe is open then the inlet pipe fills the empty tank in 10
hours. If only the outlet pipe is open then in how many hours the full
tank
becomes half-full?
A. 20
B. 30
C. 40
D.45
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Q118- (CAT 2018) -A tank is fitted with pipes, some filling it and the rest
draining it. All filling pipes fill at the same rate, and all draining pipes drain at
the same rate. The empty tank gets completely filled in 6 hours when 6 filling
and 5 draining pipes are on, but this time becomes 60 hours when 5 filling and
6 draining pipes are on. In how many hours will the empty tank get completely
filled when one draining and two filling pipes are on? [TITA]
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Q119. (CAT 2018)- A water tank has inlets of two types A and B. All inlets of
type A when open, bring in water at the same rate. All inlets of type B, when
open, bring in water at the same rate. The empty tank is completely filled in
30 minutes if 10 inlets of type A and 45 inlets of type B are open, and in 1 hour
if 8 inlets of type A and 18 inlets of type B are open.
In how many minutes will the empty tank get completely filled if 7 inlets of
type A and 27 inlets of type B are open?
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Q120. A Went to buy a Cycle , He was asked to pay 18% tax if he wants a bill . If not
you can get 7% discount on the actual price of the Cycle. Then A decided not to take
the bill and paid Rs 4650 . How much money A saved on purchasing Cycle ?
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Q121. What will be the percentage profit after selling an article at a certain
price if there occur a loss of 35% on selling the article 3/5 of the selling price?
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Q122. The ratio of SP of three articles A , B , C is 29:27:32 . The ratio

of percentage profit is 4:2:5 respectively . If CP of A is equal to CP of
B and CP of CP is Rs 480 . Then what is overall gain percantage ?
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Q123. An article costs Rs. 500 and the marked price is mentioned
as Rs. 800. What is the profit % for the seller if he sells and offers
a discount of 10% on the marked price
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Q124. If an article with marked price of Rs. 400 is sold at successive discounts of
10%,25% and15%, what is the approximate price the customer has to pay?
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Q125. Srinivas sold an article for Rs. 6800 and incurred a loss. Had he sold the
article for Rs. 7850, his gain would have been equal to half of the amount of loss
that he incurred. At what price should he sell the article to have 20% profit?
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Q126. Sachin bought two articles A and B at a total cost of Rs.8000. He sold
article A at 20% profit and article B at 12% loss. In the whole deal he made
no gain and no loss. At what price should Sachin have sold article B to
make an overall profit of 25%?
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Q127. By selling 80 ball pens for Rs. 140 a retailer losses 30%. How
many ball pens should he sell for Rs. 104 so as to make a profit of 30%?
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Q128. A vendor loses the selling price of 4 oranges on selling 36

oranges. His loss percent is.
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Q129. The profit made on a product is 25 %. What is the loss percent

incurred on the sale if the figures of both CP and SP are interchanged?
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Q130. The cost of a pen is Rs. 4. A shopkeeper sold these pens at Rs. 54 per
dozen. If he gives 10% discount on selling price, find the ratio of the profit %
after giving the discount and profit % without giving the discount.
a) 1:10. b)10:1. c)1:5 d)1:8
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Q131. A person purchased a book and a novel for Rs. 2800. He sold the book
at a profit of 10% and the novel at a profit 15.25%. If his total profit was
13%, find the difference between the Cost price of the Book and Novel.
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Q132. The marked price of a Pant and a T-Shirt are in the ratio of 2 : 3.
The shopkeeper gives 40% discount on the Pant. If the total discount on
the Pant and the T-Shirt is 40% the discount offered on the T-Shirt is
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Q133. A shopkeeper gives a discount of 10% in every 4 months at an

article. If a man purchases it for Rs. 25515 in the month of December, then
what was the initial price of that article in the month of January?
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Q134. A bought some stationery items at the rate of 5 for Re. 1 and an equal
number of items at the rate of 4 for Re. 1. She mixed both the types of items
and sold them at the rate of 9 for Rs. 2. In this transaction she bore a loss of
Rs. 3. Find the total number of items purchased by her?
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Q135. A manufacturer fixes his selling price at 33% over the cost of
production. If cost of production goes up by 12% and manufacturer
raises his selling price by 10%, find his profit percentage.
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Q136. A man purchased 150 chairs, each costing the same, but
40% of them are damaged which cannot be sold. He sold 50%
of the remaining at 20% profit each and remaining at 5% loss
each. If the total selling price of chairs is Rs. 7740, then what
was the total cost price of all chairs?
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Q137. Virat fixes the marked price of a bag 28% above its cost price. What
should be the approximate percentage of discount allowed to gain 6%?
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Q138. A dishonest dealer pretends to sell at the cost price but earns a
profit of 25% by under weighing. What weight must he be using for 1 kg?
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Q139. Rakesh bought 20 chairs for Rs.1000. He repaired and sold

them at the rate of Rs.500 per pair. He got profit of Rs.100 per chair.
How much did he spend on repairs?
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Q140. A shop-owner has 90 kg of Toor Dal. One day he decides to sell

out all his Toor Dal stock. He sells some certain part of it at 40%
profit and the remaining stock at 20% profit. If he gains 30% on the
overall transaction, what is the quantity of each part of Toor Dal?
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Q141. In 2010, a library contained a total of 11500 books in two

categories - fiction and non-fiction. In 2015, the library contained a
total of 12760 books in these two categories. During this period,
there was 10% increase in the fiction category while there was 12%
increase in the non-fiction category. How many fiction books were in
the library in 2015? (CAT 2019)
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Q142. In a class, 60% of the students are girls and the rest are boys. There
are 30 more girls than boys. If 68% of the students, including 30 boys,pass
an examination, the percentage of the girls who do not pass is
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Q143. The income of Amala is 20% more than that of Bimala and 20%
less than that of Kamala. If Kamala's income goes down by 4% and
Bimala's goes up by 10%, then the percentage by which Kamala's
income would exceed Bimala's is nearest to
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Q144. In a village, the production of food grains increased by 40% and
the per capita production of food grains increased by 27% during a
certain period. The percentage by which the population of the village
increased during the same period is nearest to
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ANSWER KEYS :-
Ans 120- Rs 1250 Ans 133- 35000 Rs
Ans 121- 8.33% Ans 134- Rs 1080
Ans 122- 15% Ans 135- 245/8 %
Ans 123- 44% Ans 136- Rs 12000
Ans 124- Rs 229.5 Ans 137- 17%
Ans 125- Rs 9000 Ans 138- 800 Gram
Ans 126- Rs 6400 Ans 139 - 2000
Ans 127- 32 Ans 140- 45 Kg for both
Ans 128- 10% Ans 141- 6600
Ans 129- 20% Ans 142- 20
Ans 130- 1:10 Ans 143- 31
Ans 131- Rs 400 Ans 144- 10
Ans 132- 40%
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Q145) When working alone X, Y and Z can complete a piece of
work in 8, 12 and 30 days respectively. At the most only two
people can work on each day and nobody works for more
than two consecutive days. What is the minimum number of
days that they will take to finish the work.
1) 4(4/29)
2) 6(4/25)
3) 6(6/29)
4) 12(4/25)
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Q146) Nakul and Ram are working on aproduction company.

Nakul takes 6 hours to make 32 products, while Ram takes 5
hours to make 40 products. How much time will they take,
working together to make 110 products?
A.8 hours
B.8 hours 15 minutes
C.9 hours
D.8 hours 25 minutes
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Q147) A and B can do a work in 6 days and 8 days respectively.

If A, B and C together can complete the work in 2 days, then
what is the ratio of the earnings of A, B and C, if they are paid
in the ratio of the work done by them?
(a) 5 : 4 : 3
(b) 3 : 4 : 5
(c) 4 : 3 : 5
(d) 4 : 5 : 3
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Q148). A , B , C can do a piece of work in 20, 30 and 60

days respectively. In how many days can A do the work if
he is assisted by B and C on every 3rd day.
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Q149) A contractor agreed to finish a piece of work in 150 days. He
employed 75 men and made them work for 8 hours per day. However,
after 90 days, he realized that only (2/7 th) of the work was completed.
How many more men would he need to employ to complete the work on
time if he intended to make everybody work for 10 hours per day
henceforth?
(a) 75 (b) 100 (c) 150 (d) 225
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Q150) The work done by 2 men in a day is equal to the work done by
3 children in a day. The work done by 3 men in a day is equal to the
work done by 5 women in a day. It takes 10 days for a man, a woman
and a child to complete a job working together. How many days will 2
children working together take to complete the same job?
(a) 30 (b) 15 (c) 17 (d) 34
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Q151) A, B and J can do a job in 20, 30 and 40 days respectively.

The three started the job together; A left the job 4 days before it
was completed and B left the job 3 days before it was completed.
In how many days was the job completed?
(a) 14
(b) 12
(c) 16
(d) 15
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Q152) P and Q working together can do a piece of work in 10 days

whereas Q and R working together can do the same work in 12 days. All
three work together to do a job for which they are paid Rs. 300. If Q’s
share is Rs. 140, then what is P’s share?
(a) Rs. 100
(b) Rs. 60
(c) Rs. 80
(d) Cannot be determined
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TIME & WORK (ASSIGNMENT 3)

Q153) A and B work on alternate days with A starting on the first day.
A does 12.5% of the total work on the last day and finishes the work.
If A alone can do the work in 6 days then which of following can be
the number of days in which B alone can do the whole work?
(a) 24 days. (b) 12 days (c) 8 days. (d) 10 days
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TIME & WORK (ASSIGNMENT 3)

Q154) A group of 10 men can do a job in 15 days. The group starts

working and after every three days they are joined by two more
men. On which day does the job get completed?
(a)10th
(b)11th
(c)12th
(d)13th
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TIME & WORK (ASSIGNMENT 3)

Q155) A contractor, intending to finish a work in 150 days, employed 75 men.

They worked for 8 hours every day for 90 days and completed 2/7th part of the
work. Then the contractor increased the number of men by x and thereafter all
the men were made to work for 10 hours every day. If the work was completed
just in time, then what is the value of x?
(a) 225. (b) 150 ( c) 75. (d) None of these
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TIME & WORK (ASSIGNMENT 3)

Q156) The work done by 4 men in 12 days is equal to the work done by
6 women in 10 days and is also equal to the work done by 8 children in
9 days. A man, a woman and a child working together take 10 days to
complete a particular job. In how many days will the same job be
completed by 2 women and 5 children working together?
(a) 5 (b) 6. (c) 4 (d) 7
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TIME & WORK (ASSIGNMENT 3)

Q157) One man and six women working together can do a job in
10 days. The same job is done by two men in ‘x’ days and by eight
women in x+5 days. By what percentage is the efficiency of a man
greater than that of a woman?
(a) 300%. (b) 500%. (c) 600% (d) 700%
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TIME & WORK (ASSIGNMENT 3)

Q158) Six men can complete two-third of a work in 5 days, six women
can complete one-fifth of the work in 3 days and five children can
complete one-fourth of the work in 6 days. In how many days can a man,
a woman and a child working together complete the work?
(a) 18 (b) 20 (c) 24 (d) 30
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TIME & WORK (ASSIGNMENT 3)

Q159) A can complete one-fourth of a piece of work in five-twelfth

of the time taken by B to complete the entire work. If they together
can complete the work in 15 days, then in how many days can B
working alone complete the work?
(a) 17. (b) 24. (c) 30 (d) 40
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TIME & WORK (ASSIGNMENT 3)

Q160) Sekar, Pradeep and Sandeep can do a piece of work in 15 days.

After all the three worked for 2 days, sekar left. Pradeep and Sandeep
worked for 10 more days and Pradeep left. Sandeep worked for another
40 days and completed the work. In how many days can sekar alone
complete the work if sandeep can complete it in 75 days?
A.25 days B.20 days. C.30 days. D.35 days
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TIME & WORK (ASSIGNMENT 3)

Q161). Madhavan can finish a work in 5 hours. He invites IRFAN and

NAWAZUDDIN who can work 3/4th as fast as he can to join him. He also invites
SALMAN and PRABHU who can work only 1/5th as fast as he can to join him. If the
five person team works the same job and they start together, how long will it take
for them to finish the job?
A.50/97 days B.87 days C.50/29 days D.78 days
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TIME & WORK (ASSIGNMENT 3)
Q162) A group of 2N (N > 5) persons can do a piece of work in N days. When the
group started the work, one of them could not join the work as he met with an
accident. The remaining people started the work and, starting from the first day,
at the end each day one person left the group. After the group finishes working
in this manner, the remaining work, if any, is then taken up on the immediately
following day by the first person (who could not initially join the group due to
the accident) alone, who continues till the work is completed. In how many days
will the work be completed?
a) 2N b) 3N–1 c) 2N-1 d) 2N–2
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TIME & WORK (ASSIGNMENT 3)
Q163) A and B can finish a work, working on alternate days, in 17 days,
where A works on the first day. Similarly, they can finish the work,
working on alternate days, in 17(2/3) days, where B works on the first
day. If C, working alone, can complete the work in 35 days, in how
many days can the work be completed when A, B and C work together
a) 6 days b) 7 days. c) 7(2/5) days. d) 6 (2/5) day
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TIME & WORK (ASSIGNMENT 3)

Q164) Rohan and Sohan together completed a task in a certain

number of days. Had each of them worked independently on the task,
they would have taken d more days and (16/9) d more days
respectively. If they received a total of Rs. 7000 for completing the
work, what is Rohan’s share?
a) Rs.3000 b) Rs.4200
c) Rs.4000 d) Rs.3500
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TIME & WORK (ASSIGNMENT 3)
Q165). If 2 men and 5 women can complete a job in(15/2)days, while 5
men and 25 women can complete it in 2 days, find time in which 10 men
would complete the work.
a) 3⁄4day b)1day. c)3days d)9/2days
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TIME & WORK (ASSIGNMENT 3)

Q166). A and B can build a certain wall in 20 days and 30 days

respectively. In how many days can they together build two such walls?
a) 12 b) 18. c) 20. d) 24
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TIME & WORK (ASSIGNMENT 3)

Q167). Eight men and three women can complete a certain work in eight
days, which twelve men and a women take six days to complete. If a men and
nine women take ten days to complete the same work, find a.
(Assume that both men and women have a positive rate of work)
a) 5 b) 4 c) 3 d) 2
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TIME & WORK (ASSIGNMENT 3)

Q168). A piece of work can be done by 11 men and 16 boys in 2 days.

