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Question 31

AP Police SI 2018• Test

A, B, C and D are four students in a class. A's total score is 20% less than B's total score, C's total score is 25% more than A's total score, D's total score is 20% more than A’s total score. If the least total score among the scores is 240, then the ratio of the scores of the four students in the decreasing order is

  1. AOption (a)

    30 ∶ 25 ∶ 24 ∶ 20

  2. BOption (b)

    25 ∶ 24 ∶ 21 ∶ 20

  3. COption (c)

    25 ∶ 25 ∶ 24 ∶ 20

  4. DOption (d)

    30 ∶ 30 ∶ 25 ∶ 24  

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Answer: (a)A.

30 ∶ 25 ∶ 24 ∶ 20

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Question 32

AP Police SI 2018• Test

A merchant is selling goods by importing from abroad. He gets a discount of \(33\frac{1}{3}%\) on the catalogue price, pays 20% import duty on the net cost of the goods and sells the goods for a profit of 25%. If the catalogue price of an article is Rs. 3,756, then its selling price (in Rs.) is

  1. AOption (a)

    4,695

  2. BOption (b)

    11,268

  3. COption (c)

    2,857

  4. DOption (d)

    3,756

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Answer: (a)A.

4,695

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Question 33

AP Police SI 2018• Test

A dishonest dealer claims to sell his goods for the cost price. If he uses 20% less weight in weighing the goods, his gain % is:

  1. AOption (a)

    20%

  2. BOption (b)

    \(16\frac{2}{3}%\)

  3. COption (c)

    25%

  4. DOption (d)

    30%

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Answer: (a)A.

20%

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Question 34

AP Police SI 2018• Test

If a person sold his watch for Rs. 24 with a profit percentage numerically equal to its cost price, then the cost price of the watch is Rs.

  1. AOption (a)

    26

  2. BOption (b)

    18

  3. COption (c)

    20

  4. DOption (d)

    22

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Answer: (a)A.

26

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Question 35

AP Police SI 2018• Test

A shopkeeper offers successive discounts of 20% and 25% on the marked price of an article and gets a profit of 20%. If he wants to make 40% profit, the percentage by which the marked price is to be increased is

  1. AOption (a)

    40

  2. BOption (b)

    45

  3. COption (c)

    \(16\frac{2}{3}\)

  4. DOption (d)

    \(33\frac{1}{3}\)

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Answer: (a)A.

40

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Question 36

AP Police SI 2018• Test

A shopkeeper sells two types of articles A and B for the same price at Rs. 150/-. The cost prices of them are respectively Rs. 120/- and Rs. 200/-. On the first day he sells only one item of A and increases this number by 6 units each day. He sells 50 units of B on first day and decreases this number each day by 2 units. The number of days the shopkeeper incurs a net loss continuously is

  1. AOption (a)

    6

  2. BOption (b)

    7

  3. COption (c)

    8

  4. DOption (d)

    9

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Answer: (a)A.

6

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Question 37

AP Police SI 2018• Test

The following table shows the different number of items a shopkeeper sold with different cost prices and different selling prices. Use this information to match the items of List A with the items of List B.

No. of items sold (volume)100200300400500600700
S.P of each item1412.5111097.56.5
C.P of each item109.5987.576

 

List - AList - B
(i)The volume that gives maximum profit(a)400
(ii)If S.P of each item is increased by Rs. 1 then minimum profit is(b)500
(iii)The volume that gives minimum profit(c)600
(d)700

The correct match is

  1. AOption (a)

    i - a, ii - b, iii - c

  2. BOption (b)

    i - b, ii - c, iii - a

  3. COption (c)

    i - c, ii - d, iii - a

  4. DOption (d)

    i - a, ii - c, iii - b

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Answer: (a)A.

i - a, ii - b, iii - c

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Question 38

AP Police SI 2018• Test

The average score of 3 students A, B and C is 72. When D joins them the average score of all the four becomes 70. If another student E, whose score is 4 more than that of D replaces A then the average score of B, C, D and E becomes 68. Then the score of A is

  1. AOption (a)

    75

  2. BOption (b)

    84

  3. COption (c)

    80

  4. DOption (d)

    76

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Answer: (a)A.

75

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Question 39

AP Police SI 2018• Test

The first quality of juice costs Rs.15 per litre and the second quality of juice costs Rs.10 per litre. If the mixture of these two qualities is sold at the rate of Rs.14 per litre, then the ratio in which these two qualities of juices are to be mixed in order to get a profit of 20% is

  1. AOption (a)

    1 ∶ 1

  2. BOption (b)

    1 ∶ 5

  3. COption (c)

    \(\frac{1}{2}:1\)

  4. DOption (d)

    \(\frac{1}{4}:1\)

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Answer: (a)A.

1 ∶ 1

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Question 40

AP Police SI 2018• Test

The average of all the numbers which are the first ten multiples of each of the first ten natural numbers is

  1. AOption (a)

    30.25

  2. BOption (b)

    50.5

  3. COption (c)

    75.5

  4. DOption (d)

    25.5

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Answer: (a)A.

30.25

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