Placement Training Programme Interest Calculation, Problems on ages, Word Problems Problem Solving 1.

On a certain sum compound interest and simple interest after two years are Rs.520 and Rs.500 respectively. Find the principal and the rate of interest. 2. What will Rs.1500 amount to in two years if it is invested in 20% per annum, compounded half-yearly? 3. Compound interest earned in the second year and the third year Rs.960 and Rs.1152, Find the principal and the rate of interest. 4. A sum on compound interest makes an interest of Rs.2000 in the third year and Rs.2400 in the fourth year. What will be the interest for the fifth year? 5. A sum of money placed on simple interest doubles itself in 8 years, find the rate of interest. 6. A railway half ticket costs half the full fare and the reservation charge is the same on half ticket as on full ticket. One reserved first class ticket from Chennai to Trivandrum costs Rs.216 and one full and one half reserved first class tickets cost Rs.327. What is the basic first class full fare and what is the reservation charge? (a) Rs.105 and Rs.6 (b) Rs.216 and Rs.12 (c) Rs.210 and Rs.12 (d) Rs.210 and Rs.6 7. In 17 years a father will be twice as old as his son, whose age at the present time is 1/3 of his fathers age. How old is the father now? 8. The difference between the ages of a man and his son is 25 years now. If the product of the numbers denoting their ages, ten years back, be 150, find the present age of the father. 9. A spent half of her salary on shopping and gave Rs.1 to beggar , then she spent half of the remaining in a hotel and gave the waiter Rs.2, then she spent half of the remaining and gave Rs.3 as charity and had Re 1 left with her. What is her salary? 10. A telephone company is placing telephone poles along a road. If the distance between successive poles were increased by 10 meters, 5 fewer poles per kilometer would be required. How many telephone poles is the company now placing along each kilometer of the road? (a) 24 (b) 25 (c) 26 (d) 27 (e) No solution 11. A man drove from Vilupuram to Chennai. On the he first day traveled distance; second day he traveled
1 2
1 3

of the
2 3

of the remaining distance; third day he traveled

3 of 4

of

the remaining, fourth day covering

the remaining distance he was still 5 miles away

from Chennai. What is the total distance?

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Placement Training Programme Interest Calculation, Problems on ages, Word Problems 12. A women got married 6 years ago. Today her age is 5/4 times her age at the time of marriage. Her sons age is 1/10th of her age. Then age of the son is. (a) 2.5 (b)3 (c) 4 (d) 5 13. Age of a man is 4 times that of his son. 5 years ago, the man was 9 times as old his son at that time. Find the present age of the father. (a) 28 (b) 32 (c) 40 (d) 44 14. Latha told Mahesh, 12 times my date of birth added to 31 times the month of my birth equals to number of days in a normal year . What is Lathas date of birth? 15. A man says I am twice as old as you were, when I was as old as you are. Sum of their ages is 56. Find their ages. Reasoning: Directions for Questions 1 - 3 According to a certain code: min fin bin gin means Trains are always late. gin din cin hin means Drivers were always punished bin cin vin rin means Drivers stopped all trains din kin fin vin means All passengers were late 1. Which word is represented by vin? (a) Trains (b) Drivers 2. Drivers were late would be written as (a) fin cin din (b) min cin din 3. hin min kin would mean (a) Always late trains (c) Passengers are late 4. Find the next number in the series: 1, 16, 81, 256, 625, ? (a) 1331 (b) 1296

(c) Late

(d) All

(c) fin din gin

(d) gin hin min

(b) All passenger trains (d) Passengers are punished

(c) 1728

(d) 1525

5. In a certain code, TRANSMISSION is written as RTANMSISISON How will COMMUNICATIONS be written in the same code? (a) OCMMUNICATIONS (b) OCMMNUICTAIONS (c) OCMMNUICTAIOSN (d) OCMMUNICTAIOSN

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