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1, A merchant has 1000 kg of sugar part of which he sells at 8% profit and the rest at 18% profit. He gains
14% on the whole. The Quantity sold at 18% profit is

A) 400 kg B) 560 kg

C) 600 kg D) 640 kg

2, In what ratio should two varieties of tea at Rs. 60 per kg and Rs.120 per kg be mixed together so that by
selling the mixture at Rs.96 per kg, a profit of Rs.20% is obtained ?

3, How many kilograms of sugar costing Rs. 9 per kg must be mixed with 27 kg of sugar costing Rs. 7 per
Kg so that there may be a gain of 10 % by selling the mixture at Rs. 9.24 per Kg ?

A) 36 Kg B) 42 Kg

C) 54 Kg D) 63 Kg

4, Equal quantities of three mixtures of milk and water are mixed in the ratio 1:2, 2:3 and 3:4. The ratio of
water and milk in the mixture is ?

A) 193 : 122 B) 122 : 193

C) 115 : 201 D) 147 : 185

5, A mixture of 150 liters of wine and water contains 20% water. How much more water should be added
so that water becomes 25% of the new mixture?

A) 10 liters B) 20 liters

C) 7.5 liters D) 40 liters

6., A mixture of 70 litres of Fruit Juice and water contains 10% water. How many litres of water should
be added to the mixture so that the mixture contains 12.5% water   ?

A) 2 lit B) 1.75 lit

C) 1 lit D) 3 lit
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7., Tea worth of Rs. 135/kg & Rs. 126/kg are mixed with a third variety in the ratio 1: 1 : 2. If the mixture
is worth Rs. 153 per kg, the price of the third variety per kg will be____?

A) Rs. 169.50 B) Rs.170

C) Rs. 175.50 D) Rs. 180

8., The ratio of water and alcohol in two different containers 4:5. is 2:3 and In what ratio we are required
to mix the mixtures  of two containers in order to get the new mixture in which the ratio of alcohol and
water be 7:5?

A) 7:3 B) 5:3

C) 8:5 D) 2:7

9. A milk vendor has 2 cans of milk. The first contains 25% water and the rest milk. The second
contains 50% water. How much milk should he mix from each of the containers so as to get 12
litres of milk such that the ratio of water to milk is 3 : 5?

A. 5litres, 7 litres B. 7litres, 4 litres

C. 6litres, 6 litres D. 4litres, 8 litres

10. A container contains 40 litres of milk. From this container 4 litres of milk was taken out and replaced
by water. This process was repeated further two times. How much milk is now contained by the
container?
A. 30 litres B. 29.16 litres
C. 28 litres D. 28.2 litres

11., A vessel contains 20 liters of a mixture of milk and water in the ratio 3:2. 10 liters of the mixture are
removed and replaced with an equal quantity of pure milk. If the process is repeated once more, find the
ratio of milk and water in the final mixture obtained ?

A) 5:3 B) 1:4

C) 4:1 D) 9:1

12., In a mixture of milk and water, there is only 26% water. After replacing the mixture with 7 liters of
pure milk , the percentage of milk in the mixture  become 76%. The quantity of mixture is:
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A) 65 liters B) 91 liters

C) 38 liters D) None of these

13. A container contains a mixture of two liquids P and Q in the ratio 7 : 5. When 9 litres of
mixture are drawn off and the container is filled with Q, the ratio of P and Q becomes 7 : 9. How
many litres of liquid P was contained in the container initially?

A. 23 B. 21

C. 19 D. 17

Answers: 1-C, 2- 2:1, 3-C, 4-A, 5-A, 6-A, 7-C, 8-B, 9-C, 10-B, 11-D, 12-D, 13-B,
1. If 5 kg of salt costing ` 5/kg and 3 kg of salt costing ` 4/kg are mixed, find the average cost of the mixture per
kilogram.

