Question Bank Percentages, Profit & Loss, SI & CI

1. 45% of the students in a class are girls and the number of boys exceeds the number of girls by 30. How many students are there in the class? The price of my new car depreciates by 10% every year. If I bought it for Rs. 3.6 lacs in 2011. By what percent would it have fallen in 2015? If Sudesh spends 25% more than Ganesh, then Ganesh spends _______ % less than Sudesh. Anands salary is 10% less than Swanands and 10% more than Parmanands. By what percent is Swanands salary more than Parmanands? A bottle of my favourite drink contains 12% alcohol. On my doctors advice I added 20 ml water to the bottle to reduce the concentration to 10%. What was the quantity of drink in my bottle initially? Anish bought 30 watches at a wholesale rate. He sold 20 of them at 10% profit and the rest at 20% profit. What percentage profit did he make on the whole? Shashi offers one watch free on the purchase of every 4 watches. What is the effective percentage discount offered by him? Ashish sold 2 watches to Ishan for Rs. 891 each. He made a profit of 10% on one watch and a loss of 10% on the other. How much profit or loss did he make on the whole sale? Nisha sold 10 watches to Asha making a profit equal to the SP of 2 watches. How much percent profit did she make?

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10. Asha sold 10 watches to Isha making a profit equal to the cost price of 2 watches. What was her profit percentage? 11. Isha sold some watches to Amisha such that the SP of 12 watches was equal to the CP of 10 watches. What was her profit/loss percentage? 12. Find the amount invested if the difference between the SI and CI obtained at a rate of 4% pa after 2 years is Rs. 160. 13. In a class 40% of students are girls. If 50% of the boys and 60% of the girls pass the final exam, find the passing percentage of the girls. 14. In a test Calvin secured 40% marks and failed by 60 marks while Susie secured 60% marks and passed by 40 marks. What is passing percentage?

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1. 300
6. 13.3%

2. 34.39% 7. 20% 12. 100000

3. 20% 8. 1% 13. 54%

4. 22.2% 9. 25% 14. 52 %

5. 100 ml 10. 20%

11. 16.6%

RATIO PROPORTION VARIATION AND PARTNERSHIP

1. In a herd of elephants, the height of an elephant is proportional to the square root of its age. Also, the weight of an elephant is proportional to the cube of its height. A 2 year old elephant weighs 566 kg. How much will a 3 year old weigh? (in kg)

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2) 1273.5

3) 1039

4) 849

5) 693.3

The level of intensity of a noise (in db) varies inversely with the square of the distance from the source. A dog standing 6 m away hears a whistle with an intensity of 80db. At what max distance will the dog be able to hear the whistle, if the minimum noise intensity the dog can hear is 1.25 db.

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24 M

2) 36 M

3) 48 M

4) 60 M

5) 80 M

The acceleration of a rocket varies directly as the temperature in the fuel jet and inversely as the square root of its weight. When the fuel is burnt at a temperature of 800 degrees, a rocket weighing a hundred pounds gains an acceleration of 27 m/s2. If a rocket weighing 325 pounds is to be imparted an acceleration of 18 m/s2, at what temperature should the fuel be burnts (in degrees) 1) 550 2) 800 3) 920 4) 960 5) 1010

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An ingot is made of copper, zinc and tin. It contains copper and zinc in the ratio 3:5, while the ratio of copper and tin is 5:3. What is the fraction of tin in the ingot? How can Rs. 5678 be divided amongst 3 people such the if the share of each is reduced by Rs. 26, the remaining money would be in the ratio 6:5:3 3 friends went to eat pizza. John ate of a pizza, Mary ate 1/3rd of a pizza and Sherrie ate 1/4th of a pizza. If the bill came to $23.4, how much should each one pay? 40 workers can dig 30 pits in 10 days working 6 hours a day. a. b. How many days will 20 workers need to dig 15 pits working 12 hrs/day How many workers are required to dig 6 pits in 4 days working 5 hrs/day

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Rakesh, remained absent from work for 20 days in the month of April and earned Rs. 4000. How many days should he have remained absent in order to earn 20% more if he earns daily wages. A fort has enough provision of 250 soldiers of 10 weeks. If another 100 soldiers join them, how long will the provision last?

