UGC NET Paper 1 — Quantitative Aptitude

A shopkeeper first increased the price of an item by 12% and then announces a discount of 20%. The actual discount on the original price is:

The companies A and B together had a percentage profit/loss of ____.

A certain principal amount in 2 years at some simple interest becomes ₹ 10,000 and the same principal amount on the same rate of simple interest becomes ₹ 11,000 in 3 years. Find t...

A person pays 10% tax on his income upto 4.0 lakhs. For the amount between 4.0 lakhs to 8.0 lakhs he pays a tax of 20% and for the amount above 8.0 lakhs, he pays 30% tax. If the t...

A certain principal amount becomes Rs 10,000/- in 2 years at a certain simple interest rate and the same principal amount becomes Rs 11,000/- in 3 years at the same simple interest...

Total cost price (C.P.) of two cars A and B of different models is ₹ 5.0 lakhs. Car A is sold at a profit of 20% and car B is sold at a loss of 20%. However, the selling price of t...

The sum of 7 consecutive natural numbers is 1617. Find how many of these are prime numbers?

A man earns Rs. 12,500 as simple interest @ 5% per annum in 5 years. Find the principal amount deposited by the man in the bank.

Ram can complete a work in 18 days. Shyam is twice as efficient as Ram. If they both start working together, in how many days will they complete the work?

A certain sum of money doubles in 4 years at a compound rate of interest per annum. The rate of interest is [Given; 2^(1/2) = 1.414, 2^(1/4) = 1.1892]

A train running at a speed of 63 km/hr enters a railway station and crosses the platform in 20 seconds. If the length of the train is 100 meters, what is the length of the platform...

A train moving at a speed of 63 km/hr enters a railway station and crosses the platform in 20 s. If the length of the train is 100 m, what is the length of the platform?

Given below are two statements: Statement (I): A man sells his goods at 10% profit. If he sells his goods at 15% profit, he gets ₹ 160 more. The cost price of his goods is ₹ 4.200....

After getting two successive discounts, a shirt with a list price of Rs. 150 is available at Rs. 105. If the second discount is 12.5%, find the first discount?

A trader marked the price of his commodity so as to include a profit of 25%. He allowed a discount of 16% on the marked price. What is the actual profit he earns?

A retailer marks all his goods at 50% above the cost price and thinking that he will still make 25% profit, offers a discount of 25% on the marked price. What is the actual profit...

What can be the value of a single discount equivalent to a series discount of 10%, 15% and 25%?

Price of a mobile is first increased by 20% and later decreased by 25%. What is the net percentage change in final price of the mobile?

A retailer buys 40 pens at the marked price of 36 pens from a wholesaler. If he sells these pens giving a discount of 1 %, what is the profit percentage?

A producer allows a commission of 36% on the retail price of his product and earns a profit of 8.8%. What would be the profit of the producer (in percentage), if the commission is...

If the selling price is doubled, the profit triples. What would be the profit percentage?

Mohan buys a second hand television at a cost of Rs. 7,500 and spends Rs. 500 on its repair. Later on he sells it at a cost of Rs. 9,000. How much profit he gets in this process?

If seven persons can build a house in 30 days, how long will it take three persons to build the same house, provided that they all work at the same rate?

By selling 24 pens, a vendor lost the selling price of 6 pens. Find the loss percent

A 108 meter long train moving at a speed of 50 km/hr crosses a 112 meters long train coming from the opposite direction in 6 seconds. The speed of the second train is:

The cost price of 10 items is same as the selling price of N items. If the profit is 25%, then the value of N is?

Given below are two statements: Statement I: If two trains of length x km and y km are moving in the same direction at u kmph and v kmph respectively, where u >v, then time taken b...

The value of a mobile phone depreciates at the rate of 10% every year. It was purchased 3 years ago. If its present value is ₹ 6561/-, its purchase price was.

The profit earned by selling a chair for Rs. 752 is 1.2 times the loss incurred when the same chair was sold for Rs. 400. What is the cost price of the chair?

The average age of A, B and C is 25 years. If the average age of A and B is 22 and that of B and C is 23. Then what is the age of B?

Three men, four women and six children can complete a work in seven days. A woman does double the work a man does and a child half the work a man does. How many women alone can com...

In a cricket match, in the first 20 overs run rate was 4.5. What should be the run rate in the remaining 30 overs to meet a target of 325?

The least number by which 72 must be multiplied in order to produce a multiple of 112 is

If the cost price is 25% of selling price, then what is the profit percentage?

A seller mixes 26 kg rice of a price of Rs. 20/kg, with 30 kg of different variety rice of a price of Rs. 36/kg. He sells both the mixed rice at Rs. 30/kg. What will be the profit...

A milk man purchases milk at Rs. X per liter and sells it at Rs. 2X per liter. Still he mixes 2 liters of water with every 6 liter of pure milk. What is his profit percentage?

The average monthly income of P and Q is Rs. 5,050/-. The average monthly income of Q and R is Rs. 6,250/- and that of P and R is Rs. 5,200. What will be the monthly income of P?

The average of 4 terms is 20, and the first term is 1/3rd of sum of the remaining 3 terms. What will be the value of first term?

63% of employees in a company are female. If the number of male employees is 111, then the total number of employees is

The simple interest on a certain sum of money for 3 years at 40 per annum is half the compound interest on Rs. 2.000 for 2 years at 10% per annum. The sum invested on simple intere...

The number of marble slabs of size 20 cm × 30 cm required to pave the floor of a square room of side 3 meters is:

The difference between the average speed of cab C and cab E on Monday is :