BCB Math Practice Hemal Jamiul Hasan 2016

BANKING CAREER IN BANGLADESH
BCB MATH PRACTICE
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BCB Math Practice
BCB Day 1
1. The speed of a railway engine is 42 km per hour when no compartment is attached, and the
reduction in speed is directly proportional to the square root of the number of compartments
attached. If the speed of the train carried by this engine is 24 km per hour when 9 compartments
are attached, what is the maximum number of compartments that can be carried by the engine?
2. Mr. Karim deposited a certain amount of money for a fixed period of time. On maturity, he
received a total of Tk. 45000 when the ratio of interest and investment became 2:5. If the
interest rate was 3.6%, calculate the time period for which the money was invested.
3. A man and a boy can finish a work by 8 days. 2 men and 4 boys can finish this work by 3 days.
How many days need for a boy to finish this work?
4. Two alloys A and B are composed of two basic elements. The ratios of the compositions of the
two basic elements in the two alloys are 5:3 and 1:2, respectively. A new alloy X is formed by
mixing the two alloys A and B in the ratio 4:3. What is the ratio of the composition of the
two basic elements in alloy X?
5. After being dropped a certain ball always bounces back to 2/5 of the height of its previous
bounce. After the first bounce it reaches a height of 125 inches. How high (in inches) will it
reach after its fourth bounce?
6. A cars average speed is 25 miles per gallon of gasoline when driven in the city and 40 miles
per gallon when driven on the highway. According to these rates, which is closest to the number
of miles per gallon that the cars average speed when it is driven 10 miles in the city and
then 50 miles on the highway?
7. Aman started a business investing TK. 70,000. Rakhi joined him after six months with an amount
of TK. 1,05,000 and Sagar joined them with TK. 1,40,000 after another six months. The amount
of profit earned should be distributed in what ratio among Aman, Rakhi and Sagar respectively,
3 years after Aman started the business?
8. A person bought an article and sold it at a loss of 10%. If he had bought it for 20% less and
sold it for Tk. 55 more, he would have made a profit of 40%. What was cost of article?
9. A team of 3 men and 5 women completed one-fourth of the job in 3 days. After 3 days, another
man joined and they took 2 days to complete another one-fourth of job. How many men can complete
the whole job in 5 days?
10. A school has raised 75% of the amount it needs for a new building by receiving an average
donation of TK.60 from the people already solicited. The people already solicited represent
60% of the people the college will ask for donations. If the college is to raise exactly the
amount needed for the new building, how much must the remaining people donate per person?
11. A train which travels at a uniform speed due to some mechanical fault after traveling for an
hour goes at 3/5th of the original speed and reached the destination 2 hours late. If the fault
had occurred after travelling another 50 miles, the train would have reached 40 minutes earlier.
What is the distance between the two stations?
12. The volume of a wall 5 times as high as it is broad & 8 times as long as it is high, is 12.8
cubic meteTK. The breadth (in cm) of the wall is?
13. In what ratio must a person mix three kinds of tea costing tk.60/kg, tk.75/kg & tk.100/kg so
that the resultant mixture when sold at tk.96/kg yields a profit of 20%?
14. A boat sails M miles upstream at the rate of R miles per hour. If the rate of the stream is S
miles per hour. How long will it take the boat to return to its starting point?
15. The sum of two numbers is 15 and sum of their squares is 113.The numbers are?
16. A dishonest business man makes a profit of 10% both buying and selling of a commodity. If his
profit is Tk.1050, what is the cost of the commodity?
17. A worker buys some shirts and some ties. Shirts cost Tk.70 each and ties cost Tk.30 each. If
the man spends exactly Tk.810 and buys the maximum number of shirts possible under these
conditions, what is the ratio of shirts to ties?
18. A company has issued 2,00,000 ordinary shares of Tk.10 each and 50,000 debentures of Tk.100
each. The debenture interest of 10% per annum. In one years, after paying the interest of 9%
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on the debentures and 9% dividend on the ordinary shares. Its profit are just sufficient to
put Tk.2,00,000 to reserve. What are the profits for that year?
19. Onefifth of the products made by a company is defective. Four-fifth of the defectives are
rejected and 1/20 of the good products are rejected by mistake. If all the products not rejected
are sold, what percent of the products sold by the company defective?
20. A bank has a parking plot of 70 parking spaces. Each row in the parking lot contains the same
number of parking spaces. The bank has purchased additional land for expansion of the office
space. When the expansion is made, two parking spaces will be lost from each row; however, 4
more rows will be added to the parking lot. After the expansion is made, the capacity of the
parking lot will remain the same and each row will contain the same number of parking spaces.
How many rows were there in the parking lot before expansion was made?
21. A computer company offered to sell a city agency new machine at a 15% discount from the price
list and to allow the agency Tk.8500 for each of two old computers being traded in the list
price of the new machine is Tk.62500. If the agency accepts the offer, how much money will it
have to pay for the 4 new machines?
22. In a group of account holders 40% of the account holders are businessman and the remaining
account holders are service and half are female. If 10% account holders are businessman and
male and 40% account holders are service-holder and female, how many of the account holders
are businessman and female?
23. In a 100m race, Sam beats John by 4 seconds. On the contrary, if Sam allowed John to start 16m
ahead of Sam, then Sam and John reach the finishing point at the same time. How long does Sam
take to run the 100m race?
24. A man cheats while buying as well as while selling. While buying him takes 10 % more than what
he pays for and while selling he gives 20 % less than what he claims to. Find the profit
percent, if he sells at 09.09 % below the cost price of the claimed weight.
25. In a bag 6 identical green marbles, 4 identical blue marbles, and 2 identical red marbles. If
the marbles are picked at random from the twelve in the bag, how many distinct sets of three
can be selected.
26. Given 2E +2F=6G, 2E-2F=2G, and F-G=0, How many unique solution are there for G?
27. In a room filled with 7 people, 4 people have exactly 1 sibling in the room and 3 people have
exactly 2 siblings in the room. If two individuals are selected from the room at random, what
is the probability that those two individuals are NOT siblings?
28. The interest charged on a loan is p per tk.1000 for the first quarter (three months) and q per
tk. 1000 for each month after the first quarter. How much interest will be charged for the
first year on tk. 10000?
29. During transportation 5% merchandise was stolen and another 5% was damaged. At what profit (in
percentage) should the goods be sold so as to make an overall profit of 20%?
30. A jar contains marbles of 4 different coloTK. The number of blue marbles is three times as many
as the yellow ones. The number of red marbles is half that of the yellow ones. The number of
orange marbles is equal to the number of red ones. What percent of the marbles are orange
colored?
31. The average price of a new car increased by 20% from 1990 to 1995 and again increased by 20%
from 1995 to 2000. If the average price of a new car was tk. 450000 in 1995, what is the
difference in average price of a car between year 1990 and 2000?
32. Fresh grapes contain 90% water by weight while dread grapes contain 20% water by weight. What
is the weight of dry grapes available from 20 kg of fresh grapes?
33. A, B and C can do a piece of work in 16, 32 and 48 days respectively. They started working
together but C left after working 4 days and B, 2 days before the completion of work. How many
days it took to complete the work?
34. Rina and Shila entered into a partnership with their capitals in the ratio 5:6. At the end of
8 months, Rina withdraws her capital. If they receive the profit in the ratio of 5:6. At the
end of 8 months, Rina withdraws her capital. If they receive the profit in the ratio of 5:9,
find how long shilas capital was used?
35. A train overtakes two persons walking along a railway track. The first one walks at 4.5 km/hr.
The other one walks at 5.4 km/hr. The train needs 8.4 and 8.5 seconds respectively to overtake
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them. What is the speed of the train if both the persons are walking in the same direction as
the train?
BCB Day 2
1. Three pipes A, B and C can fill a tank from empty to full in 30 minutes, 20 minutes, and 10
minutes respectively. When the tank is empty, all the three pipes are opened. A, B and C
discharge chemical solutions P, Q and R respectively. What is the proportion of the solution R
in the liquid in the tank after 3 minutes?
2. A man standing at a point P is watching the top of a tower, which makes an angle of elevation
of 30 with the man's eye. The man walks some distance towards the tower to watch its top and
the angle of the elevation becomes 60. What is the distance between the base of the tower and
the point P?
3. Gauri went to the stationers and bought things worth TK. 25, out of which 30 paisa went on
sales tax on taxable purchases. If the tax rate was 6%, then what was the cost of the tax free
items?
4. A metallic sheet is of rectangular shape with dimensions 48 m x 36 m. From each of its corners,
a square is cut off so as to make an open box. If the length of the square is 8 what is the
volume of the box (in m3)?
5. Two trains, one from P to Q and the other from Q to P, start simultaneously. After they meet,
the trains reach their destinations after 9 hours and 16 hours respectively. The ratio of their
speeds is
6. A train having a length of 1/4 mile, is traveling at a speed of 75 mph. It enters a tunnel 3
miles long. How long does it take the train to pass through the tunnel from the moment the
front enters to the moment the rear emerges?
7. At a college football game, 4/5 of the seats in the lower deck of the stadium were sold. If
one fourth of all the seating in the stadium is located in the lower deck and if 2/3 of all
the seats in the stadium were sold, what fraction of the unsold seats in the stadium was in
the lower deck?
8. A departments store receives a shipment of 1000 shirts, for which it pays tk 9000. The store
sells the shirts at a price 80% above the cost for one month, after which it reduces the price
of the shirts to 20% above the cost. The sore sells 75% of the shirts during first month and
50% of the remaining shirts afterward. How much gross income did sales of the shirts generate?
9. The distance between two stations, Dhaka and Chittagong is 450km.A train stars at 5 pm from
Dhaka and moves towards Chittagong at an average speed of 60km/hr. Another train starts from
Chittagong at 4.20 pm and moves toward Dhaka at an average speed of 80km/hr. At what time will
the two trains meet?
10. In a garden, there are 10 rows and 12 columns of trees. The distance between any two trees is
2m and a distance of 1m is left from all sides of the boundary of the garden. What is the
length of the garden?
11. In a cricket match, five batsman A,B, C,D and E scored an average of 36 runs .D scored 5 more
than E; E scored 8 fewer than A; B scored as many as B and E combined and B and C jointly
scored 107. How many runs did E score?
12. At a dinner party every two guests shared a bowl of rice between them, every three guests
shared a bowl of vegetable between them and every four shared a bowl of meat between them
.There were altogether 65 bowls. How many guests were present at the party?
13. A farmer built a fence around his square plot .He used 27 fence poles on each side of the
square .How many poles did he need altogether?
14. In a family, each daughter has the same number of brothers as she has sisters and each son has
twice as many sisters as he has brotheTK. How many sons are there in the family?
15. A cube of side 5 cm is painted on all its side. If it is sliced into 1 cubic centimeter cubes.
How much additional ground will have exactly one of their sides painted?
16. A car averages 25 miles per gallon of gasoline when driven in the city and 40 miles per gallon
when driven on the high way .According to these rates, what would be the closest to the number
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of miles per gallon that the car averages when it is driven 10 miles in the city and the 50
miles on the highway?
17. What is the radius of the in-circle of the triangle whose side measures 5, 12 and 13units?
18. Marium has n chocolates, where n is an integer such that 20 < < 50 .If Marium divides the
chocolates equally among 5 children, she will have 2 chocolates remaining. If she divides the
chocolates among 6 children, she will have 1 chocolates remaining. How many chocolates will
remain if she divides chocolates among 7 children?
19. Mr. Ali decided to walk down the escalator of a tube station. He found that if he walks down
26 steps, he requires 30 seconds to reach the bottom. However, if he steps down 34 stairs he
would only require 18 seconds to get the bottom. If the time is measured from the moment the
top steps begins to descend to the time he steps off the last step at the bottom, find out the
height of the stair way in steps?
20. The elevator in an eleven-storied building travels at the rate of one floor per minute, which
allows time for picking up and letting down passengers at the main floor and at the top floor
the operators stops for 1 minute. How many complete (with return) trips will the operator make
during 7 hour period?
21. Among120 students of a class, numbered 1 to 120, all even numbered students opt for bangla,
whose numbers are divisible by 5 opt for English and those numbers are divisible by 7 opt for
math. How many opt for none of these 3 subjects?
22. A railway half ticket cost half the full fare and the reservation charge is the same on half
ticket as on ticket. One reserved first class ticket from Jessore to Rajshahi costs Tk. 216
and one full and one half reserved first class tickets cost Tk. 327. What is the casic first
class full fare and what is the reservation charge?
23. During the next tree plantation week, MTB is considering planting trees in one of its own
rectangular piece of land which is 90 feet long 66 feet wide. This is suspended by boundary
wall of 5 feet height. It was been decide that the distance from one tree to another in both
row and column will be 4 feet. What is the maximum numbers of trees that can be planted in the
land?
24. Before budget, a businessman had increased the price of his product by 12%. In the budget, a
10% sales tax (to be paid by seller) was imposed on that product. As a result, the profit
ultimately increased by tk 64. What was the original selling price?
25. A father said to his son, I was as old as you are at present at the time of your birth. If
the fathers age is 36 years now, the sons age five years back was?
26. In a group of students, 80% of the students weight less than 60 kg and a total of 32 students
weight less than 50 kg. If 60% of the students weight at least 50 kg, how many of the students
weight at least 50kg but less than 60 kg?
27. The number of flights leaving a certain airport doubles during every one hour period between
its 9 am opening and noon; after noon, the number of flights leaving from the airport doubles
during every two hour period if 4 flights left from the airport between 9 am and 10 am, how
many flights left airport between 2 pm and 4 pm?
28. During a special promotion, a certain filling station is offering a 10% discount on gas
purchased after 10 gallons. If Kim purchased 20 gallons of gas, and Zeni purchased 25 gallons
of gas, the Zenis total per gallon discount is what percent of Kims total per gallon discount?
29. A machine P can print one lakh books in 8 hours; machine Q can print the same number of books
in 10 hours while machine R can print them in 12 houTK. All the machines are started at 9 A.M.
while machine P is closed at 11 A.M. and the remaining two machines complete work. Approximately
at what time will the work (to print one lakh books) be finished?
30. A jogger running at 9 kmph alongside a railway track in 240 meters ahead of the engine of a
120 meters long train running at 45 kmph in the same direction. In how much time will the train
pass the jogger?
the train?
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32. A train can travel 50% faster than a car. Both start from point A at the same time and reach
point B 75 kms away from A at the same time. On the way, however, the train lost about 12.5
minutes while stopping at the stations. What is the speed of the car?
33. A sum of tk. 725 is lent in the beginning of a year at a certain rate of interest. After 8
months, a sum of tk. 362.50 more is lent but at the rate twice the former. At the end of the
year, tk. 33.50 is earned as interest from both the loans. What was the original rate of
interest?
34. Ayesha's father was 38 years of age when she was born while her mother was 36 years old when
her brother four years younger to her was born. What is the difference between the ages of her
parents?
35. Two stations A and B are 110 km apart on a straight line. One train starts from A at 7 a.m.
and travels towards B at 20 kmph. Another train starts from B at 8 a.m. and travels towards A
ata speed of 25 kmph. At what time will they meet?
BCB Day 3
1. The captain of a cricket team of 11 members is 26 years old and the wicket keeper is 3 years
older. If the ages of these two are excluded, the average age of the remaining players is one
year less than the average age of the whole team. What is the average age of the team?
2. A, B and C jointly thought of engaging themselves in a business venture. It was agreed that A
would invest tk. 6500 for 6 months, B tk. 8400 for 5 months and C tk. 10,000 for 3 months. A
wants to be the working member for which, he was to receive 5% of the profits. The profit
earned was tk. 7400. Calculate the share of B in the profit.
3. The sum of three numbers is 68.
If the ratio between first and second be 2:3 and that between
second and third be 5:3, then the second number is?
4. If the first 200 numbers are written down and those divisible by 2 are deleted and again those
divisible by 5 are deleted, how many numbers are left out?
5. One year ago the ratio between Zeshans and Jabeers salary was 3:4. The ratios of their
individual salaries between last years and this years salaries are 4:5 and 2:3 respectively.
At present the total of their salary is Tk. 4290. The salary of Zeshan and Jabeer now are?
6. Gold is 19 times as heavy as water and copper 9 times as heavy as water.
The ratio in which

these two metals be mixed so that the mixture is 15 times as heavy as water is?
7. Drum X is 1/2 full of oil and drum Y which is twice the capacity of drum X, is 2/3 full of oil.
If all the oil in drum X is poured into drum Y, then drum Y will be filled to what fraction of
its capacity?
8. 16 ounches of fresh orange juice has 216 calories & 16 ounches of fresh grapefruit juice has
174 calories. If an 8 ounch mixture of these 2 juices contains 94 calories, what fraction of
the mixture is orange juice?
9. A train which travels at a uniform speed due to some mechanical fault after travelling for an
occurred after travelling another 50 km, the train would have reached 40 minutes earlier. What
is the distance between the two stations?
10. A room is 12 ft long, 8 ft wide and 10 ft high. Find the cost of white washing the four walls
of the room, leaving out two doors of the room, leaving out two doors each measuring 6 ft high
and 4 ft wide and four windows each measuring 5 ft high and 3 ft wide, if the rate is tk 20
per sq ft?
11. In a class of 60 students, the number of boys and girls participating in the annual sports is
in the ratio 3:2 respectively. The number of girls not participating in the sports is 5 more
than the number of boys not participating in the sports. If the number of boys participating
in the sports is 15, then how many girls are there in the class?
12. The price of a shirt and a trouser is Tk.525. If the prices of a shirt and a trouser are
increased by 5% and 10% respectively, then to buy those it costs Tk.568.75. What is the cost
price of each of a shirt and a trouser?
13. City B is 5 miles east of city A. City C is 10 miles southeast of city B. What is the closest
distance from city A to city C?
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14. In an examination 30% candidates passed in computer science. Among the candidates who could
not pass, 12 candidates had participated in a computer science course and 30 candidates had
not participated in that course. How many candidates took part in the examination?
15. A shopkeeper lost 7.5% by selling an article. If he had bought it at 10% less and sold it for
Tk.31 more, he would have gained 20%. Find the cost price of the article.
16. The house hold expenses of a family went up by 20%. By how many percent must the family reduce
household expenditure so that expenses remain same as before?
17. A cube of side 5cm is painted on all its sides. If it is sliced into 1 cubic centimeter cubes,
how many 1 cubic centimeter cubes will have exactly one of their sides painted?
18. The area of an equilateral triangle is 50 cm2. Calculate the length of a side of the triangle.
19. The length of a pool is 60m and its breadth is 40m. If the width of the bank of the pool is
3m, then what is the area of the bank of the pool?
20. Mr. Muhammad Shariful Alam employed 50 workers to finish a work within 30 days. After 20 days
he found out that only 50% of the work had been completed. How many additional workers will
Mr. Alam need to finish the work in time?
21. If the circumference of a circle is increased by 50%, its area will be increased by what per
percentage?
22. A wire 2m in length is cut into two pieces by which a square and a circle can be formed so that
the circle may pass through the corners of the square. Find the radius of the circle.
23. The length, breadth and height of a rectangular copper solid are 11m, 10m and 5m respectively.
It is melted and re-casted into a number of spheres of diameter 50cm. Find the number of
spheres.
24. A man is standing on a railway bridge which is 180m long. He finds that a train crosses the
bridge in 20 seconds and crosses him in 8 seconds. Find the length of the train and its speed.
25. Q is as much younger than R as he is older than T. If the sum of the ages of R and T is 50
years, what is definitely the difference between R and Qs age?
26. Two trains of the same length running in opposite directions cross a man standing on the
platform in 27 seconds and 17 seconds respectively and he cross each other in 23 seconds. What
is the ratio of their speeds?
27. A 19 liter mixture consists by volume of 1 part juice to 18 parts water. If z liters of juice
and y liters of water are added to this mixture to make a 54 liter mixture consisting by volume
of 1 part juice to 2 parts water, then what is the value of x?
28. If Tk.45000 was invested in the share market when the price per share was Tk. 90 and Tk. 30000
was invested when the price per share was Tk. 100, what was the average price per share
purchased?
29. In a group consisting of 40 people, 24 were female and the rest were male. Half of the members
were smokers and the rest were non-smokeTK. If one-third of the female member were smokers,
how many of the male members were non-smokers?
30. Two cars started from the same point and traveled in opposite directions. After 2 hours of
traveling, the cars were 208 miles apart on a straight line. If the average speed of one car
was 8 miles more than the other, calculate the average speed of each.
31. Two tanks X and Y are filled to capacity with fuel. Tank X holds 600 gallons more than tank Y.
If 100 gallons of fuel were to be pumped from each tank, tank X would contain 3 times as much
fuel as tank Y. What is the capacity of each of the fuel tanks?
32. The average weight of 3 men A, B, C is 84 kg. Another man D joins the group and the average
now becomes 80 kg. If another man E, whose weight is 3 kg more than that of D, replaces A then
the average weight of B, C, D and E becomes 79 kg. Find out the weight of A?
33. Maria got married 6 years ago. Today her age is 1 times her age at the time of marriage. Her
sons age is 1/10 times her age. Find out her sons age.
34. A reduction of 21% in the price of wheat enables a person to buy 10.5 kg more for Tk 100. What
is the reduced price per kg?
35. In an organization 30% of all employees live over 10miles away from the place of work & 60% of
worker who live who live over 10miles use company transport. If 40% of employees of the company
use company transport, what percent of the employees live 10miles or less from work and use
company transport?
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BCB Day 4
1. A trader marks his goods at such a price that after allowing a discount of 150%, he makes a
profit of 20%. Find the marked price of an article, which costs him Tk. 850.
2. A manager has a budget of Tk 60000 for giving salary increment of 4 full-time and 2 part time
employees. Each of the full time employees receives the same increment, which is twice the
increment that each of the part time employees receive. What is the amount of the increment
that each full-time employee receives?
3. A ferry can travel twice as fast when empty as when it is full. It travels 20 miles with full
load spends 1 hour for unloading and returns to its original port empty. It takes 11 hours to
complete the journey. What is the speed when the ferry was empty?
4. Arif and Mukul start running at the same time and from the same point aroung a circle of 216
meters circumference. If Arif can complete one round in 40 seconds and Mukul in 50 seconds,
how many seconds will it be before they both reach the starting point simultaneously and how
many rounds they will complete by this time?
5. A man travels from A to B at a speed of x km/hr. He then rests at B for x houTK. He then travels
from B to C at a speed of 2x km/hr and rests for 2x houTK. He moves further to D at a speed
twice as that between B and C. He thus reaches D in 16 hr. If distances A-B, B-C, C-D are all
equal to 12 km, then find the time for which he rested at B.
6. A salesmans commission is 5% on all sales upto TK. 10,000 and 4% on all sales exceeding this
.He remits TK. 31,100 to his parent company after deducting his commission .Find total sales?
7. In a class of 40 students, the number of students who passed the math exam is equal to half
the students who passed the science exam. Each students in the class passed at least one of
the two exams, if 5 students passed in both exam. Then how many students passed in math exam?
8. Ramesh travels 600 km to reach home partly by train and rest by car. He takes 8 hours if he
travels 120 km by train and rest by car. But he would take 20 minute more if he travels 200 km
by train and the rest by car. Find the speeds of train and car.
9. Point A is 10 miles West of Point B. Point B is 30 miles North of Point C. Point C is 20 miles
East of Point D. What is the distance between points A and D?
10. An old man distributed all the gold coins he had to his two sons into two different numbers
such that the difference between the squares of the two numbers is 36 times the difference
between the two numbeTK. How many coins did the old man have?
11. Two people start jogging at the same point and time but in opposite directions. If the rate of
one jogger is 2 mph faster than the other and after 3 hours they are 30 miles apart, what is
the rate of the faster jogger?
12. Scott starts jogging from point X to point Y. A half-hour later his friend Garrett who jogs
1mile per hour slower than twice Scotts rate starts from the same point and follows the same
path. If Garrett overtakes Scott in 2 hours, how many miles will Garrett have covered?
13. If b is one-fourth of a, then what is the value of (a +b)/ab?

14. When n is divided by 6, the remainder is 3, and the quotient is q. 3n+2 is divided by 6,the
remainder is 5, and the quotient in terms of q, is
15. A popular website requires users to create a password consisting of digits only. If no digit
may be replaced and each password must be at least 9 digit long, how many passwords are
possible?
16. In the figure above, a square is inscribed in a circle and another circle is inscribed in the
square. If the area of the smaller circle is ,what is the area of the larger circle?
17. Shauradip travels 600km to reach his home partly by train and the car. He traveled 120km by
train and the rest by car taking totaled 8 hours to reach. If he had traveled 200km by train
he would have taken 20 minutes more. What's the speed of the train and the car respectively?
18. How many circles, each with a 4-inch radius, can be cut from a rectangular sheet of paper,
measuring 16 inches x 24 inches?
19. a,b,c,d and e are integers; M is their average, and S is their sum. What is the ratio of S to
M?
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20. If x is an even number, what is the difference between the smallest even number greater than
(5x+6) and the largest even number less than (3x+9)?
21. What is the radius of the in-circle of the triangle whose sides measure 5, 12, and 13 units?
22. At 1 PM, ship A leaves port heading due west at 20 miles per hour. Two hours later, ship B is
100 miles due south of the same port and heading due north at 25 miles per hour. At 5 PM, how
far apart are the ships?
23. Diba has a wheat business. She purchases wheat from a local wholesaler at a particular cost
per pound. The price of the wheat at her stores is Tk 3 per pound. Her faulty spring balance
reads 0.9 pound for a pound. Also in the festival season, she gives a 10% discount on the
wheat. She found that she made neither a profit nor a loss in the festival season. At what
price did Diba purchase the wheat from the wholesaler?
24. A survey of n people in the town of Eros found that 50% of them prefer brand A. Another survey
of 100 people in the town of Angie found that 60% prefer brand A. In total, 55% of all the
people surveyed together prefer brand A. What is the total number of people surveyed?
25. There are 58 balls in a jar. Each ball is painted with at least one of two colors, red or
green. It is observed that 2/7 of the ball that have red color also have green color, while
3/7 of the balls that have green color also have red color. What is the probability that a ball
randomly picked from the jar will have both red and green colors?
26. A new word is to be formed by randomly rearranging the letters of the word ALGEBRA. What is
the probability is the new word has consonants occupying only the positions currently occupied
by consonants in the word ALGEBRA?
27. You are planning to deposit Tk. 12500 (the principal) in a bank account at the beginning of
the year. The interest rate per annum is 8.5%. You are taxed 25% each year on your interest
income, not on the principal amount. The remainder of your interest income earns further
interest over the next year, and well as the principal. What will be your total income at the
end of 3 years?
28. An article sold at 20% profit, its cost price is increased by Tk 50 and at the same time if
its selling price is also increased by Tk 30, the percentage of profit decreases by 10/3%. Find
the cost price.
29. In a flight 600 km, an aircraft was slowed down due to bad weather, its average speed for the
trip was reduced by 200 km/hr and the time of flight increased by 30 minutes. Find out the
duration of the flight.
30. A machine P can print one lakh books in 8 hours, machine Q can print the same number of books
in 10 hours while machine R can print them in 12 houTK. All the machines are started at 9 A.M
while machine P is closed at 11 AM. And the remaining two machines complete work. Approximately
31. A, B, C can do a piece of work in 16, 32, 48 days, respectively. They started working together
but C left after working 4 days, respectively. They started working together but C left after
working 4 days and B 2 days before the completion of work. How many days it took to complete
the work?
32. A, B and C can do a piece of work in 20, 30, 60 days respectively. In how many days can A do
the work if he is assisted by B and C on every third day?
33. A room is 12 feet long, 8 feet wide and 10 feet high. Find the cost of white washing the four
walls inside the room, leaving out two doors each measuring 7 feet high and 4 feet wide and
four windows each measuring 4 feet high and 3 feet wide if the rate is Tk. 12 per square feet.
34. A man is standing on a railway bridge which is 180 meters long. He finds that a train crosses
the bridge in 20 seconds and crosses him in 8 seconds. Find the length of the train and its
speed.
35. Price of sugar increases by 32%. A family reduces its consumption so that the expenditure of
the sugar is up by 10% only. If the total consumption of sugar before the price rise was 10kg
per month, then the consumption of sugar per month at present is?
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BCB Day 5
1. A computer company offered to sell a city agency new machines at a 15% discount from the price
list, and to allow the agency Tk. 8500 for each of two old computers being traded in the list
price of the new machine is Tk. 62500. If the agency accepts the offer, how much money will it
have to pay for the 4 new machines?
2. An article is sold for Tk. 190, hence gaining a certain amount. Had the article been sold for
Tk. 175, he would have suffered loss equal to 50% of the gain in the first case. Find the cost
price.
3. A tank can be filled up by tap X in 20 minutes and by tap Y in 60 minutes. Both the tap are
kept open for 10 minutes and then tap X is close. What is the total time required to fill up
the tank?
4. Two partners A and B have 70% and 30% shares respectively in a business, after sometimes a
third partner C joined in the business by investing TK. 10 lakh and thus having 20% share in
business ,what % is the As share now in the business.
5. In a garden there are 10 rows and 12 columns of trees. The distance between any two trees is 2
m and a distance of 1 m is left from all sides of the boundary of the garden. What is the
6. P starts jogging from point X to point Y. 30 minutes later his friend R who jogs 1 km/hr slower
than twice Ps rate starts from the same point and follows the same path, if R overtakes P in
2 hours, how many kilometers will R have covered?
7. Zico and Bipul each saved Tk 5000 in 2012.In 2013, Bipul saved 10% more than what he saved the
previous year and together they both saved a total of Tk 9000 that year. Approximately what
percent less did Zico save in 2013 compared to 2012
8. Laboni bought a 1-year Tk 10000 certificate of deposit that paid an interest at an annual rate
of 8% compounded semiannually. What was the total amount of interest paid on this certificate
at maturity?
9. The cost in TK of manufacturing x microwaves is 6000+300x taka. The amount received when selling
these x microwaves is 700x taka.
What is the least number of microwaves that must be
manufactured and sold so that the net profit is TK 2400?
10. The population of a country doubled every 10 years from 1980 to 2010. What was the percent
increase in population during the period?
11. A man deposited TK 50000 at a certain interest for 1 year. After 1 year, he received TK 55,
280 as both principal and interest after deduction of TK 120 as government levy and 10% on
interest as government tax. What was the interest rate in percentage?
12. X can do a work in 12 days. Y is 60% more efficient than X. How many days will Y require to
complete the work?
13. A certain cake recipe states that the cake should be baked in a pan 8 inches in diameter. If
Salma wants to use the recipe to make a cake of the same depth but 12 inches in diameter, by
what factor should she multiply the recipe ingredients?
14. The Savings of an employee equals Income minus Expenditure. If their Incomes ratio is 1 : 2 :
3 and their Expenses ratio is 3 : 2 : 1, then what is the order of the employees A, B, and C
in the increasing order of the size of their savings?
15. The square root of 2 billion is between

