REVISION: QUANTITATIVE ABILITY Arithmetic - 1 Time: 90 minutes Ajay started a business with an investment of Rs.48000. After ¢ months, Bimal joined him with an investment of Rs.48000, and after another ¢ months Chanchal joined them both with an investment of Rs.24000. If at the end of the year, the profit share of Ajay was equal to the sum of the profit shares of Bimal and Chanchal, find the value of t Al 2 B} 3 qo 4 Dd) Container 1 contains Methanol and Ethanol in the ratio of 6 : 7, Container 2 contains Methanol and Ethanol in the ratio 3 : 4. Certain quantity from both the containers is mixed. If the resultant mixture has 30 liters of Methanol, what are the quantities from container 1 and container 2 are mixed? A] 1Bliters, 42 liters B] —_26liters, 35 liters C)— 1Bliters, 28 liters D) —26liters, 42 liters In the beginning of the month, a business man distributes his money among his wife and two daughters in the ratio of 5 : 2 : 3, after keeping 10% of the total money in savings. Now, his wife, immediately distributes her money among two daughters in the ratio 2 : 3, What is the ratio of savings done by the businessman and the amount with the two daughters together at the end of the month? A) 2:17 By cq) 1:10 D] None ofthese After allowing a discount of 60% on a product’s marked price, the businessman earns a profit of 40%. By how much percentage, the marked price is more than the cost price? Al 200% B] 125% Cc] 150% D) 250% A shopkeeper sells 50 kg of rice at its cost price, but he uses a weight of 900 gm for the 1 kg weight. What is the total profit made by shopkeeper on selling 50 kg if 7 kg of rice, as weighed by the shopkeeper, costs a customer Rs. 112? A] Rs.60 B)Rs.45 cl] Rs.80 D] Rs. 100 60% members of the Kapoor family are male and 60% members of the same Kapoor family are married. 55% members of the Mehta family are female and the number of couples in the Mehta family is 45% of the total number of members in that family. If 70% of the total number of members from both the families are married, then what is the ratio of single males to single females from both the families? (Assume that all the married people are part of a couple and that no married person is either widowed or divorced.) Al 2:3 Bo 1:2 cq] 2st D) 3:2 ais k percent more than b. If @ increases by 10% then k increases by 15%. If b increases by 10% then k will? A] Decrease by 5% B] Decrease by 9.5% C] Decrease by 11.5% D] Decrease by 13.5% In 2008, real estate business was not doing well because of decline of the sector in share market. Therefore, Bhatia family decided to sell their bungalow to Patel family at a loss of 5%. If Bhatia 1 OARS?10. iL 12, 13, 14. 15. 16. family had been able to sell their bungalow at a gain of 8%, then they would have earned Rs. 1,56,000 more than what they earned. Find the cost price (in Rs.) of the bungalow. Three jars contain milk and water in the ratio 2 : 3, 3: 2 and 5 : 4 respectively. If the ratio of the volume of the mixtures in these three jars is 1; 2 ; 3 respectively, then what is the ratio of milk and ‘water in a mixture made by mixing the content of these three jars? A) 56:21 Bl 49:41 c] 10:9 D] §:10:27 The length and the breadth of a rectangle are in the ratio 7 : 5. When the length of the rectangle is increased by 5 units and the breadth is decreased by 3 units the area decreases by 4 sq. units. What is the perimeter of the rectangle? Al 48 B) 60 cq 66 D) 132 ‘A greedy shopkeeper had the habit of escalating the cost price of his goods by certain percent. It ‘was noticed that one of the bag's cost price, Rs. 5,000 was escalated by 20% and a successively to arrive at its marked price. But then, none of the bags were sold. Hence he offered a discount of a% on the marked price, due to which he suffered a loss of 10% in the transactions. What is the percentage loss or profit if he sells the bags at 20% discount on the marked price? A] Loss of 15% B] Profit of 15% C]_ Loss of 44% D]_— Profit of 44% A dealer incurs an expense of Rs. 200 for producing every necklace. He also incurs an additional expenditure of Rs. 10,000, which is independent of the number of necklaces produced. If he is able to sell a necklace during the season, he sells it for Rs. 300. If he fails to do so, he has to sell each necklace for Rs. 50. IF he produces 2000 necklaces, what is the number of necklaces that he must sell during the season in order to breakeven, given that he is able to sell all the necklaces produced? A) 1540 B) 1600 c] 1880 Dd] 1240 The ratio of monthly incomes of Rama and Krishna is 4 : 5 and the ratio of their savings is 3 : 4. If Rama spends 3/4th of his income, what is the ratio of the expenditures of Rama and Krishna? A) 9:11 Bl 3:4 cq 4:5 D) 3:5 Atrader sells two pens at profits of 5% and 10% respectively. Being weak in Mathematics, he states his net profit percentage as 7.5%. His brother comes to meet him, and notices his mistake. To try to rectify it, he asks the trader about the cost of the pens. The trader does not have records, but he does remember that the total cost price of the two pens was Rs. 600, and that neither pen had a cost price of less than Rs. 100. Based on this information, the trader's brother calculates the maximum possible value of the error in the net profit percentage. What is the approximate value of this error? Al 15% B] 1.67% C] 2.17% Dd) 3% ‘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? Al 30 B) 40 C48 Dd) 52 Find the value of t, if % of cis 25 and tis a positive real number. A) 50 B) 28 cq 75 Dd] 100 2 QARS?17. 