# GRE® Ratios Questionbank

#### GRE Sample Questions - Mixtures | Fractions | Percents | Profits | Interest

This webpage contains GRE sample questions from Percentages, Fractions, Decimal fractions, Profit & Loss, Discounts and Simple & Compound interest. Concepts tested in GRE Quant include questions equating percentage of a quantity to its value, percentage increase in value, percentage decrease in value, questions with data only in terms of percentage, computing cost price, selling price, percentage profit, percentage discount and profit or loss made, computing simple interest, compound interest, finding amount at the end of a period and computing amount invested at the beginning of a period.

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1. If the ratio of the ages of two friends A and B is 3 : 5 and that of B and C is 3 : 5 and the sum of the ages of all 3 friends is 147, how old is B?

1. 15 Years
2. 75 Years
3. 49 Years
4. 45 Years
5. 27 Years
Approach to solve this GRE Ratios sample question

Step 1: Compute ratio of ages of A : B : C by equating numerical value of B in the ratios A : B and B : C
Step 2: Equate sum of ages measured in terms of ratio to 147 to find the factor
Step 3: Compute age of B

2. In a certain year, California extracted $$frac{2}{7}$th and Texas extracted $\frac{1}{7}$th of all the Uranium ore extracted in the United States. If all the other states combined extracted 28 million tons that year, how many million tons did Texas extract that year? 1. 12 2. 7 3. 14 4. 5 5. 8 Approach to solve this GRE Fractions practice question Let 'U' be the total quantity of uranium extracted in the United States in the year. Step 1: Compute fraction extracted by California and Texas. Step 2: Compute fraction extracted by all the other states in terms of U and equate it to 28 mn to find U Step 3: Compute quantity extracted by Texas. #### GRE Online Course - QuantTry it free! Register in 2 easy steps and Start learning in 5 minutes! #### Already have an Account? ##### Where is Wizako located? Wizako - GMAT, GRE, SAT Prep An Ascent Education Initiative 14B/1 Dr Thirumurthy Nagar 1st Street Nungambakkam Chennai 600 034. India ##### How to reach Wizako? Phone:$91) 44 4500 8484
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