16. How many different 3-digit numbers are greater than 299 and do not contain the digits 1, 6, or
8?
17. From a group of 5 managers (Joon, Kendra, Lee, Marnie and Noomi), 2 people are randomly selected
to attend a conference in Las Vegas. What is the probability that Marnie and Noomi are both
selected?
18. A room is half as long again as it is broad. The cost of carpeting the room at Tk. 5 per sq. m
is Tk. 270 and the cost of papering the four walls at Tk. 10 per sq. m is Tk. 1720. If a door
and 2 windows occupy 8 sq. m, find the dimensions of the room.
19. How many 4-letter words with or without meaning, can be formed out of the letters of the word,
'LOGARITHMS', if repetition of letters is not allowed?
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20. When a plot is sold for TK. 18,700, the owner loses 15%. At what price must that plot be sold
in order to gain 15%?
21. 100 oranges are bought at the rate of TK. 350 and sold at the rate of TK. 48 per dozen. The
percentage of profit or loss is:
22. A trader mixes 26 kg of rice at TK. 20 per kg with 30 kg of rice of other variety at TK. 36
per kg and sells the mixture at TK. 30 per kg. His profit percent is:
23. Bank offers 5% compound interest calculated on half-yearly basis. A customer deposits TK. 1600
each on 1stJanuary and 1st July of a year. At the end of the year, the amount he would have
gained by way of interest is?
24. Simple interest on a certain sum of money for 3 years at 8% per annum is half the compound
interest on TK. 4000 for 2 years at 10% per annum. The sum placed on simple interest is?
would invest TK. 6500 for 6 months, B, TK. 8400 for 5 months and C, TK. 10,000 for 3 months. A
earned was TK. 7400. Calculate the share of B in the profit.
26. In what ratio must a grocer mix two varieties of tea worth TK. 60 a kg and TK. 65 a kg so that
by selling the mixture at TK. 68.20 a kg he may gain 10%?
27. The cost of one dozen apples and one dozen mangoes is Tk. 100 and Tk.120 respectively. If you
spend equal amounts of money to buy apples and mangoes and sell them both at Tk. 110 per dozen,
what will be your approximate profit or loss?
28. Three math classes X, Y & Z take an algebra test. The average score in class X is 83. The
average score in class Y is 76. The average score in class Z is 85. The average score of all
students in classes X & Y together is 79. The average score of all student classes Y & Z
together is 81. What is the average for all the three classes?
29. A square office 1000 feet by 1000 feet is to be partitioned into two officers by a single
interior wall. The difference between the perimeters of the resulting two officers is 4000
feet. What are their dimensions?
30. A cube of side 5cm is painted on all its side. If it is sliced into 1 cubic centimeter cubes,
how many 1 cubic centimeter cubes will have exactly one of their sides painted?
31. Among 120 students of a class, numbered 1 to 120, all even numbered students opt for Bangla
whose numbers are divisible by 5 opt for English & those numbers are divisible by 7 opt for
math. How many opt for none of these 3 subjects?
32. A supplier has three varieties of rice costing Tk.60, Tk.75 and Tk.100 per kg respectively. At
what ratio should he mix up these three varieties of rice so that by selling the mixture at
Tk.96 per kg he will make 20% profit on cost?
33. 2 men and 3 boys can do a piece of work in 10 days while 3 men and 2 boys can do the same work
in 8 days. In how many days can 2 men and 1 boy do the work?
34. A shopkeeper sold an article offering a discount of 5% earned a profit of 23.5%. What would
have been the percentage of profit earned of no discount was offered?
35. Two trains are running at 40 km/hr and 20 km/hr respectively in the same direction. Fast train
completely passes a man sitting in the slower train in 5 seconds. What is the length of the
fast train?
BCB Day 6
1. A man has to take a hen, a fox, and some corn across a river. He can only take one thing across
at a time. Unless the man is present the fox will eat the hen and the hen eats the corn. How
is it done?
2. The market value of a 10.5% stock, in which an income of TK.756 is derived by investing TK.900,
brokerage being 0.25%, is
3. A contractor employed 30 men to do a piece of work in 38 days. After 25 days, he employed 5

men more & the work was finished one day earlier. How many days he would have been behind, if
he had not employed additional men?
4. A garrison of 500 men had provisions for 27 days. After 3 days a reinforcement of 300 men
arrived. For how many more days will the remaining food last now?
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5. A can contains a mixture of two liquids A & B is the ratio 7:5. When 9 liters of mixture are
drawn off and the can is filled with B, the ratio of A & B becomes 7:9. How many liters of
liquid A were contained by the can initially?
6. Ronald and Messi have two children. The probability that the first child is a girl is 50%. The
probability that the second child is a girl is also 50%. Ronald and Messi tell you that they
have a daughter. What is the probability that their other child is also a girl?
7. A clock is set right at 8 a.m. The clock gains 10 minutes in 24 houTK. What will be the true
time when the clock indicates 1 p.m. on the following day?
8. Every Sunday Tom jogs 3 miles. For the rest of the week, each day he jogs 1mile more than the
previous day. How many miles does he jog in 2 weeks?
9. The rainfall in January and February was 2.5 inches and 4 inches respectively. What was the
increase % in rainfall in February?
10. Tom can complete a job in 12 hours and Pom can complete the same job in 8 houTK. Tom starts
the job at 9am and stops working at 3pm. If Pom starts working at 4pm to complete the remaining
job, at what time is the job finished?
11. A and B together can do a piece of work in 12 days, which B and C together can do in 16 days.
After A has been working at it for 5 days and B for 7 days C finishes in 13 days. In how many
days C alone will do the work?
12. A train overtakes two persons who are walking in the same direction in which the train is
going, at the rate of 2 km/hr and 4 km/hr and passes them completely in 9 and 10 seconds
respectively. The length of the train is?
13. A father divides his property between his two sons A and B. A invests the amount at compound
profit of 8% p.a. B invests the amount at 10% p.a. simple profit. At the end of 2 years, the
profit received by B is Tk. 1336 more than the profit received by A. Find the share of A in
the fathers property of Tk.25,000.
14. A contact is to be completed in 46 days and 117 men were set to work, each working 8 hours a
day. After 33 days, 4/7 of the work is completed. How many additional men may be employed so
that the work may be completed in time, each man now working 9 hours a day?
15. In a class of 60, where girls are twice the boys, kamal ranked seventeenth from the top. If
there are 9 girls are ahead of kamal, how many boys are after him in rank?
16. A closed cylindrical tank contains 36 cubic feet of water and is filled to half its capacity.
When the tank is placed upright on its circular based on level ground, the height of the water
in the tank is 4 feet. When the tank is placed on its side on level ground, what is the height,
in feet, of the surface of the water above the ground?
17. A certain club has 10 members, including Harry. One of the 10 members is to be chosen at random
to be the president, one of the 9 members is to be chosen at random to be the secretary, and
one of the remaining 8 members is to be chosen at random to be the treasurer. What is the
probability that Harry will be either the member chosen to be the secretary or the member
chosen to be the treasurer?
18. A can do a work in 20 days, B in 20 days and C in 60 days. From the first day, every third day
B and every fourth day C helps A. in how many days they will be done the work?
19. 70% students are enrolled in Management, Accounting and Marketing. 40 students are in
Management, 35 are accounting and 30 are in Marketing. 15 students are enrolled in all three
courses. How many of the students are enrolled in exactly two of the courses?
20. If a customer has to pay Tk. 650 including VAT (15% on total tariff) for electricity consumption,
what is the number of units consumed by the customers?
21. One fifth of the products made by a company is defective. Four-fifth of the defectives were
rejected and one-twentieth of the products were rejected by mistake. What percent of the
products sold by the company is defective?
22. An employee pays 3 workers X, Y and Z a total of Tk. 600 a week. X is paid 125% of the amount
Y is paid 80% of the amount Z is paid. How much does X make in a week?
23. A sales person earns as commission 5% on all sales between Tk. 2000 and 6000, and 8% on all
sales over Tk. 6000. If in a week his commission is Tk. 460, what were his total sales?
24. A dog is tied to a post in a corner where two fences meet at an angle of 120. If the length
of the rope is 8 feet over how many square feet can the dog roam?
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25. There is a road covering the outside of a square garden of 11 yard broad. If the area of the
road is 4 acre. What is the parameter of the garden? ( in metric unit)
26. Among 50 junior officers of a bank, 22 have MBIM degree, 15 have banking diploma and 14 are
M.Com in banking. Nine of the employees have two of the degrees and one has taken all the three
of the degrees. How many of 60 officers have none of the degrees?
27. In the square ABCD, the four unshaped parts are quarter circles each having the same radius.
If the side of the square is 16. What is the area of shaped part?
28. A rectangular carpet covers half of a rectangular floor with the dimensions 9 by 12 feet.
If
the ratio of their dimensions is same, then what is the length of the carpet?
29. A tank is fitted with 8 pipes, some of them that fill the tank and others that are waste pipe
meant to empty the tank. Each of the pipes that fill the tank can fill it in 8 hours, while
each of those that empty the tank can empty it in 6 houTK. If all the pipes kept open when the
tank is full, it will take exactly 6 hours the tank to empty, how many of these are fill pipes?
30. A group of workers can do a piece of work in 24 days. However, as 7 of them were absent, it
took them 30 days to complete the work. How many people actually worked on the job to complete
it?
31. A brand of paint costs Tk. 14 per liters, and 1 liter of paint will cover an area of 150 square
feet. What is the minimum cost of paint needed to cover the 4 walls of a rectangular room that
is 12 feet wide, 16 feet long, and 8 feet high?
32. A rectangular field of 200m by 120m has two roads running along its center, one along the
length and the other along the width. If the width of the roads is 5m, what is the area covered
by the two roads?
33. The average of a set of 12 numbers, which includes 35, is N. If 35 is removed from the set and
38 is added to the set, then what is the average of the new set of numbers in terms of N?
34. If the average of 5, 9, m, and n is 12, what is the average of (m + 7) and (n-3)?
35. Two goods train each 500 m long, are running in opposite directions on parallel tracks. Their
speeds are 45 km/hr and 30 km/hr respectively. Find the time taken by the slower train to pass
the driver of the faster one?
BCB Day 7
1. There are 6 working days in a regular week and for each day, the working hours are 10. A man
earns TK. 2.10 per hour for regular work and TK. 4.20 per hour for overtime. If he earns TK.525
in 4 weeks, how many hours did he work?
2. A fires 5 shots to B's 3 but A kills only once in 3 shots while B kills once in 2 shots. When
B has missed 27 times, A has killed:
3. 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 bucket is reduced to two-fifth of its present?
4. Free notebooks were distributed equally among children of a class. The number of notebooks each
child got was one-eighth of the number of children. Had the number of children been half, each
child would have got 16 notebooks. Total how many notebooks were distributed?
5. One-third of Rahul's savings in National Savings Certificate is equal to one-half of his savings
in Public Provident Fund. If he has tk. 1,80,000 as total savings, how much has he saved in
Public Provident Fund?
6. An organization decided to raise tk. 6 lakh by collecting equal contribution from each of its
employees. If each of them had contributed TK. 60 extra, the contribution would have been tk.
6.24 lakh. How many employees are there in that organization?
7. In a group of ducks and cows, the total number of legs is 28 more than twice the number of
heads. Find the total number of cows.
8. A man buys tk. 20 shares paying 9% dividend. The man wants to have an interest of 12% on his
money. What is the market value of each share?
9. Of a group of 27 students, 18 belong to the French club and 15 belong to the Spanish club. If
each student belongs to at least one club, how many students belong to both club?
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10. A man walks 3o minutes at an average speed of 3 miles/hour. He waits 10 minutes for a bus,
which brings him back at his starting point at 3:15.If he began to walk at 2:25 the same
afternoon, find the average speed of the bus?
11. Jack has two quarts of a 30% acid solution and three pints of a 20% solution. If he mixes them,
what will be the concentration to the nearest of the resulting solution?
12. From 6 boys and 4 girls, 5 are to be selected for admission for a particular course. In how
many ways can this be done if there must be exactly 2 girls?
13. City B is 8 miles east of city A. City C is 6 miles north of City B. City D is 16 miles east
of City C and City E is 12 miles north of City D. What is the distance from City A to City E?
14. A 3-digit number 4a3is added to another 3-digit number 984 to give a 4-digit number 13b7, which
is divisible by11. Then, (a+b)=?
15. In a group of student,80% of the student weigh less than 60kg and a total of 32 students weigh
less than 50kg.if 60% of the students weigh at least 50kg how many of the student weigh at
least 50kg but less than 60kg?
16. If a real estate agent received a commission of 6 percent of the selling price of a certain
house, what was the selling price of the house?
17. What was the average number of miles per gallon of gasoline for a car during a certain trip?
18. The simple interest on a sum of money will be Tk. 600 after 10 yeaTK. If the principal is
trebled after 5 years, what will be the total interest at the end of the tenth year?
19. A & B working alone can do a work in 9 & 12 days respectively. If they work for a day
alternately, A beginning, in how many days the work will be completed?
20. Salman bought two variables of rice, costing Tk. 5 per kg and Tk. 6 per kg each. And mixed
them in some ratio. Then he sold the mixture at Tk. 7 per kg, making a profit of 20%. What was
the ratio of the mixture?
21. In a stream running at 4 km/h, a motor boat goes 10 km upstream and back again to the starting
point in 75 minutes. Find the speed of the motor boat in still water?
22. A team of 2 men and 5 women completed th of a job in 3 days. After 3 days another man joined
the team and they took 2 days to complete another th of the job. How many men can complete
23. In a group of students, 80% of the students weigh less than 60 kg and a total of 32 students
weigh less than 50 kg. If 60% of the students weigh at least 50 kg, how many of the students
weigh at least 50 kg but less than 60 kg?
24. A boat travels for 3 hours with a current of 3 mph and then returns the same distance against
the current in four houTK. What is the boats speed?
25. A & B enter into a partnership and A invests Tk. 10,000 in the business. At the end of 4 months
he withdraws Tk. 2000. At the end of another 5 months, he withdraws another Tk. 3000. If B
receives tk. 9600 as his share of the total profit of tk. 19,100 for the year, how much did B
invest in the company?
going, at the rate of 2 km/h and 4 km/h and passes them completely in 9 & 10 seconds respectively.
The length of the train is?
Tk. 31 more, he would have gained 20%. Find the cost price?
28. A ran a 2 mile race at an average speed of 8 miles per hour. If B ran the same race at an
average speed of 6 miles per hour, how many minutes longer than A did b take to complete the
race?
29. A contractor is to be completed in 46 days and 117 men were set to work, each working 8 hours
a day. After 33 days, 4/7 of the work is completed. How many additional men may be employed so
that the work may be completed in time, each man now working 9 hours a day???
30. 2 men and 3 boys can do a piece of work in 10 days while 3 men and 2 boys can do the same work
31. A man bought a house for tk. 10 lakhs and rents it. He put 12.5% of each months rent aside
for repairs, pays tk. 1660 as annual taxes and realizes 10% on his investment thereafter. The
monthly rent of the house is?
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32. If A walk at the rate of 4 kmph A miss the train by 10 minutes. If A walks at the rate of 5
kmph, A reach 5 minutes before the arrival of the train. How far is the station from As house
assuming that A start walking from his house?
33. Rahim mowed 75% of his lawn in 1.25 houTK. Mizan, who works twice as fast, then stated the
remaining work and finished it. How namy minutes did mizan work?
34. Two pipes A & B can fill a tank in 6 hours and 4 hours respectably. If they are opened on
alternate hours and if pipe A is opened first, in how namy hours the tank shall be full?
35. A person spends 1/3rd of the money with him on food, 1/5th of the remaining on education and
1/4th of the remaining on treatment. Now he is left with Tk. 200. How much did he have with
him in the beginning?
BCB Day 8
in 10 hours while machine R can print them in 12 houTK. All the machines are started at 9 a.m.
while machine P is closed at 11 a.m. and the remaining two machines complete the work.
Approximately at what time will the work be finished?
2. On a certain day X drivers his car from his home at the rate of 20 km/h and reaches his office
5 minutes early. Calculate the distance between Xs home and office in Km.
3. Two pipe A and B can fill a tank in 6 hours and 4 hours respectively. It they are opened an
alternate hours and it pipe A is opened first, in how many hours, the tank shall be full?
4. A man row 12 KM/h in still water, It takes him twice as long to row up as to row down the
river. Find the rate of stream.
5. The simple interest on a sum of money will be Tk. 600 after 10 yeaTK. It the principal is
trebled after 5 years, what will be the total interest at the end of the tenth year.
6. In a examination, A got 10% marks less than B, B got 25% marks more than C and C got 20% less
than D. It A got 360 marks out of 500, the percentage of marks obtained by D was:
7. The sale price of an article including the sale tax in Tk. 616. The rate of sale tax is 10%.
It the shopkeeper has made a profit of 12%, then the cost price of the article is:
8. A tea merchant blends 2 kinds of tea, putting in 3 parts of a Tk. 25 per Kg grade to 1 part of
a Tk. 15 per Kg. It the mixture is changed to 1 part of the Tk. 25 per kg grade to 3 parts of
the less expensive grade, how much will she shop lose or save in blending 200 Kg?
9. It the number 91876*2 is completely divisible by 8, then the smallest whole number in place of
* will be:
10. A cube of side 5cm is painted on all its side. If it is sliced into I cubic centimeter cubes,
how many 1 Cubic centimeter cubes will have exactly one of their sides painted?
11. Two trains are moving in the same direction at 65 Km/h. The faster train crosses a man in
slower train in 18 seconds. The length of the faster train is:
12. If 80 lamps can be lighted 5 hours per day for 10 days for Tk. 21.25, them the number of lamps
which can be lighted 4 hours daily for 30 days for tk. 76.50 is:
13. A boy multiplied 423 by a number and obtained 65589 as his answer. It both the fives in the
answer are wrong and all other figures are correct, the correct answer is:
14. Mohona deposits Tk. 10000 into a savings account that pays interest at an annual rate of 8%
compounded quarterly. After 6 months, how much interest has Mohona earned?
15. The reflex angle between the hands of a clock at 10:25 is:
16. At an election involving two candidates, 68 votes were declared invalid. The winning candidate
secures 52% and wins by 98 votes. The total numbers of votes polled is?
17. When three number are divided by 5, the remainders are 0, 3 and 4 respectively. Which of the
following could be the sum of the three numbers?
18. Two trains running in opposite directions cross a man standing on the platform in 27 seconds
and 17 seconds respectively and they cross each other in 23 seconds. What is their ratio of
the speed?
19. If the degree measures of two angles of an isosceles triangle are in the ratio 1:3, what is
the degree measure of the largest angle if it is not a base angle?
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20. How many ounces of water must be added to a 30-ounce solution that is 40 percent alcohol to
dilute the solution to 25 percent alcohol?
21. A shopper spends $25 to purchase floppy disks at 50 each. The next day, the disks go on sale
for 30 each and the shopper spends $45 to purchase more disks? What was the average price per
disk purchased?
22. A rectangular garden is to be twice as long as it is wide. If 360 yards of fencing, including
the gate, will completely enclose the garden, what will be the length of the garden, in yards?
23. Lucy invested 10,000 Taka in a new mutual fund account exactly three years ago. The value of
the account increased by 10 percent during the first year, increased by 5 percent during the
second year, and decreased by 10 percent during third year. What is the value of the account
today?
24. If O is the center of the circle above, what fraction of the circular region is shaded?
25. After driving to a riverfront parking lot, Ansar plans to run south along the river, turn
around, and return to the parking lot, running north along the same path. After running 3.25
miles south, he decides to run for only 50 minute more. If Ansar runs at a constant rate of 8
minutes per mile, how many miles farther south can ru and still be able to return the parking
lot in 50 minutes?
26. The total cost for company X to produce a batch of tools is Tk 10,000 plus Tk 3 per tool. Each
tool sells for Tk 8. The gross profit earned from producing and selling these tools is the
total income from sales minus the total production cost. If a batch of 20,000 tools is produced
and sold, then Company Xs gross profit per tool is what?
27. Machine A produces bolts at a uniform rate of 120 every 40 seconds, and Machine B produces
bolts at a uniform rate of 100 every 20 seconds. If the two machines run simultaneously, how
many seconds will it take for them to produce a total of 200 bolts?
28. A ladder of a fire truck is elevated to an angle of 60 and extended to a length of 70 feet.
If the base is of the ladder is 7 feet above the ground, how many feet above the ground does
the ladder reach?
29. A pharmaceutical company received Tk 3 lakh in royalties on the first Tk 20 lakh in sales of
the generic equivalent of one of its products and then Tk 9 lakh in royalties on the next Tk
108 lakh in sales. By approximately what percent did the ratio of royalties to sales decrease
from the first Tk 20 lakh in sales to the next Tk 108 lakh?
30. If money is invested at r percent interest, compounded annually, the amount of the investment
will double in approximately r/70 yeaTK. If Jihans parents invested Tk 5000 in a long-term
bond that pays 8 percent interest, compounded annually, what will be the approximate total
amount of the investment 18 years later, when Jihan is ready for college?
31. A club collected exactly Tk 599 from its membeTK. If each member contributed at least Tk 12,
what is the greatest number of members the club could have?
32. A tank contains 10,000 gallons of solution that is 5 percent sodium chloride by volume. If 2500
gallons of water evaporate from the tank, the remaining solution will be approximately what
percent sodium chloride?
33. During a certain season, a team won 80 percent of its first 100 games and 50 percent of its
remaining games. If the team won 70 percent of its games for the entire season, what was the
total number of games that the team played?
34. The ratio by volume, of soap to alcohol to water in a certain solution is 2:50:100. The solution
will be altered so that the ratio of soap to alcohol is doubled while the ratio of soap to
water is halved. If the altered solution will contain 100 cubic centimeters of alcohol, how
many cubic centimeters of water will it contain?
35. Two friend A and B invest tk 40,000 and tk 60,000 respectively in order to set up a business.
as the managing partner, A receive a remuneration of tk 12,000 out of total profits and B
receives no salary. After A's salary has been paid 10% of the profits are set aside each year
to purchase new equipment. the remainder of the profit is then divided between the friends in
the ratio of their capital investment. the total profit for the first year was tk 21,0000.
Calculate the total amount received by A nd B individually at the end of the first year?
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BCB Day 9
1. A store currently charges the same price for each towel that it sells. If the current price of
each towel were to be increased by Tk 110 fewer of the towels could be bought for Tk 120,
excluding sales tax. What is the current price of each towel?
2. Car A is 20 miles behind Car B, which is travelling in the same direction along the same route
as Car A. Car A is travelling at constant speed of 58 miles per hour. How many hours it will
take for Car A to overtake and drive 8 miles ahead of Car B?
3. A shopkeeper marks an article at such a price that after allowing a discount of 30% on the tag
price (including tax ) he makes a profit of 40%.If the tag price of the article including tax
is Tk. 460,then the cost price of that article is-
4. One third of Vindos marks in mathematics exceeds half of his marks in social studies by 30,
if he got 240 marks in the two subjects together, how many marks did he get in social studies?
5. You have a rifle with only three bullets by which you have to shoot down a helicopter. You will
shoot the bullets one after another. The probability of the first bullet to hit it is 90% and
those of 2nd and 3rd one is 80% & 70% respectively. What is the probability that the helicopter
will be shot-down?
6. P starts jogging from point x to y.A half hour later ,R who jogs 1 mile per hour slower than
twice P's rate starts from the same path.If R overtakes P in 2 houTK.
7. Coins are to be put into 7 pockets so that each pocket contains at least one coin.at most 3 of
the pocket are to contain the same number of coins and no two of the remaining pockets are to
contain an equal number of coins.what is the least possible number of coins needed for the
pockets?
8. one third , one fourth , one fifth and one seventh of the human population of island X, which
has fewer than 5000 human inhabitants, are all whole numbers and their sum is exactly the
population of island Y. what is the population of island Y?
9. If a right angled isosceles triangle is inscribed in a circle, what is the ratio of the area
of the circle to the area of the triangle?
10. The cost of diamond varies directly as the square of its weight. Once, this diamond broke into
four pieces with weights in the ratio 1:2:3:4. When the pieces were sold, the merchant got TK.
70,000 less. Find the original price of the diamond.
11. A car travels 50 miles an hour, and a plane travels 10 miles a minutes. How far will the car
travel when the plane travels 500 miles?
12. A box of 54 oranges is sold for Tk 162 and a box of 27 is sold for Tk 132. A customer needs
only 54 oranges but he had to buy 2 boxes as one with 54 oranges was not available.
Approximately, how much was the 'excess' money that the customer had to pay for each orange?
13. A piece of wire 44cm long is cut into two parts each part is bent to form a square. Given that
the total area of the two squares is 65cm^2. Find the perimeter of the two square?
14. Two cogged wheels of which one has 32 cogs and other 54 cogs, work into each other. If the
latter turns 80 times in three quarters of a minutes, how often does the other turn in 8
seconds?
15. In preparation there were x y and z in the proportion of 5:2:1. What will be the amount of
preparation if x y and z are 25, 20 and 8 liters accordingly?
16. Sakib invested BDT 1000@10% interest, BDT X @8% and BDT 1500@Y% interest for 5 yeaTK. If all
interest rate are compounded annually, he will get BDT 1801 as interest.if all interest rates
are simple annual, he will get BDT 1525 as interest .what is the value of X and Y?
17. A ladder is inclined to a wall making an angle of 30 with it,A man is ascending the ladder at
the rate of 2 meters/second.
18. Present ages of Sameer and Emir are in the ratio of 5 : 4 respectively. Three years hence, the
ratio of their ages will become 11: 9 respectively. What is Emir's present age in years?
19. A trade where selling an item was asking for such a price that would enable him to offer a 10%
discount and still make a profit of 20%. If the cost of the product was taka 50, what was his
asking price?
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company transport?
21. A man takes twice as long to row a distance against the stream as to row the same distance in
favor of the stream. The ratio of the speed of the boat (in still water) and the stream is?
shoot the bullets one after another .the probability of the first bullet to hit it is 90% and
those of 2nd and 3rd one is 80% and 70% respectively. What is the probability that the helicopter
will be shot down?
23. One fifth of the products made by a company are defective. Four-fifth of the defectives was
24. A hollow iron pipe is 21 cm long and its external diameter is 8 cm. If the thickness of the
pipe is 1 cm and iron weighs 8 g/cm3, then the weight of the pipe is?
25. One pipe can fill a tank three times as fast as another pipe. If together the two pipes can
fill the tank in 36 minutes, then the slower pipe alone will be able to fill the tank in?
26. In a race of 200 m, A can beat B by 31 m and C by 18 m. In a race of 350 m, C will beat B by?
27. A cask initially contains pure alcohol up to the brim. The cask can be emptied by removing
exactly 5 liters at a time. Each time this is done, the cask must be filled back to the brim
with water. The capacity of the cask is 15 liteTK. When the cask is completely emptied and
filled back to the brim two times, what is the ratio of alcohol to water in the cask?
28. Three times the first of three consecutive odd integers is 3 more than twice the third. The
third integer is?
29. Joan started work 2 years ago. Her starting salary was half of Mikes salary at that time. Each
year since then Joan and Mike have received a rise of 10% in their respective salary. What
percentage (to the nearest percent) of Mikes current salary is Joans current salary?
30. Three candidates contested an election and received 1136, 7636 and 11628 votes respectively.
What percentage of the total votes did the winning candidate get?
31. Of the 300 subjects who participated in an experiment using virtual-reality therapy to reduce
their fear of heights, 40 percent experienced sweaty palms, 30 percent experienced vomiting,
and 75 percent experienced dizziness. If all of the subjects experienced at least one of these
effects and 35 percent of the subjects experienced exactly two of these effects, how many of
the subjects experienced only one of these effects?
32. 2men and 3boys can a work in 10 days. 3 men and 2 boys can do the work in 8 days. 2 men and 1
boys can do the work in how many days?
33. The speed of a railway engine is 42 km per hour when no compartment is attached. The reduction
in speed is directly proportional to the square root of the number of compartment attached. If
the speed of train carried by this engine is 24 km per hour, when 9 compartments are attached,
what is the maximum number of compartment that can be carried by this engine?
34. A project has been started by a man on the first day. Each subsequent day a new person joined
the work force and it is known that the total work got completed on the 11th day. If from the
starting day 6 men working on the project and no new men added later, in how many days the work
got completed?
35. A library has an average of 510 visitors on Sundays and 240 on other days. The average number
of visitors per day in a month of 30 days beginning with a Sunday is?
BCB Day 10
1. A hollow garden roller 63 cm wide with a girth of 440 cm is made of iron 4 cm thick. what is
the volume of iron used?
2. A, B and C can do a piece of work in 16, 32, and 48 days respectively. They started working
together but C left after working 4 days and B 2 days before the completion of work. How many
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3. A, B & C Started a business each investing tk 20,000/=, after Five months A withdraw tk 5000,
B withdraw tk 4000 and C invest tk 6000 more. At the end of the year a total profit of tk
69,900/= was recorded. Find the share of each.
4. The ratio of income of X & Y is 3:4. The ratio of their expenditure is 4:5. Find the ratio of
their saving if the saving of X is one fourth of his income?
5. Sterling silver is 92.5% pure silver. How many grams of sterling silver must be mixed to a 90%
silver alloy to obtain a 500 g of a 91% silver alloy?
6. In a factory where toys are manufactured, machines A, B and C produce 25%, 35% and 40% of the
total toys, respectively. Of their output, 5%, 4% and 2% respectively are defective toys. If a
toy drawn at random is found to be defective, what is the probability that it is manufactured
on machine B?
7. Coffee A normally costs Tk. 100 per pound. It is mixed with Coffee B, which normally costs Tk.
70 per pound, to form a mixture which costs Tk. 88 per pound. If there are 10 pounds of the
mix, how many pounds of Coffee A are used in the mix?
8. A retailer buys 40 pens at the market price of 36 pens from a wholesaler. if he sells these
pens giving a discount of 1% what is the profit percent?
9. A cricket team won 3 matches more than they lost. If a win gives them 2 points and loss (-1)
point, how many matches, in all have they played if their score is 23?
10. The total number of digits used in numbering of a book having 366 pages.
11. A shopkeeper combined X liters of a solution containing 10% certain material Q, with 10 liter
of another solution that contained 2% that material Q, to produce Z liters of a solution that
was 5% Q. What is the value of X?
12. A radio was sold at 10% loss, if the selling price was tk 45 more, and then there would be a 5
% profit, what was the cost of the radio?
13. P starts jogging from point x to y. A half hour later R who jogs 1 mile per hour slower than
twice Ps rate starts from the same path .If R overtake P in 2 houTK. How many miles will R
have covered?
14. A is 50% as efficient as B .c does half of the work done by A and B together .if C alone does
the work in 40 days then A B C can together do the work in.
15. Point A is 10 miles West of point B. Point, B is 30 miles North of Point C, Point C is 20 miles
East of Point D. What is the distance between points A and D.
16. When a producer allows 36% commission on the retail price of this product, he earns a profit
of 8.8% what would be his profit percent if the commission is reduced by24%?
17. A large cube is formed from the material obtained by melting three smaller cubes of 3, 4 and 5
cm side. What is the ratio of the total surface areas of the smaller cubes and the large cube?
18. Three numbers which are co-prime to each other are such that the product of the first two is
551 and that last two is 1073. The sum of the three numbers is-
19. The ratio of income of Kamran and Dolon is 3:4, the ratio of their expenditure is 4:5. Find
the ratio of their savings if the savings of Kamran is one-fourth of his income.
20. Two trains equal length of 500 meters starts moving on two parallel railway tracks at a speed
of 104 km/h and 80 km/h respectively. How much time the faster train will take to cross the
slower one?
21. The area of a field is 680 square feet. If he cost of fencing is tk 50 per foot, then how much
will it cost to fence the field?
22. A train crosses a platform 100 meters long in 60 seconds at a speed of 45 km per hour. The time
taken by the train to cross an electric pole is?
23. Two trains of equal length are running on parallel lines in the same direction at 46 km/hr.
and 36 km/hr. The faster train passes the slower train in 36 seconds. The length of each train
is?
24. A can finish a work in 24 days, B in 9 days and C in 12 days. B and C start the work but are
forced to leave after 3 days. The remaining work was done by A in how many days?
25. The cost, in taka, of manufacturing x microwaves is 6000+ 300x taka. The amount received when
selling these x microwaves is 700x taka. What is the least number of microwaves that must be
manufactured and sold so that net profit is taka 2400?
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26. Present ages of Sameer and Emir are in the ratio of 5:4 respectively. Three years hence, the
ratio of their ages will become 11:9 respectively. What is Emir's present age in years?
27. A trade where selling an item was asking for such a price that would enable him to offer a 10%
discount and still make a profit of 20%. If the cost of the product was taka 50, what was his
asking price?
company transport?
29. A contract is to be completed in 56 days and 104 men were set to work, each working 8 hours a
day. After 30 days, 2/5 of the work is completed. How many additional men are employed, so that
the work may be completed in time if each man works 9 hours a day?
30. A 20 liter mixture of milk and water contains milk and water in the ratio 3: 2. 10 liters of
the mixture is removed and replaced with pure milk and the operation is repeated once more. At
the end of the two removals and replacement, what is the ratio of milk and water in the
resultant mixture?
31. Two merchants sell, each an article for TK.1000. If Merchant A computes is profit on cost
price, while Merchant B computes his profit on selling price, they end up making profits of
25% respectively. By how much is the profit made by Merchant B greater than that of Merchant
A?
32. A Light system can be emitted by the intensity of candle. The intensity of light is equivalent
to 64 candles when the candles are 2m apart. According to Optical Physics the intensity is
inversely proportional to the square of the distance. So when Candles are 8m apart, Find the
intensity equivalent to number of candles.
33. Rita produced two products Plain cake and chocolate cake. Of the cake produced last month 3/5
was plain cake and rests were chocolate cake. It takes 7/5 as many hours to make a chocolate
cake as it does to make a plain cake. If last month Rita worked for a total of 58 hrs how many
hrs did she spend for making chocolate cakes?
two basic elements in the two alloys are 5:3 and 1:2 respectively. A new alloy A and B in the
ratio 4:3. What is the ratio of the composition of the two basic elements in the alloy X?
35. A boat takes 90 minutes less to travel 36 miles downstream than to travel the same distance
upstream. If the speed of the boat in still water is 10 mph, the speed of the stream is?
BCB Day 11
1. The elevator in an eleven-storied office building travels at the rate of one floor per 1/4
minute, which allows time for picking up & letting down passengeTK. At the main floor & at the
top floor the operator stops for 1 minute. How many complete (with return) trips will the
operator makes during a 7-hour period?
2. The water in a fish tank measuring 15 inches by 8 inches is 7 inches high. The water is poured
into another tank measuring 14 inches by 20 inches. What will be the height of water in inches,
in the second tank?
3. A and B together can do a piece of work in 12 days , Which B and C together can do in 16 days
. After A has been working at it 5 days and B for 7 days C finishes in 13days. In how many days
C alone will do the work?
4. In a group of people solicited by a charity, 30% contribute tk40 each, 45% contribute tk20
each, and rest the contribute tk 2 each. If the charity receives a total for tk 300 from the
people who contribute tk 2, how much was contribute by the entire group?
5. A manufacturing company uses two machines A and B with different production capacities. When
working alone, machine A can produce a production lot in 5 hours and machine B can produce the
same lot in X houTK. When the machines operate simultaneously to fill the same production lot,
it takes them 2 hours to complete the job. How many hours will the machine B take to produce
the production lot along?
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6. A brand of paints costs Tk. 14 per liter, and 1 liter of paint will cover an area of 150 square
feet. What is the minimum cost of paint needed to cover the 4 walls of a rectangular room that
is 12 feet wide, 16 feet long and 8 feet high?
7. Mr. A invested an amount of tk 13900 divided into two different schemes A & B at a simple
interest rate of 14% per annum and 11 % per annum respectively. If the total amount of simple
interest earned in 2 years be 3508, what was the amount invested in scheme B?
8. 7 kgs of mangoes cost as much as 10 kgs of apple and 1 kg of orange. 7 kegs of orange cost as
much as 1 kg of mango and 2 kgs of apple. How many kgs of apple can be purchased by the anount
of money required to purchase 12 kgs of mangoes?
9. Danish and Sham, who live 10 miles apart, meet at a cafe that is directly north of Danishs
house and directly east of Sham's house. If the cafe is 2 miles closer to Danishs house than
to Sham's house, how many miles is the cafe from Sham's house?
10. fresh grapes contains 90% water by weight while dried grapes contains 20% water by weight .what
is the weight of dry grapes available from 20 kg of fresh grapes.
11. The ratio of income of Yusuf and Alamgir is 3:4.the ratio of their expenditure is 4:5.find the
ratio of their savings if the savings of Yusuf is one fourth of his income?
12. Jalal started work 2 years ago. His starting salary was 1/2 of Millars salary at that time.
Each year since then Jalal has received a raise of 5% in his salary and Millat has received a
raise of 10% in his salary. What percentage (to the nearest percent) of Millets current salary
is Jalaps current salary?
13. A seller bought some pens @ 5tk for Tk 100. those were separated into 2 stacks and one of which
was sold @ 3tk for 100tk and the other @ 6tk for 100 tk. what was the ratio of pens number in
two stacks if there is no loss no profit?
14. A man takes loan of 500 taka at 5% interest for some time. After some period he again takes
400 taka loan at 3.5% interest rate. After 6 months of taking his 2nd loan he paid the both
loans with a total of 994.50 with interest. How many days after taking the first loan he paid
the loans?
15. If you add up the digits of a three digit number you get 18. The ten digits is twice the hundred
digits and the hundreds digits is 1/3 the units digits. What is the number?
16. A person wishes to accumulate tk. 500000 by end of 15 years by making equal half yearly deposits
over the next 15 yeaTK. If he earns 10% on the investment, how much must he deposit at the end
of each half year?
17. Two workers A and B are engaged to do a work. A working alone takes 8 hours more to complete
the job than if both worked together. If B worked alone he would need 4.5 hours more to complete
the job than they both working together. What time would they take to do the work together?
18. Tanias grandfather was eight times older to her 16 years ago. He would be 3 times of her age
8 years from now. Eight years ago, what was the ratio of Tanias age to that of her grandfather
age?
19. A train which travels at a uniform. Speed due to some mechanical problems after traveling for
an hour goes at 3/5 then of the original speed and reached the destination 2 hours late. If
the problem had occurred after traveling another 50miles, the train would have reached 40
minutes earlier. What is the distance between the two stations?
20. A can do a piece of work in 10 days, while B alone can do it in 15 days. They work together
for 5 days and the rest of the work is done by C in 2 days. If they get tk. 4500 for the whole
work, how should they divide the money?
21. A, B and C can do a piece of work in 16, 32 & 48 days respectively. They started working
together but C left after working 4 days and B, 2 days before the completion of work. How many
22. The speed of a railway engine is 42 km per hour when no compartment is attached and the
reduction in speed directly proportional to the square root of the number of compartments
are attached, what is the maximum no. of compartments that can be carried by the engine?
23. Divided Tk.600 among A, B and C so that Tk.40 more than

