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1) Kewal sells two tape recorders at the same price. On one he gains 15% and on the

other he loses 15%. The total gain or loss in the transaction is

2) Two numbers are respectively 10 % and 21% more than a third number. The first

number as a percentage of second number is

3) If the average marks of three batches of 55, 60 and 45 students respectively is 60, 55

and 45 , then the average marks of all the students is

4) A bus started from bus stand at 9.00am, and after staying for 15 minutes at adestination, it returned back to the bus stand. The destination is 27 miles from the

bus stand. The speed of the bus is 18mph. During the return journey the bus travels

with 50% faster. At what time does it return to the bus stand?

5) No. of animals is 11 more than the no. of birds. If the number of birds were the no.

of animals and no. of animals were the no. of birds ( i.e., interchanging numbers of

animals and birds.), the total no. of legs get reduced by one fifth. How many no. of

birds and animals were there?

6) There is a 5digit no. 3 pairs of sum is Twelve each.Last digit is 2 times the first one.

3rd digit is 3 less than the second.

4th digit is 3 more than the second one.

Find the digit

7) A contractor has to finish a road in 200 days. He employed 140

workers for 60 days and gets one-fourth of work done. Find the

additional number of worker to be employed to complete the work in given time.

8) There are two pipes, one fills the tank in 12 hours and other fills in 28 hours .After

how long the first pipe is to be closed so as to fill the tank in 16 hours.

9) A coffee shop blends 2 kinds of coffee, putting in 2 parts of a 33 paisa a gm. grade to1 part of a 24 paisa a gm. If the mixture is changed to 1 part of the 33 paisa a gm. to

2 parts of the less expensive grade, how much will the shop save in blending 100

gms.

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10)There are 200 questions on a 3 hr examination. Among these questions are 50mathematics problems. It is suggested that twice as much time be spent on each

maths problem as for each other question. How many minutes should be spent on

mathematics problems

11) A company contracts to paint 3 houses. Mr.Brown can paint a house in 6 days whileMr.Black would take 8 days and Mr.Blue 12 days. After 8 days Mr.Brown goes on

vacation and Mr. Black begins to work for a period of 6 days. How many days will it

take Mr.Blue to complete the contract?

12) If 1/5th of a hive of bees flew to the Badamba flower, 1/3rd flew to the slandbara, 3

times the difference of these two numbers flew to an arbour, and one bee continued

to fly about, attracted on each side by the fragrant ketaki and malati. What was the

total number of bees?

13) A salesman's commission is 5% on all sales up to Rs.10000 and 4% on all sales

exceeding this. He remits Rs.31100 to his parent company after deducting hiscommission, His sales was worth ?

14)A company purchased 3 computer tables in 1995. as the company wanted to

renovate the office , sold those tables at RS.2400 each making a profit of 20% of

one , no profit no loss on second table and 20% loss on third table. What did the

company get in this transaction

15) A can do a work in 8 days, B can do the work in 7 days and C can do the work in 6

days. A works on the first day, B on the second day and C on the third day. They

continue in the same manner till the work is finished. Which day will they finish the

work?

16)Diamonds value is proportional to its weight2 . A piece of diamond broke and the

weights of the broken pieces were in the ratio 1:2:3:4:5. The loss in value is Rs

85000/-. What is the value of the diamond twice the Weight of the original diamond?

17) Tower A is 200 feet high. Tower B is 150 feet high. The distance between the two

towers is 250 feet. A bird from the top of Tower A and another bird from the top of

the other tower start to eat a feed, which is in between the two towers, with the same

speed and reach at the same time. What is the distance of the feed from tower A?

18)A plane moves from 9N50E to 27S10W. If the plane starts at 10 AM and takes 8

hours to reach the destination, find the local arrival time?

19)A and B run a 1980 meter race and reach the finishing point at the same time. A

runs 20% faster than B. B quickens his pace and covers the remaining distance

running 20% faster than A. When B quickens the pace A would have run --------

meters.

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20) Kanti beats Padma in a kilometer race by 50 seconds and Rekha by 450 meters. If

Padma and Rekha run a kilometer race, Padma wins by 40 Seconds. How much

time does Rekha take to run a kilometer?

21)In a circular race track of length 100 Meters, three persons A, B and C start

together. A and B move in the same direction at 10 meters per second and 8 metersper second respectively. C moves in the opposite direction at 15 meters per second.

When will all the three meet for the first time?

22) The total expense of a boarding house is partly fixed and partly variable with the

number of boarders. The charge is Rs 70 per head when there are 25 boarders and

Rs 60 when there are 50 boarders. Find the charge per head when there are 100

boarders?

23) In a mixture R is two parts and S is one part. In order to have S as 25% of the

mixture how much R is to be added?

24)Swetha, Tina, Uma and Vidya are playing a gambling. In this different people losein different games-in the reverse alphabetical order. The rule is that if one loses she

should double the amount of others. At the end of 4th game each of them have same

amount of money (Rs.32). Which one of them started with the least amount? Which

one of them started with the largest amount of money? At the end of the 2nd game

what is the amount of money with Uma?

