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Class Exercise-3A
Ratio & Proportion, Mixture Solutions

1. The ratio of age of A and B is x : y. If A’s age is 5. Sachin bought 1.5 kg fresh grapes. The ratio of
increased by 3 years and B’s age is increased by water is to pulp was 4 : 1. When his naughty child
2 years then new ratio of their ages becomes 24 : crused these grapes, then some water get wasted.
25. Given that the sum of their actual ages is 93 Now the ratio of water is to pulp is 3 : 2. What is
years. Find the actual ratio of their ages. the total amount of the crushed grapes?
(a) 21 : 22 (a) 0.5 kg (b) 1 kg

(b) 42 : 45 (c) 0.75 kg (d) None of these

(c) 45 : 48 6. The ratio of age between A and B is 6 : 5 and the

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(d) Can’t be determined age of each C and D is times that of B. Age of
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2. The LCM of two numbers is 210 and their ratio is F is less than A but greater than B. The ratio of
2 : 3. The sum of these numbers is ages between B and E is 2 : 3 also age of A is 3
years less than E. What is the ratio of ages of A
(a) 210 and F if all the ages are in integers?
(b) 175
(a) 12 : 11 (b) 9 : 7
(c) 315
(d) Can’t be determined (c) 24 : 19 (d) 12 : 13
3. In a wallet the ratio of 25 paise, 50 paise and Re 1 7. A contractor undertook to do a certain piece of
coins are in the ratio of 12 : 4 : 3, which amounts work in 9 days. He employed certain number of
to Rs. 600. Find the number of coins of 25 paise labourers but 6 of then being absent from the very
(a) 200 (b) 225 first day, the rest could finish the work in 15 days.
The number of men originally employed were
(c) 275 (d) none of these
(a) 12 (b) 15
4. The ratio of prices of Cello and Rotomac pens in
2000 were in the ratio of 3 : 5. In 2005 the price of (c) 18 (d) 24
Cello pen trebles itself and the price of Rotomac 8. In a family there were n people. The expenditure
pen is increased by Rs. 100, then the new ratio of of rice per month in this family is directly
prices of the same pens becomes 4 : 5. What was proportional to the 5 times the square of number
the original price of the Rotomac pen in 2000? of people in the family. If the elder son left the
family to study in USA there was decrease in
(a) Rs. 60 (b) Rs. 80
consumption of 95 kg rice per month. What is the
(c) Rs. 100 (d) Rs. 120 value of n?
(a) 5 (b) 12
(c) 9 (d) 10

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a b c 15. If A : B = 3 : 4, B : C = 8 : 9, C : D = 15 : 16.
9. If   and a + b + c  0 then Find A : B : C : D
bc ca ab
b (a) 15 : 20 : 21 : 28 (b) 30 : 40 : 45 : 48
the value of is
abc (c) 9 : 15 : 21 : 28 (d) None of these
1 1 16. A dog pursues a cat and takes 5 leaps for every
(a) (b)
2 3 6 leaps of the cat, but 4 leaps of the dog are
equal to 5 leaps of the cat. Compare the speeds
1
(c) (d) 1 of the dog and the car
4
(a) 15 : 22 (b) 9 : 25
10. Three persons Amar, Akbar and Anthony agree
to pay their hotel bills in the ratio of 3 : 4 : 5. Amar (c) 25 : 21 (d) 25 : 24
pays the first day’s bill which amounts to Rs. 26.65, 17. What should be subtracted from each of the
Akbar pays the second days bill which amounts to numbers 54, 71, 75 and 99, so that they are in
Rs. 42.75 and C pays the third day’s bill which continued proportion?
amounts to Rs. 53.00. When they settle their
accounts, which of the following happens? (a) 9 (b) 7