(a) ` 4.5 (b) ` 4.625 (c) ` 4.75 (d) ` 4.125

2. Two types of oils having the rates of ` 4/kg and ` 5/kg respectively are mixed in order to produce a mixture
having the rate of ` 4.60/kg. What should be the amount of the second type of oil if the amount of the first type of
oil in the mixture is 40 kg?

(a) 75 kg (b) 50 kg (c) 60 kg (d) 40 kg

3. How many kilograms of sugar worth ` 3.60 per kg should be mixed with 8 kg of sugar worth ` 4.20 per kg, such
that by selling the mixture at ` 4.40 per kg, there may be a gain of 10%?

(a) 6 kg (b) 3 kg (c) 2 kg (d) 4 kg

4. A mixture of 125 gallons of wine and water contains 20% water. How much water must be added to the
mixture in order to increase the percentage of water to 25% of the new mixture?

(a) 10 gals (b) 8.5 gals (c) 8 gals (d) 8.33 gals

5. Ravi lends ` 3600 on simple interest to Harsh for a period of 5 years. He lends a part of the amount at 4%
interest and the rest at 6% and receives ` 960 as the amount of interest. How much money did he lend on 4%
interest rate?

(a) ` 2800 (b) ` 2100 (c) ` 2400 (d) ` 1200

6. 400 students took a mock exam in Delhi. 60% of the boys and 80% of the girls cleared the cut off in the
examination. If the total percentage of students qualifying is 65%, how many girls appeared in the examination?
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(a) 100 (b) 120 (c) 150 (d) 300

7. A man purchased a cow and a calf for ` 1300. He sold the calf at a profit of 20% and the cow at a profit of 25%.
In this way, his total profit was 23 %. Find the cost price of the cow.

(a) ` 1100 (b) ` 600 (c) ` 500 (d) ` 800

8. The average salary per head of all employees of a company is ` 600. The average salary of 120 officers is ` 4000.
If the average salary per head of the rest of the employees is ` 560, find the total number of workers in the
company.

(a) 10200 (b) 10320 (c) 10500 (d) 10680

9. A dishonest milkman purchased milk at ` 10 per litre and mixed 5 litres of water in it. By selling the mixture at
the rate of ` 10 per litre he earns a profit of 25%. The quantity of the amount of the mixture that he had was:

(a) 15 litres (b) 20 litres (c) 25 litres (d) 30 litres

10. A cistern contains 50 litres of water. 5 litres of water is taken out of it and replaced by wine. The process is
repeated again. Find the proportion of wine and water in the resulting mixture.

(a) 1 : 4 (b) 41 : 50 (c) 19 : 81 (d) 81 : 19

11. A container has a capacity of 20 gallons and is full of spirit. 4 gallons of spirit is drawn out and the container is
again filled with water. This process is repeated 5 times. Find out how much spirit is left in the resulting mixture
finally?

(a) 6 gallons (b) 6 gallons (c) 6.5 gallons (d) 6.25 gallons

12. A vessel is full of refined oil. 1/4 of the refined oil is taken out and the vessel is filled with mustard oil. If the
process is repeated 4 times and 10 litres of refined oil is finally left in the vessel, what is the capacity of the vessel?

(a) 33 litres (b) litres (c) litres (d) 30 litres

13. In what ratio should two qualities of coffee powder having the rates of ` 47 per kg and ` 32 per kg be mixed in
order to get a mixture that would have a rate of ` 37 per kg?

(a) 1 : 2 (b) 2 : 1 (c) 1 : 3 (d) 3 : 1

14. A thief steals four gallons of liquid soap kept in a train compartment’s bathroom from a container that is full of
liquid soap. He then fills it with water to avoid detection. Unable to resist the temptation he steals 4 gallons of the
mixture again, and fills it with water. When the liquid soap is checked at a station it is found that the ratio of the
liquid soap now left in the container to that of the water in it is 36 : 13. What was the initial amount of the liquid
soap in the container if it is known that the liquid soap is neither used nor augmented by anybody else during the
entire period?