B's share and Tk.10 more than
th of A's share.Tk.20 more than
th of C's share may all be equal.
of
What is A's share?
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24. Tk.5625 is divided among A, B and C so that A may receive

B receives
as much as B and C together receive,
of what A and C together receives.
25. A and B are two alloys of gold and copper prepared by mixing metals in proportions 7:2 and 7:11
26.
27.
28.
29.
30.
respectively.
If equal quantities of the alloys are melted to form a third alloy C, the
proportion of gold and copper in C will be :
Average age of 18 men is decreased by 1 year when one man whose age is 49 years is replaced
by a new man. Find age of the new man.
Average age of 7 members of a family is 29 yeaTK. If present age of the youngest member is 5
year, find average age of the remaining members at the time of birth of the youngest member.
The average marks obtained by some students in an examination is 54. If 20% of the students
got a mean score of 90 marks and the 30% of the students got a mean score of 20. Find the
average marks of the remaining students
A does half as much work as B in three-fourth of the time. If together they take 18 days to
complete a work, how much time shall B take to do it?
A 60 meter long train passes a 240 meter long railway station in 10 sec. How many seconds will
it take to pass an electric pole?
31. A train went 300 miles from X to city Y at an average speed of 80 mph. At what speed did it
travel on the way back if its average speed for the whole trip was 100 mph?
32. The current of stream runs at 1 km/h. A motor boat goes 35 km upstream and back again to the
starting point in 12 houTK. The speed of the motor boat in still water is?
33. A man can row 8 km/h in still water and the river is running at 2 km/h. If the man takes 1 hour
to row to a place and back, how far is the place?
34. A boat travels for three hours with a current of 3 mph and then returns the same distance
against the current in four houTK. What is the boat's speed?
35. A man can row at 5 kmph in still water. If the velocity of current is 1 kmph and it takes him
1 hour to row to a place and come back, how far is the place?
BCB Day 12
3. Of the total no. of oranges that arrive at a juice company, 20% by weight is rejected before
processing. Of the oranges that are processed, 15% by weight is rejected before being juiced.
Of the oranges that are juiced, 25% are wasted as result of juice making. Of the oranges, those
arrive at the company, what percent by weight is juiced?
4. Ratan and Moinul have started a business taka 2.5 and 3.5 million respectively. After four
months, Ratan gave in 5 lakh taka more Moinul withdrew 5 lakh taka. If the ending profit of a
year is 12.92 million taka, what will be the profit share of Moinul in million taka?
5. In a cricket championship tournament, Team Dhaka has won 30 games out of 50 played. It has 45
more games to play. In order to maintain an average of 80% victory rate, then Dhaka has to win
how many more games?
6. 1 year ago the ratio between As and Bs salary was 3:4. Ratios of their individual salaries
last years and this year salaries are 4:5 and 2:3. At present the total of their salary is
TK 4160. How much is the salary of A now?
7. A can do a piece of work in 10 days. While B alone can do it in 15 days. They worked together
for 5 days and the rest of the work is done by C in 2 days. If they get 450 for whole work,
how much money C should get from the work?
8. In an acoustics class, 120 students are male and 100 students are female. 25% of the male
students and 20% of the female students are engineering students. 20% of the male engineering
students and 25% of the female engineering students passed the final exam. What percentage of
engineering students passed the exam?
9. Each person in a group of 110 investors has investments in either equities or securities or
both. Exactly 25% of the investors in equities have investments in securities and exactly 40%
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of the investors in securities have investments in equities. How many have investments in
equities?
10. The list price of a commodity is the price after a 20% discount on the retail price. The
festival discount price on the commodity is the price after a 30% discount on the list price.
Customers purchase commodities from stores at a festival discount price. What is the effective
discount offered by the stores on the commodity on its retail price?
11. The total income of Mr. Kamal in the years 2013, 2014 and 2015 was Tk. 62400. His income
increased by 20% each year. What was his income in 2015?
12. Two people start jogging at the same point and time but in opposite directions. If the rate of
one jogger is 3 mph faster than the other and after 2 hours they are 30 miles apart, what is
the rate of the faster jogger?
13. In how many ways can the letters of the word MAXIMA be arranged such that all vowels are
together and all consonants are together?
14. A bowl contains only marbles. If 1 /4 of the marbles were removed, the bowl would be filled to
1/2 of its capacity. If 100 marbles were added, the bowl would be full. How many marbles are
in the bowl?
15. If distinct numbers x , y , z and p are chosen from the numbers

the largest possible value of the expression
-2 , 2 , 1/2 , -1/3 , what is
(x^2 y)/(z-p) ?
16. Joan wishes to mix some tea worth $1.40 per pound with another type of tea worth $2.25 per
pound in order to make a 10 pound mixture worth $1.74 per pound. How many pounds of the $1.40
tea should she use?
17. Tom and Bill agreed to race across a 50-feet pool and back again. They started together, but
Tom finished 10 feet ahead of Bill. If their rates were constant, and Tom finished the race in
27 seconds, how long did Bill take to finish it?
18. A machine P can print 1 lakh books in 8 hours, Q can same in 10 hours and R can print them in
12 houTK. All the machines are started at 9 AM, while machine P is closed at 11 AM and the
remaining two machines complete the work. Approximately at what time the work will be finished?
19. A salesmans commission is 5% on all sales up to Tk10000 and 4% on all sales exceeding this.
He remits Tk. 31100 to his parent company after deducting his commission. Find the total sales.
20. Two cars race around a circular track in opposite directions at constant rates. They start at
the same point and meet every 30 seconds. If they move in the same direction, they meet every
120 seconds. If the track is 1800 meter long, what is the speed of each car?
21. Masud can do a job in 40 days working alone. Karim can do the same job in 60 days working
alone. They start working together and worked for 18 days, when Harun joined them. The three
men worked together and finished the job in 5 days. In how many days could Harun do the whole
job working alone?
22. A rectangular park 66m long & 40m wide has two concrete crossroads running in the middle of
the park & rest of the park has been used as a lawn. If the area of the lawn is 2109 square
meteTK. Then what is the width of the road?
23. Nafisa is 36 years old. She is twice as old as shammi was when nafisa was as old as shammi now.
How old is shammi now?
24. A can do a work in 20 days, B in 20 days & C in 60 days. From the 1st day, every 3rd day B &
every 4th day C helps A. In how many days they will be done the work?
25. Ayeshas father was 38 years of age when she was born while her mother was 36 years old when
her brother 4 years younger to her was born. What is the difference between the ages of her
parents?
26. A father said to his son, I was as old as you are at the time of your birth. If the fathers
age is 38 years now, the sons age 5 years back was?
27. In covering a distance of 30 K.M, abhey takes 2 hours more than sameer. If abbey doubles his
speed, then he would take 1 hour less than sameer. Abheys speed is?
hour goes at 3/5th of the original speed & reached the destination 2 hours late. If the fault
had occurred after traveling another 50 miles, the train would have reached 40 minutes earlier.
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29. If the beginning inventory is tk.60, cost is tk.380 & ending inventory is tk.50, what will be
selling price?
30. If two cards are drawn at random from a deck of 52 cards, what is the probability that both
cards will be from same suit?
31. A train running at 36 kmph passes another train completely in 12sec, which is half of it length,
running in the opposite direction at 54 kmph. If it also passes a railway platform in 1.5min.
What is the length of the platform (in meters)?
32. Let N be the greatest number that will divide 1305, 4665, & 6905, leaving the same remainder
in each case. Then sum of the digits in N is?
33. The solid brick shown is made of small square bricks of side 1. When the large brick is
disassembled into its component small bricks, the total surface area of all the small bricks
is how much greater than the surface area of the large brick?
34. Three taps A, B and C can fill a tank in 12, 15 and 20 hours respectively. If A is open all
the time and B and C are open for one hour each alternately, the tank will be full in?
35. A man can row three-quarters of a kilometre against the stream in 11 minutes and down the
stream in 7 minutes. The speed (in km/hr) of the man in still water is?
BCB Day 13
1. Excluding stoppage, the speed of a bus is 54 km/hr & including stoppage it is 45 km/hr. For
how many minutes does the bus stop per hour?
2. Two trains A & B start from stations X & Y towards Y & X respectively. After passing each
other, they take 4 hours 48 minutes & 3 hours 20 minutes to reach Y & X respectively. If train
A is moving at 45 km/ hr, then the speed of train B is?
going, at the rate of 2 km/h & 4 km/ h & passes them completely in 9 & 10 seconds respectively.
The length of the train is-
4. A man can row 30 km upstream & 44 km downstream in 10 houTK. He can also row 40 km upstream &
55 downstream in 13 houTK. Find the rate of current & the speed of the man in still water
5. A & B together can do a piece of work in 12 days, while B& C together can do in 16 days. After
A has been working at it for 5 fays & B for 7 days C finished in 13 days.in how many days C
alone will do the work?
6. A leak in the bottom of a tank can empty the full tank in 8 houTK. An inlet pipe fills at the
rate of 6 litters a minute. When the tank is full, the inlet is opened & due to the leak, the
tank is empty in 12 houTK. How many litters does the cistern hold?
7. Two pipes A & B can fill a tank in 6 hours & 4 hours respectively. If they are opened on
alternate hours & if pipe A is opened first, in how many hours, the tank shall be full?
8. Two pipes A & B would fill a tank in 20 & 30 minutes respectively, both pipes being open, find
when A must be turned off so that the tank may be just filled in 15 minutes
9. 1 year ago the ratio between A's & B's salary was 3:4.ratios of their individual salaries
between last year's & this year's salaries are 4:5 & 2:3 respectively. At present the total of
their salary is tk 4160.the salary of A now is?
10. In how many ways a coach can choose first a football team & then a basketball team if 18 boys
go out for either team?
11. There are 5 women & 5 men sitting in a waiting room for job. if two of the applicants are
selected at random, what is the probability that both will be women?
12. A jar contains only red, yellow & orange marbles. If there are 3 red,5 yellow, & 4 orange
marble and if 3 marbles are chosen from the jar randomly without replacing any of them, what
is the probability that 2 yellow, 1 red& no orange marbles will be chosen?
13. In a race of 300 meter, A can beat B by 31 M & C by 18 M.in a race of 450 M, C will beat B by?
14. Two alloys A & B are composed of two basic elements. The ratios of the compositions of the two
basic elements in the two alloys are 6:4 & 2:3, respectively. A new alloy X is formed by mixing
the two alloy A & B in the ratio 4:3.what is the ratio of the composition of the two basic
elements in alloy X?
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15. The length of the equator is 40 million meter. Find the radius of the earth in K.M.
16. A wire 2 meter in length is cut into two pieces by which a square & a circle can be formed so
that the circle may pass through the corners of the square. Find the Radius of the circle.
17. A Company has issued 2,00,000 ordinary shares of tk.10 each and 50,000 debentures of tk.100
each. The debenture increased of 10% per annum. In One years, after paying the interest of 9%
on the debentures & 9% dividend on the ordinary shares. Its profits are just sufficient to put
tk.2,00,000 to reserve. What are the profits for that year?
18. A Sales persons monthly salary is tk.5000. He earns as commission 5% on all sales between
tk.20,000 and 69,999 and 8% on all sales exceeding tk.60,000. In adding, he gets a fixed bonus
of tk.1,000 if his monthly sales exceeds tk.10,000.If in a month his total income was tk.10,400,
what was his total sales?
19. A Person wishes to accumulate tk.5,00,000 by the end of 15 years by making equal half-yearly
deposits over the next 15 years .If he earns 10% on the investment, how much must he deposit
at the end of each half-year?
20. Kashem joined work two years ago. His starting Gross income was of selims Gross income at
that time. Each year since then kashem has received a raise of 5% in his annual Basic Salary,
which is 70% of his Gross income. His Allowance, which are 30% of his Gross income, have remain
unchanged. Meanwhile, selim has received a raise of 10% in his basic, which is 80% of his gross
Income. His allowance, which are 20% 0f his gross income is kashems current Gross income?
21. A Taka received one year from now is worth 90 paisa today. If you had tk.500,000 available for
investment, what would be the minimum rate at which you would have to invest in order to keep
the value of your capital unchanged? What redemption value of your investment would you expect
if you wanted a real return of 5% per annum?
22. If sales tax is payable at rate t% of gross sales value and you intend to make a profit of r%,
what would be the gross sales price inclusive of tax of an article which you bought for taka K
?
23. There are 200 question in a 3 hour examination. Among these question are 50 mathematics
problems. It is suggested that twice as much time be allowed for each mathematics problem as
for the other questions. How many minutes should be spent on the mathematics problems?
24. Suppose you deposit taka 10,000 on January 01,2012 at 12.50% interest rate for 1 year, on July
01,2013 taka 15,000 at 12% interest rate for 6 months and on October 01,2013 taka 20,000 at
11.50% interest rate for 3 months .Suppose you withdrew all deposits on Dec,31,2013. Calculate
the overall annual rate of interest you have, received.
25. When a producer allows 36% commission on the retail price of his product, he earns a profit of
8.8%. What would be his profit percent if the commission is reduced by 24%?
26. The speed of railway engine is 42 km per hour when no compartment is attached, and the reduction
in speed directly proportional to the square root of the number of compartments attached. If
the speed of the train carried by this engine is 24 km per hour when 9 compartments are
attached, what is the maximum number of compartments that can be carried by the engine?
day .after 33 days,4/7 of the work is completed in time ,each man now working 9 hours a day?
28. A pipe is turned on to fill water into a cistern at the rate of 4 liters per minute. The cistern
has a leak which would empty it in 6 hours and the cistern is now emptied in 10 houTK. Determine
the capacity of the cistern.
29. A leader is inclined to a wall making an angle of 30 degree with it. A man ascending the ladder
at the rate of 2 meters/second. How fast is he approaching the wall?
30. A worker buys some shirts and some ties. Shirts cost tk.70 each and the ties cost tk.30 each
.if the man spends exactly tk.810 and buys the maximum number of shirts possible under these
conditions, what is the ratio of shirts to ties?
31. Robi was 4 times as old as his son 8 years ago. After 8 years,Robi will be twice as old as his
son. What are their present age?
32. A,B and C start a business each investing tk.20,000.After 5 months A withdrew tk.5,000, B
withdrew tk.4000 and C invests tk.6,000 more. At the end of the year, a total profit of
tk.69,9000 was recorded. Find the share of each.
33. A dishonest business man makes a profit of 10% both on buying and selling of a commodity. If
his profit is tk. 1,050, what is the cost of the commodity?
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34. A car goes 15 km per liter of petrol if it is driven at a speed of 50km/hr. when the car is
driven at 60 km per hour; it only goes 80% as far. How many liters of petrol is needed to
travel 200 km if half the distance is traveled at 50 km per hour and the rest at 60 km per hour
speed?
favour of the stream. The ratio of the speed of the boat (in still water) and the stream is?
BCB Day 14
1. Two integers will be randomly drawn from the sets A=[2,3,4,5] and B=[4,5,6,7,8], one integer
from set A and one integer from set B. What is the probability that the sum of the two integers
will be 9?
2. In a certain shop, notebooks that normally sell for BDT 1.50 each are on sale at 2 for BDT
2.89. How much can be saved by purchasing 10 of these notebooks at the sale price.
3. According to car dealers sales report, 1/3 of the cars sold during a certain period were
sedans and 1/5 of the other cars were station wagons. If N station Wagons were sold during that
period, how many sedans in terms of N, were sold?
4. Two friends M and N have 40% and 60% shares in a business, after some time a third friend
joined the business by investing Tk 5 lac and acquired 20% shares in the business. What is the
share of M in the business now?
5. Four persons can complete a job in 8 days. After four days two persons have left the work. How
many days would it take for the remaining persons to complete the work?
6. If a merchant offers a discount of 30% on the list price, then he makes a loss of 16%. What %
profit of loss will the merchant make if he sells at a discount of 10% of the list price?
7. Samad was planning on depositing a certain amount of money each month into a bank. He then
decided not to make any contributions during May and June .To make the same annual contribution
take he had planned, by what percent should he increase his monthly deposit?
8. A motor covers 24 km upstream and 36 km downstream in 6 hours, while it covers 36 km upstream

and 24km downstream in 61/2 houTK. The velocity of the stream is?
9. A man rows to a place 48 km distant and back in 14 houTK. He finds that he can row 4 km with
the stream in the same time as 3 km against the stream. The rate of the stream is?
10. A man rows a boat from point A against current for 10 minutes and then come back with the
current for next 10 minutes and reaches to a point B. If distance between A and B is 1 km, find
the speed of the current.
11. A man rows boat to a place covering 72 km distance and back in 15 houTK. He finds that he
12. A Boat Can row 3 km with the stream in the same time as 2 km against the stream. Find the speed
of the stream.
13. Two pipes P and Q can fill a cistern in 12 minutes and 16 minutes respectively. Simultaneously
both the pipes are opened together, then after how much time Q should be closed so that the
tank is full in 9 min?
14. A leak in the lower portion of a tank can empty the full tank in 9 hTK.
An inlet pipe fills

water at the rate of 10 lit. per minute. When the tank is full, the inlet is opened and due
to leak, the tank is empty in 16 hTK. How many litres does the cistern hold?
15. Two pipes P and Q can fill a cistern in 12 min. and 15 min. respectively but a third pipe R
can empty the full tank in 6 min. P and Q are kept open for 5 min. in the beginning and then
R is also opened. In what time is the cistern emptied?
16. If two pipes function together, the cistern will be filled in 6 houTK. One pipe fills the
cistern 5 hours faster than the other.
cistern?
How many hours it take the second pipe to fill the
17. A and B entered into partnership with capitals in the ratio 4: 5. After 3 months, A withdrew
1/4th of his capital and B withdrew 1/5th of his capital. The gain at the end of 10 months was
tk. 760. What is A's share in this profit?
18. Tea worth tk. 126 per kg and tk. 135 per kg is mixed with a third variety in the ratio 1: 1:
2. If the mixture is worth tk. 153 per kg, what will be the price of the third variety per kg?
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19. A can contains a mixture of two liquids A and B is the ratio 7: 5. When 9 liters of mixture
are drawn off and the can is filled with B, the ratio of A and B becomes 7: 9. How many liters
of liquid A was contained by the can initially?
20. A milk vendor has 2 cans of milk. The first contains 25% water and the rest milk. The second
contains 50% water. How much milk should he mix from each of the containers so as to get 12
liters of milk such that the ratio of water to milk is 3: 5?
21. How many kilogram of sugar costing TK. 9 per kg must be mixed with 27 kg of sugar costing TK.
7 per kg so that there may be a gain of 10% by selling the mixture at TK. 9.24 per kg?
22. A bank offers 5% compound interest calculated on half-yearly basis. A customer deposits tk.
1600 each on 1st January and 1st July of a year. At the end of the year, what is the amount he
would have gained by way of interest?
23. Two numbers A and B are such that the sum of 5% of A and 4% of B is two-third of the sum of 6%
of A and 8% of B. Find the ratio of A: B.
24. Samad went to the stationers and bought things worth tk. 25, out of which 30 paisa went on
sales tax on taxable purchases. If the tax rate was 6%, then what was the cost of the tax free
items?
25. A boat can travel with a speed of 13 km/hr in still water. If the speed of the stream is 4
km/hr, find the time taken by the boat to go 68 km downstream.
26. A boat running upstream takes 8 hours 48 minutes to cover a certain distance, while it takes 4
hours to cover the same distance running downstream. What is the ratio between the speed of
the boat and speed of the water current respectively?
27. A boat takes 90 minutes less to travel 36 miles downstream than to travel the same distance
upstream. If the speed of the boat in still water is 10 mph, what is the speed of the stream?
28. A runs 1 times as fast as B. If A gives B a start of 80 m, how far must the winning post be
so that A and B might reach it at the same time?
29. A hall is 15 m long and 12 m broad. If the sum of the areas of the floor and the ceiling is
equal to the sum of the areas of four walls, what is the volume of the hall?
pipe is 1 cm and iron weighs 8 g/cm3, then what is the weight of the pipe?
31. The ratio between the length and the breadth of a rectangular park is 3: 2. If a man cycling
along the boundary of the park at the speed of 12 km/hr completes one round in 8 minutes, then
what is the area of the park (in sq. m)?
32. The diagonal of the floor of a rectangular closet is 7.5 feet. The shorter side of the closet
is 4.5 feet. What is the area of the closet in square feet?
33. A time study specialist has set the production rate for each worker on a job at 22 units every
three houTK. At this rate, what is the minimum number of workers that should be put on the job,
if at least 90 units are to be produced per hour?
34. If Salam makes a box every 5 minutes and Kalam takes 7 minutes to make a box, what will be the
ratio of the number of boxes produced by Salam to the number of boxes produced by Kalam if they
work for 5 hours and 50 minutes?
35. A man rows to a place 48 km distant and come back in 14 hours. He finds that he can row 4 km
with the stream in the same time as 3 km against the stream. The rate of the stream is?
BCB Day 15
1. Worker W produces N units in 5 hrs, workers W and V working independently but at same time
produces N units in 12 hTK. How long would it take V alone to produce N units?
2. A man & a boy together can complete a job in 81 days. Two men and three boys together can
complete the job in 36 days. In how many days can 4 men working together complete the job?
were smokers and the rest were non-smokeTK. If one-third of the female member were smokers,
how many of the male members were non-smokers?
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4. a, b, c, d &e are five consecutive numbers in increasing order of size . Deleting one of the
five numbers from the set decreased the sum of the remaining numbers in the set by 20%. Which
one of the numbers was deleted from .a, b, c, d & e?
5. During the next Tree plantation week a company is considering planting tree in line of its own
rectangular piece of land which is 90 feet long & 66 feet wide. The land surrounded by boundary
wall of 5. It was also decided that the distance from one tree to anther in both row & column
will be 4 feet. What is the maximum no. of tree can be planted on the land?
6. 2 men & 3 boys can do a piece of work in 10 days while 3 men & 2 boys can do the same work in
8 days. In how many days can 2 men & 1 boy do the work?
7. Due to reduction of % in the price of sugar a man is able to buy 1 kg more for tk 120. Find
the original & reduced rate of sugar?
8. A survey showed that 63% of Bengali people like chicken whereas 76% like fish. If x% like both
fish & chicken then what is the range of x?
9. How many miles can a motor cyclist travel from 8:25am to 9:55am. At a speed of 820 miles per
hour?
10. A father divides his property between his two sons A& B. A invests the amount at compound
profit of 8% p.a. & B invests the amount at 10% p.a. at simple profit. At the end of 2 years
the profit received by B is tk 1336 more than the profit received by A. find the share of A in
the fathers property of tk 25000.
11. One day Mr. Wahid started 30 minutes late from home & reached his office 50 minutes late, while
driving 25% slower than his usual speed. How much time in minutes does Mr. Wahid usually take
to reach his office from home?
12. In a flight of 600 km aircraft was slowed down due to bad weather. Its average speed for the
trip was reduced by 30 km/hr & the time of the flight increased by 1 hour. Find out the duration
of the flight?
13. A workers buys some shirts & some ties. Shirts cost tk 70 each & the ties cost 30 tk each. If
he spends exactly tk 810 & buys the maximum number of shirts possible under these conditions
the ratio of the shirts to ties is.
14. How many pairs of letters in the word 'CHAIRS' have as many letters between them in the word
as in the alphabet?
15. The diagonal of a rectangle is 41 cm and its area is 20 sq. cm. The perimeter of the rectangle
is?
16. A student multiplied a number by 3/5 instead of 5/3, what is the percentage error in the
calculation?
17. A mixture contains alcohol and water in the ratio 4: 3. If 5 liters of water is added to the
mixture, the ratio becomes 4: 5. Find the quantity of alcohol in the given mixture.
18. A man walked diagonally across a square lot. Approximately, what was the percent saved by not
walking along the edges?
19. A sum of money lent at compound interest for 2 years at 20% per annum would fetch TK.482 more,
if the interest was payable half yearly than if it was payable annually . The sum will be?
20. After replacing an old member by a new member, it was found that the average age of five members
of a club is the same as it was 3 years ago. What is the difference between the ages of the
replaced and the new member?
21. When 0.36 is written in simplest form, the sum of the numerator and the denominator is?
22. Sequence of numbers are 1, 11, 21, 1211, 111221. What will be the next one in the above
sequence?
23. At 3.40, the hour hand and the minute hand of a clock form an angle of it?
24. In a mixture 60 litres, the ratio of milk and water 2:1. If this ratio is to be 1:2, then the
quantity of water to be further added in the mixture?
25. A is 30% more efficient than B. How much time will they, working together, take to complete a
job which A alone could have done in 23 days?
26. The angle of elevation of the sun, when the length of the shadow of a tree 3 times the height
of the tree is?
27. What percentage of numbers from 1 to 70 have 1 or 9 in the unit's digit?
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28. A & B entered into partnership with capitals in the ratio 4:5. After 3 months a withdraw of
his capital & B withdrew 1/5 of his capital. The gain at the end of 10 months was tk.760. As
share in this profit is?
29. A boat sailing against the current takes 8 hours to ravel 32 kms. While sailing with the current
it takes only 4 hours to travel the same distance. What is the speed of the current?
30. Azhar works thrice as much as Baten & is therefore able to finish a piece of work in 60 days
less than Baten. Find the time in which they can do it together.
31. If x years ago samad was 12 & x years from now he will be 2x years old, how old will he be
3x years from now?
32. The speed of a railway engine is 42 km per hour when no compartment is attached & the reduction
in speed is directly proportional to the square root of the number of compartments attached.
If the speed of the train carried by this engine 24 km per hour when 9 compartments are attached
what is the maximum number of compartments that can be carried by the engine?
33. A dishonest merchant makes a 10% profit at the time of buying and a 5% loss at the time of
selling the goods he/she trades. By doing so if the said merchant made a profit of TK. 900 on
a particular item, what was the real cost of the item sold?
34. A can do a piece of work in 10 days, while B alone can do it in 15 days. They work together
for 5 days and rest of the work is done by C in 2 days. If they get TK. 4,500 for the whole
work, how should they divide the money?
35. Two trains of equal lengths take 10 seconds and 15 seconds respectively to cross a telegraph
post. If the length of each train be 120 metres, in whattime (in seconds) will they cross each
other travelling in opposite direction?
BCB Day 16
1. Due to reduction of 6.25% in the price of sugar, a man is able to buy 1 kg more for TK. 120.
Find the original and reduce rate of sugar.
2. In a two-digit number, the digit in the unit`s place is more than twice the digit in ten`s
place by 1. If the digits in the unit`s place and the ten`s place are interchanged, difference
between the newly formed number and the original number is less than the original number by 1.
What is the original number?
3. A man can row at 5 kmph in still water. If the velocity of current is 1 kmph and it takes him
1 hour to row to a place and come back, how far is the place?
4. A boatman goes 2 km against the current of the stream in 1 hour and goes 1 km along the current
in 10 minutes. How long will it take to go 5 km in stationary water?
5. At a game of billiards, A can give B 15 points in 60 and A can give C to 20 points in 60. How
many points can B give C in a game of 90?
6. The sum of ages of 5 children born at the intervals of 3 years each is 50 yeaTK. What is the
age of the youngest child?
7. Present ages of Sameer and Anand are in the ratio of 5:4 respectively. Three years hence, the
ratio of their ages will become 11:9 respectively. What is Anand's present age in years?
8. The average of 20 numbers is zero. Of them, at the most, how many may be greater than zero?
year less than the average age of the whole team. What is the average age of the team?
10. Helpers are required to prepare cakes. Each helper can make either 2 large cakes or 35 small
cakes per hour. The kitchen is available for 3 hours and 20 large & 700 small cakes are required
to be prepared. What is the minimum number of helpers are required to complete the task?
11. Marge has n candies, where n is an integer such that 20 < n< 50. If Marge divides the candies
equally among 5 children, she will have 2 candies remaining. If she divides the candies among
6 children, she will have 1 candy remaining. How many candies will remain if she divides the
candies among 7 children?
12. Company C sells a line of 25 products with an average retail price of $1,200. If none of these
products sells for less than $420, and exactly 10 of the products sell for less than $1,000,
what is the greatest possible selling price of the most expensive product?
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13. When positive integer x is divided by 5, the remainder is 3; and when x is divided by 7, the
remainder is 4. When positive integer y is divided by 5, the remainder is 3; and when y is
divided by 7, the remainder is 4. If x > y, which of the following must be a factor of x y?
14. If p, x, and y are positive integers, y is odd, and p = x^2 + y^2, is x divisible by 4?
15. Machine A and Machine B are used to manufacture 660 sprockets. It takes machine A ten hours
longer to produce 660 sprockets than machine B. Machine B produces 10% more sprockets per hour
than machine A. How many sprockets per hour does machine A produce?
16. Workers are grouped by their areas of expertise, and are placed on at least one team. 20 are
on the marketing team, 30 are on the Sales team, and 40 are on the Vision team. 5 workers are
on both the Marketing and Sales teams, 6 workers are on both the Sales and Vision teams, 9
workers are on both the Marketing and Vision teams, and 4 workers are on all three teams. How
many workers are there in total?
17. When Professor Wang looked at the rosters for this term's classes, she saw that the roster for
her economics class (E) had 26 names, the roster for her marketing class (M) had 28, and the
roster for her statistics class (S) had 18. When she compared the rosters, she saw that E and
M had 9 names in common, E and S had 7, and M and S had 10. She also saw that 4 names were on
all 3 rosteTK. If the rosters for Professor Wang's 3 classes are combined with no student's
name listed more than once, how many names will be on the combined roster?
18. In a consumer survey, 85% of those surveyed liked at least one of three products: 1, 2, and 3.
50% of those asked liked product 1, 30% liked product 2, and 20% liked product 3. If 5% of the
people in the survey liked all three of the products, what percentage of the survey participants
liked more than one of the three products?
19. An aircraft uses 1680 gallons of fuel, the left tank uses 45%, the right tank uses 32.5%, how
much was used by the centre tank?.
20. A certain right circular cylinder has a radius of 5 inches. There is oil filled in this cylinder
to the height of 9 inches. If the oil is poured completely into a second right cylinder, then
it will fill the second cylinder to a height of 4 inches. What is the radius of the second
cylinder, in inches?
21. Water flows through a circular pipe of internal radius 10 cm at 5 m/s. If the pipe is always
three-quarters full, find the volume of water discharged in 30 min.
22. An isosceles triangle has a base of 5.0 cm and the equal sides are each 6.5 cm long. Find all
the internal angles of the triangle and its vertical height.
23. A surveyor observes the angle of elevation of a building as 26. If the eye line of the surveyor
is 1.8mabove horizontal ground and he is standing 16mfrom the building. What is the height of
this building?
24. A man stands on the top of a hill 80m high in line with two traffic cones in the road below.
If the angles of depression of the two traffic cones are 17 and 21. What is the horizontal
distance between them?
25. A cylindrical bar rests in a vee-block as shown in figure below. Determine the vertical height
of the vee-section (h) and the height (x) that the cylindrical bar is raised above the top
surface of the vee-block.
26. A man walking at 3 km/hr crosses a square field diagonally in 2 minuties. Area of the field
is?
27. A man can hit a target once in 4 shots. If he fires 4 shots in succession what is the probability
that he will hit his target?
28. As office is 4 km due east of Bs office. Cs office is 6 km due north of B;s office and 4 km
due east of Ds office. What is the straight-line distance in km from As office to Ds office?
29. The length of a rope, to wich a cow is tied, is increased from 19m to 30m. How much additional
ground will it be able to graze? Assume that the cow is able to move on all sides with equal
ease.
30. A shopkeeper lost 7.5% by selling an articale. If he had bought it at 10% less and sold it for
Tk. 31 more he would have gained 20%. Find the cost price of the artical?
31. 7557256102 can be divided by

