Mathematics - MOST IMPORTANT SSC MTS Previous Year Questions
Practice real questions from previous year exams of SSC MTS.
📘 Percentage Error in Calculations📚 Wrong Multiplier Instead of Correct Multiplier
Q1
A man multiplied a number by 5/4 instead of 4/5. What is the percentage error in the calculation?
🎯 SSC MTS 13/06/2023 (Shift-02)
📘 Percentage Change in Geometry📚 Percentage Change in 2D Area — Square, Rectangle, Triangle, Circle
Q2
If the radius of a sphere is increased by 16⅔%, then by what per cent would its surface area increase?
🎯 SSC MTS 27/10/2021 (Shift-02)
📘 Successive Percentage Change📚 Find Original Given Net Effect and Changes
Q3
An employee gets two successive increments. His salary becomes 2.5 times the initial salary. If the second increment was 4 times the first, what was the first percentage increment?
🎯 SSC MTS 18/10/2021 (Shift-02)
📘 Price Consumption and Expenditure📚 Price Decrease Increase Consumption Same Expenditure
Q4
If price is decreased by 25%, then by how much percentage should consumption be increased so that expenditure remains the same?
🎯 SSC MTS 11/05/2023 (Shift-01)
📘 Successive Percentage Change📚 Three or More Successive Changes Net Effect
Q5
The strength of a school increases and decreases every alternate year by 20%. It started with an increase in the year 2015 and the initial strength was 3000. Find the strength of the school in the year 2017 and also the percentage of increase in strength, respectively.
🎯 SSC MTS 05/09/2023 (Shift-02)
📘 Income Expenditure and Savings📚 Percentage Change in Savings with Simultaneous Income and Expenditure Change
Q6
Suresh could save 20% of his income. But 4 years later, when his income increased by 40%, he could save the same amount only as before. By how much percentage did his expenditure increase?
🎯 SSC MTS 14/09/2023 (Shift-02)
📘 Percentage Comparison More or Less📚 Chain Percentage Relations to Find Ratio
Q7
A is 25% more than B, and B is 40% less than C. If C is 20% more than D, then by what percentage is A less than D?
🎯 SSC MTS 06/09/2023 (Shift-02)
📘 Successive Percentage Change📚 Two Successive Increases Net Effect
Q8
The price of an article increases by 20% every year. If the difference between the price of the article at the end of the third year and at the end of the fourth year is 324, what is the price of the article at the end of the second year?
🎯 SSC MTS 08/10/2021 (Shift-02)
📘 Reverse Percentage📚 Finding Original Value After Multiple Successive Changes
Q9
Mr. Stark gave 30% of the money he had to Bruce. He also gave 30% of the remaining amount to each of Natasha, Captain and Vision. Half of the remaining amount he spent on miscellaneous items, and the remaining amount of Rs.14,000 he deposited in Marvel's Fund. How much money did Mr. Stark initially have?
🎯 SSC MTS 20/07/2022 (Shift-02)
📘 Reverse Percentage📚 Finding Original Value After Multiple Successive Changes
Q10
Aman gave 30% of his monthly income to his father and of the remaining income he gave 30% to his daughter and 25% to his wife. Aman invested the amount of money still remaining from his monthly income equally in three schemes. If he invested Rs.42,000 in each scheme, what is Aman's monthly income (in thousand)?
🎯 SSC MTS 25/07/2022 (Shift-03)
📘 Ratio and Percentage Combined📚 Applying Percentage to Ratio Components
Q11
Vikas gave 3 examinations. The respective ratio of marks scored by him in the 3 examinations is 3:5:6. The respective ratio of maximum marks of the 3 examination is 7:11:10. If he scored 50% marks in total, then in how many examination has he scored marks more than 50%?
🎯 SSC MTS 13/06/2023 (Shift-02)
📘 Standard Deviation and Variance📚 Variance Calculations
Q12
If the variance of 5 value is 0.81 , then what is its standard deviation?
🎯 SSC MTS 26/10/2021 (Shift-01)
📘 Basic Algebraic Expansions📚 Misc
Q13
If $(x-2)$ is a factor of $\left(2 x^{2}+12 \mathrm{kc} x-\right.$ 25 k ), then what is the value of k ?
🎯 SSC MTS 01/09/2023 (Shift-02)
📘 Basic Average Computation📚 Misc
Q14
In a subject, there are 40 marks for practical and 110 marks for theory. In another subject, the practical marks are 60 and the theory marks are 40. If $R$ gets an average mark of 40 in practical and an average mark of 60 in theory, then his average marks per subject are
$\_\_\_\_$ .
🎯 SSC MTS 12/09/2023 (Shift-03)
📘 Basic Average Computation📚 Average of Given Numbers (Direct Formula)
Q15
Consider ten consecutive odd numbers starting from 5 . Multiply each of them, except the first and the second, with three. What will be the average of the ten numbers so formed?
🎯 SSC MTS 05/10/2021 (Shift-01)
📘 Average of Number Sequences and Consecutive Numbers📚 First n Natural Numbers
Q16
The average of the first 69 natural numbers is:
🎯 SSC MTS 04/09/2023 (Shift-01)
📘 Average of Number Sequences and Consecutive Numbers📚 First n Natural Numbers
Q17
What is the average of natural numbers from 1 to 73 ?
🎯 SSC MTS 13/09/2023 (Shift-03)
📘 Average of Number Sequences and Consecutive Numbers📚 First n Odd Numbers
Q18
The average of 7 consecutive odd numbers is A. If next 3 and previous 2 odd numbers to these 7 odd numbers are also included, then what is the new average of these 12 consecutive odd numbers?
🎯 SSC mts 05/05/2023 (Shift-02)
📘 Person Inclusion and Exclusion📚 New Person Joins - Average Increases/Decreases
Q19
The average age of the boys in the class was 16 years. When 4 boys whose average age was 13 years are admitted to the class, the average age of the class was reduced by 6 months. How many boys were there initially in the class?
🎯 SSC MTS 12/09/2023 (Shift-01)
📘 Weighted Average, Partial Averages and Overlapping Groups📚 Two Groups with Known Averages and Ratio of Counts
Q20
In a group of 108 persons, the ratio of the number of males and females is $5: 4$. The average height of the males is 158.7 cm and that of the females is $\times \mathrm{cm}$. If the average height of all the persons in the group is 155.5 cm , then the value of x is:
🎯 SSC mts 27/10/2021 (Shift-02)