(a) Amar gives Rs. 3 to C (c) 4 (d) 3

(b) Akbar gives Rs. 2 to Amar 18. Divide 170 into three parts such that the first
part is 10 more than the second and its ratio
(c) Amar gives Akbar Rs. 1.95 and Rs. 2 to with third part is 2 : 5
Anthony
(a) 22 : 35 : 113 (b) 35 : 55 : 80
(d) None of these
(c) 40 : 30 : 100 (d) 35 : 65 : 70
11. Find the third proportional to the numbers 5 and
19. A mixture of 729 mL contains milk and water in
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the ratio 7 : 2. How much more water is added
(a) 20 (b) 2.5 to get a new mixture containing milk and water
in the ratio 7 : 3?
(c) 25 (d) 30
(a) 81 mL (b) 72 mL
12. A bag contains an equal number of one rupee,
50 paisa and 25 paisa coins respectively. If the (c) 80 mL (d) 78 mL
total value is Rs. 35, how many coins of each
20. A mixture contains alcohol and water in the ratio
types are there?
4 : 3. If 8L water is added to the mixture, the
(a) 20 (b) 16 ratio of alcohol and water becomes 3 : 5. Find
the quantity of alcohol in the mixture
(c) 18 (d) 25
96 72
a 2  b2 (a) L (b) L
13. If a : b = c : d, then the value of 2 is 11 11
c  d2

1 ab 168
(a) (b) (c) L (d) None of these
2 cd 11

ab ab 21. In three vessels of 10 L capacity, mixture of

(c) (d) milk and water is filled. The ratio of milk and
cd cd
water are 2 : 1, 3 : 1 and 3 : 2 in the respective
14. If x : y = 2 : 3, find the value of (3x + 2y) : vessels. If all the three vessels are emptied into
(2x + 5y) a single large vessel, find the ratio of milk and
water in the resultant mixture
12 11
(a) (b)
25 27 (a) 121 : 41 (b) 117 : 22

12 11 (c) 121 : 59 (d) 127 : 41

(c) (d)
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22. Ratio of boys to the girls in a class is 5 : 4. 29. The monthly salary of A, B, C is in the ratio of
Which of the following cannot be the number of 2 : 3 : 5. If C’s monthly salary is Rs. 1200 more
students in the class? than that of A, then B’s annual salary is
(a) 45 (b) 72 (a) Rs. 14400 (b) Rs. 24000
(c) 108 (d) 98
(c) Rs. 1200 (d) Rs. 2000
23. The ratio of spirit and water in a mixture is 1 : 3.
If the volume of the solution is increased by 30. The ratio of money with Ram and Rahul is 7 : 17
25% by adding spirit only. What is the resultant and that with Rahul and Ajay is 7 : 17. If Ram
ratio of spirit and water? has Rs. 490, Ajay has

(a) 2 : 3 (b) 1 : 4 (a) Rs. 2890 (b) Rs. 2330

(c) 1 : 2 (d) None of these (c) Rs. 1190 (d) Rs. 2680
24. In a factory men, women and children were 31. The students in three classes are in the ratio
employed in the ratio 8 : 5 : 1 to finish a job and 2 : 3 : 5. If 20 students are increased in each
their individual wages were in the ratio 5 : 2 : 3. class, the ratio changes to 4 : 5 : 7. The total
Total daily wages of all amount of Rs. 318. Find number of students before the increases were
the total daily wages paid to each category
(a) 10 (b) 90
(a) Rs. 240, 60, 18 (b) Rs. 210, 70, 38
(c) Rs. 190, 90, 33 (d) None of these (c) 100 (d) None of these

25. An amount of money is to be distributed among 32. The ratio of the first and second class fares
A, B and C in the ratio 5 : 8 : 12 respectively. between two stations is 4 : 1 and that of number
If the total share of B and C is four times that of passengers travelling by first and second class
of A. What is A’s share? is 1 : 40. If Rs. 1100 is collected as fare, the
amount collected from first class passenger is
(a) Rs. 3000
(b) Rs. 5000 (a) Rs. 275 (b) Rs. 315