32. A container of 64 ltr was full of milk. 16 ltr milk was drawn off and replace by water and this
process is repeated 2 times more find the quantity of water in the mixture now.
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33. I saw a shirt for $97. I borrowed $50 from mom, and $50 from dad. I bought the shirt with $3
of change. I gave $1 to mom, $1 to dad and kept $1 for myself. Now I owe my mom $49 and my dad
$49. $49 + $49 = $98+ my $1 = $99. Where did the other $1 go?
34. In a lake, there is a patch of lily pads. Every day, the patch doubles in size. If it takes 48
days for the patch to cover the entire lake, how long would it take for the patch to cover half
of the lake?
35. A watch which gains uniformly is 2 minutes low at noon on Monday and is 4 min. 48 sec fast at
2 p.m. on the following Monday. When was it correct?
BCB Day 17
1. The average of 7 distinct positive integers is 16. What is the most amount of these numbers
that can be greater than 16?
2. A router is being sold at 20% loss price. If the selling price is 1000 tk more, then the seller
can make 5% profit. What is the buying/ actual price?
3. If the price of a banana decreases by 25%, then in 100 tk one can get 25 more bananas. What is
the current price of 1 dozen banana?
4.
5.
6.
7.
Arithmetic series: Which term of the series 5 +8 +11 +14 is 302?

Pick the odd one out: 331, 482, 551, 263, 383, 242, 111.
How many different words can be formed taking three at a time from the letters of the AMERICA?
If 3 men or 5 boys can do a work in 30 days, then 5 men and 4 boys together can do it in how
many days?
8. Two men together can do a work in 8 days. First man can do it in 12 days. In how many days
second man can alone to do it?
9. A work can done by Abdul in 45 minutes, and by babul by 30 minutes. In how many minutes they
can together do it?
10. During Air-raid, sirens at four different places of a town are rung at interval of 1, 1*1/4,
1*1/2, 1*3/4 minutes respectively. If they ring together at the starting, when will they ring
together again?
11. There are 8 job applicants sitting in a waiting room; 4 men and 4 women. If two of the applicants
are selected at random, what is the probability that both will be women?
12. If the average (arithmetic mean) of 16, 20 and n is between 18 and 21 inclusive, what is the
greatest possible value of n?
13. On decreasing the price of T.V sets by 30%, its sale is increased by 20%.What is the effect on
the revenue received by the shopkeeper?
14. A reduction of 21% in the price of wheat enables a person to buy 10.5 kg more for Tk. 100. What
15. A Company employs 15 persons, each working 44 hours a week. If 4 persons are absent, how many
hours a week would the rest of the persons have to work to make up the time lost?
16. Three workers can do a job in 12 days. Two of the workers work twice as fast as the third. How
long would it take one of the faster workers to do the job alone?
17. A tank can be filled by a tap in 20 minutes and by another tap in 60 minutes. Both the taps
are kept open for 10 minutes and then the first tap is shut off. After this, the tank will be
completely filled in?
18. Two pipes A and B can fill a tank in 6 hours respectively. If they are opened on alternate
hours and if pipe A is opened first, in how many hours the tank shall be full?
19. One pipe can fill a pool 1.25 times faster than a second pipe. When both pipes are opened, they
fill the pool in five houTK. How long would it take to fill the pool if only the slower pipe
is used?
20. For making a cupboard it requires human labor three times the labor required to make a bench.
Six carpenters can make 36 benches and 5 cupboards in 12 days. How many days will 10 carpenters
require to make 61 benches and 8 cupboards?
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21. Dipu works alone, he will take 20 more hours to complete a task than if he worked together with
Enam. If Enam works alone, he will take 5 more hours to complete the task than if he worked
together with Dipu. If they work together, how many hours do they need to complete the task?
22. Three workers can do a job in 20 days. Two of the workers work twice as the third. How long
would it take if one of the faster workers to do the job himself?
23. The sum of two numbers is 56.If three times of the smaller number is one-half of the larger
number, what is the larger number?
24. A batsman makes a score of 87 runs in the 17th innings and thus increase his average by 3.Find
his average after 17th innings?
25. Son's age is now one-third of father's age. In twelve years from now son's age will be one half
of the father's age. What is the son's age in years now?
30. Jamil bought 25 kg of rice at the rate of Tk 6 per kg and 35 kg of rice at the rate of Tk 7
per kg. He mixed the two and sold the mixture at the rate of Tk 6.75 per kg. What was the gain
or loss in the transaction?
31. By selling 8 dozen of pencils, a shopkeeper gains the selling price of 20 bananas. Find out
his gain percent.
32. The marked price of a radio is Tk 480. The shopkeeper allows a discount of 10% and gains 8%.
If no discount is allowed, what will be his gain percentage?
33. Suppose you deposited Taka 10,000 on January 01, 2013 at 12.50% interest rate-for 1 year, on
July 01, 2013 Taka 15000 at 12% interest rate for 6 months and on October 01, 2013 Taka 20000
at 22.50% interest rate for 3 months (assume that the stated interest rates are simple and
annual). Suppose you withdrew all deposits (include due interests) on December 31, 2013.
Calculate the overall annual rate of interest you have received.
34. An automobile financier claims to be lending money at simple interest, but he includes the
interest every six months for calculating the principal. If he is charging an interest of 10%,
the effective rate of interest becomes?
35. A hall is 15 m long and 12 m broad. If the sum of the areas of the floor and the ceiling is
equal to the sum of the areas of four walls, the volume of the hall is?
BCB Day 18
1. A sum of Tk 725 is lent in the beginning of a year at a certain rate of interest. After 8
months, a sum of Tk 362.50 more is lent but the rate twice the former. At the end of the year,
Tk. 33.50 is earned as interest from both the loans. What was the original rate of interest?
2. If Karims income is X% more than Rahims income then Rahims income is less than Karims
income by (X/(100+X)100)% .
3. Rahim can a work by 3 hours, Karim can the same work by 4 hours and Aman can the half work and
Amans working speed is as like as Karims working speed .85 tk wage given them.
part separately.
Find their
4. TK 936 will distribute among 13 women ,15 men and 12 boys .if 1 womans amount equal 3 boys
amount and 1 mans amount equal 2 womens and 1boys amount .how much get every man ?
5. In a partnership business A , B and Cs capital
ratio is 1/2 : 1/3 :1/4 .after 4 months A

withdraw his half capital and end of the year profit is 2024 tk .Now findout As profit .
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6. TK 110 distribute among A, B and C in this way both B and C together get a part and As part
is equal to 3/7 of B and C. And A and C get a part and B get 2/9 of A and C.
7. A, B and C invite 17 men for drinking tea .three partner are bear the cost equally.
A gives
7 persons tea bill and B also gives 10 persons bill and C gives 34 tk as a his cost .now give
this 34 tk between A and B .
8. An amount of loan
allow for 4 years .4% and 5% interest rate for ist 2 years and next two
years respectively .after 4 years capital plus interest
would become 1416. Find initial
capital.
9. Few money at 6% I R would become 1300 (principal + interest) after 5 yeaTK. Find how many years
need for Tk 1390?
10. At 10.5% compound interest rate .find profit after 2 years, where principal amount tk 5000.
11. A and B partner in a business .1/3 capital gives by A and engaged this amount for 9 months. B
gets 3/5 portion of profit .how many months engaged Bs capital in business.
12. A and B separately take a loan at 10 % simple I R from a bank in a same day. A paid a amount
after 2 years, B also paid exactly same amount after 3 years .find ratio of their loan.
13. The Cost price of 20 articles is the same as the selling price of X articles. It the profit is
25% then the value of X is:
14. The total number of digits used in numbering the pages of a book having 366 pages is:
15. A father said to his son, I was as old as you are at the present at the time of your birth.
It the fathers age s 38 years now, the sons age five years back was:
16. The average of 20 numbers is zero of them at the most, how many may be greater than zero?
17. What is the minimum number of tiles of size 16 by 24 required to form a square by placing the
tiles adjacent to one another?
18. In what ratio must a grocer mix two varieties of tea worth Tk. 60 @ by and Tk. 65 kg so that
by selling the mixture at Tk. 68.20 @ kg
he may gain 10%?
19. A train 108m long moving at a speed of 50 km/h career a train 112m long coming from opposite
direction in 6 seconds. The speed of the second train is:
20. M is a girl and has the same number of brothers as sister as brotheTK. M and N are the children
of Q. How many children does Q have?
21. A red light flashes 3 times per minute and a green light flashes 5 times in two minutes at
regular intervals. It both lights start flashing at the same time, how many times do they flash
together in each hour?
22. What percentage of numbers from 1 to 70 have squares that end in the digit 1?
23. How many 3 digit numbers can be formed from the digits 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 & 9 which are divisible
by 5 and none of the digits is repeated?
24. A jar contains 4 red tooth picks, 10 blue toothpicks and 6 yellow toothpicks. It three toothpicks
are removed from the bag at random and no toothpick is returned to the bag after removal, what
is the probability that all there toothpicks will be blue?
25. Bahi lines 2 miles west of Rajus house. Rafiq lives 3 miles of Rajus house and 2 miles west
of from Bakis house to Dibas house?
26. In a city, 40% of the people are illiterate and 60% are poor. Among the rich, 10% are illiterate.
what percentage of the poor population is illiterate?
27. A and B ran, at their respective constant rates, a race of 480 m. In the first heat, A gives B
a head start of 48 m and beats him by 1/10th of a minute. In the second heat, A gives B a head
start of 144 m and is beaten by 1/30th of a minute. What is Bs speed in m/s?
28. Three workers, A, B, and C, can complete a certain task in 10, 5 and x hours respectively. A
starts working alone and 2 hours later B joins. After another 2 hours joins C. After that A,
B, and C together complete the task in 15 minutes. What is the value of x?
29. A draining pipe can empty a pool in 4 houTK. On a rainy day, when the pool is full, the draining
pipe is opened and the pool is emptied in 6 houTK. If rain inflow into the pool is 3 liters
per hour, what is the capacity of the pool?
30. Usually Holly leaves home to school at 9:00, however today she left home 20 minutes later. In
order to be at school on time she increased her usual speed by 20% and still was at school 15
minutes later than usual. What is her usual time from home to school?
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31. A contractor estimated that his 10-man crew could complete the construction in 110 days if
there was no rain. (Assume the crew does not work on any rainy day and rain is the only factor
that can deter the crew from working). However, on the 61-st day, after 5 days of rain, he
hired 6 more people and finished the project early. If the job was done in 100 days, how many
days after day 60 had rain?
32. Of the applicants passes a certain test, 15 applied to both college X and Y. If 20 % of the
applicants who applied college X and 25% of the applicants who applied college Y applied both
college X and Y, how many applicants applied only college X or college Y?
33. This year Henry will save a certain amount of his income, and he will spend the rest. Next year
Henry will have no income, but for each dollar that he saves this year, he will have 1 + r
dollars available to spend. In terms of r, what fraction of his income should Henry save this
year so that next year the amount he was available to spend will be equal to half the amount
that he spends this year?
34. Fanny and Alexander are 360 miles apart and are traveling in a straight line toward each other
at a constant rate of 25 mph and 65 mph respectively, how far apart will they be exactly 1.5
hours before they meet?
BCB Day 19
1. Machine A can process 6000 envelopes in 3 houTK. Machines B and C working together but
independently can process the same number of envelopes in 2.5 houTK. If Machines A and C working
together but independently process 3000 envelopes in 1 hour, then how many hours would it take
Machine B to process 12000 envelopes.
2. An empty swimming pool with a capacity of 75,000 liters is to be filled by hoses X and Y
simultaneously. If the amount of water flowing from each hose is independent of the amount
flowing from the other hose, how long, in hours, will it take to fill the pool?
3. It takes 6 technicians a total of 10 hours to build and program a new server from Direct
Computer, with each working at the same rate. If six technicians start to build the server at
11:00 AM, and one technician per hour is added beginning at 5:00 PM, at what time will the
server be complete?
4. A, B and C enter into partnership. A invests some money at the beginning, B invests double the
amount after 6 months and C invests thrice the amount after 8 months. If the annual profit be
Tk. 18000, cs share is:
5. There are 200 questions on a 3-hour examination. Among these questions 50 are mathematics
problems. It is suggested that twice as much time be spent on each math problem as for each
other question. How many minutes should be spent on mathematics problems?
6. A rectangular carpet covers half of a rectangular floor that is 9 feet wide and 12 feet long.
If the dimensions of the carpet are in the same ratio as those of the floor, then what is the
length of the carpet?
7. If x is not a negative number, what is the maximum possible value of 22- 3x?
8. The longest side of an isosceles right triangle measures 16 meter. What is the perimeter of
the triangle? MTB MTO-13 According to pithagoras
9. In a class of 40 students, the number of students who passed the math exam is equal to half
the number of students who passed the science exam. Each students in the class passed at least
one of the two exams. 5 students passed both exams, then how many students passed the math
exam?
meant to empty the tank. Each of the pipes that fill the tank can fill it in 8 hours, while
each of those that empty the tank can empty it in 6 houTK. If all the pipes are kept open when
the tank is full, it will take exactly 6 hours for the tank to empty. How many of these are
fill pipes?
11. In how many ways can Annie, Bushra, Camellia, Don, Elina and Farzana be seated if Annie and
Bushra cannot be seated next to each other?
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12. During the next Tree Plantation Week, A bank is considering planting trees in one of its
rectangular piece of land which is 90 feet long and 66 feet wide. The field is surrounded by
boundary wall of 5 feet height. It has been decided that trees will be planted leaving 5 feet
land free from the wall in all four sides. It was also decided that the distance from one tree
to another in both row and column will be 4 feet. What is the maximum number of trees that can
be planted in the land?
13. A student has to obtain 33% of the total marks to pass. He got 125 marks and failed by 40 marks
.The maximum marks are?
14. When a producer allows 36% commission on the retail price of his product, he earn a profit of
8.8%.what would be his profit % if the commission is reduced by 24%?
15. 2 men and 3 boys can do a piece of work in 10 days while 3 men and 2boys can do the same work
16. The cost price of 20 articles is the same as the selling price of x articles. If the profit is
25%, then the value of x is?
17. At what profit % must an article be sold so that by selling at half that price, there may be a
loss of 30%?
18. A contractor employed 30 men to do a piece of work in 38 days. After 25 days, he employed 5
men more and the work was finished one day earlier. How many days he would have been behind,
if he had not employed additional men?
19. The diagonal of a square is 42 cm. The diagonal of another square whose area is double that
of the first square, is?
20. The ratio of the number of boys and girls in a school is 3:2.If 20% of the boys and 25% of the
girls are scholarship holders, what % of the students does not get the scholarship?
reduction in speed directly proportional to the square root of the number of compartment
are attached .What is the maximum number of compartments that can be carried by this engine?
22. The speed of a railway engine is 64 km/h when no compartment is attached, and the reduction in
speed directly proportional to the sq of the no of compartments attached. If the spd of the
train carried by this engine is 40 km per hr when 36 compartments are attached, what is the
maximum no. of compartments that can be carried by engine?
23. Suppose you deposited Tk 10000 on January 1. 2012 at 12.50% interest rate for 1 year. On July
1 2013 Tk 15000 at 12% interest rate for 6 months and on October 1 2013 Tk 20000 at 11.5%
interest rate for 3 months (assume that the stated interest rates are simple and annual).
Suppose you withdrew all deposits including due interests on December 31. 2013. Calculate the
overall annual rate of interest you have received?
24. A dessert recipe calls for 50% melted chocolate and 50% raspberry puree to make a particular
sauce. A chef accidentally makes 15 cups of the sauce with 40% melted chocolate and 60%
raspberry puree instead. How many cups of the sauce does he need to remove and replace with
pure melted chocolate to make the sauce the proper 50% of each?
25. A drink contains 20% cranberry juice, 20% raspberry juice and the rest is apple juice. You
needed 250 ml water in 750 ml of the drink. Now what is the ratio of water to apple juice in
the drink?
26. Four friends R,G,S,N purchased a toy train .R contribute half that of total contribution made
by other three and G is one fourth of other three and S is two third of the other threes. If
total price of the toy train is tk.9900. Find contribution made by R?
27. A person travels from x to y at a speed of 40km/p and returns by increasing his speed by 50%.
What is his average speed for both trips?
28. A train travelling at 48km/h completely crosses another train having half its length and
travelling in opposite direction at 42 km/h, in 12 second. It also passes a railway platform
in 45 second. What is the length of the platform?
29. In an election between two candidates, 10% of the voters did not cast their vote. 10% of the
votes polled were found invalid. The successful candidates got 54% of the valid votes and won
by a majority of 1620 votes. Find the number of voters enrolled on the voters list.
30. Of the 300 subjects who participated in an experiment using virtual-reality therapy to reduce
their fear of heights, 40 percent experienced sweaty palms, 30 percent experienced vomiting,
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and 75 percent experienced dizziness. If all of the subjects experienced at least one of these
effects and 35 percent of the subjects experienced exactly two of these effects, how many of
the subjects experienced only one of these effects?
31. A dishonest businessman makes a profit 10% both on buying and selling of a commodity .if his
profit is tk 1050 .what is the cost price of the commodity?
32. A train crosses a platform 100 meters long in 60 seconds at a speed of 45 km per hour. The time
taken by the train to cross an electric pole is?
33. Two trains of equal length are running on parallel lines in the same direction at 46 km/hr.
and 36 km/hr. The faster train passes the slower train in 36 seconds. The length of each train
is?
34. A can finish a work in 24 days, B in 9 days and C in 12 days. B and C start the work but are
forced to leave after 3 days. The remaining work was done by A in how many days?
35. 50 men took a dip in a water tank 40 m long and 20 m broad on a religious day. If the average
displacement of water by a man is 4 m3, then the rise in the water level in the tank will be?
BCB Day 20
1. The cost, in taka, of manufacturing x microwaves is 6000+ 300x taka. The amount received when
selling these x microwaves is 700x taka. What is the least number of microwaves that must be
manufactured and sold so that net profit is taka 2400?
2. Two numbers are respectively 20% and 50% more than a third number. The ratio of the two numbers
is?
3. A square office, 1000 feet by 1000 feet, is to be partitioned into two offices by a single
interior wall. The difference between the perimeters of the resulting two officers is 400 feet.
What are their dimensions?
4. A tank is filled by three pipes with uniform flow. The first two pipes operating simultaneously
fill the tank in the same time during which the tank is filled by the third pipe alone. The
second pipe fills the tank 5 hours faster than the first pipe and 4 hours slower than the third
pipe. The time required by the first pipe is?
5. A rectangular park 60 m long and 40 m wide has two concrete crossroads running in the middle
of the park and rest of the park has been used as a lawn. If the area of the lawn is 2109 sq.
m, then what is the width of the road?
6. The length of a rectangular plot is 20 meters more than its breadth. If the cost of fencing
the plot at 26.50 per meter is Tk. 5300, what is the length of the plot in meters?
7. A rectangular field is to be fenced on three sides leaving a side of 20 feet uncovered. If the
area of the field is 680 sq. feet, how many feet of fencing will be required?
8. A bag contains 2 red, 3 green and 2 blue balls. Two balls are drawn at random. What is the
probability that none of the balls drawn is blue?
9. In a club the ratio of men and women is 16:7. The ratio of married men and married women is
4:3. Calculate the percentage of married men if 60% of the women are married.
10. A two-digit number is such that the product of the digits is 8. When 18 is added to the number,
then the digits are reversed. The number is?
12. Two varieties of sugar are mixed in a certain ratio. The cost of the mixture per kg is tk 0.05
less than that of the superior variety and tk 0.75 more than that of the inferior variety.
What was the ratio of superior variety to inferior variety in the mixture?
13. For an item the profit is 40% when the discount is 30%. What is the profit when the discount
is 40%?
14. A man traveled one-fourth of the total distance of his trip by car. He traveled the remaining
distance on foot. The ratio of his walking time to driving time was 15:1. Calculate the ratio
of his driving speed to his walking speed.
15. A train travels from New York to Chicago, a distance of approximately 840 miles, at an average
rate of 60 miles per hour and arrives in Chicago at 6:00 in the evening Chicago time . At what
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hour in the morning ,New York city time ,did the train depart for Chicago?( note- Chicago time
is one hour earlier than New York city time)
16. A shopkeeper makes a loss of 12% by selling an item at 80% of its marked price. What will be
the percent profit made by the shopkeeper if he sells the item at 95% of its marked price?
17. In a 100 m race, Jami beats Rony by 4 sec .If Jami allowed Rony to start 16m ahead of him, and
then Jami and Rony reach the finishing point at the same time. How long does Jami take to run
the 100 in race?
18. From 7:00 AM to 11:00 AM it rained 2.25 inches. At 11:00 AM the rain increased to fall at a
rate of 1.25 inches every two houTK. How many inches of rain landed of the ground by 5:00 PM?
19. Of the 50 students in a college, 32 are enrolled in Psychology class and 37 are enrolled in
Logic. If 6 of the students did not enroll in either class, how many of the students are in
only one of these two classes?
20. In a class, 120 students are finance major & 100 students are marketing major. 25% of the
finance students & 20% of the marketing students are male. 20% of the male finance students &
25% of the male marketing students passed the final exam. What percentage of male students
passed the exam?
21. A 4 liter oil can costs tk. 200. If the price of oil increases by a half percent, how much will
two 4 liters cans cost?
22. A car uses one liter of petrol to travel 17 miles. After a tune-up, the car travels 17% farther
on one. How many liters of petrol (to the nearest tenth) will it take for the car to travel
170 miles after a time?
23. The mile meter of a car misses every eleventh mile being traveled. After a certain time, the
meter shows that 1251 miles were travelled. How many miles were actually traveled?
24. X sells a product to Y and makes a profit of 25%. Y sells it to Z at a loss of 20%. If Z buys
it for tk. 140, what price X paid for it?
25. A woman buys a pound of steak for $3.00. If the meat loses one-fourth of its weight when cooked,
what is the cost per pound when it is served at the table?
26. A woman was thirty years old when her daughter born. Her age is now 6 years more than three
times her daughters age. How old will be the daughter in 5 years?
favor of the stream. The ratio of the speed of the boat (in still water) and the stream is?
shoot the bullets one after another .the probability of the first bullet to hit it is 90% and
those of 2nd and 3rd one is 80% and 70% respectively. What is the probability that the helicopter
will be shot down?
29. One fifth of the products made by a company are defective. Four-fifth of the defectives was
31. One pipe can fill a tank three times as fast as another pipe. If together the two pipes can
fill the tank in 36 minutes, then the slower pipe alone will be able to fill the tank in?
32. In a race of 200 m, A can beat B by 31 m and C by 18 m. In a race of 350 m, C will beat B by?
exactly 5 liters at a time. Each time this is done, the cask must be filled back to the brim
with water. The capacity of the cask is 15 liteTK. When the cask is completely emptied and
filled back to the brim two times, what is the ratio of alcohol to water in the cask?
34. Three times the first of three consecutive odd integers is 3 more than twice the third. The
third integer is?
35. A metallic sheet is of rectangular shape with dimensions 48 m x 36 m. From each of its corners,
a square is cut off so as to make an open box. If the length of the square is 8 m, the volume
of the box (in m3) is?
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BCB Day 21
1. Joan started work 2 years ago. Her starting salary was half of Mikes salary at that time. Each
year since then Joan and Mike have received a rise of 10% in their respective salary. What
percentage (to the nearest percent) of Mikes current salary is Joans current salary?
2. Three candidates contested an election and received 1136, 7636 and 11628 votes respectively.
What percentage of the total votes did the winning candidate get?
3. Two numbers are respectively 20% and 50% more than a third number. The ratio of the two numbers
is?
4. A square office, 1000 feet by 1000 feet, is to be partitioned into two offices by a single
interior wall. The difference between the perimeters of the resulting two officers is 400 feet.
What are their dimensions?
5. Alim and Badrul enter into a partnership and invest Tk. 10,000 in the partnership. At the end
of 4 months he withdraws Tk. 2,000. At the end of another 5 months, he withdraws another Tk.
3,000. If Badrul receives Tk. 9,600 as his share of the total profit of Tk. 19,000 for the
year, how much did Badrul invest in the company?
6. Mr. Jitun purchased a house for tk. 1000000 in 2005. He spent Tk. 100000 for routine maintenance
and upkeep of the house. In 2009, he sold out the house for 25% more than what h paid for it.
He paid 5% of sale proceeds as gain tax. And he had pay 50% of his net profit to the broker.
What was net income?
7. a, b, c, d and e are five consecutive numbers in increasing order of size. Deleting one of the
five numbers from the set decreased the sum of remaining numbers in the set by 20% of the sum
of all five numbeTK. Which one of the numbers was deleted from a, b, c, d and e?
8. A farmer borrowed 500 taka at 5% interest and couple of months later he borrowed 400 taka at
3.5% again. After 6 month of 2nd borrowing he settled both loans by paying total 994.50 taka.
Find out how much time did the farmer take to settle his 1st loan?
9. 2pipes A & B can fill a tank in 36 minutes and 45 minutes respectively. Waste pipe C can empty
the tank in 30min. first A &B is opened. After 7 mins, C is also opened. In how much time the
tank is full?
10. A train which travels at uniform speed due to some mechanical fault after traveling for an hour
goes at 3/5th of the original speed and reached the destination 2 hours late. If the fault had
occurred after 50 miles, they would have reached 40 minutes earlier. What is the distance
between the stations?
11. A team of 2 men and 5 women completed one-fourth of the job in 3 days. After 3 days, another
man joined and they took 2 days to complete another one-fourth of job. How many men can complete
12. An article is sold at 20% profit. If its cost price is increased by tk. 50 and at the same time
if its selling price is also increased by tk. 30, the percentage of profit decreases by 10/3.
Find the cost price.
13. In a factory there are three types of Machines M1, M2 and M3 which produces 25%, 35% and 40%
of the total products respectively. M1, M2 and M3 produce 2%, 4% and 5% defective products,
respectively. What is the percentage of non-defective products?
14. A child has three different kinds of chocolates costing TK.2, TK.5, TK.10. He spends total TK.
120 on the chocolates. What is the minimum possible number of chocolates he can buy, if there
must be at least one chocolate of each kind?
15. In an examination, a student gets 38% of the maximum marks and fails by 6 marks. Another student
who gets 45 % of the maximum marks gets 15 marks more than required passing percentage. Find
passing percentage of the marks.
16. In a class of 150 students, 90 students have taken F, 75 students have taken B, and 55 students
have taken E. 10 students have taken F and E but not B, 15 students have taken F and B but not
E, and 25 students have taken B and E but not F. Find the number of students who have taken
all the three courses.
17. In a group of students, 80% of the students weigh less than 60 kg and a total of 32 students
weigh less than 50 kg. If 60% of the students weigh at least 50 kg, how many of the students
weigh at least 50 kg but less than 60 kg?
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18. Weights of two friends Ram and Shyam are in the ratio 4:5. If Ram's weight is increased by 10%
and total weight of Ram and Shyam become 82.8 kg, with an increase of 15%. By what percent did
the weight of Shyam has to be increased?
19. The taxi cab charges tk.4.60 for the first 0.2 mile of a trip & tk.1.20 for each 0.2 of a mile
or a part thereof. If the trip is 2.5 miles one way & the waiting charge is tk.7.50 for 30
minutes or part thereof. What will be the fare for a round trip if the passenger waited for 70
minutes?
20. Two varieties of sugar are mixed in a certain ratio. The cost of the mixture per kg is Tk 0.50
less than that of the superior variety & Tk 0.75 more than that of the inferior variety. What
was the ratio of superior variety to inferior variety in the mixture?
21. In a production lot 40% toys are red and the remaining is green. Half of the toys are small
and half are large. 10% of the toys are red & small and 30 toys are green and large. How many
toys are red and large?
22. A bucket contains a mixture of two liquids A & B in the proportion 5: 3. If 16 liters of the
mixture is replaced by 16 liters of liquid B, then the ratio of the two liquids becomes 3: 5.
How much of the liquid B was there in the bucket?
23. In a garden there are 10 rows and 12 columns. The distance between any two of the trees is 2
m. and a distance of 1 m is left from all sides of the boundary of the garden. What is the
24. if one-third of the funds of an endowment was invested in stocks, and of the other two-thirds
25% each was invested in bonds and in mutual fund, and the residual amount of taka 60000 was
invested in Treasury bills , what was the total size of the endowment?
25. A farmer has 2 rectangular fields. The larger field has twice the length and 4 times the width
of the smaller field. If the smaller field has area of K, then the area of the larger field is
greater than the area of the smaller field by what amount.
26. A house owner was having his house painted. He was advised that he would require 25kg of paint.
Allowing for 15percent wastage and assuming that the paint is available in 2kg cans, what would
be the cost of paint purchased if one can cost tk.16?
27. In a country, 60% of the male citizen and 70% of the female citizen are eligible to vote.70%
of the male citizen eligible to vote cast their vote and 60% of the female citizen eligible to
vote cast their vote. What fraction of the citizens voted during the election?
28. A,B & C enter into a partnership by investing in the ratio of 3:2:4. After one year, B invests
another Tk 2,70,000 & C, at the end of 2 years, also invests Tk 2,70,000. At the end of three
years, profits are shared in the ratio of 3:4:5. Find the initial investment of each.
29. There are 200 questions on a 3 hour examination. Among these questions 50 are mathematics
30. Suppose you deposited tk. 10000 on January 01, 2012 at 12.5% interest rate for 1 year, on July
01, 2013 tk. 15000 at 12% interest rate for 6 months and October 01, 2013 tk. 20000 at 22.5%
interest rate for 3 months (assume that the stated interest rate are simple and annual).,
Suppose you withdrew all deposits (including due interest) on December 31, 2013. Calculate the
overall annual rate of interest you have received.
31. Last year the ratio of salary x & y was 1:2 & that of x and z was 1:3. The year everyone got
an increment of tk. 1000. If z is now drawing tk. 25000, what is the salary in tk. of y this
year?
32. Three classes X, Y, Z take an algebra test. The average score in class X is 83. The average
score in class Y is 76. The average score in class Z is 85. The average score of all students
in classes X and Y together is 79. The average score of all students in classes Y and Z together
is 81. What is the average for all three classes?
33. In a shop 40% socks are white and rest are black.60% socks r made of cotton and rest made of
wool 25% white socks r made of cotton and 20 of the black socks of made of wool. How many black
socks are made of cotton?
34. The taxicab charges Tk 4.60 for the first 0.2 miles of trip and Tk.1.20 for each of 0.2 of a
mile or apart thereof. If the trip is 2.5 miles one way and the waiting charge is tk.7.50 for
30 minutes or part thereof .what will be the fare for a round trip if the passenger waited for
70 minutes?
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35. The compound interest on a certain sum for 2 years at 10% per annum is Rs. 525. The simple
interest on the same sum for double the time at half the rate percent per annum is?
BCB Day 22
1. Solution A is 20% salt and Solution B is 80% salt. If you have 30 ounces of solution A and 60
ounces of solution B, in what ratio could you mix Solution A with Solution B to produce 50
ounces of a 50% salt solution?
2. A man starts from L to M, another from M to L at the same time. After passing each other they
complete their journey in 3 1/3 hours and 4 4/5 hours respectively. Find the speed of the
second man if the speed of the first is 24 km/hr?
3. A hare makes 9 leaps in the same time as a dog makes 5. But the dogs leap is 2m while hares
is only 1 m. How many leaps will the dog have to make before catching up with the hare if the
hare has a head start of 16 m?
4. A train left station A for station B at a certain speed. After travelling for 100 km, the train
meets with an accident and could travel at 4/5 th of the original speed and reaches 45 minutes
late at station B. Had the accident taken place 50 km further on, it would have reached 30
minutes late at station B. What is the distance between station A and B?
5. A train leaves Dhaka at 6 a.m and reaches Rajshahi at 10 a.m. Another train leaves Rajshahi at
8 a.m and reaches Dhaka at 11.30 a.m. At what time do the two trains cross one another?
6. Two trains start at the same time from two stations and proceed towards each other at the speed
of 15 km and 20 km per hour respectively. When the trains meet, it is found that one train has
travelled 50 km more than the other. Find the distance between the two stations.
7. In a circular race of 1200 m length, A and B start with speeds of 18kmph and 27 kmph starting
at the same time from the same point. When will they meet for the first time at the starting
point when running in the same direction and opposite direction?
8. The current of a stream runs at 1km/hr. A motor boat goes 35 km. upstream and back again to
the starting point in 12 houTK. The speed of motor boat in still water is?
the plot @ 26.50 per meter is tk. 5300, what is the length of the plot in meters?
discharge chemical solutions P, Q and R respectively. What is the proportion of the solution R
pipe. What is the time required by the first pipe?
12. Two pipes can fill a tank in 20 and 24 minutes respectively and a waste pipe can empty 3 gallons
per minute. All the three pipes working together can fill the tank in 15 minutes. What is the
capacity of the tank?
13. Two pipes A and B can fill a tank in 15 minutes and 20 minutes respectively. Both the pipes
are opened together but after 4 minutes, pipe A is turned off. What is the total time required
to fill the tank?
14. In a class, there are 15 boys and 10 girls. Three students are selected at random. What is the
probability that 1 girl and 2 boys are selected?
15. If Tk.45000 was invested in the share market when the price per share was Tk. 90 and Tk. 30000
purchased?
16. There are 8 job applicants sitting in a waiting room; 4 men and 4 women. If two of the applicants
17. If the average (arithmetic mean) of 16,20 and n is between 18 and 21 inclusive, what is the
18. If the individual marks of all the students are arranged in increasing order, which of the
following is a possible mark for the 36th position?
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19. In a group of 5 men, no 2 men have the same age. The eldest man is 50 years old, and the
youngest 30 years old. If X years is the average age of the men in the group, which of the
following best indicates all and only possible value of X?
20. On decreasing the price of T.V sets by 30%,its sale is increased by 20%.What is the effect on
21. A reduction of 21% in the price of wheat enables a person to buy 10.5 kg more for Tk. 100. What
22. A Company employs 15 persons, each working 44 hours a week. If 4 persons are absent, how many
23. Three workers can do a job in 12 days. Two of the workers work twice as fact as the third. How
24. A tank can be filled by a tap in 20 minutes and by another tap in 60 minutes. Both the taps
are kept open for 10 minutes and then the first tap is shut off. After this, the tank will be
25. Two pipes A and B can fill a tank in 6 hours respectively. If they are opened on alternate
hours and if pipe A is opened first, in how many hours the tank shall be full?
is used?
27. For making a cupboard it requires human labor three times the labor required to make a bench.
Six carpenters can make 36 benches and 5 cupboards in 12 days. How many days will 10 carpenters
require to make 61 benches and 8 cupboards?
together with Dipu. If they work together, how many hours do they need to complete the task?
30. A 60 meter long train passes a 240 meter long railway station in 10 sec. How many seconds will
31. A train went 300 miles from X to city Y at an average speed of 80 mph.At what speed did it
32. The current of stream runs at 1 km/h.A motor boat goes 35 km upstream and back again to the
against the current in four hours. What is the boat's speed?
35. Two pipes A and B can fill a cistern in 37 minutes and 45 minutes respectively. Both pipes are
opened. The cistern will be filled in just half an hour, if the B is turned off after?
BCB Day 23
5. Drum X is 1/2 of oil and drum Y has twice the capacity of drum X, is 2/3 full of oil. If all
the oil in drum X is poured into drum Y, then drum Y will be filled to what fraction of its
capacity?
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6. One dozen eggs & ten pounds of apples are currently at the same price level. If the price of a
dozen eggs rises by 20% & the price of ten pounds of apples goes up by 2%, how much more will
it cost to buy a dozen eggs & ten pounds of apples?
7. A can complete a piece of work in 4 days. B takes double the time Taken by A, C takes double
that of B, and D takes double that of C to complete the same task. They are paired in a group
of two each. One pair takes two thirds the time needed by the pair to complete the work. Which
is the first pair?
8. A seller bought some pens at a rate of tk. 5 for tk. 100. They were separated in to stacks,
one of which was sold at a rate of 3 for tk. 100 and the other at a rate of 6 for tk. 100.What
was the ratio of the number of pens in the two stacks if the seller made no overall profit or
loss?
9. Two numbers when divided by a certain devisor leave remainders of 271 and 159 respectfully.
When the sum of these two numbers is divided by the same divisor, the reminder is 147. What is
the divisor?
10. There are four women and 4 men sitting in a waiting room for job. If two of the applicants are
selected at random, what is the probability that both will be women?
11. Two cyclists start biking from the starting point of a trail3 hours apart. The second cyclist
travels at 10 miles per hour and starts 3 hours after the first cyclist who is traveling at 6
miles per hour. How much time will pass before the second cyclist catches up with the first
from the time the second cyclist started biking?
12. 200 children came to the park last Sunday. All of the older children rode bicycles into the
park and all of the younger children came on tricycles. 480 Wheels rode into the park that day,
all of them functioning on the children`s bicycles of tricycles. How many younger children came
in to the park last Sunday?
13. In covering a distance of 30 km, A takes 2 hours more than S. If A doubles his speed, then he
would take 1 hour less than S. A`s speed is?
14. A border of uniform width is placed around a rectangular photograph that measures 8 inches by
10 inches. If the area of the border is 144 square inches, what is the width of the border, in
inches?
15. Before the budget, a businessmen had increased the price of his product by 12%. In the budget,
a 10% sales tax (to be paid by the seller) was imposed on that product. As a result, the profit
ultimately increased by 64. What was the original selling price?
16. 7 kg of mango cost as 10 kgs of apple and 1 kgs of orange. 7 kgs of orange cost as much as 1
kgs of apple can be purchased by the amount of money required to purchase 12 kgs of mango?
17. Sterling silver is 92% pure silver. How many grams of sterling silver must be mixed to a 90%
silver alloy to obtain a 500g of a 91% silver alloy?
18. Monika purchesed a pressure cooker at 9/10th of its selling price and sold it at 8% more than
its S.P .find her gain percent.
19. The price of the jewel,passing through three hands,rises on the whole by65%.if the first and
the second sellers 20%and25% profit respectively find the percentage profit earned by the third
seller.
20. The percentage profit earned by selling an article for TK. 1920 is equal to the percentage loss
incurred by selling the same article for TK. 1280. At what price should the article be sold to
make 25% profit?
21. On selling 17 balls at TK. 720, there is a loss equal to the cost price of 5 balls. The cost
price of a ball is:
22. A trader mixes 26 kg of rice at TK. 20 per kg with 30 kg of rice of other variety at TK. 36
per kg and sells the mixture at TK. 30 per kg. His profit percent is:
23. A man bought apples at the rate of 8 for TK.34 and sold them at the rate of 12 for TK.57. How
many apples should be sold to earn a net profit of TK. 45?
24. A shopkeeper sold an article for TK.2564.36. Approximately what was his profit percent if the
cost price of the article was TK.2400?
25. A fruit seller purchases oranges at the rate of 3 for TK.5 and sells them at 2 for TK.4. His
profit in the transaction is ans 20%
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26. Mr.Jones gave 40% of the money he had to his wife. he also gave 20% of the remaining amount to
his 3 sons. half of the amount now left was spent on miscellaneous items and the remaining
amount of TK.12000 was deposited in the bank. how much money did Mr.jones have initially?
27. The population of a town is 18000. It increases by 10% during 1st year and by 20% during the
2nd . The population after 2 years will be:
28. Ina library 20% books are in Hindi, 50% of theremianing are in English and the remaining 9000
are in various other languages. What is the total number of books in English?
29. A house owner was having his house painted. He was advised that he would require 25kg of paint.
Allowing for 15% wastage and assuming that the paint is available in 2 kg cans, what would be
the cost of pain purchased, if one can cost TK.16?
30. A reduction of 12.5% in the price of a dining table brought down it sprice to TK.4375, the
original price (in TK.) of the table was: TK.5,000
31. Father is aged three times more than his son Sunil. After 8 years, he would be two and a half
times of Sunil's age. After further 8 years, how many times would he be of Sunil's age?
32. Ayisha's age is 1/6th of her father's age. Ayisha's father's age will be twice the age of
Shankar's age after 10 yeaTK. If Shankar's eight birthdays was celebrated two years before,
then what is Ayishas present age?
33. My brother is 3 years elder to me. My father was 28 years of age when my sister was born while
my mother was 26 years of age when I was born. If my sister was 4 years of age when my brother
was born, then what was the age my father when my brother was born?
34. The ratio between the length and the breadth of a rectangular park is 3 : 2. If a man cycling
along the boundary of the park at the speed of 12 km/hr completes one round in 8 minutes, then
what is the area of the park (in sq. m)?
BCB Day 24
1. It is decided to construct a 2 metre broad pathway around a rectangular plot on the inside. If
the area of the plots is 96 sq.m. and the rate of construction is TK. 50 per square metre.,
what will be the total cost of the construction?
2. A circle is inscribed in an equilateral triangle of side 24 cm, touching its sides. What is
the area of the remaining portion of the triangle?
year less than the average age of the whole team. Find out the average age of the team.
4. A banker paid TK.5767.20 for a bill of TK.5840, drawn of Apr 4 at 6 months. If the rate of
interest was 7%, what was the day on which the bill was discounted?
6. Tap 'A' can fill the tank completely in 6 hrs while tap 'B' can empty it by 12 hTK. By mistake,
the person forgot to close the tap 'B', As a result, both the taps, remained open. After 4 hrs,
the person realized the mistake and immediately closed the tap 'B'. In how much time now
onwards, would the tank be full?
7. At his usual rowing rate, Rahul can travel 12 miles downstream in a certain river in 6 hours
less than it takes him to travel the same distance upstream. But if he could double his usual
rowing rate for his 24-mile round trip, the downstream 12 miles would then take only one hour
less than the upstream 12 miles. What is the speed of the current in miles per hour?
litres of milk such that the ratio of water to milk is 3:5?
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9. 8 litres are drawn from a cask full of wine and is then filled with water. This operation is
performed three more times. The ratio of the quantity of wine now left in cask to that of the
water is 16 : 65. How much wine did the cask originally hold?
10. Suresh started a business with TK.20,000. Kiran joined him after 4 months with TK.30,000. After
2 more months, Suresh withdrew TK.5,000 of his capital and 2 more months later, Kiran brought
in TK.20,000 more. What should be the ratio in which they should share their profits at the
end of the year?
earned was TK. 7400. What is the share of B in the profit?
12. In a competitive examination in state A, 6% candidates got selected from the total appeared
candidates. State B had an equal number of candidates appeared and 7% candidates got selected
with 80 more candidates got selected than A. What was the number of candidates appeared from
each state?
13. In a certain school, 20% of students are below 8 years of age. The number of students above 8
years of age is 23 of the number of students of 8 years of age which is 48. What is the total
number of students in the school?
14. Q as a percentage of P is equal to P as a percentage of (P + Q). Find Q as a percentage of P?

