Ratio

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Ratio: Overview

This topic covers concepts, such as, Understanding Proportion as Equality of Ratios, Statement of Proportions, Third Proportional & Mean Proportional etc.

Important Questions on Ratio

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If  3900 is divided among three persons A, B and C in the ratio 12:13:14.how much does A get?

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A certain amount is distributed among A, B and C in the ratio of 3:5:7 respectively. If A got 1196 less than C, what is the share of B?

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Lara had a certain sum of money. She bought books with 13 of her money, and cosmetics with 14 of the remainder. Finally, she purchased a toy by spending 15 of what remained. She was then left with  50. How much money did she have at the beginning?

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If A:B:C=2:3:4, then AB:BC:CA is equal to _____.

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Sum of two different positive integers is 11 and the sum of their squares is 61. What is the ratio of larger integer to the smaller integer?

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The ratio of expenditure and savings is 3:2 . If the income increases by 15% and the savings increases by 6% , then by how much percent should his expenditure increases?

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A bag contains the coins of 25 paise, 10 paise and 5 paise in the ratio of 1:2:3. If the total value of the coins is  30, what is the number of 5 paise coins?

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In a family, a couple has a son and a daughter. The age of the father is three times that of his daughter and the age of the son is half of his mother. The wife is 9 years younger to her husband and the brother is 7 years older than his sister. What is the age of the mother?

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If the ratio of the areas of two similar triangles is 4:9, then the ratio of their corresponding sides is _____.

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Find the sub duplicate ratio of 121 : 256 : 144:

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A bag contains 1, 50 paise and 25 paise coins in the ratio of 9 : 25 : 36.Find the sub duplicate ratio of the ratio of coins:

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Manoj & Nilu invested Rs. ‘P’ and Rs. 6000 respectively, while Manoj left the business after eight months. If Manoj gets 50% less profit than Nilu at the end of one year, then find ‘P’?

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A box contains the mixture of black and red pens in the ratio 7:11. If 12 pens of each color are removed, then the ratio of the number of black and red pens becomes 11:19. What is the initial number of black pens in the box?

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In a company there are 54 employees, in which some of males and some of females. If a employee select at random for the post of MD, then probability of being that employee is a female is 1/6 . Find how many male employees in company ?

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In a college, the ratio of the number of students studying in Arts, Commerce and Science was 3:5:8 respectively. If the number of the students in these streams be increased by 20%, 40% and 25% respectively, the new ratio of the number of students in these streams will be?

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A sum of money is divided among A, B, C and D in the ratio of 2 : 3 : 7 : 11. If the share of C is 2755 more than the share of A, then what is the total amount of money of B and D together?

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A piece of cloth is cut into pieces in the ratio of 3:5 by length. The longer of the two is further cut in the ratio of 5:6 by length. What is the ratio of each of the three pieces?

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A certain amount was to be distributed among A, B and C in the ratio 2:3:4 respectively but was erroneously distributed in the ratio 7:2:5 respectively. As a result of this, B got 40 less. What was the distributed amount?

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Populations of two villages X and Y are in the ratio of 5 : 7 respectively. If the population of village Y increases by 25000 and the population of village X remains unchanged the respective ratio of their populations becomes 25:36. What is the population of village X ?

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The ratio of the prices of two houses A and B was 4 : 5 last year. This year, the price of A is increased by 25% and that of B by Rs.50000. If their prices are now in the ratio 9 : 10, the price of A last year was-