Quantitative Aptitude

Ratio and Proportion

775 Questions

All Dividing a total in a given ratio 393 Income, expenditure, and equal-savings equations 117 Ratio changes with constant sum/difference 89 Combining ratios 72 Finding a missing term in a proportion 54 Direct, inverse, and power variation 29 Mean proportional 9 Compound, duplicate, and root ratios 8 Componendo and dividendo 2

Ratio and Proportion Questions

Multiple choice

Price of a piece of diamond is Rs. 2000. It is broken into two equal pieces. If price of diamond is directly proportional to the square of its weight, then the amount of loss for breaking into two pieces is

Rs. 500
Rs. 1500
Rs. 2000
Rs. 1000

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Multiple choice

On dividing a sum of $Rs. 832$ between $A$ and $B$ in the ratio $\dfrac {1}{3}:\dfrac{1}{5}$ their shares are________.

$Rs. 520, \,Rs. 312$
$Rs. 500, \,Rs. 332$
$Rs. 530, \,Rs. 302$
$Rs. 490, \,Rs. 342$

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Multiple choice

Rs.$1000$ is given to $A,B$ and $C$ in some ratio. $A$ is wrongly given double and $C$ is wrongly given half, which is Rs.$500$ and Rs.$250$ respectively. How much is given to $B$?

$500$
$250$
$750$
None of the above

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Multiple choice

A man and woman share $Rs\ 4500$ in the ratio $2 : 3$. The woman, in turn divides her share of money amongst herself, her husband, her son and her daughter in the ratio $5 : 4 : 4 : 3$. How much will her husband get ?

$Rs\ 450$
$Rs\ 675$
$Rs\ 562.50$
$Rs\ 506.25$

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Multiple choice

A person spends a portion of his monthly income on his household and the rest is saved. The ratio of his expenditure and saving is 27:2. Find his monthly saving when his monthly expenditure is Rs. 675__.

80
75
50
150

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Multiple choice

The Revenue Profits of a Subsidiary company S Ltd. is $Rs.1,20,000$. Ratio between holding and minority is $3 : 1$. What is share of revenue profits of Holding Company H. Ltd.?

$Rs. 30,000$
$Rs. 60,000$
$Rs. 90,000$
$Rs. 45,000$

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Multiple choice

If a Ratio Taxi plying in NCR charges Rs. $150$ for $12Kms$ and Rs. $180$ for $15kms$, find the charges for $40kms$____.

Rs. $400$
Rs. $440$
Rs. $430$
Rs. $450$

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Multiple choice

A and B's salaries are together equal to Rs. $2100$. A spends $80$% of his salary and B spends $70$%. If their savings are now in the proportion of $4:3$, what is A's salary?

Rs. $900$
Rs. $980$
Rs. $1200$
Rs. $1400$

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Multiple choice

Mr. Kumar earns $Rs. \,9400$ in a month. He spends $Rs. \,8200$ and saves the rest. What is the ratio of earnings to savings?

$\dfrac{47}{6}$
$\dfrac{23}{6}$
$\dfrac{12}{13}$
None of these

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Multiple choice

Anand earns Rs $80$ in $7$ hours and Pramod earns Rs $90$ in $12$ hours. The ratio of their earnings is

$21 : 32$
$80 : 90$
$32 : 21$
$7:12$

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Multiple choice

The ratio of coins of $1\ Rs\ 50$ paise and $25$ pasie in a bag is $4 : 5 : 6$. If total number ofcoins is $ 120$ then the number of coins of $25$ paise

$48$
$40$
$32$
$None\ of\ these$

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Multiple choice

The ratio between the number of passengers travelling by $I^{st}$ and $II^{nd}$ class between the two railway stations is $1 : 50$, where as the ratio of $I^{st}$ and $II^{nd}$ class fares between the same stations is $3 : 1$. If on a particular day, $Rs. 1325$ were collected from the passengers travelling between these stations by these classes, then what was the amount collected from the $II^{nd}$ class passengers?

$Rs. 750$
$Rs. 850$
$Rs. 1000$
$Rs. 1250$

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Multiple choice

If $Rs. 8400$ is divided among A, B and C in the ratio $\dfrac {1}{5} : \dfrac {1}{6} : \dfrac {1}{10}$, what is the share of A?

$Rs. 1800$
$Rs. 3000$
$Rs. 3600$
$Rs. 4000$

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Multiple choice

Divide $Rs. 391$ into three parts in proportion in to the fraction $\dfrac {1}{2} : \dfrac {2}{3} : \dfrac {3}{4}$

$102, 136, 153$
$136, 102, 153$
$153, 136, 102$
None of these

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Multiple choice

The weekly expenses of a boy have increased from Rs. $1,500$ to Rs.$ 2,250$. Find the ratio of: (1) increases in expenses to original expenses. (2) Original expenses to increased expenses. (3) Increased expenses to increase in expenses.

$1)1:2, 2) 3:2, 3) 3:1 $
$1)1:2, 2) 2:3, 3) 1:3 $
$1)2:1, 2) 2:3, 3) 3:1 $
$1)1:2, 2) 2:3, 3) 3:1 $

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