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Q1. A worker reaches his factory 3 minutes late if his speed from his house to the factory is 5 km/hr. If he walks at a speed of 6 km/hr, then he reaches the factory 7 minutes early. The distance of the factory is ......
Q2. A rectangular water tank measures 15 m x 6 m at top and is 10 m deep. It is full of water. If water is drawn out lowering the level by 1 metre, how much water has been drawn out>
Q3. An accurte clock shows 8 O' clock in the morning. Through how many degrees will the four hand rotate when the clock shows 2 O' clock in the afternoon?
Q4. The monthly income of Kamal and Asha are in the ratio of 4:3. Their monthly expenses are in the ratio of 3:2. However, both save Rs.600 per month. What is their total monthly income?
Q5. In a class there 18 boys who are over 160 cm tall. If these boys constitute three fourths of the boys and the total number of boys and the total number of boys is two thirds of the number of students in the class, then what is the number of girls in the class?
Q6. In an examination, every candidate took Physics or Mathematics or both. 65.8% took Physics and 59.2% took Mathematics. The total number of candidates was 2000. How many candidates took both Physics and Mathematics?
Q7. Which one of the following has a greater perimeter than the rest?
Q8. A Club has 108 members. Two thirds of them are men and the rest are women. All members are married except for 9 women members. How many married women are there in the club?
Q9. A person starts from a point A and travels 3 km eastwards to B and then turns left and travels thrice that distance to reach C. He again turns left and travels five times the distance he covered between A and B and reaches his destination D. The shortest distance between the starting point and the destination is ......
Q10. What is the maximum number of pieces of 5 cm x 5 cm x 10 cm cake that can be cut from a big cake of 5 cm x 30 cm x 30 cm size?
Q11. A rectangular piece of iron sheet measuring 50 cm x 100 cm is rolled into a cylinder of height 50 cm. If the cost of painting the cylinder is Rs.50 per suare metre, then what will be the cost of painting the outer surface of the cylinder?
Q12. A man is standing on the 8m long shadow of a 6 m long pole. If the length of his shadow is 2.4 m, what is the height of the man?
Q13. If the angles of a triangle are in the ratio of 4 : 3 : 2, then the triangle ....
Q14. A hemi-spherical bowl is filled to the brim with a beverage. The contents of the bowl are transferred into a cylindrical vessel whose radius is 50% more than its height. If the dimeter is same for both the bowl and the cylinder, then the volume of the beverage in the cylindrical vessel will be .......
Q15. At a given time, two players are standing on a play-field. The Cartesian coordinates of their locations are (20, 60) and (-40, -20) units. What is the distance between them?
Q16. The area of ana ellipse is twice that of a circle. The major diameter of the ellipse is twice that of the minor diameter. The radius of the circle is ..........
Q17. The average speed of a train in the onward journey is 25% more than that of the return journey. The train halts for one hour on reaching the destination,. The total time taken for the complete to and fro journey is 17 hours covering a distance of 800 km. The speed of the train in the onward journey is .......
Q18. In a town, 25% families own a phone and 15% own a car and 65% families own neither a phone nor a car. 2000 families own both a car and a phone. Consider the following statements in this regard. (1) 10% families own both a car and a phone. (2) 35% families own either a car or phone. (3) 40000 families live in the town. Which of these statements are correct?
Q19. A man purchases two clocks A and B at a total cost of Rs.650. He sells A with 20% profit and B at a loss of 25% and gets the same selling price for both the clocks. What are the purchasing prices of A and B respectively?
Q20. If 15 pupmps of equal capacity can fill a tank in 7 days, then how many extra pumps will be required to fill lthe tank in 5 days?
Q21. Out of the three annual examinations, each with a total of 500 marks, a student secured average marks of 45% and 55% in the first and second annual examinations. To have an overall average of 60% how many marks does the student need to secure in the third annual examination?
Q22. One local and another express train were proceeding in the same direction on parallel tracks at 29 km/hour and 65 km/hour respectively. The driver of the former noticed that it took exactly 16 seconds for the faster train to pass by him. What is the length of the faster train?
