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The number of students in each section of a school is 24. After admitting new students, three
new sections were started now, the total number of sections is 16 and there are 21 students in
each section. How many new students were admitted? (Agrani Bank Cash-2013) Answer: 24.
If 2n =128, then (2n-1) (5n-2 ) =? (Al-Arafah 2011) Answer:2 (105)

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The expression of 12 is equivalent to? (Al-Arafah 2011) Answer: -3-22

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If 2a+3b=17 and 2a+2-3b+1=5 find the value of a and b. (Al-Arafah 2011) Answer: 3,2
A contract is to be completed in 56 days and 104 men were set to work, each working 8
hours a day. After 30 days, 2/5 of the work is completed. How many additional men are
employed, so that the work may be completed in time if each man works 9 hours a day? (AlArafah 2011) Answer: 56
Sale of a product incurred a loss of 12%. If the product could be sold at TK 1200 more, it
would have bought a profit of 8%. What was the purchase price of the product? (Bank Asia
2011) Answer: 6000
In the figure below, a square is inscribed in a circle with diameter d. What is the sum of the
areas of the shaded regions in terms of d? (Bank Asia 2011) Answer: d2 (/4-1/2)

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A 19 liter mixture consists by volume of 1 part juice to 18 parts water. If x liters of juice and
y liters of water are added to this mixture to make a 54 liter mixture consisting by volume of
1 part juice to 2 parts water, then what is the value of x? (Bank Asia 2011) Answer:17
If y= (x+3)2, then the value of (-2x-6)2 is ? (Bank Asia 2011) Answer: 4y
Train X leaves Dhaka at 10:00 Am and travels East at a constant speed of x miles per hour. If
another Train Y leaves Dhaka at 11:30 AM and travels east along the same tracks at speed
4x/3, then at what time will Train Y catch Train X? (BB AD 2012) Answer: 4:00 PM
A closed rectangular tank contains a certain amount of water. When the tank is placed on its
3 ft by 4 ft side, the height of the water in the tank is 5 ft. When the tank is placed on another
side of dimensions 4 ft by 5 ft, what is the height in feet, of the surface of the water above the
ground? (BB AD 2012) Answer: 3
The selling price of 15 items equals the cost of 20 items, what is the percent profit earned by
the seller? (BB AD 2012) Answer: 33.33%
How many different six-digit numbers can be formed using all of the following digits: 3, 3,
4, 4, 4, 5? (BB AD 2012) Answer: 60
At a party, everyone shook hands with everybody else. There were 66 handshakes. How
many people were there in the party? (BB AD 2012) Answer: 12

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One third the sum of 13 and a certain number is same as one more than twice the number.
Find out the number? (BB AD 2012) Answer: 2
Two alloys A and B are composed of two basic elements. The ratios of the compositions of
the two basic elements in the two alloys are 5:3 and 1:2, respectively. A new alloy X is
formed by mixing the two alloys A and B in the ratio 4:3. What is the ratio of the
composition of the two basic elements in alloy X? (BB AD 2012, South East-2014)
Answer:1:1
A series has three numbers a, ar, and ar2. In the series, the first term is twice the second term,
what is the ratio of the sum of the first two terms to the sum of the last two terms in the
series? (BB AD 2012) Answer: 2:1
The lengths of the sides of a triangle are in the ratio of 3 to 5 to 6. If the perimeter of the
triangle is 70, what is the length of the longest side? (BB AD 2013) Answer:30
35% of Ts income is equal to 25% of Ns income. The ratio of Ts income to Ns income is?
(BB AD 2013) Answer: 5:7
A bus is travelling with 52 passengers. When it arrives at a stop, Y passengers get off and 4
get on. At the next stop one-third of the passengers get off and 3 get on. There are now 25
passengers. Find out how many passengers got off at the first stop? (BB AD 2013) Answer:
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An Eskimo leaves its igloo and travels 2 KM north to reach the north, then 8 KM east and
finally 3 KM north to reach the North Pole. How many KM does he have to travel to return
to his igloo in a straight line? (BB AD 2013) Answer: 10.
Two students appeared at an examination. One of them secured 9 marks more than the other
and his marks was 56% of the sum of their marks. The marks obtained by them are?
(BHBFC 2011, IFIC-2012) Answer: 42, 33
An emergency vehicle travels 10 miles at a speed of 50 miles per hour. How fast must the
vehicle travel on the return trip if the round trip travel is to 20 minutes? (BHBFC-2011)
Answer: 75 mile/hours
The retail price of a product is TK. 21.6 per unit and the profit at each of the producers
level, wholesalers level and retailers level is 20%. Work out the per-unit cost of production
of the item? (BDBL 2011) Answer: 12.5
What will be the profit in percent if one buys 12 units of a product for TK. 10 and sells 10
units of it for TK.12? (BDBL 2011) Answer: 44%
A train leaving Dhaka at 6 am reaches Mymnshing at 10 am and another train leaving
Mymnshing at 7 am reaches Dhaka at 12 noon. At what time the two trains running in
opposite direction should meet? (BDBL 2011) Answer: 8:40
In a certain country, a person is born in every 7 seconds and a person dies every 13 seconds.
Therefore, the birth and death rates account for a population growth rate of one person every(BASIC Bank 2012, Anti Corruption-2013) Answer:15.17 sec
Two different companies, X and Y, have the same number of workers. The ratio of the male
workers in the company X and male workers in company Y is 2:1 and the ratio of the female