18. 19. 20. 24. 22. 23. If the ratio of the length and the breadth of a rectangle is 37 : 29, what is the percentage reduction in the area of the rectangle when its length and breadth are decreased by 30% and 20% respectively? Al 56% B] 50% Cc] 44% Dd] 25% A grandfather bought a certain number of chocolates as Diwali gift for his three grandsons. He called them and asked them to share the chocolates in the ratio of their ages, which happened to be 3: 4:5, without mentioning the total number of chocolates that he bought. As the chocolates were kept in their grandfather's room, each child arrived there at a different time of the day and took his, respective share, thinking that he was the first to arrive, What fraction of the chocolates remained unclaimed at the end of the day? Al 7/42 B] 7/24 cq 5/72 Dd) s/144 There are two shopkeepers having shops side by side. The first shopkeeper sells bicycles. He sells a bicycle worth $30 for $45. One day a customer comes and buys a bicycle. He gives a $50 note to the shopkeeper. The shopkeeper doesn’t have change so he goes to the second shopkeeper, gets the change for $50, and gives $5 and the bicycle to the customer. The customer goes away. The next day the second shopkeeper comes and tells the first shopkeeper that the $50 note is counterfeit and takes his $50 back. Now, how much does the first shopkeeper lose? From the year 2013 to 2014, the population of a village increased by 600 and then, from the year 2014 to 2015, it decreased by 5%. If the population of the village in 2015 is 150 less than that in 2013, then the population of the village in 2013 is what percent of that in 20147 Al 92% B] 94% cl 96% D] None of these A factory produces some units of a product over the seven days of a week, as per the following schedule: Day 1 | Day2 | Day3 | Day4 | Day5 | Dayé | Day7 (20 {180 [170 [240 | 160 [150 | 130 At the end of any day, the finished goods can be transported to the market by a truck which can carry upto 1500 units of the product at a time. Any of the finished goods (ready at the end of the day) retained overnight at the factory will incur a storage cost of Rs.5 per unit for each night of storage. The hiring cost for the truck is Rs.1000 per day. Which of the following schedules of days on which the truck is operated will result in the minimum. value for the total cost of storage and transportation? A] 2,4,and 7 days B] 2,4, 6and7 days C] 2,Sand7 days D] 3, Sand 7 days. ‘There are two trees, each of height 8h meters, both of which grow continuously. Both the trees begin to grow at the same rate (in meters/min), but while the first tree continues to grow at that constant rate, the second one grows at a rate such that its rate of growth at any instant is proportional to its height at that instant. Ifthe first tree grows toa height of 9h meters by the end of. the first year, by what percentage does the height of the second tree increase by the end of eight years? Al 161.80% B) 171.83% qd 100% Dd} 176.84% Each of five friends, A, B, C, D and E, have a certain amount with them, such that 25% of the amount with A, 37.5% of that with B, 50% of that with C, 75% of that with D and 87.5% of that with E are all 3 Qars?24, 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. ‘equal. If the amount (in Rs.) with each of them is a whole number, then what is the minimum possible total amount (in Rs.) with them? A sold an item to B at 25% profit. B then marked up the price of the item by 40% and sold it to C, offering a certain percentage discount, thereby realizing a profit of 20%. Find the percentage discount offered by B to C. Al 162% B) 142% ate D) 10% 3 7 2 ‘The lengths of the sides of a triangle are 11 cm, 14 cm and 19 cm. If each side of the triangle is increased by 20%, then what is the percentage increase in the product of the circumradius and the inradius of the triangle? Al 21% B] 20% cl 44% D) None of the above A dishonest milkman dilutes milk with water and then sells the diluted milk at a price that is 20% more than the price at which he purchased the milk. If he makes a profit of 50% in this manner, how many ml of water does he add to every litre of milk? If the price of a commodity increases by 20%, by what percent should a family reduce its consumption of that commodity, such that the expenditure by the family on the commodity increases by only 89%? Al 8% B] 10% cl 15% DJ) 25% If the percentage of discount offered on an article is equal in magnitude to the percentage of profit, realized on selling the article, then which of the following is true regarding the Marked Price (MP) the Selling Price (SP) and the Cost Price (CP) of the article? Al The SP is the arithmetic mean of the MP and the CP. B] __ The SPis the geometric mean of the MP and the CP. c) The SP is the harmonic mean of the MP