loafeihong/math_mmlu_format huggingface dataset:
How many bricks each measuring 22cm x 10.25cm x 8cm, will be needed to build a wall 9m x 7m x 10.5m Answer Choice: (A) 5600 (B) 3066 (C) 3055 (D) 7200 (E) None of these
Answer: B
An association of mathematics teachers has 1,500 members. Only 525 of these members cast votes in the election for president of the association. What percent of the total membership voted for the winning candidate if the winning candidate received 36 percent of the votes cast? Answer Choice: (A) 7.5% (B) 5.8% (C) 4.2% (D) 34.5% (E) 12.6%
Answer: E
Today is Sunday. After 36 days, what day of the week will it be? Answer Choice: (A) Thursday (B) Monday (C) Tuesday (D) Saturday (E) Sunday
Answer: B
The LCM and HCF of two numbers are 60 and 2 respectively. Find the larger of the two numbers if their sum is 22. Answer Choice: (A) 12 (B) 2 (C) 4 (D) 54 (E) 56
Answer: A
In Cliff’s impressive rock collection, there are half as many igneous rocks as sedimentary rocks. Of the igneous rocks, 4/5 are shiny and the rest are matte, while 1/5 of the sedimentary rocks are shiny. If there are 40 shiny igneous rocks, how many total rocks does Cliff have? Answer Choice: (A) 30 (B) 150 (C) 60 (D) 90 (E) 135
Answer: B
In a bag there are coins of 50 paisa, 25 paisa and one rupee in the proportion 10:6:5. If there are in all Rs.92, the number of 25 paisa coins is? Answer Choice: (A) 26 (B) 46 (C) 48 (D) 42 (E) 28
Answer: C
The probability that event A occurs is 0.4, and the probability that events A and B both occur is 0.45. If the probability that either event A or event B occurs is 0.6, what is the probability that event B will occur? Answer Choice: (A) 0.05 (B) 0.15 (C) 0.45 (D) 0.5 (E) 0.55
Answer: E
1. Mrs. Ram got a weekly raise of $145. If he gets paid every other week, write an integer describing how the raise will affect her paycheck. Answer Choice: (A) 145 (B) 245 (C) 100 (D) 150 (E) 345
Answer: A
Rs.900 amounts to Rs.920 in 3 years at simple interest. If the interest is increased by 3%, it would amount to how much? Answer Choice: (A) Rs.1056 (B) Rs.1001 (C) Rs.2056 (D) Rs.1026 (E) Rs.1856
Answer: B
If x > y, x < 6, and y > -3, what is the largest prime number that could be equal to x + y? Answer Choice: (A) 10 (B) 11 (C) 12 (D) 14 (E) 16
Answer: B
In a certain game there are 8 steps, referred to as step 1, step 2, and so on with the final step being step 8. The steps are played one after the other. In each step a score of 1, 2, 3, or 4 is obtained. Angel played the game, getting at least one score of each of 1, 2, 3, and 4, and never getting the same score in consecutive steps. What is the greatest possible score that Angel could have gotten? Answer Choice: (A) 15 (B) 18 (C) 21 (D) 23 (E) 29
Answer: B
The length of the room is 5.5m and width is 3.75m. Find the cost of paving the floor by slabs at the rate of Rs.800 per sq meter Answer Choice: (A) Rs.16500 (B) Rs.15500 (C) Rs.17500 (D) Rs.18500 (E) Rs.19500
Answer: A
Look at this series: 83, 73, 93, 63, __, 93, 43, ... What number should fill the blank? Answer Choice: (A) 55 (B) 59 (C) 52 (D) 53 (E) 51
Answer: D
81,162,49,98,25,50,62 Answer Choice: (A) 124 (B) 127 (C) 129 (D) 128 (E) 131
Answer: A
The present ages of three persons are in the proportion of 4 : 7 : 9. Eight years ago, the sum of their ages was 116. Find their present ages. Answer Choice: (A) 20,35,45 (B) 28,49,63 (C) 16,28,36 (D) 16,28,46 (E) None of these
Answer: B
Two teams are distributing information booklets. Team A distributes 60% more boxes of booklets than Team X, but each box of Team A’s has 60% fewer booklets than each box of Team X’s. Which of the following could be the total number of booklets distributed by the two groups? Answer Choice: (A) 2,000 (B) 3,200 (C) 4,100 (D) 4,800 (E) 4,900
Answer: C
The mean of set P does not exceed mean of any subset of set P. Which of the following must be true about set P?
