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1) Kewal sells two tape recorders at the same price. On one he gains 15% and on the other he loses 15%. The total gain or loss in the transaction is 2) Two numbers are respectively 10 % and 21% more than a third number. The first number as a percentage of second number is 3) If the average marks of three batches of 55, 60 and 45 students respectively is 60, 55 and 45 , then the average marks of all the students is 4) A bus started from bus stand at 9.00am, and after staying for 15 minutes at a destination, it returned back to the bus stand. The destination is 27 miles from the bus stand. The speed of the bus is 18mph. During the return journey the bus travels with 50% faster. At what time does it return to the bus stand? 5) No. of animals is 11 more than the no. of birds. If the number of birds were the no. of animals and no. of animals were the no. of birds ( i.e., interchanging numbers of animals and birds.), the total no. of legs get reduced by one fifth. How many no. of birds and animals were there? 6) There is a 5digit no. 3 pairs of sum is Twelve each. Last digit is 2 times the first one. 3rd digit is 3 less than the second. 4th digit is 3 more than the second one. Find the digit 7) A contractor has to finish a road in 200 days. He employed 140 workers for 60 days and gets one-fourth of work done. Find the additional number of worker to be employed to complete the work in given time. 8) There are two pipes, one fills the tank in 12 hours and other fills in 28 hours .After how long the first pipe is to be closed so as to fill the tank in 16 hours. 9) A coffee shop blends 2 kinds of coffee, putting in 2 parts of a 33 paisa a gm. grade to 1 part of a 24 paisa a gm. If the mixture is changed to 1 part of the 33 paisa a gm. to 2 parts of the less expensive grade, how much will the shop save in blending 100 gms.

10) There are 200 questions on a 3 hr examination. Among these questions are 50 mathematics problems. It is suggested that twice as much time be spent on each maths problem as for each other question. How many minutes should be spent on mathematics problems 11) A company contracts to paint 3 houses. Mr.Brown can paint a house in 6 days while Mr.Black would take 8 days and Mr.Blue 12 days. After 8 days Mr.Brown goes on vacation and Mr. Black begins to work for a period of 6 days. How many days will it take Mr.Blue to complete the contract? 12) If 1/5th of a hive of bees flew to the Badamba flower, 1/3rd flew to the slandbara, 3 times the difference of these two numbers flew to an arbour, and one bee continued to fly about, attracted on each side by the fragrant ketaki and malati. What was the total number of bees? 13) A salesman's commission is 5% on all sales up to Rs.10000 and 4% on all sales exceeding this. He remits Rs.31100 to his parent company after deducting his commission, His sales was worth ? 14) A company purchased 3 computer tables in 1995. as the company wanted to renovate the office , sold those tables at RS.2400 each making a profit of 20% of one , no profit no loss on second table and 20% loss on third table. What did the company get in this transaction 15) A can do a work in 8 days, B can do the work in 7 days and C can do the work in 6 days. A works on the first day, B on the second day and C on the third day. They continue in the same manner till the work is finished. Which day will they finish the work? 16) Diamonds value is proportional to its weight2 . A piece of diamond broke and the weights of the broken pieces were in the ratio 1:2:3:4:5. The loss in value is Rs 85000/-. What is the value of the diamond twice the Weight of the original diamond? 17) Tower A is 200 feet high. Tower B is 150 feet high. The distance between the two towers is 250 feet. A bird from the top of Tower A and another bird from the top of the other tower start to eat a feed, which is in between the two towers, with the same speed and reach at the same time. What is the distance of the feed from tower A? 18) A plane moves from 9N50E to 27S10W. If the plane starts at 10 AM and takes 8 hours to reach the destination, find the local arrival time? 19) A and B run a 1980 meter race and reach the finishing point at the same time. A runs 20% faster than B. B quickens his pace and covers the remaining distance running 20% faster than A. When B quickens the pace A would have run -------meters.

