CAT Arithmetic > Ratio, Proportion & Variation PYQs

The ratio of the number of coins in boxes A and B was 17:7. After 108 coins were shifted from box A to box B, this ratio became 37:20. The number of coins that needs to be shifted further from A to B, to make this ratio 1:1, is

The ratio of expenditures of Lakshmi and Meenakshi is $2:3$, and the ratio of income of Lakshmi to expenditure of Meenakshi is $6:7$. If excess of income over expenditure is saved by Lakshmi and Meenakshi, and the ratio of their savings is $4:9$, then the ratio of their incomes is

The ratio of the number of students in the morning shift and afternoon shift of a school was 13 : 9. After 21 students moved from the morning shift to the afternoon shift, this ratio became 19 : 14. Next, some new students joined the morning and afternoon shifts in the ratio 3 : 8 and then the ratio of the number of students in the morning shift and the afternoon shift became 5 : 4. The number of new students who joined is

Rajesh and Vimal own $20$ hectares and $30$ hectares of agricultural land, respectively, which are entirely covered by wheat and mustard crops. The cultivation area of wheat and mustard in the land owned by Vimal are in the ratio of $5 : 3$. If the total cultivation area of wheat and mustard are in the ratio $11: 9$, then the ratio of cultivation area of wheat and mustard in the land owned by Rajesh is

When Rajesh's age was same as the present age of Garima, the ratio of their ages was 3: 2. When Garima's age becomes the same as the present age of Rajesh, the ratio of the ages of Rajesh and Garima will become

In September, the incomes of Kamal, Amal and Vimal are in the ratio $8 : 6 : 5$. They rent a house together, and Kamal pays $15\%$, Amal pays $12\%$ and Vimal pays $18\%$ of their respective incomes to cover the total house rent in that month. In October, the house rent remains unchanged while their incomes increase by $10\%$, $12\%$ and $15\%$, respectively. In October, the percentage of their total income that will be paid as house rent, is nearest to

A fruit seller has a total of 187 fruits consisting of apples, mangoes and oranges. The number of apples and mangoes are in the ratio 5 : 2. After she sells 75 apples, 26 mangoes and half of the oranges, the ratio of number of unsold apples to number of unsold oranges becomes 3: 2. The total number of unsold fruits is

The number of coins collected per week by two coin-collectors $A$ and $B$ are In the ratio $3:4$. If the total number of coins collected by $A$ in $5$ weeks is a multiple of $7$, and the total number of coins collected by $B$ in $3$ weeks is a multiple of $24$, then the minimum possible number of coins collected by $A$ in one week is

In a company, $20\%$ of the employees work in the manufacturing department. If the total salary obtained by all the manufacturing employees is one-sixth of the total salary obtained by all the employees in the company, then the ratio of the average salary obtained by the manufacturing employees to the average salary obtained by the non-manufacturing employees is

The price of a precious stone is directly proportional to the square of its weight. Sita has a precious stone weighing $18$ units. If she breaks it into four pieces with each piece having distinct integer weight, then the difference between the highest and lowest possible values of the total price of the four pieces will be $288000$. Then, the price of the original precious stone is

The salaries of three friends Sita, Gita and Mita are initially in the ratio $5 : 6 : 7$, respectively. In the first year, they get salary hikes of $20\%$, $25\%$ and $20\%$, respectively. In the second year, Sita and Mita get salary hikes of $40\%$ and $25\%$, respectively, and the salary of Gita becomes equal to the mean salary of the three friends. The salary hike of Gita in the second year is

In an election, there were four candidates and $80\%$ of the registered voters casted their votes. One of the candidates received $30 \%$ of the casted votes while the other three candidates received the remaining casted votes in the proportion $1: 2: 3$. If the winner of the election received $2512$ votes more than the candidate with the second highest votes, then the number of registered voters was

