Basic Math & Word Problems Word Problems File-1
Basic Math & Word Problems Word Problems File-1
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5. of a faculty of a high school is women.14 of
5𝑡ℎ
2
3 4 5 the men of the faculty are unmarried, while
1. If each of the fractions , , is in lowest terms, 3𝑟𝑑
𝑘 𝑘 𝑘
which of the following could be the value of k ? Of the male teachers are married. The total
number of faculty member is?
A) 48
A) 30
B) 49
B) 50
C) 50
C) 70
D) 51
D) 91
E) 52
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3 6. Multiplying a number 2 and then dividing the
2. If 5 of a class that includes 10 girls are boys,
3
how many students are in the class? result by 4 is equivalent to performing which of
the following operations on the number?
A) 15
2
A) Multiplying by
B) 20 3
2
C) 21 B) Dividing by
3
D) 25 3
C) Multiplying by 8
E) 30
3
D) Dividing by 8
5
3. After Claire has read the first of a book , there
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are 120 pages left to read. How many pages of E) Multiplying by 3
the book has Claire read ? 3
7. At a high school basketball game, 5 of the
A) 160 1
students who attended were seniors, 3 of the
B) 200 other students who attended were juniors, and
the remaining 80 students who attended were all
C) 240 sophomores. How many seniors attended this
D) 300 game ?
E) 320 A) 120
D) 16 A) 20%
E) 15 B) 25%
A) 20% A) 2500
B) 25% B) 1250
1 C) 1000
C) 33 3 %
D) 500
D) 40%
2
E) 250
E) 66 3 %
12. If 8 kilograms of alcohol are added to 17
8. If 200% of 40% of x is equal to 40% of y , then kilograms of pure water, what percent by weight
x is what % of y? of the resulting solution is alcohol?
A) 10% A) 8%
B) 20% B) 17%
C) 30% C) 32%
D) 50% D) 68%
E) 80% E) 75%
9. If w is 10 percent less than x, and y is 30 percent 13. There are 50 students in a class,
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less than z, then wy is what percent less than xz? 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚 𝑎𝑟𝑒 boys & 25% of the boys are
5𝑡ℎ
A) 10% black .If there are 15 black students in the class,
then how many girls are white ?
B) 20%
A) 17
C) 37%
B) 20
D) 40%
C) 23
E) 100%
D) 26
10. If United States imports increased by 20 percent
and exports decreased 10 percent during a 14. in a school in which 40%of the enrolled students
certain year, the ratio of imports to exports at the are boys 80% of the boys are present on a
end of the year was how many times the ratio at certain day. If 1152 boys are present , the total
the beginning of the year ? school enrollment is
12 A) 1420
A) 11
B) 3600
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B) 3 C) 2880
11
C) 8 D) 4600
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D)
2
15. A man spends 12.5% of his money and after C) Rs 500
spending 75% of the remainder he had RS. 175
D) Rs 600
left. The money he had first was:
20. Price of an admission ticket is reduced by 20%,
A) Rs 2,000
as a result total collection amount is increased
B) Rs 1,750 by 60% find percent increase in the number of
ticket,
C) Rs 700
A) 24%
D) Rs 800
B) 40%
16. A woman has a certain number of mangoes of
which 14% are bad. She gives 80% of the C) 80%
remainder in charity. Then she has 258 left, how
D) 100%
many had she at first?
E) 75%
A) 1,500 mangoes
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B) 1,000 mangoes
C) 1,250 mangoes
D) 1, 2000 mangoes 1. Zahid sells a watch to Abrar at a gain of 10% and
Abrar sells it to sohail at a gain of 5 %, If sohail has
17. A series of discounts of 10%, 20% and 40% is a to pay Rs, 462 for it , the cost price of the watch
equal to a single discount of : for Zahid is :
A) 50%
B) 56.8% 2. Price of an admission ticket is reduced by 20%, as a
C) 70% result total collection amount is increased by 60%
find percent increase in the number of tickets?
D) 70.28%
E) 65%
3. What is the gain percent if a bicycle costing RS 175
18. The price of sugar increased by 30% and then is sold for Rs 200.
decreased by 30%, what was the percentage
increase or decrease in the final price as
compared to the original price ?
