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How to prepare for the mathematical reasoning questions for competitive exams? Like the below, what is the answer for it? How to solve it?

Hukum secured 32% marks in IAS exam and failed by 12 marks and sidherth secured 42% .marks and got 28 marks more then the required marks. Find the maximum marks?

Originally Posted by Prakash7835

How to prepare for the mathematical reasoning questions for competitive exams? Like the below, what is the answer for it? How to solve it?

Hukum secured 32% marks in IAS exam and failed by 12 marks and sidherth secured 42% .marks and got 28 marks more then the required marks. Find the maximum marks?

For solving questions related to mathematical reasoning, you need to be creative(imaginative) and view the same things from different point of views. Also you must not forget the very basic concepts of the mathematics.
In the question above we can apply the very basic concept of linear equations as shown below:
Let maximum marks be x, then above problem can be viewed as
.32x + 12 = p and
.42x - 28 = p
here p stands for pass marks
then subtracting above two equations, we get x = 400. so maximum marks are 400.