Ratio &

Proportion –
Practice
Questions
- GAURI SHANKHAR H

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Practice problems
1. Rs. 2250 is divided among three friends Ajay, Vijay, and Raj in such a way that 1/6th of
Ajay’s share, 1/4th of Vijay’s share and 2/5th of Raj’s share is equal. Find Ajay’s share.

2. If a/(b + c) = b/(c + a) = c/(a + b), then each fraction will be equal to ?

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3. At constant temperature, the pressure of a definite mass of a gas is inversely proportional to the
volume. If the pressure given is reduced by 20%, find the respective change in the volume.

4. If the ratio of the sine of the angles of triangles is given as 1:1:√2, then the ratio of the square of
the greatest side to the sum of the squares of the other two sides is

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5. Divide the amount of Rs. 500 between P, Q, R, and S such that P and Q together get the thrice
as much as R and S together. Q gets four times of what R get and R gets 1.5 times as much as S.
Now the value that Q gets will be is?

6. The students in three batches in school is in the ratio of 2:3:5. If 20 students in each batch are
increased than the ratio changes to 4:5:7. The total number of students in the three before the
increase was?

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