In a village, the ratio of number of males to females is $5: 4$. The ratio of number of literate males to literate females is $2 : 3$. The ratio of the number of illiterate males to illiterate females is $4: 3$. If $3600$ males in the village are literate, then the total number of females in the village is

Pinky is standing in a queue at a ticket counter. Suppose the ratio of the number of persons standing ahead of Pinky to the number of persons standing behind her in the queue is $3: 5$. If the total number of persons in the queue is less than $300$, then the maximum possible number of persons standing ahead of Pinky is

Anil, Bobby and Chintu jointly invest in a business and agree to share the overall profit in proportion to their investments. Anil's share of investment is $70\%$. His share of profit decreases by Rs. $420$ if the overall profit goes down from $18\%$ to $15\%$. Chintu's share of profit increases by Rs. $80$ if the overall profit goes up from $15\%$ to $17\%$. The amount, in INR, invested by Bobby is

The amount Neeta and Geeta together earn in a day equals what Sita alone earns in 6 days. The amount Sita and Neeta together earn in a day equals what Geeta alone earns in 2 days. The ratio of the daily earnings of the one who earns the most to that of the one who earns the least is

A sum of money is split among Amal, Sunil and Mita so that the ratio of the shares of Amal and Sunil is $3: 2$, while the ratio of the shares of Sunil and Mita is $4: 5$. If the difference between the largest and the smallest of these three shares is Rs $400$, then Sunil's share, in rupees, is

An alloy is prepared by mixing three metals $A, B$ and $C$ in the proportion $3 : 4 :7$ by volume. Weights of the same volume of the metals $A, B$ and $C$ are in the ratio $5:2: 6.$ In $130$ kg of the alloy, the weight, in kg, of the metal $C$ is

In an examination, Rama's score was one-twelfth of the sum of the scores of Mohan and Anjali. After a review, the score of each of them increased by $6$. The revised scores of Anjali, Mohan, and Rama were in the ratio $11:10:3$. Then Anjali's score exceeded Rama's score by

The salaries of Ramesh, Ganesh and Rajesh were in the ratio $6:5:7$ in $2010$, and in the ratio $3:4:3$ in $2015$. If Ramesh's salary increased by $25\%$ during $2010-2015$, then the percentage increase in Rajesh's salary during this period is closest to:

The scores of Amal and Bimal in an examination are in the ratio $11:14$. After an appeal, their scores increase by the same amount and their new scores are in the ratio $47 : 56$. The ratio of Bimal's new score to that of his original score is

Raju and Lalitha originally had marbles in the ratio $4:9$. Then Lalitha gave some of her marbles to Raju. As a result, the ratio of the number of marbles with Raju to that with Lalitha became $5:6$. What fraction of her original number of marbles was given by Lalitha to Raju?

If $a, b, c$ are three positive integers such that a and b are in the ratio $3 : 4$ while $b$ and $c$ are in the ratio $2:1$, then which one of the following is a possible value of $(a + b + c)$?

Suppose, $C1, C2, C3, C4,$ and $C5$ are five companies. The profits made by $C1, C2,$ and $C3$ are in the ratio $9: 10: 8$ while the profits made by $C2, C4,$ and $C5$ are in the ratio $18:19:20$. If $C5$ has made a profit of Rs $19$ crore more than $C1$, then the total profit (in Rs) made by all five companies is

A stall sells popcorn and chips in packets of three sizes: large, super, and jumbo. The numbers of large, super, and jumbo packets in its stock are in the ratio $7: 17: 16$ for popcorn and $6: 15: 14$ for chips. If the total number of popcorn packets in its stock is the same as that of chips packets, then the numbers of jumbo popcorn packets and jumbo chips packets are in the ratio

If $a$ and $b$ are integers of opposite signs such that $(a+3)^{2}: b^{2}=9: 1$ and $(a-1)^{2}:(b-1)^{2}=4: 1$, then the ratio $a^{2}: b^{2}$ is