If the same work can be done by 5 men and 11 boys in 4 days, in how
many days can 1 man and 4 boys complete the same work?
a) 16 (2/5) b) 20 (1/2) c) 41 (1/4) d) 14 (3/5)
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TIME & WORK (ASSIGNMENT 3)

Q169). Ajay can complete a work in 32 days. Bhanu can complete the same work in
half the time taken by Ajay. Chandu completes the work in half the time taken by
Bhanu. Dinesh completes the work in half the time taken by Chandu. They are paired
into two groups of two each. If the first group takes 2/3 times the time taken by the
other group to complete the work, the second group comprises
a) Ajay and Chandu. b) Bhanu and Chandu. c) Ajay and Dinesh. d) Bhanu and Dinesh.
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TIME & WORK (ASSIGNMENT 3)

ANSWER KEYS :-
Ans 145) B Ans 160) C
Ans 146) B Ans 161) C
Ans 147) C Ans 162) B
Ans 148) D Ans 163) B
Ans 149) 15 days Ans 164) D
Ans 150) C Ans 165) C
Ans151) B Ans 166) D
Ans152) A Ans 167) D
Ans 153) C Ans 168) A
Ans 154) C Ans 169) B
Ans 155) B
Ans 156) A
Ans 157) B
Ans 158) C
Ans 159) B
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TIME & WORK (ASSIGNMENT 4) ,NMAT/SNAP LEVEL QUESTIONS
Q170). A can do a work in 15 days and B in 20 days. If they work on
it together for 4 days, then the fraction of the work that is left is :

a) 1/15 b) 4/15 c) 7/15 d) 8/15

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TIME & WORK (ASSIGNMENT 4) ,NMAT/SNAP LEVEL QUESTIONS

Q171). If 6 men and 8 boys can do a piece of work in 10 days while

26 men and 48 boys can do the same in 2 days, the time taken by 15
men and 20 boys in doing the same type of work will be:

A.4 days B.5 days C.6 days D.7 days

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TIME & WORK (ASSIGNMENT 4) ,NMAT/SNAP LEVEL QUESTIONS

Q172). A can do a piece of work in 4 hours; B and C together can do it in 3

hours, while A and C together can do it in 2 hours. How long will B alone take to
do it?

A. 8 hours. B.10 hours. C.12 hours D.24 hours

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TIME & WORK (ASSIGNMENT 4) ,NMAT/SNAP LEVEL QUESTIONS

Q173). A does 80% of a work in 20 days. He then calls in B and they

together finish the remaining work in 3 days. How long B alone would
take to do the whole work?
A.23 days. B.37 days. C.37.5 days D.40 days
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TIME & WORK (ASSIGNMENT 4) ,NMAT/SNAP LEVEL QUESTIONS

Q174). P can complete a work in 12 days working 8 hours a day.Q can

complete the same work in 8 days working 10 hours a day. If both p and
Q work together,working 8 hours a day,in how many days can they
complete the work?
A. 60/11 B. 70/11 C.80/11 D. 90/11
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TIME & WORK (ASSIGNMENT 4) ,NMAT/SNAP LEVEL QUESTIONS

Q175). 12 men can complete a work in 8 days. 16 women can complete the same
work in 12 days. 8 men and 8 women started working and worked for 6 days. How
many more men are to be added to complete the remaining work in 1 day?

A. 8 B.16 C.12 D.24

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TIME & WORK (ASSIGNMENT 4) ,NMAT/SNAP LEVEL QUESTIONS

Q176). 4 men can repair a road in 7 hours. How many men are
required to repair the road in 2 hours ?

A) 17 men B) 14 men C) 13 men D) 16 men

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TIME & WORK (ASSIGNMENT 4) ,NMAT/SNAP LEVEL QUESTIONS

Q177). The ratio of the efficiencies of A, B and C is 3 : 5 : 1. Working

together, they can complete a piece of work in 5 days. A and B work
together for 3 days. The remaining work will be completed by C alone in?

A) 24 days B) 18 days C) 15 days D) 21 days

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TIME & WORK (ASSIGNMENT 4) ,NMAT/SNAP LEVEL QUESTIONS
Q178). A and B together can do a piece of work in 30 days. A
having worked for 16 days, B finishes the remaining work alone
in 44 days. In how many days shall B finish the whole work
alone?

A.30 daysB.40 days C.60 days D.70 days

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TIME & WORK (ASSIGNMENT 4) ,NMAT/SNAP LEVEL QUESTIONS
Q179). A can complete a piece of work in 20 days and B can
complete 20% of the work in 6 days. If they work together in how
many days can they finish 50% of the work, if they work together.

A. 5 days B. 6 Days C. 7 Days D. 8 Days

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TIME & WORK (ASSIGNMENT 4) ,NMAT/SNAP LEVEL QUESTIONS

Q180). 30 men working 8 hours per day can dig a pond in 16 days. By working
how many hours per day can 32 men dig the same ponds, in 20 days?

A)6hoursperday. B)7hoursperday. C)5hoursperday D)8hoursperday

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TIME & WORK (ASSIGNMENT 4) ,NMAT/SNAP LEVEL QUESTIONS
Q181). A is 40% more efficient than B and C is 20% less efficient
than B. Working together, they can finish a task in 15 days. In how
many days, will B alone complete 75% of the task?
A) 48. B) 44. C) 36. D) 32
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TIME & WORK (ASSIGNMENT 4) ,NMAT/SNAP LEVEL QUESTIONS
Q182). A is 50% more efficient than B and C is 40% less efficient than B.
Working together, they can complete a task in 10 days. In how many
days will A alone complete 150% of that task?
A) 31 B) 33. C) 28 D) 35
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TIME & WORK (ASSIGNMENT 4) ,NMAT/SNAP LEVEL QUESTIONS
Q183). 5 men and 8 women can complete a task in 34 days, whereas 4
men and 18 women can complete the same task in 28 days. In how many
days can the same task be completed by 3 men and 5 women?

A) 56 B) 72 C) 64 D) 36
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TIME & WORK (ASSIGNMENT 4) ,NMAT/SNAP LEVEL QUESTIONS

Q184). The ratio of the efficiencies of A, B and C is 7: 5 : 8. Working

together, they can complete a piece of work in 42 days. B and C worked
together for 21 days and the remaining work was completed by A alone.
The whole work was completed in:

A) 102 days B) 93 days C) 99 days D) 96 days

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TIME & WORK (ASSIGNMENT 4) ,NMAT/SNAP LEVEL QUESTIONS

Q185). Two pipes A and B can fill a tank in 20 and 30 minutes respectively. If
both the pipes are used together, then how long it will take to fill the tank ?

A.10 mins B.12 mins C.15 mins D.20 mins

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TIME & WORK (ASSIGNMENT 4) ,NMAT/SNAP LEVEL QUESTIONS

Q186). A tank can be filled by a tap in 20 minutes and by another tap in 60

minutes. Both the taps are kept open for 10 minutes and then the first tap
is shut off. After this, the tank will be completely filled in what time ?

A. 20 mins B. 30 mins C. 15 mins D. 60 mins

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TIME & WORK (ASSIGNMENT 4) ,NMAT/SNAP LEVEL QUESTIONS

Q187. A alone takes as much time as B and C together take to complete a

piece of work. If A and B together take 10 days and B alone takes 50 days
to complete it, in what time can A and C together do the work?

A. 50/7 B. 60/7 C.70/7 D. 80/7

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TIME & WORK (ASSIGNMENT 4) ,NMAT/SNAP LEVEL QUESTIONS

Q188. A contract is to be completed in 50 days and 105 men were set

to work, each working 8 hours a day. After 25 days,40% of the work is
finished. How many additional men be employed so that the work
may be completed on time, each man now working 9 hours a day?

A. 35 Men B. 40 Men C. 50 Men D. 25 Men

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TIME & WORK (ASSIGNMENT 4) ,NMAT/SNAP LEVEL QUESTIONS

Q189. A can do a piece of work in 120 days and B can do it in 150 days. They
work together for 20 days. Then B leaves and A alone continues
the work. 12 days after that C joins A and the work is completed in 48 days
more. In how many days can C do it if he works alone?

A. 210 Days. B . 220 Days. C. 230 Days. D. 240 Days

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TIME & WORK (ASSIGNMENT 4) ,NMAT/SNAP LEVEL QUESTIONS

Q190. A can complete a work in 10 days, B can complete the same work in 20 days
and C in 40 days. A starts working on the first day, B works for second day and C
works for third day. Again A works for fourth day and B for fifth day and so on. If
they continued working in the same way, in how many days will the work be
completed?
A. 16.5 days B. 15.5 Days C. 15 Days D. 17 Days
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TIME & WORK (ASSIGNMENT 4) ,NMAT/SNAP LEVEL QUESTIONS

Q191. A tank can be filled by pipe A in 2 hours and pipe B in 6 hours. At

10 A.M. pipe A was opened. At what time will the tank be filled if pipe
B is opened at 11 A.M.?

a) 12 P.M b) 12.45 A.M. c) 5 P. d) 11.45 A.M.

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TIME & WORK (ASSIGNMENT 4) ,NMAT/SNAP LEVEL QUESTIONS

Q192). A tap can fill a tank in 6 hours. After half the tank is filled then 3 more
similar taps are opened. What will be total time taken to fill the tank
completely.
A. 2 hours 30 mins B.2 hours 45 mins C.3 hours 30 mins D.3 hours 45 mins
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TIME & WORK (ASSIGNMENT 4) ,NMAT/SNAP LEVEL QUESTIONS

Q193. A can complete a work in 24 days, B in 32 days and C in 64 days. They

start together. A works for 6 days and leaves and B leaves 6 days before the
work is finished. In how many days was the work finished?

(1) 20 days. (2) 21 days (3) 22 days (4) 25 days

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TIME & WORK (ASSIGNMENT 4) ,NMAT/SNAP LEVEL QUESTIONS

Q194). 39 persons can repair a road in 12 days working 5 hours a day. In how
many days will 30 per- sons working 6 hours a day com- plete the work ?

(1) 10 days. (2) 13 days. (3) 14 days. (4) 15 days

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TIME & WORK (ASSIGNMENT 4) ,NMAT/SNAP LEVEL QUESTIONS
Q195. A wall of 100 metres can be built by 7 men or 10 women in 10 days. How
many days will 14 men and 20 women take to build a wall of 600 metres ?

(1) 15 (2) 20 (3) 25 (4) 30

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TIME & WORK (ASSIGNMENT 4) ,NMAT/SNAP LEVEL QUESTIONS

Q196). A man undertakes to do a certain work in 150 days. He employs

200 men. He finds that only a quarter of the work is done in 50 days. The
number of additional men that should be appointed so that the whole
work will be finished in time is :

(1) 75. (2) 100 (3) 125 (4) 50

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TIME & WORK (ASSIGNMENT 4) ,NMAT/SNAP LEVEL QUESTIONS

Q197). Suman can do a work in 3 days. Abhishek can do the same

work in 2 days. Both of them finish the work together and get 150.
What is the share of Suman ?

(1) 30 (2) 60 (3) 70 (4) 75

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TIME & WORK (ASSIGNMENT 4) ,NMAT/SNAP LEVEL QUESTIONS

Q198. If 6 persons working 8 hours a day earn 8400 per week, then 9
persons working 6 hours a day will earn per week

(1) 8400 (2) 16800 (3) 9450. (4) 16200

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TIME & WORK (ASSIGNMENT 4) ,NMAT/SNAP LEVEL QUESTIONS

Q199. Three persons undertake to com- plete a piece of work for 1,200. The
first person can complete the work in 8 days, second person in 12 days and
third person in 16 days. They complet the work with the help of a fourth
person in 3 days. What does the fourth person get?

(1) 180 (2) 200. (3) 225 (4) 250

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TIME & WORK (ASSIGNMENT 4) ,NMAT/SNAP LEVEL QUESTIONS

Q200). 8 workers can build a wall 18m long, 2m broad and 12m high in 10
days, working 9 hours a day. Find how many workers will be able to build
a wall 32m long, 3m broad and 9m high in 8 days working 6 hours a day

A) 20. B)30. C)35. D)40

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TIME & WORK (ASSIGNMENT 4) ,NMAT/SNAP LEVEL QUESTIONS

Q201). A contractor was engaged to construct a road in 16 days. After

working for 12 days with 20 labours it was found that only 5/8th of the road
had been constructed.To complete the work in stipulated time the number
of extra labours required is.

A) 12 B) 14. C)16. D)20

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TIME & WORK (ASSIGNMENT 4) ,NMAT/SNAP LEVEL QUESTIONS

Q202). A does half as much work as B in one sixth of the time. If together they
take 10 days to complete a work, how much time shall B take to do it alone?

(1) 70 days (2) 30 days (3) 40 days. (4) 50 days

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TIME & WORK (ASSIGNMENT 4) ,NMAT/SNAP LEVEL QUESTIONS

Q203. A 10 hectare field is reaped by 2 men, 3 women and 4 children together

in 10 days. If working capabilities of a man, a woman and a child are in the ratio
5 : 4 : 2, then a 16 hectare field will be reaped by 6 men,4 women and 7 children
in

(1) 5days. (2)6days. (3)7days. (4)8days

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TIME & WORK (ASSIGNMENT 4) ,NMAT/SNAP LEVEL QUESTIONS

Q204). Kamal can do a work in 15 days. Bimal is 50 per cent more efficient
than Kamal in doing the work. In how many days will Bimal do that work?

A. 10 days. B. 15 days. C. 12.5 Days D. 11 Days

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TIME & WORK (ASSIGNMENT 4) ,NMAT/SNAP LEVEL QUESTIONS

Q205. A, B and C separately can do a piece of work in 11 days, 20 days and 55

days respectively. In how many days the work will be completed if A is
assisted by B and C on alternate day?

A) 2 days. B) 4 days C) 6 days D) 8 days

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TIME & WORK (ASSIGNMENT 4) ,NMAT/SNAP LEVEL QUESTIONS

Q206. A man and a boy can complete a piece of work in 30 days. They both
started the work, but in the last 6 days, only boy does the work and in this
way the work got completed in 34 days. How long does the man take alone
to complete the work?

A) 30days B)45days. C)60days. D)90days

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TIME & WORK (ASSIGNMENT 4) ,NMAT/SNAP LEVEL QUESTIONS

Q207. 6 men and 10 women can do a work in 8 days. 4 men and 12 women
can do same work in 10 days. Find in how many days 3 men and 5 women
can do the work.

