Ratio & Mixture

Type-A

1. A series has 3 numbers a, ar, . In the series, the first term is twice of the second term.
What is the ratio of the sum of the first 2 terms to the sum of the last 2 terms? Ans: 2:1
2. The average age of students of a class is 15.8 years. The average age of boys in the class
is 16.4 years and that of the girls is 15.4 years. The ratio of the number of boys to the
number of girls in the class is? Ans: 2:3
3. A person buys some pens and pencils. The pen costs Tk 7 each and pencil costs Tk 3
each. If he spends exactly Tk 81 and buys maximum numbers of pen possible under these
conditions. What is the ratio of pen to pencil? Ans: 3:2
4. A gasoline company wants to provide a customer with 1000 liters of premium gasoline
Tk 60 per liter by mixing X liters of regular gasoline Costing Tk 50 per liter, with Y liters
of unleaded gasoline costing Tk 66 per liter. How much of each gasoline should be used
to produce the mixture?
5. Arif’s Salary is twice that of Babu’s salary. Kabir’s salary is 1/3 of Arif’s and Malek’s
Salary is 2/3 of that Babu’s. Total salary of Kabir and Malek are what proportion of
Babu’s salary?
6. Daily earning of two persons are in the ratio 4:5 and their daily expense 7:9. If each saves
Tk. 50 per day. What is their Income?
7. The annual Incomes and expenditures of a man and his wife are in the ratios 5:3 and 3:1
respectively. If they decide to save equally and find a balance of Tk 4000 at the end of
the year, what was their income?
8. A certain College has students 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
teachers. How many students does the college have?

Part -2
1) A trader purchases blue paint and yellow Paint at a price of Tk 110 and Tk 100 per liter.
he mixes blue and yellow paint at a ratio of 1:2 to make a certain pain of green color. He
sells the green paint at a price of Tk 120 per liter. If the trader makes a profit of Tk 2000,
how much yellow paint (in kgs) did he use in the mixture?
2) A drink contains 20% mango juice, 20% guava juice and 60% Apple Juice. You added
250ml of water to 750ml of the drink. Now what will be the ratio of water to apple juice
in the diluted drink?
3) Rahim bought 2 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?
4) Padma purchased 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 purchase the lot of 30 kg rice?
5) 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?
6) Two metals A and B are 900% and 200% 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?
7) The ratio of water and syrup in first glass is 3:1, in 2 nd glass, 5:3 and in 3rd glass 9:7. The
ratio of new mixture is?
8) Three containers have their volumes in the ratio 3:4:5. They are full of mixtures of milk
and water. The mixture contains milk and water in the ratio of (4:1), (3:1), (5:2). The
contents of all these three containers are poured into a fourth container. The ratio of milk
and water in the fourth container is ?
9) Equal quantities of three mixtures of milk and water are mixed in the ratio 1:2, 2:3 and
3:4. The ratio of water and Milk in the mixtures is?
10) 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. 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 elements in alloy X?
 R.S. Aggarwal Math

1. The salary of A, B and C together is Tk 33000. if they spend 80%, 85% and 75% of
their respective incomes, their savings are as 7:6:9. Find the salary of B? Ans: 12000
2. A bag contains one-rupee, 50-paise and 25-piase coins in the ratio of 5:6:8. If the total
amount of money in the bag is Rs. 210. Find the number of coins of each kind?
Ans: 168.
3. The ratio of the number of students studying in schools A, B and C is 6:8:7. If the
number of students studying in each of the schools is increased by 20%, 15% and
20%. What will be the new ratio of the number of students in schools A, B and C’s?
Answer: 18:13:21.
4. The cost of manufacturing a car is made up of three Items: Cost of materials, labour
and overheads. In a year, the cost of these items were in the ratio 4:3:2. Next year the
cost of materials rose by 10%, cost of labour increased by 8%, but the overheads
reduced by 5%. Find the increase percent in the price of the year? Answer: 6%
5. In the mixture of three varieties of tea, the ratio of their weights is 4:5:8. If 5 kg tea of
the first variety, 10 kg tea of the second variety and some quantity of tea of the third
variety are added to the mixture, the ratio of the weights of three varieties of tea
becomes 5:7:9. Find the quantity of the third variety of tea in the final Mixture.
Answer: 5
6. Cost of a diamond varies directly as the square of its weight. A diamond broke into
four pieces with their weights in the ratio 1:2:3:4. if the loss in the total value of the
diamond was 70000, find the price of the original diamond ?
7. Initially two cups of same volume are filled with milk upto 3/5th and 4/5th of their
volumes. water is then filled. Then two mixtures are mixed and poured into a jug.
Find the ratio of water to milk in the mixture? Answer: 3:7
8. Visitors to a show were charged Rs 12 each on the first day, Rs 9.50 on the second ,
Rs 4 on the third day and the total attendance on three days were in the ratio 3:6:11.
Find the average charge per person for the whole show? Answer: Rs 6.85
9. 7 men, 5 women and 8 Children were given an assignment of distributing 2000 books
to students in a school over a period of three days. All of them distributed books on
the first day. On the second day, 1 man, 3 women and 3 children remained absent and
on the third day, 4 men and 5 children remain absent. If the ratio of number of books
distributed in a day by a man, a woman and a children was 5:4:2. a total of how many
books were distributed on the second day ?
10. Ratio of the income of A, B, C last year was 3:4:5. The ratio of their individual
incomes of the last year and this year are 4:5, 2:3, and 3:4. If the sum of their present
incomes is Rs 78800, then find the present individual incomes of A, B and C?
11. Two Identical vassels A and B contain mixtures of milk and water in the ratios 4:5
and 5:1. In what ratio should quantities of mixtures be taken from A and B from a
mixture in which milk to water is in the ratio 5:4?
12. Two vessels A and B contain spirit and water mixed in the ratio 5:2 and 7:6. Find the
ratio in which these mixtures be mixed to obtain a new mixture in vessel C containing
spirit and water in the ratio 8:5?
13. Two vessels A and B contain milk and water in the ratio 8:5 and 5:2. The ratio in
which these two mixtures be mixed to get a new mixture containing %?
14. A milk vendor has 2 cans of milk. The first contains 25% water and 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 ?
15. 35 kg of type A sandal powder, which costs Rs 614 per kg, was mixed with a certain
amount of type B sandal powder, which costs Rs 695 per kg then the mixture was
sold at the rate of Rs 767 per kg and 18% profit was earned. What was the amount of
type B sandal powder in the mixture?
16. How many liters of water should be added to a 30 liter mixture of milk and water
containing milk and water in the ratio of 7:3. Such that the resultant mixture has 40%
water in it?

