Topicwise Solved Paper for CDS Mathematics 2020-21 3
Simple and Compound Interest 3 4
(a) hours (b) hours
1. The simple interest on a certain sum is one-fourth of the 2 3
sum. If the number of years and the rate of annual interest
are numerically equal, then the number of years is 9 11
(c) hours (d) horus
[CDS-2020-II] 8 8
(a) 2.5 (b) 3 (c) 3.5 (d) 5 4. A car did a journey in t hours. Had the average speed been
2. A sum of money was invested at simple interest at a certain x kmph greater, the journey would have taken y hours less.
rate for 5 years. Had it been invested at a 5% higher rate, it How long was the journey? [CDS-2020-II]
would have fetched `500 more. What was the principal (a) x (t – y) ty (b) x (t – y) ty–1
amount? [CDS-2021-I] (c) x (t – y) ty–2 (d) x (t + y) ty
(a) `2,000 (b) `1,800 5. A train travels 600 km in 5 hours and the next 900 km in
(c) `1,600 (d) `1,200 10 hours. What is the average speed of the train?
3. The difference between the compound interest [CDS-2021-I]
(compounded annually) and the simple interest on a certain (a) 80 km/hr. (b) 90 km/hr.
sum of money at 12% per annum for 2 years is `72. What is (c) 100 km/hr. (d) 120 km/hr.
the principal amount? [CDS-2021-I]
4
(a) `6,500 (b) `6,000 6. Walking at th of his usual speed, a man is 12 minutes
5
(c) `5,500 (d) `5,000
late for his office. What is the usual time taken by him to
Profit and Loss cover that distance? [CDS-2021-I]
(a) 48 minutes (b) 50 minutes
1. A shopkeeper sells his articles at their cost price but uses
a faulty balance which reads 1000 gm for 800 gm. What is (c) 54 minutes (d) 60 minutes
the actual profit percentage? [CDS-2020-II] 7. A train 200 m long passes a platform 100 m long in 10
(a) 20% (b) 25% (c) 30% (d) 40% seconds. What is the speed of the train? [CDS-2021-I]
2. If a television set is sold at `x, a loss of 28% would be (a) 40 m/s (b) 30 m/s
incurred. If it is sold at `y, a profit of 12% would be incurred. (c) 25 m/s (d) 20 m/s
What is the ratio of y to x? [CDS-2020-II]
Time & Work
(a) 41 : 9 (b) 31 : 9
(c) 23 : 9 (d) 14 : 9 1. If x men working x hours per day can do x units of work in
3. A person sold an article for ` 75 which cost him ` x. He x day, then y men working y hours per day in y days would
finds that he realised x% profit on his outlay. What is x be able to do k units of work. What is the value of k?
equal to ? [CDS-2020-II] [CDS-2020-II]
(a) 20% (b) 25% (c) 50% (d) 100% (a) x 2 y –3 (b) x 3 y –2
4. The cost price of 100 mangoes is equal to the selling price (c) y 2 x –3 (d) y 3 x –2
of 80 mangoes. What is the profit percentage? 2. If 20 persons can clean 20 floors in 20 days, then in how
[CDS-2021-I] many days can 16 persons clean 16 floors? [CDS-2021-I]
(a) 16% (b) 20% (c) 24% (d) 25% (a) 25 days (b) 24 days
(c) 20 days (d) 16 days
Time , Speed and Distance 3. Let the work done by (x – 1) men in (x + 1) days be y. Let the
1. A train of length 110 m is moving at a uniform speed of 132 work done by (x + 2) men in (x – 1) days be z. If y : z = 9 : 10,
km/hr. The time required to cross a bridge of length 165 m then what is the value of x? [CDS-2021-I]
is [CDS-2020-II] (a) 8 (b) 9 (c) 10 (d) 12
(a) 6.5 seconds (b) 7 seconds
Logarithm
(c) 7.5 seconds (d) 8.5 seconds
2. By increasing the speed of his car by 15 km/hr, a person 1. If 63–4x 4x+5 = 8 (Given log102 = 0.301 and log10 3 = 0.477),
covers a distance of 300 km by taking an hour less than then which one of the following is correct?
before. What was the original speed of the car? [CDS-2020-II]
[CDS-2020-II] (a) 0 < x < 1 (b) 1 < x < 2
(a) 45 km/hr (b) 50 km/hr (c) 2 < x < 3 (d) 3 < x < 4
(c) 60 km/hr (d) 75 km/hr 2. The Euclidean algorithm is used to calculate the
3. X, Y and Z travel from the same place with uniform speeds [CDS-2020-II]
4 km/hr, 5 km/hr and 6 km/hr. respectively. Y starts 2 hours (a) square root of an integer
after X. How long after Y must Z start in order that they (b) cube root of an integer
overtake X at the same instant? [CDS-2020-II] (c) square of an integer
(d) HCF of two integer
