SSC Apt Exam 04055

1. After selling a watch, Bhuvnesh found that he had made a loss of 10%. He also found that had he sold it for Rs. 27 more, he would have made a profit of 5%. The actual initial loss was what percentage of the profit earned had he sold the watch for a 5% profit ?

2 . An orange vendor makes a profit of 20% by selling oranges at a certain price. If he charges Rs. 1.2 higher per orange he would gain 40%. Find the original price at which he sold an orange

3 . A man sells his goods at 25% profit. Had he purchased it rupees 950 less and sold it rupees 950 less then he would gain 5% more profit. find the initial cost price ?

4 . If the length, breadth and height of a cube are decreased, decreased and increased by 5%, 5% and 20% respectively, then what will be the impact on the volume of the cube (in percentage terms)?

5 . A’s salary is first increased by 25% and then decreased by 20%. The result is the same as B’s salary increased by 20% and then reduced by 25%. Find the ratio of B’s salary to that of A’s

6 . A person saves 6% of his income. Two years later, his income shoots up by 15% but his savings remain the same. Find the hike in his expenditure.

7. 5 kg of superior quality of rice is mixed with 25 kg of inferior quality rice. The price of superior quality and inferior quality rice is Rs. 18 and Rs. 12 respectively. The average price per kg of the mixture is:

8. A milkman has two types of milk. In the first container the percentage of milk is 80% and in the second container the percentage of milk is 60%. If he mixes 28 litres of milk of the first container to the 32 litres of milk of the second container, then the percentage of milk in the mixture is :

9. Bhuvnesh covered 150 km distance in 10 hours. The first part of his journey he covered by car, then he hired a rickshaw. The speed of car and rickshaw is 20 km/hr and 12 km/hr respectively. The ratio of distances covered by car and the rickshaw respectively are :

10 . A train 100 m long is running at the speed of 30 km/hr. The time (in second) in which it will pass a man standing near the railway line is :

11 . How many seconds will a 500 metre long train takes to cross a man walking with a speed of 3 km/hr in the direction of the moving train if the speed of the train is 63 km/hr?

12 . The length of a train and that of a platform are equal. If with a speed of 90 km/hr the train crosses the platform in one minute, then the length of the train (in metres) is :

13 . 3 men and 5 women can built a wall of length 25 metre in 20 days. 2 men and 6 women built 40 metres wall of same type in 40 days. Find the ratio of work efficiencies of 1 men and 1 women.

14 . 3 men or 4 women or 5 boys can earn Rs. 150 daily. Then, 7 men with 12 women and 3 boys will earn per day is :

15 . 3 men and 4 boys can earn Rs.756 in 7 days. 11 men and 13 boys can earn Rs.3008 in 8 days. In what time will 7 men with 9 boys earn Rs.2480?

16 .Due to the decrease in the interest rate from 11.5% to 10% the income of a man decreases by 55.50. Find the amount.

17 . A lent out ` 2500 to B and some money to C at 7% per annum rate of simple interest. If after 4 years A received a total of ` 1120 from B and C, Find the amount lent out to C.

18 . Rajesh lent out a certain sum at 9% per annum rate of simple interest and the same sum lent out at 10% per annum rate of simple interest for 2 years. In all he got ` 760 as interest sum. Find each sum.

19 . A parallelogram ABCD has sides AB = 24 cm and AD = 16 cm. The distance between the sides AB and DC is 10 cm. Find the distance between the sides AD and BC.

20 .The adjacent sides of a paralleogram are 36 cm and 27 cm in length, If the distance between the shorter sides is 12 cm, then the distance between the longer sides is

21 . If the diagonals of a rhombus are 8 cm and 6 cm, then the area of square having same side as that of rhombus is

22 .Water flows at the rate of 10 metres per minute from cylindrcial pipe 5 mm in diameter, How long it will take to fill up a conical vessel whose diameter at the base is 30 cm and depth 24 cm?

23 . A plate of square base made of brass is of length x cm and thickness 1 mm.The plate weighs 4725 gm. If 1 cubic cm of brass weighs 8.4 gram, then the value of x is:

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