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workers in company X and female workers in company Y is 4:5. What is the ratio of the
male workers to female workers in company X? (BASIC Bank 2012) Answer:1:2
A school has 10 classes with the same number of students in each class. One day the weather
was bad and many students were absent. 3 classes were half full, 5 classes were full and 2
classes were 1/6 empty. A total of 74 students were absent. What is the total number of
students in this school? (BASIC Bank 2012, Anti Corruption-2013) Answer: 240
Mr. N drove from Mymenshing to Dhaka at 60 mile/hour. Returning on the same route, there
was a lot of traffic, and he was only able to drive at 40 miles/hour. If the return trip took 1
hour longer, what is distance between Dhaka and Mymenshing? (BASIC Bank 2012)
Answer: 120
A businessman, before closing his shop, counted the money kept in the cash and found that
there were x number of 50 paisa coins, x number of 1 taka notes, x number of 2 taka notes
and x number of 5 taka notes. Apart from these, there was nothing in the box. The next day,
when he opened his shop he found the cash box was stolen. As he was insured, he got taka
1615, which was 95% of the stolen money, from the insurance company. How many 2 taka
notes were there in the cash box? (BASIC Bank 2012) Answer: 200
If 4 times an integer x is increased by 10, the result is always greater than 18 and less than
34. Value of x? (City Bank 2011) Answer: 4
A barge, when empty, travels twice as fast as when it is full. If it travels 20 miles north with
a cargo, spends 30 minutes for unloading, and returns to its original port empty, completing
the entire trip in 8 hours, what is the speed of the barge when it is empty? (Dhaka Bank
2011) Answer: 8
A container full of water weights 20 kg. If one-fourth of the container is full of water, it
weights 8 kg. What is the weight of the empty container? (Dhaka Bank 2011) Answer: 4
A man purchased equal number of bananas at two different rates- one at the rate of TK. 8 per
dozen and other at the rate of TK. 10 per dozen. He sold all those bananas at an average rate
of TK. 11 per dozen and thus made a profit of TK. 100. How many dozens of bananas did he
purchase altogether? (Dhaka Bank 2011, MTB-2013) Answer: 50
If a person walks at 14 Km/hr instead of 10 Km/hr, he would have walked 20 km more. The
actual distance travelled by him is? (Anti corruption -2013, Jamuna Bank- 2013) Answer:50
On dividing a number by 5, we get 3 as remainder. What will the remainder when the square
of this number is divided by 5? (Anti Corruption- 2013) Answer: 4
A manufacturer packages soap powder in containers of three different sizes-large, medium,
and small. The amount of soap powder in a full large container could fill exactly 3 of the
medium containers or exactly 5 of the small containers. If an equal number of small and
large containers are to be filled with the amount of soap powder that would fill 90 medium
containers, how many small containers will be filled? (DBBL 2011) Ans: 25
The price of commodity X increases by 40 paisa every year, while the price of commodity Y
increases by 15 paisa every year. If in 2001, the price of commodity X was TK. 4.2 and that

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Y was TK. 6.3, in which year commodity of X will cost 40 paisa mode than commodity Y?
(Exim-2013) 2011
A man can row at 5 km/hr in still water. If the velocity of the current is 1 km/hr and it takes
him 1 hour to row to a place and come back, how far is the place? (Exim-2013) 2.4
A woman says, If you reverse my own age, the figures represents my husbands age. He is
senior to me and the difference between our age is one-eleventh of their sum. What is her
age now? (IFIC-2012) 45
At a dinner party every two guests shared a bowl of rice between them, every three guests
shared a bowl of vegetable between them and every four shared a bowl of meat between
them. There were altogether 65 bowls. How many guests were present at that party? (IFIC2012) Answer: 60
A tailor had a number of shirts to cut from large piece of fabric. He cut each large piece in 10
smaller pieces. He cut at the 45 cuts per minutes. How many large pieces would be cut in 2
minute? (IFIC-2012) Ans: 9
In a family, each daughter has the same number of brothers as she has sisters and each son
has twice as many sisters as he has brothers. How many sons are there in the family? (IFIC2012) Ans: 3
A trader makes a profit equal to the selling price of 75 articles when he sold 100 of the
articles. What % of profit did he make in the transaction? (IBBL-2012) 300%
Train can travel 50% faster than a car. Both start from point A at the same time and reached
point B 75 km away from A at the same time. On the way, however, the train lost about 12.5
minutes while stopping at the stations. The speed of the car is? (Janata Bank-2012) Ans:120
km
A boy purchased some chocolate from a shop for TK. 120. In the next shop he found that the
price of per piece of chocolate is TK. 3 less than that charged at the previous shop, and as
such he could have purchased 2 more chocolates. How many chocolates did he buy from the
first shop? (Janata Bank-2012, BKB-2007, BB AD-2009) Ans: 8
Rahim bought two varieties of rice, costing TK. 5 per kg and TK.6 per kg each, and mixed
them in some ratio. Then he sold the mixture at TK. 7 per kg, making a profit of 20%. What
was the ratio? (Janata Bank-2012, BB AD 2014) Ans: 1:5
A water tank can be filled by two pipes A and B in 60 minutes and 40 minutes respectively.
How many minutes will it take to fill the tank from empty state if B is used for half the time,
and A and B fill it together for other half? (Jamuna Bank-2013) Ans: 32m
The captain of a cricket team of 11 members is 26 years old and the wicket keeper is 3 years
older. If the ages of these two are excluded, the average age of the remaining players is one
year less than the average age of whole team. What is the average age of whole team?
(Jamuna Bank-2013) Ans:23
50 men took a dip in a water tank 40 m long and 20 m board on a religious day. If the
average displacement of water by a man is 4m3, then the rise in the water level in the tank
will be. (Jamuna Bank-2013) Ans: 25cm