A) 12days. B)16days. C)20days. D)24days

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TIME & WORK (ASSIGNMENT 4) ,NMAT/SNAP LEVEL QUESTIONS

Q208. Working efficiency of A and B for completing a piece of work is in the

ratio 2:3. Find the number of days they will take to complete the work together,
if B takes 30 days less than A.

A) 24 days B) 48 days. C) 60 days D) 36 days

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TIME & WORK (ASSIGNMENT 4) ,NMAT/SNAP LEVEL QUESTIONS

Q209. A can do 2/5 work in 8 days. B can do 3/5 work in 18 days. In how
many days together they can do 3/4 work?

A) 8 days. B) 9 days. C) 7 days. D) 10 days

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TIME & WORK (ASSIGNMENT 4) ,NMAT/SNAP LEVEL QUESTIONS

Q210. Three taps A, B and C can fill a tank in 12, 15 and 20 hours respectively.
If A is open all the time and B and C are open for one hour each alternatively,
the tank will be full in
A. 6 hours B. 6.5 hours. C. 7 hours D. 8 hours
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TIME & WORK (ASSIGNMENT 4) ,NMAT/SNAP LEVEL QUESTIONS

Q211. A tank has a leak which would empty the completely filled tank in 10
hours. If the tank is full of water and a tap is opened which admits 4 litres
of water per minute in the tank, the leak takes 15 hours to empty the tank.
How many litres of water does the tank hold ?

(1) 2400 L (2)4500 L (3)1200 L (4)7200 L

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TIME & WORK (ASSIGNMENT 4) ,NMAT/SNAP LEVEL QUESTIONS

Q212. An empty tank can be filled by pipe A in 4 hours and by pipe

B in 6 hours. If the two pipes are opened for 1 hour each
alternately with first opening pipe A, then the tank will be filled in

A. 11/3 B. 12/3 C. 13/3. D.14/3

ARITHMETIC ASSIGNMENT 8
TIME & WORK (ASSIGNMENT 4) ,NMAT/SNAP LEVEL QUESTIONS

Q213. One pipe can fill a tank three times as fast as another pipe. If
together the two pipes can fill the tank in 36 minutes, the slower pipe alone
will be able to fill the tank in

(1) 81 minutes (2)108 minutes (3) 144 minutes (4)192 minutes

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TIME & WORK (ASSIGNMENT 4) ,NMAT/SNAP LEVEL QUESTIONS

Q214. Two pipes can independently fill a bucket in 20 minutes and 25

minutes. Both are opened together for 5 minutes after which the second
pipe is turned off. What is the time taken by the first pipe alone to fill the
remaining portion of the bucket?
(1) 11minutes. (2) 16minutes. (3) 20minutes. (4) 15minutes
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TIME & WORK (ASSIGNMENT 4) ,NMAT/SNAP LEVEL QUESTIONS

Q215. Two friends P & Q take a project and start working on it together. P alone
can finish the project in 20 days while Q takes 5 days more than P to finish it.
After working together on the project for some days, P has to leave. Q now
takes 10 days to finish the remaining project alone. After how many days of
working together did P leave?

A. 20/3 days. B. 5 days. C. 18/3 days D. 22/3 days

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TIME & WORK (ASSIGNMENT 4) ,NMAT/SNAP LEVEL QUESTIONS

Q216. Working alone, Ram can erect the boundary wall of a land in 16 days
but Samar can do the same work in 12 days. Ram and Samar are put to work
on that contract on alternate days. In how many days will the boundary wall
be ready, if Ram works on first day?
A. 55/4 days B. 10 Days C. 12 days D. 51/4 days
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TIME & WORK (ASSIGNMENT 4) ,NMAT/SNAP LEVEL QUESTIONS

Q217. 12 men finish a construction project in 36 days while 12 women

finish 75% of the project in same time. How many days would 10 men and 8
women working together would take to complete the project?

a. 6 days b. 12 days. c. 27 days d. 34 days

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TIME & WORK (ASSIGNMENT 4) ,NMAT/SNAP LEVEL QUESTIONS

Q218. A young boy can complete a project in 25 days while his father and
grandfather take 15 and 20 days respectively to finish the same task. If all three of
them work together on the project, how long will they take to finish it?

A) 6.3 days B. 7 days C) 8 days D)8.5 Days

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TIME & WORK (ASSIGNMENT 4) ,NMAT/SNAP LEVEL QUESTIONS

Q219. In a set up two friends Anne and Ben finish a work in 30 days. Ben and
Charles take 6 days less the previous set up to finish the same work while Charles
and Anne take 10 days less than the said set up to finish the same work. All the
three friends work on an assignment for 10 days after which Ben and Charles leave.
How many days more required by Anne to finish the remaining assignment alone?

A) 18 days B) 20 Days C)36 days D) 24 days

ARITHMETIC ASSIGNMENT 9
AVERAGE & ALLEGATION (ASSIGNMENT 1)
Q220. - If there are 30 students (Avg age =30)
If new student of age 40 joined 30 students find new average age.
ARITHMETIC ASSIGNMENT 9
AVERAGE & ALLEGATION (ASSIGNMENT 1)
Q221. Find average of 10,20,30,40,50
ARITHMETIC ASSIGNMENT 9
AVERAGE & ALLEGATION (ASSIGNMENT 1)
Q222. A class have 30 students with avg weight=30 and 2nd class
have students 20 with avg weight 40.
Find new avg age when these two classes are combined
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Q223. If average of five natural numbers is 150. A particular

number among the five exceeds another by 100. The rest three
numbers lie between these two numbers and they are equal. How
many different values can the largest number among the five
take?

(a) 59 (b) 19. (c) 21 (d) 42

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Q224. M is a set of distinct positive integers whose average is

55.
If a number 68 is added to this set, the average increases by 1.
What is the largest number that can occur in this set?
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Q225. The total age of a man and his wife is 6 times the sum of the
ages of their children. 2 years ago, their total age was 10 times the
total age of their children. Six years hence their total age will be thrice
that of their children. how many children does the couple have ??

1) 1 2) 2 3) 3 4) 4
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Q226. When I was married 10 years ago my wife is the 6th

member of the family. Today my father died and a baby born to
me.The average age of my family during my marriage is same as
today.
What is the age of Father when he died?
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Q227. An elevator has a weight limit of 630 kg. It is carrying a group of
people of whom the heaviest weighs 57 kg and the lightest weighs 53 kg.
What is the maximum possible number of people in the group (CAT 2017)
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Q228. A class consists of 20 boys and 30 girls. In the mid-semester

examination, the average score of the girls was 5 higher than that of the
boys. In the final exam, however, the average score of the girls dropped
by 3 while the average score of the entire class increased by 2.
The increase in the average score of the boys is: (CAT 2017)
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Q229. The average height of 22 toddlers increases by 2 inches when two of
them leave this group. If the average height of these two toddlers is one-third
the average height of the original 22, then the average height, in inches, of the
remaining 20 toddlers is (CAT 2017)
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Q230. A CAT aspirant appears for a certain number of tests. His average
score increases by 1 if the first 10 tests are not considered, and decreases
by 1 if the last 10 tests are not considered. If his average scores for the first
10 and the last 10 tests are 20 and 30, respectively, Then the total number
of tests taken by him is.
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Q231. Ramesh and Gautam are among 22 students who write an examination.
Ramesh scores 82.5. The average score of the 21 students other than Gautam is
62. The average score of all the 22 students is one more than the average score
of the 21 students other than Ramesh. The score of Gautam is
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Q232. In a class comprising 60 boys and some girls, the average

age of boys is 14.8 years and that of girls is 14.1 years. If the
average age of the class is 14.7 years, then how many girls are
there in the class?
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Q233. 10 years ago the average age of all 25 teachers of a school

was 45 years. 4 years ago one teacher retired from her post at the
age of 58. After one year a new teacher whose age was 54 years
was recruited from outside. The present average age of all the
teachers is:
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Q234. The average age of 8 men is decreased by 2 years when one of

them is replaced by a woman of 40 years old. What is the age of the
man who has been replaced by the woman?
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Q235. The average age of a cricket team of 11 players is the same

as it was 3 year back because 3 of the players whose current
average age of 33 years are replaced by 3 youngsters. The average
of the newcomers is?
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Q236. The average age of Priya's family consisting of 5

members 3 years ago was 35 years. one year ago a new baby
was born in this family. Three years hence the average age of
the family will be :
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Q237. 10 years ago, the ages of the members of a joint family of 8 people added
upto 231 years. 3 years later, 1 member died at the age of 60 and a child was born
during the same year. After another 3 years, 1 more member died again at 60 and
a child was born during the same year.
Current average age of the 8-member joint family is nearest to
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ANSWER KEYS :-
Ans 220) 940/31
Ans 221) 30
Ans 222) 34
Ans 223) 19
Ans 224) 594
Ans 225) 3
Ans 226) 60
Ans 227) 11
Ans 228) 9.5
Ans 229) 32
Ans 230) 60
Ans 231) 51
Ans 232) 10 girls
Ans 233) 54.8
Ans 234) 56
Ans 235) 22
Ans 236) 209/6
Ans 237) 24 approx.
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Q238. The milk and water in two vessels A and B are in the ratio 4:3 and 2:3
respectively. In what ratio , the liquids in both the vessels be mixed to
obtain a new mixture in vessel C containing half milk and half water.
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Q239. A shopkeeper buys 2 varities of rice , one at Rs 20 per
kg and the other at Rs 30 per kg . In what ratio should the two
varieties be mixed so that the shopkeeper can sell the mixture
at Rs 28 per kg and make a profit of 20%
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Q240. If certain litres of Milk was mixed with 10 litres of
water, the mixtures costs Rs 42/litre. If milk's cost was Rs
56/litre, how much litres of milk were mixed?
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Q241. A mixture of liquid P,Q,R contains three in ratio 2:4:7
respectively . P & Q are added till ratio becomes 7:4:2 . Find
Ratio of P & Q added.
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Q242. Three glasses of Sizes 5 litres,10 litres & 15 litres contain
mixture of Milk & Water in the ratio 3:2,4:6 & 4:11 respectively. The
Contents of all the three glasses are poured into single vessel. Find
the ratio of Milk to Water in the resultant mixture.
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Q243. Three bottle of Capacity 6 Litres, 12 Litres and 4 litres contain
mixture of Sugar water and honey in the ratio 1:5 , 7:5 & 1:3 respectively.
The contents of all the three bottles are poured into single bottle. Find
the ratio of Sugar water to honey in the resultant mixture?
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Q244. Four glasses of sizes 2Litres,8 Litres,12 Litres & 16 Litres contain
mixture of milk & Water in the ratio 1:1 ,3:5,7:5,9:7 respectively. The
Contents of all the four glasses are poured into single glass. Find the
ratio of Milk & Water in the resultant Mixture?
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Q245. In an Alloy, Zinc and Copper are in the ratio 3:4,In the Second
alloy the same elements are mixed in the ratio 7:2.In what ratio
should these two alloys be mixed to form a new alloy in which the
two elements are in the ratio 5:6?
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Q246. In An Alloy The Zinc & Copper Are In The Ratio 1:3.In The
Second Alloy The Same Elements Are In The Ratio 4:3.In What Ratio
Should These Two Alloys Be Mixed To Form A New Alloy In Which
The Two Elements Are In The Ratio 4:5?
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Q247. A mixture of 40 litres of milk and water contains 10% water.
How much water must be added to the mixture so that there is
20% water in the new mixture?
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Q248. In what proportion can we mix rice of three varieties priced at

Rs 20/kg , Rs 24/kg and Rs 36/kg so that price of mixture is Rs 28 ?

a) 3:4:5 b) 2:2:5 c) 1:3:4 d) 2:3:4

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Q249. In an examination, Rama's score was one-twelfth of the sum of
the scores of Mohan and Anjali. After a review, the score of each of
them increased by 6. The revised scores of Anjali, Mohan, and Rama
were in the ratio 11:10:3. Then Anjali's score exceeded Rama’s score
by (CAT 2019).
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Q250. Meena scores 40% in an examination and after review, even though
her score is increased by 50%, she fails by 35 marks. If her post review score
is increased by 20%, she will have 7 marks more than the passing score. The
percentage score needed for passing the examination is (CAT 2019)
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Q251. The scores of Amal and Bimal in an examination are in the ratio
11 : 14. After an appeal, their scores increase by the same amount
and their new scores are in the ratio 47 : 56. The ratio of Bimal’s new
score to that of his original score is (CAT 2018)
a) 3 : 2 b) 4 : 3. c) 5 : 4 d) 8 :5
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Q252. A jar contains a mixture of 175 ml water and 700 ml alcohol.
Gopal takes out 10% of the mixture and substitutes it by water of the
same amount. The process is repeated once again. The percentage of
water in the mixture is now (CAT 2018)

a) 25.4 b) 20.5 c) 30.3 d) 35.2

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Q253. Raju and Lalitha originally had marbles in the ratio 4 : 9. Then Lalitha gave
some of her marbles to Raju. As a result, the ratio of the number of marbles with
Raju to that with Lalitha became 5 : 6. What fraction of her original number of
marbles was given by Lalitha to Raju? (CAT 2018)

a) 1/4 b)1/5 c)6/19. d)7/33

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Q254. . In an examination, the maximum possible score is N while
the pass mark is 45% of N. A candidate obtains 36 marks, but falls
short of the pass mark by 68%. Which one of the following is then
correct? (CAT 2018)
a) N≤200. b)243≤N≤252. c)N≥253. d)201≤N≤242
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Q255. A wholesaler bought walnuts and peanuts, the price of walnut per kg
being thrice that of peanut per kg. He then sold 8 kg of peanuts at a profit of
10% and 16 kg of walnuts at a profit of 20% to a shopkeeper. However, the
shopkeeper lost 5 kg of walnuts and 3 kg of peanuts in transit. He then mixed
the remaining nuts and sold the mixture at Rs. 166 per kg, thus making an
overall profit of 25%. At what price, in Rs. per kg, did the wholesaler buy the
walnuts? (CAT 2018)
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Q256. There are two drums, each containing a mixture of paints A and B. In
drum 1, A and B are in the ratio 18 : 7. The mixtures from drums 1 and 2 are
mixed in the ratio 3 : 4 and in this final mixture, A and B are in the ratio 13 :
7. In drum 2, then A and B were in the ratio (CAT 2018)

a) 251 : 163. b) 239 : 161. c) 220 : 149 d)229 : 141

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Q257. A 20% ethanol solution is mixed with another ethanol solution, say, S of unknown
concentration in the proportion 1:3 by volume. This mixture is then mixed with an equal
volume of 20% ethanol solution. If the resultant mixture is a 31.25% ethanol solution,
then the unknown concentration of S is (CAT 2018)

a) 50% b) 55%. c) 48% d) 52%

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Q258. A solution, of volume 40 litres, has dye and water in the

proportion 2 : 3. Water is added to the solution to change this proportion
to 2 : 5. If one-fourths of this diluted solution is taken out, how many litres
of dye must be added to the remaining solution to bring the proportion
back to 2 : 3? (CAT 2020)
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Q259. Dick is thrice as old as Tom and Harry is twice as old as Dick. If Dick's age
is 1 year less than the average age of all three, then Harry's age, in years, is
(CAT 2020)
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Q260. In the final examination, Bishnu scored 52% and Asha scored 64%.
The marks obtained by Bishnu is 23 less, and that by Asha is 34 more than
the marks obtained by Ramesh. The marks obtained by Geeta, who scored
84%, is (CAT 2020)

