25th December IBPS SO Quant Quiz

Quantitative Aptitude is the most dreaded subject among the aspirants. If one has to sail through any prestigious exam, quant is the ineluctable hitch. Due to the rising difficulty bar and complexity of questions, it has become necessary for students to be ahead of the examination pattern. Practicing from a different variety of questions can help you sail through any competitive exam. As IBPS SO PRELIMS is approaching shortly, to help you tackle this section, Adda247 is providing you daily quizzes of Quantitative Ability with the number of updated questions on a daily basis to keep you updated with the difficulty level and types of questions that may be asked in the exam. So practice with the different types of questions to be in the race.

Q1. A space research company wants to sell its two products A and B. If the product A is sold at 20% loss and the product B at 30% gain, the company will not lose/gain anything from this trade. If the product A is sold at 15% loss and the product B at 15% gain, the company will lose Rs. 6 million in the deal. What is the cost price of product B?
(a) Rs. 140 million
(b) Rs. 120 million
(c) Rs. 100 million
(d) Rs. 80 million
(e) Rs. 90 million

Q2. A tradesman marked up the price of goods at 30% above the cost price. He sells half the stock at this price, one quarter of his stock at a discount of 15% on the marked price and remaining one quarter at a discount of 30% on the marked price. Find the gain percentage in this whole trade.
(a) 14.875%
(b) 15.375%
(c) 15.575%
(d) 16.375%
(e) 16.258%

Q5. Raghav bought 25 washing machines and some microwave ovens for Rs. 2,05,000. He sold 80% of the washing machines and 12 microwave ovens for a profit of Rs. 40,000. Each washing machine was marked up by 20% over cost and each microwave oven was sold at a profit of Rs. 2,000. The remaining washing machines and 3 microwave ovens could not be sold. What is Raghav’s overall profit/loss ?
(a) Rs. 1000 profit
(b) Rs. 2500 loss
(c) Rs. 1000 loss
(d) Can’t be determined
(e) none of these

Q8. The dimensions of a field are 20 m and 9 m. A pit 10 m long, 4.5 m wide and 3 m deep is dug in one corner of the field and the earth (mud) removed has been evenly spread over the remaining area of the field. What will be the rise the height of field as a result of this operation ?
(a) 1.5 m
(b) 2 m
(c) 3 m
(d) 4m
(e) 1 m

Q9. A right circular cone is exactly fitted inside a cube in such a way that the edges of the base of the cone are touching the edges of one of the faces of the cube and the vertex is on the opposite face of the cube. If the volume of the cube is 125 cc, what is the approximate volume of the cone?
(a) 30 cc
(b) 27 cc
(c) 33 cc
(d) 44 cc
(e) 49 cc

Q10. The length and the breadth of the floor of a room is 20 ft and 10 ft respectively. Square tiles of 2 ft dimension having three different colours are placed on the floor. The first row of tiles on all sides is of black colour, out of the remaining one-third is of white colour and the remaining are of blue colour. How many blue-colour tiles are there?
(a) 16
(b) 32
(c) 48
(d) 24
(e) None of these

Directions (11-15): Find the approximate value of the following questions.