15. Arun borrowed a certain sum from Manish at a certain rate of simple interest for 2 yeaTK. He
lent this sum to Sunil at the same rate of interest compounded annually for the same period.
At the end of two years, he received TK. 2400 as compound interest but paid TK. 2000 only as
simple interest. Find the rate of interest.
16. Find the annual dividend received by Nishita from 1200 preferred shares and 3000 common shares
both of par value TK. 50 each if the dividend paid on preferred shares is 10% and semi-annual
dividend of 3 % is declared on common shares.
17. A man invested TK. 26000 in 5% stock at 104. He sold the stock when the price rose to TK. 120
and invested the sale proceeds in 6% stock. By doing this his income increased by TK. 2500. At
what price did he purchase the second stock?
18. A company has issued 500 preferred shares and 400 common shares both of par value TK. 100 each.
The dividend on a preferred share and a common share is 8% and 12%, respectively. The company
had a total profit of 150000 rupees out of which some amount was kept in reverse fund and the
remaining disturbed as dividend. Find the amount kept in reserve fund.
19. There are two buildings P and Q. If 15 persons are sent from P to Q, then the number of persons
in each building is the same. If 20 persons are sent from Q to P, then the number of persons
in P is double the number of persons in Q. How many persons are there in building P?
20. There are 6 working days in a regular week and for each day, the working hours are 10. A man
earns TK. 2.10 per hour for regular work and TK. 4.20 per hour for overtime. If he earns TK.525
in 4 weeks, how many hours did he work?
21. John gets on the elevator at the 14th floor of a building and rides up at the rate of 84 floors
per minute. At the same time, Vinod gets on an elevator at the 58th floor of the same building
and rides down at the rate of 92 floors per minute. If they continue travelling at these rates,
then at which floor will their paths cross?
22. Free notebooks were distributed equally among children of a class. The number of notebooks each
child got was one-eighth of the number of children. Had the number of children been half, each
child would have got 16 notebooks. Total how many notebooks were distributed?
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23. In an examination, a student scores 4 marks for every correct answer and loses 1 mark for
every wrong answer. If he attempts all 80 questions and secures 120 marks, How many questions
does he answer correctly?
24. 9 engines consume 24 metric tonnes of coal, when each is working 8 hours day. How much coal is
required for 8 engines, each running 13 hours a day, if 3 engines of former type consume as
much as 4 engines of latter type?
25. A, B and C start at the same time in the same direction to run around a circular stadium. A
completes a round in 252 seconds, B in 308 seconds and c in 198 seconds, all starting at the
same point. After what time will they again at the starting point?
26. On a certain day, orangeade was made by mixing a certain amount of orange juice with an equal
amount of water. On the next day, orangeade was made by mixing the same amount of orange juice
with twice the amount of water. On both days all the orangeade that was made was sold. If the
revenue from selling the orangeade was the same for both days and if the orangeade was sold at
Tk. 0.60 per glass on the first day, what was the price per glass on the second day?
27. Yesterdays closing price of 2420 different stocks listed on a certain stock exchange were all
different from todays closing pieces. The number of stocks that closed at a higher price
today than yesterday was 20% greater than the number that closed at a lower price. How many of
the stocks closed at a higher price today than yesterday?
28. At his regular hourly rate, Alam had estimated the labor cost of a repair job as tk. 336 and
he was paid that amount. However, the job took 4 hours longer than he had estimated and,
consequently, he earned 2 taka per hour less than his regular hourly rate. What was the time
Alam has estimated for the job, in hours?
29. Of the 300 subjects who participated the experiment using virtual-reality therapy to reduce
their fear
experienced
35% of the
experienced
of heights, 40% experienced sweaty palms, 30% experienced vomiting, and 75%
dizziness. If all of the subjects experienced at least one of these effects and
subjects experienced exactly two of these effects, how many of the subjects
only one of these effects?
30. The price of commodity X increases by 40 paisa every year, while the price of commodity Y
increases by 15 paisa every year. If in 2001, the price of commodity X was TK. 4.20 and that
of Y was TK. 6.30, in which year commodity X will cost 40 paisa more than the commodity Y?
31. In a regular week, there are 5 working days and for each day, the working hours are 8. A man
gets TK. 2.40 per hour for regular work and TK. 3.20 per hours for overtime. If he earns TK.
432 in 4 weeks, then how many hours does he work for?
32. From a group of 7 men and 6 women, five persons are to be selected to form a committee so that
at least 3 men are there on the committee. In how many ways can it be done?
33. In how many different ways can the letters of the word 'MANAGEMENT' be arranged in such a way
that the vowels always come together?
34. Out of 7 consonants and 4 vowels, how many words of 3 consonants and 2 vowels can be formed?
35. Three pipes A, B and C can fill a tank in 6 hours. After working at it together for 2 hours, C
is closed and A and B can fill the remaining part in 7 hours. The number of hours taken by C
alone to fill the tank is?
BCB Day 25
1. In a group of 6 boys and 4 girls, four children are to be selected. In how many different ways
can they be selected such that at least one boy should be there?
2. In how many ways a committee, consisting of 5 men and 6 women can be formed from 8 men and 10
women?
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3. Tickets numbered 1 to 20 are mixed up and then a ticket is drawn at random. What is the
probability that the ticket drawn has a number which is a multiple of 3 or 5?
4. What is the probability of getting a sum 9 from two throws of a dice?

5. In a lottery, there are 10 prizes and 25 blanks. A lottery is drawn at random. What is the
probability of getting a prize?
6. A card is drawn from a pack of 52 cards. What is the probability of getting a queen of club or
a king of heart?
7. One card is drawn at random from a pack of 52 cards. What is the probability that the card
drawn is a face card (Jack, Queen and King only)?
8. The cost price of 20 articles is the same as the selling price of x articles. If the profit is
25%, then the value of x is
9. If selling price is doubled, the profit triples. Find the profit percent.
10. In a certain store, the profit is 320% of the cost. If the cost increases by 25% but the selling
price remains constant, approximately what percentage of the selling price is the profit?
11. A vendor bought toffees at 6 for a rupee. How many for a rupee must he sell to gain 20%?
12. A, B and C can do a piece of work in 20, 30 and 60 days respectively. In how many days can A
do the work if he is assisted by B and C on every third day?
13. A alone can do a piece of work in 6 days and B alone in 8 days. A and B undertook to do it for
TK. 3200. With the help of C, they completed the work in 3 days. How much is to be paid to C?
14. A does 80% of a work in 20 days. He then calls in B and they together finish the remaining work
in 3 days. How long B alone would take to do the whole work?
16. Excluding stoppages, the speed of a bus is 54 kmph and including stoppages, it is 45 kmph. For
how many minutes does the bus stop per hour?
17. Robert is travelling on his cycle and has calculated to reach point A at 2 P.M. if he travels
at 10 kmph, he will reach there at 12 noon if he travels at 15 kmph. At what speed must he
travel to reach A at 1 P.M.?
18. What was the day of the week on 17th June, 1998?
19. It was Sunday on Jan 1, 2006. What was the day of the week Jan 1, 2010?
21. A flat steel plate is cut with sides of length, 12, 8 and 6 cm. Determine the three angles of
the plate.
22. If the angle subtended at the center of a circle by an arc length 4.5 cm is 120, what is the
radius of the circle? Also find the angle of a sector of radius 20 cm and an area 300 cm2
23. A vertical radio mast has cable stays of length 64 m, extending from the top of the mast. If
each wire makes an angle of 65 with the ground, find: (a) the distance each cable is from the
base of the mast, (b) the vertical height of the mast
24. The distance (s) covered by a missile s= 4.905t2 +10t. Determine its rate of change of distance
with respect to time (its speed), after (i) 4 s and (ii) 12 s have elapsed.
25. To find the height of an airfield radio mast positioned on top of the control tower, the
surveyor sets up his theodolite 200m from the base of the tower. The surveyor finds that the
angle of elevation to the top of the mast is 20. If the instrument is held 1.6 m from the
level ground, what is the height of the tower?
26. A aerial erector is positioned 50m up a radio mask, in line with two landing lights, whos
angles of depression are 45 and 60. Calculate the distance between the landing lights.
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27. A navigator notes a point B is due east of point A on the coast. Another point C on the coast
is noted, 8km due south of A. The distance BC is 10 km. As the navigator calculate the bearing
of C from B.
28. Find the volume and total surface area of a right cylinder, with a top and bottom, if the
cylinder has a height of 12 cm and a base radius of 3 cm.
29. The final velocity of an car subject to linear acceleration is given by the formula, v=u+at,
where u is the initial velocity, a is the linear acceleration and t is the time. Given that
u=70 m/s, a=4 m/s2 and t =20 s, find the final velocity of the car.
30. The cost of electroplating a square sheet of metal varies as the square of its length. The cost
to electroplate a sheet of metal with sides of 12 cm is 15.00. How much will it cost to
electroplate a square piece of metal with sides of 15 cm.
31. A specific supplier buys 100 packs of rivets for 60.00 and sells them to the another operator
for 80 pence each. What percentage profit does the supplier make? The same supplier buys an
undercarriage door retraction actuator for 1700.00 and because it is reaching the end of its
shelf life, he must sell it for 1400.00. What is the suppliers percentage loss?
32. A light carrier is loaded with 22 boxes. If nine boxes have a mass of 12 kg, eight boxes have
a mass of 14 kg and five boxes have a mass of 14.5 kg. What is the total mass of the boxes and
the average mass per box?
33. Walking across campus, a student interviewed a group of students. 25% of the students took a
finance class last semester, 50% took a marketing class last semester, and 40% took neither a
finance nor a marketing class last semester. What percent of the students in the group took
both a finance and a marketing class?
34. Rice is now being sold at taka 20 a kg. During last month its rate was Taka 16 per kg. By how
much percent should a family reduce its consumption so as to keep the expenditure fixed?
35. The age of father 10 years ago was thrice the age of his son. Ten years hence, father's age
will be twice that of his son. The ratio of their present ages is?
BCB Day 26
1. If selling Price is doubled, the profit triples. Find the profit percent.
2. A border of uniform width is placed around a rectangular photograph that measures 8 inches by
10 inches. If the area of the border is 144 square inches, what is the width of the border, in
inches?
3. Bobby, an office secretary, typed 6 letteTK. Each of which had either 1 or 2 pages. If bobby
typed 10 pages in all, how many of letters had 2 pages?
4. Solution X contains 7% (by weight) of liquid M and solution Y contains 14.5% (by weight) of
liquid M. If 3 grams of solution X is mixed with 2 grams of solution Y, then liquid M accounts
for what percent of the weight of the resulting solution?
5. In a certain country, a person is born every 5 seconds and a person dies every 13 seconds.
Therefore the birth and death rates account for a population growth rate of one person in how
many seconds?
6. In how many ways can annie, bushra, camellia, don, elina and farzana be seated if annie and
bushra cannot be seated next to each other?
7. Certain numbers of children were playing a game of football. There was a trial taking place on
the field. In this trial the probability that a goal is scored is 2/5. The probability that a
girl hits a goal is 7/10 whereas the probability that a boy hits a goal is 1/5.what will be
the probability that not only a goal is hit but it is also hit by a boy?
8. Of the three numbers, the first is twice the second & is half of the third. if the average of
three numbers is 56.the smallest number is what?
9. The income of a broker remains unchanged through the rate of commission is increased from 4%
to 5%.the percentage of slump in business is what?
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10. A debtor can pay 87 paisa in the taka, but if his creditors would take 20%off his debts, he
could pay them & have tk 42 left. His debts & assets respectively are
11. 5/9 part of the population in a village are males. if 30% of the males are married, the
percentage of unmarried female in the total population is-
12. In a city, 35% of the population is composed of migrants, 15% of whom are from rural areas of
the local population, 42% is female while this figure for rural & urban migrants is 30% & 40%
respectively. If the total population of the city is 728400.what is its female population?
13. A bag contains 800 coins of 25p denomination & 1200 coins of 50p denomination. If 12% of 25p
coins & 24% of 50p coins are removed the percentage of money removed from the bag is nearly -
14. The price of an article was increased by p%. later the new price was decreased by p%. if the
latest price was tk 1, the original price was?
15. A tradesman by means of a false balance defrauds to the extent of 8% in buying goods & also
defrauds to 8% in selling. His gain percent is?
16. the difference between the interest received from two different banks on taka 500 for 2 years
is taka 2.50.the difference between their rates is
17. A, B & C started a business by investing the amount of tk 600, tk 800 & tk 900 respectively.
After few months, A invested an amount of tk 300 in the same business. At the end of the year,
they profited of tk 300.after how many months did A invest tk 300 if C's share of profit be
tk.108?
18. A man is 10% older than his wife, wife is X% younger than him. Find X?
19. What principal will give an interest of tk 100 in 4 years at 25/2% per annum?
20. if a certain number of workmen can do a piece of work in 25 days, in what time will another
set of an equal number of men do a piece of work twice as great, supposing that 2 men of the
first set can do as much work in an hour as 3 men of the second set can do in an hour?
21. A department store receives a shipment of 1000 shirts, for which it pays TK 9000. The store
sells the shirts at a price 80% above cost for one month, after which it reduces the price of
the shirts to 20% above cost. The store sells 75% of the shirts during the first month and 50%
of the remaining shirts afterward. How much gross income did sales of the shirts generate?
22. A Shopkeeper makes a loss of 12% b selling an item at 80% of its marked price. What will be
the percent profit made by the shopkeeper if he sells the item at 95% of its marked price?
23. At a shop, shirts are sold for 20% less than the price marked, making a 25% profit on its cost.
If each shirts is marked TK. 500, what is the cost of each shirt?
24. At a certain rate of simple interest a certain sum doubles itself in 10 yeaTK. It will be
treble itself in?
25. The Simple interest on a sum of money will be Tk. 600 after 10 yeaTK. If the principal is
trebled after 5 years, what will be the total interest at the end of tenth year?
26. Putul bought a 1- year , TK. 10000 certificate of deposit that paid interest at an annual rate
of 8 percent compounded semiannually, What was the total amount of interest paid on this
certificate at maturity?
27. A retailer bues a radio from the wholeseller for Tk. 80. He then marks up the price by 25%
and sales at a discount of 10%. What is his profit in the radio?
28. If of the air in a tank is removed with each stroke of a vacuum pump, what fraction of the
original amount of air has been removed after 4 stroke?
29. In a certain fashion house, which has four size of a specific shirt, there is one third as many
small shirt as medium shirts, and as many large shirts as small shirts. If there are as many
X- large shirts, what percent of the shirts in the store are medium?
30. The average (arithmetic mean) of 6 numbers is 6.5. When four more numbers are added to these
six numbers, the new average of all 10 numbers is 7.9. What is the average of the four numbers
added?
31. How much salt must we add to 10 grams of a 20% salt solution to strengthen it into a 50%
solution?
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32. Tk. 5265 is divided among A, B,C so that A may receive
as much as B and C together receive

and B receives of what A and C together receive. The share of A is more than that of B by:
33. Gold is 19 times as heavy as water and copper 9 times as heavy as water. The ratio in wich
these two metals be mixed so that the mixture is 15 times as heavy as water, is:
34. Two equal glasses are respectively 1/3 and full of milk. They are then filled up with water
and the contents mixed in a tumbler. Ratio of milk & water in tumbler is?
35. In a class there are two sections A and B. If 10 students of section B shift over to section
A, the strength of A becomes three times the strength of B. But if 10 students shift over from
A to B, both A and B become equal in strength. How many students are there in sections A and
B?
BCB Day 27
1. What is the minimum number of chocolates that must be added to an existing stock of 966
chocolates, so that the total stock can be equally distributed among 6,7,8,or 9 persons?
2. How many seconds will a 500 meter long train take to cross a man walking with a speed of 3
km/hr in the direction of the moving train if the speed of the train is 63 km/hr?
3. A 55 meter long train passes a 220 meter long railway station in 10 secounds. How many seconds
will it take to pass another train 110 meter long?
4. A man can row at the rate of 4km/hr. in still water. If the time taken to row a certain distance
upstream is 3 times as much as to row the same distance downstream, find the speed of the
current.
meant to empty the tank. Each oh the pipes that fill the tank can fill it in 8 hours, while
each of those that empty the tank can empty it in 6 houTK. If all the pipes are kept open when
the tank is full, it will take exactly 6 hours for the tank to empty. How many of those are
fill pipes?
6. A man rowed 3 miles upstream in 9- mintues. If the flowed with a current of miles per hour,
how long did the mans return take?
7. Ten years ago A was half of B in age. If the ratio of their present ages is 3:4 what will be
the total of their present ages?
8. If x represents the sum of all the positive three-digit numbers that can be constructed using
each of the distinct nonzero digits a, b, and c exactly once, what is the largest integer by
which x must be divisible?
9. It takes 6 days for 3 women and 2 men working together to complete a work. 3 men would do the
same work 5 days sooner than 9 women. How many times does the output of a man exceed that of a
woman?
10. A dessert recipe calls for 50% melted chocolate and 50% raspberry puree to make a particular
sauce. A chef accidentally makes 15 cups of the sauce with 40% melted chocolate and 60%
raspberry puree instead. How many cups of the sauce does he need to remove and replace with
pure melted chocolate to make the sauce the proper 50% of each?
11. Two cars A and B start from Boston and New York respectively simultaneously and travel towards
each other at constant speeds along the same route. After meeting at a point between Boston
and New York the two cars A and B proceed to their respective destinations of New York and
Boston. Car A reaches New York 40 minutes after the two cars have met and Car B reaches Boston
90 minutes after they have met. How long did Car A take to cover the distance between Boston
and New York?
12. A bus from city M is traveling to city N at a constant speed while another bus is making the
same journey in the opposite direction at the same constant speed. They meet in point P after
driving for 2 houTK. The following day the buses do the return trip at the same constant speed.
One bus is delayed 24 minutes and the other leaves 36 minutes earlier. If they meet 24 miles
from point P, what is the distance between the two cities?
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13. Each day a man meets his wife at the train station after work, and then she drives him home.
She always arrives exactly on time to pick him up. One day he catches an earlier train and
arrives at the station an hour early. He immediately begins walking home along the same route
the wife drives. Eventually his wife sees him on her way to the station and drives him the rest
of the way home. When they arrive home the man notices that they arrived 20 minutes earlier
than usual. How much time did the man spend walking?
14. There are 5 bags three of which each contains 5 white and 2 black balls, and remaining 2 bags
each contains 1 white and 4 black ball; a black ball has been drawn, find the chance that it
came from first group.
15. What is the least possible distance between a point on the circle x^2 + y^2 = 1 and a point on
the line y = 3/4*x - 3?
16. A cyclist travels the length of a bike path that is 225 miles long, rounded to the nearest
mile. If the trip took him 5 hrs, rounded to the nearest hour, then his average speed must be
between:
17. If x+|x|+y=7 and x+|y|-y=6 what is x+y=?

