1.

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 percentage if the commission is reduced by
24%?
2. A and B start a business with invest of tk 5,000 and tk 4,500 respectively. After 4
months, A takes out half of his capital. After 2 more months, B takes out one third of
his capital while C joints them with a capital of tk 7,000. At the end of a year, they
earn a profit of tk 5,080. Find the share of each member in the profit.
3. 2 men and 3 boys can do a piece of work in 10 days while 3 men and 2 boys can do
the same work in 8 days. In how many days can 2 men and 1 boy do the work?
4. 2 men and 3 boys can do a piece of work in 10 days while 3 men and 2 boys can do
the same work in 8 days. In how many days can 2 men and 1 boy do the work?
5. 'A' works twice as fast as 'B'. If both of them together take 6 days to complete the
work, in how many days can 'B' alone complete the same?
6. If 10 people working 8 hours a day can complete a task in 24 days, how many
people working 10 hours a day would be required to complete the same task in 16
days?
7. A alone can do a job in 25 days. He worked for 15 days and left. B completed the
remaining job in 10 days. If both of them work together after initial 15 days in how
many more days would the job have been completed?
8. If 10 men can complete a piece of work in 30 days how many men are required to
complete the same job in 25 days?
9. 10 men can complete a work in 18 days. After 6 days 5 more men joined. In how
many days the remaining work would be completed?
10. One man and 2 boys can do a piece of work in 12 days, which can also be done by
3 men and 1 boy in 6 days. How long it would take for one alone man to complete
the work?
11. 2 men and 7 boys can do a piece of work in 4 days. The same work is done by 4
men and 4 boys in 3 days. How long would it take 1 man and 1 boy to do the same?
12. 2 men and 3 women can do a piece of work in 16 days .In how days can 4 men and
6 women does the same work?
13. If 2 men or 3 women or 6boys can do a piece o work in 70 days, in what time would
2 men, 6 women and 24 boys to do it?
14. 30 men can do a job in 25 days when should 12 men can leave the work, if the
whole is to be done in 35 days after they leave the work?
15. A and B can do a job together in 15 days. Whereas A alone can do it in 21 days. If
B does the work for only half a day, how long shall it take to do the job now by A
and B?
16. If a man buys 1 lit of milk for Rs.12 and mixes it with 20% water and sells it for
Rs.15, then what is the percentage of gain?
17. Instead of multiplying a number by 7, the number is divided by 7. What is the
percentage of error obtained?
18. A work has been done by the two person in 24 min. one of them can do this work a
lonely in 40 min. how much time required to do the same work for the second
person?
19. The cost of one pencil, two pens and four erasers is Rs.22 while the cost of five
pencils, four pens and two erasers is Rs.32.How much will three pencils, three pens
and three erasers cost?
20. 1, 3, 4, 8, 15, 27, __
21. 2, 5, 9, 19, 37,__
22. R,M,__,F,D,__
23. DRIVER = 7, PEDESTRIAN = 11, ACCIDENT =?
24. Fathers age is 5 times his sons age. 4 years back the father was 9 times older than
son. Find the fathers present age.
25. A shopkeeper bought a watch for Rs.400 and sold it for Rs.500.What is his profit
percentage?
26. A number 54 is divided into two parts, so that 10 times the first and 22 times second
are together equal to 780. The difference of the parts is:
27. In simple interest what sum amounts of Rs.1120/- in 4 years and Rs.1200/- in 5
years?
28. The ratio of number of boys and girls in a school of 432 students is 5:4.How many
new girls should join the school so that the ratio 1:1?
29. 2 men or 3 women can do a piece of work in 10 days. In how many days can 4 men
and 3 women do the work together?
30. Rs. 150 is divided so that A gets Rs. 30 more than B and B gets twice as much as
C. What amount does C get? The average of 60 results is 40 and the average of
another 40 results is 60.What is the average of all the result?
31. 2, 7, 17, 32, 52, 77?
32. If DEAR is coded as 7 and BEARS as 9, what should be the code for WAX?
33. 1, 3, 4, 8, 15, 27, __
34. A: B = 7:5, B: C = 3:4. Now If C is 30, what is A?
35. If a boat is moving in upstream with velocity of 14 km/hr and goes downstream with
a velocity of 40 km/hr, then what is the speed of the stream?