4. A cloth merchant bought 35 shirts, each at a price
A) No increase or decrease of Rs 280. He sold each of them for Rs. 308. Find
his percentage profit?
B) 9% decrease
C) 10% increase
D) 10% decrease 5. An article is sold for Rs 2400 at a profit of 25 %.
What would have been the actual profit or loss if it
19. Zahid sells a watch to Abrar at a gain of 10% had been sold at Rs 1800?
and Abrar sells it to sohail at a gain of 5 %, If
sohail has a to pay Rs, 462 for it , the cost price
of the watch for Zahid is :
6. A retail fruit vendor buys pineapples at a score for
A) Rs 300 Rs 200, and retails them at a dozen for Rs 156. Did
he gain or lose in the transaction and what % was
B) Rs 400
his gain or loss?
RATIO AND PROPORTIONS: -
7. If an article is sold at a loss of 66 2/3%, what is the 1. A shopkeeper earns profit of Rs 70 for every 3
loss in terms of the selling price? bags of wheat it sells. How many bags of wheat
must the shopkeeper sell in order to make a Rs
1400 profit?
8. Profit obtained by selling a floppy disc at Rs. 320 is
A) 75
equal to 7/5th of the profit obtained by selling the
same floppy disc at Rs. 300. What is the cost price B) 60
of the watch?
C) 45
D) 30
9. A man sells two chairs for Rs. 480 each. On one he 2. If 1/5 of a job can be completed in 15 minutes,
makes a profit of 20 % and on the other he makes how many more minutes will it take to finish the
a loss of 20 %. Find his total loss/gain in these two job completely?
transactions (in Rs.).
A) 60
B) 75
10. Mukesh purchased two watches at the same price
C) 90
and sold one at a profit of 20 % and the other at a
profit of 22.5%. If the difference between the two D) 105
selling price is Rs 150, what is the cost price of
3. The salaries of three professors are in the ratio
each of the watches?
7:8:9 . If the highest salary is 450,000 rupees,
then the smallest salary will be
A) 500,000 rupees
11. Rashid purchased a plot for Rs 8000. He sells the
B) 400,000 rupees
plot to shahid at a profit of 20 percent. Shaid in
turn sells that plot to shami at a loss of 20%. The C) 350,000 rupees
cost of plot to Shami.
D) None of these
4. The ratio of boys to girls in a business class is
7:5, if his class has a total of 60 students, how
many more boys are there than girls
A) 7
B) 5
C) 12
D) 10
E) None of these
5. A bag of rice is sufficient for a family of six for
nine days .A group of three people join them for
an indefinite period. For how many days the bag
of rice will feed all of them, provided they all
have the same eating habits?
A) 3
B) 4 10. It took 12 men 5 hours to build an airstrip.
Working the same rate , how many additional
C) 5
men could have been hired in order for the job to
D) 6 have taken 1 hour less?
A) 70 A) 32
B) 110 B) 26
C) 140 C) 18
D) 190 D) 30
B) 9 ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡×703
C)
√𝑤𝑒𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡
C) 105
√𝑤𝑒𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡
D) None of these D) ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡
× 703
18. y varies directly as the cube of x when 𝑥 = 0.5, 2. A farm in Kansas both raises cows and grows
𝑦 = 2.5.If 𝑦 = 540 then 𝑥 equals wheat. The farmer calculates that in each month,
3 he can make $1500 per acre used for grazing his
A) − √3 cows and $1200 per acre used for growing
B) 3 wheat. He can allow his cows to graze from
March until October, but can only grow wheat
C) -9 from April until August. If he allots c acres for
his cows and w acres for his wheat, which of the
D) -3
following represents the amount of money he 6. A proposed tax system would tax the first
can make in a year? $75,000 of a household’s income at r% and any
additional income at q% . What would be the tax
A) 5 × 1200 × 𝑐 + 8 × 1500 × 𝑤 for a household with an income of $90,000?
