Alligation Intensive
Handouts
1. In what ratio should coffee powder costing
Rs.2500/kg be mixed with coffee powder costing
Rs.1500/kg so that the cost of the mixture is
Rs.2250/kg? (SSC CGL Mains)

       
  
A) 1 : 4 B) 4 : 1 C) 3 : 1 D) 1 : 3 6.
2. If a dairy mixes cow’s milk which contains 10%
fat with buffalo’s milk which contains 20% fat,
then the resulting mixture has fat (120/7)% of fat.
What ratio was the cow’s milk mixed with
buffalo’s milk? (SSC CGL Mains)
 

   
A) 2 : 5 B) 1 : 5 C) 2 : 3 D) 2 : 1
3. The average marks of 50 students in a class is
72. The average marks of boys and girls in that
subject are 70 and 75 respectively. The number
of boys in the class is (SSC Exam)
        
   7.
 

A) 20 B) 35 C) 25 D) 30
4. The average salary of all the staff in an office of a
corporate house is Rs.5,000. The average salary
of the officers is Rs.14,000 and that of the rest is
Rs.4,000. If the total number of staff is 500, the
number of officers is. (SSC CGL Mains)
     
  

   
A) 10 B) 15 C) 25 D) 50
5. In a company with 600 employees, the average
age of the male employees is 42 years and that of
the female employees is 41 years. If the average 8.
age of all the employees in the company is 41
years 9 months, then the number of female
employees is: (SSC CHSL 2019)
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


(a) 150 (b) 250 (c) 450 (d) 350
An Army of 12000 consists of Europeans and
Indian. The average height of European is 5 feet
10 inches and that of an Indian is 5 feet 9 inches
3
and that of the whole army is 5 feet 9 inches.
4
Then the number of Indians in the army is?
     
  
  
        
3
     9    
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(SSC CGL Mains)
A) 3000 B) 4000 C) 5500 D) 2700
Several students have taken an exam. There was
an error in the answer key which affected the
marks of 48 students, and their average marks
reduced from 78 to 66. The average of remaining
students increased by 3.5 marks. This resulted
the reduction of the average of all students by
4.5 marks. The number of students that attended
the exam is: (SSC CHSL 2019)


      
    
   
     
 
(a) 96 (b) 84 (c) 93 (d) 100
In an examination, a student scores 6 marks for
every correct answer and loses 4 marks for every
wrong answer. If he attempted 80 questions and
 obtained 310 marks, how many questions did
he attempt correctly? (SSC CHSL)
 
                 
     
    
   
(a) 59 (b) 65 (c) 63 (d) 67
9. A bottle full of whisky contains 50% alcohol. A
part of this whisky is replaced by another
containing 18% alcohol and the percentage of 13.
alcohol was found to be 26%. The quantity of
whisky replaced is: (SSC CHSL)


     

3 1 5 1
A) B) C) D)
4 3 8 2
10. A person travels 615 km in 12 hours in two stages.
In the first part of the journey, he travels by bus
at the speed of 40 km per hours. In the seconed
part of the journey, he travels by train at the speed
of 55 km per hr. How much distance did he travels
by bus? (SSC CHSL)
  
                      
    

 
(A) 142.5 km (B) 180 km A) 8
(C) 165 km (D) 120 km 15. A merchant has 1000 kg sugar, part of which
11. The average weight of the boys in a class is 69.3 sells at 8% profit and the rest at 18% profit. He
kg and that of the girls in the same class is 59.4. gain 14% on the whole. The quantity sold at 8%
If the average weight of all the boys and girls in profit is: (SSC Exam)
the class is 63.8 kg, then the percentage of the

number of boys in the class is: (CPO 2019)
       
   

4 5
A) 44 B) 55 C) 45 D) 40
9 9
12. The average monthly salary of all the employees
in a factory is Rs.8840. If the average salary of
all the officers is Rs.15000 and that of the
remaining employees is Rs.8000 then what is the
percentage of the officers among the employees?
(SSC CGL Mains)
  
       