36. Of three numbers whose average is 60, the first is 1/4th of the sum of the others.
What is the first number?
37. The average age of a family of 6 members is 25 years. The average age of the
family after a 45 years old member leaves is
38. At what rate of interest per annum, a sum of Rs. 800 will become Rs. 1200 in 10
years?
39. The ratio of number of boys and girls in a school of 432 students is 5:4.How many
new girls should join the school so that the ratio 1:1?
40. 2 men or 3 women can do a piece of work in 10 days. In how many days can 4 men
and 3 women do the work together?
41. Rs. 150 is divided so that A gets Rs. 30 more than B and B gets twice as much as
C. What amount does C get?
42. The average of 60 results is 40 and the average of another 40 results is 60.What is
the average of all the result?
43. If 5 ounces is equal to 140 grams, then 2 pounds of ground meat is equal to how
many grams?
44. On a Map, 1 inch represents 20 miles. The distance between 2 towns is 6 1/5
inches. How many miles are actually between the two towns?
45. Sarah is twice as old as her youngest brother. If the difference between their ages is
15 years. How old is her youngest brother?
46. In his pocket, a boy has 3 red marbles, 4 blue marbles, and 4 green marbles. How
many will he have to take out of his pocket to ensure that he has taken out at least
one of each color?
47. Salem can type a 20 page document in 40 minutes, Aisha can type it in 30 minutes,
and Rahall can type it in 24 minutes. Working together, how much time will it take
them to type the same document?
48. A hockey team won 6 games and lost 8. What is the ratio of wins to number of
games?
49. If the perimeter of a rectangular house is 25 1/3 yards, and the length is 22 feet.
What is the width?
50. A recent study showed that an increase in body weight by 10 kilograms resulted in a
0.15% increase in heart disease. What fraction is equal to
51. The average of three numbers is V. If one of the numbers is Z and another is Y,
what is the remaining number?
52. Two cyclists start biking from a trail's start 3 hours apart. The second cyclist travels
at 10 miles per hour and starts 3 hours after the first cyclist who is traveling at 6
miles per hour. How much time will pass before the second cyclist catches up with
the first from the time the second cyclist started biking?
53. Jamal can fill a pool carrying buckets of water in 30 minutes. Sue can do the same
job in 45 minutes. Tony can do the same job in 1 hours. How quickly can all three
fill the pool together?
54. What simple interest rate will Susan need to secure to make $2,500 in interest on a
$10,000 principal over 5 years?
55. Given: a = i + j + k; a. b = 1 and a b = j - k. Then, b is equal to
56. The value of a number is five times the sum of its digits. Find the number.
57. What is the equivalent of 110 in Roman numerals?
58. 2+ {4+ (8-5-3)} =?
59. 5*2 is a three digit number with * as a missing digit. If the number is divisible by 6,
the missing digit is?
60. If 42 men can do a work in 15 days, how many men are required to complete it in 21
days?
61. The sum of all possible two digit number formed from three different one digit
natural number when divided by the sum of the original three number is equal to:?
62. In the first 10 over of a cricket game, the run rate was only 3.2. What should be the
run rate in the remaining 40 over to reach the target of 282 run?
63. There are four prime no written in ascending order. The product of the first three is
385 and that of the last three is 1001.The last no is?
64. You are having 31kg of rice. You are provided with a 1kg stone for weighing. In how
many weights the 31kg of rice can be weighed.
65. The mode of the nos.7,7,7,9,10,11,11,11,12 is
66. L.C.M &H.C.F The L.C.M. (Lowest (or Least) Common Multiple) of two numbers is
45 times to their H.C.F (Highest Common Factor). If one of the numbers is 125 and
sum of L.C.M. and H.C.F. is 1150, the other number is:
67. The cost of an item is Rs 12.60. If the profit is 10% over selling price what is the
selling price?
68. If we write all the whole no from 200 and 400, then how many of these contain the
digit 7 once and only once.
69. The sum of the three prime no is 100.If one of them exceed another by 36, then one
of the?
