Percentage, ratio and proportion

Arun John Mathias JV Global 30 March 2013

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Percentages
The minimum marks to pass is 50% of the maximum marks in an exam. A student scores 75 marks and passes the exam by 12 marks. What are the maximum marks? 100 160 162 126
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By scoring 72% marks, a student obtained 24 marks less than three fourth of the maximum marks. What are the maximum marks? 1,200 800 1,000 600
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In an election between two candidates, the one who got 30% of the votes polled is defeated by 1500 votes. Find the number of voted polled by winning candidates? 2215 2625 3125 None of these
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The difference between the number obtained by increasing a certain number by 8% and the number obtained by diminishing it by 3% is 407. Find the original number? 2300 3700 4120 8140
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If 30% of a class consists of boys and there are 21 girls in the class, how many boys are there in the class? 30 9 60 42
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How much water is to be added to 100cc of 80% solution of boric acid to reduce it to 50% solution? 50 cc 60 cc 70 cc 80 cc
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One litre of water is evaporated from 6 litres of solution containing 5% salt. Find the percentage of salt in remaining solution? 6% 7% 8% 9%
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A paper used for typing measures 20 cm by 30 cm. If the typist allows left and right margins of 2 cm each and top and bottom margins of 3 cm each, what percentage of the page is used for typing? 41% 60% 64% 72%
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Ajit spends 30% of his monthly income on food articles. 40% of the remaining is spent on conveyance and cloths and he saves 50% of the remaining. If his monthly salary is Rs. 18,400, how much money does he save every month? Rs. 3624 Rs. 3864 Rs. 4264 Rs. 5888
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Rakesh has a certain number of mangoes, 15% of which are bad and are thrown out. He gives 60% of the remainder to his friend and is left with 102 mangoes. How many mangoes did he have in the beginning? 408 800 1,632 None of these
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As income is 25% more than Bs income. The percentage of Bs income in terms of As income is 80% 70% 60% None of these
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If the price of petrol is increased by 25%, by what percent must I decrease my consumption so as to keep my expenditure constant? 25% 20% 15% None of these
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Ratio and proportion

Two numbers are in the ratio 5 : 6. If 8 is added to each they are in the ratio 9 : 10. Find the numbers. 10, 12 12, 14 12, 24 None of these
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The prices of two sites are in the ratio 6 : 11, 6 months later when the price of the first site was raised by Rs.600 & the price of the second site was raised by Rs.800, the ratio of their prices become 3 : 5. Find the original prices of the sites. 1200, 3400 1200, 2200 2400, 3000 None of these
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Number Series
Find the missing number in the following series: 2, 4, 12, 48, 240, ?
960 22 128 481 1440 40 -128 511
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1080 38 192 391

1920 23 -192 421

10, 5, 13, 10, 16, 20, 19, ? 4, -8, 16, -32, 64, ? 7, 26, 63, 124, 215, 342, ?
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Find the missing number in the following series: 16, 33, 65, 131, 261, ?
523 27 27 18 521 20 108 13
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613 22 68 -1

721 24 72 3

8, 7, 11, 12, 14, 17, 17, 22, ? 8, 24, 12, 36, 18, 54, ? 3, 7, 6, 5, 9, 3, 12, 1, 15, ?
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Pick the odd man out from the following: 8, 27, 64, 100, 125, 216, 343
27 396 50 47 100 427 26 63
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125 671 37 32

343 264 64 83

396, 462, 572, 427, 671, 264 2, 5, 10, 17, 26, 37, 50, 64 8, 13, 21, 32, 47, 63, 83
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Pick the odd man out from the following: 36, 54, 18, 27, 9, 18.5, 4.5
18.5 72 7 221 4.5 110 6996 109
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18 132 228 46

54 150 57 25
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56, 72, 90, 110, 132, 150 7, 8, 18, 57, 228, 1165, 6996 445, 221, 109, 46, 25, 11, 4

Time and work

Two persons A & B working together can dig a trench in 24 hours while A alone can dig it in 36 hours. In how many hours can B alone dig such a trench? 72 hours 78 hours 82 hours None of these
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A & B can do a piece of work in 48 days; B & C can do it in 60 days; A & C can do it in 80 days. In how many days will A, B & C finish it, all working together? 40 days 35 days 20 days None of these
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A can do a piece of work in 7 days of 10 hours each & B can do it in 5 days of 12 hours each. How long will they take to do it, working together 70/13 hours a day? 4 days 6 days 10 days 12 days
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24 men can complete a work in 36 days. Twelve days after they started working, 8 men joined them. How many days will all of them take to finish the remaining work? 16 days 20 days 18 days None of these
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X can do a piece of work in 40 days. He works at it for 8 days and then Y finished it in 16 days. How long will they together take to complete the work? 13 1/3 days 15 days 20 days 56 days
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If 20 men or 36 boys can do a piece of work in 15 days, then 50 men and 30 boys together will do twice the work in how many days? 6 days 7 days 8 days 9 days
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An engineer undertakes a project to build a road 15 km long in 300 days and employs 46 men for the purpose. After 100 days, he finds only 2.5 km of the road has been completed. Find the number of extra men he must employ to finish the work in time? 46 23 69 115
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Coding and decoding

If EFGHIJK is coded as VUTSRQP, then LIMIT is coded as KNRNC ORNRG JKOKG RSTSG MHLHS
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If in a certain language , CALCUTTA is coded as GEPGYXXE, which word would be coded as FSQFCE? BOMBYA BOMBAY BOMYAB BOBAYM BOBAMY
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In a certain code , RIPPLE is written as 613382 and LIFE is written as 8192. How is PILLER written in that code? 318826 776655 786543 156724 675429
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If JUNK is written as B5C7B7A11, which one among the following words can be written as B4C3B7B2? BIND BEND HANG HIND NONE
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In a certain code, COMPUTER is written as RFUVQNPC. How is MEDICINE written in the same code? EOJDJEFM EOJDEJF MFEJDJOE MFEDJJOE
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If in a certain code, 'bir le nac' means 'green and tasty'; 'pic nac hor' means 'tomato is green' and 'coc bir hor' means 'food is tasty'. Which of the following means 'tomato is tasty' in that code? bir le hor pic hor nac hor bir pic None
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In a certain code,'il be pee' means 'roses are blue', 'sik hee' means 'red flowers' and 'pee mit hee' means 'flowers are vegetables'. How is 'red' written in that code? hee sik be Cannot be determined None
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In a certain code,'il be pee' means 'roses are blue', 'sik hee' means 'red flowers' and 'pee mit hee' means 'flowers are vegetables'. How is 'roses' written in that code? il pee be Cannot be determined None
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In a certain code,'il be pee' means 'roses are blue', 'sik hee' means 'red flowers' and 'pee mit hee' means 'flowers are vegetables'. How is 'vegetables are red flowers' written in that code? pee sik mit hee sik pee hee be il sik mit hee None
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If '245' means 'Art and Talent' in a certain code language, '316' means 'Callous to Generous', '147' means 'Callous and Polite' then what is the code used for 'to' ? Only 3 Only 1 3 or 6 Only 6 None of these
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