Simplification
218 questions in this chapter, page 4 of 5.
Study loop for Simplification
1. Practise the PYQsPrevious-year questions, with answers
General
ABC26GN1128 · A waiter's salary consists of his salary and tips. During one week his tips were 5/4 of his salary. What fraction of his income came from…
ABC26GN1130 · Three friends had dinner at a restaurant. When the bill was received, Amita paid 2/3 as much as Veena paid and Veena paid 1/2 as much as… · 2005
ABC26GN1131 · 1/4 of a tank holds 135 litres of water. What part of the tank is full if it contains 180 litres of water?
ABC26GN1132 · A tank is 2/5 full. If 16 litres of water is added to the tank, it becomes 6/7 full. The capacity of the tank is
ABC26GN1133 · A drum of kerosene is 3/4 full. When 30 litres of kerosene is drawn from it, it remains 7/12 full. The capacity of the drum is · 2010
ABC26GN1136 · An area of 100 sq. cm on the map represents an area of 49 sq. km on the field. The R.F. of the scale to be used is
ABC26GN1137 · The fluid contained in a bucket can fill four large bottles or seven small bottles. A full large bottle is used to fill an empty small…
ABC26GN1138 · To fill a tank, 25 buckets of water is required. How many buckets of water will be required to fill the same tank if the capacity of the…
ABC26GN1139 · A stationary engine has enough fuel to run 12 hours when its tank is 4/5 full. How long will it run when the tank is 1/3 full? · 2009
ABC26GN1141 · A car is filled with four and a half gallons of fuel for a round trip. If the amount of fuel taken while going is 1/4 more than the amount… · 2009
ABC26GN1142 · The lowest temperature in the night in a city is onethird more than 1/2 the highest during the day. Sum of the lowest temperature and the… · 2010
ABC26GN1143 · In a class there are 18 boys who are over 160 cm tall. If these boys constitute three-fourths of the boys and the total number of boys is…
ABC26GN1146 · Rita travelled 1200 km by air, which formed 2/5 th of her journey. One-third of the whole journey she travelled by car and the remaining… · 2006
ABC26GN1147 · A man spends one-quarter of his income on food, one-fifth of it on rent and remaining, which is ₹ 231, on other commodities. Find his total…
ABC26GN1148 · A boy read 3/8 th of a book on one day and 4/5 th of the remainder on another day. If there were 30 pages unread, how many pages did the… · 2006
ABC26GN1149 · An institute organised a fete and 1/5 of the girls and 1/8 of the boys participated in the same. What fraction of the total number of…
ABC26GN1175 · A light was seen at intervals of 13 seconds. It was seen for the first time at 1 hr. 54 min. 50 secs. a.m. and the last time at 3 hrs. 17… · 2003
ABC26GN1176 · A woman works continuously for 7 days in the kitchen and refuses to work on the 8th day when her husband takes over. If she starts her work…
ABC26GN1178 · If a * b=a b/(a+b), find the value of 3 *(3 *-1).
ABC26GN1179 · If a * b=2 a-3 b+a b, then 3 * 5+5 * 3 is equal to
ABC26GN1181 · If a * b * c means (a+b)/c for all numbers except 0, then (a * b * c) * a * b is equal to
ABC26GN1185 · If the operation ∧ is defined by the equation x ∧ y = 2x + y, what is the value of a in 2 ∧ a = a ∧ 3? · 2009
ABC26GN1187 · At Srinagar, starting at 9 a.m. on a certain day, snow began to fall at a rate of 1 1/4 inches every two hours until 3 p.m. If there was…
ABC26GN1188 · A squirrel starts climbing up a tree at the speed of 6 metres a minute but after every 6 metres it slips down 4 metres in the next minute… · 2006
ABC26GN1189 · Ram had ₹ 1000 in his Savings Bank Account. Every month in the first week he needs money, so he withdraws ₹ 500, but by the end of the… · 2005
ABC26GN1194 · 17/15 × 17/15+2/15 × 2/15-17/15 × 4/15 is equal to
ABC26GN1195 · 2 × 13 3/4 × 5 1/4+5 1/4 × 5 1/4+13 3/4 × 13 3/4= ?
ABC26GN1196 · The simplification of ((75983 × 75983-45983 × 45983)/30000) yields the result
ABC26GN1199 · What is (7/8 × 7/8+5/6 × 5/6+7/8 × 5/3)/(7/8 × 7/8-5/6 × 5/6) equal to? · 2007
ABC26GN1205 · The simplified value of ((1+1/(1+1/100)) (1+1/(1+1/100))- (1-1/(1+1/100)) (1-1/(1+1/100)))/((1+1/(1+1/100))+ (1-1/(1+1/100))) is
ABC26GN1206 · The value of (769435 × 770001-566)/(769435+770001 × 769434) is
ABC26GN1213 · ((785 × 785 × 785+435 × 435 × 435)/(785 × 785+435 × 435-785 × 435)) simplifies to
ABC26GN1214 · ((147 × 147+147 × 143+143 × 143)/(147 × 147 × 147-143 × 143 × 143))= ?
ABC26GN1229 · Along a yard 225 metres long, 26 trees are planted at equal distances, one tree being at each end of the yard. What is the distance between…
ABC26GN1233 · When all the students in a school are made to stand in rows of 54, 30 such rows are formed. If the students are made to stand in rows of… · 2010
ABC26GN1240 · X gives 1/2 of his property to his wife and 1/2 of the rest to his son. The remainder is divided equally between his two daughters. The…
ABC26GN1242 · 180 oranges are distributed among 70 boys and girls such that each boy gets 2 and each girl gets 3 oranges. The number of boys are
ABC26GN1244 · A man had two sons. To the elder, he left 5/11 of his property, to the younger 5/11 of the remainder, the rest to the widow. Find the share… · 2007
ABC26GN1251 · When a sum of money was distributed to 12 persons instead of 16 persons, each person got ₹ 400 more. What was the sum?
ABC26GN1257 · There are some boys and girls in a room. The square of the number of girls is less than the square of the number of boys by 28. If there… · 2007
ABC26GN1258 · A classroom has equal number of boys and girls. Eight girls left to play kho-kho, leaving twice as many boys as girls in the classroom…
ABC26GN1259 · What is the value of the expression (1+x) (1+x2) (1+x4) (1+x8)(1-x) ?
ABC26GN1262 · If (x+1/x)=3, then (x2+1/x2)= ?
ABC26GN1263 · If (a-1/a)=p, then (a2+1/a2) is equal to
ABC26GN1264 · If (x-1)/x=3, then the value of 1+1/x2 is
ABC26GN1265 · If (x2+1/x2)=34, then (x+1/x) is equal to
ABC26GN1266 · If (x+1/x)=2, then (x-1/x) is equal to · 2006
ABC26GN1268 · If (x-1/x)=2, then the value of (x4+1/x4) is
ABC26GN1271 · If x+1/x=p, the value of x3+1/x3 is
ABC26GN1272 · If x-1/x=1, then the value of x3-1/x3 is equal to