ATC Quantitative Aptitude Practice Set

1. A number is increased by 25%. By what percent must it be decreased to get back to the original number?

2. A student scored 540 marks out of 800. What is his percentage score?

3. If 30% of a number is 60, what is 50% of the same number?

4. Price of an item increases by 20%. By what percent should the consumption be reduced to keep

expenditure same?

5. In an election, 10% of votes were invalid. A candidate got 60% of the valid votes. Find the percentage of

total votes he got.

6. An article is sold for Rs540 after giving a discount of 10%. Find the marked price.

7. A shopkeeper gains 20% by selling a book at Rs180. Find the cost price.

8. A man sold two watches for Rs1200 each, gaining 20% on one and losing 20% on the other. Find his

overall gain or loss percentage.

9. Find the profit percentage if a mobile is bought for Rs4000 and sold for Rs4800.

10. If the cost price of 10 pens is equal to the selling price of 8 pens, find the profit percentage.

11. A train 150 meters long is running at 54 km/h. How much time will it take to pass a platform 150 meters

long?

12. Two trains are moving in opposite directions at 60 km/h and 90 km/h. Their lengths are 300m and 200m

respectively. Find the time taken to cross each other.

13. A man walks at 5 km/h instead of 6 km/h and takes 20 minutes more to reach his office. Find the

distance.

14. If a car covers 360 km in 5 hours, what is its speed?

15. A cyclist covers a distance of 2 km in 5 minutes. Find his speed in km/h.

16. A can do a piece of work in 20 days, and B in 30 days. In how many days can they complete the work

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together?

17. If A alone can do a work in 18 days and B alone in 27 days, how long will they take together to complete

the work?

18. C alone can do a job in 24 days. He worked for 8 days and left. How much work is left?

19. If 10 men can complete a work in 15 days, how many men are required to complete it in 9 days?

20. A and B can complete a work in 12 days and 15 days respectively. Find the time taken to complete the

work when both are working together.

21. Divide Rs5400 among A, B, and C in the ratio [Link].

22. If a:b = 2:3 and b:c = 4:5, find a:c.

23. A recipe calls for milk and water in the ratio 4:1. If 20 liters of mixture are made, find the quantity of water.

24. If 5 kg of rice costs Rs150, how much would 12 kg cost?

25. Two numbers are in the ratio 3:5. If their sum is 64, find the numbers.

26. Find the average of first 10 natural numbers.

27. The average age of 20 students is 12 years. If the teacher's age is added, the average becomes 13

years. Find the teacher's age.

28. The average of 7 consecutive numbers is 20. Find the smallest number.

29. The average marks obtained by 30 students is 55. If the marks of one student were wrongly entered as

45 instead of 75, find the correct average.

30. Find the average of 15, 25, 35, 45, and 55.

31. Find the simple interest on Rs4000 at 5% per annum for 3 years.

32. Find the compound interest on Rs5000 at 10% per annum for 2 years.

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33. At what rate percent will Rs1200 amount to Rs1440 in 2 years at simple interest?

34. Find the difference between simple and compound interest on Rs2000 at 5% per annum for 2 years.

35. If the simple interest on a sum for 2 years at 4% per annum is Rs80, find the principal.

36. A boat covers 24 km downstream in 3 hours and upstream in 6 hours. Find the speed of the boat in still

water.

37. A boat's speed in still water is 10 km/h and the current's speed is 2 km/h. Find its effective speed

downstream.

38. Two pipes can fill a tank in 20 minutes and 30 minutes respectively. Find the time taken to fill the tank

when both are opened together.

39. Pipe A can fill a tank in 12 minutes and Pipe B can empty it in 20 minutes. If both are opened together, in

how many minutes will the tank be filled?

40. A cistern is normally filled in 8 hours, but a leak makes it take 10 hours. In how many hours will the leak

empty the cistern?

41. Solve: (25 4) + (625 25) = ?

42. Solve: (3/4 + 2/5) (7/8 - 1/2)

43. Simplify: 144 + 81 - 49

44. Solve: 15% of 480 + 25% of 320 = ?

45. Simplify: (2/3 3/5) (4/7)

46. Find the least number which when divided by 5, 6, 7 leaves remainder 2 in each case.

47. Find the HCF and LCM of 12, 15, and 18.

48. A number when divided by 8 leaves remainder 3. What will be the remainder when the same number is

divided by 4?

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49. How many even numbers are there between 1 and 100?

50. Find the sum of all odd numbers between 1 and 50.

51. Find the area of a rectangle whose length is 15 m and breadth is 8 m.

52. The side of a square is 12 cm. Find its area and perimeter.

53. Find the area of a triangle with base 10 cm and height 12 cm.

54. Find the circumference and area of a circle with radius 7 cm. (Take = 22/7)

55. The diameter of a semicircular plot is 14 m. Find its area.

56. A cylindrical tank has a radius 5 m and height 10 m. Find its volume.

57. The area of a rhombus is 240 cm and one diagonal is 12 cm. Find the other diagonal.

58. Find the surface area of a cube of side 6 cm.

59. The base area of a cone is 154 cm and its height is 12 cm. Find its volume.

60. A room is 5 m long, 4 m wide, and 3 m high. Find the total surface area of the room.

61. Solve for x: 2x + 5 = 17

62. If 3x 7 = 2x + 8, find x.

63. Factorize: x 9

64. Solve: (x 2)(x + 5) = 0

65. Find the value of x: x + 7x + 12 = 0

66. Simplify: (2x + 3)(x 5)

67. If x 5x + 6 = 0, find the roots of the equation.

68. If 3x + 2y = 12 and x y = 2, find x and y.

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69. Simplify: (x + 2) (x 3)

70. Solve: 2(x + 4) 3(x 5) = 9

71. A ladder leaning against a wall makes an angle of 60 with the ground. If the foot of the ladder is 2 meters

away from the wall, find the length of the ladder.

72. The angle of elevation of the top of a tower from a point 30 meters away from its foot is 45. Find the

height of the tower.

73. A man observes the top of a building at an angle of elevation of 30. If he is standing 50 meters away from

the building, find the height of the building. (3 = 1.732)

74. The angle of elevation of the sun is 60. Find the length of the shadow cast by a pole of height 15 meters.

75. From a point on the ground, the angle of elevation of the top of a tree is 30. If the tree is 20 meters tall,

find the distance from the point to the base of the tree.

76. A tower stands vertically on the ground. From a point 100 meters away from the base, the angle of

elevation is found to be 45. Find the height of the tower.

77. Find the value of sin 30, cos 60, tan 45.

78. If sin = 1/2, find the value of .

79. Find the value of (sin30 + cos60).

80. If cos A = 4/5 and A is an acute angle, find sin A and tan A.

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