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9. A table is made of mean monthly temperature for the first six months in a year. The temperature of January is 8/9 that of April, that of February is 11/0 of January, of march is the same as that of February. The average temperature of April and june is 4 degrees more than the average temperature of all six months. The average temperature of march and may is equal to the average temperature of 6 months. The average temperature of January and May is equal to the temperature of march. The temperature of may is 48 degrees. Find the average temperature of 6 months and the temperature of June.
10. A ship, 40 km from shore, springs a leak which admits 3 ¾ tones of water in 12 minutes. 60 tonnes would suffice to sink her, but the ship’s pumps can throw out 12 tonnes of water in one hour. Find the average rate of sailing, so that she may reach the shore just she begins to sink.


Answers.
1. 10
2. 20
3. 30yrs
4. 1020
5. 18 yrs.
6. 15.30.60
7. 96pages
8. Rs. 5
9. 46 degrees ,55 degrees
10. 4.5 kmph

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1. A alone can do a piece of work in 6 days and B alone can do it in 8 days. How long would it take for A and B to finish the work?
2. Mohan can do ½ of a work in 8 days while Sohan can do 1/3 of the same work in 6 days. How long would it take for Mohan and Sohan to finish the work?
3. A can do apiece of work in 45 days. He works at it for 5 days and then B completes it in 20 days. How long will A and B together take to complete the work?
4. Mohan does a work in 12 days and Sohan does the same work in 20 days. Mohan alone started the work and after 4 days, sohan began to do work with Mohan. Find

I. How much work did Mohan do in 4 days?
II. The balance work
III. In how many days did both together finish the balance work?

5. Ram finished 3/5 of a work in 9 days and the remaining work he finished in 4 days with the assistance of Shyam. Find in how many days Shyam alone can finish that work?
6. A can do a piece of work in 120 days and B can do it in 150 days. They work together for 20 days. Then B leaves and A continues the work alone, 12 days after C joins A and the work is completed in 48 days more. In how many days can C do it if he works alone?
7. A and B can do a piece of work in 12 days, B and C together do it in 15 days. If A is twice as good a workman as C, find in what time B alone will do it?
8. A and b could do a piece of work in 40 days; after working for 10 days they are assisted by C, and the work is finished in 20 days nore. If C does as much work in 2 days s B does in 3 days, in how many days could each of them do the same work alone?
9. 3 taps empty a cistern in 3 hrs. First tap alone can empty it in 6 hrs. and second tap alone can empty it in 9 hrs.. How many hours would third tap alone take to empty the cistern?
10. Two pipes A and B would fill a cistern in 37.5 minutes and 36 minutes respectively. Both pipes being opened, find when the 2nd pipe must be turned off, so that the cistern may be filled in half an hour?

Answers-
1. 24/7 days
2. 8 8/17 days
3. 15 days
4. ..
I. 1/3
II. 2/3
III. 5 days

5. 30 days
6. 240 days
7. 20 days
8. C= 80 days, B =`120 days, A =60 days.
9. 18 hrs
10. after 9 minutes.

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1. A pipe can fill a bath in 20 minutes and another can fill it in 30 minutes. A person opens both the pipes simultaneously. When the bath should have been full, he finds that the waste pipe was open. He then closes the waste pipe and in 3 minutes more, the bath is full. In what time, would the waste pipe empty it?
2. A,B,C are employed to do a piece of work for Rs 529. A and B together are supposed to do 19/23 of the work and B and C together 8/23 of the work. What should A be paid?
3. A contractor receives every week a certain sum which he uses for paying wages. His capital together with weekly subsidy, would just enable him to pay 42 men for 52 weeks. If he had 60 men at the same wages, his capital together with the weekly subsidy , would just suffice for 13 weeks. How many man can be maintained for 26 weeks?
4. 2 taps can separately fill a cistern when the waste pipe is closed in 10 and 12 minutes respectively and when the waste pipe is open they together fill it in 15 minutes. How long does it take the waste pipe to empty the cistern, when the taps are closed.
5. A cistern can be filled by one of the two pipes in 30 minutes and the other in 36 minutes. Both pipes are opened for a certain time but being partially clogged, only 5/6 of the full quantity of water flows through the former and only 9/10 through the later. The obstructions, however, being suddenly removed, the cistern is filled in 15.5 minutes from that moment. How long was it before the full flow of water began?
6. A supply of water lasts for 200 days if 10 gallons leak off everyday, but only for 180 days if 16 gallons leak off daily. Find the total quantity of water in the supply.

