Quantitative Aptitude Questions for SSC CPO

Quantitative Aptitude Questions with answers and Solutions for SSC CPO- SI in CPMF Exam. Maths MCQs Mock Test for free online practice of SI CAPF Exam.

Practice Set : Mathematics (Quantitative Aptitude)
Questions : 50
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Level : SSC CPO SI Exam
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#1. The difference between the value of the number increased by 20% and the value of the number decreased by 25% is 36. Find the number :

#2. If I purchased 11 books for Rs 100 and sold 10 books for Rs 110, the percentage of profit per book sold is :

#3. 2 men and 1 woman together can complete a piece of work in 14 days, while 4 women and 2 men together can do it in 8 days. If a man gets Rs 600 per day, how much should a woman get per day?

#4. The average pocket money of 3 friends A, B, C is Rs. 80 in a particular month. If B spends double and C spends triple of what A spends during that month and if the average of their unspent pocket money is Rs. 60, then A spends (in Rs.)

#5. Two numbers are in the ratio 3 : 5. If 9 is subtracted from each, then they are in the ratio 12 : 23. Find the smaller number.

#6. $ \sqrt{\frac{0.49}{0.25}} $ +$ \sqrt{\frac{0.81}{0.36}} $ is equal to

#7. A and B can together finish a work in 30 days. They worked at it for 20 days and then B left. The remaining work was done by A alone in 20 more days A alone can finish the work in :

#8. The ratio of 252.5 : 53 is same as :

#9. The speed of two trains is in the ratio of 6 : 7. If the second train runs 364 km in 4 hours, then the speed of first train is ?

#10. A man spends 75% of his income. His income increases by 20% and his expenditure also increases by 10%. The percentage of increase in his savings is :

#11. What sum of money must be given as simple interest for six months at 4% per annum in order to earn Rs 150 interest?

#12. The ratio of the number of boys and girls in a school is 3 : 2. If 20% of the boys and 25% of the girls are scholarship holders, then the percentage of the students, who do not get the scholarship, is :

#13. The ratio of two numbers is 3 : 8 and their difference is 115. The smaller of the two numbers is :

#14. What least number must be subtracted from 1936 so that the resulting number when divided by 9, 10 and 15 will leave in each case the same remainder 7 ?

LCM of 9, 10 and 15 = 90
The multiple of 90 are also divisible by 9, 10 or 15.
21 × 90 = 1890 will be divisible by them.
Now, 1897 will be the number
that will give remainder 7.
Required number = 1936 – 1897 = 39

#15. By selling an article for Rs 102, there is a loss of 15%, when the article is sold for Rs 134.40. The net result in the transaction is

#16. The average of 20 numbers is calculated as 35. It is discovered later, that while calculating the average, one number, namely 85, was read as 45. The correct average is :

#17. A worker suffers a 20% cut in his wages. He may regain his original wages by obtaining a rise of

#18. A person who pays income tax at the rate of 4 paise per rupee, find that a fall of interest rate from 4% to 3.75% diminishes his net yearly income by Rs 48. What is his capital?

#19. If the mean of 4 observations is 20, when a constant ‘C’ is added to each observation, the mean becomes 22. The value of C is

#20. What number should be subtracted from both the terms of the ratio 11 : 15 so as to make it as 2 : 3 ?

#21. A thief steals a car at 1.30 p.m. and drives it off at 40 km/hr. The theft is discovered at 2 p.m. and the owner sets off in another car at 50 km/hr. He will overtake the thief at :

#22. If 28 men complete $ \frac78 $ of a piece of work in a week, then the number of men, who must be engaged to get the remaining work completed in another week, is :

#23. A sum of money placed at compound interest doubles itself in 4 years. In how many years will it amount to four times itself ?