I. Set P contains only one element
II. All elements in set P are equal
III. The median of set P equals the mean of set P Answer Choice: (A) of the three qualities is necessary (B) II only (C) III only (D) II and III only (E) I, II, and III
Answer: D
If the sides of a cube are in the ratio 9:7. What is the ratio of their diagonals? Answer Choice: (A) 4:3 (B) 16:9 (C) 9:7 (D) 3:4 (E) 3:8
Answer: C
If you roll a fair-sided die twice, what is the probability of getting a (2 ,2)? Answer Choice: (A) 1/4! (B) 1/3! (C) 1/2! (D) 1/36 (E) 1/24
Answer: B
What is the difference between the largest number and the least number written with the digits 7, 3, 1, 4? Answer Choice: (A) 6084 (B) 6184 (C) 5084 (D) 6048 (E) 6049
Answer: A
The game of blackjack is played with a deck consisting of 13 cards (one of each of the numbers 2-10, one jack, one queen, one king, and one of ace) in each of four suits: clubs, diamonds, hearts, and spades.
In a game of blackjack, if your first card is a spade, what are the odds that it is a 9? Answer Choice: (A) 1/13 (B) 1/26 (C) 5/13 (D) 1/4 (E) 1/52
Answer: A
Each shelf of a bookcase contains 20 books. If the librarian took out 42 books and rearranged the remaining books so that all shelves but the last one contained 16 books and the last shelf contained 22 books, how many shelves does the bookcase have? Answer Choice: (A) A)4 (B) B)12 (C) C)6 (D) D)8 (E) E)9
Answer: B
A sum fetched a total simple interest of $4061.25 at the rate of 9 p.c.p.a. in 5 years. What is the sum? Answer Choice: (A) $8829 (B) $2840 (C) $6578 (D) $7782 (E) $8926
Answer: E
A fair 2 sided coin is flipped 3 times. What is the probability that tails will be the result at least twice, but not more than 3 times? Answer Choice: (A) 5/8 (B) 3/4 (C) 3/8 (D) 7/4 (E) 5/6
Answer: C
A library has an average of 510 visitors on Sundays and 240 on other day. The average number of visitors in a month of 30 days starting with sunday is Answer Choice: (A) 280 (B) 285 (C) 290 (D) 295 (E) 275
Answer: B
Jim and Renee will play one game of Rock, Paper, Scissors. In this game, each will select and show a hand sign for one of the three items. Rock beats Scissors, Scissors beat Paper, and Paper beats Rock. Assuming that both Jim and Renee have an equal chance of choosing any one of the hand signs, what is the probability that Jim will win or draw? Answer Choice: (A) 5/6 (B) 2/3 (C) 1/2 (D) 5/12 (E) 1/3
Answer: B
If 2 cards are selected (with replacement) at random from the deck of 52 cards then what is the probability that one of the selected cards will be a heart and the other will be a club?
A deck of cards has a total of 52 cards, consisting of 4 suits: spades (black), hearts(red), diamonds (red), and clubs (black). In each suit, there are 13 cards including 1 king, 1 queen, and 1 jack. Answer Choice: (A) 1/8 (B) 1/16 (C) 1/32 (D) 1/64 (E) 1/128
Answer: A
A jogger running at 9 kmph alongside a railway track in 240 metres ahead of the engine of a 120 metres long train running at 45 kmph in the same direction. In how much time will the train pass the jogger? Answer Choice: (A) 3.6 sec (B) 18 sec (C) 36 sec (D) 72 sec (E) 84 sec
Answer: C
A policeman noticed a criminal from a distance of 180 km. The criminal starts running and the policeman chases him. The criminal and the policeman run at the rate of 8 km and 9 km per hour respectively. What is the distance between them after 3 minutes ? Answer Choice: (A) 100 m (B) 120 m (C) 130 m (D) 150 m (E) None of these
Answer: C
What percent of 500 is 125? Answer Choice: (A) 0.25% (B) 4% (C) 25% (D) 40% (E) 250%
Answer: C
Tough and Tricky questions: Word Problems.