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For each taka spent by the sales department, the research department spends 20 paisa. For
every TK. 4 spent by the research department, the packing department spends TK. 1.5. Find
out the ratio of the money spent by the sales department to money spent by the research
department to the money spent by the packing department. (Krishi Bnak-2012) Ans: 40:8:3
A tank contains 10000 gallons of a solution that is 5% sodium chloride by volume. If 2500
gallon of water evaporates from the tank, the remaining solution will be approximately what
percent sodium chloride? (MTB-2012) Ans:6.67%
A trader sold a product at a loss of 25%. If the selling price was TK. 1040 more, he would
have made a profit of 40%. What was the original price of the product? (MTB-2012) Ans:
1600
7 kg of mango cost as much as 10 KGs of apple and 1 kg of orange. 7 kg of orange cost as
much as 1 kg of mango and 2 KGs of apple. How many KGs of apple can be purchased by
the amount of money required to purchased 12 KGs of mango? (MTB-2012) Ans:18
Rakib, Raja and Rajib paid a total of 369 taka for their dinner at a hotel. If Rakib paid 2/3 of
the amount, Raja paid 82 taka, and rajib paid the rest, what fraction of the total amount did
Rajib pay? (MTB-2013) 1/9
The longest side of an isosceles right triangle measures 16 m. What is the perimeter of the
triangle? (MTB-2013) Ans: 162+16
In a certain office 1/3 of the workers are women, of the women are married and 1/3 of the
married women have children. If of the men are married and 2/3 of the married men have
children, what parts of the workers have no children? (MTB-2013) Ans: 11/18
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X 4 =? (NCC-2011, Premier-2014) Ans: 1

A book sale for TK. 65. This price gives the seller a profit of 30% on his cost. What will be
the new selling price if he cut his profit to 10% of his cost? (NCC-2011) Ans: 55
A shopkeeper has 1000 kg of sugar, part of which he sells at 8% profit and the rest at 18%
profit. He gains 14% profit of the whole. The quantity sold at 18% profit is? (NBL-2012)
Ans: 600
The capacity of container X is 80% of the capacity of glass Y. If Rahim fills half of X with 6
ounces of silicon and fills Y fully with similar silicon, then many more ounces of silicon
does Y contains than X contains now? (NBL-2012) Ans: 9
In a flight of 600 km, an aircraft slowed down due to bad weather. Its average speed for the
trip was reduced by 200 km/hr and the time of flight increased by 30 minutes. What is the
duration of the flight? (NBL-2012) Ans: 1.5
A alone can do a piece of work in 6 days and B alone can do the same work in 8 days. A
and B undertook to do it for TK. 3200. With the help of D, they complete the work in 3 days.
How much money will D get? (NBL-2012, BASIC Bank-2014) Ans: 400

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The charge of a room at Sonargaon Hotel is 25% less than that of a room at westin Hotel and
10% less than of a room at Radisson Hotel. By what percent is the charge of a room at westin
Hotel greater than that of Radisson Hotel? (NBL-2012) Ans: 20%
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A train running at 36 kmph passes another train completely in 12 sec, which is half of it
length, running in the opposite direction at 54 kmph. If it also passes a railway platform in
1.5 m, what is the length of the platform? (Premier Bank-2012) Ans: 700
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= 5107 Find out the value of m-k. (NBL-2013) Ans: 9

8 2 324 2 = 4 find out the value of x. (Premier Bank-2012) Ans: 1

If two fair coins are flipped, what is the probability that one will come up heads and the other
tails? (Pubali Bank-2013) Ans:
An article is sold at 20% profit. If its cost price is increased by TK. 50 and at the same time if
its selling price is also increased by TK. 30, the percentage of profit decreased by 10/3%,
find the cost price. (Pubali Bank-2013) Ans: 850
A person walking 5/6 of his usual rate is 40 minutes late. What is his usual time? (Pubali
Bank-2013) Ans: 3 hours 20 Min
If selling price is double and profit triple. Find out the profit percent. (Pubali Bank-2013)
Ans: 100%
A team of 2 men and 5 women completed of the job in 3 days. After 3 days another man
joined the team and they took 2 days to complete another of the job. How many men can
complete the whole job in 4 days? ( Pubali Bank- 2013) Ans: 6
Water flows into an empty 64 gallon drum through pipe A and flows out through pipe B. If
the rate of flow through A is 2 gallons/hour, how many gallons per hour must flow out
through pipe B so that the drum is full in exactly 96 hours? (RAKUB-2011) Ans: 4/3 G/H
A room is 12 feet long, 8 feet wide and 10 feet high. Find the cost of white washing the four
walls inside the room, leaving out two doors each measuring 7 feet high and 4 feet wide and
four windows each measuring 4 feet high and 3 feet wide if the rate is TK.12 per square feet.
(SEBL-2011) Ans: 3552