(c) Cannot be determined (c) Rs. 137.50 (d) Rs. 100

(d) None of these 33. Rs. 5625 is divided among A, B and C so that
26. The ratio of the ages of A and B is 5 : 7. If the 1
A may receive as much as B and C together
difference between the present age of B and 2
that of A 6 yr hence is 2, then what is the total 1
receive and B receives of what A and C
of present ages of A and B? 4
together receive. The share of A is more than
(a) 49 yr (b) 52 yr that of B by
(c) 56 yr (d) None of these
(a) Rs. 750 (b) Rs. 775
27. If there are Rs. 495 in a bag in denominations of
one-rupee, 50 paisa and 25 paisa coins, which (c) Rs. 1500 (d) Rs. 1600
are in the ratio 1 : 8 : 16. How many 50 paisa
34. Gold is 19 times as heavy as water and copper
coins are there in the bag?
9 times a heavy as water. In what ratio should
(a) 50 (b) 220 these metal be mixed so that the mixture may be
15 times as heavy as water?
(c) 440 (d) None of these
(a) 3 : 2 (b) 9 : 5
28. Two numbers are in the ratio 3 : 5. If each
number is increased by 10, the ratio becomes (c) 2 : 3 (d) 7 : 5
5 : 7. The number are
(a) 3, 5 (b) 7, 9
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35. The average weekly salary per head of the 38. Two vessels A and B contain milk and water
entire staff of a factory consisting of supervisors mixed in the ratio 5 : 3 and 2 : 3. When these
and the labourers is Rs. 60. The average salary mixtures are mixed to form a new mixture
per head of the supervisors is Rs. 400 and that containing half milk and half water, they must be
of the labourers is Rs. 56. If the number of taken in the ratio
supervisors is 12, find the number of labourers in
(a) 2 : 5 (b) 3 : 5
the factory
(c) 4 : 5 (d) 7 : 3
(a) 986 (b) 1020
39. A can contains a mixture of two liquids A and B
(c) 860 (d) 1260
in proportion 7 : 5. When 9L of mixture are
36. A sum of Rs. 41 was divided among 50 boys drawn off and the can is filled with B, the
and girls. Each boy gets 90 paise and a girl 65 proportion of A and B becomes 7 : 9. How many
paisa. Find the number of boys and girls litres of liquid A was contained by the can
initially?
(a) 34, 16 (b) 30, 20
(a) 25 L (b) 108 L
(c) 36, 14 (d) None of these
(c) 45 L (d) 63 L
37. Two vessels A and B contain milk and water
mixed in the ratio 5 : 2 and 8 : 5 respectively. 40. A container contains 240 L of wine. 80 L is
Find the ratio in which these mixtures are to be taken out of the container everyday and an
mixed to get a new mixture containing milk and equal quantity of water is put into it. Find the
water in the ratio 9 : 4 quantity of the wine that remains in the container
at the end of the fourth day
(a) 5 : 2 (b) 9 : 7
(a) 39.2 L (b) 32 L
(c) 5 : 3 (d) 7 : 2
(c) 42.5 L (d) 47.40 L

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Class Exercise-3B
Data Interpretation
Directions for questions 1 to 5: Study the following table carefully and answer the questions given below:
No. of marks obtained by five students in five subjects in an Examination (Total marks in all the five subjects
in each are 200)

1. The total marks obtained by B in English and History together was approximately what percentage of
marks obtained by E in English?
(a) 150 (b) 100
(c) 200 (d) 250
2. Marks obtained by C in History was approximately what percentage of marks obtained by A in
Geography?
(a) 167 (b) 67
(c) 133 (d) 150
3. Who among them secured highest total marks in English, History and Geography?
(a) A (b) B
(c) C (d) D
4. If the minimum pass percentage is 50 in each subject to be declared pass in the examination, how
many of them failed in the examination?
(a) None (b) 2 (c) 1 (d) 3
5. Who among them secured highest total percentage of marks?
(a) A (b) B (c) C (d) E

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Directions for questions 6 to 10: Study the following graph carefully and answer the questions that follow:
Runs scored by three different teams in five different cricket matches

