Abhijit Guha Solutions for Chapter: Problems on Ages and Numbers, Exercise 2: Practice Problems Level 2

What number must be added to both the numerator and denominator of the fraction $5/21$ to give a fraction equal to $3/7 ?$

If the product of the two numbers is $1,452$ and the first number is $\frac{1}{3}\mathrm{rd}$ of the second number, then what will be the first number?

The product of two positive numbers is $2,500$. If one is four times the other, then the sum of two numbers is

A number is as much greater than $37$ as is less than $65$. The one-third of the number is

A positive number when decreased by $2$ is equal to $24$ times the reciprocal of the number. The number is

The denominator of a fraction is $1$ more than its numerator. If $2$ is deducted from the numerator and $2$ is added to the denominator, the fraction becomes $0.5$. The numerator of fraction is

The number that should be added to both the numerator and denominator of $\frac{5^2}{7^2}$ so that the fraction becomes $\frac{5}{7}$ is

The product of two fractions is $\frac{6}{7}$ and their quotient is $\frac{32}{21}$. The greater of the fractions is