Web site Based Math

1. A Container contains 192 liter of Milk. A seller draws out x% of Milk and
replaced it with the same quantity of water. He repeated the same process for 3 times.
And thus Milk content in the mixture is only 81 liter. Then how much percent he
withdraws every time?
2. A Jar contains 30 liters mixture of Milk and Water in the ratio of x:y
respectively. When 10 liter of the mixture is taken out and replaced it water, then the
ratio becomes 2:3. Then what is the initial quantity of Milk in the Jar?
3. A Container contains ‘X’ Liters of Milk. A thief stole 50 Liters of Milk and
replaced it with the same quantity of water. He repeated the same process further two
times. And thus Milk in the container is only ‘X-122’ liters. Then what is the quantity
of water in the final mixture?
4. In a 250 liter of a mixture of Milk and Water, Water is X%. The milkman sold
50 liters of the mixture and replaced same quantity with water. If the percent of Milk
in final mixture is 64%, then what is the percentage of Milk in the initial mixture?
5. A jar contains ‘x’ liters of Milk, a seller withdraws 25 liter of it and sells it at
Rs.20 per liter. He then replaces it water. He repeated the process total three times.
Every time while selling he reduces selling price by Rs.2. After this process Milk left
in the mixture is only 108 liters so he decided to sell the entire Mixture at Rs. 15 per
liter. Then how much profit did he earned if bought Milk at Rs.20 per liter?
6. ‘X’ Liters of the mixture contains Milk and Water in the ratio 4:3. If 13 liters
of Water is added then the ratio becomes 1:1. Then what is the final quantity of water
in the mixture?
7. A Jar contains 200 liters of Milk a thief stole ‘X’ liters of Milk and replaced it
with water. Next, he stole 40 liters of Milk and replaced it with water. Again he stole
50 liters of Milk and replaced with water. If the quantity of water in the final mixture
is 92 liters. Then what is the value of X?
8. From a container, a thief has stolen 10 liters of Milk and replaced with the same
quantity of water. He repeated the process for three times, then the ratio of Milk to
water became 343:169.The initial amount of Milk in the container is?

9. A Jar contains a mixture of Milk and Water 18 and 12 Liters respectively. When
‘x’ liter of the mixture is taken out and replaced with the same quantity of Water, then
the ratio of Milk and Water becomes 2:3. Then what is the quantity of Water in final
Mixture?
 Replacement

1) A 20 litre mixture of milk and water contains milk and water in the ratio 3:2. 10 Litres of
the mixture is removed and replaced with pure milk and the operation is replaced once
more. At the end of the two removals and replacement, what is the ratio of Milk and
Water in the resultant Mixture?
2) A pot contains 81 liters of pour milk. 1/3 of the milk is replaced by the same amount of
water. Again 1/3 of the mixture is replaced by the amount of water. Find the ratio of milk
and water in the new mixture?
3) A container contains 40 liters of milk. From this container 4 liters of milk was taken out
and replaced by water. This process was replaced further two times. How much milk is
now contained by the container?
4) 8 Liters are drawn from a cask full of wine and is then filled with water. this operation is
performed three 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 hold originally?
5) A can contains a mixture of two liquids A and B in 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?
6) A vessel is filled with liquid, 3 parts of which are water and 5 parts syrup. How much of
the mixture must be drawn off and replaced with water so that the mixture may be half
water and half syrup?
7) A vessel contains a mixture of grape, Pineapple and Banana juices in the ratio of 4:6:5.
15 liters of this mixture is taken out and 8 liters of grape juice and 2 liters of pineapple
juice is added to the vessel. If the resultant quantity of grape juice is 10 liters less than the
resultant quantity of pineapple juice. What was the initial quantity of mixture in the
vessel?
8) A Jar contains 100 liters of Milk a thief stole 10 liter of Milk and replaced it with water.
Next, he stole 20 liter of Milk and replaced it with water. Again he stole 25 liter of Milk
and replaced with water. Then what is the quantity of water in the final mixture?

Prepared By: Masoom Parvez

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