SSC Apt Exam 04068

1. A person bought a horse and a cart for 5000 rupees. He sold horse at 20% profit while the cart at 10% loss in all he was able to make a profit of 2%. Find the difference of cost price of the horse and cart.

2. The list price of t.v is 6400 rupees and is sold to a retailer at two successive discount of 25% and 15% respectively. The retailer wants to print a price at the t.v in such a way that after allowing a discount of 10% at new marked price he can earn 20% profit. Find the new marked price.

3. A cow was sold at 15% profit. If it was sold for `1200 less the seller incurred a loss of 5%. If he want to make a profit of 12 1/2 % at what rate he must sell it?

4. The price of a weekly magzine be Rs. 90. There is a 30% discount on becoming a customer of 51 magzines while a 25% discount to the customer of 26 magzines. Find the difference of the price of a magzine for a customer of 51 magzines and a customer of 26 magzines.

5. In a co-educational school the number of girls is 15 more than that of boys. If the number of girls increase by 10% and the number of boys increase by 16% then the difference between number of girls and boys remains 9. Find the total number of students in the school.

6. If the ratio of length, breadth and height of cuboid is 1:2:3. If the length, breadth and height are increased by 100%, 200% and 200% respectively. Then how much the volume of the cuboid will increase?

7. A mixture contains milk and water in the ratio 4 : 3. On adding 2 litres of water, the ratio becomes 8 : 7. Find the total quantity of the final mixture.

8. A hound pursues a hare and takes 3 leaps for every 4 leaps of the hare, but 2 leaps of the hound are equal to 3 leaps of the hare. Compare the rates of the hound and the hare.

9. If A : B = 3 : 4, B : C = 5 : 7 and C : D = 3 : 5, then find A : B : C : D.

10. The speeds of A and B are in the ratio 3 : 4. A takes 20 minutes more than B to reach a destination. In what time does A reachs the destination?

11 . A and B start at the same time with speeds of 40 km/hr and 50 km/hr respectively. If in covering the journey A takes 15 minutes longer than B, the total distance of the journey is:

12. A man reduces his speed to 2/3, he takes 1 hour more in walking a certain distace. The time (in hours) to cover the distance with his normal speed is:

13 . Two workers A and B are engaged to do a work. A working alone takes 8 hours more to complete the job than if both worked together. If B worked alone, he would need 4 1/2hours more to complete the job than they both working together. What time would they take to do the work together?

14. Elan and Ronald working on an assignment. Ronald takes 6 hours to type 32 pages on a computer, while Elan takes 5 hours to type 40 pages. How much time will they take, working together on two different computers to type an assignment of 110 pages?

15 . P can complete a work in 12 days working 8 hours a day. Q can complete the same work in 8 days working 10 hours a day. If both P and Q work together, working 8 hours a day, in how many days can they complete the work?

16 . The sum of money, that will give Re. 1 as interest per day at the rate of 5% per annum simple interest is :

17.A money lender finds that due to a fall in the annual rate of interest from 8 % to 7 3 4 %, his yearly income diminishes by Rs. 61.50. His capital is :

18.A certain sum by simple interest by certain fixed rate in 1/4 year becomes 41/40 of itself. Find rate of interest per annum.

19. If the ratio of areas of two squares is 225 : 256, then the ratio of their perimeter is :

20 .The area of a field in the shape of a trapezium measures 1440m². The perpendicular distance between its parallel sides is 24m. If the ratio of the parallel sides is 5 : 3, the length of the longer parallel side is :

21 . The area of a triangle is 216 cm2 and its sides are in the ratio 3 : 4 : 5. The perimeter of the triangle is:

22 .A sphere and a cylinder have equal volume and equal radius. The ratio of the curved surface area of the cylinder to that of the sphere is

23.A right circular cylinder and a cone have equal base radius and equal height. If their curved surfaces are in the ratio 8 : 5, then the radius of the base to the height are in the ratio:

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