Quantitative Aptitude PYQ — Page 416
24,303 questions across SSC exams.
SSC CHSL • 2025
What sum will amount to Rs. 23958 in 3 years at the rate of 10 percent per annum at compound interest (compounding annually)?
SSC CGL • 2022
If a + b - c = 5 and ab - bc - ac = 10, then find the value of a² + b² + c².
SSC CHSL • 2019
Which among the following is an irrational quantity?
SSC MTS • 2022
What is the value of: 10 - 0.5 {(9 + 2 - 5}?
SSC MTS • 2022
When a watch is sold at 7/8 th of the marked price, there is a profit of 25%. At what percentage more than the cost price has the marked price of the watch been fixed? [Give your answer correct to 2 decimal places.]
SSC CGL • 2025
Simplify: (3 2/5 + 4.9) + 2.1
SSC CHSL • 2020
The cost price of 12 pens is equal to the selling price of 8 pens. The profit percentage is:
SSC Selection Post • 2024
The wages of 10 workers for a six-day week are ₹1,200. What is the one-day wage of one worker?
SSC CHSL • 2025
If tan θ = 1, find cos²θ.
SSC CGL • 2019
A person sells an article at 16% below its cost price. Had he sold it for Rs.33 more, he would have gain 14%. To gain 25%, he should sell the article for?
SSC CGL • 2024
ΔABC and ΔPQR are respectively congruent. If AB = 8 = PQ, BC = 10 = QR, and ∠B = 35° then what is the value of ∠P + ∠C?
SSC Selection Post • 2024
A goods train 350 m long passes through a tunnel of 1250m in 80 seconds. What is the speed of the train?
SSC CHSL • 2022
What will be the smallest natural number to be filled in the blank for the number ’23_45678’ to be divisible by 22?
SSC CGL • 2023
Simplify: 264 - [142-(75+(38-(5/4+11/4) )]
SSC Selection Post • 2023
What is the selling price of a calculator if a shopkeeper allows two successive discounts of 7% each on its marked price of ₹500?
SSC CHSL • 2020
A dealer marks his goods at 30% above the cost price. Then he allows 35% discount on it. What would be his loss percentage?
SSC CHSL • 2024
In an election contested by two candidates, one candidate got 42% of the total votes and still lost by 800 votes. Find the total number of votes that were cast.
SSC CGL • 2025
A sum of ₹8000 is lent out in two parts, one at 5% simple interest and the other at 7% simple interest. If the annual interest is ₹500, the sum lent at 7% is:
SSC Selection Post • 2019
A field is in the shape of a trapezium whose parallel sides are 260 m and 100 m. and non-parallel sides are each of length 100 m. What is the area (in m²) of the field?
SSC CHSL • 2020
Malti bought a TV for Rs.8,800 including GST at 10%. What is the original cost of the TV?
SSC CHSL • 2025
If sinθ = 7/25, find cos²θ.
SSC CHSL • 2024
The strength of a school is 640, with the number of boys being 400. Find the ratio of girls to boys.
SSC CGL • 2020
A race track is in the shape of a ring whose inner and outer circumferences are 440 m and 506 m, respectively. What is the cost of levelling the track at Rs.6/m²? ( Take π = 22/7)
SSC CGL • 2020
When a positive integer is divided by d, the remainder is 15. When ten times of the same number is divided by d. the remainder is 6. The least possible value of d is:
SSC CHSL • 2023
Simplify the following expression. {[(x - 5)(x - 1)] - [(9x - 5)(9x - 1)]} ÷ 16x
SSC CGL • 2025
Solve: (√(5776) -√(4761)) × (1/2)
SSC CHSL • 2023
A fruit seller buys 450 bananas for ₹1,200. Some of these bananas are rotten and hence, they are thrown away. He sells the remaining bananas at ₹3.5 each and makes a profit of ₹396. What is the percentage of bananas thrown away?
