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Must do Arithmetic Questions (part 2)
Discussion date 19th Nov (11 am) on YouTube channel
Solution
1. Saurav has two namely motorcycles Avenger and Intruder which are one year and two year
old respectively. He sells these motorcycles at 10% profit and 10% loss respectively. If the
cost price of these motorcycles together is Rs. 4,70,000 and selling price of the same is Rs.
4,65,300, then find the selling price of the motorcycle Avenger.
(a) Rs. 2,35,000
(b) 2,23,750
(c) 2,32,650
(d) 2,27,500
2. A bankers lends Rs. 2,000 at simple interest to a customer. The rate of interest for the first
year is x%, for the second year is (x + 2)%, for the third year it is (x + 4)% and so on. At the
end of the fifth year, if the total simple interest accrued is Rs. 1500, find the value of x.
(a) 10%
(b) 11%
(c) 12%
(d) 13%
3. A dry fruit seller purchased three kinds of groundnut at the rate of Rs. 21/kg, Rs. 18/kg and
Rs. 15/kg. He then mixed them in the ratio 3:4:5 respectively by weight and sold the mixture
at 40% profit. What is the selling price of the mixture?
(a) Rs. 22.5
(b) Rs. 24.5
(c) Rs. 25
(d) None of these
4. Two towns A and B are 100 km apart. A school is to be built for 100 students of town B and
30 students of town A. expenditure on transport is Rs. 1.20 per km per student. If the total
expenditure on transport by all 130 students to be minimize, then the school should be built
at
(a) 33 km from town A
(b) 33 km from town B
(c) town A
(d) town B
5. One man can do as much work in one day as a woman can do in 2 days. A child does one-
third the work in a day as a woman. If an estate owner hires 39 pairs of hand, men, women
and children in the ratio 6:5:2 and pays them in all Rs. 1113 at the end of the day’s work.
What must be daily wages of a child be, if the wages are proportion to the amount of work
done?
6. A water tank has three taps A, B and C. A fill four buckets in 24 min, B fills 8 buckets in 1 hour
and C fill 2 bucket in 20 minutes. If all the taps are opened together a full tank is emptied in
2 hours. If bucket can hold 5 liters of water, what is the capacity of the tank?
(a) 120 liters
(b) 240 liters
(c) 180 liters
(d) 60 liters
7. Shyam went from Delhi to Shimla via Chandigarh by car. The distance from Delhi to
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Chandigarh is ¾ times the distance from Chandigarh to Shimla. The average speed from
Delhi to Chandigarh was half as much a gain as that from Chandigarh to Shimla. If the
average speed of entire journey was 49 kmph. What was the average speed from
Chandigarh to Shimla?
(a) 39.2 kmph
(b) 63 kmph
(c) 42 kmph
(d) None of these
8. Along a road lie an odd number of stones placed at an intervals of 10 m. these stones have
to be assembled around the middle stone. A person can carry only one stone at a time. A
man carried out the job starting with the stone in the middle, carrying stones in the
succession, there by covering a distance of 4.8 km. then the number of stones is
9. A man buys spirit at Rs. 60 per litre adds water to it and then sells it at Rs. 75 per litre. What
is the ratio of spirit to water if his profit in the deal is 37.5%.?
(a) 9:1
(b) 10:1
(c) 11:1
(d) None of these
10. A and B walk from X to Y, a distance of 27km at 5 kmph and 7 kmph respectively. B reaches Y
and immediately turns back meeting A at Z. What is the distance from X to Z?
11. A’s weight is 40% of C’s weight. B’s weight is 90% of S’s weight. S weighs twice as much as C.
A’s weight is what percentage of B’s weight?
(a) 64.3%
(b) 22.2%
(c) 90%
(d) 128.6%
12. An amount borrowed at S.I gets tripled in 24 years. How many years does it take to get
doubled, if the interest rate is double.
13. A shopkeeper sold 10 items, all of which are of the same cost price, such that profit
percentage on no two item is the same. The profits made on the given items were in an AP.
If the profit percentage of the item the selling price of which is 4th highest and the item the
selling price of which is the 7th highest were 13% and 10% respectively, find the profit
percentage on the whole.
(a) 11.5%
(b) 12%
(c) 12.5%
(d) Data insufficient
14. If the price of an item increased by 25% in every odd numbered year starting from 2001 and
decreases by 20% in every even numbered year starting from 2002, what was the
percentage change in the price of the item at the end of 2010 compared to its price at the
end of 2002?
(a) 10 increase
(b) 25% increase
(c) 20% decrease
(d) No change
15. 60% of employees of a company are men, and 70% of men are married. If 58% of company’s
employees are married, what fraction of the women employed in the company are married?
(a) 1/8
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(b) 2/5
(c) 21/10
(d) None of these
16. Ram deposited a certain sum of money in a company at 13.5% per annum SI for 5 years and
deposited an equal amount in fixed deposit in a bank for 3 years at 18% per annum SI. If the
difference in the interest from two source is Rs. 621, the sum deposited in each case is
(a) Rs. 5,700
(b) Rs. 4,600
(c) Rs. 6,500
(d) Rs. 3,600
17. Aman observes the minute hand and he hour hand of a clock. The clock is faulty and the
hands of the clock move in anticlockwise direction. If this clock shows the correct time at
4:00 a.m., then what time will it show at 6:15 a.m.?
(a) 2:45 a.m.
(b) 2:15 a.m.
(c) 1:45 a.m.
(d) 1:15 a.m.
18. 18. In a mixture of wine and water, the proportion of wine is 80%. If in a 180 ml mixture, 36
ml of pure wine is added, what would be the percentage of wine in the mixture formed?
(a) 83.33%
(b) 65%
(c) 85%
(d) 78.87%
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C B B D 7 B C 31 B 22.5 B 6 A D B B C A
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