10. If 12 men working 8 hours a day, take 24 days to build a wall 120 m long, 6 m tall and 1 m thick, then how many days will 24 men working 6 hours a day will be required to build a wall 160 m long, 9 m tall and 0.5 m wide? 11. In a zoo, 3 lions eat as much food as 4 leopards, while 5 bears eat as much as 9 leopards. If they have enough food for 9 lions and 14 leopards to last for 30 days, how long will this food last if there were 12 lions, 10 bears and 5 leopards? 12. Two numbers are taken such that their ratio is 7/8. After increasing the first by 3 and the second by 8, the ratio becomes . Find the original numbers. 13. Hull inc. hired two consultants to work on a project. Brock worked for 35 days on the project, while Lauren worked for 50 days. If they were paid a total of Rs. 1,19,000. How should they split the amount? 14. Suraj started a company investing Rs. 12 lacs. After 8 months, Chand joined him investing Rs. 15 lacs. At the end of 2 years company realizes a profit of Rs. 13.2 lacs. How should it be apportioned?

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1039 kg

2. 48 m

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5. 2426, 2016 and 1226

6. John $ 10.8, Mary $7.2 and sherrie $ 5.4 9. 50 days 10. 16 days 70000 14. Suraj Rs 7.2 lakh, Chand Rs 6 lakh

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7b. 24 workers 8. 18 days 12. 21 and 24 13. Brock 49000, Lauren

PERMUTATION AND COMBINATION

Find the number of ways in which: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 5 people can be arranged in 5 chairs in a straight line, given that three of them wish to sit together. 5 people can be arranged in 5 chairs in a straight line, given that three of them are identical triplets. The letter of the word BANANA can be arranged to form distinct words (not necessarily meaningful). The 9 letters A to I can be used once each to form a word, such that all the vowels are together. The 9 letters A to I can be used once each to form a word, such that no 2 vowels are together. Find the number of 4 digit natural numbers written using digits 1, 2, 3 and 4 once each such that a. b. c. d. e. f. 7. 8. 9. The first digit is 1. The first digit is 1 and second digit is 2. The second digit is 2 or third digit is 3. The third digit is NOT 3 and fourth digit is NOT 4. The first digit is 1 or second digit is 2 or third digit is 3. None of the digits are in the same position as in the number 1234

Given 8 points (exactly 3 collinear), how many distinct lines can be drawn through any two points? Given 8 points (exactly 3 collinear), how many triangles exist with these points as vertices? How many 4 digit numbers exist with all digits odd?

10. 5 people out of 8 be selected to form a team, given that one person, Abdul, is always selected? 11. 5 people out of 8 be arranged in 5 seats, given that one person, is one of the five? 12. How many words of 2 distinct vowels and 3 distinct consonants can be made using the English Alphabet? 13. How many words of 5 distinct letters each, beginning and ending with a consonant, can be made using the English Alphabet? 14. In how many ways can 5 distinct history text books, 4 distinct geography textbooks and 3 distinct civics textbooks be arranged in a straight line such that all books of a given subject together? 15. In how many ways can 7 boys and 4 girls be arranged in a circle such that no two girls are together? 16. If all the possible words formed by the using the letters AILMNRY once each are formed and arranged in alphabetical order, in which position would the word MARILYN occur? 1. 2234 2. 2224 3. 2233 4. 2222

17. There are six friends writing the TAC test for admission to nine MIIs. In how many ways could their final results be achieved?

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ANSWERS: 1. 36 ways 2. 20 ways 3. 60 ways 4. 30240 ways 6a. 6 6b. 2 6f. 9 10. 35 6c. 10 7. 26

5. 151200 ways 6d. 14 8. 55

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11. 4200 3! X 5! X 4! X 3!

12. 5C2 X 21C3 X 5! 15.6! X 7P4

13. 21 X 20 X 24 X 23 X 22 14. 16. 2234 17. 1 million

SET THEORY

Answer the following based on the information given below: The new Chinese joint Tower of Hanoi conducts a survey of 100 customers to find out which are the most popular cuisines. They find out the following facts: Manchurian cuisine was the most popular, with 50 people expressing a liking for it. Out of those who liked Manchurian, 28 also liked Schezuan while 10 also liked HongKong. 40 people liked Schezuan cuisine. Out of them, 11 also liked HongKong. 21 people liked only HongKong but did not like either of the other cuisines. There were 7 people who liked all three cuisines. 1. 2. 3. How many people liked Schezuan and HongKong? How many people liked only Manchurian? How many people liked Schezuan and at least one other cuisine?

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How many people liked Schezuan and exactly one other cuisine? How many people liked Schezuan or HongKong? How many people liked 2 cuisines but did not like the third? How many people did not like HongKong or Manchurian?

Answers 1. 11 7. 25 2. 29 6. 18 3. 22 4. 15 5. 75