A) 399 B) 439 C) 357 D) 417

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Q261. . Two alcohol solutions, A and B, are mixed in the proportion 1:3 by
volume. The volume of the mixture is then doubled by adding solution A such
that the resulting mixture has 72% alcohol. If solution A has 60% alcohol, then
the percentage of alcohol in solution B is (CAT 2020)
A) 94%. B) 92% C) 90%. D) 89%
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ANSWER KEYS :-

Ans 238- 7:5 Ans 252- 35.2

Ans 239- 2:1 Ans 253- 7/33
Ans 240- 30 L Ans 254- B
Ans 241- 9:4 Ans 255- 96
Ans 242- 11:19 Ans 256- B
Ans 243- 9:13 Ans 257- 50%
Ans 244- 10:9 Ans 258- 8
Ans 245- 112:9 Ans 259- 18
Ans 246- 32:49 Ans 260- 399
Ans 247- 5 Ans 261- 92%
Ans 248- A
Ans 249- 32
Ans 250- 70%
Ans 251- 4:3
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Q262. A start-up has 10 employees whose average age in 2010 was 45 years.
in 2013, the two eldest employees retired at the age of 60 years each. In
2014, 3 new trainee employees with a combined age of 50 years joined the
company. what is the average age of the company's employees in 2015?
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Q263. The average age of a husband and his wife was 23 years at the
beginning of their marriage. After five years they have a one-year old child.
The average age of the family of three, when the child was born, was
A) 23 years
B) 24 years
C) 18 years
D) 20 years
E) 21 years
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Q264. 40 students have some average age .One new student joins them of
age 25 years so that the new average age increased by 0.5 years. Find out
the new average of all 41 students.
A 5 years
B 4.5 years
C 4 years
D 5.5 years
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Q265. The average age of 8 persons in a committee is increased by 2 years

when two men aged 35 yrs and 45 yrs are substituted by two women. Find the
average age of these two women
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Q266. 24 students collected money for donation. The average contribution

was Rs. 50. Later on, their teacher also contributed some money. Now the
average contribution is Rs. 56. The teacher’s contribution is:

A) Rs. 200
B )Rs. 106
C) Rs. 56
D) Rs. 194
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Q267. The average of marks obtained by 100 candidates in a certain examination is

30. If the average marks of passed candidates is 35 and that of the failed candidates
is 10, what is the number of candidates who passed the examination?

A) 60
B) 70
C) 80
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Q268. A vessel is filled with liquid, 3 parts of which are water and 5 parts
syrup. How much of the mixture must be drawn off and replaced with water
so that the mixture may be half water and half syrup?

A.1/ 3 B.1/4 C.1/5 D.1/7

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Q269. A milk vendor has 2 cans of milk. The first contains 25% water and the rest
milk. The second contains 50% water. How much milk should he mix from each of
the containers so as to get 12 litres of milk such that the ratio of water to milk is 3 :
5?

A.4 litres, 8 litres B.6 litres, 6 litres C.5 litres, 7 litres D.7 litres, 5 litres
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Q270. In what ratio must a grocer mix two varieties of pulses costing Rs. 15 and Rs. 20
per kg respectively so as to get a mixture worth Rs. 16.50 kg?

A.3 : 7
B.5 : 7
C.7 : 3
D.7 : 5
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Q271. A merchant has 1000 kg of sugar part of which he sells at 8% profit

and the rest at 18% profit. He gains 14% on the whole. The Quantity sold
at 18% profit is
A) 400kg
B) 560kg
C) 600kg
D) 640kg
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Q272 . Two vessels A and B contain spirit and water in the ratio 5 : 2 and 7 : 6
respectively. Find the ratio in which these mixtures be mixed to obtain a new
mixture in vessel C containing spirit and water in the ratio 8 : 5 ?

1) 12 : 17
2) 8 : 9
3) 8 : 3
4) 7 : 9
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Q273. Wheat costing Rs. 30/kg, Rs. 35/kg and a third variety of wheat are
mixed in the ratio of 3 ∶ 4 ∶ 2. If the mixture costs Rs. 34/kg, then what will be
the cost (in Rs./kg) of the third variety of wheat?
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Q274. 700 gm of milk solution has 30% milk powder in it. How much milk powder
should be added to make it 60% in the solution?

A 478 gm
B 679 gm
C 375 gm
D 525 gm
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Q275. trader had 630 kgs of rice. He sold a part of it at 15% profit and the
rest at 8% profit, so that he made a total profit of 12%. How much rice (in
kgs) did he sell at 8% profit?

A. 270
B. 300
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Q276. A mixture of 189 lit that contain milk and water in the Ratio of 5:4. To
get a new mixture containing milk and water in the ratio of 5:3 the amount of
milk to be added is :
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Q277. In a mixture ratio of milk and water is 11:15. If 20 lit water is added in
the mixture, the Ratio becomes 2:3. find the total percentage of milk in the
new mixture.

A 20%
B 40%
C 60%
D 80%
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Q278. In a mixture of 120 liters, milk and water are in the ratio of 7:5 and in
the second mixture of 180 liters, milk and water are in the ratio of 2:1. Find
the percentage of total milk in the mixture of both.
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Q279. A mixture of 40 litres of milk and water contains 10% of water. How much water
must be added to make the water 20% in the new mixture?
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Q280. How many liters of oil at Rs.40 per liter should be mixed with 240 liters of
a second variety of oil at Rs.60 per liter so as to get a mixture whose cost is
Rs.52 per liter?
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Q281. In what proportion must a grocer mix sugar at Rs.12/kg and Rs.7/kg so as
to make a mixture worth Rs.8/kg?

A- 7 : 12
B- 1: 4
C- 2:3
D- 12 : 7
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Q282. In a coaching, the ratio of boys to girls is 1 : 3 respectively. When 104

more boys join the coaching, this ratio becomes 9 : 1. How many more girls
should join the coaching to make the number of boys and girls equal?
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Q283. In a 30 litre liquid, the ratio of syrup and water is 2 : 3. How much syrup need to
be added in the mixture so that the ratio of syrup and water will be 3 : 2?
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Q284. An alloy of 120gm is made of Iron, Copper and Aluminium in the

ratio 7 : 9 : 4 by mass. If in an experiment on this alloy, 12gm of Iron got
burnt and 3gm of Al was added. Then the new ratio of mass of Iron to
Copper to Aluminium is

A- 5 : 9 : 3
B- 10 : 18 : 3
C- 10 : 18 : 9
D- 5 : 17 : 9
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Q285. Vessel contains 3 litres of glycerine.1 litre of glycerine is taken out and 1 litre
of water is added. Then 1 litre of this mixture is taken out and 1 litre of water is
added. What is the ratio of water to glycerine in the final mixture?
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Q286. A certain quantity of a mixture of oil and water in the ratio 5 : 8, (called mixture
A) is mixed with equal volume of another mixture of oil and water (called mixture B),
such that the ratio of oil and water in the resultant mixture is 7 : 6. What is the ratio of
oil and water in the mixture B?

A) 9 : 13
B )9 : 4
C) 8 : 5
D) None of these
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ANSWER KEYS :-
Ans 262) 39 Ans 277) 40%
Ans 263) 18 Ans 278) 63.33%
Ans 264) 5 years Ans 279) 5
Ans 265) 48 Ans 280) 160
Ans 266) Rs 200 Ans 282) 1:4
Ans 267) 80 Ans 282) 96
Ans 268) 1/5 Ans 283) 15
Ans 269) Option B Ans 284) Option C
Ans 270) 7:3 Ans 285) 5:4
Ans 271) 600 kg Ans 286) 9:4
Ans 272) 7:9
Ans 273) 38
Ans 274) 525 Gram
Ans 275) 270
Ans 276) 35
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Q287. A, B and C are positive integers such that A:B is 3:4 and B:C is 7:9 .
Which of the following is a possible value of 8A+3B+7C ?

a) 1512
b) 1530
c) 1548
d) 1566
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Q288. Pipe A can fill a tank in 50 minutes while pipe B can fill it in 60 minutes. If
both the pipes are opened together, After how many minutes should pipe A to
be closed so that the tank be full in 36 minutes?
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Q289. If 9 programmers working 8 hours a day can finish the cording of

a project in 36 days , then how many days will be taken by 12 software
engineers working 6 hours a day to finish the coding of the project ? It
is known that 2 software engineers code as much as 3 programmers in
the same time .
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Q290. Rohan mixes a solution 'A' having water and oil in the
ratio 3 : 4 with another solution 'B' having oil and turpenne in
the ratio 5 : 6.How much solution 'A' and solution 'B' should he
mix so that the amount of oil in the new mixture is 9 litres? (All
values are integers)

a) 11l and 7l. b) 7l and 11l c) 9l and 9l d) 9l and 7l.

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Q291. Pipes P and Q are attached to a tank. Pipe P takes 12 minutes more
than pipe Q to completely fill the tank which is empty. If the two pipes
start filling the tank, it gets filled in 8 minutes. How many minutes does
pipe P independently take to fill the tank
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Q292. Sanjay has 35 pens and Mohan has 40 pens. These two, along with four other
friends, collect their pens together. If Sanjay takes back his pens, the average number
of pens with the rest of them is 20. What will be the average number of pens with
the rest of them, if Mohan also takes back his pens?
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Q293. Arun can empty a completely filled water tank using a bucket in
5 minutes. Varunpours 10 litres of water in the tank per minute. If the
tank is initially half filled and both Arun and Varun start their work, the
tank will be completely emptied in 5 minutes. Find the capacity (in
litres) of the tank.
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Q294. The price of a smart TV that was selected by Asmain the month of
March rose by 15% in April. But the shopkeeper gave her a discount of Rs.
1725, which was also 15% of the price of the TV in April. What was the price
(in Rs.) of the smart TV in the month of March?
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Q295. A man buys 2 varieties of rice, the first at Rs. 65 per kilo and the second at
Rs. 72 per kilo. After thoroughly mixing them, he sells the mixture for Rs. 84 per
kilo making a 20% profit. If he sold 21 kilos of this mixture, how many kilos of the
first variety of rice must he have bought?
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Q296. The marks scored by 10 students in the first unit test are 75, M2, M3, ...,M8,
M9 and 93 when arranged in an ascending order. The average of M2, M3, ..., M7 is 82
and the average of M4, M5, ..., M9 is 86.Find the difference between the average of
three lowest scores and the average of three highest scores
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Q297. There are 3 cups of equal volume containing copper sulphate solution. Each cup is
filled at least up to 50% of its volume. The concentrations of the solutions in the three
cups are 40%, 50% and 60% respectively. If the solutions of these three cups are emptied
in a big bowl and mixed properly, what can be the minimum and maximum concentration
of copper sulphate n the resulting solution?

A) 45%, 57.5%
B) 46.5%, 54.5%
C) 47.5%, 52.5%
D) 48%, 52%
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Q298. The manufacturer of a laptop sells it to a distributor at a profit of 12.5%. The

distributor sells the laptop to a retailer at a profit of 11.11%. The retailer puts a price
tag which increases the price of the laptop by 33.33%. The retailer offers a 12.5%
discount on the marked price and ultimately sells it to its customer at Rs. 35000.
What is the cost (in Rs.) of manufacturing of the laptop?

16000
20000
24000
32000
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Q299. A cricket player’s average score increases by 2 if the first 15 innings are
not considered, and decreases by 2 if the last 15 innings are not considered.
What is the number of innings the cricketer has played if his average scores for
the first 15 and the last 15 innings are 17 and 25, respectively?
42
43
44
45
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Q300. What quantity, in litres, of a solution of acid and water in the ratio
7 : 9 should be mixed with 15 litres of another solution having acid-water
ratio 7 : 5 in order to get a 50% solution of acid?
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Q301. Four pipes A, B, C and D are attached to a tank that can operate as
inlet as well as outlet pipes. A, B, C and D can completely fill or completely
empty the tank in 5, 10, 15 and 20 minutes respectively. How much time
will it take to empty the completely filled tank if only A operates as inlet
and B, C and D as outlets?
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Q302. Asha and Usha stitch 180 shirts in 20 hours, Usha and Nisha
can stitch them in 12 hours while Asha and Nisha take 15 hours How
much time (in hours) will be required by the three together to stitch
180 shirts
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Q303. A beaker contained V litres of a mixture of milk and water, with milk
and water in the ratio of 3 :2 The total volume of the mixture was
increased by 60 by adding water Next, 38 4 litres of the solution in the
beaker was replaced by water If the final ratio of milk and water in the
beaker is 3 :7 find the value of V (in litres
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Q304. Jivesh has 20 pencils of different lengths. If four longest pencils

are removed, the average length of the pencils with him reduces by 1.75
cm. If the average length of these 4 longest pencils is 1.7 times that of
the average length of the 20 pencils, then the average length of the
remaining 16 pencils is:
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Q305. Amir alone can complete a job in 10 days and Salman alone can
complete it in 8 days. Amir, Salman and Shahrukh together complete the
job in 3 days. A similar job but of higher volume has been assigned to
Salman& Shahrukh. The duo has decided to work on alternate days. Amir
says that the work will be completed in equal number of days if either of
them starts the work. What is the minimum value of the ratio of volume of
new job to that of the original one?
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Q306. Shopkeeper sells a radio at 10% discount and yet manages a