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The ratio of income of K and D is 3:4. The ratio of their expenditure is 4:5. Find the ratio of
their savings if the savings of K is one fourth his income? (DBBL-2012) Ans: 12:19

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60% of the students of a college are male. 60% of the males in the college speak French and
40% of the college speaks French. What is the percentage of the females in the college who
do not speak French? (DBBL-2012) Ans: 90%

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Three friends eat together. First and second friends have 12 and 8 pieces of breads
respectively. Third friends give TK.3 in lieu of bread. How much amount will 1st and 2nd
friend get for bread? Ans: 2.4,.6
50 men took a dip in a water tank 40 m long and 20 m broad on a religious day. If the
average water displacement by a man is 4m 3, then the rise in the water level in the tank will
be. (Jamuna Bank 2012) Ans: 25cm
Eight people are planning to share equally the cost of a rental car. If one person withdraws
from the arrangement and the other share equally the entire cost of the car, then the share of
each of the remaining person will be increased by. (Jamuna Bank-2012) Ans: 1/7
A tank can be filled by two pipes A and B in 60 minutes and 40 minutes respectively. How
many minutes will it take to fill the tank from empty state if B is used for half the time, and
A and B fill it together for the other half. (Jamuna Bank-2012) Ans: 32 min
Seats for mathematics, Physics and Biology in a university are in the ratio of 5:7:8. There is a
proposal to increase these seats by 40%, 50%, 75% respectively. What will be the ratio of
increased seat? (Jamuna Bank-2012) Ans: 2:3:4
The difference between a two digit number and a number obtained by interchanging the digit
is 36. What is the difference between the sum and the difference of the digits of the number
if the ratio between the digits of the number is 1:2? (DBBL-2012) Ans: 8
Three numbers which are co-prime to each other are such that the product of the first two is
551 and that of the last two is 1073, the sum of the three numbers is? (DBBL-2012) Ans: 85
Two trains of the same length running in opposite directions cross a man standing on the
platform in 27 seconds and 17 seconds respectively and the cross each other in 23 seconds.
What is the ratio of their speed? (DBBL-2012) Ans: 3:2
Two pipes can fill a tank in 20 and 24 minutes respectively and a waste pipe can empty 3
gallons per minute. All the three pipes working together can fill the tank in 15 minutes. The
capacity of the tank is? (DBBL-2012) Ans: 120 Gallons.
Per day wage rate of workers is reduced 50% due to economic slowdown. After one year, the
wage rate is increased by 60%. If the per day wage rate before decrease was TK.100, then
what is the per day wage rate now? (Pubali Bank- 2012, Agrani Bank-2011) Ans: 80
Now you can buy 5 more oranges with TK 75 due to reduction in price by 20%. Calculate
the current price of one dozen of oranges. (Pubali Bank-2012, 2011) Ans:36
If a commission of 10% is given to the customer on the catalog price of a book, the publisher
gains 20%. If the commission is increased to 15%, the gain is. (Standard Bank-2012) Ans:
13.33%

