A person was asked to subtract 25% of a number from the original but he subtracted 25 from the number. His answer was 25 more than correct one. What was the original number?

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1. Taimoor left for his school at 6 am by foot and walked at the rate of 2 kmph. After reaching his school he found it was closed and immediately turned back and started walking back to his home at 3 kmph. If he reached his home at 9 am, find the distance between his school and his home.

   A. 2.5 km
   B. 7.2 km
   C. 7 km
   D. 3.6 km

2. In a question paper, there are four multiple choice type questions, each question has five choices with only one choice for it’s correct answer. What is the total number of ways in which a candidate will not get all the four answers correct?

   A. 19
   B. 120
   C. 624
   D. 1024

3. A person walking at 5/6th of his usual speed is 40 minutes late to his office. What is his usual travel time to his office?

   A. 3 hours 20 minutes
   B. 3 hours 15 minutes
   C. 3 hours 30 minutes
   D. 3 hours

4. A person spends 1/5th of his income on the education of his children, and 20% of the remaining on food. If he is left with Rs.576 find his income?

   A. Rs.900
   B. Rs.800
   C. Rs.500
   D. Rs.1000

5. Bilal spends 45% of his monthly income on household items, 25% of his monthly income on buying cloths, 7.5% of his monthly income on medicines and saves the remaining amount which is Rs. 9000. Find his monthly income.

   A. Rs. 40000
   B. Rs. 36000
   C. Rs. 50000
   D. Rs. 45000
   E. None of these

6. If Afnan drives at 4/5th of his usual speed to his office, he is 6 minutes late. What is his usual time to reach his office?

   A. 36
   B. 24
   C. 30
   D. 18

7. The average height of 35 boys in a class was calculated as 180cm. It has later found that the height of one of the boys in the class was wrongly written as 166 cm whereas his actual height was 106 cm. Find the actual average height of the boys in the class (Round off your answer to two decimal places)?

   A. 179.29 cm
   B. 178.29 cm
   C. 179.38 cm
   D. 178.39 cm

8. The average age of a group of 10 persons was decreased by 3 years when one person, whose age was 42 years, was replaced by a new person. Find the age of the new person?

   A. 22
   B. 24
   C. 12
   D. 8

9. The average salary of a person for the months of January, February, March and April is Rs.8000 and that for the months February, March, April and May is Rs.8500. If his salary for the month of May is Rs.6500, find his salary for the month of January?

   A. 3000
   B. 2500
   C. 4500
   D. 5000

10. A person travels from x to y at a speed of 40Km/h and returns by increasing his speed 50%. What is his average speed for both the trips?

    A. 36km/h
    B. 45km/h
    C. 48km/h
    D. 50km/h