18. How many even 3 digit integers greater than 700 with distinct non zero digits are there?
19. Two trains, one from P to Q and the other from Q to P, start simultaneously. After they meet,
the trains reach their destinations after 9 hours and 16 hours respectively. The ratio of their
speeds is?
20. Two stations P and Q are 110 km apart on a straight track. One train starts from P at 7 a.m.
and travels towards Q at 20 kmph. Another train starts from Q at 8 a.m. and travels towards P
at a speed of 25 kmph. At what time will they meet?
21. A train travelling at 48 kmph completely crosses another train having half its length and
travelling in opposite direction at 42 kmph, in 12 seconds. It also passes a railway platform
in 45 seconds. The length of the platform is?
22. A machine P can print 1 lakh books in 8 hour, Q can same in 10 hour & R can print them in 12
hour. All the machine r started at 9 AM, while machine P in closed at 11 is and the remaining
two machines complete the work. Approximately at what time the work will be finished?
23. Adam borrowed some money at the rate of 6% p.a. for the first two years, at the rate of 9% p.a.
for the next three years, and at the rate of 14% p.a. for the period beyond five yeaTK. 1 he
pays a total interest of TK. 11, 400 at the end of nine years how much money did he borrow?
company transport?
25. A sum of TK. 725 is lent in the beginning of a year at a certain rate of interest. After 8
months, a sum of TK. 362.50 more is lent but at the rate twice the former. At the end of the
year, TK.33.50 is earned as interest from both the loans. What was the original rate of
interest?
26. Ms. Varshini gave TK.30000/- to Mr. Suresh for 5 years and TK.20000/- to Mr. Vijay for 2
yeaTK. If the rate of interests is the same and she received TK.14000//- as sI from both. What
is the rate of interest?
27. A,B and C are three contestants in a km race .If A can give B a start of 40 m and A can give C
a start of 64 how Many meter start can b give C?
29. A shopkeeper sells one transistor for TK. 840 at a gain of 20% and another for TK. 960 at a
loss of 4%. His total gain or loss percent is?
30. Two goods train each 500 m long, are running in opposite directions on parallel tracks. Their
speeds are 45 km/hr and 30 km/hr respectively. Find the time taken by the slower train to pass
the driver of the faster one.
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the train?
33. In Arun's opinion, his weight is greater than 65 kg but less than 72 kg. His brother does not
agree with Arun and he thinks that Arun's weight is greater than 60 kg but less than 70 kg.
His mother's view is that his weight cannot be greater than 68 kg. If all are them are correct
in their estimation, what is the average of different probable weights of Arun?
34. In a group of 6 boys and 4 girls, four children are to be selected. In how many different ways
can they be selected such that at least one boy should be there?
35. A, B, C rent a pasture. A puts 10 oxen for 7 months, B puts 12 oxen for 5 months and C puts 15
oxen for 3 months for grazing. If the rent of the pasture is Rs. 175, how much must C pay as
his share of rent?
BCB Day 28
wants to be the working member for which, he was to receive 5% of the profits.The profit earned
was TK. 7400. Calculate the share of B in the profit?
litters of milk such that the ratio of water to milk is 3:5?
3. The cost of Type 1 rice is TK. 15 per kg and Type 2 rice is TK. 20 per kg. If both Type 1 and
Type 2 are mixed in the ratio of 2:3, then the price per kg of the mixed variety of rice is?
4. Two friends P and Q started a business investing in the ratio of 5: 6. R joined them after six
months investing an amount equal to that of Q's. At the end of the year, 20% profit was earned
which was equal to TK. 98,000. What was the amount earned by R?
5. TK. 9800 are invested partly in 9% stock at 75 and 10% stock at 80 to have equal amount of
incomes. The investment in 9% stock is?
minutes while stopping at the stations. The speed of the car is?
7. A, B & C Started a business each investing tk 20,000/=, after Five months A withdraw tk 5000,
B withdraw tk 4000 and C invest tk 6000 more. At the end of the year a total profit of tk
69,900/= was recorded. Find the share of each.
8. A person earns yearly interest of tk 920 by investing tk x at 4% & tk y at 5% simple interest.

If he invest taka x at 5% & taka y at 4% his yearly interest earning will be reduced by tk 40.
Find out his investment.
9. A picnic was arranged by M students. Total cost of the picnic was estimated to by Y taka.
Unfortunately, Z students withdrew their names from the picnic. How many more taka would each
of the remaining students have to pay?
10. Arman wanted to have TK 39,000 as interest after 5 yeaTK. He has invested an amount in an
account for 1 year at 8% interest rate. From the second year, he invested the principal amount
in another account offering 10% interest for 3 yeaTK. At the beginning of the fifth year, he
invested the principal amount in another account at the rate of 11%. What is the principal
amount? (assume simple interest rate)
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11. A 5% monthly salary increase resulted in a salary increase of 6000 per year for an employee.
What was his monthly salary before the increase?
12. If selling price doubled, the profit triples. Find the profit percent?
13. A person walking 5/6 of his usual rate is 40 minutes late. What is his usual time?
14. An article is sold at 20% profit. If its cost price is increased by TK 50 and at the same time
if its selling price is also increased by TK 30, the percentage of profit decreases by 10/3%.
15. The number of parallelograms that can be formed from a set of four parallel lines intersecting
another set of three parallel lines is
16. If a train runs at 40 kmph, it reaches its destination late by 11 minutes but if it runs at 50
kmph, it is late by 5 minutes only. The correct time for the train to complete its journey is:
17. 2 pipes A and B can fill a tank in 36 minutes and 45 minutes respectively. Waste pipe C can
empty the tank in 30 minutes A and B are opened. After 7 minutes, C is also opened. In how much
time, the tank is full?
18. In a flight of 600 km, an aircraft was slowed down due to bad weather. Its average speed for
the trip was reduced by 200 km/hr and the time of flight increased by 30 minutes. Find out the
19. A car traveled 75% of the way from town A and B at an average speed of 50 mph. The car travels
at an average speed of S mph for the remaining part of the trip. The average speed of the
entire trip was 40 mph. What is the value of S?
20. One day Mr. Wahid started 30 minutes late from home and reached his office 50 minutes late,
while driving 25% slower than his usual speed. How much time in minutes does Mr. Wahid take to
reach his office from home?
21. A 12 gallon tub has a faucet that lets water in at the rate of 3 gallons per minute and has a
drain that lets water out at a rate of 1.5 gallons per minute. If you start with 3 gallons of
water in the tub, how long will it take to fill the tub completely?
22. Paint needs to be thinned to a ratio of 2 parts paint to 1.5 parts water. The painter has by
mistake added water so that he has 6 litres of paint which is half water and half paint. What
must he add to make the proportions of the mixture correct?
23. Annie invested a certain sum of money in a bank that paid simple interest. The amount grew to
Tk. 240 at the end of 2 yeaTK. She waited for another 3 years and got a final amount of Tk.
300. What was the principal amount she invested at the beginning?
24. In a two- digit number, the digit in the units place is more than twice the digit in tens
placed by 1. If the digit in the units place & the tens place are interchanged, difference
between the newly formed number & the original number is less than the original number by 1.
What is the original number?
25. A does half as much work as B in three fourth of the time. If together they take 18 days to
26. A does half as much work as B in three fourth of the time. If together they take 18 days to
27. In a partnership, A invest 1/6 of the capital for 1/6 of the time, B invests 1/3 of the capital
for 1/3 of the time and C, the rest of the capital for the whole time. Out of profit of Tk.
4600, Bs share is:
28. A person invested 2/3 rd of his capital at 3%, 1/6 th at 6% and the remainder at 12%. Find out
the amount of capital if his annual income is TK. 25.
29. A basketball team has won 15 games and lost 9. If these games represent 16 2/3 % of the games
to the played, then how many more games must the team win to average 75% for the season?
is used?
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together with Dipu.If they work together, how many hours do they need to complete the task?
33. A 60 meter long train passes a 240 meter long railway station in 10 sec. How many seconds will
34. A train went 300 miles from X to city Y at an average speed of 80 mph. At what speed did it
35. Arif, Hemal and Faisal invested tk 8000, tk 4000 and tk 8000 respectively in a business. Arif
left after six months. If after eight months, there was a gain of tk 4005, then what will be
the share of Hemal and Faisal?
BCB Day 29
1. The current of stream runs at 1 km/h. A motor boat goes 35 km upstream and back again to the
against the current in four houTK. What is the boat's speed?
of the father's age. what is the son's age in years now?
wre smokers and the rest were non-smokeTK. If one-third of the female member were smokers, how
many of the male members were non-smokers?
12. A dishonest merchant makes a 10% profit at the time of buying and a 5% loss at the time of
selling the goods he/she trades. By doing so if the said merchant made a profit of Tk.900 on a
particular item, what was the real cost of the item sold?
13. A person wishes to accumulate Tk.5,00,000 by the end of 15 years by making equal half yearly
deposits over the next 15 yeaTK. If he/she earns 10% on the investment, how much must he/ she
deposit at the end of each half-year?
14. A taka received one year from now is worth 90 paisa today. If you had Tk. 5,00,000 available
for investment, what would be the minimum rate at which you would have to invest in order to
keep the value of your capital unchanged? What redemption value of your investment would you
expect if you wanted a real return of 5% per annum?
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15. Karim drove for hour and half at 50 miles per hour. When he realized that it would be dark very
soon, he raised his speed to the end of the journey. The total distance karim drove was 174
miles. How long did he drive at 55 miles per hour?
16. In a stream running at 2 km/hr, a motor boat goes 10 km upstream and back again to the starting
point in 55 minutes. Find the speed of the motor boat in still water.
17. For each taka spend by the sales department, the research department spends 20 paisa. For every
Tk. 4 spend by the research department spends Tk. 1.50. Find out the ratio of the money spent
by the sales department to the money spent by the research department to the money spent by
the packing department.
18. Suppose you deposited Tk. 10,000 on January 01, 2012 at 12.5% interest rate for 1 year, on July
01, 2013 Tk.15,000 at 12% interest rate for 6 months and on October 01,2013 Tk.20,000 at 22.50%
Suppose you withdraw all deposits (including due interest) on December 31, 2013. Calculate the
19. What will be the deposited amount at initial stage, if it becomes Tk. 43,750 at the end of 5
years with a simple interest rate of 15% per annum? How many years it will take the said
deposited amount to become Tk.55,000?
20. Two vessels A and B contain spirit and water in the ratio 5:2 and 7:6 respectively. Find the
ratio in which these mixture be mixed to obtain a new mixture in vessel C containing spirit
and water in the ratio of 8:5?
21. Your supervisor instructs you to purchase 240 pens and 6 staplers for the nurse's station. Pens
are purchase in sets of 6 for $2.35 per pack. Staplers are sold in sets of 2 for 12.95. How
much will purchasing these products cost?
22. Two cyclists start biking from a trail's start 3 hours apart. The second cyclist travels at 10
miles per hour and starts 3 hours after the first cyclist who is traveling at 6 miles per hour.
How much time will pass before the second cyclist catches up with the first from the time the
second cyclist started biking?
23. In an acoustics class,120 students are male and 100 students are female.25% of the male students
and 20%of the female students are engineering students.20% of the male engineering students
and 25% of the female engineering students passed the final exam, what percentage of engineering
students passed the exam?
24. The value of a share of stock was tk 30 on Sunday. The profile of the value in the following
week was as follows: The value appreciated by tk 1.2 on Monday. It appreciated by tk 3.1 on
Tuesday. It depreciated by tk 4 on Wednesday. It appreciated by tk 2 on Thursday and it
depreciated by tk 0.2 on Friday. On Friday, the stock market closed for the weekend. By what
percentage did the value of the share decrease in the five days?
25. Each person in a group of 110 investors has investments in either equities or securities or
both. Exactly 25% of the investors in equities have investment in securities, and exactly 40%
of the investors in securities have investments in equities. how many have investment in
equities?
26. T he
cost of painting a wall increase by a fixed percentage each year. In 1970 the cost was
tk 2000;and in 1979 it was tk 3600.what was the cost of painting in 1988?
27. The list price of a commodity is the price after a 20% discount on the retail price. The
festival discount price on the commodity is the price after a 30% discount on the list price.
Customers purchase commodities from stores at a festival discount price. What is the effective
discount offered by the stores on the commodity on its retail price?
28. The total income of Mr. Teng in the years 2003,2004 and 2005 was tk 36400.His income increased
by 20% each year. what was his income in 2005?
29. Train X leaves New York at 10AM and travels East at a constant speed of x miles per hour. If
another train Y leaves New York at 11.30 AM and travels East along the same tracks at speed
4x/3, then at what time will train Y catch train X?
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30. An old man distributed all the gold coins he had to his sons into two different numbers such
that the difference between the two numbers is 36 times the difference between the two numbeTK.
How many coins did the old man have?
31. A car travelled 65% of the way from town A to town B at an average speed of 65 mph. The car
travelled at an average speed of v mph for the remaining part of the trip. The average speed
foe the entire trip was 50 mph. what is v in mph?
32. A worker is hired for 7 days. Each day he is paid 10 dollars more than what he is paid for the
preceding day of work. The total amount he was paid in the first 4 days of work equaled the
total amount he was paid in the last 3 days. What was his starting pay?
33. In a multi voting system, voters can vote for more than one candidate. Two candidates A and B
are contesting the election.100 voters vote for A. Fifty out of 250 voters voted for both
candidates. If each voter voted for at least one of the two candidates, then how many candidates
voted only for B?
34. There are 750 male and female participants in a meeting. Half of the female participants and
one-quarter of the male participants are Democrats. One third of all the participants are
Democrats. How many are the Democrats are female?
BCB Day 30
1. A survey of n people in the town of Eros found that 50% of them prefer brand A. Another survey
of 100 people in the town of Angie found that 60% prefer brand A. In total 55% of all the
people surveyed together prefer brand A. what is the total number of people surveyed?
2. A meeting is attended by 750 professionals.450 of the attendees are females. Half the female
attendees are less than30 years old and one-fourth of the male attendees are less than 30 years
old. If one of the attendees of the meeting is selected at random to receive a prize, what is
the probability that the person selected is less than 30 years old?
3. A triangular plot with sides 28 meters,35 meters and 56 meters is to be surrounded by a fence
built on posts set 7 meters apart. After posts are placed at each corner, how many more
additional posts will be needed?
4. Jalal started work 2 years ago. His starting salary was of Millatss salary at that time.
Each year since then Jalal has received a raise of 5% in his salary and Millat has received a
raise of 10% in his salary. What percentage 9to the nearest percent0 of Millats current salary
is jalals current salary?
5. Recently, sohans hourly wage has been increased by 1o%.Before this increase, sohans total
weekly wage was tk 137.If his weekly hours were to decrease by 10% from last weeks total
hours, what would be the change, if any, in sohans total weekly wage?
6. The speed of a railway engine is 42 km per hour when no compartment is attached, and the
reduction in speed directly proportional to the square root of the number of compartments
7. A basketball team has won 15 games and lost 11.If these games represent 50/3 % of the games to
the played, then how many more games must the term win to average 75 % of the season?
8. The speed of a railway engine is 64 km/h when no compartment is attached, and the reduction in
speed directly proportional to the square root of the no of compartments attached. If the speed
of the train carried by this engine is 40 km per hr when 36 compartments are attached, what is
the maximum no. of compartments that can be carried by engine?
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had occurred after traveling another 50 miles, the train would have reached 40 min earlier.
10. Two trains equal length of 500 meters starts moving on two parallel railway tracks at a speed
of 104 km/h and 80 km/h respectively. How much time the faster train will take to cross the
slower one?
11. John and Dani go for an interview for two vacancies. The probability for the selection of John
is 1/3 and whereas the probability for the selection of Dani is 1/5. What is the probability
that none of them are selected?
12. David invested certain amount in three different schemes A, B and C with the rate of interest
10% p.a., 12% p.a. and 15% p.a. respectively. If the total interest accrued in one year was
TK. 3200 and the amount invested in Scheme C was 150% of the amount invested in Scheme A and
240% of the amount invested in Scheme B, what was the amount invested in Scheme B?
13. Simple interest on a certain sum of money for 4 years at 5% per annum is half the compound
interest on TK. 3000 for 2 years at 10% per annum. The sum placed on simple interest is:
14. If the difference between the simple interest and compound interests on some principal amount
at 20% for 3 years is TK. 48, then the principal amount is?
15. A worker is paid taka x per hour for the first 5 hours he works each day. He is paid taka
y per hour for each hour he works in excess of 5 hTK. During one week, he works 8 hours on
Saturday, 11 hours on Sunday, 12 hours on Monday, 10 hours on Tuesday, 9 hours on Wednesday.
What is the average daily wage for five days of week?
16. A businessman before closing his shop, counted the money kept in the cash box and found there
were X number 50 paisa coin, X number of 1 tk notes, X number of 2 tk notes and X number of 5
tk notes. Apart from this there is nothing in the box. The next day when he opened the shop he
founds that the cash box had been stolen. As he was insured, he got tk 1615 which is 95% of
the stolen money from the insurance company. How many 2 tk notes were in the box?
company transport?
18. 8 litters are drawn from a cask full of wine and are then filled with water. This operation is
performed three more times. The ratio of the quantity of wine now left in cask to that of water
is 16: 81. How much wine did the cask hold originally?
19. A person wishes to accumulate Tk. 5,00,000 by the end of 15 years by making equal half-yearly
deposits over the next 15 yeaTK. If he/she earns 10% on the investment, how much must he/she
deposit at the end of each half year?
20. Mr. A purchased a house for tk 1000000 tk in 1995; he spent 100000 tk for routine maintenance
& upkeep of the house. 1n 1999 he sold the house for 25% of more than what he paid for it. He
paid 5% of the proceeds as gain tax & he has to pay 50% of his net profit to the broker, what
is his net income?
21. Mr. a purchased a house for Tk. 1000000 in 1995. He spent Tk. 100000 for the routine maintenance
and upkeep of the house. In 1999, he sold out the house for 25% of more than what he paid for
it. He paid 5% of the sales proceeds as gain tax. And he had to pay 50% of his act posit to
the broker. What was his net income?
22. 20 men can finish a job in 30 days. After how many days should 5 men leave the work so that
the work may be finished in 35 days?
23. All the page numbers from a book are added, beginning at page 1.However one page number was
mistakenly added twice. The sum obtained was 1000.which page number was added twice?
24. Mr. X, a sales person earns 5% commission on all sales between Tk. 20000 and Tk. 40000 and 8%
on the sales exceeding Tk. 40000 in a month. He does not earn any commission if sales in a
month amount to less than Tk. 20000.His monthly salary are 60000; he has to pay 20% tax on his
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basic salary but no tax on commission. In April 2001, his total net income (salary + commission)
of the sales person was Tk. 65000.How much was the sales in April?
25. 2 workers A and
B are engaged to do a job. A working alone takes 8 hours more to complete the
job than if both worked together. If B worked alone he would need 4.5 hours more to complete
the job than they both worked together. What time would they take to do the work together?
26. A,B and C
started a business by investing the amount of Tk. 600, Tk. 800, and
Tk. 900
respectively. After a few month, A invested an amount of Tk. 300 in the same business. At the
end of the year, they profited by Tk. 300.After how many months did A invest Tk. 300 if Cs
share of profit be 108?
27. The speed of a steamer and that of current per hour are 18 km and 6 km respectively. How long
will it take to row on river to a place at a distance of 48kms and come back to a starting
point?
28. A man standing on a railway bridge which is 180 m long .He finds that a train crosses the
bridge in 20 seconds and crosses him in 8 seconds. Find the length of the train and its speed?
29. What is the difference between a single discount of 40% and a series of discount of 36% and 4%
on Tk. 10000?
30. A mixture of sands and stones weighing 64 kg contains 25% sands. How much sands in kg must be
added to get a new mixture containing 40% stones?
31. The simple interest rate of a bank was reduced to 5% to 7%.As a consequence, Mr. Bs income
from bank interest was reduced by Tk. 2100 in 5 yeaTK. How much was Mr. Bs initial deposit
with the bank?
32. One fifth of the products made by a company is defective. Four fifth of the defectives were
rejected and one twentieth of the products were rejected my mistake. What percent of the
products sold is defective?
33. A total of 50 employees work in a bank branch. Of these 22 have taken an accounting course,15
have taken a course in Finance and 14 have taken a Marketing course .9 of the employees have
exactly taken two of the courses and one employee has taken all three courses. How many of the
50 employees have taken none of the courses?
34. 3 men or 5 boy can do a work in 20 days. How many days will it take for 4 men and 10 boys to
complete the work?
35. A trader mixes 26 kg of rice at tk. 20 per kg with 30 kg of rice of other variety at tk. 36
per kg and sells the mixture at tk. 30 per kg. His profit percent is?
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Tanyas grandfather was 8 times older than her 16 years ago. He would be 3 times of her age 8
years from now.8 years ago what was the ratio of Tanyas age to that her grandfather?
A team of 2 men and 5 women complete one-fourth of a job in 3 days. After 3 days one man joined
and they took 2 days to complete another one-fourth of the job. How many men can complete the
whole job in 4 days?
By selling a book for Tk. 56, gain is as much percent as it costs in taka. The cost price is
what?
Organisers of a trade fair projected an increase of 20% in the number of visitors over the
previous year. But the number of visitors actually increased by 50%.By what percent was the
actual number of visitors greater than the projected of visitors?
Interest on Tk. 500 for 4 years and Tk. 600 for 5 years is Tk. 500.What is the interest on Tk.
1000 for 3 years?
If 7% of selling price is equal to 8% of the cost price and 9% of selling price is 1 greater
than 10% of cost price. What is the cost price and how much money is earned by selling the
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A person deposited money at 6% and 7% respectively. If total Tk. 4000 money earns Tk. 250 as
interest in 1 year. How much money invested at 7% interest rate?
A retailer buys 40 pens at the market price of 36 pens from a wholeseller.If he sells these
pens giving a discount of 1%. What is the profit percent?
Four milkmen rented a pasture. A gazed 24 cows for 3 months, B gazed 10 cows for 5 months, C
gazed 35 cows for 4 months and D gazed 21 cows for 3 months. If As share of rent is Tk.
720.Find the total rent of the field?
A room is half as long as it is broad. The cost of carpeting the room at Tk. 5 per sq/m is Tk.
270 and the cost of papering the four walls at Tk. 10 per sq/m is Tk. 1720.If a door and 2
windows occupy 8 sq/m. Find the dimension of the room?.
A man buys a television set that lists for Tk. 36000 at 10% discount. He gets an additional 2%
for paying cash. How much money does he actually pay in Tk.?
In a bonus account money doubles in 6 yeaTK. What is the rate of interest in this account?
A mans 3 months income is equal to his 4 months expenditure. What percent of his income does
he save?
A candidate answered all 22 questions in a test and received 63.5 marks. If the total marks
were derived by adding 3.5 mark for each correct answer and deducting 1 mark for each wrong
answer. How many questions did he answer incorrectly?
Recently Kamals hourly wage has been increased by 10%.Before this increase, Kamals total
weekly wage was Tk. 137.If Kamals weekly working hours were to decrease by 10% from last
weeks total working hours, what would be the change, if any, in Kamals total weekly wage?
A person wishes to accumulate Tk. 500000 by the end of 15 years by making equal half-yearly
deposits over the next 15 yeaTK. If he earns 10% on the investment, how much must he deposit
at the end of each half year?
A set has exactly five consecutive positive integers starting with 1.what is the percentage
decrease in the average of the numbers when the greatest one of the numbers is removed from
the set?
In a country 60% of the male citizen and 70% of the female citizen are eligible to vote.70% of
male citizens eligible to vote voted and 60% of female citizens eligible to vote voted. what
fraction of the citizens voted during the election?
A certain amount would become doubled ( principal + I R ) by 2 years at a % . How much money
would become tk 2050 by 4 years by same % .
A gave loan tk 500 to B and few amount to C at 8% interest .after 4 years A get total interest
tk 210 .find how much money A gave loan to C ?
A gave few amount of taka loan for B and every year got interest 1/8 portion of capital .after
5 years A withdraw full tk ( Principal + Interest ) from B .and give loan to C .after 1 year
A got tk 2031.25 interest from C by 5% interest .find how much money gave loan to B .
A product sell at a X% loss .if he could sell at a 3X% profit , he could gain tk 18X more .find
buying price of product .
A seller sell his products at 15% VAT .He sold a product and receive tk 2300 .find VAT .
A and B started a business by investing tk 350,000 and 140,000 .A gets 20% 0f the yearly profit
for managing the business .thereafter the profit is divided in the ratio of capital .if A
receive totally tk 38000 more than B at end of the year ,then the profit is .
0n selling a chair at 7% loss and a table at 17% gain ,a man gains tk 296 .if he sells the
chair at 7% gain and table at 12% gain ,then he gains tk 400.the actual price of the table is
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Mr X lost a wallet containing tk 120 .incidentally ,he had only notes of tk 2 and tk 5
denominations in wallet .if the total number of notes was 30 , how many tk 5 denomination notes
did he have ?
A man walking non- stop along a road at 3 km/hr is overtaken by a car running at 30 km/hr .if
the car breaks down 1 kilo beyond where it passes the man ,how many minutes after the breakdown
does the man reach the car ?
In a class if 5 students sit in a bench ,5 bench remain empty .if 3 students sit in bench 7
students remain stand up .find out total students in the class .
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29. Mr Y invests tk 2400 in the bank at 5% interest .how much additional money must be invested at
8% interest so that the total interest will be equal to 6% of his entire investment?
30. A team of 2 men and 5 women completed one fourth of a job in 3 days .After 3 days another men
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joined the team and they took 2 days to complete another one fourth of the job .how many men
can complete the whole job in 4 days ?
A man buys a car for tk 300,000 .the insurance for car costs him tk 1000 for ist year .for each
subsequent year the insurance costs 10% less than that for previous year .calculate total cost
for ist four yeaTK.
A fair coin is to be tossed 100 times with each toss resulting in a head or a tail. If H is
the total number of heads and T is total number of tails, which of the following events has
the greatest possibility?
A train running at 36 kmph passes another train in 12 second, which is half of its length,
running in the opposite direction at 54 kmph. If it also passes a railway flatform in 1.5min,
what is the length of the flatform?
The ratio of income of Kamran and Dolon is 3:4. The ratio of their expenditures is 4:5.Find
the ratio of their savings if the savings of Kamran is one fourth of his income?
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A man is standing on a railway bridge which is 180 m long. He finds that a train crosses the
bridge in 20 s and crosses him in 8 s. Find the length of the train and its speed in km/hr .
A passenger train left a train depot 2 hrs after a freight train had left the same depot. The
freight train was travelling 20 km/hr slower than the passenger train. Find out the speed in
km/hr of the two trains, if the passenger train overtook the freight train in 3 houTK.
The sum of the pay of two officers is Tk 24000 per month. If the pay of one officer is
decreased by 9% and the pay of the second is increased by 17%, their pays become equal. Find
the pay of each officer.
Mr Karim deposited a certain amount of money for a fixed period of time. On maturity he
received a total of Tk 45000 when the ratio of interest and investment became 2 : 5. If the
interest rate was 3.6% per annum, calculate the time period for which the money was invested.
A shopkeeper buys pens , which are Tk 360 a dozen. He quotes a selling price the customers
and offers a discount of 10% realizing that even with the discount he can earn a profit of 20%.
What was the initial selling price of each pen quoted by him?
David bought two varieties of rice costing Tk 5 and 6 per kg each. Then he sold the mixture
at Tk 7/kg, making profit of 20%. What was the ratio of the mixture?
Two alloys A and B are composed of two basic elements. The ratios of the compositions of the
two basic elements in the two alloys are 5 : 3 and 1 : 2. Now alloy X is formed by mixing the
two alloys A and B in the ratio 4 : 3. What is the ratio of the composition of the two basic
A train leaves sylhet at 6 AM & reaches Dhaka at 10 AM. Another train leaves Dhaka at 8 AM &
reaches sylhet at 11.30 AM. At what time do the two trains cross one another?
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46. A tank is 25m long, 12m wide & 6m deep. The cost of plastering its walls & bottom at 75 paisa
per square meter is?