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Mr. Ali decided to walk down the escalator of a tube station. He found that if he walks down
26 steps, he requires 30 seconds to reach to bottom. However. If he steps down 34 stairs he
would only require 18 seconds to get to the bottom. If the time is measured from the moment
the top step begins to descend to the time he steps off the last step at the bottom, find out the
height of the stair way in steps. (Janata Bank-2012) Ans: 46 Steps.
Three partners A, B, C starts a business. Twice As capital is equal to thrice Bs capital and
Bs capital is four time Cs capital. Out of the total profit of TK. 16500 at the end of the year,
Bs share is. (BB AD-2014) Ans: TK. 6000
If ax =b, by =c and cz =a, then the value of xyz is? (BB AD-2014) Ans: 1
An estate value at Tk. 12000 is divided among three persons a, B, C. If A surrenders 15% of
the share, then the share of B and C are respectively increased by 10% and 25%. Again if A
surrenders 20%, then the share of B and C is respectively increased by 15% and 30%. Find
the share of each. (Southeast Bank-2014) Ans: 6000, 4000, 2000
In a class of 150 students 90 have taken finance (F), 75 have taken banking (B), and 55 have
taken Economics (E). 10 students have taken F and E but not B , 15 students have taken F
and B but not E , 25 students have taken B and E but not F. find out the number of students
who have taken all the three subjects. Ans: 10
Two outlets of a motor manufacturing company reported that revenue from outlet X in 2013
was down 11% from 2012 and revenue from outlet Y in 2013 were up 7% from 2012. If total
revenue from outlet X and Y in 2013 was up 1 percent from 2012, what is the ratio of
revenue from outlet X in 2012 to revenue from outlet Y in 2012? (Jamuna Bank-2014) Ans:
1:2
If 5 % more is gained by selling an article for TK.350 than by selling it for TK.340, the cost
of the article is? (BDBL-2014) Ans: TK.200
Before the budget, a businessman had increased the price of his product by 12%. In the
budget, a 10% sales tax (to be paid by seller) was imposed on the product. As a result, the
profit ultimately increased by TK. 64. What was the original selling price? (EXIM Bank2014) Ans: TK. 8000
In a group of students, 80% of the students weight less than 60 kg and total of 32 students
weight less than 50 kg. If 60% of the students weight at least 50 kg, how many of the
students weight at least 50 kg but less than 60 kg? (FSIBL-2014) Ans: 32
A tank is fitted with 8 pipes, some of them that fill the tank and others that are waste pipe
meant to empty the tank. Each of the pipes that fill the tank can fill it in 8 hours, while each
of those that empty the tank can empty it in 6 hours. If all the pipes are kept open when the
tank is full, it will take exactly 6 hours for the tank to empty. How many of these are fill
pipes? (MTB- 2014) Ans: 4
Rehana leaves her home early in the morning so that she can reach her office on time. If she
walks at the rate of 7km/hr then she reached her office 8 minutes late. But if she walks at a
speed of 8km/hr, then she reached her office 4 minutes early. What is the distance in km
between Rehanas house and her office? (MTB-2014) Ans: 11.2 km

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106. Suppose you deposited TK. 10000 on January, 2012 at 12.5% interest rate for 1 year, on July
01, 2013 TK. 15000 at 12% interest rate for 6 months and on October 01, 2013 TK. 20000 at
11.50% interest rate for 3 months (assume that the stated interest rates are simple and
annual). Suppose you withdraw all deposits (including the due interests) on December 31,
2013. Calculate the overall annual rate of interest you have received. (MTB-2014) Ans:
11.89%
107. During the next tree plantation week, MTB is considering planting trees in one of its
rectangular piece of land which is 90 feet long and 66 feet wide. This is surrounded by
boundary wall of 5 feet height. It has been decided that tree will be planting leaving 5 feet
land from the wall in all four sides. It was also decided that the distance from one tree to
another in both row and column will be 4 feet. What is the maximum number of trees that
can be planted in the land? (MTB-2014) Ans: 315
108. The speed of a railway engine is 42 km per hour when no compartments is attached, and the
reduction of speed directly proportional to the square root of the number of compartments
attached. If the speed of the train carried by this engine is 24 km per hour when 9
compartments are attached, what is the maximum number of compartments that can carried
by the engine? (NBL-2014) Ans: 48
109. In a class of 60 students, the number of boys and girls participating in the annual sports is in
the ratio 3:2 respectively. The number of girls not participating in the sports is 5 more than
the number of boys not participating in the sports. If the number of boys participating in the
sports is 15, than how many girls are there in the school? (NBL-2014) Ans: 30
110. A can do a piece of work in 10 days, while B alone can do it in 15 days. They work together
for 5 days and the rest of the work done by C in 2 days. If they get TK 4500 for the whole
work, how should they divide the money? (BASIC Bank- 2014) Ans: 2250, 1500, 750. TK
111. A, B, and C enter into a partnership by investing in the ratio of 3:2:4. After one year, B
invests another TK. 270000 and C, at the end of two years, also invests TK. 270000. At the
end of three years, profits are shared in the ratio of 3:4:5. Find the initial investment. (PKB2014) Ans: 270000, 180000, 360000
112. A salesmans commission is 5% on all sales up to TK. 10000 and 4% on all sales exceeding
this. He remits TK. 31100 to his parent company after deducting his commission. Find total
sales. (Pubali Bank- 2014) Ans: 32500.
113. P starts jogging from point X to point Y. 30 minutes later his friend R who jogs 1 km/hr
slower than twice Ps rate starts from the same point and follows the same path. If R
overtakes P in 2 hours, how many kilometers will R have covered? (Union Bank-2014) Ans:
3.33 km.
114. When a producer allows 36% commission on the retail price of his product, he earns a profit
of 8.8%. What would be his profit percent if the commission is reduced by 24%.(Pubali
Bank-2014) Ans:49.6%