Micheal , Saren and Donald decided to club together to buy a present. Each of them gave equal amount of money. Luckily Saren negotiated a 20% discount for the present so that each of them paid 4 dollars less. How much did they pay for a present? Answer Choice: (A) 20 (B) 36 (C) 48 (D) 60 (E) 72
Answer: C
The profit earned by selling an article for Rs. 832 is equal to the loss incurred when the same article is sold for Rs. 448. What should be the sale price for making 80% profit? Answer Choice: (A) 1152 (B) 230 (C) 960 (D) 780 (E) 400
Answer: A
How many meters are there in 550 centimeters? Answer Choice: (A) 550 meters (B) 5.5 meters (C) 100 meters (D) 2.5 meters (E) 1 meter
Answer: B
The length of a rectangle is 5 more than the width. What are the dimensions of the rectangle if the perimeter is 34? Answer Choice: (A) 11 (B) 12 (C) 13 (D) 14 (E) None
Answer: A
Average families of 4 pay $3000 for their health insurance deductibles annually. There will be a 2/3 increase in the deductibles for next year. How much more will the average family pay in deductibles next year? Answer Choice: (A)  $1000 (B)  $2000 (C)  $3000 (D)  $4000 (E)  $5000
Answer: B
Scott's average (arithmetic mean) golf score on his first four rounds was 78.What score does he need on his fifth round to drop his average score by 2 points? Answer Choice: (A) 68 (B) 72 (C) 78 (D) 88 (E) 312
Answer: A
Two vertical poles 2 meter and 8 meter high stand apart on a horizontal plane. find the height in meters of the point of intersection of the lines joining the top of each pole to the bottom of the other pole. Answer Choice: (A) 1.8 (B) 1.9 (C) 1.6 (D) 1.7 (E) 56
Answer: C
Find the odd man out
25, 49, 81, 121, 144, 169 Answer Choice: (A) 49 (B) 121 (C) 144 (D) 169 (E) 25
Answer: C
You have a battery that is charged during the day by a solar panel. At night, 3 Iphones use that battery and deplete the charge after 4.8 hours. Your family shows up and they have brought 9 of their own Iphones. How many hours before the charge on the battery is depleted now? Answer Choice: (A) 5.3 (B) 1.2 (C) 1.8 (D) 2.2 (E) 1.5
Answer: B
A part of certain sum of money is invested at 16% per annum and the rest at 20% per annum, if the interest earned in each case for the same period is equal, then ratio of the sums invested is? Answer Choice: (A) 4:6 (B) 4:9 (C) 4:3 (D) 4:1 (E) 5:4
Answer: E
If 16^y = 4^16, what is y? Answer Choice: (A) 2 (B) 4 (C) 8 (D) 12 (E) 16
Answer: C
Two trains of equal are running on parallel lines in the same direction at 48 km/hr and 36 km/hr. The faster train passes the slower train in 36 sec. The length of each train is? Answer Choice: (A) 60 m (B) 72 m (C) 80 m (D) 82 m (E) 84 m
Answer: A
To produce an annual income of Rs. 1200 from a 12 % stock at 90,the amount of stock needed is : Answer Choice: (A) Rs. 10,000 (B) Rs. 10,800 (C) Rs. 14,400 (D) Rs. 16,000 (E) None of these
Answer: A
On a windy day, out of every 3 sand dunes formed, only 1 remains. Out of 5 blown-out
sand-dunes, 1 has treasure and only 2 out of 3 sand dunes formed have lucky coupons. Find
the probability that the blown-out sand dune will contain both the things. Answer Choice: (A) 2/25 (B) 4/75 (C) 7/75 (D) 3/5 (E) 4/45
Answer: E
The average age of a family of 6 members is 34 years.If the age of the youngest member is 7 years,what was the average age of the family at the birth of the youngest member? Answer Choice: (A) 15 (B) 18 (C) 21 (D) 12 (E) 27
Answer: E
The banker's discount on Rs.1450 due a certain time hence is Rs.145. Find the true discount and the banker's gain. Answer Choice: (A) 13 (B) 15 (C) 18 (D) 21 (E) None
Answer: A
A certain theater has 100 balcony seats. For every $2 increase in the price of a balcony seat above $10, 5 fewer seats will be sold. If all the balcony seats are sold when the price of each seat is $10, which of the following could be the price of a balcony seat if the revenue from the sale of balcony seats is $1,460 ? Answer Choice: (A) $12 (B) $14 (C) $18.6 (D) $17 (E) $18
Answer: C
A person took some amount with some interest for 2 years, but increase the interest for 1%, he paid Rs.130/- extra, then how much amount he took? Answer Choice: (A) s.5500/- (B) s.6500/- (C) s.4000/- (D) s.7000/- (E) s.8000/-
Answer: B
If two times of the daughter’s age in years is included to the mother’s age, the total is 70 and if two times of the mother’s age is included to the daughter’s age, the total is 95. So the Mother’s age is, Answer Choice: (A) 30 (B) 40 (C) 50 (D) 60 (E) 39
Answer: B