20) Kanti beats Padma in a kilometer race by 50 seconds and Rekha by 450 meters. If Padma and Rekha run a kilometer race, Padma wins by 40 Seconds. How much time does Rekha take to run a kilometer? 21) In a circular race track of length 100 Meters, three persons A, B and C start together. A and B move in the same direction at 10 meters per second and 8 meters per second respectively. C moves in the opposite direction at 15 meters per second. When will all the three meet for the first time? 22) The total expense of a boarding house is partly fixed and partly variable with the number of boarders. The charge is Rs 70 per head when there are 25 boarders and Rs 60 when there are 50 boarders. Find the charge per head when there are 100 boarders? 23) In a mixture R is two parts and S is one part. In order to have S as 25% of the mixture how much R is to be added? 24) Swetha, Tina, Uma and Vidya are playing a gambling. In this different people lose in different games-in the reverse alphabetical order. The rule is that if one loses she should double the amount of others. At the end of 4 th game each of them have same amount of money (Rs.32). Which one of them started with the least amount? Which one of them started with the largest amount of money? At the end of the 2 nd game what is the amount of money with Uma? 25) The total no. of numbers that are divisible by 2 or 3 between 100 and 200(both inclusive) is? 26) A starts at 10:45AM and travels at a speed of 4km/hr. B starts at 12:45 PM and travels at 1km/hr for the first 1hr and 2km/hr for the next hr and so on. At what time they will meet each other. 27) One coin of the 80 coins is counterfeit. What is the minimum number of weighing to find out the counterfeit coin? 28) Five thieves entered a diamond shop. One by one each stole half of the diamonds he found there and two more diamonds, except the fifth, who didnt find any diamonds to steal. How many diamonds were there initially? 29) Two cars are 500 cm apart. each is moving forward for 100 cm at a velocity of 50 cm/s and receding back for 50 cm at 25 cm/s at what time they will collide with each other. 30) A car travels from B at a speed of 20 km/hr. The bus travel starts from A at a time of 9 A.M. There is a bus for every half an hour interval. The car starts at 12 noon. Each bus travels at a speed of 25 km/hr. Distance between A and B is 100 km. During its journey, the number of buses that the car encounter is?

31) Two solutions have milk & water in the ratio 7:5 and 6:11.Find the proportion in which these two solutions should be mixed so that the resulting solution has 1 part milk and 2 parts water? 32) Three men A, B, C plays Cards. If one loses the game he have to give Rs.3. If he wins the game he will gain Rs.6. If A has won 3 Games, B loses Rs.3, C wins Rs.15.What is the total no. of games played? 33) A group of students are made to stand around in a circle. Starting from one student, they were asked to call number from 1 onwards. One after the other. The rule was that the student calling a number which is either a multiple of 7 or that has a digit sum of 7 should clap his hands. How many claps were there when they counted upto 1600? 34) In question 15 above let us assume that there are 11 students standing in a circle. Student No 1 started the process of calling numbers, followed by students 2, 3 and so on. They continued going around the circle and counted upto 500. The last person to clap must be _____ student number of the circle 35) A and B run in opposite directions from P on a circle with different but constant speeds. A runs in clockwise direction. They meet for the first time at a distance of 900 meters in clockwise direction from P and for the second time at a distance of 800 meters in anticlockwise direction from P. If B is yet to complete one round, the circumference of circle is 36) In town of 500 people, 285 read The Hindu and 212 read Indian express and 127read Times of India 20 read The Hindu and Times of India and 29 read The Hindu and Indian Express and 35 read Times of India and Indian express. 50 read no news paper. Then how many read all the three papers A cube is cut into 216 equal parts. The 2nd 4th and 6th layers of the front face are removed and then painted black. Now answer d following questions 37) How many cubes are painted on only one side? 38) How many cubes are painted on only 2 sides? 39) How many cubes are painted on only 3 sides? 40) How many cubes are painted on only 4 sides? 41) How many cubes are painted 0 sides?

42) A man says that he gained 10 percent as profit in selling a suitable cloth material. he says if he had purchased the same one 10 percent cheaper than it was actual and if he had sold it for 20% profit he gets 25paise less. Find at what price he sold the suit. 43) Bob invests one & half times of Jones' in a business. 3rd person is added who gives 3000. How should 3000 be divided so that all 3 have equal interest in the business? 44) When i am as old as my father I will be 5 times the present age of my son, by then my son will be 8 yrs more than my present age. Sum of my age and my father's age is 100 years. What is my son's age? 45) A person starts from his house to his friends place with 10 liters of petrol. He was driving at 30 km/hour. The mileage given by the car is 20 km/liter. The petrol tank is leaking at half liters per hour. When he returned back to his house he observed that the petrol tank was empty. What is distance between the persons house and his friends place 46) A plane goes from Chicago to Columbus and then comes back. It takes the same time to travel in either ways. It leaves Chicago early in the morning 0644 LOCAL TIME and reaches the destination Columbus at 0849 LOCAL TIME. In the same evening it leaves Columbus at 1625 hrs LOCAL TIME and reaches the destination at 1658 LOCAL TIME. Find the time that the plane takes to travel either way? 47) The smallest number that must be added to 80364 in order to obtain a multiple of 11 is ______? 48) Nareshs monthly income is 30% more than that of Raghu. Raghus monthly income is 20% less than that of Vishal. If the difference between the monthly of Naresh and Vishal is Rs 800/- What is the monthly income of Raghu?
49) In an Island the natives lie and visitors speak truth. A man wants to whether a salesman beside him in a bar is a native or visitor. He asked him to ask a woman beside him whether she is a native or visitor. He replied that she says she is a visitor. Whether the salesman is a native or visitor? 50) Using the numbers 1, 2, 3, 25, 50, 75, 100 exactly one time, give an expression which will give the answer as 383.