GK Expert Team Solutions for Exercise 1: OBJECTIVE TYPE QUESTIONS

A jar full of whisky contains $40\%$ of alcohol. A part of this whisky is replaced by another containing $19\%$ alcohol and now the percentage of alcohol was found to be $26$. The quantity of whisky replaced is:

The ratio of milk and water in $66 \mathrm{kg}$ of adulterated milk is $5:1.$ Water is added to it to make to ratio $5:3.$ The quantity of water added is?

Some amount out of $₹7000$ was lent at$6\%$ p.a. and the remaining at$4\%$ p.a. If the total simple interest from both the parts in $5$years was $₹1600$, the sum lent at $6\%$ p.a. was:

A lump of two metals weighing $18$grams is worth $Rs.74$ but if their weights are interchanged, it would be worth $Rs.60.10$. If the price of one metal be $Rs.7.20$ per gram, find the weight of the other metal in the mixture?

There are two vessels, one containing $12$ litres of water, the other $6$ litres of wine. If a litre is taken out of each and poured into the other, and if this is repeated four times, find how much wine will be in container one.

Two jars containing respectively $3$ and $5$ litres are filled with mixtures of alcohol and water. In the smaller jar $25\%$ of the mixture is alcohol, in the larger $25\%$ of the mixture is water. The jars are emptied into a $9$ litre cask, which is filled up with water. Find the percentage of alcohol in the cask.

From a vessel filled with alcohol, $\frac{1}{5}$ of its contents is removed, and the vessel is then filled up with water. If this be done five times in succession, what proportion of the alcohol originally contained in the vessel will have been removed from it?

A vessel is full of mixture of spirit and water in which there is found to be $17\%$ of spirit by measure. Ten litres are drawn off, and the vessel is filled up with water. The proportion of spirit is now found to be $15\%$. How much does the vessel hold?