6. Total runs scored by India and Australia in Match 4 together is approximately, what percentage of the
total runs scored by England in all five matches together?
(a) 42 (b) 18 (c) 36 (d) 24
7. In which match, the difference between the runs scored by Australia and England second lowest?
(a) 1 (b) 2 (c) 3 (d) 4
8. In which match the total runs scored by India and England is the third highest/lowest?
(a) 1 (b) 2 (c) 3 (d) 4
9. What is the respective ratio of the runs scored by India in Match 5, Australia in Match 1 and England in
Match 2?
(a) 11 : 13 : 7 (b) 11 : 7 : 13 (c) 11 : 3 : 9 (d) 11 : 13 : 9
10. What was the average runs scored by all the three teams in Match 3 together?
(a) 280 (b) 270 (c) 275 (d) 285
Direction for qustions 11 to 15: Study the following table carefully and answer the questions given below.
Number of tickets sold in a week of five movies in the multiplexes in six different cities (number in thousands)

11. The number of tickets of movie B sold in Hyderabad was approximately, what percent of the total
number of tickets of the same movie sold in all the cities together?
(a) 15 % (b) 18 % (c) 12 % (d) 24 %

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12. What is the difference between the number of tickets of movie D sold in Kolkata and the number of
tickets of movie B sold in Lucknow?
(a) 7500 (b) 7000 (c) 14000 (d) None of the above
13. What is the average number of tickets of movie C sold in all the six cities?
(a) 15500 (b) 2550 (c) 24000 (d) 25500
14. The number of tickets of movie E sold in Chennai is what percent of number of tickets movies A sold in
Mumbai?
(a) 170 (b) 70 (c) 30 (d) 130
15. In which city was the total number of tickets of all the five movies together sold the minimum?
(a) Delhi (b) Chennai (c) Lucknow (d) Kolkata
Directions for questions 16 to 20: Study the given pie-chart and table carefully and answer the questions
given below:
The pie-chart shows the distribution of the total number of students studying medical courses from 6 colleges and
the table shows the ratio of male to female students and the ratio of MBBS to MD students.

16. What is the difference between the number of MBBS students in college A and college E?
(a) 20000 (b) 30000 (c) 40000 (d) 25000
17. What is the ratio of female students of college C to those of college D?
(a) 3 : 2 (b) 5 : 4 (c) None of these (d) 4 : 3
18. What is the number of female students of college E who were studying MBBS?
(a) 24000 (b) None of these (c) 21000 (d) Can’t be determined
19. The number of MD students from college A is what percent more than the number of MBBS students
from college F?
(a) 12% (b) 15% (c) 20% (d) 8%
20. The number of female students in college B is what percent of the number of male students in college E?
(a) 72.5% (b) 77 7/9 % (c) None of these (d) 87.75%

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Direction for questions 21 to 25: The pie-chart shows the total e-books manufactured by banking institution
on different subjects Reasoning, Aptitude, Current Affairs, English and Computer and their sale percentage.

21. What is difference between the number of unsold Aptitude e-books and sold Reasoning e-books?
(a) 1969 (b) 2835 (c) 3478 (d) 2521
22. The number of unsold Reasoning e-books is what percent less than that of unsold Current Affairs
ebooks?
(a) 7.65% (b) 15.25% (c) 10.75% (d) 17.75%
23. The number of Computer e-books sold is what percent more than that of English e-books sold?
(a) 153.84% (b) 141.24% (c) 163.34% (d) 155.94%
24. What is the sum of total number of unsold Current Affairs e-books and sold Aptitude e-books?
(a) 8561 (b) 7721 (c) 9191 (d) 8721
25. What is the total number of unsold e-books of all subjects?
(a) 24876 (b) 21965 (c) 20678 (d) 23976

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Directions for questions 26 to 30: Study the following table carefully and answer the questions given below
: Number of students enrolled with five colleges over the years.

26. In 2014, from all colleges together 10% students enrolled went abroad. How many students went abroad?
(a) 324 (b) 236 (c) 211 (d) 412
27. The average number of students enrolled from college H for all the years together is approximately what
percent of the average number of students enrolled from college J for all the years together?
(a) 74% (b) 83% (c) 88% (d) 92%
28. What is the ratio of the average number of students enrolled with all colleges together in 2015 to that in
2016?
(a) 115 : 107 (b) 113 : 117 (c) 105 : 109 (d) 110 : 113
29. In 2013, from all the colleges together an overall 40% of the students enrolled for computer course total
how many students enrolled for this course?
(a) 900 (b) 750 (c) 850 (d) 800
30. If from college H in 2015, 90% of the students enrolled appeared in a competitive examination, out of
w h i c h
75% students passed, how many students passed the examination?
(a) 272 (b) 236 (c) 248 (d) 243
Directions for questions 31 to 35: Study the following table carefully and answer the given questions.
Number of students studying in different standards of different schools.