area of the field is 680 square feet. How many feet of fencing will be required?
48. The length of a rectangular plot is 20m more than its breadth. If the cost of fencing the plot
@26.50 per meter is 5300 TK. What is the length of the plot in meters?
49. A car after traveling 30 Km from the point A developed some problem in the engine and the speed
become 4/5 of its original speed. As a result the car reached the point B 45 minutes later. If
the engine had developed the same problem after traveling 48 km, then it would have reached B
only 36 minutes late. What is the original speed of the car in km/h. What is the distance
between point A and B??
50. A ladder is inclined to a wall making an angle of 30 degree with it. A man is ascending the
ladder at the rate of 2 meters/second. How fast is he approaching the wall?
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Three pipes A, B and C can fill a tank from empty to full in 30 minutes, 20 minutes, and 10
discharge chemical solutions P,Q and R respectively. What is the proportion of the solution R
A car travels from town A to town B at constant speed. If it increases speed by 20%. It will
arrive 1 hour ahead of schedule. If it increases 25% after travelling the first 120 km at usual
speed, it will arrive 36 mins ahead. Find the distance from A to B.
The speed of a railway engine is 42 km per hour when no compartment is attached, and the
reduction in speed is directly proportional to the square root of the number of compartments
If Tk.45000 was invested in the share market when the price per share was Tk. 90 and Tk. 30000
purchased?
There are 8 job applicants sitting in a waiting room;4 men and 4 women. If two of the applicants
If the average (arithmetic mean) of 16,20 and n is between 18 and 21 inclusive, what is the
If the individual marks of all the students are arranged in increasing order, which of the
following is a possible mark for the 36th position?
In a group of 5 men, no 2 men have the same age.The eldest man is 50 years old, and the youngest
30 years old. If X years is the average age of the men in the group, which of the following
best indicates all and only possible value of X?
On decreasing the price of T.V sets by 30%,its sale is increased by 20%.What is the effect on
A reduction of 21% in the price of wheat enables a person to buy 10.5 kg more for Tk. 100. What
A Company employs 15 persons, each working 44 hours a week. If 4 persons are absent, how many
Three workers can do a job in 12 days. Two of the workers work twice as fact as the third. How
A tank can be filled by a tap in 20 minutes and by another tap in 60 minutes.Both the taps are
kept open for 10 minutes and then the first tap is shut off.After this,the tank will be
Two pipes A and B can fill a tank in 6 hours respectively.If they are opened on alternate hours
and if pipe A is opened first,in how many hours the tank shall be full?
Shahin is reviewing his algebra quiz. He has determined that one of his solutions is incorrect.
Which one is it?
During a 5-day festival, the number of visitors tripled each day. If the festival opened on a
Thursday with 345 visitors, what was the attendance on that Sunday?
Jack has 5 pieces of string. He needs to choose the piece that will be able to go around his
36-inch waist. His belt broke, and his pants are falling down. The piece needs to be at least
4 inches longer than his waist so he can tie a knot in it, but it cannot be more that 6 inches
longer so that the ends will not show from under his shirt. Which of the following pieces of
string will work the best? 6. At a company fish fry, in attendance are employees. Employees'
spouses are of the attendance. What is the percentage of the people in attendance who are
not employees or employee spouses?
Deba starts from a point that is on the circumference of a circle, moves 600 m towards the
North and then again moves 800 m East and reaches a point diametrically opposite the starting
point. What is the diameter of the circle?
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half water?
If there are 85 students in a statistics class and we assume that there are 365 days in a year,
what is the probability that at least two students in the class have the same birthday (assuming
birthdays are distributed independently)?
If x is a positive integer and z is a non-negative integer such that (2,066)z is a divisor of
3,176,793, what is the value of zx - xz?
Walking across campus, a student interviewed a group of students. 25% of the students took a
finance class last semester, 50% took a marketing class last semester, and 40% took neither a
finance nor a marketing class last semester. What percent of the students in the group took
both a finance and a marketing class
The ratio of a compound, by weight, consisting only of substances x, y, and z is 4:6:10,
respectively. Due to a dramatic increase in the surrounding temperature, the composition of
the compound is changed such that the ratio of x to y is halved and the ratio of x to z is
tripled. In the changed compound, if the total weight is 58 lbs, how much does substance x
weigh
Computer Games Plus needs to get rid of its copies of an old computer game. If it lowers the
cost of the old computer game by $5 dollars, it can increase sales of the old computer game by
10 units and still generate exactly $100 of revenue from the old game. How many units of the
old computer game did Computer Games Plus sell after implementing the new selling strategy?
At a local appliance manufacturing facility, the workers received a 20% hourly pay raise due
to extraordinary performance. If one worker decided to reduce the number of hours that he
worked so that his overall pay would remain unchanged, by approximately what percent would he
reduce the number of hours that he worked?
Frances can complete a job in 12 hours, and Joan can complete the same job in 8 houTK. Frances
starts the job at 9 a.m., and stops working at 3 p.m. If Joan starts working at 4 p.m. to
complete the job, at what time is the job finished?
There are 6 boxes numbered 1, 2,...6. Each box is to be filled up either with a red or a green
ball in such a way that at least 1 box contains a green ball and the boxes containing green
balls are consecutively numbered. The total number of ways in which this can be done is
In a certain game, each player scores either 2 points or 5 points. If n players score 2 points
and m players score 5 points, and the total number of points scored is 50, what is the least
possible positive difference between n and m?
A train overtakes two persons walking along a railway track. The first one walks at 4.5 km/hr.
the train?
Glass was filled with 10 ounces of water, and 0.01 ounce of the water evaporated each day
during a 20-day period. What percent of the original amount of water evaporated during this
period?
I randomly choose 3 different points among 2010 points evenly spaced on the circumference of
the circle. The probability that the 3 points I choose from the vertices of a right triangle
can be written as A/B. If A and B are co-prime positive integers, find A+B?
A king ordered that a golden crown be made for him from 8 kg of gold and 2 kg of silver. The
gold smith took away some amount of gold and replaced it by an equal amount of silver and the
crown when made, weighed 10 kg. Archimedes knew that under water gold lost 1/20 th of its
weight, while silver lost 1/10 th. When the crown was weighed under water, it was 9.25 kg. How
much gold (in kg) was stolen by gold smith?
It took Marie 10 minutes to cut a board into 2 pieces. If she works just as fast, how long will
it take for her to cut another board into 3 pieces? (Assuming you can only cut any piece into
half)
Helen mixes a first solution, 4 liter of 40 % concentrated sulfuric acid solution, with a
second solution, 5 liter of sulfuric acid solution with strong concentration, and the resultant
solution is 9 liter of 50% concentrated sulfuric acid solution. What is the concentration, as
a percent, of the second solution?
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86. When a truck travels 60 miles per hour, it use 30 % more gasoline to travel any distance than
it does when it travels at 50 miles per hour. The truck can travel 20 miles on a gallon of gas
if it is traveling 50 miles per hour. The truck has only 10gallon of gas and is 160 mile from
its destination. It takes 20 minute for the truck to stop for gas, How long will it take the
truck to reach its final destination if the truck driven at 60 mile per hour?
87. A man buys some pen and pencil. The pen cost Tk. 7 each & the pencil cost TK. 3 each. If he
spends exactly Tk. 81 and buys the maximum number of pen possible under these conditions, find
the ratio of pen to pencil.
88. A bus uses one liter of diesel to travel 15 km. After an engine tune-up, the bus travels 15%
farther on one liter. How many liters of diesel (to the nearest tenth) will it take for the
bus to travel 150 km after a tune-up?
89. A clock loses (falls behind) 10 minutes each day. How many days will take to reach a point
where the clock will indicate the correct time?
90. A person has Tk. 950 in 29 notes consisting of Tk. 500, 100, 50 and 10. How many notes should
at least be in TK. 50?
91. A store sells an item for TK. 1.50 each, or 3 items for TK. 3.50. If 202 items were sold and
revenue amounted to Tk. 279.00, how many of these items were sold one at a time?
92. A tea merchant blends 2 kinds of tea, putting in 3 parts of a Tk. 25 per kg grade to 1 part of
a TK. 15 per kg. If the mixture is changed to 1 part of the Tk.25 per kg grade to 3 parts of
the less expensive grade, how much will the shop lose or save in blending 200 kg?
93. A shopkeeper sells a pair of sunglasses at a profit of 25%. If he had bought it at 25% less
and sold it for tk. 10 less, he would have gained 40%. Determine the cost price of the pair of
sunglasses.
94. The annual incomes and expenditures of a man and his wife are in the ratios of 5:3 and 3:1,
respectively. If they decided to save equally and find a balance of tk. 4000 at the end of
year, what was their income?
95. Two cars race around a circular track in opposite direction at a constant rate. They start at
the same point and meet every 30 seconds. If they move in the same direction they meet every
120 seconds. If the track is 1800 meter long, what is the speed of the cars?
basic elements are 5:3 and 1:2 respectively. A new alloy, X is formed mixing the two alloys in
ratio of 4:3. What is the ratio of the compositions in new alloy, X?
97. A pipe is turned on to fill water into a cistern at the rate of 4 liters per minute. The cistern
has a leak which would empty it in 6 hours and the cistern is now emptied in 10 houTK. Determine
the capacity of the cistern.
98. 2 men and 3 boys can do a piece of work in 10 days while 3 men and 2 boys can do the work in 8
days. In how many days can 2men and 1 boy do?
99. Among 30 students of a class 20 likes football and 15 like cricket. 10 of them like both of
the games. How many of them dont like any of the games?
100. A boatman takes 4 hours to go and return for 15 km. he takes the same time for going 5 km in
favor of stream and 3 km in adverse of stream. What is the speed of boat and stream?
101. A pipe can fill a cistern by 12 minutes. Another pipe takes out 15 liters water in each minute.
When the cistern is empty it is filled by 48 minutes while both of the pipes are open. What is
the capacity of the cistern?
102. Distribute tk 260 among A,B and C in such a way so that twice of A , thrice of B and quadruple
of C are equal.
103. The area of a rectangle field is 432 square mtr. The ratio the length and width of the field
with that of another field is 3:4 & 2:5 respectively. What is the area of another field?
104. A garments worker works on monthly based salary. The salary increases every year with a
particular amount. His monthly salary is 4500 after 4 years and 5000 after 8 yeaTK. What is
his basic salary and monthly increment?
105. The length of two sides of a triangular is 9 and 10 and their including angle is is 60 degree.
What is the area of the triangle?
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107. A box contains 2 white balls, 3 black balls and 4 red balls. In how many ways can 3 balls be
drawn from the box, if at least one black ball is to be included in the draw?
108. A, B and C start at the same time in the same direction to run around a circular stadium. A
completes a round in 252 seconds, B in 308 seconds and c in 198 seconds, all starting at the
same point. After what time will they again at the starting point?
litres of milk such that the ratio of water to milk is 3 : 5?
of TK.. 1,05,000 and Sagar joined them with TK. 1.4 lakhs after another six months. The amount
112. A man wants to sell his scooter. There are two offers, one at TK. 12,000 cash and the other a
credit of TK. 12,880 to be paid after 8 months, money being at 18% per annum. Which is the
better offer?
113. Seats for Mathematics, Physics and Biology in a school are in the ratio 5 : 7 : 8. There is a
proposal to increase these seats by 40%, 50% and 75% respectively. What will be the ratio of
increased seats?
114. A train travelling at a speed of 75 mph enters a tunnel 3 miles long. The train is mile long.
How long does it take for the train to pass through the tunnel from the moment the front enters
to the moment the rear emerges?
the train?
116. A family consists of two grandparents, two parents and three grandchildren. The average age of
the grandparents is 67 years, that of the parents is 35 years and that of the grandchildren is
6 yeaTK. What is the average age of the family?
117. If the purchasing price of 15 apples & selling price of 12 apples are the same, then how much
is the gain in percentage from?
118. A school has raised 75% of the amount it needs for a new building by receiving on average
donation of TK60 from the people already solicited. The people already solicited represent 60%
of the people the college are to raise exactly the amount needed for the new building, how much
must the remaining people donate per person?
119. If -9x9 & 0y12. What is the greatest possible value of xy?
120. Engr. Goni went to market with certain amount of money. With this money he can buy either 50
apples or 40 peaTK. He retains 10% of the money for bus fare and 20
121. PeaTK. How many apples can be buy?
122. In a class of 50 students. 10 did not opt. for math, 15 did not opt. for science and 2 did not
opt. for either. How many students of the class opted for both math and science?
123. If 12ounces of a strong vinegar Explanation are diluted with 50 ounces of water from a three
percent vinegar Explanation. What was the concentration of the original Explanation?
124. If t is any integer, which of the following represents an odd number?
125. If m & n are positive integers, which of the following must be an even integer?
126. Two pipes A and B fill a tank in 15 hours and 20 hours respectively while a third pipe C can
empty the full tank in 25 houTK. All the three pipes are opened in the beginning. After 10
hours C is closed. In how much time will the tank be full?
127. There are 15 buses running between Mirpur and Motijheel. In how many ways can a man go to
Motijheel and return a different bus?
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128. Man can hit a target once in 4 shots. If he fires 4 shots in succession. What is the probability
that he will hit his target?

129. As office is 4km due east of Bs office, Cs office is 6km due north of Bs office & 4km due
east of Ds office. What is the straight line distance in km from As office to Ds?
130. A tradesman by means of false balance defrauds to the extent of 8% in buying goods and also
defrauds to 7% in selling, its gain percent is

131. Divide TK 600 amount A, B &C, So that TK 40 more than2/5th
of As share, TK 20 more than 2/7th

of Bs share and TK 10 more than 9/17th of Cs share may all be equal. What is As share
132. A & B working alone can do a work in 9 & 12 days, if they work for a day alternatively, a
beginning in how many days the work will be completed?
133. Which of the following equations has a root in common with x2 6x + 5 = 0?
134. A rectangular carpet has an area of 120 sq. meters and a perimeter of 46 meteTK. The length of
its diagonal is....
135. How many squares are there in a chess board if each player has got 16 pawns to play with?
136. In the middle of a round pool lies a water-lily. The water-lily doubles in size every day.
After exactly 10 days the complete pool will be covered by the lily. After how many days will
half of the pool be covered by the water-lily
137. During a car trip, Matin stopped to rest after he traveled of the total distance to his
destination. He stopped again after he traveled 1/4th of the distance remaining between his
first stop and his destination, and then he drove the remaining 120 miles to his destination.
What was the total distance, in miles, from Matins starting point to his I destination?
138. If A3 is odd, which of the following is true?
139. A recipe for 4 servings requires salt and pepper to be added in the ratio of 2:3. If the recipe
is adjusted to make 8 servings, what is the ratio of the salt and pepper that must now be
added?
140. A 140 liter mixture of milks and water contains 20% water. How much milk, in liter, must be
added to the mixture so that the new mixture will contain a water and milk ratio of 1 : 7?
141. If two planes leave the same airport at 1:00 p.m., how many miles apart will they be at 3:00
p.m. If one travels directly towards north at 150 miles per hour and the other travels directly
towards west at 200 miles per hour?
142. A bank offers 5% compound interest calculated on half-yearly basis. A customer deposits tk.
1600 each on 1st January and 1st July of a year. At the end of the year, the amount he would
have gained by way of interest is:
143. There is 80% increase in an amount in 8 years at simple interest. What will be the compound
interest of tk. 14,000 after 3 years at the same rate?
145. In a 500 m race, the ratio of the speeds of two contestants A and B is 3 : 4. A has a start of
140 m. Then, A wins by:
146. A runs 1 2 3 times as fast as B. If A gives B a start of 80 m, how far must the winning post
be so that A and B might reach it at the same time?
147. There are two buildings P and Q. If 15 persons are sent from P to Q, then the number of persons
in each building is the same. If 20 persons are sent from Q to P, then the number of persons
in P is double the number of persons in Q. How many persons are there in building P?
148. A man invests some money partly in 12% stock at 105 and partly in 8% stock at 88. To obtain
equal dividends from both, he must invest the money in the ratio:
149. The market value of a 10.5% stock, in which an income of tk. 756 is derived by investing tk.
9000, brokerage being 1 4 %, is:
150. Mr. Himel invests a part of tk. 12,000 in 12% stock at tk. 120 and the remainder in 15% stock
at tk. 125. If his total dividend per annum is tk. 1360, how much does he invest in 12% stock
at tk. 120?
151. A man complete a journey in 10 houTK. He travels first half of the journey at the rate of 21
km/hr and second half at the rate of 24 km/hr. Find the total journey in km.
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152. A man goes to his office from his house at a speed of 3 km/hr and returns at a speed of 2
km/hr. If he takes 5 hours in going and coming, what is the distance between his house and
office?
minutes while stopping at the stations. What is the speed of the car?
154. Joy is traveling on his cycle and has calculated to reach point A at 2 pm if he travels at 10
kmph, he will reach there at 12 noon if he travels at 15 kmph. At what speed must he travel to
reach A at 1 pm?
155. An athlete runs 200 metres race in 24 seconds. What is his speed?
156. A can do a particular work in 6 days . B can do the same work in 8 days. A and B signed to do
it for tk. 3200. They completed the work in 3 days with the help of C. How much is to be paid
to C?
157. Machine P can print one lakh books in 8 houTK. Machine Q can print the same number of books in
10 hours while machine R can print the same in 12 houTK. All the machines started printing at
9 A.M. Machine P is stopped at 11 A.M. and the remaining two machines complete work.
Approximately at what time will the printing of one lakh books be completed?
158. Himel and Joy are working on a special assignment. Himel needs 6 hours to type 32 pages on a
computer and Joy needs 5 hours to type 40 pages. If both of them work together on two different
computers, how much time is needed to type an assignment of 110 pages?
159. A contract is to be completed in 56 days if 104 persons work, each working at 8 hours a day.
After 30 days, of the work is completed. How many additional persons should be deployed so that
the work will be completed in the scheduled time,each persons now working 9 hours a day.
160. Running at the same constant rate, 6 identical machines can produce a total of 270 bottles per
minute. At this rate, how many bottles could 10 such machines produce in 4 minutes?
161. On a scale of a map 0.6 cm represents 6.6km. If the distance between two points on the map is
80.5 cm , what is the the actual distance between these points?
162. A hostel had provisions for 250 men for 40 days. If 50 men left the hostel, how long will the
food last at the same rate?
163. In a camp, food was was sufficient for 2000 people for 54 days. After 15 days, more people came
and the food last only for 20 more days. How many people came?
164. The angle between the minute hand and the hour hand of a clock when the time is 8.30, is
165. The banker's gain on a sum due 6 years hence at 12% per annum is tk. 540. What is the banker's
discount?
166. The banker's discount of a certain sum of money is tk. 36 and the true discount on the same
sum for the same time is tk. 30. What is the sum due?
167. Two stations P and Q are 110 km apart on a straight track. One train starts from P at 7 a.m.
and travels towards Q at 20 kmph. Another train starts from Q at 8 a.m. and travels towards P
at a speed of 25 kmph. At what time will they meet?
168. A fair coin is to be tossed 100 times with each toss resulting in a head or a tail. If H is
the total number of heads and T is total number of tails, which of the following events has
the greatest possibility?
169. A train running at 36 kmph passes another train in 12 second, which is half of its length,
running in the opposite direction at 54 kmph. If it also passes a railway flatform in 1.5min,
what is the length of the flatform?
170. The ratio of income of Kamran and Dolon is 3:4. The ratio of their expenditures is 4:5.Find
the ratio of their savings if the savings of Kamran is one fourth of his income?
171. A picnic was arranged by M students. Total cost of the picnic was estimated to by Y taka.
Unfortunately, Z students withdrew their names from the picnic . How many more taka would each
of the remaining students have to pay?
172. Arman wanted to have TK 39,000 as interest after 5 yeaTK. He has invested an amount in an
account for 1 year at 8% interest rate. From the second year, he invested the principal amount
in another account offering 10% interest for 3 yeaTK. At the beginning of the fifth year, he
invested the principal amount in another account at the rate of 11%. What is the principal
amount? (assume simple interest rate)
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173. A 5% monthly salary increase resulted in a salary increase of 6000 per year for an employee.
What was his monthly salary before the increase?

174. If selling price doubled, the profit triples. Find the profit percent?
175. A person walking 5/6 of his usual rate is 40 minutes late. What is his usual time?
176. An article is sold at 20% profit. If its cost price is increased by TK 50 and at the same time
if its selling price is also increased by TK 30, the percentage of profit decreases by 10/3%.
177. The number of parallelograms that can be formed from a set of four parallel lines intersecting
another set of three parallel lines is
178. If a train runs at 40 kmph, it reaches its destination late by 11 minutes but if it runs at 50
kmph, it is late by 5 minutes only. The correct time for the train to complete its journey is:
179. 2 pipes A and B can fill a tank in 36 minutes and 45 minutes respectively. Waste pipe C can
empty the tank in 30 minutes A and B are opened. After 7 minutes, C is also opened. In how much
time, the tank is full?
the trip was reduced by 200 km/hr and the time of flight increased by 30 minutes. Find out the
181. A car traveled 75% of the way from town A and B at an average speed of 50 mph. The car travels
at an average speed of S mph for the remaining part of the trip. The average speed of the
entire trip was 40 mph. What is the value of S?
182. One day Mr. Wahid started 30 minutes late from home and reached his office 50 minutes late,
while driving 25% slower than his usual speed. How much time in minutes does Mr. Wahid take to
183. A 12 gallon tub has a faucet that lets water in at the rate of 3 gallons per minute and has a
drain that lets water out at a rate of 1.5 gallons per minute. If you start with 3 gallons of
water in the tub, how long will it take to fill the tub completely?
184. Of the total no. of oranges that arrive at a juice company, 20% by weight is rejected before
processing. Of the oranges that are processed, 15% by weight is rejected before being juiced.
Of the oranges that are juiced, 25% are wasted as result of juice making. Of the oranges, those
arrive at the company, what percent by weight is juiced?
185. Ratan and Moinul have started a business taka 2.5 and 3.5 million respectively. After four
months, Ratan gave in 5 lakh taka more Moinul withdrew 5 lakh taka. If the ending profit of a
year is 12.92 million taka, what will be the profit share of Moinul in million taka?
186. In a cricket championship tournament, Team Dhaka has won 30 games out of 50 played. It has 45
more games to play. In order to maintain an average of 80% victory rate, then Dhaka has to win
how many more games?
187. 1 year ago the ratio between As and Bs salary was 3:4. Ratios of their individual salaries
last years and this year salaries are 4:5 and 2:3. At present the total of their salary is
TK 4160. How much is the salary of A now?
188. A can do a piece of work in 10 days. While B alone can do it in 15 days. They worked together
for 5 days and the rest of the work is done by C in 2 days. If they get 450 for whole work,
how much money C should get from the work?
189. In a garden there are 10 rows and 12 columns of trees. The distance between any two trees is 2
m and a distance of 1 m is left from all sides of the boundary of the garden. What is the
190. P starts jogging from point X to point Y. 30 minutes later his friend R who jogs 1 km/hr slower
than twice Ps rate starts from the same point and follows the same path, if R overtakes P in
2 hours, how many kilometers will R have covered?
191. Zico and Bipul each saved Tk 5000 in 2012.In 2013, Bipul saved 10% more than what he saved the
previous year and together they both saved a total of Tk 9000 that year. Approximately what
percent less did Zico save in 2013 compared to 2012
192. Laboni bought a 1-year Tk 10000 certificate of deposit that paid an interest at an annual rate
of 8% compounded semiannually. What was the total amount of interest paid on this certificate
at maturity?
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193. The cost in TK of manufacturing x microwaves is 6000+300x taka. The amount received when selling
these x microwaves is 700x taka.

What is the least number of microwaves that must be
manufactured and sold so that the net profit is TK 2400?
194. The population of a country doubled every 10 years from 1980 to 2010. What was the
percent
increase in population during the period?
195. A man deposited TK 50000 at a certain interest for 1 year. After 1 year, he received TK 55,
280 as both principal and interest after deduction of TK 120 as government levy and 10% on
196. X can do a work in 12 days. Y is 60% more efficient than X. How many days will Y require to
complete the work?
197. A certain cake recipe states that the cake should be baked in a pan 8 inches in diameter. If
Salma wants to use the recipe to make a cake of the same depth but 12 inches in diameter, by
what factor should she multiply the recipe ingredients?
198. In a concert, 100 tickets were sold in two unequal lots, at two different rates. First lot was
sold at TK.5 per ticket and the second lot was sold at TK. 3.5 per ticket. If the total sales
proceeds was TK. 410, how many people got the cheaper tickets?
199. You can rent a bungalow on daily basis at Taka 500 per day or on monthly basis at Taka 10,000
per month,how much can you save annually by renting on monthly basis?
200. Jalal started work 2 years ago.His starting salary was of Millats salary at that time. Each
year since then Jalal has received a raise 5% in his salary and Millat has received a raise of
10% in his salary.What percentage (to the nearest percent) of Millats current salary is Jallas
current salary?
201. 70 students are enrolled in management, Accounting and Marketing.40 students are in
Management,35 are in Accounting and 30 are in Marketing .15 student are enrolled in all three
courses.How many of the students are enrolled in exactly two of the course?
202. Recentlly, Sohans hourly wage has been increased by 10 percent. Before this increase, sohans
total weekly wagea was $ 137.If his weekly hours were to decrease by 10 percent from last weeks
total hours, what would be the change, if any in shoans total weekly wage?
203. Coins are to be put into 7 pockets so that each pocket contains at least one coin.At most 3 of
the pockets are to contain the same number of coins and no two of the remaining pockets are
to contain an equal number of coins. What is the least possible number of coins needed for the
pockets?
204. Of the 65 cars on a car lot , 45 have air conditioning, 30 have power windows and 12 have both
air conditioning & power windows. How many of the cars on the lot have neither air conditioning
nor power windows?
205. The inside dimensions of a rectangular wooden box are 6 inches by 8 inches by 10 inches. A
cylindrical canister is to be placed inside the box so that it stands upright when the closed
box rests on one of its six faces. Of all such canisters that could be used, what is the radius
in inch as of the one that has maximum volume?
206. A certain football team that has played 2/3 of its games has a record of 17 wins and 3
losses.what is the largest number of the remaining games that the team can lose and still win
at least of all of its game?
207. Danesh and sham, who lives 10 miles apart,meet at a caf that is directly north of Daneshs
house and directly east of shams house.If the caf is 2 miles closer to Danesh house than to
shams house,how many miles is the caf from shams house?
208. There were 36,000 hardback copies of a certain novel sold before the paperback version was
issued. From the time the first paperback copy was sold until the last copy of the novel was
sold, 9 times as many paperback copies as hardback copies were sold. If a total of 441,000
copies of the novel were sold in all,how many paperback copies were sold?
209. For a certain performance, x tickets for lower-level seats were sold at Tk. 10 each and y
tickets for balcony seats were sold at Tk. 6 each. If there were no other tickets sold and the
number of tickets sold for lowe-level seats was 3 times the nuber of tickets sold for balcony
seats, which of the following expresses the total number of dollars from ticket sales in terms
of X?
210. Each of the integers from 0 to 9, inclusive, is written on a separate slip of blank paper and
the ten slips are dropped into a hat. If the slip are then drawn one at a time without
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replacement, how many must be drawn to ensure that the numbers on two of the slips drawn will
have a sum of 10?
211. To mix a certain color paint. Alana combines 5 liters of red paints, 2 liters of blue paint,
and 2 liters of yellow paint. What is the ratio of red paint to the total amount of paint?
212. A two digit number has 3 in its unit digit. The sum of its digits is one seventh of the number
itself. What is the number ?
213. If a and b are integers such that a+b=5, which of the following must be true?
214. A candidate scoring 25% marks in an examination fails by 30 marks while another candidate who
scores 50% marks gets 30 marks more than the pass mark.What is the pass mark?
215. A man deposited Tk. 50,000 at a certain interest for 1 year. After 1 year he received Tk,
55,280 as both principal and interest after deduction of Tk. 120 as government levy and 10% on
interest as government tax.What was the interest in parcentage?
216. The remainder when the positive integer m is divided by n is r. What is the remainder when 2m
is divided by 2n ?
217. A worker is hired for 7 days. Each day, he is paid 10 dollars more than what he is paid for
the preceding day of work. The total amount he was paid in the first 4 days of work equaled
the total amount he was paid in the last 3 days. What was his starting pay?
218. A set has exactly five consecutive positive integers starting with 1. What is the percentage
the set?
219. Of the three numbers, the first is twice the second and is half of the third. If the average
of three numbers is 56, the smallest number is?
220. 40% of the employees in a factory are workeTK. All the remaining employees are executives. The
annual income of each worker is $390. The annual income of each executive is $420. What is the
average annual income of all the employees in the factory together?
221. The difference between two numbers is 13.The largest number is 1.5 times the smallest number?
What is the smallest number?
222. Ayesha is 1/6 of his farher's age. After ten years ayesha's father will be twice of Shankar's
age. 2 years age Shankar celebrated his 8th birthday. What is the Ayesha's present age?
223. Javed is as much younger to Anam as he is older to Pintu. If the sum of the ages of Anil and
Pintu is 48 years, what is the age of Javed?
224. The total income of Mr. Teng in the years 2003, 2004, and 2005 was $36,400. His income increased
by 20% each year. What was his income in 2005?
225. In a class 120 students are finance major and 100 student are marketing major 25% of the finance
major students and 20% of the marketing student are male. 20% of male finance students and 25%
of the male marketing students passes the final exam. What percent of male student passed the
exam?
226. A man spends 75% of his income. His income is increased by 20% and he increased his expenditure
by 10%. His savings are increased by?
228. A owns a house worth tk. 10000. He sells it to b at a profit of 10% based on the worth of the
house. B sells the house back to at a loss of 10%. In this transaction A gets:
229. If $ 1were invested at 8% interest compounded annually, the total value of the investment, in
dollars, at the end of 6 years would be
230. A is twice as fast as B and B is thrice as fast as C is. The journey covered by C in 42 minutes,
will be covered by A in
231. The ratio between the rates of travelling of A & B is 2:3 and therefore A takes 10 min. more
than the time taken by b to reach a destination. If A had walked at double the speed, he would
have covered the distance in?
232. A train 100 meters long moving at a speed of 50 km/h crosses a train 120 meters long coming
from opposite direction in 6 seconds. The speed of second train is?
233. A man sees a train passing over a bridge 1 km long. The length of the train is half that of
the bridge. If the train clears the bridge in 2 minutes, the speed of the train is?
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234. The current of a streams runs at 1 km/h. A motor boat goes 35 km upstream and back again to
the starting point in 12 houTK. The speed of motorboat in still water is?
235. A man can cross 10 miles distance of a river in favor of the streams in 2 houTK. He can come
back against the stream along the same way in 5 houTK. What is the average speed, in miles per
hour, for the entire trip?
236. A can do a piece of work in 10 days, B in 15 days. They work together for 5 days and the rest
of the work is done by C in 2 days. If they get taka 4500 for the whole work, how should they
divide the money?
237. A, B and C can do a piece of work in 36, 54 and 72 days respectively. They started the work
but A left 8 days before the completion of the work. While b left 12 days before the completion.
The number of days for which c worked is?
238. 3 pipes A, B and C can fill a tank in 6 houTK. After working at it together for 2 hours, c is
closed and A and B can fill the remaining part in 7 houTK. The number of hours taken by C alone
to fill the cistern, is?
239. The average age of a class 15.8.The average of boys 16.4 and girls
240. 15.8. Then find out the ratio of boys and girls?
241. If x2 y2 = 16 and x + y > x y, then which one of the following could x y equal?
242. A, B and C enter into partnership. A invests some money at the beginning, B invests double the
amount after 6 months and C invests thrice the amount after 8 months. If the annual profit be
Tk. 18000, cs share is?
243. There are 200 questions on a 3-hour examination. Among these questions 50 are mathematics
244. A rectangular carpet covers half of a rectangular floor that is 9 feet wide and 12 feet long.
If the dimensions of the carpet are in the same ratio as those of the floor, then what is the
length of the carpet?
245. If x is not a negative number, what is the maximum possible value of 22- 3x?
246. If A gets 2 taka from B, they will have same amount of money. If B gets 2 taka from A, he will
have thrice as much money as A. How much money did B had?
247. Gold is 9 times as heavy as water and copper 5 times as heavy as water. The ratio in which
these two metals be mixed so that the mixture is 15 times as heavy as water, is?
248. X can do a work in the same time in which Y & Z together can do it. If X & Y together can do
it 10 days, and Z alone can do it in 50 days, how many days will Y require to do the work
alone?
249. 12 men and 18 boys working 7.5 hours a day can do a work in 60 days. If 1 man works equal to 2
boys, then the number of boys required to help 21 men to do twice the work in 50 days, working
9 hours a day will be?
250. A man deposited tk. 50,000 at a certain interest for 1 year. After 1 year, he received Tk.
55,280 as both principal and interest after reduction of Tk. 120 as government levy and 10% on
251. One day Mr. B started 30 minutes late from home and reached his office 50 minutes late, while
driving 25% slower than his usual speed. How much time in minutes does Mr. B usually take to
252. A father divided his property between his two sons A & B. A invests the amount at compound
profit of 8% p.a. B invests the amount at 10% p.a. simple interest. At the end of 2 years, the
profit received by B is tk. 1336 more than the profit received by A. Find the share of A & B
in the fathers property of tk. 25,000?
253. If a number of two digits is divided by the product of its digits, the quotient is 3. When 18
is added to the number the digits of the number change their places. Find the number?
254. A & B are friend. Each has some money. If A gives Tk. 30 to B, then B will have twice the money
left with A. but if B gives Tk. 10 to A, then A will have thrice as much as is left with B.
How much money does each have?
255. 4000 soldiers in a camp have enough food for 190 days. After 30 days, 800 soldiers are posted
elsewhere. How long would they remain food last?
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256. A reduction of 21% in the price of wheat enables a person to buy 10.5 kg more for Tk. 100.what