(a) 7 gallons (b) 14 gallons (c) 21 gallons (d) 28 gallons

15. In what ratio should water be mixed with soda costing ` 12 per litre so as to make a profit of 25% by selling the
diluted liquid at ` 13.75 per litre?
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(a) 10 : 1 (b) 11 : 1 (c) 1 : 11 (d) 12 : 1

16. A sum of ` 36.90 is made up of 90 coins that are either 20 paise coins or 50 paise coins. Find out how many 20
paise coins are there in the total amount.

(a) 47 (b) 43 (c) 27 (d) 63

17. A dishonest grocer professes to sell pure butter at cost price, but he mixes it with adulterated fat and thereby
gains 25%. Find the percentage of adulterated fat in the mixture assuming that adulterated fat is freely available.

(a) 20% (b) 25% (c) 33.33% (d) 40%

18. A mixture of 70 litres of alcohol and water contains 10% of water. How much water must be added to the
above mixture to make the water 12.5% of the resulting mixture?

(a) 1 litre (b) 1.5 litre (c) 2 litres (d) 2.5 litres

19. A mixture of 20 litres of brandy and water contains 10% water. How much water should be added to it to
increase the percentage of water to 25%?

(a) 2 litres (b) 3 litres (c) 2.5 litres (d) 4 litres

20. A merchant purchased two qualities of pulses at the rate of ` 200 per quintal and ` 260 per quintal. In 52
quintals of the second quality, how much pulse of the first quality should be mixed so that by selling the resulting
mixture at ` 300 per quintal, he gains a profit of 25%?

(a) 100 quintals (b) 104 quintals (c) 26 quintals (d) None of these

21. A man buys milk at ` 8.5 per litre and dilutes it with water. He sells the mixture at the same rate and thus gains
11.11%. Find the quantity of water mixed by him in every litre of milk.

(a) 0.111 litres (b) 0.909 litres (c) 0.1 litre (d) 0.125 litres

22. There are two mixtures of honey and water, the quantity of honey in them being 25% and 75% of the mixture.
If 2 gallons of the first are mixed with three gallons of the second, what will be the ratio of honey to water in the
new mixture?

(a) 11 : 2 (b) 11 : 9 (c) 9 : 11 (d) 2 : 11

23. There are two kinds of alloys of tin and copper. The first alloy contains tin and copper such that 93.33% of it is
tin. In the second alloy there is 86.66% tin. What weight of the first alloy should be mixed with some weight of the
second alloy so as to make a 50 kg mass containing 90% of tin?

(a) 15 kg (b) 30 kg (c) 20 kg (d) 25 kg

24. Two containers of equal capacity are full of a mixture of oil and water. In the first, the ratio of oil to water is 4 :
7 and in the second it is 7 : 11. Now both the mixtures are mixed in a bigger container. What is the resulting ratio
of oil to water?

(a) 149 : 247 (b) 247 : 149 (c) 143 : 241 (d) 241 : 143
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25. Two vessels contain spirit and water mixed respectively in the ratio of 1 : 3 and 3 : 5. Find the ratio in which
these are to be mixed to get a new mixture in which the ratio of spirit to water is 1 : 2.

(a) 2 : 1 (b) 3 : 1 (c) 1 : 2 (d) 1 : 3

26. The price of a pen and a pencil is ` 35. The pen was sold at a 20% profit and the pencil at a 10% loss. If in the
transaction a man gains ` 4, how much is cost price of the pen?

(a) ` 10 (b) ` 25 (c) ` 20 (d) None of these

27. A person purchased a cupboard and a cot for ` 18,000. He sold the cupboard at a profit of 20% and the cot at a
profit of 30%. If his total profit was 25.833%, find the cost price of the cupboard.

(a) ` 10,500 (b) ` 12,000 (c) ` 7500 (d) ` 10,000

28. A vessel is full of a mixture of kerosene and petrol in which there is 18% kerosene. Eight litres are drawn off
and then the vessel is filled with petrol. If the kerosene is now 15%, how much does the vessel hold?