70. In the numerals 0 to 99 which is the least repeated digit?
71. When the same number is divided by 17; the remainder by 9.What is the number?
72. {2,3,5,7,11, } represent the first five
73. Thirty men take 20 days to complete a job working 9 hours a day. How many hours
a day should 40 men work to complete the job?
74. Six bells commence tolling together and toll at intervals 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12
seconds respectively. In 30 minutes how many times they toll together.
75. There are 12 yes or no questions. How many ways can these are answered?
76. A 4 cm cube is cut into 1 cm cubes. What is the percentage increase in the surface
area after such cutting?
77. Simple and compound interest at what rate percent compound interest does sum .of
money became four fold in 2 yrs?
78. A man loses 20% of his money and after spending 70% of the remainder he is left
with Rs. 270. Originally he had:
79. If x% of an hour is 2 minutes, x is equal to:
80. A number is increased by 10% and then reduced by 10%, then the number:
81. Ravi's salary was reduced by 25%.Percentage increase to be effected to bring the
salary to the original level is
82. What is 25% of 25% is?
83. If x and y are positive integer such that (3x+7y) is a multiple of 11, then which of the
following will also be divisible by 11?
84. If 6x43-46y9=46y9=1904, which of the following should come in place of x?
85. What is the product of the irrational roots of the equation (2x-1) (2x-3) (2x-5) (2x-7)
=9?
86. If x: y = 3:4, then (2x+3y): (3y-2x) =
87. The present ages of three persons are in proportions 4: 7: 9. Eight years ago, the
sum of their ages was 56. Find their present ages (in years)
88. A study reported that in a random sampling of 100 women over the age of 35
showed that 8 of the women were married 2 or more times. Based on the study
results, how many women in a group of 5,000 women over the age of 35 would
likely be married 2 or more times?
89. Jamal is traveling to a meeting that is 28 miles away. He needs to be there in 30
minutes. How fast does he need to go to make it to the meeting on time?
90. If Salem can mix 20 drinks in 5 minutes, Sue can mix 20 drinks in 10 minutes, and
Jack can mix 20 drinks in 15 minutes, how much time will it take all 3 of them
working together to mix the 20 drinks?
91. If Sami can do a job in 4 days that Lisa can do in 6 days and Tom can do in 2 days,
how long would the job take if Sam, Lisa, and Tom worked together to complete it?
92. Jamal has 5 pieces of string. He needs to choose the piece that will be able to go
around his 36-inch waist. His belt broke, and his pants are falling down. The piece
needs to be at least 4 inches longer than his waist so he can tie a knot in it, but it
cannot be more that 6 inches longer so that the ends will not show from under his
shirt. Which of the following pieces of string will work the best?
93. The last week of a month a car dealership sold 12 cars. A new sales promotion
came out the first week of the next month and the sold 19 cars that week. What was
the percent increase in sales from the last week of the previous month compared to
the first week of the next month?
94. If two planes leave the same airport at 1:00 PM, how many miles apart will they be
at 3:00 PM if one travels directly north at 150 mph and the other travels directly
west at 200 mph?
95. During a 5-day festival, the number of visitors tripled each day. If the festival opened
on a Thursday with 345 visitors, what was the attendance on that Sunday?
96. Type a page in p minutes, what piece of the page can she do in 5 minutes?
97. If Sally can paint a house in 4 hours, and John can paint the same house in 6 hour,
how long will it take for both of them to paint the house together?
98. If Leah is 6 years older than Salem and Jamal is 5 years older than Leah, and the
total of their ages is 41. Then how old is Sue?
99. Jamal has 16 jellybeans in her pocket. She has 8 red ones, 4 green ones, and 4
blue ones. What is the minimum number of jellybeans she must take out of her
pocket to ensure that she has one of each color?
100. If 300 jellybeans cost you x dollars. How many jellybeans can you purchase for 50
cents at the same rate?
101. You need 4/5 cups of water for a recipe. You accidentally put 1/3 cups into the
mixing bowl with the dry ingredients. How much more water in cups do you need to
add?
102. If the average person drinks 8, (8oz) glasses of water per day, a person who drinks
12.8 oz of water after a morning exercise session has consumed what fraction of
the daily average?