25) The total no. of numbers that are divisible by 2 or 3 between 100 and 200(both

inclusive) is?

26)A starts at 10:45AM and travels at a speed of 4km/hr. B starts at 12:45 PM and

travels at 1km/hr for the first 1hr and 2km/hr for the next hr and so on. At what

time they will meet each other.

27) One coin of the 80 coins is counterfeit. What is the minimum number of weighing to

find out the counterfeit coin?

28) Five thieves entered a diamond shop. One by one each stole half of the diamonds he

found there and two more diamonds, except the fifth, who didnt find any diamonds

to steal. How many diamonds were there initially?

29) Two cars are 500 cm apart. each is moving forward for 100 cm at a velocity of 50

cm/s and receding back for 50 cm at 25 cm/s at what time they will collide with each

other.

30)A car travels from B at a speed of 20 km/hr. The bus travel starts from A at a time

of 9 A.M. There is a bus for every half an hour interval. The car starts at 12 noon.

Each bus travels at a speed of 25 km/hr. Distance between A and B is 100 km.

During its journey, the number of buses that the car encounter is?

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31) Two solutions have milk & water in the ratio 7:5 and 6:11.Find the proportion in

which these two solutions should be mixed so that the resulting solution has 1 part

milk and 2 parts water?

32)Three men A, B, C plays Cards. If one loses the game he have to give Rs.3. If he winsthe game he will gain Rs.6. If A has won 3 Games, B loses Rs.3, C wins Rs.15.What

is the total no. of games played?

33)A group of students are made to stand around in a circle.Starting from one student, they were asked to call numberfrom 1 onwards. One after the other. The rule was that thestudent calling a number which is either a multiple of 7 orthat has a digit sum of 7 should clap his hands. How manyclaps were there when they counted upto 1600?

34) In question 15 above let us assume that there are 11students standing in a circle. Student No 1 started the processof calling numbers, followed by students 2, 3 and so on. Theycontinued going around the circle and counted upto 500. Thelast person to clap must be _____ student number of the circle

35) A and B run in opposite directions from P on a circle with different but constant

speeds. A runs in clockwise direction. They meet for the first time at a distance of

900 meters in clockwise direction from P and for the second time at a distance of 800

meters in anticlockwise direction from P. If B is yet to complete one round, the

circumference of circle is

36) In town of 500 people, 285 read The Hindu and 212 read Indianexpress and 127read Times of India 20 read The Hindu andTimes of India and 29 read The Hindu and Indian Express and35 read Times of India and Indian express. 50 read no newspaper. Then how many read all the three papers

A cube is cut into 216 equal parts. The 2nd 4th and 6th layers of the front face are

removed and then painted black. Now answer d following questions

37)How many cubes are painted on only one side?

38)How many cubes are painted on only 2 sides?

39)How many cubes are painted on only 3 sides?

40)How many cubes are painted on only 4 sides?

41)How many cubes are painted 0 sides?

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42) A man says that he gained 10 percent as profit in selling a suitable cloth material. he

says if he had purchased the same one 10 percent cheaper than it was actual and if

he had sold it for 20% profit he gets 25paise less. Find at what price he sold the suit.

43)Bob invests one & half times of Jones' in a business. 3rd person is added who gives

3000. How should 3000 be divided so that all 3 have equal interest in the business?

44) When i am as old as my father I will be 5 times the present age of my son, by then

my son will be 8 yrs more than my present age. Sum of my age and my father's age

is 100 years. What is my son's age?

45) A person starts from his house to his friends place with 10 liters of petrol. He was

driving at 30 km/hour. The mileage given by the car is 20 km/liter. The petrol tank

is leaking at half liters per hour. When he returned back to his house he observed

that the petrol tank was empty. What is distance between the persons house and his

friends place

46)A plane goes from Chicago to Columbus and then comes back. It takes the sametime to travel in either ways. It leaves Chicago early in the morning 0644 LOCAL

TIME and reaches the destination Columbus at 0849 LOCAL TIME. In the same

evening it leaves Columbus at 1625 hrs LOCAL TIME and reaches the destination

at 1658 LOCAL TIME. Find the time that the plane takes to travel either way?

47) The smallest number that must be added to 80364 in order to obtain a multiple of 11

is ______?

48)Nareshs monthly income is 30% more than that of Raghu. Raghus monthlyincome is 20% less than that of Vishal. If the difference between the monthly of

Naresh and Vishal is Rs 800/- What is the monthly income of Raghu?

49) In an Island the natives lie and visitors speak truth. A man wants to whether a salesman

beside him in a bar is a native or visitor. He asked him to ask a woman beside him whether

she is a native or visitor. He replied that she says she is a visitor. Whether the salesman is

a native or visitor?

50) Using the numbers 1, 2, 3, 25, 50, 75, 100 exactly one time, give an expression which will

give the answer as 383.