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(#M40001412) SELF QUESTION Keep an EYE

The entrance ticket at the Inox theatre in Chennai is worth Rs 250. The sale of tickets increased by 50% when the price of the ticket was lowered. However, the collections recorded a decrease of 17.5%. The price of the ticket is reduced by how much rupees?

(a)Rs150 (b)Rs112.50 (c)Rs105 (d)Rs120

Solution

Let total tickets sold = x
When sale increases, total tickets sold = 1.5x
Previous cost of the ticket = 250
New cost after the reduction in the cost = 250-y
According to the given condition
1.5x(250-y)/250x = 82.5/100
or y = 112.5

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(#M40001411) SELF QUESTION Keep an EYE

A number is mistakenly divided by 5 instead of being multiplied by 5. Find the percentage change in the result due t this mistake.

(a)96% (b)95% (c)2400% (d)200%

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(#M40001410) SELF QUESTION Keep an EYE

A school having four classes only have student strength of 10, 20, 30 and 40 respectively. The pass percentages of these classes are 20%, 30%, 60% and 100% respectively. What is the pass percentage for the entire school?

(a)56% (b)76% (c)34% (d)66%

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(#M40001409) SELF QUESTION Keep an EYE

Three companies working independently are saving 20%, 25% and 35% of their earnings. If these companies combine and work what would be the net percentage of savings?

Solution

Since earnings of the companies are not given so two cases arise
1) earnings are same
then (0.2x + 0.25x + 0.35x)/3x = (0.8/3)x
saving = 80/3 %
2) earnings are different
data are insufficient

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(#M40001408) SELF QUESTION Keep an EYE

19 persons went to a hotel for a combined dinner party. 13 of them spent Rs 79 each for the dinner and the rest spent Rs 4 more than the average expenditure of all the 19. What was the total money spent by them?

(a)Rs1628.40 (b)Rs1536 (c)Rs1492 (d)none of these

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(#M40001405) SELF QUESTION Keep an EYE

ago, when Mr. Waugh was asked as to whom among Steve and Mark is elder, he said, “ In two years from now Steve will be twice as old as he was two years ago and in three years from now Mark will be three times as old as he was three years ago. How old is Mark and Steve and who among the two is elder?
(a)Steve 31 years (b)Mark 37 years (c)Both are 33 years (d)cannot say

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(#M40001404) SELF QUESTION Keep an EYE

The average of squares of first 11 consecutive even numbers is:
(a)184 (b)148 (c)186 (d)174

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(#M40001403) SELF QUESTION Keep an EYE

The average weight of three men A, B and C is 84 Kg. The average weight becomes 80 Kg when D joins them. If E whose weight is 3 Kg more than D joins the group replacing A, then the average weight of B, C, D and E becomes 79 Kg. The weight of A is:
(a)65kg (b)70kg (c)75kg (d)80kg

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(#M40001402) SELF QUESTION Keep an EYE

The average age of father and his two sons is 27 years. The difference in age between the two sons is 4 years and five years ago the average age of the two sons was 12 years. What is the present age of the father?
(a)34years(b)47years(c)64years(d)27years

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(#M40001401) SELF QUESTION Keep an EYE

The average marks of 14 students was calculated as 71. But, it was discovered later that the marks of one student was taken as 42 instead of 56 and the marks of another student was wrongly taken as 74 while it was actually 32. If these corrections are now made then what is the average of the 14 students?
(a)67(b)68(c)69(d)71

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