Quantitative Aptitude - MCQ Practice Questions

What is the difference between compound interest and simple interest on ₹5,000 at 12% per annum for 3 years?

A principal amount becomes ₹15,625 after 3 years at 25% per annum compound interest. What was the original principal?

A mobile phone is marked at ₹15,000. A customer gets successive discounts of 10% and 5%. What is the final price?

A man spends 35% of his salary on rent and 20% on food. If his salary is ₹45,000, how much does he spend on rent and food combined?

A book's price increases by 12% one month and decreases by 10% the next month. If the original price was ₹500, what is the final price?

A retailer marks an item at ₹800 and allows a discount of 12%. If the cost price was ₹600, what is the profit percentage?

A trader buys 50 kg of rice at ₹40 per kg. He sells 80% of the rice at ₹50 per kg and the remaining at ₹35 per kg. What is his overall profit percentage?

A shopkeeper sells two items. Item A at 25% profit and Item B at 18% loss. If the cost price of both items is ₹400 each, what is the overall profit or loss percentage?

A merchant purchased goods for ₹5000. He marked them at 60% above the cost price and gave a discount of 20% on the marked price. What is his profit percentage?

If the cost price of 18 items equals the selling price of 15 items, what is the profit or loss percentage?

A vendor buys oranges at ₹8 per dozen and sells them at ₹1.5 per orange. If he sells 120 oranges, what is his profit or loss?

A sum of money becomes ₹4200 in 2 years and ₹4800 in 4 years at simple interest. What is the principal amount?

Vikram lent ₹15000 to his friend at 10% simple interest per annum. After 2 years, his friend repaid ₹3000 and the remaining balance after another 1 year. How much total interest did Vikram receive?

Two equal sums were invested at simple interest, one at 12% per annum for 4 years and another at 15% per annum for 3 years. If the difference in interests earned is ₹540, what is each principal amount?

A bank offers a scheme where you can deposit ₹20000 and earn simple interest at 9% per annum. The same amount is also offered by another bank at 8.5% per annum with ₹500 annual bonus. After 6 years, which bank's offer is better and by how much?

Find the LCM (Least Common Multiple) of 12 and 18.

A number when divided by 7 leaves remainder 3. Which of the following could be the number?

If the sum of two consecutive odd numbers is 56, what is the smaller number?

Find the HCF and LCM of 36 and 48. What is their product?

Two numbers have HCF of 8 and LCM of 96. If one number is 24, find the other number.