     
1
A) 12% B) 15% C) 8D) 16%
3
In a class, the average score of girls in an
examination is 73 and that of boys is 71. The
average score for the whole class is 71.8. Find
the percentage of girls. (SSC Exam)
      
      

 
A) 40% B) 50% C) 55% D) 60%
14. In a family of 8 adutls and some minors, the
average consumption of rice per head per month
is 10.8 kg, while the average consumption for
adults is 15 kg per head and for minors it is 6 kg
per head. The number of minors in the family is
(SSC Exam)
      
  
       
  
      
 
B) 6 C) 7 D) 9
      
   
 
A) 560 kg. B) 600 kg.
C) 640 kg. D) 400 kg.
16. The total cost price of two watches is Rs. 840.
One is sold at a profit of 16 percent and the other
at a loss of 12 percent. There is no loss or gain in

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 the whole transaction. The cost price of the watch
on which the shopkeeper gains, is (SSC Exam)
        
  
    
    
    
 
A) Rs. 360 B) Rs. 370 21.
C) Rs. 380 D) Rs. 390
17. A person bought two articles A and B for Rs.
5,000. He sold A at 20% profit and B at 10%
loss. He thus gained 2% on his outlay. The cost
price of A was (SSC Exam)
    A, B   
AB
 A

A) Rs. 3,000 B) Rs. 2,500
C) Rs. 2,000 D) Rs. 3,500
18. A trader purchases a watch and a wall clock for
Rs. 390. He sells them making a profit of 10% 22.
on the watch and 15% on the wall clock. He
earns a profit of 51.50. The difference between
the original prices of the wall clock and the watch
is equal to (SSC Exam)
    
   
  
 
    
      

A) Rs. 80 B) Rs. 120
C) Rs. 110 D) Rs. 100
19. The population of a village was 9800. In a year,
with increase in population of males by 8% and
that of females by 5%, the population of the village
become 10458. What was the number of males
in the village before increase? (SSC Exam)

       
      
       24. The bowling average of a crickter was 12.4. He

A) 4200 B) 4410 C) 5600 D) 6048
20. A sum of Rs. 1550 was lent partly at 5% and
partly at 8% simple interest. The total interest
received after 3 years is Rs. 300. The ratio of
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      
 
  
 
 (SSC Exam)
A) 5 : 8 B) 8 : 5 C) 31 : 6 D) 16 : 15
Prakash lends a part of Rs.20,000 at 8% simple
4
interest and remaining at % simple interest. His
3
total income after a year was Rs.800. Find the
sum lent at 8%.
   
  
 
  
(SSC CGL Mains)
A) Rs.8,000 B) Rs.12,000
C) Rs.6,000 D) Rs.10,000
A person lent Rs. 5,000 partly at the rate of 4
percent and partly at the rate of 5 percent per
annum simple interest. The total interest after 2
years is Rs. 440. To find the sum of money lent at
each of the above rates, Rs. 5,000 is to be divided
in the ratio: (SSC Exam)    
       

 
A) 4 : 5 B) 3 : 2 C) 5 : 4 D) 2 : 3
23. A cricketer whose bowling average is 24.85, runs
per wicket, takes 5 wickets for 52 runs and
thereby decreases his average by 0.85. The
numebr of wickets taken by him till the last match
was (SSC Exam)
    
 
       
 
A) 64 B) 72 C) 80 D) 96
improves his bowling average by 0.2 points when
he takes 5 wickets for 26 runs in his last match.
The number of wickets taken by him after the
last match was (SSC Exam)
         
  
      
30. In an examination average marks obtained by the
 
A) 125 B) 180 C) 175 D) 200
25. The ratio, in which tea costing Rs. 192 per kg is
to be mixed with tea costing is Rs. 150 per kg so
that the mixed tea, when sold for Rs. 194.40 per
kg, gives a profit of 20% is

        
 (SSC Exam)
A) 2 : 5 B) 3 : 5 C) 5 : 3 D) 5 : 2
26. In what ratio Darjeeling Tea costing Rs. 320 per 31.
kg be mixed with Assam Tea costing of Rs. 250
per kg so that there is a gain of 20% by selling
the mixture at Rs. 324 per kg?
  

