Prominent Education Center

Prominent Education Center (PEC)

Subject: Preliminary Math

Chapter: Ratio & Mixture

Md. Abdullah Al Mamun, Senior Mentor, Prominent Education Center (PEC)

Officer @ Sonali Bank Limited, Senior Officer @ RAKUB (Recommended)

MD. Abdullah Al Mamun, Senior Mentor (PEC), Officer @ Sonali Bank, SO @ RAKUB (Recommended)
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Ratio

Ratio & Mixture (rule of allegation)

Mixture: When two or more elements are mixed in a certain ratio, it is called mixtue.
Alligation: The rule whice enables us to find the ratio in which two or more elements are mixed
together is called alligation.

MD. Abdullah Al Mamun, Senior Mentor (PEC), Officer @ Sonali Bank, SO @ RAKUB (Recommended)
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1. If a:b = 4:7 and b:c = 5:6 than a:b:c = ? (BB AD 2022)
2. If A and B are in the ratio 3:4 and B and C in the ratio 12:13, then A and C will be in the ratio-
3. Two number are in the ratio 3:4 and the sum of the number is 420. What is the greater number?
4. The ratio of boys and girls in a school is 3 to 7. If there are 150 boys and girls, how many boys are
there?
5. The ratio of two number is 7:3 and their difference is 36. What are these numbers?
6. The fourth proportional to 5, 8, 15 is:
7. The ratio of 1/5 to 2/7 is:
8. Tk. 782 be divided into three parts, proportional to ½ : 2/3 : ¾ then the first is:
9. 35% of Nadia’s income is equal to 25% of Nuru’s income. the ratio of their income is:
10. If 32 students in a class are female and, in this class, male female ratio is 16:9, what % of the class is
female?
11. The ratio of two numbers is 7:4. If 8 is added to both the number ratio becomes 13:8. What is the
smaller number? (Important)
12. Two number are in the ratio 3 : 5. If 9 is subtracted from each, the new numbers are in the ratio 12 : 23.
The smaller number is: (BIBM)
13. The present ratio of students to teachers at a certain school is 30 to 1. If the student enrollment were to
increase by 50 students and the number of teachers was to increase by 5, the ratio of students to teachers
would then be 25 to 1. What is the present number of teachers? (SO, Officer 2020 Based, BIBM)
14. The ratio of boys to girls in a class 2/5. If 2 boys leave and 4 girls join the class, the ratio of the boys to
the girls becomes 1/4. Originally, how many girls were in the class? (BIBM)
15. Jo's collection contains US, Indian and British stamps. If the ratio of US to Indian stamps is 5 to 2 and
the ratio of Indian to British stamps is 5 to 1, what is the ratio of US to British stamps?
16. A man left Tk. 5000 to his three sons X, Y and Z. For every Taka X received, Y received Tk. 1.5 and Z
received Tk. 2.5. How much money was left to Y? (BIBM)
17. A sum of money is to be distributed among A, B, C, D in the proportion of 5 : 2 : 4 : 3. If C gets Rs.
1000 more than D, what is B's share?
18. City X has a population 4 times as great as the population of City Y, which has a population twice as
great as the population of City Z. What is the ratio of the population of City X to the population of City
Z?
19. In what ratio must a grocer mix two varieties of pulses costing Rs. 15 and Rs. 20 per kg respectively so
as to get a mixture worth Rs. 16.50 kg?
20. A merchant has 1000 kg of sugar, part of which he sells at 8% profit and the rest at 18% profit. He
gains 14% on the whole. The quantity sold at 18% profit is: (BB AD 2022, Officer 2020 Based, BIBM)
21. In a mixture 60 litres, the ratio of milk and water 2 : 1. If this ratio is to be 1 : 2, then the quanity of
water to be further added is:
22. The ratio of water and milk in a 30 liter mixture is 7 : 3. Find the quantity of water to be added to the
mixture in order to make this ratio 6 : 1.
23. A mixture of 20 kg of sprit and water contains 10% water. how much water must be added mixture to
raise the percentage of water to 25%?
24. A jar full of whisky contains 40% alcohol. A part of this whisky is replaced by another containing 19%
alcohol and now the percentage of alcohol was found to be 26%. The quantity of whisky replaced is:

MD. Abdullah Al Mamun, Senior Mentor (PEC), Officer @ Sonali Bank, SO @ RAKUB (Recommended)