Quantitative Aptitude

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21.  By mixing two brands of tea and selling the mixture at the rate of ₹ 177 per kg. a shopkeeper makes a profit of 18%. If to every 2 kg of one brand costing ₹ 200 per kg, 3 kg of the other brand is added, then how much per kg does the other brand cost?
A. ₹ 110
B. ₹ 120
C. ₹ 140
D. None of these
22.  A person sold a table at a gain of 15%. Had he bought it for 25% less and sold it for ₹ 60 less, he would have made a profit of 32%. The cost price of table was:
A. ₹ 300
B. ₹ 350
C. ₹ 375
D. ₹ 400
23.  Ramesh purchased a refrigerator for ₹ 12500 after getting a discount of 20% on the labelled price. He spent ₹ 125 on transport and ₹ 250 on installation. At what price should it be sold so that the profit earned would be 10% if no discount was offered?
A. ₹ 16500
B. ₹ 15525
C. ₹ 17000
D. ₹ 17600
E. None of these
24.  The price of an article reduces to 576 after two successive discounts. The markup is 80% above the cost price of ₹ 500.What is the new profit percentage if instead of two successive discount the markup price was further increased successively two times by the same percentage?
A. 259.2%
B. 59.2%
C. 159.2%
D. Can’t be determined
25.  The cost of servicing of a Maruti car at Maruti care Pvt. Ltd. is ₹ 400. Manager of service centre told me that for the second service within a year a customer can avail a 10% discount and further for third and forth servicing he can avail 10% discount of the previous amount paid, within a year Further if a customer gets more than 4 services within a year he has to pay just 60% of the servicing charges on these services. A customer availed 5 services from the same servicing station, What is the total percentage discount fetched by the customer?
A. 19.42%
B. 18.5%
C. 17.6%
D. 26%
26.  Cost price of 12 oranges is equal to the selling price of 9 oranges and the discount on 10 oranges is equal to the profit on 5 oranges. What is the percentage point difference between the profit percentage and discount percentage?
A. 20
B. 22.22
C. 16.66
D. 15
27.  Rotomac produces very fine quality of writing pens. Company knows that on average 10% of the produced pens are always defective so are rejected before packing. Company promises to deliver 7200 pens to its wholesaler at ₹ 10 each. It estimates the overall profit on all the manufactured pens to be 25%. What is the manufacturing cost of each pen?
A. ₹ 6
B. ₹ 7.2
C. ₹ 5.6
D. ₹ 8
28.  A trader marks up his goods by 80% and gives discount of 25%. Besides it he weighs 10% less amount while selling his goods. What is the net profit of trader?
A. 50%
B. 35%
C. 45%
D. 55%
29.  Assuming that profit of a shopkeeper in a particular commodity is a linear expression of transportation charge (t) and the quantity of commodity (q) . He earns a profit of ₹ 10000 by selling 20 units at the transport charge of ₹ 400. He also earn a profit of ₹ 12000 by selling 25 units at the transport charge of ₹ 600. What is the linear expression in t and q ?
A. 600q - 5t
B. 500q - 4t
C. 600q - 4t
D. 500q - 5t
30.  A person bought two bicycles for ₹ 1600 and sold the first at 10% profit and the second at 20% profit. If he sold the first at 20% profit and the second at 10% profit, he would get ₹ 5 more. The difference in the cost price of the two bicycles was:

A. ₹ 25
B. ₹ 75
C. ₹ 50
D. ₹ 40

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