 (SSC Exam)
A) 1 : 2 B) 2 : 3 C) 3 : 2 D) 2 : 5
27. How many kg of salt costing Rs28 per kg must
be mixed with 6.4 kg of salt costing Rs16 per
32.
kg, so that selling the mixture at Rs29.90, there
is a gain of 15%? (SSC CGL Mains)

        
 
A) 35 B) 33 C) 32 D) 31
28. How many Kgs of rice at Rs. 45 per kg must a
man mix with 20 kg of rice at Rs. 30 per kg so
that, on selling the mixture at Rs. 42 per kg, he
may gain 20% on the outlay?
  33.
 
        

(AP MAINS 2016)
A) 5 B) 15 C) 10 D) 20
29. In a class of 45 students 40% are boys and
remaining are girls. The average weight of the
girls is 55 kg and that of boys is 65 kg. What is
the average weight (in kg) of the whole class?
(CPO 2018)
   
       34. In 80 ml of a syrup, chloroquine and hydroxyl
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   
A) 58 kg B) 68 kg C) 61 kg D) 59 kg
girls of a class is 85 and the average marks
obtained by the boys of the same class is 87. If
the girl and boys are in the ratio 4 : 5, average
marks of the whole class (approximately) is
closest to (SSC CGL Mains)
       
      


A) 85 : 9 B) 86.1 C) 86.4 D) 86.5
If goods be purchased for Rs. 450 and one third
sold at a loss of 10%. At what gain percent should
the remainder be sold so as to gain 20% on the
whole transaction? (SSC Exam)
      
     
        

A) 32% B) 35% C) 28% D) 30%
A shopkeeper has100 kg of rice. He sells 25 kg
at some profit and sell remaining part at 8% profit.
If he earns10% profit on whole transaction than
find at what % profit he sells25 kg rice.
         
      

 

A) 15% B) 16% C) 20% D) 18%
Arun lends Rs. 20,000 to two of his friends. He
gives Rs. 12,000 to the first at 8% p.a. simple
interest. Arun wants to make a profit of 10% on
the whole. The simple interest rate at which he
should lend the remaining sum of money to the
second friend is
  
       
 
      
(SSC Exam)
A) 8% B) 16% C) 12% D) 13%
chloroquine are in ratio of 2 : 3. This syrup is
 mixed with 120 ml of another syrup of chloroquine
and hydroxyl chloroquine. In the resultant syrup,
chloroquine is 38.5% then find the ratio of
chloroquine and hydroxyl chloroquine in 120 ml
syrup. (SSC CHSL)
    

  

                 

a) 4:7 b) 2:3 c) 3:5 d)5:9
35. A wholesaler blends two varieties of tea, one
costing Rs.65 per kilo and another costing
Rs.120 per kilo. The ratio of quantities they were
mixed in as 6 : 5. If he sold the mixed variety at
Rs.110 per kilo, what was his profit percentage? 40. A milkman sells the milk by adding some
       
         quantity of water in it if pure milk costs 60
 
A) 18.18% B) 36.36%
C) 44.44% D) 22.22%
36. Two blends of a commodity costing Rs. 35 and
Rs. 40 per kg. respectively are mixed in the ratio
2 : 3 by weight. If one fifth of the mixture is sold
at Rs. 46 per kg and the remaining at the rate of
Rs. 55 per kg. the profit percent is (MAINS 2015) 41. A milkman buys milk at Rs. 24 per litre. He adds
       

      

A) 50 B) 30 C) 40 D) 20
37. The liquids, X and Y are mixed in the ratio of 3 :
2 and the mixture is sold at Rs. 11 per litre at a
profit of 10%. If the liquid X costs Rs. 2 more 42.
per litre than Y, the cost of X per litre is (in Rs.)
(SSC Exam)
x, y    
  x  
 y        
  x      

A) 10.80 B) 11.75 C) 9.50 D) 11
43.
38. An alloy is made by mixing metal A costing
Rs2000/kg and metal B costing Rs400/kg in the
ratio A : B = 3 : 1. What is the cost (in Rs) of 8
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kilograms of this alloy?
   A    
 B 
 (SSC CGL
Mains)
A) 1600 B) 9800 C) 6400 D) 12800
39. Sourav purchased 30 kg of rice at the rate of
Rs.10 per kg and 35 kg at the rate of Rs.11 per
kg. he mixed the two. At what price per kg (in
Rs.) should he sell the mixture to make a 30%
profit in the transaction? (SSC CGL Mains)
        

        
 
A) 12.5 B) 13 C) 13.7 D) 14.25
water in it at 40 Rs./litre. If he had 36 ltr of
mixture milk and water with him then find
Rs./ltr?
   