(a) 40 litres (b) 32 litres (c) 36 litres (d) 48 litres

29. Two solutions of 90% and 97% purity are mixed resulting in 21 litres of mixture of 94% purity. How much is the
quantity of the first solution in the resulting mixture?

(a) 15 litres (b) 12 litres (c) 9 litres (d) 6 litres

30. In the Singapore zoo, there are deers and there are ducks. If the heads are counted, there are 180, while the
legs are 448. What will be the number of deers in the zoo?

(a) 136 (b) 68 (c) 44 (d) 22

31. A bonus of ` 9,85,000 was divided among 300 workers of a factory. Each male worker gets 5000 rupees and
each female worker gets 2500 rupees. Find the number of male workers in the factory.

(a) 253 (b) 47 (c) 94 (d) 206

32. What will be the ratio of petrol and kerosene in the final solution formed by mixing petrol and kerosene that
are present in three vessels of equal capacity in the ratios 4 : 1, 5 : 2 and 6 : 1 respectively?

(a) 166 : 22 (b) 83 : 22 (c) 83 : 44 (d) None of these

33. A mixture worth ` 3.25 a kg is formed by mixing two types of flour, one costing ` 3.10 per kg while the other `
3.60 per kg. In what proportion must they have been mixed?

(a) 3 : 7 (b) 7 : 10 (c) 10 : 3 (d) 7 : 3

34. A 20 percent gain is made by selling the mixture of two types of ghee at ` 480 per kg. If the type costing 610
per kg was mixed with 126 kg of the other, how many kilograms of the former was mixed?

(a) 138 kg (b) 34.5 kg (c) 69 kg (d) Cannot be determined

35. In what proportion must water be mixed with milk so as to gain 20% by selling the mixture at the cost price of
the milk? (Assume that water is freely available)
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(a) 1 : 4 (b) 1 : 5 (c) 1 : 6 (d) 1 : 12

36. A bartender stole champagne from a bottle that contained 50% of spirit and he replaced what he had stolen
with champagne having 20% spirit. The bottle then contained only 25% spirit. How much of the bottle did he
steal?

(a) 80% (b) 83.33% (c) 85.71% (d) 88.88%

37. A bag contains a total of 105 coins of ` 1, 50 p and 25 p denominations. Find the total number of coins of Re 1
if there are a total of 50.5 rupees in the bag and it is known that the number of 25 paise coins are 133.33% more
than the number of 1 rupee coins.

(a) 56 (b) 25 (c) 24 (d) None of these

38. A man possessing ` 6800, lent a part of it at 10% simple interest and the remaining at 7.5% simple interest. His
total income after 3 years was ` 1904. Find the sum lent at 10% rates.

(a) ` 1260 (b) ` 1700 (c) ` 1360 (d) None of these

39. If a man decides to travel 80 kilometres in 8 hours partly by foot and partly on a bicycle, his speed on foot
being 8 km/h and that on bicycle being 16 km/h, what distance would he travel on foot?

(a) 20 km (b) 30 km (c) 48 km (d) 60 km

40. Two vessels contain a mixture of spirit and water. In the first vessel the ratio of spirit to water is 8 : 3 and in
the second vessel the ratio is 5 : 1. A 35 litre cask is filled from these vessels so as to contain a mixture of spirit and
water in the ratio of 4 : 1. How many litres are taken from the first vessel?

(a) 11 litres (b) 22 litres (c) 16.5 litres (d) 17.5 litres

ANSWER KEY 1. (b) 2. (c) 3. (d) 4. (d) 5. (d) 6. (a) 7. (d) 8. (b) 9. (c) 10. (c) 11. (b) 12. (c) 13. (a) 14. (d) 15. (c) 16. (c)
17. (a) 18. (c) 19. (d) 20. (c) 21. (a) 22. (b) 23. (d) 24. (a) 25. (c) 26. (b) 27. (c) 28. (d) 29. (c) 30. (c) 31. (c) 32. (b) 33.
(d) 34. (d) 35. (b) 36. (b) 37. (c) 38. (c) 39. (c) 40. (a)