Center for Career Planning and Development

(CCPD)

Training Program
Arithmetic Aptitude – Mixtures & Allegations
1.Find the ratio of two types of maize, one of Rs.24/kg and the other for Rs.32/kg
should be assorted together for achieving a blend costing Rs.28/kg?

2.In a bowl, there is a blend of rum and vodka blended in the ratio of 4: 5. If extra
6 liters of rum are added to the bowl, it would be full and the ratio of rum and
vodka would become 6: 5. Evaluate the capacity of the bowl?

3.Find the proportion in which water should be blended with pure milk to get a
profit of (50/3)% by marketing the mix at its original price it was purchased for?

4.In what ratio should the water and juice should be mixed for gaining 30% by
marketing the blend at its original price?

5.A grocery store owner sells pepper at some cost price. As pepper is very
expensive, so to gain profit on the cost price with which he purchased but he
mixes it with papaya seeds and gains a profit of 35%. Find the percentage of
papaya seeds mixed with pepper?

6. At a restaurant a waiter served a tower of beer containing 50% alcohol to a

customer. After few minutes, the customer asked the waiter to replace her drink
with some other beverage that contains 19% alcohol and now the ratio of alcohol
in the beverage was found to be 25%. Find out the amount of alcohol in the
beverage replaced?

7.There is one liquid A which contains 25% of water, the liquid B contains 30% of
water. A vessel is filled with 6 parts of the liquid A and 4 parts of the liquid B. Find
out the percentage of water in the mixture?

8.Calculate the ratio in which two types of cement, one at Rs. 20 per kg and Rs.
60 per kg should be mixed to get a blend that can be traded at Rs. 35 per kg?

9.Calculate the ratio in which two types of cement, one at Rs. 20 per kg and Rs.
60 per kg should be mixed to get a blend that can be traded at Rs. 35 per kg?

10.Find the ratio in which sugary biscuits batter at Rs. 20/kg mixed with
cinnamon at the rate of Rs. 52/kg to make a mixture that can be sold at Rs.
35.50?