One of the most important topics in the quantitative aptitude section which can fetch the candidates good and qualifying marks and increase their overall marks in the quantitative aptitude section is simplification. This topic carries a good weightage of marks and can boost your chance of getting selected. Candidates must learn and solve the questions from simplification and focus on their accuracy and speed to score good marks. In this article we will be discussing some of the most important Simplification questions, which are specially curated by our experts who have years of experience in banking exams. Candidates who are appearing for the upcoming banking exams like IBPS PO Prelims , must practise this topic to ace in the quantitative aptitude section
Tricks To Solve Simplification Questions
1 Learn the basics first as it will help you to increase your speed. Some of the things that you have to learn and practice on a daily basis are :
- Learn Tables up to 25
- Learn Cubes up to 25
- Learn Squares up to 25
- Learn Fractions up to 25
- Solve the simplification by using VBODMAS rule i.e
V → Vinculum
B → Remove Brackets – in the order ( ) , { }, [ ]
O → Of
D → Division
M → Multiplication
A → Addition
S → Subtraction
Given the above topics will help you to easily solve this topic in much lesser time with more accuracy.
2. It is important for a candidate to solve at least 10-20 questions on a daily basis and try to do most of the everyday calculations on your own. Try to randomly solve higher and bigger digits in its shorter form. You can check the Cricket Scores that are quite big in numbers, and try to perform Average, Subtraction, Multiplications etc. You can only increase your calculation by practice as much as you can.
3. There are the different trick to solve questions on Simplification and Approximation. Learn from the Adda247 experts or you can also develop your own methods to reduce the efforts and calculation of a question.
4. There is no substitute of practice and as the saying goes that the more you practice, the better you become. It is with the help of practice that the candidate, at times, are able to find the correlation in some calculations, can observe a pattern and might develop a few tips and tricks on his own to solve that particular question.
Now let’s take some of the questions:
Q1. 3.2% of 500 × 2. 4% of ? = 288
(a) 650
(b) 700
(c) 600
(d) 750
(e) 850
S1. Ans.(d)
Sol. 16 × 2.4
100 ? = 288
? = 750
Q2. (–251 × 21 × (– 12)) ÷ ? = 158.13
(a) 250
(b) 400
(c) 300
(d) 15
(e) 18
S2. Ans.(b)
Sol. (−251 × 21 × (−12))÷?= 15813
100
? = 400
Q3. [(𝟏𝟑𝟎)𝟐 ÷ 𝟐𝟓 × 𝟏𝟓] ÷ 𝟑𝟎 = ?
(a) 352
(b) 314
(c) 326
(d) 338
(e) 426
S3. Ans.(d)
Sol. ? = [ 130 × 130 ÷25 × 15]1/30 = 338
Q4. √√𝟒𝟗𝟎𝟎 + √𝟓𝟒𝟕𝟔= ?
(a) 576
(b) 144
(c) 256
(d) 16
(e) 12
S4. Ans.(e)
Sol.? = √√4900 + √5476 = √70 + 74 = √144 = 12
Q5. (6.5% of 375) – (0.85% of 230) =?
(a) 23.42
(b) 24.24
(c) 21.64
(d) 25.76
(e) 22.42
S5. Ans.(e)
Sol. ? = 24.375 − 1.955 = 22.420
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