Q9.
If a : b = 3 : 4, b : c = 2 : 3, c : d = 1 : 2, find the value of ((a+b+c+d)/(b+d))^½
A. 5 : 4
B. 4 : 5
C. 1 : 1
D. 2 : 3
Answer: A
Q17. The ratio of the speed of a bus and a car is 2:5. The car covers a distance of 280 km in some
time and the bus covers a distance of d km less in the same time. What is the distance covered by
the bus?
A. 132 km
B. 168 km
C. 112 km
D. 144 km
Answer: C
Q19. Ranjeet’s present age is half of his brother Manjeet’s age after 10 years. After 5 years, the ratio
of ages of Manjeet and Ranjeet will be 7 : 5. Find Ranjeet’s age 2 years ago.
A. 25 yrs
B. 20 yrs
C. 15 yrs
D. 18 yrs
Answer: D
Q20. A plane is cutting a cone parallel to the base in such a way that the radius of the new cone is
half of the radius of the original cone. Find the ratio of the volume of the original cone to that of the
volume of the portion of the cone left after being cut by the plane ( the part other than the new
cone).
A. 8 : 7
B. 9 : 7
C. 7 : 6
D. 8 : 5
Answer: A
Q21. Find the geometric mean of the data 5, 75 and 9. 4
A. 15
B. 5
C. 45
D. 3
Answer: A
Q7. Selling an item at 5/6th of its marked price results in a loss of 10%. What is the % of profit/loss, if
a discount of 5% is offered on the marked price?
A. 2.6% loss
B. 2.6% profit
C. 3% profit
D. 3% loss
Answer: B
7) The present ratio of students to teachers at a certain school is 30 to 1. If the student enrollment
were to increase by 50 students and the number of teachers were to increase by 5, the ratio of the
teachers would then be 25 to 1 What is the present number of teachers?
a) 10
b) 20
c) 15
d) 30
9) Kelly and Chris are moving into a new city. Both of them love books and thus packed several boxes
with books. If Chris packed 60% of the total number of boxes, what was the ratio of the number of
boxes Kelly packed to the number of boxes Chris packed?
a) 2:3
b) 3:4
c) 5:4
d) 6:7
6) A dog taken four leaps for every five leaps of hare but three leaps of the dog is equal to four leaps
of the hare. Compare speed?
Ans: In terms of number of leaps, the ratio of the Dog and hare speeds are 4 : 5 But Given that 3
leaps of dog = 4 leaps of hare,. i.e., Leap lengths = 4 : 3 (If Dog is covering in 3 leaps what hare as
covered in 4 leaps then Leap lengths are inversely proportional) So Dog speed = 4 x 4 = 16 Hare
speed = 5 x 3 = 15 So speeds ratio = 16 : 15
16. In a mixture of a, b and c, if a and b are mixed in 3:5 ratio and b and c are mixed in 8:5 ratio and if
the final mixture is 35 liters, find the amount of b?
Ans: As b is common in both ratios, we should equate b in both ratios by multiplying suitable
numbers. a:b = 3 : 5 = 24 : 40 b:c = 8 : 5 = 40 : 25 Now a : b : c = 24 : 40 : 25. Amount of b in the
mixture = 4089×354089×35 = 15.73
14. M is 30% of Q, Q is 20% of P and N is 50% of P. What is M / N ans: Take P = 100, then N = 50, Q =
20, M = 6. So M/N = 3/25
3. The savings of employee equals income minus expenditure.If the income of A,B,C are in the ratio
1:2:3 and their expense ratio 3:2:1 then what is the order of the employees in increasing order of
their size of their savings?
Ans: A < B < C As the the ratio of their incomes are in ascending order, and their expenses are in
descending order, their savings also in their incomes order. So savings order = A < B < C
Q6. A Shopkeeper has initially 400 Cookies. He sold 15% Cookies to Bindhu, 20% more Cookies than
Bindhu to Preet, 40% Cookies to Raju and remaining Cookies to Karan. How many Cookies did Karan
buy? 1 A. 108 B. 112 C. 96 D. 84 Answer: A
Q11. If a:b = 5:7 and 1/c:1/b = 8:9; which among the following represents a:b:c? A. 40:63:56 B.
20:35:24 C. 40:56:63 D. 20:24:35
Q12. The respective ratio between the present daily wages of a Harsh and Pankaj is 7:8. After 8
years, this will be 9:10 respectively. If at the time of joining, the ratio of their wages was 11 :13
respectively, how many years ago they were joined the work? A. 4 B. 8 C. 10 D. 6 Answer: D
Q18. The difference between two numbers is 76. Thrice the smaller number is less than the larger
number by 37.5% of the smaller number. What is the larger number? A. 108 B. 120 C. 126 D. 102
Answer: A
Q11. If a:b = 2:3; b:c = 4:5; and d is 20% more than c, find the ratio between a and d? A. 4:9 2 B. 8:9
C. 4:7 D. 1:4 Answer: A
