Previous Year Quant Questions for SSC CGL TIER - 2

October 25, 2017    


Dear students, you know how important Math is a for SSC related exams. Learn every theorem of geometry, different trigonometric ratios, and formulas of different polygons & 3D mensuration before you sit for the main exam. We cant learn everything in a day, so practice different question, for that, we are providing 15 questions on Maths. Solve all these quizzes every day so that you can improve your accuracy and speed

Q1. By selling 12 marbles for a rupee, a shopkeeper loses 20%. In order to gain 20% in the transaction, he should sell the marbles at the rate of how many marbles for a rupee?
(a) 8
(b) 6
(c) 4
(d) 3

Q2. Three successive discounts of 10%, 12%, and 15% amount to a single discount of?
(a) 36.28%
(b) 34.68%
(c) 37%
(d) None of these

Q3. A reduction of 20% in the price of sugar enables a purchaser to obtain 21/2 kg more for Rs. 160. Find the original price per kg of sugar?
(a) Rs. 12
(b) Rs. 20
(c) Rs. 16
(d) Rs. 18

Q4. Two motor cars were sold for Rs. 9,900 each, gaining 10% on one and losing 10% on the other. The gain or loss percent in the whole transaction is?
(a) Neither loss no gain
(b) 1/99% gain
(c) 100/99% profit
(d) 1% loss

Q5. A cycle agent buys 30 bicycles, of which 8 are first grade and the rest are the second grade for Rs. 3150. Find at what price he must sell the first-grade bicycles so that if he sells the second-grade bicycles at the third quarter of the price, he may make a profit of 40% on both the types of transactions?
(a) Rs. 200
(b) Rs. 240
(c) Rs. 180
(d) Rs. 210

Q6. A dairyman pays Rs. 6.4 per liter of milk. He adds water and sells the mixture at Rs. 8 per liter, thereby making 37.5% profit. The proportion of water to milk received by the customers is?
(a) 1 : 5
(b) 1 : 10
(c) 1 : 20
(d) 1 : 12

Q7. The cost price of 20 articles is the same as the selling price of x articles. If the profit is 25%, then the value of x is?
(a) 25
(b) 18
(c) 16
(d) 15

Q8. A departmental store receives a shipment of 1,000 shirts, for which it pays Rs. 9,000. The store sells the shirts at a price 80 percent above the cost for one month, after which it reduces the price of the shirts to 20 percent above the cost. The store sells 750 shirts for one month and 50 percent of the remaining shirts afterward. How much gross income did the sales of the shirts generate?
(a) Rs. 10,000
(b) Rs. 10,800
(c) Rs. 12,150
(d) Rs. 13,500

Q9. A company blends two varieties of tea from two different tea gardens, one variety costing Rs. 20 per kg and other Rs. 25 per kg, in the ratio 5 : 4. He sells the blended tea at Rs. 23 per kg. Find his profit percent?
(a) 5% profit
(b) 3.5% loss
(c) 3.5% profit
(d) No profit, no loss

Q10. An article is listed at Rs. 65. A customer bought this article for Rs. 56.16 and got two successive discounts of which the first one is 10%. The other rate of discount of this scheme that was allowed by the shopkeeper was?
(a) 3%
(b) 4%
(c) 6%
(d) 2%

Q11. A dishonest dealer professes to sell his goods at the cost price but uses a false weight of 850 g instead of 1 kg. His gain percent is?
(a) 71 11⁄17 %
(b) 11 11⁄17 %
(c) 17 12⁄17 %
(d) 17 11⁄17 %

Q12. A trader mixes 26 kg of rice at Rs. 20 per kg with 30 kg of rice of other variety at Rs. 36 per kg and sells the mixture at Rs. 30 per kg. What is his profit percentage?
(a) 6%
(b) 5%
(c) 4%
(d) 7%

Q13. A tradesman gives 4% discount on the marked price and gives 1 article free for buying every 15 articles and thus gains 35%. The marked price is increased above the cost price by?
(a) 20%
(b) 39%
(c) 40%
(d) 50%

Q14. A bucket contains a mixture of two liquids A and B in the proportion 7: 5. If 9 litres of the mixture is replaced by 9 litres of liquid B, then the ratio of the two liquids becomes 7: 9. How much of the liquid B was there in the bucket?
(a) 15 litres
(b) 23 litres
(c) 25 litres
(d) 27 litres

Q15. Vessels A and B contain mixtures of milk and water in the ratio 4: 5 and 5: 1 respectively. In what ratio should quantities of the mixture be taken from A and B to form a mixture in which milk to water is in the ratio 5: 4?
(a) 2: 5
(b) 4: 3
(c) 5: 2
(d) 2: 3
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Previous Year Quant Questions for SSC CGL TIER - 2 4.5 5 Yateendra sahu October 25, 2017 Dear students, you know how important Math is a for SSC related exams. Learn every theorem of geometry, different trigonometric ratios, a...


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