Practice Questions - 1

1. Sum of Rs.118 was shared among 50 boys and girls, each girl receive Rs.2.60 and boy
receive Rs.1.80. Find the number of Girls
2. An article is bought for Rs.560 .Some of the art is sold at 20% profit and remaining at
15% loss giving a total of 10% profit.Find the cost of the part sold at 20% profit

3. From a container full of pure wine, 30% is replaced by water and this process is
repeated for three times. At the end of the third operation, the quantity of pure wine
reduces to
4. Wheat costing Rs. 121 a kg is mixed with wheat costing Rs. 133 a kg in the ratio 5:7.
The cost of 1 kg of the mixture is
5. Sum of 12% of x and 15% of y is equal to 69. If y is 200 more than x, then find the
value of x.
6. 40% of 60% of 3/5 of a number is 504, what is the 25% of 2/5 of that number?
7. If the price of a food container is increased by 25%, then by how much percent should
a family reduce their consumption where their expenditure remains the same?
8. Population of a town is 30,000. It is increased by 35% in the first year and decreased
by 20% in the second year. What is the population of the town at the end of 2 years?
9. If Rs.782 be divided into three parts proportional to 1/2:2/3:3/4, then the first part is?
10. A certain amount of money has to be divided between two persons P and Q in the ratio
3:5, but it was divided in the ratio 2:3. Thereby, Q loses Rs. 10. What is the amount?
11. Two numbers are in the ratio 1:2, if 7 is added to both their ratio changes to 3:5, the
greater number is?
12. The income of A and B are in the ratio of 3:5 and their expenses are in the ratio of 1:5.
If each saves Rs. 500, then their income is?
13. The ratio of the present age of A to that of B is 7:8. After 10 years, the age of B is 10
years more than that the age of A. 67 years ago, the age of A was.
14. 1 year ago, the ratio of Ramu and Somu age was 6:7 respectively. 4 years hence, their
ratio would become 7:8. How old is Somu?
15. The sum of the present age of a father and his daughter is 60 years. Five years ago, the
father was five times as old as the daughter. What is the present age of the father?
16. What is John’s present age, if after 10 years his age will be 5 times his age 5 years
back.
17. The average of 11 numbers is 30. If the average of first six numbers is 17.5 and that of
last six is 42.5, then what is the sixth number?
18. There are two batches A and B of a class. Batch A consists of 36 students and batch B
consists of 44 students. Find the average weight of whole class, if average weight of
batch A is 40 kg and that of batch B is 35 kg.
19. Average weight of a group is 36 kg. If a student having weight of 48 kg left the group,
then the average weight of the group is decreased by 1 kg. Then find the number of
people in the group initially?
20. The average of 5 consecutive integers starting with m is n. What is the average of 6
consecutive integers starting with (m + 2)?

21. The probability of selecting two face cards or two number cards from a pack of 52
cards.
22. Two friends A and B apply for a job in the same company. The chances of A getting
selected is 2/5 and that of B is 4/7. What is the probability that both of them get
selected?
23. Find the probability of an honor card when a card is drawn at random from the pack of
52 cards.
24. Two dice are thrown simultaneously. What is the probability of getting a number not
divisible by two in both the dice?
25. A man travelled 30% of his journey at a speed of 85 kmph and the rest of his journey at
a speed of 33 kmph. Find his average speed throughout the journey.
26. Travelling at 1 / 6th of his usual speed a man is late by 30 minutes. What is the usual
time taken by him to cover the same distance?
27. The speed of a man is 36 kmph and the speed of another man is 78 m / s. If the
distance between them is 7920 m, find the time taken by them to meet. They are
walking towards each other.
28. The distance between two cities is 70 km. If a man covers 35% of the distance in 90
minutes and the rest of the distance in 105 minutes, find his average speed throughout
the journey.
29. The profit on selling an article was double of its cost price. If the selling price was 900,
find the cost price.
30. The cost price of an article is increased by 20%. If the profit earned initially was 20%
of the cost price and the initial selling price was 6000, find the new cost price.
31. A product is sold at two successive discounts of 20% and 10%. What is the net
discount?
32. A shopkeeper marks up an item by 25% and then offers a 20% discount. Does he make
a profit or loss? And how much?
33. 2 pipes can fill a tank in 28x and 12x minutes, respectively. Find the ratio of their
efficiency.
34. 2 pipes can empty a semi filled tank in 12 minutes and 48 minutes, respectively. How
long will it take to empty the entire tank if both the pipes are opened simultaneously?
35. 3 pipes can fill a tank in 5 minutes combined. If the first 2 pipes can fill the tank in 12
minutes combined, find the time required by the third pipe to fill the tank.
36. 3 pipes have an efficiency of x, 2x and 4x, respectively. Combined they can fill a tank
in 35 minutes. If the first pipe is opened for 5 minutes, the second for 10 minutes and
the third for 15 minutes, find the percentage of the tank filled.
37. Ravi is facing North. He turns right, then again right, and finally turns left.
Which direction is he facing now?
38. Sita walks 10 m North, then turns left and walks 5 m, then again turns left and walks
10 m. In which direction is she facing now?
39. A person walks 4 m South, then turns right and walks 3 m, then again turns right and
walks 4 m. How far is he from the starting point?

40. A man starts walking from his house towards East for 10 m, then he turns left and
walks 15 m. He then turns right, walks 10 m, and again turns right and walks 15 m.
Now he turns left and walks 5 m. In which direction is he now facing and how far is he
from his house?