QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE COMPREHENSIVE TEST -2

[AVERAGE, AGES AND PARTNERSHIP]

David obtained 76, 65, 82, 67 and 85 marks (out of 100) in English, Mathematics,
Physics, Chemistry and Biology. What are his average marks?
a) 65

2.

c) 72

d) 75

e) None of these

In Aruns opinion, his weight is greater than 65kg but less than 72 kg. His brother
does not agree with Arun and he thinks that Aruns weight is greater than 60kg but
less than 70 kg. His Mothers view is that this weight cannot be greater than 68kg. If
all of them are correct in their estimation, what is the average of different probable
weights of Arun?
a) 67 kg

3.

b) 69

b) 68 kg

c) 69 kg

d) 66.5

e) None of these

The average of five consecutive odd numbers is 61. What is the difference between
the highest and the lowest numbers?
a) 2

b) 5

c) 8

d) 9

e) 10

4. The sum of three consecutive odd numbers is 38 more than that of the average of
these numbers. What is the first of these numbers?
a) 13

b) 17

c) 19

d) Data inadequate e) None of these

5. A library has an average of 510 visitors on Sundays and 240 on other days. The
average number of visitors per day in a month of 30 days beginning with a Sunday is :
a) 250
6.

c) 280

d) 285

16 children are to be divided into two groups A and B of 10 and 6 children. The
average percent marks obtained by the children of group A is 75 and the average
percent marks of all the 16 children is 76. What is the average percent marks of
children of group B?
a) 77

7.

b) 276

b) 77

c) 78

d) 78

In the first 10 overs of a cricket game, the run rate was only 3.2. What should be the
run rate in the remaining 40 overs to reach the target of 282 runs?
a) 6.25

b) 6.5

c) 6.75

d) 7

8. Of the three numbers, the average of the first and second is greater than the
average of the second and the third by 15. What is the difference between the first
and the third of the three numbers?

a) 15

b) 45

c) 30

d) 60

e) None of these

9. The average weight of three boys A, B and C is 54

kg, while the average weight of

three boys B, D and E is 53 kg. What is the average weight of A, B, C, D and E?

b) 53.2 kg

c) 53.8 kg

d) Data inadequate e) None of these

10. The average temperature of a town in the first four days of a month was 58
degrees. The average for the second, third, fourth and fifth days was 60 degrees. If
the temperature of the first and fifth days were in the ratio of 7:8, then what is the
temperature on the fifth day?
a) 64 degrees

b) 62 degrees

c) 56 degrees

d) None of these

11. The captain of a cricket team of 11 members is 26 years old and the wicket keeper is
3 years older. If the ages of these two are excluded, the average age of the
remaining players is one year less than the average age of the whole team. What is
the average age of the team?
a) 23 years

b) 24 years

c) 25 years

d) None of these

12. A cricketer has a certain average for 10 innings. In the eleventh inning, he scored
108 runs, thereby increasing his average by 6 runs. His new average is:
a) 48 runs

b) 52 runs

c) 55 runs

d) 60 runs

13. In an examination, a pupils average marks were 63 per paper. If he had obtained
20 more marks for his Geography paper and 2 more marks for his History paper, his
average per paper would have been 65. How many papers were there in the
examination?
a) 8

b) 9

c) 10

d) 11

e) 12

14. The average age of students of a class is 15.8 years. The average age of boys in the
class is 16.4 years and that of the girls is 15.4 years. The ratio of the number of boys
to the number of girls in the class is:
a) 1 : 2

b) 2 : 3

c) 3 : 4

d) 3 : 5

15. Sachin is younger than Rahul by 4 years. If their ages are in the respective ratio of 7 :
9, how old is Rahul?
a) 16 years

b) 18 years

c) 20years

d) 22

e) None of these

16. The ratio between the present ages of P and Q is 6 : 7. If Q is 4 years older than P,
what will be the ratio of the ages of P and Q after 4 years?
a) 3 : 4

b) 3 : 5

c) 4 : 3

d) 7 : 8

e) None of these

17. The ratio between the present ages of P and Q is 5 : 7 respectively. If the difference
between Qs present age and Ps age after 6 years is 2, what is the total of Ps and
Qs present ages?
a) 48 years

b) 52 years

c) 56 years

d) 60

d) None of these

18. The present ages of three persons are in the proportion of 4 : 7 : 9. Eight years ago,
the sum of their ages was 56. Find their present ages (in years)
a) 80, 20, 28

b) 16, 28, 36

c) 20, 35, 45

d) None of these

19. The ratio between the ages of Neelam and Shaan is 5 : 6 respectively. If the
ratio between one-third age of Neelam and half of Shaaans age is 5 :9, then what
is the age of Shaan?
a) 25 years