A boutique sold 500 dress shirts at $25 each, 600 belts at $10 each, 700 pants at $50 each and 1000 shoes at $200. What % of the stores revenue came from dress shirts and pants? Answer Choice: (A) 19.5% (B) 17.5% (C) 16.5% (D) 13.5% (E) 18.5%
Answer: E
How long does a train 110 meters long running at the speed of 72 km/hour take to cross a bridge 132
meters in length ? Answer Choice: (A) 15 seconds (B) 12.1 seconds (C) 10 seconds (D) 8.1 seconds (E) None of these
Answer: B
25% of a number is more than 20% of 650 by 190. Find the number? Answer Choice: (A) 288 (B) 278 (C) 800 (D) 267 (E) 1280
Answer: E
How many different section of 4 books can be made from 10 different books if two particular books are never selected? Answer Choice: (A) 90 (B) 50 (C) 60 (D) 80 (E) 70
Answer: E
A man whose bowling average is 12.4, takes 5 wickets for 26 runs and there by decreases his average by 0.4. The number of wickets taken by him before his last match is? Answer Choice: (A) 82 (B) 83 (C) 84 (D) 85 (E) 86
Answer: D
If the cost price of 30 articles is equal to the selling price of 45 articles, what is the % profit or loss made by the merchant? Answer Choice: (A) 33.33% loss (B) 25% profit (C) 20% loss (D) 20% profit (E) 5% profit
Answer: A
The 4 sticks in a complete bag of Pick-Up Sticks are all straight-line segments of negligible width, but each has a different length: 1 inch, 2 inches, 3 inches, and 4 inches, respectively. If Tommy picks a stick at random from each of 3 different complete bags of Pick-Up Sticks, what is the probability D that Tommy CANNOT form a triangle from the 3 sticks? Answer Choice: (A) 11/32 (B) 13/32 (C) 15/32 (D) 17/32 (E) 19/32
Answer: C
A confectioner decides to sell all of his pastry due to the coming holiday. His pastry goods are equally divided among a group of 30 regular customers. If only 49 customers come to the bakery, each one will receive 6 less pastry goods. How much pastry does the confectioner needs to sell? Answer Choice: (A) 450. (B) 412. (C) 432. (D) 502. (E) 522.
Answer: A
What is the total cost of 2 sandwiches at $2.44 each and 4 sodas at $0.87 each? Answer Choice: (A) $3.36 (B) $6.85 (C) $8.36 (D) $10.08 (E) $11.85
Answer: C
A class average mark in an exam is 70. The average of students who scored below 60 is 50. The average of students who scored 60 or more is 75. If the total number of students in this class is 20, how many students scored below 60? Answer Choice: (A) 5 (B) 10 (C) 15 (D) 20 (E) 25
Answer: D
A student committee on academic integrity has 132 ways to select a president and vice president from a group of candidates. The same person cannot be both president and vice president. How many candidates are there? Answer Choice: (A) 7 (B) 8 (C) 9 (D) 10 (E) 12
Answer: E
The average of ten numbers is 8. If each number is multiplied by 12, then what is the average of the new set of numbers? Answer Choice: (A) 8 (B) 12 (C) 20 (D) 96 (E) 120
Answer: D
18 business executives and 7 chairmen meet at a conference. If each business executive shakes the hand of every other business executive and every chairman once, and each chairman shakes the hand of each of the business executives but not the other chairmen, how many handshakes would take place? Answer Choice: (A) 144 (B) 131 (C) 279 (D) 90 (E) 45
Answer: C
A and B can finish a work 30 days if they work together. They worked together for 20 days and then B left. A finished the remaining work in another 20 days. In how many days A alone can finish the work? Answer Choice: (A) 30 (B) 60 (C) 40 (D) 20 (E) 50
Answer: B
Running at the same constant rate, 6 identical machines can produce a total of 270 bottles per minute. At this rate, how many bottles could 10 such machines produce in 4 minutes? Answer Choice: (A) 648 (B) 1800 (C) 2700 (D) 10800 (E) None
Answer: B
The average of six number is x and the average of three of these is y. if the average of the remaining three is z, then : Answer Choice: (A) x = y+z (B) 2x = y+z (C) x = 2y+2z (D) None of these (E) Cannot be determined
Answer: B
If taxi fares were $10.00 for the first 1/5 mile and $1.00 for each 1/5 mile there after, then the taxi fare for a 10-mile ride was Answer Choice: (A) $55.10 (B) $59.20 (C) $59.40 (D) $59.00 (E) $55.00
Answer: D
The positive two-digit integers s and t have the same digits, but in reverse order. Which of the following must be a factor of s + t? Answer Choice: (A) 6 (B) 9 (C) 44 (D) 12 (E) 14
Answer: C
Find the fraction which has the same ratio to 2/5 that 3/8 has to 1/5 Answer Choice: (A) 1/15 (B) 3/4 (C) 5/8 (D) 9/6 (E) 8/7