10% profit. Find his profit/loss percentage, if he were to instead sell
the same radio at a discount of 20%.
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ANSWER KEYS :-
Ans 287) A Ans 298) 24,000
Ans 288) 20 sec Ans 299) 45
Ans 289) 24 Ans 300) 20
Ans 290) 7 and 11 Ans 301) 60
Ans 291) 12 Ans 302) 10
Ans 292) 15 Ans 303) 120
Ans 293) Check Solution Ans 304) 8.25 cm
Ans 294) 10,000 Ans 305) 7:6
Ans 295) 6 Ans 306) 20/9
Ans 296) 14
Ans 297) 47.5%,52.5%
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Q307. Ram observed that with the existing number of Students , he could
finish a job in 12 days. However, if he added 20 more students to the existing
team, the job will be completed in 10 days. How many days would a single
student take to complete the entire job?
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Q308. If an article is marked up by 60% above its cost price and

then sold at 3/4 th of its marked price, find the percentage of
profit made on the article.
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Q309. On 1st January, 2000 the average age of a family of 6

people was ‘A’ years. After 5 years a child was born in the
family and one year after that the average age was again found
to be ‘A’ years. What is the value of ‘A’? (Assume that there are
no other deaths and births.).
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Q310. The cost price of four articles A, B, C and D are ‘a’, ‘b’, ‘c’ and ‘d’
respectively. A, B, C and D are sold at profits of 10%, 20%, 30% and 40%
respectively. If the net profit on the sale of these four articles is 25%, ‘a’, ‘b’, ‘c’
and ‘d’ cannot be in the ratio
(a) 4 : 1 : 4 : 3. (b) 1 : 2 : 2 : 1. (c) 2 : 3 : 6 : 1 (d) 5 : 2 : 7 : 3
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Q311. Pipes A and B can completely fill a water tank independently in 4 hrs and
5 hrs respectively. A pipe C can empty the tank filled completely with water in 3
hrs. Initially the tank is empty and all the pipes are closed. Pipe A is opened first
at time t = 0 hrs and pipe C is opened at the instant when the tank is exactly half
filled with water. Pipe B is opened after pipe C and at the instant when the tank is
exactly one- fourth filled with water. Find the total time taken to fill the tank
completely counting from t = 0 hrs
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Q312. If A is twice more efficient as B, B is thrice more efficient as C, C is

twice more efficient than D then what is the ratio A:B:C:D?
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Q313. Rs. 4,500 was distributed among Aman, Baman and Chaman. From the amount
that they received Aman, Baman and Chaman spent Rs.110, Rs.120 and Rs.140
respectively. The amounts then left with Aman and Baman were in the ratio 3 : 4 and
with Baman and Chaman were in the ratio 5 : 6. What amount (in Rs.) did Baman
receive?
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Q314. Ram offers a packet of 5 chocolates at the list price of 4 chocolates and on purchasing
19 such packets gives one packet absolutely free. A trader receives 20 packets of the
chocolates in the offer and sells each chocolate at its list price. What is his net percentage
profit?

(a) 24% (b) 31.58% (c) 35% (d) 53.75%

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Q315. If the average weight of a group of 15 items is 30 kg and

none of the items weighs more than 32 kg, find the least
possible weight (in kg) of any item in the group
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Q316. Three persons, A, B and C, have a certain number of chocolates with each
of them. The number of chocolates with B is 20% more than that with A, which,
in turn, is two-thirds of that with C. If the number of chocolates with B is less
than the total number of chocolates with A and C together by x percent, what is
the value of x?
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Q317. CEPL’ manufacture clutches. Total expenses of manufacturing are partly

fixed and partly vary with the number of clutches manufactured. The average cost
of manufacturing a clutch is Rs. 350 when 100 clutches are manufactured and Rs.
250 when 300 clutches are manufactured in a month. Find the average cost of a
clutch if 400 clutches are manufactured in a month.

Rs. 275
Rs. 428.5
Rs. 237.5
Rs. 150
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Q318. A trader sells 10 litres of a mixture of paints A and B, where the

amount of B in the mixture does not exceed that of A. The cost of paint A per
litre is Rs. 8 more than that of paint B. If the trader sells the entire mixture for
Rs. 264 and makes a profit of 10%, then the highest possible cost of paint B, in
Rs. per litre, is (CAT 2018)
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Q319. An alloy is prepared by mixing metals A, B, C in the proportion 3 : 4 : 7 by

volume. Weights of the same volume of metals A, B, C are in the ratio 5 : 2 : 6. In 130 kg
of the alloy, the weight, in kg, of the metal C is (CAT 2020)
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Q320. This morning, Gopal, the local milkman, was in a hurry to leave home for
selling milk. in his hurry he asked Suppandi, his servant lo pour half of the water
from the water drum into the milk drum containing pure milk and then to bring him
a full can of the diluted milk for selling. However, Suppandi got confused and he
poured half the milk from the milk drum Into the waler drum and brought out a full
can of the contents from the latter for his master to sell. The concentration of the
milk in the can that Suppandi brought was 1/n times that intended by Gopal. If n=3
what would be the concentration of the milk had Gopal mixed the entire contents of
the milk drum and the water drum?
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Q321. Beaker A and beaker B contain methanol, ethanol and phenyl in the ratio
1:3:2 and 2:1:5 respectively. Some parts of the solutions from beaker A and beaker B
are thoroughly mixed and put into another beaker C. Which of the following cannot
be the ratio of methanol, phenyl and ethanol in beaker C?

(a) 10:23:15 (b) 7:15:16 (c) 6:13:13 (d) 9:20:18

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ANSWER KEYS :-
Ans 307) 100
Ans 308) %P=20
Ans 309) 37
Ans 310) D
Ans 311) 80/7
Ans 312) 36:12:3:1
Ans 313) 70
Ans 314) 31.58
Ans 315) 2 kg
Ans 316) 52
Ans 317) Check Solution
Ans 318) 20
Ans 319) 84
Ans 320) 20%
Ans 321) D
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Question 322- Ram Walks at 1/3rd his original speed & reaches
school 20 minutes late . Find the time taken by Ram usually and
time taken at the reduced speed ?
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Question 323- A kid goes from home to school at 10km/hr . He reaches

school 15 minutes late , while coming back he increased his speed by
5km/hr and reaches home 25 minutes earlier than usual time . Find out the
distance from Home to School ?
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Question 324- Travelling at 3/7th of his usual speed , a person is 24

minutes late in reaching his office . Find the usual time taken by him to
cover this distance .
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Question 325- A man walks at the rate of 30 kmph , he misses a train by 10
minutes. However , if he walks at the rate of 40kmph , he reaches the
station 5 minutes before the departure of the train . Find the distance to
the station ?
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Question 326- A train meets with an accident and travels at 4/7th of its
regular speed hereafter and hence it reaches its destination 36 minutes late .
Had the accident occurred 30 kms further , the train would have been late by
only 21 minutes . Find the regular speed of the train .
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Question 327- If Bisan Singh Cycles at 10km/hr then arrives at a
certain place at 2 pm . If he Cycles at 15km/hr , he will arrive at
same place at 10 AM . At what speed must he cycle to get there
at 12:00 PM
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Question 328- Rajdhani Express ,after travelling a distance of 70 km , meets with
an accident . As a result it loses 25% speed and reaches destination 37 minutes
late . Had the accident been at 85 km from starting point, it would have been
late by 25 minutes . What is the original speed of train?
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Question 329- Once Vineet starts chasing a girl . Ratio of speed

of Vineet and girl is 7:4 and to catch that girl Vineet has to
cover 60 meter extra than that of girl . Find total distance
Vineet has to run to catch that girl .
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Question 330-Ram escapes from his home at 2:00 PM and travels away at a
speed of 30 km/h . His mom realize the escape at 3:30 PM and start chasing at a
speed of 40 kmph. At what time and distance she will catch Ram ?
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Question 331- A car overtakes an Bike at Moti Nagar at 9:00 AM . The car
reaches CP at 11:00 AM and immediately turns back . It again meets the bike
at jhandewalan at 11:30 AM . at what time will the bike reach CP
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Question 332- A and B start travelling at 16km/hr and 21 km/hr from two
points P and Q respectively towards each other . When they met , it was
observed that one of them has travelled 75 km more than the other .Find the
distance between P and Q
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Question 333- A thief escapes from a prison at 2 pm and travels away at a
speed of 30 kmph. The police realize the escape at 3:30 pm and start the
chase then at a speed of 40 kmph. At what time will the police catch the
thief? At what distance from the prison is the thief caught?
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Question 334 - Navjivan Express from Ahmedabad to Chennai leaves Ahmedabad at 6:30 am
and travels at 50 km per hour towards Baroda situated 100 kms away. At 7:00 am Howrah -
Ahmedabad Express leaves Baroda towards Ahmedabad and travels at 40 kms per hour. At
7:30 Mr. Shah, the traffic controller at Baroda realises that both the trains are running on
the same tack. How much time does he have to avert a head-on collision between the two
trains?
1) 15 minutes 2) 20 minutes 3) 25 minutes 4) 30 minutes
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Question 335- A train X departs from station A at 11:00 am for station B,

which is 180 km away. Another train Y departs from station B at 11:00 am for
station A. Train X travels of an average speed of 70 kmph and does not stop
anywhere until it reaches station B. Train Y travels at an average speed of 50
kmph, but has to stop for 15 minutes at station C, which is 60 kms away from
station B enroute to station A. Ignoring the lengths of the trains, what is the
distance, to the nearest km, from station A to the point where the trains cross
each other?
a. 112. b. 118 c. 120 d. None of these
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Question 336- Yash Chopra’s office is 10 km from his home, which he covers in 2
hours,. One day, as he was on his way to office, he passed his friend’s office who
immediately pointed out that he had forgotten to wear his shoes. Yash Chopra
therefore turned back, put on his shoes and set off the office. As the passed his
friend’s office, she again pointed out that now he had forgotten his glasses. Yash
Chopra again went back, collected his glasses and reached the office 3 hours late.
What is the distance between his home and friend’s office?
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ANSWER KEYS :-
322) 10,30
323) 20 km
324) 18 m
325) 30 km
326) 90
327) 12
328) 25km/hr
329) 140 m
330) 8 pm
331) 12:20 PM
332) 555
333) 8 PM
334) 20 min
335) 112
336) 3.75
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Q 337. The average of n numbers is 42. If 75% of the numbers
are increased by 4 each and the remaining numbers are
decreased by 8 each, then what is the average of the numbers,
so obtained?
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Q338. The average of 18 numbers is 37.5. If six numbers of average

x are added to them, then the average of all the numbers increases
by one. The value of x is:
A. 41.5. B. 40 C. 42 D. 38.5
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Q339. Some amount of acid is taken out of a 54 L vessel full of acid and
then an equal amount of water is added to it. The process is repeated
once more. As a result, the vessel now contains 24 L pure acid. How
much of the acid was taken out initially (in L)?
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Q340. After the addition of 35 liters of water to a can of diluted milk, the
concentration of milk in the can becomes 30%. Now, further 40 liters of
water is added to the can and the concentration of milk in the can gets
reduced by 10 percentage points. How many more liters of water must
be added to the can now such that the concentration of milk in the can
becomes 8%?
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Q341. When Sunny will be as old as his father is at present, Sunny will be five
times as old as his son is at present. Also, by then Sunny’s son will be six years
older than the age of Sunny at present. The sum of the ages of Sunny’s father
and Sunny is 85 years at present. What is the sum of the ages of Sunny’s son
and Sunny at present?
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Q342. The mean of 100 items was 46. Later on it was discovered that
an item 16 was misread as 61 and another item 43 was misread as 34.
It was also found that the number of items was 90 and not 100. Then
what is the correct mean?
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Q343. The cost price of 10 apples is equal to the selling price of the
15 bananas. If a banana was bought at the same price as that of an
apple, then percentage profit/loss on selling 12 bananas will be

a) 200/3% b) 100/3%. c) 50%. d) 25%

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Q344. Ashwin bought a radio at Rs 2000. He marked it at Rs3000 and then

sold it after giving a certain discount. If the discount percentage offered by
him and the magnitude of the profit/loss percentage made by him were in
the ratio 2 : 3, it follows that

(A) he made a profit of 25%.

(B) he made a profit of 16.67%.
(C) he made a loss of 16.67%.
(D) he made a loss of 25%.
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Q345. A merchant sells his cloth at 20% profit. However he finds that on
average for every 20 m he sells, 3 m of cloth go to waste. What is his
approximate profit or loss in the transaction?

1) 2% profit 2) 4.34% profit. 3) 0.4% profit. 4) 0.75% loss

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Q346. A man sells two scooters for Rs.12000 each. He makes a profit of
20% on one and a loss of 20% on the other. The profit/loss, on the
whole, is

a) Rs.1000 profit b) Rs.1000 loss. c) Rs.960 profit d) Rs.960 loss

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ANSWER KEYS :-
Ans 337- 43
Ans 338- 41.5
Ans 339- 18 L
Ans 340- 180
Ans 341- 41 years
Ans 342- 50.7
Ans 343- 100/3%
Ans 344- A
Ans 345- 4.34% profit
Ans 346- Rs.1000 loss
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Q347. The average marks scored by two sections − A and B − of a class
are 70 and 75 respectively. Three students moved from section B to
section A, thereby interchanging the average marks of the two sections.
Find the total number of students in the two sections put together, if the
average marks scored by the three students who moved is 95.
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Q348. Anna, Ben and Clark together have a total of Rs.100 with them. If
Anna gives Rs.13 to Ben, then Ben will have four times of what Anna has,
whereas if Clark gives Rs.7 to Ben, then Clark will have one-third of what
Ben has. What amount should Ben give to Clark, so that both of them have
the same amount?
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Q349. The profit made on selling 5 m of a cloth equals the cost price of
2 m of that cloth. Find the profit percentage in selling each metre of the
cloth
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Q350. In what ratio, sugar costing Rs.60 per kg be mixed with sugar
costing Rs.42 per kg such that by selling the mixture at Rs.56 per kg
there is a gain of 12%?

(a) 8 : 9 (b) 5 : 6 (c) 5 : 7 (d) 4 : 5

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Q351. A shopkeeper mixed 3 varieties of wheat costing Rs. 12 per kg,

Rs. 18 per kg and Rs. 21 per kg and sold the mixture at Rs. 15 per kg at
20% profit. Which of the following represents a possible ratio of the
varieties mixed?