 
        
  
A) 16 B) 12 C) 8 D) 9
1/5 of water to it and sells the mixture at Rs. 32
per litre. What will be his gain (in %)? (CGL
2017)

        
 
A) 50 B) 40 C) 30 D) 60
A milkman makes 20% profit by selling milk
mixed with water at Rs. 9 per litre. If the cost
price of 1 litre pure milk is Rs. 10, then the ratio
of milk and water in the said mixture is:
        


(SSC Exam)
A) 3 : 1 B) 4 : 1 C) 3 : 2 D) 4 : 3
A milkman says that he sells milk at cost price,
but he makes 20% profit by mixing water to milk.
If he sells 24L (mixture) milk, find the quantity of
 water in the mixture. 4
  1
7
          
 A) 6 : 11 B) 11 : 6 C) 3 : 5 D) 5 : 3
  7
A) 6L B) 4L C) 3L D) 5L 48. A liquid X is 1 times has heavy has petrol.
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44. A milkman has 24L of milk. If he mixes 4L of
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water, which is freely available, in 24L of pure Petrol is 1 times has heavy has another liquid
milk. If the cost of pure milk is Rs.42/L, then the 17
profit of the milkman, when he sells at the mixture Y. How many litres of liquid X should be mixed
at cost price is: with 21 ltr of liquid Y, so that the heaviness of
         mixture is equal to heaviness of petrol?
 7
‘x’ 1 
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
9
2 ‘y’  1 ‘y’
A) 20% B) 25% C) 16 % D) 18% 17
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    ‘x’    
45. A sample of 50 litres of glycerin is found to be
adulterated to the extent of 28%. How much pure 
glycerin should be added to it so as to bring down A) 18 lt B) 13.50 lt C) 8 lt D) 27 lt
the percentage of impurity to 10%? (SSC CHSL) 49. 300 grams of sugar solution has 40% of sugar in
 it. How much sugar should be added to make to
50% in the solution?
        
  
(a) 75 ltr (b) 90ltr (c) 80 ltr (d) 120 ltr A) 40 gram B) 10 gram
46. A chemist mixes two liquids 1 and 2. One litre of C) 60 gram D) 80 gram
liquid 1 weighs 1 kg and one litre of liquid 2 50. In one kg mixture of sand and cement, 20% is
weights 800 gm. If half litre of the mixture weights
cement. The amount of sand that should be added
480 gm, then the percentage of liquid 1 in the
to the mixture so that the proportion of cement
mixture, in terms of volume, is (CAT 2019)
1
      becomes 8 % is? (AP PRELIMS 2016)
3
            
       
1
       8 3 %
     
A) 70 B) 85 C)75 D) 80 A) 1.2 kg B) 1.25 kg
47. Copper is 3 times as heavy as iron and iron is C) 1.4 kg D) 1.64 kg
2 51. In a mixture of milk and water of 40 litres water
1 times as heavy as aluminimum. In what ratio
5 is 5%. The amount of water (in litres) to be added
should copper and aluminium be mixed so that to this mixture so as to make water 10% is?
 