Schools => P,Q,R,S,T,U

Standards =>III IV V VI VII VIII
31. What is the approximate average number of students studying in standard III from all schools together?
(a) 42 (b) 36 (c) 48 (d) 54

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32. Number of students studying in standard VI from school T is what percent of those studying in standard
VI from school S?
(a) 92.5% (b) 95.65% (c) 86.45% (d) 78.65%
33. Which school has the highest total number of students from all the given standards together?
(a) P (b) Q (c) S (d) U
34. Which standard has the lowest total number of students from all the given schools together?
(a) III (b) IV (c) VI (d) VIII
35. What is the respective ratio of students studying in standard V of school P and Q together to those
studying in standard VIII of schools R and S together?
(a) 103 : 85 (b) 57 : 54 (c) 53 : 52 (d) 89 : 83

Direction for questions 36 to 40: Questions are to be answered on the basis of information available in
the following pie diagrams which represent, percentage share of major cargo carriers in India in 1996. Total
turnovers of domestic and international sector are Rs. 70 crore and Rs. 40 crore respectively.

Others DTDC Others DTDC

35% 36% 25% 21%

DHL Air Freight DHL Air Freight

12% 17% 13% 41%
Domestic (Rs. 70 crore) International (Rs. 40 crore)

36. What was Air Freight’s turnover (in Rs. crore) in 1996?

(a) 20.8 (b) 24.6

(c) 28.3 (d) 32.1

37. What was the difference (in Rs.crore) in DHL’s domestic and international turnover in 1996?

(a) 2.8 (b) 3

(c) 3.2 (d) 3.6

38. What was the difference ( in Rs.crore) in DTDC’s domestic turnover and the international turnover
of others?

(a) 15.2 (b) 20.2

(c) 25.2 (d) 16.8

39. If 35% of DTDC’s international cargo revenue comes from documents, what is the percent of revenue
that these documents account for from DTDC’s total revenue?

(a) 2.25 (b) 3.75

(c) 5.5 (d) 9

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40. If Skypak accounts for 8% of the domestic cargo, what percent of the Others category does it account
for (in the domestic cargo sector)?

(a) 18 (b) 20.5

(c) 23 (d) 25.5

Direction for questions 41 to 45 : Questions are to be answered on the basis of information represented
in the form of bar graph which depicts the yearly earning in Rs. cr. from the two All India Radio channels,
viz. Vividh Bharati and Primary Channel.

(AIR's commercial earnings in Rs. cr)

50 43.7

40 37.3
Earnings

30 25.25 Vividh Bharati

17.55 Primary Channel
20 14.05
12.51
10 6.26
2.64
0
1975-76 1980-81 1985-86 1990-91 1995-96
Year

42. By how many times has AIR’s commercial earnings increased over the given period?
(a) 10.9 (b) 11.9
(c) 12.9 (d) 13.9
42. What was the annual percentage increase of AIR’s commercial earnings from 1985-86 to
1995-96?
(a) 25 (b) 27.5
(c) 30 (d) 32.5
43. What is the deviation of Vividh Bharati’s percentage increase in revenue from 1985-86 to
1995-96 to its percentage increase in revenue from 1975-76 to 1985-86?
(a) 67 (b) –70
(c) 69 (d) None of these
44. What was the annual percentage increase in the increase of revenue of the Primary Channel since
its inception?
(a) 20.5 (b) 205
(c) 250 (d) Cannot be determined
45. If the FM channel contributed Rs. 10 crore in 1995-96, what is the percentage of the remaining
earnings to the total earnings of 1980?
(a) 460 (b) 510
(c) 610 (d) None of these

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