Quantitative Aptitude PYQ — Page 164
24,303 questions across SSC exams.
SSC CHSL • 2025
A company had 4 departments with an average of 45 employees each. Later, a fifth department was added with 90 employees. Due to restructuring, 10 employees from each of the original four departments were transferred to the new department. What is the new…
SSC CGL • 2025
A circular disc's radius is decreased by 15%. What is the percentage decrease in its area?
SSC CGL • 2023
Which number among 34936, 35508, 35580, and 36508 is divisible by 33?
SSC Selection Post • 2019
The difference between the compound interest and simple interest on x at 8.5% per annum for 2 years is ₹65.025. What is the value of x?
SSC Selection Post • 2024
A grocer has 15 kg of sugar at ₹45 per kg. How much sugar at ₹34.5 per kg should she add to it, so that the mixture is worth ₹38 per kg?
SSC GD • 2023
In two ways, a shopkeeper deceives his customer. He dilutes pure honey by 20% with water and raises the price of honey by 15%. He pays Rs.30 per kg for 40 kg of pure honey. What is his total profit from selling it?
SSC CHSL • 2025
A invests ₹6000 for 6 months, B invests ₹8000 for 4 months. Find their profit-sharing ratio.
SSC GD • 2024
Arun got 20 percent less marks than Varun. Raju got 30 percent less marks than Varun. If Raju got 140 marks, then what are the marks of Arun?
SSC CHSL • 2022
If r + 64/r = 16, then the value of r⁴ + 1/r³ is __.
SSC GD • 2021
Find the greatest possible length which can be used to measure exactly the lengths 4 m 90 cm, 3 m 85 cm and 12 m 95 cm.
SSC CGL • 2022
In the given figure AB = DB and AC = DC. If ∠DBC = (2x - 4)° and ∠ABD = 58°, ∠ACB = (y + 15)° and ∠DCB = 63°, then the value of 2x + 5y is : [Image]
SSC GD • 2023
Find the third proportional of (b²- a²) and (b²- ab).
SSC CGL • 2019
The marked price of an article is Rs. 1500. If the two successive discounts each of x% on the marked price is equal to a single discount of Rs. 587.40, then what will be the selling price of the article of a single discount of x% is given on the marked price?
SSC GD • 2023
Afzal's monthly income is Rs. 35,000. He spends 20% of his monthly income on food, 30% on clothes, and 15% on rent. How much money does Afzal save monthly?
SSC GD • 2024
A chair is bought for Rs. 1500 and is sold at 25 percent loss. What is the selling price of the chair?
SSC CGL • 2025
Two chords, AB and CD intersect at a point P inside a circle. If AP = 6 cm, PB = 8 cm, and CP = 4 cm, what is the length of PD?
SSC Selection Post • 2022
The HCF of 72,108 and 360 is ___.
SSC CHSL • 2022
If (x + 1/x ) = 7.5, what is the value of ( x²+1/(x²) )?
SSC CHSL • 2023
If an article is sold for ₹402, there is a loss of 33%. At what price should it be sold to get a 37% profit?
SSC CHSL • 2023
The fourth proportion of 1.4, 8.4, and 4.2 is:
SSC GD • 2023
If the ratio of the radius and height of a cylinder is 3 : 2 and radius is 21 cm, then the curved surface area (in cm2 ) is: ( Use π = 22/7)
SSC CGL • 2025
A chord of length 24 cm lies 7 cm away from the center of a circle. What is the approximate radius of the circle?
SSC Selection Post • 2022
A table is bought for Rs.500 and sold for Rs.650. Find the profit percentage.
SSC GD • 2025
The value of 50 - 7 × [ 2 + 5 × { 16 - 2 ( 6 - 5 ) × 8} ÷ 31] is:
SSC CHSL • 2023
If √(())/a b= 8/3+ √(())/b a and (a + b) = 30, then what is the value of ab?
SSC MTS • 2022
Find the average of 12, 5, 15, 5 and 45.
SSC Selection Post • 2022
Find the sum of the greatest 4-digit number divisible by 6 and the smallest 4-digit number divisible by 3.