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116. In a certain school, 40 more than 1/3 of all the students are taking a science course and of
those taking science courses are taking physics. If 1/8 of all the students in the school are
taking physics, how many students are in the school? (ICB-2011) Ans: 240
117. Among 120 students of a class, numbered 1 to 120, all even numbered students opt for
Bangla. Whose number are divisible by 5 opt for English and those whose numbers are
divisible by 7 opt for Math. How many opt for none of these three subjects? (Mercantile
Bank- 2011) Ans: 41
118. In a certain fashion house, which has four sizes of a specific shirt, there is 1/3 as many small
shirts as medium shirts and as many large shirts as small shirts. If there are as many Xlarge shirts as large shirts, what percent of the shirts in the store are medium? (Mercantile
Bank-2011) Ans: 60%
119. A garments factory employs 3 categories of workers, K, M and N. The efficiency of the 3
categories of workers to do a specific task is in the ratio of 3:5:6 respectively and the factory
employs 15 of category K, 12 of category M and 3 of category N. If the total wage paid to
entire group of 30 workers is TK. 492 p/h, what will be the wages earned by a category N
worker for an 8 hour day? (Mercantile Bank-2011) Ans: TK.192
120. A rectangular field of 200m by 120m has two roads running along its center, one along the
length and the other along with the width. If the width of the road is 5m, what is the area
covered by the road? (Mercantile Bank-2011) Ans:1575sq
121. A certain company that sells only cars and trucks reported that revenue from sales of care in
1997 were down 11% from that of 1996 and revenue from sales of truck in 1997 were up 7%
from that of 1996. If total revenue from sales of car and truck in 1997 were up 1% from that
of 1996, what is the ratio of revenue from sales of car in 1996 to revenue from sales of truck
in 1996? (Premier Bank-2011) Ans: 1:2
122. A square office, 1000 feet by 1000 feet, is to be partitioned into two offices by a single
interior wall so that the difference between the perimeters of resulting two offices is 400 feet.
What are their dimensions? (UCBL-2011) Ans: 1000 by 600 and 1000 by 400
123. A trader while selling an item was asking for such a price that would enable him to offer a
20% discount and still make a profit of 30% on cost. If the cost is TK.50, what was his
asking price? (Pubali Bank-2011) Ans: 81.25
124. The organizer of a fair projected a 25% increase in attendance this year over last year, but
attendance this year actually decreased by 20%. What percent of the projected attendance
was the actual attendance? (Pubali Bank-2011) Ans:64%
125. An amount is distributed among some pupil. If there are 4 more pupils everyone got TK. 16
less and if there are 4 less pupil then they got TK 24 more each. How Many pupils are there?
(Mercantile Bank-2013) Ans: 20

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126. X sales a product to Y and makes a profit of 25%. Y sells it to Z at a loss of 20%. If Z buys it
for TK. 140, what price did X pay for it? (BB-2011) Ans:140 TK
127. Two cars race around a circular track in opposite direction at constant rates. They start at the
same point and meet every 30 seconds. If they move in the same direction, they meet every
120 second. If the track is 188 meter long, what is the speed of each car? (BB AD-2011)
Ans: 37.5 & 22.5 km/ph
128. A printer quotes a price of TK 7500 for printing 1000 copies of a book and TK 15000 for
printing 2500 copies. Assuming a linear relationship and 2000 books are printed find a)
variable cost per book b) the average cost per book c) the fixed cost. (BB AD-2011) Ans:
TK. 5, TK. 6.25, TK. 2500.
129. The length of a rectangle is twice its width. If the length is increased by 4 inches and the
width is decrease by 3 inches, a new rectangle is formed whose perimeters 62 inches. What is
the length of the original rectangle? (BB AD-2011) Ans: 20.
130. A train which travels at a uniform speed due to some mechanical fault after travelling for an
hour goes at 3/5th of the original speed and reached the destination 2 hours late. If the fault
occurred after travelling another 50 km, the train would have reached 40 minutes earlier.
What is the distance between the two stations? (BB AD-2011) Ans: 200
131. Three math classes, X, Y and Z take an algebra test. The average score in class X is 83. The
average score in class Y is 76. The average score in class z is 85. The average score of all
students in classes X and Y together is 79. The average score of all students in class Y and Z
together is 81. What is the average for all three classes? (BB AD-2009) Ans: 81.5
132. All the page numbers from a book are added, beginning at page 1. However one page
number was mistakenly added twice. The sum obtained was 1000. Which page number was
added twice? Ans:10
133. A tailor had a number of shirt pieces to cut from some large pieces of fabric. He cut each
large piece into 10 smaller pieces. He cut at the rate of 45 cuts per minute. How many large
pieces would be cut in 24 minutes? Ans:120
134. Simplify

1
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2 + 2
1

1 2
1

1+ 2

135. It takes 72 hours for five workers to paint an office building. If the number of hours worked
in inversely proportional to the number of workers, how many hours should it take six
workers to paint the building? Ans: 60 (Standard Bank-2011)
136. A ladder is inclined to a wall making an angle of 30 degree with it. A man is ascending the
ladder at the rate of 2 meters/second. How fast is he approaching the wall? (Standard Bank2011) Ans: 1m/s
137. Water has been poured into an empty rectangular tank at the rate of 5 cubic feet per minute
for 6 minutes. The length of the tank is 4 feet and the width is one half of the length. How
deep is the water in the tank? Ans: 3.75 (Standard Bank-2011)

