SSC Apt Exam 04058

1. If the selling price is double the profit triples find the profit percentage?

2. A house worth Rs. 1,50,000 is sold by X at a 5 % profit to Y, Y sells the house back to X at a 2% loss. Then in the entire transaciton ?

3. An item costing Rs. 840 was sold by a shopkeeper to a buyer at a gain of 10 % and it was again sold by the buyer to the new buyer at a loss of 5%. Then final price of the item is :

4. In an election between two candidates, one got 55 % of the total valid votes, 20 % of the votes are invalid. If the total votes are 75000, what is the number of valid votes that the other person got ?

5 . Selling price of a shirt and a coat is Rs. 4000. The cost price of a shirt is 58.33% of the cost price of a coat and so amount of profit on both the shirt and coat is same, then the price of the shirt could be :

6 . In a class, the no. of boys is more than the no. of girls by 12%. The ratio of boys to girls is:

7. In my big pocket there are Rs. 25 consisting of only the denominations of 20 paise and 50 paise. Thus there are total 80 coins in my pocket. The no. of coins of the denomination of 50 paise is :

8 . In the 75 litres of mixture of soda and water, the ratio of soda and water is 4 : 1. The quantity of water required to make the ratio of soda and water 3 : 1 is:

9 . In a 25 litres mixture of milk and water, the water is only 20%. How many litres of water is required to increase the percentage of water to 90% ?

10 . A train 800 metre long is running at the speed of 78 km/hr. If it crosses a tunnel in 1 minute, then the length of the tunnel (in metres) is :

11. Two trains are running in opposite directions with the same speed. If the length of each train is 120 metre and they cross each other in 12 second then find the speed of each train (in km/hour) :

12. Two trains are running with speeds 30 km/hr and 58 km/ hr in the same direction. A man in the slower train is passed by the faster train in 18 seconds. The length (in metres) of the faster train is :

13. A, B, C are three pipes attached to a cistern. A and B can fill it in 20 and 30 minutes respectively, while C can empty it in 15 minutes. If A, B, C are kept open successively for 1 minute each, how soon will the cistern be filled?

14 . A bath can be filled by the cold water pipe in 10 minutes and by the hot water pipe in 15 minutes. A person leaves the bathroom after turning on both the pipes simultaneously and returns at the moment when the bath will be full. Finding however, that the waste pipe has been open, he now closed it. In 4 minutes more the bath is full. In what time would the waste pipe empty it.

15 . Pipe A takes 4 minutes more to fill the cistern than two pipes A and B opened together to fill it. Second pipe B takes 9 minutes more to fill cistern than two fill pipes A and B opened together to fill it. When will the cistern be full if both pipes are opened simultaneously.

16 . If ` 12000 is divided into two parts such that simple interest on first part at 12% per annum for 3 years is equal to the simple interest on second part at 16% per annum for 4 1/2 years. Find the greater part.

17 . A certain amount becomes 3 times in 4 years on simple interest In what time it will become 7 times ?

18. A certain amount becomes ` 2800 in 3 years and `3000 in 5 years. Find the amount and rate of simple interest.

19 .The perimeter of a rhombus is 40 m and its height is 5m its area is:

20.The perimeter of a rhombus is 40 cm. If the length of one of its diagonals be 16 cm, the length of the other diagonal is

21 .The area of a rhombus is 150 cm2 . The length of one of its diagonals is 10 cm. The length of the other diagonal is :

22 .The ratio of the volume of two cones is 2 : 3 and the ratio of radii of their base is 1 : 2. The ratio of their height is

23 .If the height of a given cone be doubled and radius of the base remains the same the ratio of the volume of the given cone to that of the second cone will be

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