1.60:1:3
2. 44:1:2
3. 39:2:1
4. 27:1:1
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Q 352. Mr. Shahzar while buying clothes uses a faulty meter tape which
actually measures 110 cm for a meter and while selling them he uses
another faulty meter tape which actually measures 90 cm for a meter. If
he buys the cloth at a discount of 5% on the marked price and sells it at a
discount of 10% on the same marked price, then what is his percentage
gain or loss?
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Q353. A vessel filled to the brim contains a mixture of two liquids ‘M’
and ‘N’ in the ratio 7 : 5. The volume of the vessel is 36 litres. If a certain
volume of liquid is taken out from the vessel and the vessel is filled up using
liquid ‘M’, the ratio becomes 13 : 5. What is the volume of liquid
withdrawn?
A)10 litres B) 5 litres C) 9 litres D) 12 litres
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Q354. Dishonest dealer sells goods at 10% loss on cost price but uses
15 grams instead of 20 grams. what is his percentage profit or loss?
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Q 355. A dishonest dealer makes cheating of 25% at the time of buying

and 45% at the time of selling the articles. He sell goods at 15% loss. Find
profit/ loss%.
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Q 356. A tank has four emptying taps, all of equal efficiencies, but each
fixed at (1/5)th, (2/5 )th, (3/5)th and (4/5)th of the height of the tank
respectively. Two filling taps, each of which individually can fill the tank in
200 minutes, are also connected to the tank. If the ratio of the efficiency
of each emptying tap and the efficiency of each filling tap is 1 : 3, and all
the six taps are opened simultaneously, then in how much time will the
empty tank be filled?
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ANSWER KEYS :-
Ans 347) 27
Ans 348) 11
Ans 349) 40%
Ans 350) 4:5
Ans 351) 39:2:1
Ans 352) 15.8%. Profit
Ans 353) 12 L
Ans 354) 20% profit
Ans 355) 93.18%
Ans 356) 174
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Q357- You walk upwards on an escalator, with a speed of 1 step per second. After 50
steps you are at the end. You turn around and run downwards with a speed of 5 steps per
second. After 125 steps you are back at the beginning of the escalator. How many steps do
you need if the escalator stands still.
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Q358- A walks down an up-escalator and counts 150 steps. B walks up

the same escalator and counts 75 steps. A takes three times as many steps
in a given time as B. How many steps are visible on Escalator.
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Q359- Shyama and Vyom walk up an escalator (moving stairway). The escalator moves at a
constant speed. Shyama takes three steps for every two of Vyom’s steps. Shyama gets to the
top of the escalator after having taken 25 steps, while Vyom (because his slower pace lets the
escalator do a little more of the work) takes only 20 steps to reach the top. If the escalator
were turned off, how many steps would they have to take to walk up? (CAT 2001)

a) 40 b) 50 c) 60 d) 80
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Q360 - A man can walk up a moving “up” escalator in 30 second. The same can walk
down this moving “up” escalator in 90 seconds. Assume his walking speed is same
Upwards & downwards. How much time he will take to walk up the escalator when
escalator is not moving
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Q361- An escalator is descending at constant speed. A walks down and takes 50 steps
to reach the bottom. B runs down faster and takes 90 steps to reach the bottom. If B
takes 90 steps in the same time as A takes 10 steps then how many steps are visible
when the escalator is not operating
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Q362- On an upward moving escalator Amit, Sanjeev and Vicky take 10 steps, 8 steps
and 5 steps respectively to reach the top. On the same upward moving escalator Amit
takes 30 steps to come down from the top. Find the ratio of the time taken by Sanjeev
and Vicky to reach the top.
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Q363- Two sisters go up 40-step escalators. The older sister rides the up escalator, but
can only take 10 steps up during the ride since it is quite crowded. The younger sister
runs up the empty down escalator, arriving at the top at the same time as her sister.
How many steps does the younger sister take.
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Q364. It takes 40 seconds for A to climb up a moving up escalator and

60 seconds to move down the same moving up escalator. How long will
it take for him to move up the escalator when it is switched off?
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Q365. Two persons A and B are walking up on an escalator that is also going up. A takes
10 steps to reach the top whereas B takes 12 steps to reach the top. If the speeds of A
and B are 4 steps per second and 5 steps per second, find the total number of steps on
the escalator when it is stationary.
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Q366. Running at a uniform speed in a race, A can beat B by 20 m, B can beat C by 10 m, and A
can beat C by 28 m. How long is the race?
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Q367. Three athletes A, B and C run a race, B finished 24 meters ahead of C and 36 m ahead of A,
while C finished 16 m ahead of A. If each athlete runs the entire distance at their respective
constant speeds, what is the length of the race.
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Q368. In a certain race, A beats B by 15 m and C by 40 m. In the same race, B beats C by 30 m.

Find the length of the race.
a) 120 m b) 105 m c) 90 m d) 75 m
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Q369. A can run 330 metres in 41 seconds and B in 44 seconds. By how many seconds will B win if
he has 30 metres start?
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Q370. A can beat B by 44 metres in a 1760 meter race, while in a 1320 metres race, B can beat C
by 30 metres. By what distance (in meters) will A beat C in a 880 meter race
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Q371. In a race of three horses, the first beat the second by 11 metres and the third by 90 metres.
If the second beat the third by 80 metres, what was the length, in metres, of the racecourse
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Q372. In a km race, if A gives B 40m start, A wins by 19 sec., but if A gives B 30 sec. start, B wins
by 40 m. Find the time that each takes to run a km.
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Q373. In a race of 1 km, Abdul beats Bilal by 25 seconds, who beats Faheed by 75 seconds. If Bilal
and Faheed run an 800 m race, then Bilal would beat Faheed by 300 metres. Find the time taken
by Abdul to run a 800 m race.
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Q374. In a 100 m race , A gives B a start of 20 m but still wins the race by 5 Seconds . But If A gives
a head start of 40 m to B , The race ends in a dead heat. How long does A take to run 200 m ?
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Q375. Two guys Hunny and shahzar walk around a circle of 1200 meters .Speed of hunny is 150
meters/second and speed of shahzar is 80 meter per second. If we both start from the same point
at the same time and walk in same direction then
a) when will we be together at starting point
b) Number of disting meeting points
c) when will we be together at first time
d) At what distance from the start they will meet at first time
e) Find distance travelled by hunny and shahzar when we meet for 60th time
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Q376. Question2- Two guys Hunny and shahzar walk around a circle of 1200 meters ... speed of
hunny is 150 meters/second and speed of shahzar is 80 meter per second. If we both start fom the
same point at the same time and walk in opposite direction then
a) When will we be together at starting point
b) Number of distinct meeting points
c) when will we be together at first time
d) At what distance they will meet at first time
e) Find distance travelled by hunny and shahzar when we meet for 60th time
f) 100th meeting will coincide with which number of meeting
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Q377. A , B and C running at speeds of 150 m/s , 70 m/s and 110 m/s respectively on a circular
track of 1000 meters, A and B running clockwise and C anti-clockwise. If they keep running
indefinitely, at how many distinct point on the circle would they meet? what is the distance
covered by each when they meet for 100th time.. ?
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Q378. Seeta and Geeta are moving around a circular track with speeds in the ratio of 17:1. They
start from a point X on the circular track simultaneously in the same direction. During the time
Geeta covers 1 lap, how many times are they diametrically opposite each other
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Q379. A & B start running around a circular track from same point at the same time in the same
direction. A takes 7minutes to complete one round while B takes 9minutes to complete one round.
When they meet for third time, How many rounds would A have completed?
1) 10.5 rounds 2) 15 rounds 3) 21 rounds 4) 27 rounds 5) 13.5 rounds
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Q380. Three boys A,B,C start running at constant speeds from the same point P along the
circumference of a circular track. Speeds of A,B,C are in the ratio 5:1:1. A and B runs clockwise
while C runs anticlockwise. Each time A meets B or C on the track, he gives them a card. What is
the difference in the number of cards received by B and C if A distributes 33 CARDS in total.
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Q381. Which of the following cannot be the ratio of speeds of two joggers running on a circular
jogging track if while running they meet at a diametrically opposite point to the point from where
both of them started?
(1) 3 : 5 (2) 1 : 3 (3) 1 : 5 (4) 2 : 5
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Q382. A and B travel around a circular path at uniform speed in opposite direction , starting from
diametrically opposite points at the same time.they meet each other first after B has traveled 100
mtrs and meet again 60 mtrs before A completed one round . the circumference of the park is
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Q383. Priyanka and Parul run a race with their speeds in the ratio of 5 : 3. They prefer to run on a
circular track of circumference 1.2 km. What is the distance covered by Priyanka when she passes
Parul the seventh time? (they run in the same direction)
(1) 21 km (2) 26 km (3) 32 km (4) 33 km
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Q384. A and B start simultaneously in opposite directions covering a circular track of length
2100m. A - 7m/s and B - 3m/s initially. With every meeting, they exchange their speeds and they
meet a total of 10 times. How much distance does B cover?
a) 1400m b) 1050m c) 700m d) none of these
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Q385. Saral and Abhishek start simultaneously from a point on a circular track in the same
direction at uniform speeds of 'x' km/hr and 'y' km/hr respectively. They meet for the first time
when Saral is in his third round. Which of the following cannot be the value of x : y?
1) 11:7 2) 9:5 3) 11:5 4) 13:7
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ANSWER KEYS :-

Ans 377- 2 , Distance by A= 100*15/2 Rounds , Distance by B=7/2 *100 Rounds

Ans 378- 16 times
Ans 379- 13.5 rounds
Ans 380- 7
Ans 381- 2:5
Ans 382- 480 Meters
Ans 383- 21 Km
Ans 384- 10500 Km
Ans 385 – 11:5
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Q386. Karan and Arjun run a 100m race, where Karan beats Arjun by 10 meters. Doing a favor,
Karan starts 10 meters behind the starting line in the second race. They both run at their earlier
speeds. Which of the following is true in connection with the second race? (CAT 2004)