#24. The sum of four consecutive even numbers is 748. The smallest among them is

#25. A number is first decreased by 20%. The decreased number is then increased by 20%. The resulting number is less than the original number by 20. Then the original number is

#26. If $ 2^{x-1} + 2^{x+1} =320 $ then the value of x is :

#27. Pick the odd one out from the sequence of numbers. 19, 23, 29, 37, 43, 46, 47 is

#28. Two trains X and Y start from Jodhpur to Jaipur and from Jaipur to Jodhpur respectively. After passing each other they take 4 hours 48 minutes and 3 hours 20 minutes to reach Jaipur and Jodhpur respectively. If X is moving at 45 km/hr, then the speed of Y is :

#29. My grandfather was 9 times older than me 16 years ago. He will be 3 times of my age 8 years from now. Eight years ago, the ratio of my age to that of my grandfather was

Explanation: 16 years ago,
Let us assume that my age was x years.

#30. Every Sunday, Gin jogs 3 miles. For rest of the week, each day he jogs 1 mile more than the previous day. How many miles Gin jogs in 2 weeks?

#31. Three men can complete a piece of work in 6 days. Two days after they started the work, 3 more men joined them. How many days will they take to complete the remaining work?

#32. The difference between compound and simple interest on a certain sum for 3 years at 5% per annum is Rs 122. The sum is :

#33. 12 pumps working 6 hours a day can empty a completely filled reservoir in 15 days. How many such pumps working 9 hours a day will empty the same reservoir in 12 days?

#34. Simple interest on Rs 500 for 4 years at 6.25% per annum is equal to the simple interest on Rs 400 at 5% per annum for a certain period of time. The period of time is :

#35. The value of $ 3\frac12 -[2\frac14+ \{{1\frac14-\frac12(1\frac12-\frac13-\frac16)}\}] $ is

#36. Which term of the sequence 6, 13, 20, 27, … is 98 more than its 24th term?

#37. Divide Rs. 7500 among A, B and C such that A’s share to B’s share is in the ratio of 5 : 2 and B’s share to C’s share is in the ratio 7 : 13. How much will B receive?

#38. The least number that should be added to 2055, so that the sum is exactly divisible by 27 is :

#39. The HCF (GCD) of a, b is 12, a, b are positive integers and a > b > 12. The smallest values of (a, b) are respectively

HCF of a and b = 12
Numbers = 12x and 12y where x and y are prime to each other.
a > b > 12
a = 36; b = 24

#40. Two pipes A and B can separately fill a tank in 2 hours and 3 hours respectively. If both the pipes are opened simultaneously in the empty tank, then the tank will be filled in :

#41. The ratio of cost price and selling price is 5 : 4, the loss percent is :

#42. The average weight of a group of 20 boys was calculated to be 89.4 kg and it was later discovered that one weight was misread as 78 kg instead of 87 kg. The correct average weight is :

#43. On selling an article for Rs 651, there is a loss of 7%. The cost price of that article is :

#44. In a class 60% of the student pass in Hindi and 45% pass in Sanskrit. If 25% of them pass in at least one subject, what percentage of the students fail in both the subjects?

Explanation: 25% of students pass in at
least one subject, i.e., they pass in one or
both subjects.
∴ Percentage of students who don’t pass
or fail in both subjects
= (100 − 25) % = 75

#45. A man, a woman and a boy can together complete a piece of work in 3 days. If a man alone can do it in 6 days and a boy alone in 18 days, how long will a woman alone take to complete the work?

#46. A man bought a watch for 10% discount. If had bought for 20% discount he would have got the watch for Rs 125 less. The marked price of the watch is :

#47. A man loses Rs 55.50 yearly when the annual rate of interest falls from 11.5% to 10%. His capital (in rupees) is :

#48. A group of workers can complete a piece of work in 50 days, when they are working individually. On the first day one person works, on the second day another person joins him, on the third day one more person joins them and this process continues till the work is completed. How many approximate days are needed to complete the work?

#49. The speed of a boat is 5 km per hour in still water and the speed of the stream is 3 km per hour. If the boat takes 3 hours to go to a place and come back, then the distance of the place is :

#50. When 75% of a number is added to 75, the result is the same number. Find the number.

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