ibps-so 2016 · Question 109 of 394

Two o cers of a branch set out at one and the same moment from one and the same point upon a circular jogging track 400 metres round, and run round it in the same direction without stopping, the one at a uniform 5 metres a second and the other at a uniform 3 metres a second. After what interval of time, reckoned from the start, will the two of them be together again at the point from which they started?

1. A200 seconds
2. B300 seconds
3. C400 secondsCorrect
4. D480 seconds
5. E600 seconds Directions (Q110–Q114) : A bank that has of late pushed its lending against the pledge of gold ornaments has called for a return from the ve branches of one district, showing the business booked under that head during the quarter last closed. Study the table given below with care and answer the questions that follow it. The second column gives, for each branch, the number of gold loan accounts sanctioned during the quarter; the third gives the average net weight of the ornaments pledged in a single account at that branch; and the last gives the loan-to-value ratio which the branch applied, that is to say the proportion of the assessed value of the ornaments which it in fact advanced. Throughout the quarter, and at every one of the ve branches alike, the ornaments tendered were assessed at the uniform rate of ₹2,500 the gram of net weight, no allowance being made at any branch for the making charges or for the stones; and every account sanctioned at a branch is to be taken to have carried the average weight and the loan-to-value ratio stated against that branch. Number of gold loan Average net weight of Loan-to-value ratio applied accounts sanctioned ornaments pledged in one by the branch (per cent of during the quarter account (grams) the assessed value) Chittoor 1,200 24 70 Dharmavaram 900 32 75 Guntakal 1,500 20 65 Kadiri 800 45 80 Madanapalle 1,100 28 72 Branch