257. By walking AT of his usual speed, a man reaches his office 20 minutes later than usual. His
usual time is?

258. The remainder when the positive integer m is divided by n is r. What is the remainder when 2m
is divided by 2n ?
259. A worker is hired for 7 days. Each day, he is paid 10 dollars more than what he is paid for
the preceding day of work. The total amount he was paid in the first 4 days of work equaled
the total amount he was paid in the last 3 days. What was his starting pay?
260. A set has exactly five consecutive positive integers starting with 1. What is the percentage
the set?
261. Of the three numbers, the first is twice the second and is half of the third. If the average
of three numbers is 56, the smallest number is:
annual income of each worker is $390. The annual income of each executive is $420. What is the
average annual income of all the employees in the factory together?
263. The difference between two numbers is 13.The largest number is 1.5 times the smallest number?
What is the smallest number?
264. Ayesha is 1/6 of his farher's age. After ten years ayesha's father will be twice of Shankar's
age. 2 years age Shankar celebrated his 8th birthday. What is the Ayesha's present age?
265. Javed is as much younger to Anam as he is older to Pintu. If the sum of the ages of Anil and
Pintu is 48 years, what is the age of Javed?
266. The total income of Mr. Teng in the years 2003, 2004, and 2005 was $36,400. His income increased
by 20% each year. What was his income in 2005?
267. In a class 120 students are finance major and 100 student are marketing major 25% of the finance
major students and 20% of the marketing student are male. 20% of male finance students and 25%
of the male marketing students passes the final exam. What percent of male student passed the
exam?
268. A man spends 75% of his income. His income is increased by 20% and he increased his expenditure
by 10%. His savings are increased by?
270. A owns a house worth tk. 10000. He sells it to b at a profit of 10% based on the worth of the
house. B sells the house back to at a loss of 10%. In this transaction A gets:
271. If $ 1were invested at 8% interest compounded annually, the total value of the investment, in
dollars, at the end of 6 years would be?
272. A is twice as fast as B and B is thrice as fast as C is. The journey covered by C in 42 minutes,
will be covered by A in:
273. The ratio between the rates of travelling of A & B is 2:3 and therefore A takes 10 min. more
than the time taken by b to reach a destination. If A had walked at double the speed, he would
have covered the distance in:
274. A train 100 meters long moving at a speed of 50 km/h crosses a train 120 meters long coming
from opposite direction in 6 seconds. The speed of second train is:
275. A man sees a train passing over a bridge 1 km long. The length of the train is half that of
the bridge. If the train clears the bridge in 2 minutes, the speed of the train is:
276. The current of a streams runs at 1 km/h. A motor boat goes 35 km upstream and back again to
the starting point in 12 houTK. The speed of motorboat in still water is:
277. A man can cross 10 miles distance of a river in favor of the streams in 2 houTK. He can come
back against the stream along the same way in 5 houTK. What is the average speed, in miles per
hour, for the entire trip?
278. A can do a piece of work in 10 days, B in 15 days. They work together for 5 days and the rest
of the work is done by C in 2 days. If they get taka 4500 for the whole work, how should they
divide the money?
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279. A, B and C can do a piece of work in 36, 54 and 72 days respectively. They started the work
but A left 8 days before the completion of the work. While b left 12 days before the completion.
The number of days for which c worked is:
280. 3 pipes A, B and C can fill a tank in 6 houTK. After working at it together for 2 hours, c is
closed and A and B can fill the remaining part in 7 houTK. The number of hours taken by C alone
to fill the cistern, is:
281. The average age of a class 15.8.The average of boys 16.4 and girls
282. 15.8. Then find out the ratio of boys and girls?
283. If x2 y2 = 16 and x + y > x y, then which one of the following could x y equal?
284. How many different strings of letters can be made by the letters of the word SUCCESS?
285. The lions club has a target of raising at least tk.500 thousand. It has already raised tk.100
thousand. The club is sponsoring a Pitha Festival and charging tk.5000 per ticket.Which equation
represents the number of tickets (t) that the club must sell to meet its target?
286. Rana makes a 40%profit by selling his home but losses 12% of the profit to taxes.what is the
net % of profit Rana makes on the sale?
287. Before the budget ,a businessman had increased the price of his product by 12%.In the budget
,a 10% sales tax (to be paid by the seller)was imposed on that product.As a result ,the profit
ultimately increased by tk.64 .what was the original selling price?
288. A seller gave 5% discount on the tag price of a book and made a profit of 25% on cost.If the
cost of the book was tk.380, what was the tag price?
289. Two outlets of a motor manufacturing company reported that revenue from outlet x in2013 was
down 11%from 2012and revenue from outlet Y in 2013 were up 7% from 2012.If total revenue from
outlet X & Y in 2013 was up 1%from 2012.what is the ratio of revenue from outlet X in 2012 to
revenue from outlet Y in 2012?
290. A school has raised 75% of the amount it needs for a new building by receiving an average
donation of tk.60 from the people already solicited. The people already solicited represent
60% of the people the college will ask for donation.If the college is to raise exactly the
amount needed for the new building, how much must the remaining people donate per person?
291. What decimal of an hour is a second?
292. Two glasses contain milk and water .in the first glass the ratio of milk to water is 3:2 and
in the second glass the ratio of milk and water is reverse of that in first glass. What part
of the mixture from first glass should be drawn out added to the second glass, so that milk
and water will be in equal quantities in the second glass?
293. A predator is chasing its prey. The predator takes 4 leaps for every 6 leaps of the prey and
the predator covers as much distance in 2 leaps as 3 leaps if the prey. Will the predator
succeed in geting it's food?
294. Last year, the ratio of salary of X and Y was 1:2 and that of X and Z was 1:3. This year
everyone got an increment of BDT 1000. If Z is drawing salary BDT 25,000 in this year, What is
the salary of Y in BDT this year?
295. Two boys begin together to write out a booklet containing 535 lines. The first boy starts with
the first line, writing at the rate of 100 lines an hour and the second starts with the last
line then writes line 534 and so on, backward proceeding at the rate of 50 lines an hour. At
what line will they meet?
296. Two vessels A and B contain spirit and water in the ratio 5:2 and 7:6 respectively. Find the
ratio in which these mixture be mixed to obtain a new mixture in vessel C containing spirit
and water in the ration 8 : 5 ?
297. If 2% rate increases, the sum of money increases by tk 108.If the year increases by 2,then the
simple interest increases by tk 180.
298. What is the sum of money?
299. Mr. Hasan has few notes of Tk. 10 and Tk. 50. A total of his 150 notes amount to Tk.5100. What
is the number of each kind of note?
300. a, b, c, d, e are 5 consecutive numbers in increasing order, deleting one of them from the set
decreased the sum of the remaining numbers by 20% of the sum of 5. Which one of the number is
deleted from the set?
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301. A book and a pen were sold for tk 3040 making a profit of 25% on the book and 10% on the pen.
By selling them for tk 3070, the profit realizes would have been 10% on the book and 25% on
the pen. Find the cost of each.
302. A and B together can do a piece of job in 12 days, which B and C together can do in 16 days.
303. Two train A and B start from stations X and Y towards Y and X respectively. After passing each
other, they take 4 hours 48 minutes and 3 hours 20 minutes to reach Y and X respectively. If
train A is moving at 45km/hr, then find the speed of train B.
304. Two varieties of sugar are mixed in a certain ratio. The cost of the mixture per kg is Tk 0.50
less than that of the superior variety and Tk 0.75 more than that of the inferior variety. What
was the ratio of superior variety to inferior variety in the mixture?
305. In a shop, 40% socks are white & rest is black, 60% socks are made of cotton & rest is made of
wool. 25% white socks are made of cotton & 20 of the black socks are made of wool. How many
black socks are made of cotton?
306. A ,B & C enter into partnership by investing in the ratio 3:5:7. After a year, C invests another
Tk. 337600 while A withdraw Tk. 45600. The ratio of investments then changes to 24:69:167. How
much did A invest initially?
307. The percentage profit earned by selling an article for Tk. 1920 is equal to the percentage loss
incurred by selling the same article for Tk. 1280. At what price should the article be sold to
make 25% profit?
308. An estate value value at tk 12000 is divided among three person A,B and C.if A surrender 15%
of the share, then the share of B and C are respectively increased by 10% and 25%.again if A
surrender 20% ,then the share of B and C is respectively increased by 15% and 30% .find the
share of each?
309. Two similar triangles have areas of 18 cm square and 32 cm square. If the base of the smaller
triangle is 6 cm, find the base of the larger triangle.
310. The amount of profit earned by selling a product for 900 is double the loss incurred by selling
the products at 450 tk. What is the cost price at 25% profit?
hour goes at 3/5th of the original speed and reached the destination 2hrs late.if the fault
had occurred after traveling another 50miles,the train would have reached 40mins earlier. What
is the distance between the two stations?
312. For every Christian person in a representative committee there are two Hindus and for each
Hindu person there are seven Muslims. This policy represents the ratio of different religions
in a population. Express the ratio of Muslims to Hindus to Christians in that population?
313. Two metals A and B are 900% and 200% respectively heavier than water. If there two metals make
an alloy which is 6 times heavier than water, what is the ratio of the two metals in the alloy?
314. Two different companies, X & Y, have the same number of workeTK. The ratio of the male workers
in company X & the male workers in company Y is 2:1 and the ratio of the female workers in
company X and the female workers in company Y is 4:5. What is the ratio of the male workers to
the female workers in company X?
315. Karib has four ties, 13 shirts and 5 belts. If each day he wears exactly one tie, one shirt
and one belt, what is the maximum number of days he can go without repeating a particular
combination?
316. A train leaves station X for station Y. At 8:20 am, when the train has crossed one fifth of
the way to station Y, it passes station A at 8:30 am, when the train has crossed one third of
the way to station Y, it passes station B. At what time does the train leave station X?
two basic elements in the two alloys are 5:3 and 1:2. A new alloy X is formed by mixing the
two alloys A & B in the ratio 4:3. What is the ratio of the composition of the two basic
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319. A man walks 30 minutes at an average speed of 3 miles/houTK. He waits 10 minutes for a bus,
which back him to his starting point at 3:15.If he began his walk at 2:25 the same afternoon.
Find out the average speed of the bus.
320. A milk vendor has 2 cans of milk. The first can contains 25% water and the rest is milk. The
second can contains 50% water. How much milk should he mix from each of the cans respectively
so as to get 12 liters of milk such that the ratio of water to milk is 3:5 in that mixture?
321. Mixture X is 40% peanut and 60% hazel nut by weight, mixture Y is 25% peanut and 75% cashew
nut. If a mixture of X and Y contain 30% peanut, what percent of the weight of this mixture is
X?
the plot at 26.50 per meter is Tk. 5300, what is the length of the plot in meters?
area of the field is 680 sq. feet, how many feet of fencing will be required?
326. A bag contains 2 red, 3 green and 2 blue balls. Two balls are drawn at random. What is the
probability that none of the balls drawn is blue?
327. In a club the ratio of men and women is 16:7. The ratio of married men and married women is
4:3. Calculate the percentage of married men if 60% of the women are married.
328. A two-digit number is such that the product of the digits is 8. When 18 is added to the number,
then the digits are reversed. The number is?
330. Mr. Hasan has few notes of Tk. 10 and Tk. 50. A total of his 150 notes amount to Tk.5100. What
is the number of each kind of note?
331. a, b, c, d, e are 5 consecutive numbers in increasing order, deleting one of them from the set
decreased the sum of the remaining numbers by 20% of the sum of 5. Which one of the number is
deleted from the set?
333. A female worker takes half as much time as two male workers take to do the same work. A male
worker can do a work in 50 days. If a female worker starts doing the work alone and after 10
days of work gets assistance from another woman, in how many days the work will complete?
334. The different between a two-digit number & the number obtained by interchanging the digits is
36. What is the different between the sum & the difference of the digits of the number if the
ratio between the sum & the difference of the digits of the number if the ratio between the
digits of the number is 1:2?
335. One-fifth of the products made by company is defective. Four-fifth of the effectives were
rejected & one-twentieth of the products were rejected by mistake. What percent of the products
sold by the company is defective?
336. Karim deposited a certain amount of money for a fixed period if time. On maturity he received
a total of Tk 45000 when the ratio of interest and investment became 2:5. If interest rate was
3.6%, calculate the time period for which money was invested.
337. A sales person's monthly salary is tk5000. He earns as commission 5% on all sales between tk
20000 and 60000 and 8% on all sales exceeding tk 60000. In addition, he gets a fixed bonus of
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tk 1000 if his monthly sales exceed tk 100000. If in a month his total income was tk 10400,
what his total sales?
338. A boy covers a distance of 6 kilometers partly by walking & partly by cycling. If he cycles at
18 kilometers per hour & walks at 6 kilometers per hour & takes 35 minutes in all, find the
distance he covers by walking.
339. A cargoes 15 miles on a gallon of octane when it is driven at 50 miles per hour. When the car
is driven at 60 miles per hour, it only goes 80% as far. How many gallons of octane is needed
to travel 200 miles if half the distance is travelled at 50 miles per hour and the rest at 60
mph?
340. Jesmin spent one-third of her money on books and half of the remaining money on clothing. She
then spent three-fourths of what she had left on food. She had Tk. 500 left over. How
341. much money did she start with?
342. In an election only 75% of the total eligible voters voted for their representatives, the
winning candidate got 55% of the votes cast and he beat his only rival by 75000 votes. What is
the total number of voters in the collection?
343. Masud can do a job in 40 days working alone. Karim can do the same job in 60days working alone.
They start working together and worked for 18days, when Harun joined them. The three men worked
together and finished the job in 5days. In how many days could Harun do the whole job working
alone
344. M is a girl and has same no. of brothers as sisteTK. N is a boy and has twice as many sisters
as brotheTK. M and n are the children of q. How many children does q has?
345. A boat went away from the shore with the speed of flow (joar) about 7.50 Km in 2 hTK. The boat
had reoccupied in 3 hrs with the help of daar(noukar daar). What as the speed of boat during
reoccupying?
346. A person wishes to accumulate taka 150000 by the end of 15 years by making equal half yearly
deposits over the next 15 yeaTK. if he earns 10% on the investment how much must he deposit at
the end of each half year?
347. In dividing a number by 585, a student employed the method of short division. He divided the
number successively by 5, 9 and 13 and got the remainders 4, 8, 12 respectively. If he had
divided the number by 585, what would have been the remainder?
348. A, B and C enter into a partnership by investing in the ratio of 3:2:4. After one year, B
invests another TK 270000. At the end of three years profits with a new manager, then the
average salary of the team went
349. 35 % of a group of 70 researchers will be assigned to team A and the remaining 65 % to team B.
However 60 % of the researchers prefer team A and 40 % prefer Team B. What is the least possible
numbers of researchers who will not be assigned to the team they prefer?
350. 2 men & 5 women completed only 1/4th position of a job in 3 days , After 3 days another man
was included in the team and in 2 days they completed another 1/4th portion of the job. How
many men (with no women) can complete the whole job in 4 days?
351. padma purched 30kg of rice at the rate of tk 17.50 per kg and another 30kg rice at a certain
rate.he mixed the two and sold the entire quantity at the rate of tk.18.60 per kg and made 20%
overall profit. at what price per kg did he perchase the lot of another 30 kg?
352. In a certain school, 20% of students are below 8 years of age. The number of students above 8
years of age is 2/3 of the number of students of 8 years of age which is48. What is the total
number of students in the school?
353. A digital 12 hr clock falls behind 10 min each day. How many days will it take to reach a point
where the clock will indicate the correct time?
354. One clock gains 15 seconds per day and another loses 45 seconds per day. After what length of
time will the first clock be 12 hours ahead of the second?
355. 1 year ago ratio between A & B salary was 3:4. Ratios of their individual salaries between last
year & this years are 4:5 & 2:3 respectively. At present total of their salary is tk 4160. the
salary of A now is?
356. Recently, Sobhan' s hourly wage has been increased by 10% , Before the increase , Sobhan' s
total weekly wage tk.137. If his weekly hours were to decrease by 10% from last week's total
hours, What would be the change in Sobhan' s total weekly wage?
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357. The water in a fish tank measuring 5/4 feet by 8 inches is 7 inches high. the water is poured
into another tank measuring 14 inches by 20 inches. What will be the height of water, in inches,
in the second tank?
358. Suppose you deposited tk 10000 on january 1. 2012 at 12.50% interest rate for 1 year. On july
1 2013 tk 15000 at 12% interest rate for 6 months and on october 1 2013 tk 20000 at 22.5%
Suppose you withdrew all deposits including due interests on december 31. 2013. Calculate the
359. Abdul lent Tk. 5000 to Bokul for 2 years and Tk. 3000 to Chunnu for 4 years on simple interest
at the same rate of interest and received Tk. 2200 in all from both of them as interest. What
is the rate of interest per annum?
360. A businessman, before closing his shop,counted the money kept in the cash box & found that
there were x number of 50 paisa coins, x number of 1 tk.notes, x number of 2 tk.notes & x
number of 5 tk.notes, Apart from these,there was nothing else in the box.The next day ,when he
opened his shop he found the cash box had been stolen. As he was insured ,he got tk.1615,which
is 95% of the stolen money, from the insurance company. How many 2 tk.notes were there in the
cash box?
361. Working alone, Printers X, Y, and Z can do a certain printing job, consisting of a large number
of pages, in 12, 15, and 18 hours, respectively. What is the ratio of the time it takes Printer
X to do the job, working alone at its rate, to the time it takes Printers Y and Z to do the
job, working together at their individual rates?
362. A department store receives a shipment of 1000 shirts, for which it pays Tk. 9000. The store
sells the shirts at a price 80% above cost for one month, after which it reduces the price of
the shirts to 20% above cost. The store sells 75% of the shirts during the first month and 50%
of the remaining shirts afterward. How much gross income did sales of the shirts generate?
363. Had traveled 1/3rd of the total distance of his trip when his car broke down. He finished the
journey on foot, spending twenty times as long walking as he had spent driving. How many times
faster was his driving speed than his walking speed?
364. If a typewriter can type 125 pages, 36 lines each and 11words to each line in 5 days , how many
pages of 30 lines each and 12 words to each line can he type in 6 days how?
365. Machine X takes 2 days longer to produce W widgets than Machine Y. At this rates, if the machine
together produce 5W/4 widgets in 3 days longer, how many days would it take Machine X alone to
produce 2W widgets?
366. A shopkeeper who sells ,on an average ,18 pencils & 12 markers per day .The profit from a
pencil is 1/3 times the profit made by selling a marker .If he makes a profit of tk.900 in a
month(a month consists of 30 days) by selling pencils, how much profit do make per month by
selling markers?
367. Mr. X signed a contract for building a road of 1920 meters long within 120 days. He employed
160 workers for this task. But after 24 days he found that only 1/8 of the task has been
finished, if Mr. X wants to finish the road in time how many additional workers he has to
employ?
368. The water in a fish tank measuring 5/4 feet by 8 inches is 7 inches high. The water is poured
into another tank measuring 14 inches by 20 inches. What will be the height of water, in inches,
in the second tank?
369. A does half as much work as B in three-fourth of the time. If together they take 18 days to
370. A and B together can do a piece of work in 12 days, which B and C together can do in 16 days.
371. An amount becomes 4 times in 7 years when invested under Simple Interest at a certain rate. In
how many years will the amount become 16 times of the original amount at the same rate?
372. Tk.2189 are divided into three parts such that their amounts after 1, 2 and 3 years respectively
may be equal, the rate of simple interest being 4% p.a.in all cases. The smallest part is..
373. A man borrows TK. 2100 and undertakes to pay back with compound interest @ 10% p.a. in 2 equal
yearly installments at the end of first and second year. What is the amount of each installment?
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374. A retailer buys goods at 10% discount on its marked price and sells them at 20% higher than
the marked price. What is his profit per cent?

375. A dishonest merchant professes to sell his goods at cost price, but uses a weight of 900 grams
for one kg. weight. What is his profit per cent?

376. A shopkeeper bought some apples at the rate of Tk. 16 per dozen. Due to harsh climate 20% of
the apples bought were rotten during the transportation. At what rate of per dozen should he
sell the remaining apples so as to gain 30% on the total cost price?
377. A shopkeeper allows 25% discount on the marked price of his articles and hence gains 25% of
the Cost Price. What is the marked price of the article on selling which he gains TK. 120?
378. A dishonest business man gain 10% profit on purchase of articles but make a 5% loss when selling
those articles. What is his actual profit or loss?
379. If a merchant marks his goods up by 60% and then offer a discount on the market price. If the
final selling price after the discount results in the merchant making no profit no loss, what
was the percent discount offered by the merchant?
of the father's age. what is the son's age in years now?
381. If 5 is added to the sum of digits of a number consisting of two digits, the sum will be three
times of the digit of the tens place. Moreover, if the places of the digits are interchanged,
the number thus found will be 9 less than the original number. Find the number?
day. After working 33 days, 4/7 of the work is completed. How many additional men may be
completed so that the work may be completed in time, each man now working 9 hours a day?
reduction in speed directly proportional to the squire root of the number of compartments
TK. 31 more, he would have gained 20%. Find the cost price of the article.
385. Kalim is asked to write a study guide for a text book. For his work, the publishing company is
giving him a choice of one- time payment of TK. 13,375 or TK. 2000 plus 10% royalties per copy
sold. If the proposed royalty rate result in a royalty of TK. 3.25 per study guide sold. How
many study guides need to be sold for the total income received by kalim to be the same from
either choice?
386. When a producer allows 36% commission on the retail price of his product, he earns a profit of
8.8%. What would be his profit percents if the commission is reduced by 24% and commission
reduced to 24%.
387. A certain college has student s to teacher ratio of 11 to 1. The average annual salary for
teachers is TK. 26000. If the college pays a total of TK. 33,80,000 in annual salaries to its
teacher, how many students does the college have?
388. An article is sold at 20% profit. If its cost price is increased by TK. 50 and at the same time
if its selling price is also increased by TK. 30, the percentage of profit decreases by 10/3%.
389. The ratio between the rates of walking of A and B is 2:3. If the time taken by B to cover a
certain distance is 36 minutes, the time taken by A to cover that much distance is?
390. Mr. jahid signed a contract for building a road of 1920 meters long within 120 days. He employed
160 workers for this task. But after 24 days he found that only 1/8 of the task has been
finished. If Mr. jahid wants to finish the road in time how many additional workers he has to
employ?
the trip was reduced by 200 km/hr and the time of flight increased by 30 minutes, Find out the
392. A man has 9 friends: 4 boys and 5 girls. In how many ways can he invite them, if there have to
be exactly 3 girls in the invitees?
393. A boy purchased some chocolates from a shop for TK. 120. In the next shop, he found that the
price of per piece of chocolate is take 3 less than that charged at the previous shop, and as
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such he could have purchased 2 more chocolates. How many chocolates did he buy from the first
shop?
394. Mr. Nader drove from Mymensingh to Dhaka at 60 miles/hour. Returning on the same route, thenwas a lot of traffic, and he was only able to drive at 40 miles/hour. If the return trip took
1 hour longer, what is the distance between Dhaka and Mymensingh?
395. Two alloys A and B are composed of two basic elements. The ratios of the composition of two
basic elements in the two alloys are 5:3 and 1:2, respectively, a new alloy X is formed by
mixing the two alloys A and B in the ratio 4:3. What is the ratio of the composition of the
two basic elements in alloy X?
396. From a group of 7 men and 6 women. 5 person are to be selected to form a committee so that at
least 3 men are there on the committee. In how many ways can it be done?
397. A man spends TK. 750 on an average during first 8 months. During the next 4 months he spends
TK. 680 per month. He took loan of TK. 320 during the year and paid TK. 600 for LIC premium.
Find his monthly average income?
398. The average temperature of the town in the first four days of a month was 58 degrees. The
average for the second, third, fourth and fifth days was 60 degrees. The temperature of the
first and fifth days were in the ratio 7:8, then what is the temperature on the fifth day?
399. A bill for TK.6000 is drawn on July 14 at 5 months . It is discounted on 5th October at 10%.Find
the bankers discount true discount, bankers gain and the money that the holder of the bill
receives.
400. A contract is to be completsd in 46 days sad 117 men were said to work 8 hours a day. After 33
days, (4/7) of the work is completed. How many additional men may be employed so that the work
may be completed in time, each man now working 9 hours a day?
401. A garrison of 3300 men had provisions for 32 days, when given at the rate of 860 gns per head.
At the end of 7 days, a reinforcement arrives and it was for that the provisions wi1l last 17
days more, when given at the rate of 826 gms per head, What is the strength of the reinforcement?
402. What annual payment will discharge a debt of TK.7620 due in 3years at 16 2/3% per annum
interest?
403. A man standing at a point P is watching the top of a tower, which makes an angle of elevation
of 30 with the man's eye. The man walks some distance towards the tower to watch its top and
the angle of the elevation becomes 60. What is the distance between the base of the tower and
the point P?
404. . A merchant has 1000 kg of sugar, part of which he sells at 8% profit and the rest at 18%
profit. He gains 14% on the whole. The quantity sold at 18% profit is:
405. The milk and water in two vessels A and B are in the ratio 4 : 3 and 2: 3 respectively. In what
ratio, the liquids in both the vessels be mixed to obtain a new mixture in vessel C containing
half milk and half water?
406. A fraction becomes 2/3 when 1 is added to both, its numerator and denominator. And, it becomes
1/2 when 1 is subtracted from both the numerator and denominator. Find the fraction
407. If three numbers are added in pairs, the sums equal 10, 19 and 21. Find the numbers?
of TK.. 1,05,000 and Sagar joined them with TK. 1.4 lakhs after another six months. The amount
409. A man bought a horse and a car riage for Rs 3000.he sold the horse at a gain of 20% and the
carriage at a loss of 10%,thereby gaining 2% on the whole.find the cost of the horse.
410. After getting 2 successive discounts, a shirt with a list price of Rs 150 is available at Rs
105. If the second discount is 12.55,find the first discount.
411. When a producer allows 36% commission on retail price of his product, he earns a profit of
8.8%. what would be his profit % if the commision
412. A completes 80% of a work in 20 days. Then B also joins and A and B together finish the
remaining work in 3 days. How long does it need for B if he alone completes the work?
413. Machine P can print one lakh books in 8 houTK. Machine Q can print the same number of books in
10 hours while machine R can print the same in 12 houTK. All the machines started printing at
9 A.M. Machine P is stopped at 11 A.M. and the remaining two machines complete work.
Approximately at what time will the printing of one lakh books be completed?
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414. A can complete a work in 12 days with a working of 8 hours per day. B can complete the same
work in 8 days when working 10 hours a day. If A and B work together, working 8 hours a day,
the work can be completed in --- days.
415. There is a group of persons each of whom can complete a piece of work in 16 days, when they
are working individually. On the first day one person works, on the second day another person
joins him, on the third day one more person joins them and this process continues till the work
is completed. How many days are needed to complete the work?
416. A train is traveling at 48 kmph . It crosses another train having half of its length , traveling
in opposite direction at 42 kmph, in 12 seconds. It also passes a railway platform in 45
seconds. What is the length of the platform?
417. A train overtakes two persons walking along a railway track. The first person walks at 4.5
km/hr and the other walks at 5.4 km/hr. The train needs 8.4 and 8.5 seconds respectively to
overtake them. What is the speed of the train if both the persons are walking in the same
direction as the train?
the trip was reduced by 200 km/hr and the time of flight increased by 30 minutes. What is the
duration of the flight ?
419. An item was sold for TK.27.50 with a profit of 10%. If it was sold for TK.25.75, what would
have been the percentage of profit or loss?
discharge chemical solutions P,Q and R respectively. What is the proportion of the solution R
pipe. The time required by the first pipe is:
422. A leak in the bottom of a tank can empty the full tank in 6 houTK. An inlet pipe fills water
at the rate of 4 liters a minute. When the tank is full, the inlet is opened and due to the
leak, the tank is empty in 24 houTK. How many liters does the cistern hold?
423. A booster pump can be used for filling as well as for emptying a tank. The capacity of the tank
is 2400 m3. The emptying of the tank is 10 m3 per minute higher than its filling capacity and
the pump needs 8 minutes lesser to empty the tank than it needs to fill it. What is the filling
capacity of the pump?
424. 3 balls are drawn randomly from a bag contains 3 black, 5 red and 4 blue balls. What is the
probability that the balls drawn contain balls of different colors?
425. In a set of three numbers, the average of first two numbers is 2.the average of the last two
numbers is 3.and the average of the first and last two numbers is 4.what is the average of
three numbers?
426. In 2007,the arithmetic mean of the annual incomes of jack and jill was tk 3800.the arithmetic
mean of the annual incomes of jill and jess was tk 4800.and the arithmetic mean of the annual
incomes of jess and jack was tk 5800,what is the arithmetic mean of the incomes of three?
annual income of each worker is tk 390.The annual income of each executive is tk 420.what is
the average annual income of all the employees in the factory together?
428. Kelvin takes 3 minutes to inspect a car, and john takes 4 minutes to inspect a car. if they
both start inspecting different cars at 8.30 AM. what would be the ratio of the number of cars
inspected by Kelvin and john by 8.54 AM of the same day?
429. Bank X pays a simple interest of tk 80 on a principal of tk 1000 annually. bank Y pays a simple
interest rates of bank X to bank Y?
430. Joseph bought two varieties of rice costing 5 cents per ounce and 6 cents per ounce each and
mixed them in same ratio. then he sold the mixture at 7 cents per ounce, making a profit of 20
percent. what was the ratio of the mixtures?
exactly 5 litres at a time. Each time this is done, the cask must be filled back to the brim
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with water. The capacity of the cask is 15 litres. when the cask is emptied and filled back
to the brim two times, what is the ratio of alcohol to water in the cask?
432. In January, the value of a stock increased by 25%, and in February it decreased by 20%,in March
it is increased by 50%,and in April it decreased by 40%,If Jack invested tk 80 in the stock on
January 1 and sold it at the end of April, what was te percentage change in the price of the
stock?
433. A can do a work in 20 days, B in 20 days & C in 60 days. From the 1st day, every 3rd day B &
every 4th day C helps A. In how many days they will be done the work?
434. A is 30% more efficient than B. How much time will they, working together, take to complete a
job which A alone could have done in 23 days?
435. If 20 men or 24 women or 40 boys can do a job in 12 days working for 8 hours a day, how many
men working with 6 women and 2 boys take to do a job four times as big working for 5 hours a
day for 12 days?
436. A and B enter into partnership. A supplies whole of the capital amounting to Tk. 45000 with
the condition that the profits to be equally divided and that B pays A interest on half of the
capital at 10% per annum, but receives Tk. 120 per month for carrying on the concern. Find
their total yearly profit when B's income is one half of A's income.
437. A dishonest merchant makes 10% profit at the time of buying and a 5% loss at time of selling
the goods he trades. By doing so if the said merchant made a profit of tk 900 on a particular
item, what was the real cost of the item sold?
438. When a producer allows 36% commission on the retail price of this product, he earns a profit
of 8.8% what would be his profit percent if the commission is reduced
439. All the page numbers from a book are added, beginning at page 1. However, one page number was
mistakenly added twice. The sum obtained was 1000. Which page number was added twice?
440. There are 87 balls in a jar. Each ball is painted with at least one of two colors, red or
green. It is observed that 2/7 of the balls that have red color also have green color, while
3/7 of the balls that have green color also have red color. What fraction of the balls in the
jar have both red and green colors?
441. A supplier has three varieties of rice costing Tk. 60, Tk. 75, and Tk. 100 per kg respectively.
At what ratio should he mix up these three varieties of rice so that by selling the mixture at
Tk. 96 per kg he will make 20% profit on cost?
two basic elements in the two alloys are 5: 3 and 1 : 2, respectively. A new alloy X is formed
by mixing the two alloys A and B in the ratio 4 : 3. What is the ratio of the composition of
the two basic elements in alloy X?
443. Each of 435 bags contains at least one of the three following items: raisins, almonds and
peanuts. The number of bags that contain only raisins is 10 times the number of bags that
contain only peanuts. The number of Bags that contain only almonds is 20 times the number of
bags that contain only raisins and peanuts. The number of bags that contains only peanuts is
one-fifth the number of bags that contain only almonds. 210 bags contain almonds. How many bags
contain only one kind of them?
444. A fires 5 shots to B's 3 but A kills only once in 3 shots while B kills once in 2 shots. When
B has missed 27 times, A has killed:
446. A room is half as long as it is broad. The cost of carpeting the room at Tk. 5 per sq. m is
Tk. 270 and the cost of papering the four walls at Tk. 10 per sq. m is Tk. 1720. If a door and
2 windows occupy 8 sq. m, find the dimensions of the room.
447. The
area of a square is 24.5 sq meters more than the area of a rectangular. If, in the both
cases, the length of the diagonal be 13 meter, find out the length and breadth of the rectangle
448. A retailer buys 40 pens at the market price of 36 pens from a wholesaler. If he sells these
pens giving a discount of 1%, what is the profit percent?
449. Shaown invested one half of his savings in a bond that paid simple interest for to years and
received 550 as interest. He invested the remaining in a bond that paid compound interest,
interest being compounded annually. For the same two years at the same rate of interest received
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Tk. 605 as interest. What was the value of his total saving before investing in these two
bonds?
450. A father said to his son, "I was as old as you are at the present at the time of your birth".
If the father's age is 38 years now, the son's age five years back was:
451. Ram and Sham are running a race, Ram runs 25% faster than Sham and is able to allow Sham a lead
of 7 meters to end a race in dead heat. Find the distance of the race.
452. A number when divided successively by 4 and 5 leaves remainders 1 and 4 respectively. When it
is successively divided by 5 and 4, then the respective remainders will be?
453. The solid brick shown is made of small square bricks of side 1. When the large brick is
disassembled into its component small bricks, the total surface area of all the small bricks
is how much greater than the surface area of the large brick?
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