Quant Quiz

1.Mehul’s monthly salary is one and a half times Shailesh’s monthly salary. Prashant’s monthly salary is five-fourth Mehul’s monthly salary. If the total of the monthly salaries of all the three is Rs. 1,83,750/-, what is Prashant’s monthly salary?
(1)Rs.42,000/-                      
(2)Rs68,500/-                            
(3)Rs.78,750/-            
(4)Rs.63,000/-                    
(5)None of these


2.On the annual day, sweets were to be distributed equally amongst 600 children of the school. But on that particular day, 120 children remained absent. Thus, each child got 2 extra sweets. How many sweets was each child originally supposed to get?
(1) 8                                            
(2) 14                                  
(3) 10
(4) 6                                            
(5) None of these

3.Gold is 19 times as heavy as water and copper is 9 times as heavy as water. In What ratio should these be mixed to get an alloy 15 times as heavy as water?
(1) 1 : 1                                      
(2) 1 : 2                              
(3) 2 : 3
(4) 3 : 2                                      
(5) None of these

4.The average age of boys in the class is twice the number of girls in the class. The ratio of boys and girls in the class of 50 is 4 : 1. The total of the ages (in years) of the boys in the class is :
(1) 2000                                    
(2) 2500                            
(3) 800
(4) 400                                      
(5) None of these

5.There are 100 students in 3 sections A, B and C of a class. The average marks of all the 3 sections was 84. The average of Band C was 87.5 and the average marks of A is 70. The number of students in A was:
(1) 30                                          
(2) 35                                  
(3) 20
(4) 25                                          
(5) None of these

6.A sold an article to B at 20% profit and B sold it to C at 15% loss. If  A sold it to C at 15% loss. If A sold it to C at the selling price of B, then A would make :
(1) 5 % profit                          
(2) 2% profit                    
(3) 2% loss
(4) 5% loss                                
(5) None of these

7.The monthly salaries of A and B together amount to Rs. 40,000/-. A spends 85% of his salary and B, 95% of his salary. If now their savings are the same, then the salary (in Rs.) of A is :
(1) Rs. 10,000/-                      
(2) Rs. l2,000/-              
(3) Rs. l6,000/-
(4) Rs. l8,000/-                      
(5) None of these

8.It takes 8 hours for a 600 km journey, if 120 km is done by train and the rest by car. It takes 20 min more if 200 km is done by train and the rest by car. The ratio of the speed of the train to that of the car is:
(1) 2 : 3                                      
(2) 3 : 2                                              
(3) 3 : 4
(4) 4 : 3                                      
(5) None of these

9.If a train runs at 70 km/hour, it reaches its destination late by 12 min. But if it runs at 80 km/hr, it is late by 3 min. The correct time to cover the journey is :
(1) 58 min                                
(2) 2 hr                              
(3) 1 hr
(4) 59 min
(5) None of these

10.A man borrowed some money from a private organisation at 5% simple interest per annum. He lended 50% of his money to another person at 10% compound interest per annum and thereby the man made a profit of Rs. 3,205/- in 4 years. The man borrowed:
(1) Rs. 80,000/-                      
(2) Rs. 1, 00, 000/-        
(3) Rs. l, 20, 000/-
(4) Rs. 1, 50, 000/-                
(5) None of these

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