SSC Apt Exam 04038

1. A man sold two horses for Rs. 32500 each. He earned a profit of 15% an the first horse while incured a 15% loss on the second horse. find his total loss or profit percentage during whole transaction.

2. A fruitseller bought some bananas at the rate of 6 for Rs. 15 and sold all at the rate of 4 for Rs. 12. Find his profit or loss percentage.

3. A sold an article to B at 15% profit and B Sold it to C at 10% loss . If C has paid Rs. 517.50 for the article. Find the cost at which A bought it ?

4. A man sold two horses for Rs. 32500 each. He earned a profit of 15% an the first horse while incured a 15% loss on the second horse. find his total loss or profit percentage during whole transaction.

5. A fruitseller bought some bananas at the rate of 6 for Rs. 15 and sold all at the rate of 4 for Rs. 12. Find his profit or loss percentage.

6. A sold an article to B at 15% profit and B Sold it to C at 10% loss . If C has paid Rs. 517.50 for the article. Find the cost at which A bought it ?

7.In the mixture of 48 litre the ratio of milk to water is 5 : 3. How many litres water should be added to the mixture so that the ratio of milk and water may reverse ?

8 .In 700 ml solution of 18% alcohal, how much quantity of pure alcohol is to be added so that the new solution contains 30% alcohol.

9.A milkman says that he sells milk at cost price but he makes 16 2/3 profit by mixing water to milk. If he sells 14 litre (mixture) milk, find the quantity of water in the mixture.

10. A cistern is provided with two pipes A and B. A can fill it in 20 minutes and B can empty it in 30 minutes. If A and B be kept open alternately for one minute each, how soon will the cistern be filled?

11. If 1/3 rd of tank holds 80 litres of water, then the quantity of water that 1/2 tank holds is :

12. A tap can fill a tank in 6 hours. After half the tank is filled three more similar taps are opened. What is the total time taken to fill the tank completely?

13. A dog is 50 of its own leaps behind a cat. The dog takes 5 leaps per minute to the cat’s 4. If the dog and the cat cover 8 m and 5 m per leap respectively, what distance will the dog have to run before it catches the cat?

14. A thief sees a jeep at a distance of 250 m, coming towards him at 36 km/h. Thief takes 5 seconds to realise that there is nothing but the police is approaching him by the jeep and start running away from police at 54 km/h. But police realise after 10 seconds, when the thief starts running away, that he is actually a thief and gives chase at 72 km/h. How long after thief saw police did police catchup with him and what is the distance police had to travel to do so?

15. Two isosceles triangles have equal vertical angles and their areas are in the ratio 9 : 16. then the ratio of their corresponding heights is

16. Given that the ratio of altitudes of two triangles is 4:5, ratio of their areas is 3 : 2, The ratio of their corresponding bases is

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21. The area of a circle is increased by 22 cm, if its radius is increased by 1 cm. The original radius of the circle is

22. An elephant of length 4 m is at one corner of a rectangular cage of size (16 m × 30 m) and faces towards the diagonally opposite corner. If the elephant starts moving towards the diagonally opposite conrner it takes 15 seconds to reach this corner. Find the speed of the elephant

23. The surface area of a sphere is 64 cm2 Its diameter is equal to

24 .The radius of a cylinder is 10 cm and height is 4 cm. The number of centimetres that may be added either to the radius or to the height to get the same increase in the volume of the cylinder is

25.The circumference of the base of a 16 cm high solid cone is 33 cm What is the volume of the cone in cm3 ?