Ref: QAT1002101 QUANTITATIVE ABILITY TEST Time: 30 min.

(Simple Equations, Ratio – Proportion – Variation)

Directions for questions 1 to 25:For the Multiple Choice Questions, select the correct alternative from the given
choices. For the Non-Multiple Choice Questions, write your answer in the box provided.

1. The cost of 20 apples, 20 bananas and 20 oranges their expenses are in the ratio 7 : 10. What is the
is`220. A boy has`19, with which he can buy ratio of the savings of A and B?
(A) 3 : 2 (B) 2 : 3 (C) 7 : 12 (D) 10 : 9
exactlyan apple, two bananas and three oranges.
8. In a school, the number of students in sections
If he wants to buy three apples, two bananas and
A, B and C are in the ratio 8 : 7 : 3. If 10 students
one orange,how much more money does he need?
from section A shift to section B, the ratio of the
(A) `6 number of students in section A to that in B would
(B) `5 be reversed. What is the total number of students in
the three sections?
(C) `7
(D) Cannot be determined
2. Nine farmers take six hours to plough 18 acres of
land. How many acres of land can 16 farmers 9. In a shop, the quantities of three kinds of
plough in 21 hours? (Assume that the rate of work of commodities sold on a particular day were in the
each farmer is the same). ratio 3 : 4 : 5. The total sales revenue was `4,000.
If the unit prices of the three commodities were also
in the same ratio, what was the total amount
3. Laxmilal and Kuberjain have some pendants with received by selling the commodity which fetched the
them. Laxmilal says to Kuberjain “If you give me highest sales revenue?
a certain number of pendants, I’ll have five times as (A) `2,500 (B) `2,000
many pendants as you will be left with. Instead, (C) `3,000 (D) `1,500
if I give the same number of pendants to you, we will
both have the same number of pendants.” If they
10. For what value of k will the following system of
have a total of 36 pendants, how many pendants
equations have a unique solution?
does Laxmilal have?
3x + 5y = 20 and kx – 4y = 16.
(A) 12 (B) 27 (C) 30 (D) 24
(A) –2.4
4. There are some boys and some girls in a room. (B) 5/3
If each child sits on a chair, one child will have no
chair to sit. If two boys sit on each chairand 3
(C)
each girl occupies an unoccupied chair, then 5
three chairs will be unoccupied. How many boys are (D) Any value of k except –2.4
there?
(A) 4 11. Shreya told Lata, “I am thrice as old as you were,
(B) 6 when I was as old as you are”. Lata told Shreya,
(C) 8 “The sum of our ages today is 80 years”. After
(D) Cannot be determined listening to them, Raman, a mathematician, said
5. In a locality, four-fifths of the total voters favour
“Shreya is years elder to Lata”.
A and the remainingfavour B. However, on the
election day, 5000 voters who were in favour of
A voted for B. If A won the election by a margin of ab ab
2000 votes, how many voters voted for A? 12. If  , which of the following istrue?
cd cd
(Assume that all the voters voted on that day)
(A) ab + cd = 0 (B) ac + bd = 0
(C) ad bc = 0 (D) ab  cd = 0

6. A bread loaf of length 60 cm is cut into three pieces. 13. In a school, for every three boys, there are four girls
The longest piece is 4 times as long as the shortest and for every 21 students, there is one teacher.
piece and the third piece is 12 cm shorter than the If the total number of students and teachers is 110,
longest piece. Find the length of the shortest piece. what is the number of girls?
(A) 8 cm (B) 6 cm (C) 4 cm (D) 12 cm

7. The total income and the total expenditure of

two persons A and B are in the ratio 22 : 17.
14. Rohan has thrice as many sisters as he has
The incomes of A and B are in the ratio 5 : 6 and
brothers. Babita, Rohan’s sister, has as many

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 sisters as she has brothers. If Rohan and Babita are when its engine capacity (C) is constant. T varies
the children of Natwar, how many children does inversely as C when D is constant. P and Q are
Natwar have? two automobiles. The engine capacities of P and Q
are 1500 CC and 1200 CC respectively. To cover
800 km, P takes 16 hours. Find the time taken
15. A person wants to donate a certain amount to (in hours) by Q to cover 600 km.
three organizations, A, B and C, in the ratio 3: 2 :1 (A) 15 (B) 17
but he actually donates the amount to the 1
organizations A, B, C and D in the ratio 3 : 2: 1 : 3 (C) 20 (D) 9
2
due to which C gets `8 lakh less thanexpected. How
much amount was donated to D? (in ` lakh) 22. In a fraction with positive numerator and
denominator, the denominator is three less than
twice the numerator. If three is added to the
numerator and nine is added to the denominator, the
fraction becomes ______.
16. A nine litre milk solution had milk and water in the
ratio 4 : 1. The solution started boiling and the ratio 2 3
(A) (B)
of the rates of evaporation of milk and water is 1 : 4. 3 4
If water evaporates at a rate of20 ml per minute, 4 1
(C) (D)
what is the ratio of the quantities of milk and water 5 2
remaining at the end of 40 minutes?
(A) 4 : 1 (B) 6 : 1 (C) 7 : 1 (D) 8 : 1 23. A person reads 20 books, each having the same
number of pages, completely in 25 days at the rate
x y z
17. If   = 8 and x  y  z = k, of 80 pages per day. The number of days he takes
2 a  b 2b  c 2 c  a 2 a 2b 2 c to read such books varies directly as the number of
books he reads when his reading rate is constant
(where a + b + c  0) then k = and inversely as his reading rate (in pages/day)
when the number of books he reads is constant.How
18. The cost of 3 kg of tea powder is equal to the cost of many more such books can he read in
6 kg of sugar, the cost of 24 kg of sugar is equal to 150 days, reading 20 pages per day?
the cost of 21 kg of oil and the cost of 56 kg of oil is (A) 30 (B) 20 (C) 15 (D) 10
equal to the cost of 12 kg of ghee. What is the cost
of 3 kg of ghee if the cost of one kg of tea powder 24. The sum of the thousands and the units digits of
is `72? a four-digit number is equal to the sum of its other
two digits. The sum of the hundreds and the units
(A) `576(B) `288(C) `192(D) `436 digits is equal to four times the sum of the other
two digits. The sum of the digits of the number is
19. A machine with a power of 18 units can lift an object more than 10. The hundreds digit of the number
of a maximum weight of 9 units. If the power of cannot be ______.
a machine varies directly as the square root of the (A) 9 (B) 8 (C) 7 (D) 6
maximum weight of an object that it can lift,
a machine with 24 units of power can lift an object 25. Eswar, Ganesh and Harish played a game of
three rounds. The person who lost in a round had to
weighing a maximum of units. double the amount of money with each of the others.
Each of the three lost a round. At the end of
20. The savings of a person vary directly with his three rounds, each of them had `60. The amounts
income. In 1995, his savings and income were with them at the beginning of the first round
`24 lakh and `80 lakh respectively. If his savings were______.
were`15 lakh in 1996, what is the ratio of his (A) `93.5, `50.5, `39
expenditure in 1995 to that in 1996? (B) `97.5, `52.5, `30
(A) 2 :1 (B) 9 : 7
(C) 8 : 5 (D) 3 : 7 (C) `93.5, `53.5, `33
(D) `101.5, `56.5, `22
21. The time taken (T) by an automobile to cover
a certain distance (D) varies directly as the distance

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