SSC Apt Exam 04052

1. Tanu goes to a shop to purchase a doll priced at Rs. 400. She is offered 4 discount options by the shopkeeper. Which of these options should she opt for to gain maximum advantage of the discount offered ?

2. A dishonest dealer marks up the price of his goods by 20% and gives a discount of 10% to the customer. Besides, he also cheats both his supplier and his buyer by 100 grams while buying or selling 1 kilogram. Find the percentage profit earned by the

3. Bhuvnesh makes 750 articles at a cost of 60 paise per article. He fixed the selling price such that if only 600 articles are sold, he would have made profit of 40% on the outlay. However,120 articles got spoilt and he was able to sell 630 articles at this price. Find his actual profit percent as the percentage of total outlay assuming that the unsold articles are useless.

4. When 60% of number A is added to another number B, B becomes 175% of its previous value. Then which of the following is true regarding the values of A and B ?

5. The population of a village is 1,00,000. The rate of increase is 10% per annum. Find the population at the start of the third year.

6. The population of the Mukherjee Nagar is 10,000 at this moment. It increases by 10% in the first year. However, in the second year, due to immigration, the population drops by 5%. Find the population at the end of the third year if in the third year the population increases by 20%.

7. The ratio of income of A and B is 3 : 2 and the ratio of their expenditure is 4 : 3 and their savings are respectively ` 2,000 and Rs. 1000. Find the income of A and B respectively.

8. A person cover certain distance by train, bus and car in ratio 4 : 3 : 2. The ratio of fair is 1 : 2 : 4 per km. The total expenditure as a fair is Rs. 720. Then, total expenditure as fair on train.

9. A bag contains Rs. 410 in the from of Rs. 5, Rs. 2 and Rs. 1 coins. The number of coins are in ratio of 4 : 6 : 9. So, find the number of 2 Rs. coins.

10. 12 taps are fitted in a tank some are inlet taps and some are outlet taps. Each inlet tap can fill the tank in 6 hours and each outlet tap can empty the tank in 12 hours. If all the taps are open together then the tank will be full in 4 hours. Then find the number of inlet taps.

11. An inlet pipe can fill a tank in 5 hours and an outlet pipe can empty the same tank in 36 hours, working individually. How many additional number of outlet pipes of the same capacity are required to be opened, so that the tank never overflows ?

12. In a public bathroom there are n taps 1, 2, 3...n. Tap 1 and Tap 2 take equal time to fill the tank while tap 3 takes half the time taken by tap 2 and tap 4 takes half the time taken by tap 3. Similarly each next number of tap takes half the time taken by previous number of tap i.e., Kth tap takes half the time taken by (K – 1)th tap. If the 8th tap takes 80 hours to fill the tank the 10th and the 12th tap working together take how many hours to fill the tank?

13. Soniya and Priyanka started from A and B for B and A, which are 645 km apart. They meet after 15 hours. After their meeting, Sonia increased her speed by 3 km/h and Priyanka reduced her speed by 3 km/h, they arrived at B and A respectively at the same time. What is their initial speeds ?

14. Rajesh kumar had to cover a distance of 60 km. However, he started 6 minutes later than his scheduled time and raced at speed 1 km/h higher than his originally planned speed and reached the finish at the time he would reach it if he began to race strictly at the appointed time and raced with the assumed speed. Find the speed at which he travelled during the journey described :

16. rs:44900 is divided among four people. If they pay equal amount (principal amount + interest) after 2 years, 4 years, 6 years and 10 years at 10% per annum rate of simple interest. Find the difference of the maximum and the minimum share they received.

17. ` 33220 was divided among three friends. If after 4 years 5 years and 10 years respectively they paid same interest amount, interest rate being 7% per annum, Find the share of each of them.

18. A lent out 4800 to B at 8% per annum rate of simple interest for 2 years. B lent the same amount to C at 3% more for the same time period. If after the completion of time B paid back to A and C paid back to B, Find the profit of B.

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 base of a cone and a cylinder have the same radius 6 cm. They have also the same height 8 cm. The ratio of the curved surface area of the cylinder to that of the cone is

23.The radius of a metallic cylinder is 3 cm and its height is 5 cm. It is melted and moulded into small cones, each of height 1 cm and base radius 1 mm. The number of such cones formed is

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