1.A man sells his table clock for Rs. 144. If his percentage of profit is equal to his cost price, then the cost price of the watch is:
(a) Rs. 90
(b) Rs. 85
(c) Rs. 80
(d) Rs. 75
(e) Rs. 64
2.An article when sold for Rs. 200 fetches 25 percent profit, What would be the percentage profit/loss if 6 such articles are sold for Rs. 1056?
(a) 10% loss
(b) 10% profit
(c) 5% loss
(d) 5% profit
(e) None
3.Ben purchased 125 stools at the rate of Rs. 120 per stool. The transport expenditure was @ Rs. 10 for 5 stool. He paid an octroi @ Rs. 2 per stool and coolie charges were Rs. 250. What should be the selling price of each stool, if he wants profit of 10%?
(a) Rs. 125
(b) Rs. 145
(c) Rs. 150
(d) Rs. 140
(e) None
4.If the selling price is doubled, the profit triples. The profit per cent is
(a) 662/3% gain
(b) 150%
(c) 100%
(d) 120%
(e) None
5.A person purchased an article at 9/10 th of its selling price and sold it at 8% more than its selling price. His gain per cent is
(a) 8
(b) 12
(c) 20
(d) 15
(e) 16
6.If 4/7 of a piece of work is completed in 7/4 days, in how many days can rest of the work be completed?
(a) 7/3
(b) 3/7
(c) 21/16
(d) 21
(e) 16/21
7.Mukesh, Anil and Sumit are three civil engineers. Mukesh can design a plan of a multi-storeyed apartment in 5 hours and Anil in 4 hours alone. Three together can do it in 2 hours. In what time can Sumit do it alone?
(a) 7 hours
(b) 15 hours
(c) 20 hours
(d) 18 hours
(e) 12 hours
8.P can do a job in 3 days, Q can do 3 times that job in 8 days and R can do 5 times that job in 12 days. If all of them work together, they will finish one job in:
(a) 120/47 days
(b) 8/9 days
(c) 3 days
(d) 2 (1/2) days
(e) Data insufficient
9.Miti and Aditi can do a piece of work in 45 days and 40 days respectively. They began to work together but miti leaves after ‘x’ days and Aditi finished the rest of the work in (x + 14) days. After how many days did Miti leave?
(a) 19
(b) 11
(c) 9
(d) 12
(e) 10
10.A can do a piece of work in 2 (1/2) days which ‘B’ can do in 3 (1/2) days. If A’s wages are Rs. 50 per week and B’s wages are Rs. 42.50 per week, what Approximate ‘A’ would have charged for doing work for which B received Rs. 340.?
(a) Rs. 300
(b) Rs. 360
(c) Rs. 286
(d) Rs. 320
(e) Rs. 420
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