and the CP. D] —_ None of the above ‘Two business partners, A and B, invested their capitals in the ratio of 2 : 3 respectively, with their periods of investment not being equal. If they shared the yearend profit in the ratio of 1: 2 respectively, what is the ratio of their respective periods of investment? Al 3:4 B) 4:3 cj 2:1 D) 1:4 The ratio of the selling prices of two articles, A and B, is 2 : 3. If the percentage profit realized on selling the articles A and B are 25% and 20% respectively, then find the ratio of the cost price of A to that of B Al 3/2 B} 7/18 cq] (9/16 Dd] 16/25 The ratio of the selling prices of two articles, A and B, is 2 : 3. If the percentage profit realized on selling the articles A and B are 25% and 20% respectively, then find the ratio of the cost price of A to that of B. Al 20% B]50/3% 25% D]— 100/7% The total cost of a product includes two parts - the production cost and the marketing cost. If the production cost and the marketing cost increase by 20% and 30% respectively, the total cost increases by 28%. The marketing cost is how many times the production cost? 4 ars?33. 34, 35. 36. 37. 38. 39, 40. 41. If an article is sold at So (P # 0) discount, a profit of £% is realized, but if it is sold at Pe discount, a loss of is incurred. If the article is sold at discount, then the percentage of profit or loss made on the article is Ifthe ratio of the sum of the first n terms of two arithmetic progressions is given by Sn +7: 3n-8, find the ratio of the 12 terms of the two arithmetic progressions. Al 3:2 Bo o2:1 Cc] 3:1 DJ 8:2 Each of three friends, A, B and C, has a certain number of marbles with him, such that the number of marbles with B is 12% more than that with C and 12% less than that with A and C together. If the number of marbles with B is less than 500, then find the total number of marbles with all the three friends. Al 658 B] = 940 cl 846 D] Cannot be determined In an apparel store, the sales manager wanted to boost the sales of shirts and so he increased the marked price of each shirt by 50% and then offered to give two shirts free for every three shirts purchased by a customer. If each shirt was initially marked up by 20% above the cost price, what would be the overall profit / loss percentage of the store on its sales of shirts, if the manager applied this scheme? Al 4% loss B] 4% profit = C]_—«« B% profit —D)_-«—-20% profit A shopkeeper sells two television sets at Rs.25,000 each. On the first television, he makes a profit of x%, but on the other, he incurs a loss of 10%. If the shopkeeper later figured out that he made neither profit nor loss in the two transactions put together, then find x. Al 14.41 B) 125 q 15 Dp} 10 A shopkeeper sells two television sets at Rs.25,000 each. On the first television, he makes a profit of x%, but on the other, he incurs a loss of 10%. If the shopkeeper later figured out that he made neither profit nor loss in the two transactions put together, then find x. A} itt B) 128 Cc) 1s Dd) 10 ‘A milkman mixed 20 litres of water with 100 litres of milk” He sold one-fifth of the mixture and added as much water to the remaining mixture as the quantity he sold. Find the ratio of water and milk in the mixture now. Al 1:5 B 1:3 cq 4 Dd) 1:2 Vessel 1 contains 5 litres of alcohol; vessel 2 contains 5 litres of water. From vessel 1, one mug of alcohol is taken and added to vessel 2, One mug of the mixture is now poured back into vessel 1. What can be said about the percentage of alcohol in vessel 2 and the percentage of water in vessel Y A] The former is greater than the latter. B] The twoare equal. C] The latter is greater than the former. D] Nothing can be said as volume of the mug is not known. A trader marked a watch 40% above the cost price and then gave a discount of 10%. If he made a net profit of Rs. 468 after paying a tax of 10% on the gross profit, find the cost price of the watch. A] Rs,1800 —B)_—R.1,200C}_—Rs.2,000 YR. 2,200 5 QARS242, 43. 44, 45. Ram and Shyam invested Rs. 36,000 and Rs. 54,000 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 thetr 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? A] 25% B] 331/3% Cc] 20% D) 50% Mr. Shyam manufactures and sells pens in a market. The cost in rupees, of producing x units is Soar whereas the selling price in rupees, of selling x units is 10 + 0.5x. How many units should Mr. Shyam manufacture and sell to maximize the profit? al 4 3] 18 aq 1s Db) 17 Mr. Ram sold an article ata certain profit. Had he purchased the article for 12% less than what he actually purchased it for and sold it for 24% more than what he actually sold it for , his profit percentage would have been ak times his actual profit percentage . Find his actual profit percentage. 1 2 1 L 4l 27% B 28= ¢ 332 dD) o3a7- 1 2 ] 7% ] 3% 1 7” A trader sells cakes in economy packs of four cakes per pack, each pack being charged at the listed price of three cakes. For every set of five such packs bought by a customer the trader gives him one extra cake as a free gift. Ifa customer buys 12 economy packs, what is the effective percentage of discount that he gets? 2 4 8 Al = % Bi 2B=% 38% D] 1 355 ) 7 qd 3 4] 28% 6 ‘QaRs2