(1)Both reach the finishing point simultaneously

(2) Arjun beats Karan by 1m
(3) Arjun beats Karan by 11m
(4) Karan beats Arjun by 1m (5) none of these
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Q387. Ram and Shyam run a race between points A and B, 5 km apart. Ram starts at 9 a.m. from A
at the speed of 5km per hour, reaches B and returns to A at the same speed. Shyam starts at 9.45
a.m. from A at the speed of 10 km per hour, reached B and come back to A at the same speed. At
what time do ram and shaym meet each other?
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Q388. A car on its way to Delhi overtakes a cyclist at 9 AM, the car reaches Delhi at 10:30 and
after waiting for a hour returns meeting the cyclist at noon. Supposing the speeds of the car and
the cycle to be uniform, find when the cyclist will reach Delhi?
1)2:00 PM
2)1:15PM
3)1:30 PM
4) 1:25 PM
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Q389. Rajdhani Express leaves Delhi at 10 AM towards Jaipur and Shatabadi Express leaves Delhi
at 11:30 AM towards Jaipur. At 11 AM, Jaipur Express leaves Jaipur towards Delhi. The speed of
Rajdhani Express is 80 Kmph, Shatabadi Express is 60 Kmph. If the Jaipur Express crosses Rajdhani
at 1 PM and Shatabadi at 2 PM, find the speed of the Jaipur Express.
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Q390. A man completes a journey in 20 hours. He travels half of the journey’s distance at the rate
of 84 km/hr and the other half of the journey’s distance at the rate of 96 km/hr. Find the total
distance that the man covered during the journey?
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Q391. The distance between the houses of Alok and Basee is 3.6 km. Alok and Basee start driving
from their respective houses at the speeds of 54 km/hr and 27 km/hr respectively towards each
other simultaneously. How far from Alok’s house do they meet?
a) 1.6 km b) 1.8 km c) 2.4 km d) 2.7 km
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Q392. A man covers a certain distance on scooter. Had he moved 3 kmph faster, he would have
taken 40 minutes less. If he had moved 2 kmph slower, he would have taken 40 minutes more. The
distance (in km) is:
(a) 20 (b) 36 (c) 37.5 (d) 40
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Q393. Pradeep could either walk or drive to office. The time taken to walk to the office is 8 times
the driving time. One day, his wife took the car making him walk to office. After walking 1km, he
reached a temple when his wife called to say that he can now take the car. Pradeep figure that
continuing to walk to the office will take as long as walking back home and then driving to the
office. Calculate the distance between the temple and the office.
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Q394. To travel a certain distance X km in a river downstream, a boat takes the same time it takes
to travel (X−12) km upstream. If the ratio of speed of the river current and the speed of the boat in
still water is 1:5, find the value of X.
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Q395. Among three points on the bank of a river flowing at a constant current speed, Q is at equal
distances from P and R. A man swims for 10 hrs to reach Q from P and then back to P. Further, he
takes 4 hrs to swim from P to R. What is the ratio of the swimming speed of the man in still water
and the speed of the river current?
a) 3 : 5 b) 5 : 3 c)1 : 2 d)2 : 5 e)3 : 2
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Q396. Two boats P and Q with still water speeds 12 km/hr and 15 km/hr respectively, start at the
same time towards each other from two points 108 km apart. If P moves downstream and Q
upstream, they will meet after a time period of ?
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Q397. Two cars A and B left point P moving in the same direction at 9 am and 9.30 am with
constant speeds 45 km/hr and V km/hr respectively. If car B traveled 90 km before it met car A
what is the value of V?
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Q398. Ramit and Amit travel with uniform speed from A to B and B to A respectively, via the same
route. Ramit starts at 5:00 am while Amit starts four hours later. They meet, on the way, at 1:10
pm. At what time do they reach their destinations , if both of them reach at the same time ?
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Q399. Sarah was driving at a uniform speed in order to reach her office ten minutes early. But in
the last 15 km, she could only drive at half that speed. As a result, she reached her office 10
minutes late. What was her speed in km/hr before she slowed down
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Q400. Ram and Sameer walk up the first escalator at their respective uniform speeds. Ram
took 2 steps in the time that Sameer took one. Ram and Sameer reached the top of the
escalator after taking 30 steps and 20 steps respectively. Ram then started to walk down
the second escalator. At the same time, Tarun started to walk up the second escalator at
twice Ram’s speed. How many steps would Tarun take before meeting Ram
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ANSWER KEYS :-
386) 4
387) 10:10 AM
388) 1:30 PM
389) 90km/hr
390) 1792 KM
391) 2.4 km
392)40
393) 9/7
394) 36km
395) 5:3
396) 4 hour
397) 60
398) 7 PM
399) 45km/hr
400)40 Steps
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Q401. A contractor observed that with the existing number of workers, he could finish a project
in 12 days. However, if he added 20 more workers to the existing team, the project will be
completed in 10 days. How many days would a single worker take to complete the entire
project?
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Q402. A boat started from a point in a river and traveled a certain distance upstream, after which
it turned back and returned to its starting point. If the boat covered the round trip journey in two
hours and the net speed of the boat upstream was 25% of that downstream, how much more time
(in minutes) did the boat take to travel upstream than what it took to travel downstream?
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Q403. At what percentage above the C.P. must an article be marked so as to gain 33% after
allowing a customer a discount of 5%?
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Q404. When a producer allows 36% commission on the retail price of his product,he earns a profit
of 8.8%.What would be his profit percent
if the commission is reduced by 24%?
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Q405. If an article is marked up by 60% above its cost price and then sold at 3/4 th of its marked
price, if profit is a% . Find value of a .
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Q406. Sita’s daughter, Gita, has twice as many sisters as brothers, whereas her brother, Kalu, has
thrice as many sisters as brothers. How many children does Sita have?
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Q407. An immiscible mixture contains three different types of liquids A, B and C. The ratio of
liquids A and B is 1 : 2 and the volume of liquid C is 20 litres. 5 litres of C and 2 litres of A are
replaced by equal volumes of liquid B. The ratio of liquids A and B becomes 1 : 3. Find the volume
of the mixture (in litres).
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Q408. If the average of nine consecutive even natural numbers, the greatest of which is y, is x,
find the average of 17 consecutive natural numbers, the least of which is x?
a) y – 2 b) y c) y – 1 d) y + 4
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Q409. In what ratio must a person mix three kinds of wheat costing him Rs 1.20,Rs 1.44 and Rs
1.74 per Kg so that the mixture may be worth Rs 1.41 per Kg?
A.12 : 7 : 7
B.25 : 45 : 8
C.27 : 23 : 6
D.11 : 45 : 7
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Q410. A shopkeeper sells a radio at 10% discount and yet manages a 10% profit. Find his
profit/loss percentage, if he were to instead sell the same radio at a discount of 20%.
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Q411. The ratio of milk and water in a mixture of the two is 3 : 1. First, the volume of the mixture
is increased by 50% by adding water. Next, 25 litres of the mixture is replaced with water. If the
final ratio of milk and water in the resultant mixture is 1 : 3, find the initial quantity of mixture
present (in litres).
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Q412. Bhalu, the farmer purchased some sickles and axes for a total of Rs.2910. Each sickle costed
Rs.150 and each axe costed Rs.180. If he had purchased as many axes as the sickles he actually
bought and vice versa, he would have spent less than what he actually did. Find the number of
axes he purchased.
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Q413. How many kgs of tea worth Rs. 25 per kg must be blended with 30 kgs of tea worth Rs. 30
per kgs so that by selling the blended variety at Rs. 30 per kgs there should be a gain of 10%?
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Q414. In a group of five persons Amir, Bhutal, Chetali, Dhani and Esha such that there are two
married couples and one person who is not married. The average weight of the two couples is 79
kgs and 82 kgs. The average weight of all the women in the mentioned group is 78 kgs and the
average weight of all the persons in the group is 80 kgs. Further, the weight of Chetali is 2 kgs
more than the weight of Esha and weight of Bhutal is 8 kgs more than the weight of Amir. The
weight of Dhani is 78 kgs and the weight of each person in the group is distinct. Which of the
following persons is not married? a.Bhutal b. Chetali c. Esha d. Dhani
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ANSWER KEYS :-
Ans 401) 1200
Ans 402) 72
Ans 403) 40%
Ans 404) 49.6%
Ans 405) 20%
Ans 406) 13
Ans 407) 59
Ans 408) B
Ans 409) A
Ans 410) 2.22%
Ans 411) 100/3
Ans 412) 12
Ans 413) 36 kgs
Ans 414) Dhani
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Q415. Point P lies between points A and B such that the length of BP is thrice that of AP. Car 1
starts from A and moves towards B. Simultaneously, car 2 starts from B and moves towards A.
Car 2 reaches P one hour after car 1 reaches P. If the speed of car 2 is half that of car 1, then the
time, in minutes, taken by car 1 in reaching P from A is: (CAT 2018)
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Q416. In a race of three horses, the first beat the second by 11 metres and the third by 90 metres.
If the second beat the third by 80 metres, what was the length, in metres, of the racecourse? (CAT
2019)
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Q417. One can use three different transports which move at 10, 20, and 30 kmph, respectively. To
reach from A to B, Amal took each mode of transport 1/3 of his total journey time, while Bimal
took each mode of transport 1/3 of the total distance. The percentage by which Bimal’s travel time
exceeds Amal’s travel time is nearest to. (CAT 2019)
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Q418. Two ants A and B start from a point P on a circle at the same time, with A moving clock-
wise and B moving anti-clockwise. They meet for the first time at 10:00 am when A has covered
60% of the track. If A returns to P at 10:12 am, then B returns to P at 10:27 am 10:25 am 10:45 am
10:18 am
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Q419. Yana and Gupta leave points x and y towards y and x respectively simultaneously and travel
in the same route. After meeting each other on the way, Yana takes 4 hours to reach her
destination, while Gupta takes 9 hours to reach his destination. If the speed of Yana is 48 km/hr,
what is the speed of Gupta? .
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Q420. Arun drove from home to his hostel at 60 miles per hour. While returning home he drove
half way along the same route at a speed of 25 miles per hour and then took a bypass road which
increased his driving distance by 5 miles, but allowed him to drive at 50 miles per hour along this
bypass road. If his return journey took 30 minutes more than his onward journey, then the total
distance travelled by him is. (CAT 2017)
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Q421. A motorbike leaves point A at 1 pm and moves towards point B at a uniform speed. A car
leaves point B at 2 pm and moves towards point A at a uniform speed which is double that of the
motorbike. They meet at 3:40 pm at a point which is 168 km away from A. What is the distance, in
km, between A and B? (CAT 2017)
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Q422. The distance from A to B is 60 km. Partha and Narayan start from A at the same time and
move towards B. Partha takes four hours more than Narayan to reach B. Moreover, Partha reaches
the mid-point of A and B two hours before Narayan reaches B. The speed of Partha, in km per
hour, is (CAT 2018)
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Q423. Anuj and Agraj walk up an escalator, which moves up at a constant speed. Anuj climbs 5
steps for every 3 that Agraj climbs. Anuj gets to the top of the escalator in 25 steps, while Agraj
(because his slower pace lets the escalator do a little more of the work) takes only 18 steps to
reach the top. In how many steps would Anuj reach the bottom from the top, on the same
escalator, if he doubles his speed while returning?
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Q424. Saral and Abhishek start simultaneously from a point on a circular track in the same
direction at uniform speeds of 'x' km/hr and 'y' km/hr respectively. They meet for the first time
when Saral is in his third round. Which of the following can be the value of x : y?
1) 15:7 2) 11:5 3) 13:7 4) 17:8
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Q425. In a circular track, there are two points P and Q which are diametrically opposite .C starts
running clockwise with a speed of 4m/s from P. At the same time, from Q, A starts running
clockwise with a speed of 3 m/s and B starts running anti clockwise with a speed of 5 m/s. If the
length of the track is 300m, then after how much time will C be equidistant from A and B for the
first time.
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Q426. A man leaves his home and walks at a speed of 12 km per hour, reaching the railway station
10 minutes after the train had departed. If instead he had walked at a speed of 15 km per hour, he
would have reached the station 10 minutes before the train's departure. The distance (in km) from
his home to the railway station is (CAT 2017)
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Q427. A man travels by a motor boat down a river to his office and back. With the speed of the
river unchanged, if he doubles the speed of his motor boat, then his total travel time gets reduced
by 75%. The ratio of the original speed of the motor boat to the speed of the river is (CAT 2017)
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Q428. In a 10 km race. A, B, and C, each running at uniform speed, get the gold, silver, and bronze
medals, respectively. If A beats B by 1 km and B beats C by 1 km, then by how many metres does A
beat C.
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Q429. A farmer leaves his home at 8 a.m. and heads towards the village temple. His target is to
reach the temple at 12 noon. His speed decreases by 20% (of the original speed at the beginning
of his journey) for every hour travelled by him and then remains constant for the next 1 hour. At
the end of three hours, he has travelled only 70% of the distance. By what percent should he
increase his speed for the last one hour (as compared to his third hour speed), so that he reaches
the village temple in time? 1) 49.33 2) 49.34 3) 71.41 4) 71.42 5) 71.44
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Q430. Two dogs start running around a 480 m circular track from the same point at the same time
in opposite directions and with speeds in the ratio 7:9 . Which of the following can be the distance
of the starting point from the point where they meet for the seventh time ?
a) 305 m b) 30 m c) 21 m d) 210 m
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Q431. At a game of billiards, A can give B 15 points in 60 and A can give C to 20 points in 60. How
many points can B give C in a game of 90? A. 30 points B. 20 points C. 10 points D. 12 points
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Q432. Ranbeer & Priyanka visit a shopping mall and start walking on an escalator, which is also
moving upward. Ranbeer walks twice as fast as Priyanka. To reach at the other end, they took 60 &
40 steps respectively. How many steps will Ranbeer take to walk up on this escalator when it is
switched off?
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ANSWER KEYS :-

415) 12 425) 30 Seconds

416) 880 426) 20
417) 22 427) Sqrt 7 : 2
418) 10:27 AM 428) 1900
419) 32 KM/HR 429) 71.42%
420) 65 miles 430) 30 m
421) 378 431)10
422) 5 432) 120
423) 200 Steps
424) 13:7
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Q433. You travel by Delhi Metro every day from Botanical Garden, Noida to Hauz Khas, Delhi. At
Hauz Khas metro station, you use an escalator to get out of the station. The escalator takes 80
seconds. One day, the escalator was not working and you walk up the escalator in 50 seconds.
How many minutes does it approximately take you to walk down the working escalator? (IIFT)
A 1.5 minutes B 2.2 minutes C 2.8 minutes D 2.6 minutes
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Q434. Shivam travels 20% distance of the total journey by car and 50% of the remaining by train
and taxi in the respective ratio of 5:3 and the remaining distance he covers on feet. If the sum of
the distance which he travels by car and by Taxi is 126 km, then find the total distance which
Shivam travels during his journey.
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Q435. There is a race of 1 km among Hiten, Vikash and Priyank. Hiten and Vikash run 1 km and
Hiten wins by 10 seconds. Hiten and Priyank run 1 km and Hiten wins by 125 mt. When Vikash
and Priyank run a km, Vikash wins by 15 seconds. What is the ratio of time taken by Hiten and
Vikash to run a km?
a) 35:37 b)38:37 c) 36:37 d) None of these
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Q436. P, Q and R start running around a circular field having circumference 88 metre at the
same time from the same point. Speeds of P, Q and R are 4 m/minute, 8 m/minute and 11
m/minute. Find after how much time, they will meet again at the same point for the first time.
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Q437. Amarendra and Dharmendra are brothers, One day they start at the same time from their
home for Tatanagar railway station in their respective cars. Amarendra took 25 min to reach the
station. After reaching the station Amarendra found that Dharmendra is 2500 m away from the
station. The distance of Tatanagar Station from their home is 15 km. Next day Dharmendra
decided to statrt 7 min early, if they drive at the same speed as it was the previous day then
Amarendra will reach the station. (XAT 2010)
A)120 s earlier than Dharmendra
B)120 s later than Dharmendra
C)300 s earlier than Dharmendra
D)300 s later than Dharmendra
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Q438. The distance between two places A and B is 370 km. the 1st car departs from place A to
B, at a speed of 80 kmph at 10 am and 2nd car departs from place B to A at a speed of 50 kmph
at 1 pm. At what time both cars meet each other
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Q439. Salman was travelling on one side of the Yamuna express way with a constant speed of
120 kmph in his car. Govinda was travelling with a constant speed of 80 kmph in the opposite
direction. When they crossed each other, Salman decided to take a U-turn and meet him. But
before taking a U turn, Salman had to travel for another 3 minutes. How long will it take for
Salman to meet Govinda? [Assume time taken by Salman to take U turn is negligible]
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Q440. The taxi charges in a city consist of fixed charges and additional charges per kilometer.
The fixed charges are for a distance of up to 5 km and additional charges are applicable per
kilometer thereafter. The charge for a distance of 10 km is Rs. 350 and for 25 km is Rs. 800. The
charge for a distance of 30 km is
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Q441. A Volvo tourist bus with only the driver inside has a speed of 80 kmph. Its maximum
speed reduces by a quantity which is directly proportional to the number of passengers
(excluding the driver) seated inside. The maximum speed of the bus reduces by 20 kmph, if
there are 5 passengers. A maximum of how many passengers should be seated so that the bus
can move?
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Q442. A and B runs around a circular track. A beats B by one round or 10minutes. In this race,
they had completed 4 rounds. If the race was only of one round, find the A's time over the
course:
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Q443. Three people A, B and C start moving around a circular track of 100 m simultaneously
with speeds of 2 m/s, x m/s and y m/s respectively in clock wise direction. They meet for the first
time after t seconds and they meet for the first time at their common starting point after 3t
seconds. Which of the following can never be the value of x? a)2 b) 3 c) 5 d) 8
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Q444. Two friends A and B simultaneously start running around a circular track . They run in the
same direction. A travels at 6m/s and B runs at b m/s. If they cross each other at exactly two
points on the circular track and b is a natural number less than 30, how many values can b take?
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Q445. Rahul and Sachin started running around a circular track in the same direction. They met
each other for the third time after Rahul covered 15 laps in 5 hours and 30 minutes. Instead, had
they been running in the opposite directions, after how minutes would they meet for the sixth
time?
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Q446. In a 4000 meter race around a circular stadium having a circumference of 1000 meters,
the fastest runner and the slowest runner reach the same point at the end of the 5th minute, for
the first time after the start of the race. All the runners have the same starting point and each
runner maintains a uniform speed throughout the race. If the fastest runner runs at twice the
speed of the slowest runner, what is the time taken by the fastest runner to finish the race
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Q447. In a 200m sprint,A and B start running from the start line but A starts running 4 seconds
after B starts running.C starts running at the same time as B but from a point which is 20m
behind the start line.If all three of them finish together,which of the following is definitely true?
a.In a 100m race,A beats C by 1m. b.In a 100m race,C beats A by 1m. c.A and C have the same
speed. d.C is 10%faster than B.
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ANSWER KEYS :-

