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Quantitative Reasoning Test 1

52. A grocer sells rice at a profit of 20% and uses a weight 58. A, B and C can do a piece of work in 6, 12 and 24 days,
which is 25% less. Find his overall percentage gain. respectively. They altogether will complete the work
(A) 60% in
(B) 65% 2
(A) 5 days
( C) 58% 7
(D) None of these 3
(B) 4 days
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53. A shopkeeper sells the goods at 10% loss on cost price ( C) 3 days
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but uses 20% less weight. What is his percentage profit 7
or loss? (D) None of these
(A) 2% gain
1 59. A is thrice as good as B and is therefore able to finish a
(B) 2 % loss
2 piece of work in 60 days less than B. Find the time in
1 which they can do it, working together.
( C) 12 %
2 (A) 22 3 days
(D) None of these 4
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(B) 22 days
54. A cloth merchant says that due to slump in the market, 2
he sells the cloth at 10% loss but he uses a false metre ( C) 24 days
scale and actually gains 15%. Find the actual length of (D) None of these
the scale.
(A) 72.4 cm 60. Roland takes twice as much time as Michael and thrice
(B) 71.34 cm as much time as Eze to complete a job. If working
( C) 78.25cm together, they can complete the job in 4 days, then the
(D) None of these time taken by each of them separately to complete the
work is
55. 10 men can complete a piece of work in 15 days and 15 (A) 36, 24 and 16 days
women can complete the same work in 12 days. If all (B) 20, 16 and 12 days
the 10 men and 15 women work together, in how many ( C) 24, 12 and 8 days
days will the work get completed? (D) None of these
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(A) 6 days
3 61. Ada takes twice as much time as Alice to complete a
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(B) 8 days work and Hope does it in the same time as Ada and
3 Alice together. If all three working together can finish
2 the work in 6 days, then the time taken by each of them
( C) 7 days
3 to finish the work is
(D) None of these (A) 18, 36 and 12 days
(B) 20, 38 and 14 days
56. A can do a piece of work in 30 days while B can do it in ( C) 24, 42 and 18 days
40 days. A and B working together can do it in (D) None of these
2
(A) 15 days
7 62. 5 men can complete a work in 2 days, 4 women can
1 complete the same work in 3 days and 5 children can
(B) 17 days
7 do it in 3 days, 1 man, 1 woman and 1 child, working
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( C) 18 days together can compete the work in
7 (A) 6 days
(D) None of these (B) 4 days
( C) 8 days
57. A can do 1/3rd of a work in 5 days and B can do 2/5th of (D) None of these
the work in 10 days. In how many days both A and B
together can do the work? 63. A and B can do a piece of work in 6 days and A alone
2 can do it in 9 days. The time taken by B alone to do the
(A) 13 days
3 work is
3 (A) 20 days
(B) 9 days
8 (B) 18 days
5 ( C) 24 days
( C) 18 days
8 (D) None of these
(D) None of these
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