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138. The cost of 1 dozen apples and 1 dozen mangoes are TK 1oo and TK 120 respectively. If u
spend equal amount of money to buy apples and mangoes and sell them both as 100 TK per
dozen, what will be approximate profit or loss? Ans: 8.33%
139. Three workers can do a job in 12 days. Two of the workers work twice as fast as the third.
How long it would take one of the fastest workers to do the job himself. (MTB-2012) Ans:
30 Days.
140. 2 large & 1 small pumps can fill a water tank in 4 hours. 1 large & 3 small pumps can also
fill the same water tank in 4 hours. How many hours will take for 3 large and 4 small mumps
to fill the tank? 2
141. Drum X is 1/2 full of oil and drum Y, which has twice the capacity of drum X is 2/3 full of
oil. If all of the oil in drum X is poured into drum Y, then drum Y will be filled to what
fraction of its capacity? 11/12
142. An estate value at TK.12000 is divided among three persons A, B, C. If A surrenders 15% of
the share, then the share of B and C are respectively increased by 10% and 25%. Again if A
surrenders 20%, then the share of B and C is respectively increased by 15% and 30%. Find
the share of each. (SEBL-2014) Ans: 6000, 4000, 2000
143. X sells an item to y at a profit of 28% and y sells the same item to z at a loss of 25% on his
cost. If y had sold the item to z at TK. 2.00 less than what it costs to y, what is the cost of the
item to x in taka? Ans: 6.25
144. A man rows to a place 36 km distant and back in 10.5 hours. He finds that he can row 4 km
with the stream in the same time as 3 km against the stream. The rate of the stream is. Ans: 1
145. Two tanks X and Y are filled to capacity with jet fuel. Tank X holds 600 gallons more than
tank Y. If 100 gallons of fuel were to be pumped from each of the tank, tank X would than
contains 3 times as much fuel as tank y. What is the total number of gallons of fuel in the two
tanks?
146. An item was sold at 5% profit. If the cost was 5%less and the selling price was TK 5 less,
then the trader would have made a profit of 10% on cost. What was the cost of the item?
147. A person wishes to accumulate TK 5,00,000 by the end of 15 years by making equal halfyearly deposits over the next 15 years. If he/ she earn 10% on the investment, how much
must he/ she deposits at the end of each half- year? (BB AD 2004) Ans; 7525.72
148. 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 finishes in 13 days. In
how many days C alone will do the work? Ans: 24 Days
149. If a shop keeper offers 25% discount on an article, he gets 25% profit. If the offers 10%
discount, find his profit percent. Ans:50%
150. One type of liquid contains 20% of water and the second type of liquid contains 35 % of
water. A glass is filled with 10 parts of first liquid and 4 parts of second liquid. The
percentage of water in new mixture in the glass is. Ans:24.28%
151. Two trains start simultaneously from Dhaka to Chittagong towards each other with speed of
70 km/hr and 90 km/hr respectively. When they met each other it was observed that one of