103. There are 8 ounces in a 1/2 pound. How many ounces are in 7 3/4 lbs?
104. What is the mathematical average of the number of weeks in a year, seasons in a
year, and the number of days in January?
105. What is the median of the following list of numbers? 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 12
106. What are 1230.932567 rounded to the nearest hundredths place?
107. Round 907.457 to the nearest tens place.
108. A roast was cooked at 325 F in the oven for 4 hours. The internal temperature
rose from 32 F to 145 F. What was the average rise in temperature per hour?
109. At a certain high school, the respective weights for the following subjects are:
Mathematics 3, English 3, History 2, Science 2 and Art 1. What is a student's
average whose marks were the following: Geometry 89, American Literature 92,
American History 94, Biology 81, and Sculpture 85?
110. If Jack needs 2 pints of cream to make a dessert. How many pints will he need
to make 3 desserts?
111. If a of a teaspoon is 1 ml, then how many milliliters are in 6 teaspoons?
112. A scale on a map states that every of an inch represents 20 miles. If two cities
are 3 inches apart, how many miles are actually between the two cities?
113. Michelle wants to expand her flowerbed by increasing the length and width each by
2 ft. What will the new area of the flowerbed be, if L and W represent the original
dimensions of the flowerbed's length and width?
114. What is the mathematical average of the number of days in a typical year, the
number of days in a week, and the number of hours in a day?
115. On a map, 1/3 inch equals 15 miles. The distance between two towns on a map is
3 2/3 inches. How many miles are actually between the two towns?
116. A building that is 150 ft tall casts a shadow of 20 feet long. At the same time a tree
casts a shadow of 2 ft. How tall is the tree?
117. Change 4 3/5 to an improper fraction.
118. Bilal started a race at 6:30 A.M., and he did not cross the finish line until 1:05 P.M.
How long did it take for Brett to finish the race?
119. A men's basketball team won 24 games and lost 32. What is the ratio of games lost
to the number of games played?
120. If one side of a square is 5 units, what is the area of the square?
121. If the average arithmetic mean of 8, 12, 15, 21, x and 11 is 17 then what is x?
122. If 8x + 5x + 2x + 4x = 114, the 5x + 3 =
123. If 6 is 24% of a number, what is 40% of the same number?
124. At a company fish fry, 1/2 in attendance are employees. Employees' spouses are
1/3 of the attendance. What is the percentage of the people in attendance who are
not employees or employee spouses?
125. The last week of a month a car dealership sold 12 cars. A new sales promotion
came out the first week of the next month and the sold 19 cars that week. What
was the percent increase in sales from the last week of the previous month
compared to the first week of the next month?
126. If two planes leave the same airport at 1:00 PM, how many miles apart will they be
at 3:00 PM if one travels directly north at 150 mph and the other travels directly
west at 200 mph?
127. What is the cost in dollars to steam clean a room W yards wide and L yards long it
the steam cleaners charge 10 cents per square foot?
128. If 300 jellybeans cost you x Rupees. How many jellybeans can you purchase for 50
Paisa at the same rate?
129. A railway half ticket costs half the full fare and the reservation charge is the same
on half ticket as on full ticket. One reserved first class ticket from Chennai to
Trivandrum costs Rs. 216 and one full and one half reserved first class tickets cost
Rs. 327. What is the basic first class full fare and what is the reservation charge?
130. The conjugate of a complex number is 1/i-1. Then the complex number is
131. If 9x-3y=12 and 3x-5y=7 then 6x-2y =?



132. A and B are good at hockey and Volleyball. C and A are good at hockey and
Baseball. D and B are good at Cricket and Volleyball C, D and E are good at
Football and Baseball. Study the above given information and answer the question
below. Who of the following is good at four games? (a) C (b) D (c) A (d) B
133. Who of the following is good at Cricket, Baseball and Volleyball? (a) E (b) D (c) C
(d) B
134. Who of the following is good at Cricket, Hockey and Volleyball? (a) A (b) B (c) C (d)
D
135. Who of the following is good at largest numbers of games? (a) A (b) B (c) C (d) D
136. If cloud is called white, white is called rain, rain is called green, green is called air,
air is called blue and blue is called water, where do birds fly in? a) Air b) cloud c)
blue d) white