SSC Apt Exam 04077

1. A publisher gets printed 1200 copies of a book and distribute 300 copies free. After this he gives 2 copies free at the purchase of 18 copies. If the cost per copy be Rs. 60 then what should be the selling price of a book to earn 17% profit.

2. The list price of a computer is Rs. 48,000. Shopkeeper A sold it at three successive discount 20%, 10% and 5% and the other shopkeeper ‘B’ sold it at three successive discount of 19%, 8% and 8% on purchasing the computer from the first seller how many rupees a person can save instead of purchasing it from the second one.

3. A wheat trader bought some quantity of rice for Rs. 6400 he sold 2/5 at 5% loss and remaining at 15% profit. Find his total profit or loss percentage.

4. It is necessary to obtain 40% marks to pass an exam. A obtains 10% less marks than pass marks. B obtains 11 1/9 % less marks than A, and C obtains 41 3/17 % less marks than A & B. Then find C qualified the exam or not ?

5. In an election two candidates participate and 10% of the voters did not vote and out of total votes polled, 2000 votes declared invalid. The winner gets 52% of the total votes on voting list and wins by 13200 votes. Find the no. of votes polled in favour of losing candidate?

6. The ratio of the boys and girls sitting in an examination is 16 : 9. The ratio of boys and girls that passed the exam is 4 : 3. If 75% girls passed in the exam then find the % age of boys who pass the exam and also find the total percentage of students that passed in the exam?

7. In what ratio should freely available water be mixed with the soda worth Rs. 60 per litre so that after selling the mixture at Rs. 50 per litre, the profit will be 25% ?

8. In a 50 litre mixture of water and milk, water is only 20%. The milkman gives 10 litre ‘of this’ mixture to a customer and then he adds up 10 litres of pure water in the remaining mixture. The percentage of water in the final mixture is :

9. There are three types of Butter, Parag, Amul and Nestle. The ratio of fat to the non-fat contents in butter is 4 : 5, 5 : 6, 6 : 7 respectively. If all these three types of butter is mixed in equal quantity, the ratio of fat to the non-fat contents in the mixture will be:

10. A can do a piece of work in 14 days which B can do in 21 days. They begin together but 3 days before the completion of the work, A leaves off. The total number of days to complete the work is:

11. A and B can do a piece of work in 45 days and 40 days respectively. They began to the do the work together but A leaves after some days and then B completed the remaining work in 23 days. The number of days after which A left the work was:

12. A and B together can do a piece of work in 12 days, which B and C together can do in 16 days. After A has been working at it for 5 days and B for 7 days, C finished it in 13 days. In how many days C alone will do the work?

13. A train starts from A at 7 a.m. towards B with speed 50 km/h. Another train from B starts at 8 a.m. with speed 60 km/h towards A. Both of them meet at 10 a.m. at C. The ratio of the distance AC to BC is :

14. A jeep is chasing a car which is 5 km ahead. Their respective speeds are 90 km/ hr and 75 km/hr. After how many minutes will the jeep catch the car?

15. A thief, who was chased by a policeman was 100 metres ahead of the policeman initially. If the ratio between speeds of the policeman and the thief is 5 : 4, then how long thief would have covered before he was caught by the policeman?

16. A completes half as much work as B in equal time and C completes half as much work as (A+B) in equal time. If C alone can complete the work in 40 days then in how many days they complete the work together?

17 . A group of workers can complete a job in 9 days. But it so happens that every alternate day starting from the second day, 2 workers are withdrawn from the job and every alternate day starting from the third day one worker added to the group. In such a way that the job is finished by the time and there is no worker left. If it takes double the time to finish the job now, find the number of workers who started the job?

18 . A man has three sons. The man can do twice the work of his three sons. The first and the second son can do the work in 24 days and 36 days respectively. If the man completes the work in 3 3/11 days. Then find out the time taken by the third person to finish the work ?

19. If the perimeter of a square and a rectangle are the same. then the area P and Q enclosed by them would satisfy the condition

20 . The length and breadth of a rectangular field are in the ratio 7 : 4. A path 4 m wide running all around outside has an area of 416 m2 . The breadth (in m) of the field is

21 . How many tiles, each 4 decimeter square. will be required to cover the floor of a room 8 m long and 6 m broad?

22 .If the height of a cone is increase by 100% then its volume is increased by :

23 . Each of the radius of the base and the height of a right circular cylinder is increased by 10%. The volume of the cylinder is increased by

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