ExerciseBase Level Questions

1. Ravi and Kavi start a business by 7. P. Q and R start busineaR

a
jointly. Twic
investing 8000 and 72000. the of P is equal to thrice
capital th
respectively. Find the ratio of their capital Q and the capital of Q is o
of
profits at the end of year. times the capital of R. Find the share nfo
(a) 2 9 (b) 5 9 in an annual profit of ? 148500
(c) 7 9 (o) 1:9 (a)54000 (b) 6400o
()None of these (c) 56000 (d) ? 55000
2. P and Q entered a
partnership for 3 yr. (e) None of these
At the start of the business,
they 8. A and B invested in a business
in the
invested 13000 and 25000, ratio 5: 2. If 9% of total profit goes
respectively. At the end of 3 yr. their to
total profit was 76000. What will be charity and A's share is ? 650, then the
share of Q out of this profit? total profit is WBSSC CGL 2014
a)50000 (b) 26000 (a) 1000 (b) 7120o
(C) 55000 (d) 21000 c)900
(e) None of these
(d)7 15000
9. A and B enter into a
3. Rajan and
Sajan started a business
partnership by
making investments in the ratio 1: 2, 5%
initially with 14200 and 15600, of the total profit goes to
respectively. If total profits at the end of charity. If Bs
share is 7 760, then what is the total
year is 74500, then what is the Rajan's profit earned?
share in the SBI Clerk (Mains) 2016
profit? [Bank Clerk 2009]
(a)39000 (b) 39600 (a) 1200 (b) 7 1800
(c) 35000 (d) 35500 (c) 7 240o (d) 1560
(e) None of these (e) 2000
4. A. B and 10.A
Cinvested 7 45000, 7 90000 and starts a business with 9000 and
90000, respectively to start a business. B joins him after 6' months with an
At the end of two investment of 7 45000. What will be the
years, they earned a
profit of7 164000. What will be B's share ratio of the profits of A and B at the end
in the total profit? of year?
[IBPS Clerk 2015]
Hotel Mgmt. 2008)
(a) 5600o (b) 36000 (a) 1:5
(c) 72000 (b) 5:2
(e) 59000
(d) 65600 (c) 2:5 (d) 5: 1
5. Srikant and Vividh started a 11.Ajay started a business investing
business 25000. After 3
investing amounts of 7 185000 and months, Vijay
joined
225000, respectively. him with a capital
in the
If Vividh's share
of the year,
of 30000. At the end
profit earned by them is 7 9000, they made a profit of
then what is the total 38000. What will be the
them together? profit earned by the profit? Ajay's share n
[Bank Clerk 2009]
(a) 17400 (b) 16400 (a)10000 (b) 18000
(C)16800 (d) 17800 (C)15000 (d) 20000
(e) None of these 12.A and B invest in the ratio of
6. P, Q and R start a 3:5, respectively.
business. P invests After 6
3 times as much as
Q invests and
C enters the months
business
investment of the capital with the
Q invests rd as much as R invests. Find B. What will be equal to that ot
the ratio of the
the ratio of capitals of P, Q and R. A, B and C at the
end of year?
profits 0
(a) 3:2:6 (b) 2 6:3 SSC LDC 20081
(c) 6:2 :3 (d) 5 2 :3 (a) 6: 10 5
(c) 3 5:2 (b) 3 5:5
(d) 6:2:3
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Ramesh and Priya started a business
mitially with 7 5100 and 6600, got 6000 as profit, then what will be
the 20% of total
Investments done by both
ectively. profit? Hotel Mgmt. 20071
rsons are for different time periods. (a) ? 5000 (b) ? 8400
he (c) 3500
total profit is . 5460. then what is
tae
(d) ? A500
of Ramesh? Bank PO 20101 18. A and 3 entered into
the profit partnershipP
investing ? 16000 and ? 12000,
a
respecti-
a) 1530 (b)1600
(d) Data inadequate vely. After 3 months, A withdrew ? 5000
1400 while B invested ?5000 more. After
None of these
(e) 3 more
months, C joins the business with
a business with an investment
14.A started

