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Practice is the key to perfection in Quant, so brush up your skills and test yourself with these 15 questions of Twisted Ones Quantitative Aptitude for IBPS RRBs PO and Clerk 2017.
Q1. Cost price of two articles is same. One is sold at a profit of 15% and the other for Rs. 1500 more than the first. If the net profit is 30%. Find the cost price of each article.
(a) Rs. 4,500
(b) Rs. 5,000
(c) Rs. 4,800
(d) Rs. 4,600
(e) None of these
Q2. A toy of marked price Rs.30 is selling at 25% discount and also given a shoes of cost price Rs.1.50 free and he still earn 20%. Find its cost price?
(a) Rs 17.5
(b) Rs 20
(c) Rs 18
(d) Rs 22
(e) None of these
Q3. Several litres of acid drawn off a 54 litre vessel full of acid and equal amount of water added. Again, the same volume of the mixture was drawn off and replaced by water. As a result, the vessel contained 24 litres of pure acid. How much the acid was drawn off initially?
(a) 20 litres
(b) 17 litres
(c) 9 litres
(d) 18 litres
(e) None of these
Q4. The simple interest on a sum of money will be Rs. 300 after four years. In the next 6 years principal becomes four times, what will be the total interest at the end of 10th year?
(a) Rs. 2000
(b) Rs. 7500
(c) Rs. 7000
(d) Rs. 2100
(e) Rs. 2500
Q5. Three men A, B and C working together 8 hours per day can print 900 pages in 20 days. In a day B prints as many pages more than A as C prints as many pages more than B. The number of pages printed by A in 4 hours equal to the number of pages printed by C in 1 hours. How many pages C prints in each hour?
(a) 1
(b) 2
(c) 3
(d) 4
(e) None of these
Q6. An inlet pipe can fill a tank in 4 hours and an outlet can empty the same tank in 30 hours, working individually. How many minimum additional number of outlet pipes of the same capacity are required to be opened, so that the tank never overflows?
(a) 6
(b) 5
(c) 8
(d) 7
(e) 10
Q7. A fish is released in the water at the edge of a large circular pool. The fish swims North for 300 feet before it hits the edge of the pool. It then turns East and swims for 400 feet before hitting the edge again. What is the area of the pool?
(a) 62500 π sq.ft
(b) 65500 sq.ft
(c) 12500 π sq.ft
(d) 2500 sq. ft
(e) None of these
Q8. A car starts from P to Q travelling 20 km/h. 3/2 hr. later another car starts from P & travelling at the rate of 30 km/h reaches Q 5/2 hr. before the first car. Find the distance from P to Q?
(a) 120 km
(b) 180 km
(c) 240 km
(d) 300 km
(e) None of these
Q9. The sum of digit of a two digits number is 1/5 of the difference between the number and the number obtained by interchanging the digits. What definitely is the difference b/w the digits of that number?
(a) 5
(b) 9
(c) 7
(d) Can’t be determined
(e) None of these
Q10. A, B, C are partners. A receives 2/7 of the profit and B & C share the remaining profit equally. A’s income is increased by Rs. 240 when the profit rises from 10% to 15%. Find the capital invested by A, B and C respectively?
(a) Rs. 4200, Rs. 6000, Rs. 6000
(b) Rs. 4800, Rs. 6000, Rs. 6000
(c) Rs. 4500, Rs. 5625, Rs. 5625
(d) Rs. 4000, Rs. 5000, Rs. 5000
(e) None of these
Q11. A sum of Rs. 7500 is to be paid in three instalments. How much is each instalment if the interest is compounded annually on the balance at 4% & is to be included in each instalment?
(a) Rs. 3000, Rs. 2900, Rs. 2800
(b) Rs. 2850, Rs. 2750, Rs. 2650
(c) Rs. 2750, Rs. 2650, Rs. 2550
(d) Rs. 2800, Rs. 2700, Rs. 2600
(e) None of these
Q12. The incomes of A, B and C are in the ratio of 7 : 9 : 12 and their expenses are in the ratio of 8 : 9 : 15. If a saves 1/4 of his income, then what is the ratio of their savings respectively?
(a) 59 : 99 : 69
(b) 56 : 99 : 69
(c) 56 : 99 : 96
(d) 65 : 99 : 69
(e) None of these
Q13. A boat which has a speed of 5 km/hr in still water crosses a river of width 1 km along the shortest possible path in 15 minutes. The velocity of the river water in km/hr is :–
(a) 1
(b) 3
(c) 4
(d) √41
(e) None of these
Q14. In a circus, there was a leopard and a tiger walking in the two different rings of same radii. There Anjali observed that when leopard moved three steps, tiger moved 5 steps in the same time, but the distance traversed by leopard in 5 steps is equal to the distance traversed by tiger in 4 steps. What is the number of rounds that a leopard made when tiger completed 100 rounds?
(a) 48
(b) 52
(c) 56
(d) 58
(e) 60
Q15. A obtains 100/3% of the marks in a paper for which the maximum marks was 600. B is ahead of A by 40% of A’s marks, while C is ahead of B by two-ninths of his own marks. How many marks does C get?
(a) 360
(b) 235
(c) 240
(d) 175
(e) None of these
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