This document contains 15 multi-part reasoning questions about topics like rates, ratios, mixtures, investments, and train schedules. Each question is presented independently with no context connecting the questions. The questions require setting up and solving mathematical equations to determine the answers.
This document contains 15 multi-part reasoning questions about topics like rates, ratios, mixtures, investments, and train schedules. Each question is presented independently with no context connecting the questions. The questions require setting up and solving mathematical equations to determine the answers.
This document contains 15 multi-part reasoning questions about topics like rates, ratios, mixtures, investments, and train schedules. Each question is presented independently with no context connecting the questions. The questions require setting up and solving mathematical equations to determine the answers.
This document contains 15 multi-part reasoning questions about topics like rates, ratios, mixtures, investments, and train schedules. Each question is presented independently with no context connecting the questions. The questions require setting up and solving mathematical equations to determine the answers.
being good in reasoning, said that my age before 5 years was one – twentieth of my father’s present age. 12 years hence, I will get married and my wife’s age will be three times of my present age. After 2 years of marriage, I will get a baby and the average age of my family will become 18.5 years. What will be Ram’s father age when he gets a baby? (a) 36 years (b) 44 years (c) 28 years (d) 34 years (e) None of these 2. Two motorboats A and B, start simultaneously from the two ends P and Q of a river in downstream and upstream respectively. The speed of the motorboat A in still water is 200% more than that of motorboat B. If the distance between P and Q is 120 Km and they meet each other after 5 hours, then how long the motorboat A will take to travel 90 km in still water? (a) 6 hours (b) 5 hours (c) 8 hours (d) None of these (e) Can't be determined 3. Tenali Ram purchased 150 chocolates for his 5 grandsons and distributed the chocolates in such a way that the number of chocolates received by each grandson is in arithmetic progression. The highest number of chocolates received by any one of them is 28 more than the lowest number of chocolates received by any one of them. What is the sum of highest number of chocolates received by any one of them and the lowest number of chocolates received by any one of them? (a) 50 (b) 60 (c) 40 (d) 70 (e) None of these 4. A and B start swimming simultaneously towards each other from the point P and Q respectively. After 12 hours, they meet each other after that A takes 6 hours 40 minutes more to reach the point Q . What is the ratio of the speed of A in still water to that of the speed of stream if it is given that the direction of flow of the river is from point P to Q and in still water the ratio of the speed of A to that of B is 7 : 5? (a) 7 : 5 (b) 35 : 6 (c) 49 : 5 (d) 42 : 5 (e) None of these 5. Karina invested Rs. 50000 in a bank under simple interest. The maturity duration was 10 years and the bank had offered 10% per annum simple interest. At the end of 8 years, because of financial problem Karina withdraws all her amount but the bank gave her a lower rate of interest. If she gets Rs. 25000 less than what she would have got at the end of 10 years, then find the lower rate of interest given by the bank? (a) 7.5% (b) 8.5% (c) 6.5% (d) 6.25% (e) None of these 6. Three friends A, B, and C entered into a business. The ratio of there respective investments was 4 : 5 : 6. At the end of 4 months from the starting A withdraws 25% of his initial investment but C puts 50% more of his initial investment. At the end of one year, B’s share in total profit was Rs. 15000 then find the difference between A’s share and C’s share in the total profit? (a) Rs. 8400 (b) Rs. 7800 (c) Rs. 8100 (d) Rs. 9000 (e) None of these 7. A job has to be completed by A, B and C in 10 days in such a way that all starts the work together but C left after 3 days. When C left the job 37/100 of the job is completed. Also, the work done by A in 5 days is equal to the work done by B in 4 days. How many days would be required by the fastest worker to complete the entire work alone? (a) 20 days (b) 25 days (c) 30 days (d) 40 days (e) 54 days 8. There are two tanks P and Q. Tank P contains (a + 24) liters mixture of milk and water in the ratio of 3 : 2, while tank Q contains (a + 44) liters mixture of milk and water in the ratio of 5 : 3. If 25% of mixture from tank P and 43.75% of mixture from tank Q is taken out, then the remaining quantity of the mixture in both the tanks become equal. Find the initial quantity of milk in tank P and Q respectively? (a) 36 liters, 50 liters (b) 24 liters, 56 liters (c) 18 liters, 24 liters (d) 40 liters, 48 liters (e) 48 liters, 54 liters 9. The reduction in the speed of a railway engine is directly proportional to the square root of number of wagons attached to it. When no wagon is attached, the speed is 120 kmph and when 36 wagons are attached the speed is 96 kmph. How many wagons should be attached so that the speed becomes 100kmph? (A) 9 (B) 16 (C) 25 (D) 32 (E) Not Possible 10. Three professors Dr. Gupta, Dr. Sharma and Dr. Singh are evaluating answer sheets of economics. Dr. Gupta is 40% more efficient than Dr. Sharma, who is 20% more efficient than Dr. Singh. If Dr. Gupta works alone he takes 10 days less than Dr. Sharma to complete the evaluation work. Dr. Gupta starts the evaluation work and left the work after working 10 days and then Dr. Sharma takes over. Dr. Sharma evaluates for next 15 days and then stops. In how many days, Dr. Singh can complete the remaining evaluation work? (a) 7.2 days (b) 9.5 days (c) 11.5 days (d) 12.5 days (e) 14 days 11. A cuboidal container having length, breadth and volume as 16 m, 13 m and 2080 m3 respectively is completely filled with water. A rod which has the shape of cylinder is immersed completely into the container in 55 sec due to which water flows out at the rate of 7 m3 per sec through an outlet pipe present in the container. Find the radius of the rod, if height of the rod is same as the height of cuboidal container. (a) 5.6 m (b) 4.2 m (c) 3.5 m (d) 2.1 m (e) None of these 12. Two pipes P and Q together can fill a tank in 35/6 minutes. Another two pipes i.e. pipe R having efficiency twice of pipe P and pipe S having efficiency half of pipe Q can together fill the same tank in 140/33 minutes. Find the ratio of the time taken by pipe P and the time taken by pipe Q alone to fill the tank. (a) 7 : 9 (b) 3 : 4 (c) 5 : 7 (d) Can't be determined (e) None of these 13. Container P and container Q contains water and milk in the ratio 5 : 7 and 6 : 5 respectively. 72 liters and 77 liters of mixture from container P and container Q, respectively is taken out and put into another container R. If initially container P contains 108 liters of mixture, then find the ratio of the amount of water present initially in the container P to the amount of water present in container R. (a) 5 : 8 (b) 6 : 7 (c) 11 : 13 (d) 8 : 5 (e) None of these 14. A person invests Rs. x in a bank under the simple interest for 10 years. After 5 years, he invests another amount which is 50% of the initial investments in the same bank. At the end of 10 years, he received Rs. 4500 interest. If instead of investing 50% more, he had withdrawn 50% and the bank had offered double of the initial rate of interest then he would have received Rs. 900 more. What is the value of x? (a) Rs. 6000 (b) Rs. 9000 (c) Rs. 3000 (d) Rs. 7500 (e) Can't be determined 15. Two trains, Train X and train Y, travels between station A and station B. One day, train X leaves station A at 8:00 AM and train Y leaves station B at 10:00 AM and after meeting, train X takes 2.5 hours to reach station B while train Y takes 6 hours to reach station A. But on another day, both trains depart from station A and train X leaves 1.5 hours after train Y, and both trains reach station B at the same time. What is the time taken by train X to reach station B from station A? (a) 7.5 hours (b) 6.5 hours (c) 9 hours (d) 6 hours (e) None of these