Answer: B
Out of 9 persons, 8 persons spent Rs. 30 each for their meals. The ninth one spent Rs. 20 more than the average expenditure of all the nine. The total money spent by all of them was ? Answer Choice: (A) Rs.292.50 (B) Rs.292.56 (C) Rs.292.12 (D) Rs.292.27 (E) Rs.292.11
Answer: A
How many ways can 10 letters be posted in 5 post boxes, if each of the post boxes can take more than 10 letters ? Answer Choice: (A) 5^10 (B) 5^19 (C) 5^18 (D) 5^12 (E) 5^11
Answer: A
A trader bought a car at 5% discount on its original price. He sold it at a 60% increase on the price he bought it. What percent of profit did he make on the original price? Answer Choice: (A) 17% (B) 62% (C) 52% (D) 19% (E) 22%
Answer: C
A man is 24 years older than his son. In two years, his age will be twice the age of his son. What is the present age of his son? Answer Choice: (A) 23 Years (B) 21 Years (C) 20 Years (D) 25 Years (E) 22 Years
Answer: E
When p is divided by 9, the remainder is 5. All of the following are possible values of p, except for which of the following? Answer Choice: (A) 14 (B) 32 (C) 50 (D) 58 (E) 68
Answer: D
A can do a piece of work in 4 days. B can do it in 5 days. With the assistance of C they completed the work in 3 days. Find in how many days can C alone do it? Answer Choice: (A) 8 4/7 days (B) 20 days (C) 16 days (D) 19 days (E) 36 days
Answer: A
if each of its sides of a rectangle is increased by 25%, what is the percentage increase in the area of the rectangle, ? Answer Choice: (A) 59.25% (B) 58.25% (C) 56.25% (D) 26.25% (E) 51.25%
Answer: C
The Tens digit of a two digit number is 4 times of its unit digit and the sum of the digits be 10. Then the first number is Answer Choice: (A) 67 (B) 73 (C) 53 (D) 82 (E) 89
Answer: D
After MM students took a test, there was a total of 64% of correct answers. If the test contains 50 questions, what is the least number of questions that the next student have to get right to bring the total of correct answers to 70% ? Answer Choice: (A) 3M + 20 (B) 3M + 35 (C) 4M + 15 (D) 4M + 20 (E) 4M + 45
Answer: B
A necklace is made by stringing N individual beads together in the repeating pattern yellow bead, green bead, white bead, red bead, and blue bead. If the necklace design begins with a yellow bead and ends with a white bead, then N could equal Answer Choice: (A) 65 (B) 75 (C) 85 (D) 68 (E) 95
Answer: D
222, 224, 228, 234, 242, (....) Answer Choice: (A) 260 (B) 258 (C) 252 (D) 250 (E) 244
Answer: C
In a division sum, the divisor is ten times the quotient and five times the remainder. If the remainder is 46, the dividend is? Answer Choice: (A) 5320 (B) 5328 (C) 5336 (D) 5340 (E) 5342
Answer: C
A basketball team plays games only against the other five teams in its league and always in the following order: Croton, Darby, Englewood, Fiennes, and Garvin. If the team’s final game of the season is against Fiennes, which of the following could be the number of games in the team’s schedule? Answer Choice: (A) 18 (B) 24 (C) 56 (D) 72 (E) 81
Answer: B
The length of the rectangular field is double its width. Inside the field there is square shaped pond 8m long. If the area of the pond is 1/2 of the area of the field. What is the length of the field? Answer Choice: (A) 13 (B) 16 (C) 34 (D) 43 (E) 42
Answer: B
A man sells a horse for Rs.800 and loses something, if he had sold it for Rs.980, his gain would have been double the former loss. Find the cost price of the horse? Answer Choice: (A) 299 (B) 377 (C) 328 (D) 860 (E) 453
Answer: D
Set #1 = {A, B, O, D, E}
Set #2 = {K, L, M, N, U, P}
There are these two sets of letters, and you are going to pick exactly one letter from each set. What is the probability of picking at least one vowel? Answer Choice: (A) 1/6 (B) 1/4 (C) 1/2 (D) 1/3 (E) 2/3
Answer: E
Keats Library purchases a number of new books, all in the category of biography, and the library does not acquire any other books. With the addition of the new biographies, the biography collection of the library amounts to 35% of the total number of books in the library. If prior to the purchase, only 20% of the books in Keats Library were biographies, by what percent has the number of biographies in the library increased? Answer Choice: (A) 45% (B) 65% (C) 85% (D) 115% (E) 125%
Answer: D
A train which has 420 m long, is running 45 kmph. In what time will it cross a person moving at 9 kmph in same direction ? Answer Choice: (A) 56 sec (B) 42 sec (C) 36 sec (D) 29 sec. (E) 19 sec.
