SAT Sample Questions » Quantitative Section : Quantitative Ability

SAT Sample Questions

Quantitative Section : Quantitative Ability

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71. A trader makes a profit equal to the selling price of 75 articles when he sold 100 of the articles. What % profit did he make in the transaction?
    1. 33.33%
    2. 75%
    3. 300%
    4. 150%

    Answer: C

72. A merchant buys two articles for Rs.600. He sells one of them at a profit of 22% and the other at a loss of 8% and makes no profit or loss in the end. What is the selling price of the article that he sold at a loss?
    1. Rs. 404.80
    2. Rs. 440
    3. Rs. 536.80
    4. Rs. 160

    Answer: A

73. A trader professes to sell his goods at a loss of 8% but weights 900 grams in place of a kg weight. Find his real loss or gain per cent.
    1. 2% loss
    2. 2.22% gain
    3. 2% gain
    4. None of these

    Answer: B

74. Rajiv sold an article for Rs.56 which cost him Rs.x. If he had gained x% on his outlay, what was his cost?
    1. Rs. 40
    2. Rs. 45
    3. Rs. 36
    4. Rs. 28

    Answer: A

75. A trader buys goods at a 19% Aount on the label price. If he wants to make a profit of 20% after allowing a Aount of 10%, by what % should his marked price be greater than the original label price?
    1. +8%
    2. -3.8%
    3. +33.33%
    4. None of these

    Answer: A

76. A 5 cm cube is cut into as many 1 cm cubes as possible. What is the ratio of the surface area of the larger cube to that of the sum of the surface areas of the smaller cubes?
    1. 1 : 6
    2. 1 : 5
    3. 1 : 25
    4. 1 : 125

    Answer: B

77. If the sides of a triangle measure 72, 75 and 21, what is the measure of its in radius?
    1. 37.5
    2. 24
    3. 9
    4. 15

    Answer: C

78. The circumference of the front wheel of a cart is 30 ft long and that of the back wheel is 36 ft long. What is the distance travelled by the cart, when the front wheel has done five more revolutions than the rear wheel?
    1. 20 ft
    2. 25 ft
    3. 750 ft
    4. 900 ft

    Answer: D

79. The area of a square field is 24200 sq m. How long will a lady take to cross the field diagonally at the rate of 6.6 km/hr?
    1. 3 minutes
    2. 2 minutes
    3. 2.4 minutes
    4. 2 minutes 40 seconds

    Answer: B

    Quantitative Ability : Trignometry

80. a and b are the lengths of the base and height of a right angled triangle whose hypotenuse is h. If the values of a and b are positive integers, which of the following cannot be a value of the square of the hypotenuse?
    1. 13
    2. 23
    3. 37
    4. 41

    Answer: B