5000. After 2 months, B and C joined

a
capital of ? 21000. The share of B
exceeds that of C, out of a total
profit of
with 2500 and 8500, respectively. If 26400 after 1 yr by [SSC CGL 2015
total annual profit was 4800, what was (a)R1200 (b) 2400
in the annual profit?? (c) 4800
Bs share (d)3600
IBPS SO 2016]
19. A, B and C enter into a
a) 1150 (b) 1000 partnership. B
invests some amount at the beginning, A
c)1050 (d) 1820 invests double the amount of A after
6 months and C invests
e 1200 thrice the
amount of A after 8 months. If the
business.
Pinvest R 50000 for a
15,M Nand annual profit is 54000, then find the C's
invests 4000 more than N and
share.
Ninvests7 5000 more than P. Out of the
a) 3000 (b) 18000
total profit of 70000, what is the share (c) 15000 (d) 21000
received by M?
(e) None of these
(a) 29400 (b) 7 30000
20. A, B and C invested capitals in the ratio
(c)35000 (a) F 40000
of 4 6 : 9. At the end of the business
(e) None of these
term, they received the profit in the ratio
16.A, B and C together start a business. of 2:3 5. Find the ratio of their time for
Binvests 1/6 of the total capital while which they contributed their capitals.
investments of A and C are equal. If the Delhi Police SI 2008]
annual profit on this investment is
(a) 1:1:9 (b) 2:2:9
33600, then find the difference between (c) 10 10:9
the profits of B and C. TSSC CGL 20071
(o)9:9:10
21.A, B and C do certain investments for
(a) 84000 (b)7200 time periods in the ratio of 2:1:8 At the
c)6000 (d)9600 end of the business term, they received
17,A and B started a joint business. A's the profits in the ratio of 3 : 4: 2. Find
investment was thrice the investment of the ratio of investments of A, B and C.
B and the period of his investment was a)6:16:1 (b) 2:5:1
wice the period of investment of B. If B (c)6:17:1 o)6:19:3

Ezercise2 Higher Skill Level Questions

Sonu invested 10% iore than the 26%, 20% and 15%, respectively. In what
nvestment of Mona and Mona invested ratio should profit earned during 2nd
10% less than the investment of Raghu. year be distributed?
the total investment of all the three (a) 21 28 23 (b) 28 : 21
persons is 75780, then find the (c) 28 23 21 (d) 35:41 7
nvestment of Raghu. [Bank PO 20101 3. Avinash, Manoj and Arun started a
(a) 2010 business in partnership investing in the
(6) 7 2000 ratio of 3 : 2:5 respectively. At the end
(c) 7 2100 of the year, they earned a profit or
(d) 2210 45000 which is 15% of their total
)None of the above investment. How much did Manoj inveb
Aarti, Vinita andd Kamla became (a) 60000 (b)180000
gartners in a business by investing (c)30000 (d) 9 0 0 0 0
money in the ratio of 5: 7: 6. Next year, (e) None of these
Oey increased
their investments Dy
 9, A and B started a business with an
4. A, B and C started a business by investment of 2800 and ? 6400
investing ? 20000, 7 28000 and 36000, reapectively. After 4 months, C joined
respectively. After 6 months, A and B with 4800. If the difference between
withdrew an amount of 8000 each and
ahare and A's share in the annual prof
C invested an additional amount of
8000. All of them invested for equal was 400, what was the total annual

period of time. If at the end of the year,

C profit? (IBPS PO 20016|
of profit, then (b) 12540
got 12550 as his share (a)R 13110
what was the total profit earned? (d) 11400
(c)17100
NBPS Clerk 2015]
(e)R 14250
(a) 25100 (b)R26600 10.A started a business by investing ? 25000
(c) 24300 (a)R22960
At the end of 4th month from the startof
(e) 21440
the business, B joined with ? 15000 and at
5. A and B started business by investing
a
35000 and ? 20000, respectively. After
the end of 6th month from the start of the
5 months, B left the business and
business, C joined with ? 20000. If As
C joined the business with a sum of share in profit at the end of year wWas
15000. The profit earned at the emd of 7750, what was the total profit received?
(SBI PO (Pre) 20161
year is 84125 What is the share of
B in profit? [Bank Clerk 2011] (a) 13950 (b) 7 13810
(a) 14133 (c) 13920 (d) 12780
(b) 15000 (e) 14040
(c) 13460 11. Aayush and Babloo are partners a
(d) Cannot be determined business. Aayush contributes 1/4 of the
(e) None of the above capital for 15 months and Babloo
6. Amitabh, Brijesh and Kamlesh enter received 2/3 of the profit. How long
into a partnership with shares in the Babloo's money was used?
ratio of 7/2:4/3:6/5. After 4 months, (a) 10 months (b) 9 months
Amitabh increases his share by 50%. If (c) 11 months (d) 7 months
the total profit at the end of the year is (e) None of these
21600, then what will be the share of 12. A began a business with 2250 and was
Brijesh in the profit? SSC (10+2) 2013] joined afterwards by B with 7 2700. If the
a) 7 800o (6) F 12000 profits at the end of the year were
(c) 400o (d) 7000 divitded in the ratio of 2:1 after how
7. A and B started a business with initial much time B joined the business?
investments in the respective ratio of (a) 5 months (b) 6 months
18: 7. After 4 months from the start of (c) 3 months (d) 7 months
the business, A invest 7 2000 more and
B invested 7 7000 more. At the end of
()None of these
one year, if the profit was distributed 13. Pihu and Rani start a business together
among them in the ratio of 2:1 by investing 9000 and 6300,
respectively, what was the total initial respectively. After a certain period, Pihu
investment with which A and B started withdrew from the busines completely.
the business? UBPS Officer Grade 2015] If at the end of 2 yr, the total
pront
(a) 50000 (b) 7 25000 earned was 13050 and Pihu's share was
(c) 150000 (d) 75000 7 6750, after how many months did Phhu
(e) 125000 withdraw from business?
8. A,B and C started a business together. (SBI Clerk (Pre) 2016
The respective ratio of investments of A (a) 23 months (b) 14 months
and B was 3: 5 and the respective ratio (c) 20 months d) 18 months
of investments ofB and C was 10: 13. If (e) 12 months
at the end of the year, C received 5876
14. A started a business with an
as his share of annual profit, what was init
investment of ? 1200. X" month after the
the total annual profít earned by all of
them together? SBI Clerk 2015] Start of business, B joined A with a
(a) 13108 (b) 7 12756 nitial investment of z 1500 If total profit
(c)13224 (o) 12984 Was1950 at the end of year ana P
share of profit was ? 750. Find 'X.
(e) 7 12188
IRRB PO (Pre) 2017]
 Partnership/339
(b) 6 months is
(a) 5 months
9000, the money received by Anil
Hotel Mgmt. 2010]
C) 7 months (o) 8 months
(e) 9 months (a) R 4500 (b) 4800
o ) 3937.50
into partnership with
entered (c) R 4600
and Y 62000 and
16,X and 7 600 respectively. After 21. Tom started a business with ?
700
X withdrew 2/7 of his stock after 4 months, Harry joined with
39000. At the end of the year out of the
mon