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them had covered 350 km more than another. Find distance between Dhaka to Chittagong.
Ans:2800 km
A man standing on a platform finds that a train take 3 seconds to pass him and another train
of same length, moving in opposite direction, take 4 seconds. The time taken by trains
passing each other will be? Ans: 24/7 Sec
An amount of money was distributed among some people in such a way that if there had
been 4 more people, everybody got tk16 less. But if there had been 4 less people everybody
would have got tk24 more. How many people were there? Ans:20
The ratio of GCD and LCM of two integers is 1:36 and sum of the integers is 5460. What is
the difference between these two integers? Ans:2100
Two trains A and B start from stations X and Y towards Y and X respectively. After passing
each other, they take 4 hours 48 minutes and 3 hours 20 minutes to reach Y and X
respectively. If train A is moving at 45 km/hr, then the speed of train B is. Ans: 54
One fifth of the products made by a company is defective .four fifth of the defective were
selected and one twentieth of the products were rejected by mistake. What percent of the
products sold by the company is defective? Ans: 5%
One trader calculates the percentage of profit on cost price and another calculates on selling
price. When their selling price is same, then the difference of their actual profit is TK 85 and
both claims to have made 20% profit. What is the selling price of each? Ans: 2550
Two glasses contain milk and water. In the first glass the ratio of milk to water is 3 : 2 and in
the second glass the ratio of milk and water is reverse of that in first glass. What part of the
mixture from first glass should be drawn out and added to the second glass, so that milk and
water will be in equal quantities in the second glass? 100%
X can do a work in the same days in which Y and Z together can do it. If X and Y together
can do it 10 days, and Z alone can do it in 50 days. How many days Y require to do it alone?
Ans:25 Days
There are 87 balls in a jar. Each ball is painted with at least one of two colors, red or green. It
is observed that 2/7 of balls that have red color also have green color, while 3/7 of the balls
that have green color also have red color. What fraction of the balls in the jar have both red
and green colors? Ans: 6/29
In a 500 meter race, the ratio of the speeds of two contestants A and B is 3:4. A has a start of
140 meter. Then, A wins by? Ans: 20 Meter.
A pipe is turned on to fill water into a cistern at the rate of 4 liters per minute. The cistern has
a leak which would empty it in 6 hours and the cistern is now emptied in 10 hours.
Determine the capacity of the cistern. (UCBL-2014) Ans:3600 L
Find the value of( x,y) when x^2+y=13 and y^2+x=13.
Ram can do a piece of work in 8 days which shyme can finish in 12 days. If they work at it
on alternate days with ram begging, in how many days the work will be finished. Ans: 9.5
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165. In a km race, A gives B a start of 20 seconds and beats him by 40m. However, when he gives
B a start of 25 seconds they finish in a dead heat. What is A's speed in m/sec? Ans:10msp
166. A merchant mixes three varieties of rice costing Rs.20/kg, Rs.24/kg and Rs.30/kg and sells
the mixture at a profit of 20% at Rs.30 / kg. How many kgs of the second variety will be in
the mixture if 2 kgs of the third variety is there in the mixture? Ans: 5KG
167. One year payment to the servant is TK. 200 plus one shirt. The servant leaves after 9 months
and receives TK. 120 and a shirt. Then find the price of the shirt. Ans:120 TK.
168. If 20 men or 24 women or 40 boys can do a job in 12 days working for 8 hours a day, how
many men working with 6 women and 2 boys take to do a job four times as big working for 5
hours a day for 12 days? (IBBL-2012) Ans:122
169. The length of a rectangle is halved, while its breadth is tripled. What is the percentage
change in area? Ans: 50%
170. Two trains A and B start simultaneously from stations X and Y towards each other
respectively. After meeting at a point between X and Y, train A reaches station Y in 9 hours
and train B reaches station 4 hours from the time they have met each other. If the speed of
train A is 36km/h, what is the speed of train B?(IBBL-2012) Ans: 54
171. A, B and C enter into a partnership by investing TK.3600, TK.4400 and TK.2800. A is a
working partner and gets a fourth of the profit for his services and the remaining profit is
divided amongst the three in the rate of their investments. What is the amount of profit that B
gets if A gets a total of TK. 8000? Ans: TK. 4888.89
172. A tradesman by means of a false balance defrauds to the extent of 8% in buying goods and
also defrauds to 8% in selling. Ans: 16.64%
173. Mr.karim deposited a certain amount of money for a fixed period of time. On maturity he
received a total of TK. 45000 when the ratio of interest & investment became 2:5.if the
interest rate was 3.6% per annum, calculate the period for which the money was invested.
Ans: 11.11 Years
174. A and B can complete a work 10days. B and C can do same work 15days. A and C can
complete same work 25 days. A, B, C together work 4days, then A left, B and C also work
together 4days, then B left. How many days C completed the remaining work?
Ans: 96 days
175. Two metals A & B are 900% and 200% respectively heavier than water. If these two metals
make an alloy which is 6 times heavier than water, what is the ratio of the two metals in the
alloy? (Bank Asia 2005) Ans: 4:3
176. Hasan gets to work in 20 minutes when he travels by car. When he travels by bike by the
same route it takes him 60 minutes. His average driving speed is 20 miles per hour more than
his average speed on the bike. How far does he travel to work? Ans: 10 km
177. At a school, the teacher-student ratio is 1:9. If 2/3 of the students are female & one-quarter of
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178. One year ago the ratio between A's and B's salary was 3:4. Ratios of their individual salaries
between last year's and this year's salaries are 4:5 & 2:3 respectively. At present the total of
their salary is tk. 4160. The salary of A now, is? Ans: 1600
179. A and B enter into a partnership and A invests TK. 10000 in the partnership. At the end of 4
months he withdraws TK. 2000. At the end of another 5 months, he withdraws another TK.
3000. If B receives TK. 9600 as his share of the total profit of TK. 19100 for the year, how
much did B invest in the company? Ans: 8000 TK.
180. Mr. X has 2 drums of milk. 1st one contains 25% water and the rest milk. The 2nd contains
50% water. How much milk should he mix from each of the drums so as to get 12 liters of
milk such that the ratio of water to milk is 3 : 5 ? Ans: 6
181. Gold is 19 times as heavy as water & copper 9 times as heavy as water. The ratio in which
these two metals be mixed so that the mixer is 15 times as heavy as water, is? Ans: 3:2
182. In 40 letter mixtures the ratio of milk and water is 7:3.how much mixture from the pot will
have to remove and add same amount by water so that the new ratio of milk and water will
be 3:7? Ans: 22.86
183. In a certain store the profit is 320% of the cost. If the cost increase by 25% but the selling
price remain constant approximately what percentage of the selling price is the profit? Ans:
70%
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185. Three pipes A, B , C can fill a tank in 6 hours. After working at it together for 2 hours, C is
closed and A and B can fill the remaining part in 7 hours. The number of hours taken by C
alone to fill the cistern? Ans: 14
186. An empty wooden Container weighs 10% of its total weight when filled with Varnish. If the
weight of a partly filled Container is one-half of that of a completely filled Container, What
Fraction of the Container is filled? Ans: 4/9
187. In what ratio must a person mix three kinds of tea costing Tk. 60/kg, Tk. 75/kg, and Tk.
100/kg so that the resultant mixture when sold at Tk.96/kg yield a profit of 20% on cost.
Ans: 1:4:2
188. Price of sugar increase by 32%. a family reduce its consumption so that the expenditure of
the sugar is up by 10% only. If the total consumption of sugar before the price rise was 10 kg
per month, then the consumption of sugar per month at present is? Ans: 8.33

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