SSC CHSL • 2023
Harsha's expenditure is 45% of her income. If the income from the next month is increased by 15% and the amount she saved each month remains the same, then find the percentage increased in her expenditure (rounded off to 2 decimal places).
SSC Selection Post • 2022
A person spends 75% of his income. If his income increases by 29% and his savings also increase by 20%, then the percentage increase in his expenditure is:
SSC CGL • 2021
If 3sin²θ - cosθ - 1 = 0, 0º < θ < 90º, then what is the value of cot θ + cosecθ?
SSC Selection Post • 2019
A sum of ₹18000 is lent partly at 7% and the remaining at 9% per annum. If the average annual interest is 8.5%, then the amount lent at 9% is (in ₹):
SSC CHSL • 2025
The diagonals of a rhombus have lengths 16 cm and 12 cm. What is the side length of the rhombus?
SSC CGL • 2025
If the simple interest on a certain sum of money for 4 years at 5% per annum is ₹500, what would be the simple interest on the same sum for 6 years at 7% per annum?
SSC Selection Post • 2024
A and B are participants in a 1,800 m circular race. A is running at a speed of 24 km/h and B is running at a speed of 15 km/h. If both start from the same point and at the same time and run in the same direction, find the time when they will meet again. (up…
SSC MTS • 2019
What is the difference in number of refrigerators supplied to the hotel by companies C1 and C5 if the total number of refrigerators in the hotel is 3700?
SSC CGL • 2025
How much will the compound interest on Rs. 16000 at 20% per annum for 9 months if it is compounded quarterly?
SSC GD • 2019
Train A took 30 minute to cover a distance of 50 km.If the speed of train B is 40% faster than train A, then the ratio of the respective speed of the both train is:
SSC CGL • 2021
A tangent is drawn from a point P to a circle, which meets the circle at T such PT= 8 cm. A secant PAB intersects the circles in points A and B. If PA = 5 cm, which is the length (in cm) of the chord AB?
SSC Selection Post • 2024
A shopkeeper gives a discount of 15% on the marked price of an article. If the selling price is ₹8,500, then the discount on it will be ____.
SSC CGL • 2018
If 60% discount is offered on the marked price and selling price becomes equal to cost price then what was the % mark up?
SSC Selection Post • 2023
△ABC ∼ △ LMN and their perimeters are 72 cm and 48 cm, respectively. If LM = 8 cm, then what is the length of AB (in cm)?
SSC CGL • 2022
Vikas covered a certain distance by bike. If he covers 40% of the distance at 40 km/h, 50% of the distance at 25 km/h and the remaining 10% distance at 10 km/h. Find his average speed over the whole distance.
SSC CHSL • 2021
If x - y = 7/4 and 1/x-1/y=14/3 then x³ - y³ is equal to:-
SSC CHSL • 2024
The following graph shows the data of the production of cloths (in lakh tonnes) by three different companies A, B and C over the years. [Image] What is the ratio of the average production of Company A in the period 2012-2014 to the average production of…
SSC Selection Post • 2020
An article was sold at a loss of 15%. If it had been sold for ₹1,035 more, then there would have been a profit of 8%. Find the cost price of the article.
SSC CGL • 2023
Study the given pie chart carefully and answer the following question: If the scholarship has to be paid out of the donation fund, then what is the percentage of the donation fund used for this purpose (rounded off to two decimal places)? The entire fund…
SSC CHSL • 2024
Pradeep sells two fans at ₹480 each and by doing so he gains 20% on one fan and loses 20% on the other. His loss on the whole (in ₹) is:
SSC Selection Post • 2022
If xy = 6 and x²y + xy² + x + y = 63, then the value of x² + y² is :
SSC CGL • 2022
20 men can finish a work in 30 days. They stared working, but 4 men left the work after 10 days. In how many days would the work be completed?
SSC Selection Post • 2022
The length of the tangent to a circle from a point P is 17 cm. Point P is 20 cm away from the centre. What is the radius of the circle?