SSC CGL • 2025
If sin x=3/5 and x∈(0,(π)/2 ) , then find (1+tan x)/(1-tan x)
SSC CHSL • 2025
In a mathematics club, the average score of 15 students in a weekly quiz is 72.4. After including the scores of 5 more students, the overall average becomes 74.6. If the scores of three of the new students are 76.2, 78.5, and 80.4, respectively, and the…
SSC CGL • 2020
The following table shows the percentage distribution of the population of five states, A, B, C, D and E on the basis of the poverty line and also on the basis of sex. [Table] If the male population above the proverty line for State B is 2.5 millions, then…
SSC CHSL • 2021
If the adjacent sides of a rectangle whose perimeter is 60 cm are in the ratio 3 : 2, then what will be the area of the rectangle?
SSC CGL • 2024
A shopkeeper mixes two types of rice costing ₹250/5 kg and ₹280/5 kg in the ratio 7 : 8. Find the net cost of the resultant mixture (per kg).
SSC GD • 2019
If X is 30% less than Y and Z is 50% less than Y, then Z is how much percentage less than X?
SSC GD • 2023
The weights of two persons, A and B, are in the ratio of 5 : 3 respectively. If the weight of A increases by 5% and the total weight of A and B becomes 92 kg with an increase of 15%, then find the percentage increase in the weight of B. (Correct up to 2…
SSC MTS • 2019
What will be the compound interest on a sum of Rs. 1200 for 2 years at the rate of 20% per annum when the interest is compounded yearly?
SSC MTS • 2019
What is the median of 7, 18, 6, 9, 4, 15, 21, 14, 26?
SSC CGL • 2024
The radii of two circles are 8 cm and 15 cm.The perimeter of the circle having area equal to the sum of the areas of the two circles (in cm) is:
SSC CHSL • 2020
How many men will be required to plough 50 acres of land in 10 days if 15 men required 6 days to plough 10 acres of land?
SSC Selection Post • 2022
The profit earned by selling an article for ₹1,664 is equal to the loss incurred when the article is sold for ₹896. What should be the selling price (in) if it is sold at a profit of 10%?
SSC CHSL • 2021
The sum of the radii of two circles is 286 cm and the area between the concentric cirlces is 50336 cm². What are the radii (in cm) of the two circles? Take π = 22/7
SSC CHSL • 2020
Six years ago, the average of the ages of Ravi, Mohan and Govind was 32 years. If Shyam joins them now, the average of the ages of all four of them is 36 years. The present age of Shyam is:
SSC GD • 2024
What is the value of 2/(1 × 3) + 2/(3 × 5) + 2/(5 × 7) ........ 2/(99 × 101) ?
SSC CGL • 2021
A shopkeeper marks his goods 30% higher than the cost price and allows a discount of 10% on the marked price. In order to earn 6.5% more profit, what discount percent should he allow on the marked price.
SSC MTS • 2022
Which of the following is the greatest? 2 : 5, 1 ; 2, 8 : 15, 3 : 5
SSC CGL • 2024
Two trains of lengths 150 m and 250 m run on parallel lines. When they run in the same direction, they take 20 seconds to cross each other and, when they run in the opposite direction, they take 5 seconds to cross each other. What is the speed of the two…
SSC GD • 2025
Two trains are moving in opposite directions at speeds of 50 km/h and 80 km/h. The length of one train is 480 m. The time taken by them to cross each other is 28 seconds. The length (in m) of the other train, correct to 2 decimal places, is:
SSC CHSL • 2020
The largest five-digit number that is exactly divisible by 81 is:
SSC CHSL • 2020
ABC is a right angled triangle, right angled at A. A circle is inscribed in it. The lengths of two sides containing the right angle are 48 cm and 14 cm. The radius of the inscribed circle is:
SSC Selection Post • 2022
25 women can do one-third of the work in 6 days. How many women should be employed so that the work is completed in 5 days?
SSC Selection Post • 2022
Arvind goes to his school by cycle at a speed of 4 km/h and reaches his school 15 minutes late. If he moves at a speed of 4 1over2 km/h, he reaches the school 10 minutes early. What is the distance (in km) from his school to his home?