t after
other 3 months, he puts back
received total
what he had withdrawn. The total profits, Harry
a/5 of
3/5
of the year is 20000 including one-fourth of the
at the end 726.
profit
this should X Mniuh6 ( as commissionfor managing the
How much of profits
business. What profit did Tom
receive?
(a) 3 3 6 b) 7 366
INICL AO (Pre) 2017]
(c) 6 3 3 (d) 663
(a) 40000 (b) 20000
into partnership in a
B and Centere c) 30000 (o) 7 50000
B and C
business. A got 3/5 of the profit.
16..

(e)Otherthan options
those given as
distributed the remaining profit equally. by investing
business
than A, then the total 22. A and B started a
IfCgot 400 less ISSC CPO 2013] 18000 and ? 24000, respectively. At
the
profit w a s
the
(b)71200 end of 4th month from the start of
a)16000 At the end
(c)R1000
(o) 800 business, C joins with 15000.
C
of 8th month, B quits at which time
17,X and Y partnership. X invests
make a
the end of
months and Y remains in invests 3000 more. At
8000 for 8
the same
the business
for 4 months. Out of the 10th month, B rejoins with
investment. If profit at the end of the year
Y claims 2/7 of the profit.
total profit, is 12005, what is B's share of profit?
was contributed by Y?
How much money LIC AAO 2014]
a) 5000 (b) T 54000
(o) 640o (a) 4000 b) 7 44440
c) 7400
(c) 4360 (o) 4900
small business. A
18.A, B and C start a
contributes one-fifth of the total capital (e) 3920
with 7 20000
invested in the business. B contributes 23.A and B started a business
as much as A and C together.
Total and 7 35000, respectively. They. agreed
5200. ratio of their
profit at the end of the year was ? to share the profit in the
2015] with the
What was C's profit share? SBI PO
capital. C joins the partnership share
(b) 2510. condition that A,B and C will
(a) 1510 220000 as
C)71500 (d) 2 5 6 0 profit equally and pays ?
shared between
(e) 7 15600 premium for this, to be
divided between
A and B. This is to be
19.A and B 3000 and 7 4000,
invest A and B in the ratio of (ssSC CGL 2013]
business. A receives
respectively in a (a) 10: 1 (b) 1: 10
as a
10 per month out of the profit (o) 10 9
business c) 9 10
remuneration for running the
divided in 15525 is divided among Sunil,
and the rest of the profit is 24. A sum of 7
If in a Jamil such that if 7 22,7 35 and
proportion to the investments. Anil and
A receives
totally 390, what does 4 8 are diminished from their shares
year, SSC CPO 2008] sums shall
B receive? respectively, their remaining
7: 10: 13. What would
(a) 630 (b)360 be in the ratio
ratio of their sums in
C)480 (d) 3 8 0 have been the
40,Anil is an active and Vimal is a sleeping 716, 7 77 and 37 respectively were

shares?
Anil invests added to their original
partner in a business. 20000. Anil
ISSC CGL (Mains) 2016]
12000 and Vimal invests 17 (b) 18 26 35
receives 10% profit for managing, _the (a) 9: 13 :

to their (d) None of these

rest being divided in proportion (c) 36 52 6 7
or
capitals. Out of the total profit