b) 30 years

c) 36 years

d) Cannot be determined

e) None of these

20. A persons present age is two fifth of the age of his mother. After 8 years, he will
be one-half of the age of his mother. How old is the mother at present?
a) 32 years

b) 36 years

c) 40 years

d) 48 years

21. The total age of A and B is 12 years more than that of the total age of B and C. C is
how many years younger than A?
a) 12

b) 18

c) 24

d) 30

e) None of these

22. Q is as much younger than R as he is older than T. If the sum of the ages of R and T is
50 years, what is definitely the difference between R and Qs age?
a) 1 year b) 2 years

c) 25 years

d) Cannot be determined

e) None of these

23. Father is aged three times more than his son Rohit. After 8 years, he would be two
and a half times of Rohits age. After further 8 years, how many times would he be
of Rohits age?

a) 2 times

b) 2

times

c) 2

times

d) 3 times

24. A father said to his son, I was as old as you are at present at the time of your
birth. If the fathers age is 38 years now, the sons age five years back was:
a) 14 years

b) 19 years

c) 33 years

d) 38 years

25. P and Q started a business investing Rs. 85,000 and Rs. 15,000 respectively. In what
ratio the profit earned after 2 years be divided between P and Q respectively
a) 3:4

b) 3:5

c) 15:23

d) 17:23

e) 17 : 3

26. Simran started a software business by investing Rs. 50,000. After six months, Nanda
joined her with a capital of Rs, 80,000. After 3 years, they earned a profit of Rs.
24,500. What was Simrans share in the profit?

a) Rs. 16,500

b) Rs. 19,500

c) Rs. 12,500

d) Rs, 20,500

e) 10,500

27. A and B started a business in partnership investing Rs. 20,000 and Rs. 15,000
respectively. After six months, C joined them with Rs. 20,000. What will be Bs share
in the total profit of Rs. 25,000 earned at the end of 2 years from the starting of the
business ?a) Rs. 7500 b) Rs. 8500 c) Rs.9500 d) Rs. 10,500 e) None of these
28. Aman started a business investing Rs.70,000. Rakhi joined him after six months with
an amount of Rs. 1,05,000 and Sagar joined them with Rs. 1.4 lakhs after another six
months. The amount of profit earned should be distributed in what ratio among
Aman,Rakhi and Sagar respectively, 3 years after Aman started the business?
a) 12:15:18

b) 12:15:16

c) 12:15:14

d) 12 : 15 : 10

e) None of these

29. Shekhar started a business investing Rs. 25,000 in 2009. In 2010, he invested an
additional amount of Rs. 10,000 and Rajeev joined him with an amount of Rs. 35,500.
In 2011, Shekhar invested another additional amount Rs. 10,000 and Jatin joined
them with an amount of Rs. 35.000. What will be Rajeevs share in the profit of Rs.
1,50,000 earned at the end of 3 years from the start of the business in 2009?
a) Rs.40,000

b) Rs.50,000

c) Rs.70,000

d) Rs.60,000

e) None of these

30. A and B start a business with investments of Rs. 5000 and Rs. 4500 respectively.
After 4 months, A takes out half of his capital. After two more months, B takes out
one-third of his capital while C joins them with a capital of Rs. 7000. At the end of a
year, they earn a profit of Rs. 5080. Find the share of each member in the profit.
a) A- Rs. 1400, B-Rs. 1900, C-Rs. 1780

b) A- Rs. 1600, B-Rs. 1800, C-Rs. 1680

c) A- Rs. 1800, B-Rs. 1500, C-Rs. 1780

d) A- Rs. 1680, B-Rs. 1600, C-Rs. 1800

31.In a business, A and C invested amounts in the ratio of 2:1 whereas the ratio
between amounts invested by A and B was 3:2. If Rs. 1, 57,300 was their profit, how
much amount did B receive? a) Rs. 24,200 b) Rs. 36,300 c) Rs. 48,400 d) Rs. 72,600
32. A, B and C enter into a partnership in the ratio

: :

after 4 months, A increases

his share by 50%. If the total profit at the end of one year be Rs. 21,600, then Bs
share in the profit is : a) Rs. 2100 b) Rs. 2400 c) Rs. 3600
d) Rs. 4000
33.

A and B entered into partnership with capitals in the ratio 4:5. After 3 months, A
withdrew

of his capital and B withdrew

of his capital. The gain at the end of 10

months was Rs. 15,200. As share in this profit is :

b) Rs.7600

c) Rs. 8600

d) Rs. 9600