Answers.
1. 48 minutes
2. Rs. 345
3. 48 men
4. 8 minutes 34 secs.
5. 1 minute
6. 9 minutes

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1. The C. P. of 12 pens is equal to S.P 0f 10 pens, find the gain %.
2. In selling an article for Rs. 9, a man gets as much percent loss as is the prime cost?(C.P) of that article. Find the C.P. of that article.
3. A person purchases 50 dozen eggs at Rs. 4 per dozen. Of these , 40 eggs were found broken. At what price should he sell the remaining eggs in order to make a profit of 5%?
4. A man purchases 216 eggs @Rs 2 per dozen. Few of these r broken. The remaining eggs, he sell @Rs 2.28 per dozen. If he gets 20% profit, find the no. of broken eggs.
5. A merchant sold two radios for 120 each. One was sold at a loss of 25% of the cost and other was sold at a gain of 25% of the cost. Determine the total amount of gain/loss in the entire transaction.
6. A person purchases 90 clocks and sells 40 clocks at a gain of 10% and 50 clocks at a gain of 20%. Had he sold all of them at a uniform profit of 15%, he would have got Rs 40 less. Find the C.P. of each clock.
7. a man purchases some oranges @3 for Rs 4 and same quantity 2 5 for Rs 6. If he sells all the oranges @ 3 for Rs 5, find his gain or loss%.
8. A man sells 2 cars for Rs 19,550 each. On one he gains 15% and on the other he losses 15%. Find his total gain or loss and also his gain or loss%.
9. A merchant buys 40 bicycles and marks them at 25% above C.P. He allows a discount on the marked price at 10% for cash sales, and at 5% for credit sales. If 3/4th of the stock is sold for cash and the rest for credit, and if the total profit be Rs. 2025, what is the C.P of the Bicycle?
10. The catalogue price of a radio is Rs. 720. If it is sold at a discount of 16 2/3% of the catalogue price, the gain is 25%. If it is sold for Rs. 160 below the catalogue price, find the gain or loss%

Answers.
1. 20%
2. Rs 90 or Rs.10
3. Rs 4.50/dz
4. 36
5. Rs.16
6. Rs 80
7. profit =Rs.31, 11/19%
8. Rs. 900, 2 ¼%
9. Rs. 360
10. 16 2/3% gain

[MavericK]

hey neha..
can u plz post the answers sometime later plz...coz no one's postin abt their approach to a particular problem, coz the answers are already published...

[pagalneha]

cud have posted the ans. later, but now as i'm short of time i jus don't think that i'll be able to post the ans.

why don't u ppl ignore the ans. 1st try urself and then check ur ans. if u don't get any ans. then u can always post ur query.

and 1more thing that i'm repeating again and again is that there shud be minimum use of paper and pen in all these, shud be done menatlly.

[pagalneha]

1. If price of sugar falls by 12.5% a person can buy 9 kg more of sugar for Rs 126 than before. If the price had risen by 12.5%, how much sugar would he have bought for the same sum?
2. A tradesman defrauds by means of a false balance to extent of 10% in buying goods and to the same extent in selling goods. What % does he gain or loose on his outlay by defraud?
3. A merchant sells 90 quintals of wheat at a profit of 8% and 50 quintals at a profit of 10%. If he had sold the whole at a profit of 9%, he would have received Rs 60 more than he actually did. How much did the merchant pay for the wheat per quintal?
4. A tradesman sells one kind of sugar at Rs 3 per Kg. and looses 20% and another kind of sugar @ Rs 5 per Kg. He mixes the two together in equal proportion and sells the mixture at Rs 6/kg. what is now the gain%?
5. A publisher printed 2000 copies of a book at a cost of Rs 2400. He gave 500 copies free to the head of the institutions. He allowed a discount of 25% on the published price and gave one extra copy for every 24 copies bought at a time. He sold all the copies in that manner. If the published price is Rs 3.25, find his gain or loss%.
6. A man purchases 5 horses and 10 cows for Rs 1000. He sells the horses at 15% profit and the cows at 10% loss. Thus he gets Rs. 375 as profit. Find the cost of 1 horse and I cow separately.
7. A man buys goods and finds that cost of carriage is 4% of the cost of goods. He is compelled to sell at a loss of 5% on his total outlay, if however , he had received Rs 32.50 more than he did, he would have gained 2.5%. What was the original cost of the goods?