Answer: B
Husband and wife having average age of 26 years at their marriage time. After four years they have a two year old child. The average age of the family now Answer Choice: (A) 20.66 years (B) 23 years (C) 28.5 years (D) 29.3 years (E) None of these
Answer: A
Adding two non multiples of x always results in a multiple of x; which of the following must be the value of x ? Answer Choice: (A) two (B) three (C) five (D) ten (E) hundred
Answer: B
Nitin’s salary is reduced by 10% and then reduced salary is increased by 10%. Find ,how many percentage his present salary is less as compared to his previous salary? Answer Choice: (A) Nothing (B) 10% (C) 1% (D) 5% (E) 15%
Answer: C
The positive integers m and n leave remainders of 2 and 3, respectively, when divided by 6. m > n.
What is the remainder when m – n is divided by 6? Answer Choice: (A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5
Answer: E
Two years ago, Ram put $500 into a savings account. At the end of the first year, his account had accrued $100 in interest bringing his total balance to $600. The next year, his account balance increased by 10%. At the end of the two years, by what percent has Ram's account balance increased from his initial deposit of $500 ? Answer Choice: (A) 19% (B) 28% (C) 30% (D) 32% (E) 25%
Answer: D
How many positive integers less than 100 are neither multiples of 2 or 3? Answer Choice: (A) 30 (B) 31 (C) 32 (D) 33 (E) 34
Answer: D
A team scored a total of 118 points. If each player on the team scored at least 14 points, then what is the greatest possible number of players on the team? Answer Choice: (A) 6 (B) 7 (C) 8 (D) 9 (E) 10
Answer: C
The parameter of a square is double the perimeter of a rectangle. The area of the rectangle is 480 sq cm. Find the area of the square? Answer Choice: (A) 298 (B) 288 (C) 480 (D) 28 (E) 929
Answer: B
A certain quantity of 40% concentration solution is replaced with 20% concentration solution such that the concentration of the combined amount is 35%.
What's the ratio of the amount of solution that was replaced to the amount of solution that was not replaced? Answer Choice: (A) 1:3 (B) 1:2 (C) 2:3 (D) 2:1 (E) 3:1
Answer: A
There are a total of 15 students in Mr. Sam's gym class. Over the course of a badminton unit, each of the 15 students will compete exactly once against every other student in the class. How many total games of badminton will be played? Answer Choice: (A) 105 (B) 171 (C) 190 (D) 110 (E) 161
Answer: A
By selling 16 pencils for a rupee a man loses 10%. How many for a rupee should he sell in order to gain 20%? Answer Choice: (A) 8 (B) 9 (C) 12 (D) 89 (E) 81
Answer: C
Mr. Jones sold two pipes at $2 each. Based on the cost, his profit one was 40% and his loss on the other was 20%. On the sale of the pipes. Find the amount of his profit or loss? Answer Choice: (A) lost 10 cents (B) lost 4 cents (C) broke even (D) gained 40 cents (E) gained 10 cents
Answer: D
By travelling at 40 kmph, a person reaches his destination on time. He covered two-third the total distance in one-third of the total time. What speed should he maintain for the remaining distance to reach his destination on time? Answer Choice: (A) 20 (B) 99 (C) 77 (D) 63 (E) 61
Answer: A