433) 2.2 mins

434) 360 km
435) 35:37
436) 88 min
437) 120 seconds
438) 2:00 PM
439) 18 mins
440) 950
441) 19
442) 7.5 min
443) 3
444) 3
445) 60 or 73.33
446) 10 mins
447) D
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Q448. The rowing speed of Ram in still water is 4.5 kmph. In a river flowing at 1.5 kmph,
it takes the same boatman 30 minutes to row a certain distance and come back.
Find the distance.
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Q449. While making a round trip across a river, a boat takes twice the time to move
in one direction as compared to the other. Meanwhile, a piece of wood falls
into the river from the boat and moves a distance of 10 m in next 5 seconds.
Find the speed of the boat in still water
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Q450. A boatman rows to a place 48 km distant and back in 14 hours. He finds that
he can row 4 km with the stream in the same time as 3 km against the stream.
Find the rate of the stream.
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Q451. A man travels downstream for 5 hours and again upstream for 5 hours. Yet it is at
a distance of 2 kms from the place it started. What is the speed of stream.
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Q452. A swimmer jumps from a bridge over a canal and swims 1 kilometer stream up.
After that first kilometer, he passes a floating cork. He continues swimming for
half an hour and then turns around and swims back to the bridge. The swimmer
and the cork arrive at the bridge at the same time. The swimmer has been
swimming with constant speed. How fast does the water in the canal flow.
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Q453. Two men are at the same point in a stream and start rowing (at different speeds)
away from each other, one upstream and other downstream. They row for 4 hours
and then reverse their direction. Now how long will it take for them to meet?
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Q454. Rsji was travelling upstream on a boat with Katrina on Panama Beach . He wanted
to gift a flower to katrina. But by mistake, the flower fell into the Beach.However,
the boat kept on moving further for next 8 seconds.After this , Rsji Bhardwaj had to
turn the boat (to retrieve the flower). Finally, the flower was found at a point which
was 16 m away from where it fell down. Find the speed of the river.
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Q455. A man rows upstream in a river. when he covered 1 km his hat fell down and started
to move downstream .man kept swimming upstream for 5 min but realised he has
dropped his hat then rows downstream to catch the hat .finally the hat and man
meet at start .find speed of flow of river.
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Q456. At his usual rowing speed, Rahul can travel 12 miles downstream in a certain
river in six hours less than it takes him to travel the same distance upstream. But
if he could double his usual rowing speed for this 24 mile round trip, the
downstream 12 miles will then take only one hour less than the up-stream 12
miles. What is the speed of the current in miles per hour?
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Q457. A boat goes 30 km upstream and 44 km downstream in 10 hours. In 13 hours, it can go

40 km upstream and 55 km down-stream. The speed of the boat in still water is
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Q458. A and B invested 10000 each in scheme A and scheme B respectively for 3
years. Scheme A offers Simple interest at 12% per annum and scheme B offers
compound interest at 10%. After 3 years, who will have larger amount and by how
much?

Q3.
Q4.
Q7.
Q8.
Q459. If the compound interest on certain sum at 4% for 2 years is Rs. 2448. Find the
simple interest on the same sum at the samerate for the same period.
Q460. Shivanihas some amount of money she invested the money in two schemes A
and B in the ratio of 2 : 5 for 2 years, scheme A offers 30%pa compound interest and
scheme B offers 15% pa Simple interest. Difference between the interest earned from
both the schemes is Rs.1080. How muchwas invested in scheme B?
Q461. A sum becomes Rs.4500 in two years and Rs.6750 in four years when
compounded annually. Find the Principal
Q462.A sum becomes Rs.8000 in two years and Rs.27000 in five years when
compounded annually. Find the Principal and Rate.
Q463. Q6.A sum of money becomes eight times in 3 year if the interest is compounded
annually. In how years the same amount at the samerate of interest will becomes 16
times?
Q464. On a sum of money , the difference between simple interest and compound
interest for 2 years is Rs 1000. If the rate of interest is 10% P.A , what will be the
difference between simple interest and compound interest at the end of 3 years .
Q465. A sum of money amounts to Rs.6690 after 3 years and to Rs.10,035 after 6 years
on compound interest.find the sum.
Q466. A sum of money lent at compound interest for 2 years at 20% per annum would
fetch Rs.482 more, if the interest was payablehalf yearly than if it was payable annually
. The sum is
Q467.
Q468. . John borrowed Rs. 2,10,000 from a bank at an interest rate of 10% per annum,
compounded annually. The loan was repaid intwo equal instalments, the first after one
year and the second after another year. The firstinstalmentwas interest of one year
plus part of the principal amount, while the second was the rest of the principal
amount plus due interest thereon. Then each instalment, in Rs., is (CAT 2018 SLOT 1)
Q469. Gopalborrows Rs. X from Ankitat 8% annual interest. He then adds Rs. Y of his
own money and lends Rs. X+Y to Ishanat 10% annual interest. At the end of the year,
after returning Ankit’sdues, the net interest retained by Gopalis the same as that
accrued to Ankit. On the other hand, had Gopallent Rs. X+2Y to Ishanat 10%, then the
net interest retained by him would have increased by Rs. 150. If all interests are
compounded annually, then find the value of X + Y. (CAT 2018 SLOT 2)
Q470. A person invested a total amount of Rs 15 lakh. A part of it was invested in a
fixed deposit earning 6% annual interest, and the remaining amount was invested in
two other deposits in the ratio 2 : 1, earning annual interest at the rates of 4% and 3%,
respectively. If the total annual interest income is Rs 76000 then the amount (in Rs
lakh) invested in the fixed deposit was ( CAT 2019 SLOT 1)
Q471. Amal invests Rs 12000 at 8% interest, compounded annually, and Rs 10000 at
6% interest, compounded semi-annually, both investments being for one year. Bimal
invests his money at 7.5% simple interest for one year. If Amal and Bimal get the same
amount of interest, then the amount, in Rupees, invested by Bimal is
Q472.An Amount of money grows uptoRs.5100 in 2 years & uptoRs.5800 in 3 years on
compound interest.Findthe rate percent?
Q473.Manoj borrowed a certain sum from Anujat a certain rate of simple interest for 2
years. He lent this sum to Rakeshat the same rate of interest compounded annually for
the same period. At the end of two years, he received Rs. 4200 as compound interest
but paid Rs. 4000 only as simple interest. Find the rate of interest?
Q474.A sum of money at simple interest amounts to Rs. 815 in 3 years and to Rs. 854
in 4 years. The sum is ?
Q475. Find the difference between S.I and C.I on 2000 for 2 years at the rate of 10%
p.a.
Q476. Find the difference between S.I and C.I on 2000 for 3 years at the rate of 10%
p.a.
Q477. A loan of Rs 100000 is borrowed at an interest rate of 10% per annum
compounded annually and repaid in 4 equal yearly installments of X starting after 1
year. What is the approximate value of X.
Q478. Amit borrowed Rs 21000 from Vinay at 10% per annum under compound
interest, compound annually . If Amit has to repay the loan in two equal installments .
Find the amount that he needs to pay in each instalment
Q479. Ram and Shyam invested 36000 and 54000 Respectively to start a business
together . At the end of every year , Ram got a fixed amount as annual salary from out
of the year's profit for managing the business. After Ram was paid his salary , the
remaining profit was distributed to both of them in the ratio of their investments . If at
the end of the first year, the total amounts received by Ram and Shyam were in the
ratio of 3:2 ,then what percent of profit did Ram receive as salary ?
Q480. A and B invest in a business in the ratio 3 : 2. If 5% of the total profit goes to
charity and A's share is Rs. 855, thetotal profit is
Q481. A, B and C jointly thought of engaging themselves in a business venture. It was
agreed that A would invest Rs. 6500 for 6 months, B, Rs. 8400 for 5 months and C, Rs.
10,000 for 3 months. A wants to be the working member for which, he was to receive
5% of theprofits. The profit earned was Rs. 7400. Calculate the share of B in the profit
ANSWER KEYS :-

458) A , 290
459) Rs.2400
460) 45000
461) 3000
462) 50%
463) 4
464) 3100
465) 4460
466) Rs.20000
467) 10%
468) 121000
469) 4000
470) 9 lakh
ANSWER KEYS :-

471) 20920
472) 13.725
473) 10%
474) 698
475) 20 Rs
476) 62
477) 31547.
478) 12100
479) 33.33%
480) 1500
481) 2660
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Q482. A man saves Rs 200 at the end of each year and lends the money at 5%
compound interest. How much will it become at the end of3 years.
Q483In what time will Rs.1000 become Rs.1331 at 10% per annum compounded
annually
Q484. The difference between simple and compound interests compounded annually
on a certain sum of money for 2 years at 4% per annum is Rs 1. Find the sum
Q485. Simple interest on a certain sum of money for 3 years at 8% per annum is half
the compound interest on Rs. 4000 for 2 years at 10% per annum. The sum placed on
simple interest is
Q486. What will be the difference between the simple interest on a principal of Rs 500
is calculated at 5% per year for 3 years and 4% per year for 4 years?
Q487. If the difference between the simple and the compound interests on some
principal amount at 20% for 3 years is Rs. 48, then the principal amount must be:
Q488. A sum was put at simple interest at a certain rate for 3 years. Had it been put
at 1% higher rate, it would have fetched Rs. 5100 more. The sum is:.
Q489. . If 84 amounts to Rs 114.24 in 2 yrs what will be Rs 96 amounts to in 4 yrs at
the same Simple rate of interest per annum.
Q490. Mr. X invested an amount for 2 years at 15% per annum at simple interest. Had
the interest been compounded, he would have earned Rs. 450/-more as interest.
What was the amount invested?
Q491. A sum is invested for 3 years compound at 5%, 10% and 20% respectively. In
three years, if the sum amounts to Rs. 16,632, then find the sum.
Q492. What will be the difference in the compound interest on Rs. 50,000 at 12% for
one year, when the interest is paid yearly and half-yearly?
Q493. What is the compound interest on Rs. 5,000 for 4 years if
the rate of interest is 10% p.a. for the first 2 years and 20% per
annum for the next 2 years?
Q494. What is the difference between the compound interest and simple interest on a
sumRs.2200 for a period of 2 years, if the compound interest is at a rate of 30% p.a.
and simple interest is at a rate of 36% p.a.?
Q495. . A sum of Rs. 390200 is to be paid back in three equal annual installments.
What is the amount of each installment at 4% p.a. and interest compounded annually.
Q496. In 4 years, the simple interest on a certain sum of money is 7/25 of the
principal. The annual rate of interest is:
Q497. A person takes a loan of Rs. 200 at 5% simple interest. He returns Rs. 100 at the
end of one year. In order to clear his duesatthe end of 2 years, he would pay:
Q498. At what rate per annum will Rs. 32000 yield a compound interest of Rs. 5044 in
3 years?
Q499. A starts a cement trading business by investing Rs 5 lakhs. After 2 months, B
joins the business by investing Rs 10 lakhsand then 4 months after B joined C too joins
them by investing Rs 20 lakhs. 1 year after A started the business they make Rs
3,50,000 in profit. What is B's share of the profit (in Rs)?
Q500. Two businessmen A and B invest in a business in the ratio 5 : 8. They decided to
reinvest 30% of the profit they earned back into the business. The remaining profit
they distributed amongst themselves. If A's share of the profit was Rs 87,500 then how
much profit (in Rs) did the business make?
Q501 . A and B started a partnership business investing some amount in the ratio of 5 :
6. C joined then after 6 months with an amount equal to 2/3rd of B. What was their
profit (in Rs) at the end of the year if C got Rs 21,600 as his share?
ANSWER KEYS :-

Ans 482) 662.02

Ans 483) 3 Years
Ans 484) 625
Ans 485) 1750
Ans 486) Rs. 5
Ans 487) 375
Ans 488) 170000
Ans 489) 165.12 Rs
Ans 490) 20000
Ans 491) 12000
Ans 492) 180
Ans 493) 3712
Ans 494) 66
Ans 495) 140608
ANSWER KEYS :-

Ans 496) 7%
Ans 497) 115.5
Ans 498) 5%
Ans 499) 1,25,000
Ans 500) 325000
Ans 501) 1,40,400
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Q502. There is 60% increase in an amount in 6 years at simple interest. What will be
the compound interest of Rs. 12,000 after 3 years at the same rate?
Q503. The compound interest on Rs. 30,000 at 7% per annum is Rs. 4347. The period
(in years) is:
Q504. A, B and C enter into a partnership, investing Rs. 6000. A invests Rs. 1000 and B
and C invests in the ratio of 2:3. Find the profit of C, when the annual profit is Rs. 2400
Q505. A and B started a business in partnership investing Rs. 20,000 and Rs. 15,000
respectively. After six months, C joined them with Rs. 20,000. What will be B's share in
total profit of Rs. 25,000 earned at the end of 2 years from the starting of the
business?
Q506 . A, B, C rent a pasture. A puts 10 oxen for 7 months, B puts 12 oxen for 5 months
and C puts 15 oxen for 3 months for grazing. If the rent of the pasture is Rs. 175, how
much must C pay as his share of rent?
Q507. A began a business with Rs. 85,000. He was joined afterwards by B with Rs.
42,500. For how much period does B join, if the profits at the end of the year are
divided in the ratio of 3 : 1?
Q508. . Aman started a business investing Rs. 70,000. Rakhi joined him after six
months with an amount of Rs.. 1,05,000 and Sagar joined them with Rs. 1.4 lakhs after
another six months. The amount of profit earned should be distributed in what ratio
among Aman, Rakhi and Sagar respectively, 3 years after Aman started the business?
Q509. Arun, Kamaland Vinayinvested Rs. 8000, Rs. 4000 and Rs. 8000 respectively in a
business. Arunleft after six months. If after eight months, there was a gain of Rs. 4005,
then what will be the share of Kamal?
Q510. Simran started a software business by investing Rs. 50,000. After six months,
Nanda joined her with a capital of Rs. 80,000. After 3years, they earned a profit of Rs.
24,500. What was Simran's share in the profit?
Q511. The compound interest on a certain sum for 2 years at 10% per annum is Rs.
525. The simple interest on the same sum for double the time at half the rate percent
per annum is:.
ANSWER KEYS :-

Ans 502) 3972

Ans 503) 2
Ans 504) 1200
Ans 505) 7500
Ans 506) Rs45
Ans 507) 8 months
Ans 508) 12 : 15 : 16
Ans 509) Rs890
Ans 510) 10500
Ans 511) Rs. 500