4
the mixture is 1 times as heavy as iron?       
7  
   (TS PRELIMS 2016)
2 1 1 2 1
1  A) 5 B) 3 C) 2 D) 6
5 9 3 9 9

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52. On a certain date, Pakistan has a success rate of 56.
60% against India in all the ODIs played
betweenthe two countries. They lost the next 30
ODIs in a row to India and their success rate
comes down to 30%. The total number of ODIs
played between the two countries is

         
 

(SSC Exam)
A) 50 B) 45 C) 60 D) 30
53. In a laboratory, two bottles contain mixture of 57.
acid and water in the ratio 2 : 5 in the first bottle
and 7 : 3 in the second. The ratio in which the
contents of these two bottles be mixed such that
the new mixture has acid and water in the ratio 2
: 3 is (SSC CGL Mains)
        
       
   
A) 4 : 15 B) 9 : 8 C) 21 : 8 D) 1 : 2
54. A and B are solutions of acid and water. The
ratios of water and acid in A and B are 4:5 and
1:2, respectively. If x liters of A is mixed with y
liters of B, then the ratio of water and acid in the
mixture becomes 8: 13. What is x:y? (SSC 58.
CHSL)
A B   
A B 
x A y 
B  
x : y 
(a) 5:6 (b) 2:5 (c) 3:4 (d) 2:3
55. In a 56 litres mixture of milk and water, the ratio
of milk to water is 5 : 2. In order to make the
ratio of milk to water 7 : 2, some quality of milk
59.
is to be added to the mixture. The quality of the
milk present in the new mixture will be: (SSC
CHSL 2019)
   



(a) 40 liters (b) 16 liters
(c) 48 liters (d) 56 liters
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The milk and water in vessels A and B are in the
ratio 4 : 3 and 2 : 3 respectively. The ratio in
which the liquids in both vessels are to be mixed
to obtain a new mixture in an empty vessel C to
consist of half milk and water, is?
A  B     

    C    
      
   (AP PRELIMS
2018)
A) 8:4 B) 7:5 C) 4:3 D) 2:3
The ratio of copper to zinc in a an alloy ‘A’ of 7
kgs is 5:2. The ratio of the same metals in that
order in another alloy ‘B’ of 7 kgs is 3:4. If 28
kg of alloy is made by mixing A and B quantities
x & y respectively so as to have the ratio of cop-
per and zinc in the ratio 1:1, then x:y is? (AP
MAINS 2018)
A  
 B  
  A B 
    x    y       
 
   x : y =
A) 1:6 B) 2:5 C) 3:7 D) 1:3
Two vessels A and B contain milk and water
mixed in the ratio 9 : 8 and 7 : 2 respectively.
The ratio in which these two mixtures be mixed
12
to get a new mixture containing 64 % milk
17
is?
A  B       
 
12
  64 % 
17
A) 9 : 4 B) 7 : 2 C) 10 : 9 D) 9 : 7
If X beakers of 100 ml containing 1 : 4 acid-
water solution are mixed with y beakers of 200
ml containing 3 : 17 acid-water solution then the
ratio of acid to water in the resulting mixture
becomes 19:91 Find X:Y.
‘x’  
‘y’ 

x:y = ?
A) 5 : 3 B) 3 : 5 C) 7 : 13 D) 13 : 7
60. The average score of 42 students in a test is 69. A) 1 : 2 B) 2 : 3 C) 3 : 2 D) 1 : 3
The ratio of the number of boys to that of girls is
10 : 11. The average score of the boys is 20%
more than that of the girls. The average score of
the boys is: (CPO 2019)
       
      

  
A) 73.5 B) 75.2 C) 82.8 D) 75.6
61. Three Science classes A, B and C takes a Life
Science test. The average score of class A is 83.
The average score of class B is 76. The average
score of class C is 85. The average score of class
A and B is 79 and average score of class B and
C is 81. Then the average score of classes A, B
and C is (SSC CGL Mains)
   A   B   C

 A  B    B 
C     A, B, C  
 
A) 81.5 B) 81 C) 80.5 D) 80
62. In the board examination of class 10th and 12th
80% of boys passed in both the exams taken
together whereas 40% of girls failed. Overall
passing % of all the students in both exam is
75%. 50% of boys failed in 10th exam and 80%
boys passed in 12th exam. Overall 60% of boys
passed in both the exams taken together. 60%
of girls passed in 10thexam and 10% girls failed
in 12th exam. Overall 80% girls passed in both
the exam taken together. Find the ratio of number
of girls in 12th class to the number of boys in
10th class.
th, 12th  
  
   
th th
  

  th     
th 
  th  
  th       
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