B) 13 × (1200 × 𝑐 + 1500 × 𝑤) (𝑟+𝑞)
A) 100
∗ 90000
C) 8 × 1500 × 𝑐 + 5 × 1200 × 𝑤
𝑟 𝑞
B) 100
∗ 75000 + 100 ∗ 90000
D) 1200 × 𝑐 + 1500 × 𝑤
𝑟 (𝑟+𝑞)
3. Chicago cabs charge $3.25 for a “flag pull” --- C) 100
∗ 75000 + 100
∗ 15000
calling the cab off the street and the first 1/9 𝑟 𝑞
mile of your trip. Each additional mile is $1.80, D) 100
∗ 75000 + 100 ∗ 15000
it is customary to tip the driver 15% to the total.
Which expression gives the amount you would 7. A sweater that normally costs $42.00 is on sale
pay for a trip of m miles? for 30% off. If there is a storewide sale that
applies an additional 20% off to everything.
A) 3.25 + 1.15(1.8𝑚) What will be the total price of the sweater and a
belt that normally costs d dollars?
B) 1.15(3.25 + 1.8𝑚)
1 A) 0.5(42 + 𝑑)
C) 0.15 [3.25 + 1.8 (𝑚 − 9)]
B) 0.56(42) + 0.8𝑑
1
D) 1.15 [3.25 + 1.8 (𝑚 = )] C) 0.5(42) + 0.8𝑑
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A) 35 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠 B) 50
B) 40 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠 C) 60
470−60×2.5 A) 5
C) Average speed = 60
470−60×2.5 B) 10
D) Average speed = 320 1
+
60 2 C) 30
8. Frederica drives s miles per hour for t hours, D) 7.5
then increases her speed by 20%. She maintains
her new speed for one-third longer than her 2. Tanvir, Shabbir and Saghir can do a piece of
original speed. Which expression gives the work respectively in 15 days, 6 days and 10
distance she traveled? days. All the three together will finish three
times that work in:
4𝑡
A) 𝑠𝑡 + (1.2𝑠) ( 3 )
A) 6 days
B) 𝑠𝑡 + 1.2𝑠𝑡 B) 8 days
𝑡
C) 𝑠𝑡 + (1.2𝑠) (3) C) 9 days
4 D) 10 days
D) (1.2𝑠) (3 𝑡)
3. A can do a piece of work in 12 days. Along with
9. Kamran ran from his house to the supermarket at B, he can do the work in 8 days. B alone can
an average speed of 6 km per hour and returned finish the work in ____ days:
along the same route at an average speed of 4
km per hour. If the total time it took him to run A) 10
to the supermarket and back was ninety minutes,
B) 15
how many minutes did it take him to run from
the supermarket to her house? C) 18
A) 36 D) 24
B) 54 4. Two pipes A and B can fill a cistern respectively
in 16 and 80 minutes. If pipes are opened
C) 45
together at the same time. In how many minutes,
D) None of these the cistern is full?
C) 84 𝑦
C) 60𝑥 + 120𝑥 = 4
D) 90 1 1 4
D) + =
𝑥 2𝑥 𝑦
E) 108
10. You are attempting to give your dog a bath. The
7. Christine is typing at a rate of 75 words per
faucet in your bathtub will fill the tub in 20
minute. Paula is typing at twice Christine’s
minutes. Unfortunately, the tube has a leak that
speed. If together they need to transcribe a 2000
will empty the bathtub in 35 minutes.
word paper which of the following expressions Accounting for the leak, you can fill bathtub in x
would illustrate the time x, it would take for 1
them to do so. minutes. What does 𝑥 represent in the expression
1 1 1
2000𝑥 that models this problem, 20 − 35 = 𝑥 ?
A) 150 = 75
A) The time it takes to fill the tub
75 150
B) 𝑥
+ 𝑥
= 2000
B) The rate at which the volume of water in the
𝑥 tub is increasing
C) 150 + 75 =
2000
2000 C) The rate at which water is leaking out of the
D) 𝑥 = 150+75 tub
8 13 D) The rate at which the height o f the water is
E) 7 + 𝑥 = 𝑥
rising in the tub
8. Two brothers are painting pictures, one of the
brothers paints 7 pictures in a day. The other
brother paints 8 pictures but it takes him x days
to do so. Together they painted 13 pictures in x
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