[Samosa]

hey!!

instead of giving more questions, may be one can give the solution for each question!!!! and just not the answers

cya

[pagalneha]

8. A manufacturer fixes the wholesale price of an article by adding together the cost of production, excise duty( which is22% of the cost of production) and his profit (which is 18% of the cost of production). The wholesaler sells the articles to a retailer at a profit of 15%. The retailer marks the price at 25% above his cost price and allows 4% discount on the marked price of cash payment. Find the production cost of the article for which a customer makes a cash payment of Rs. 483 to the dealer.
9. A manufacturer fixes the wholesale price of an electric appliance by adding cost of production, excise duty(which is 30% of the production cost) and profit (which is 20% of the production cost). The wholesaler sells the appliances to a retailer at a profit of 20%. The retailer in turn, sells the item to a customer for Rs 207, thereby earning a profit of 15%. Find the production cost and the excise duty on the appliance.
10. An almirah is listed at Rs 1000. A retailer buys it with 2 successive discounts of 10% and 20% for cash . the other expenses are 10% of cost of the almirah. At what price should he sell to earn a profit of 15%?
11. A pen is listed for Rs 12. originally a 15% discount was allowed. Later the wholesaler gave a 2nd discount thus bringing the net price down to Rs. 8.16. find the 2nd discount %.

12. At the off season period a hotel offers a double bed room at a discount of 30%. If there is a successive discount of 10% to tourists in groups, a double bed room becomes available for Rs 189 per day .find the original room rent.
13. A tradesman fixes the sale price of his articles 30% more than the C.P.. Half of the articles , he sells at this increased sale price and ¼ portion , he sells at 15% discount of this sale price. And the remaining , he sells at 30% discount of this sale price . what % profit did occur to the tradesman?
14. The purchase tax on an article is levied at the rate of 66 2/3 % of its wholesale price, while the retailer’s profit amounts to 20% of the retail price of the article. Find the wholesale price of an article which is retailed at Rs 12.50
15. Two dealer offer an article at the same list price. The first allows a discount of 25% and offers further a rebate of 15% on the discounted price for cash payment. The other dealer offers a discount of 10% and allows a further concession of 30% on the discounted price of cash payment. What is the better offer to the buyer?
16. A bicycle costs Rs 260(including 4% sales tax) payable in 60 days. A discount of 6% on the selling price (excluding the sales tax) is given by the shopkeeper to a customer who makes cash payment on the spot. If a customer pays in 60 days, how much interest per annum is he paying on the transaction?
17. If a dealer were to diminish the selling price of his wares by 10% and thereby doubled his sale, he could make the same profit on the cost price as before. In what ratio would his profit be diminished if he were to increase the selling price by the same amount and thereby halve his sale.
18. At a cricket match , the contractor provided dinner for 24 persons, and fixed the price so as to gain 12.5% upon his total outlay. Three of the players being absent , the remaining 21 paid the fixed price for their dinner, and such the contractor lost one rupee. What was the charge for the dinner?
19. A family buys farm equipment with a list price of Rs.2114.75. The salesman tells them that he will sell it to them for Rs.1950 if they pay the full amount in cash. What % discount would they be getting?

Answers.
1. 56 kg
2. 22 2/9%
3. Rs. 150/qntt.
4. 54 26/31%
5. gain 46 ¼%
6. Rs 1100, Rs 450
7. Rs. 416.66
8. Rs 250
9. Rs.100 Rs. 30
10. Rs 910.80
11. 20%
12. Rs.300
13. 15 3/8%
14. Rs. 6
15. second one
16. Rs.90
17. 4:3
18. Rs.3
19. 7^6687/8459%

[zeus]

Sey Neha,

How long u around???? i mean when does college start for u?? U have been a great help here....thanks a ton.

and keep us posted.

MOI