Q23. In a family a couple has a son and a daughter. The age of the father is three times that of his daughter and the age of the son is half of his mother. The wife is nine years younger to her husband and the brother is seven years older than his sister. What is the age of the mother?
Q24. What is the missing fraction in the series .. 4/9, 9/20, ..... , 39/86?
Q25. There are 50 students admitted to a nursery class. Some students can speak only English and some can speak only Hindi. Ten students can speak both English and Hindi. If the number of students who can speak English is 21, then how many students cn speak Hindi, how many can speak only Hindi and How many can speak only English?
Q26. In a group of persons travelling in a bus, 6 persons can speak Tamil, 15 can speak Hindi and 6 can speak Gujarati. In that group none can speak any other language. If 2 persons in the group can speak two languages and one person can speak all the three languages, then how many persons are there in the group?
Q27. A boat which has a speed of 5 km/hr is in still water crosses a river of width 1 km along the shortest possible path in 15 minutes. The velocity of the river water in km/hr is
Q28. The number of times in a day the hour hand and the minute hand of a clock are at right angles is ......
Q29. The average monthly income of a person in a certain family of 5 is Rs.1000. What will be the monthly average income of a person in the same family if the income of one person is increased by Rs.12000 per year?
Q30. There are three drawers in a table. One contains two gold coins, another two silver coins, and the third, a silver coin and a gold coin. One of the drawers is pulled out and a coin is taken out. It turns out to be a silver coin. What is the probability of drawing a gold coin, if one of the other two drawers is pulled out next and one of the coins in its is drawn at random?
Q31. If the numbers representing volume and surface area of a cube are equal, then the length of the edge of the cube in terms of the unit of measurement will be ......
Q32. The length, breadth and height of a room are 'l' , 'b' and 'h' respectively. The perimeter of the ceiling expressed as a percentage of the total area of the four walls is ......
Q33. If the price of a television set is incresed by 25%, then by wht percentage should the new price be reduced to bring the price back to the original level?
Q34. In an accurate clock, in a period of 2 hrs and 20 minutes, the minute hand will move over ....
Q35. A man starts walking in the northeasterly direction from a particular point. After walking a distance of 500 metres, he turns southward and walks a distance of 400 metres. At the end of this walk, he is situated.....
Q36. Two important characteristics of a hypothesis are that it should be testable and that it should be stated in a manner that it can be refuted. Which one of the following hypothesis, fulfills these characteristics?
Q37. A rectangular sum pf dimension 6 m X 5 m X 4 m is to be built by using bricks to make the outer dimention 6.2 m X 5.2 m X 4.2 m. Approximately how many brickes of size 20 cm X 10 cm X 5 cm are required to build the sump for storing water?
Q38. A thief running at 8 km/hr is chased by a policeman whose speed is 10 km/hr. If the thief is 100 metres ahead of the policeman, then the time required for the policeman to catch the thief will be
Q39. A person earns Rs.2000 per month over and above his salary as additional charge allowance. However, 30% of this additional income will be deducted as additional income tax at source. If the erson would deposit Rs.1000 per month on a long term savings fetching 12% interest, his tax liability on the additional allowance would reduce to 10%. What is the effective interest for this person for money invested in the long term savings scheme?
Q40. A student has 60% chance of passing in English and 54% chance of passing in both English and Mathematics. What is the percentage probability that he will fail in Mathematics?
Q41. A table has three drawers. It is known that one of the drawers contains two silver coins, another contains two gold coins and the third one contains a silver coin and a gold coin. One of the drawers is opened at random and a coin is drawn. It is found to be a silver coin. What is the probability that the other coin in the drawer is a gold coin?
Q42. In track meets both 100 yards and 100 metres are used as distances. By how many metres is 100 metres longer than 100 yards?
Q43. Sound waves travel at 300 m/s. Sound produced at a point is heard by a person after 5 seconds while the same sound is heard by another person after 6 seconds. What could be the maximum and minimum distances between the two persons?
Q44. The surface area of a sube is 216 Sq.m. What is its volume?
Q45. If Rs.1000 is invested at 12% interest and interest is compounded half yearly, what will be total amount at the end of one year?
Q46. Two persons start walking at a steady pace of 3 km/hr from a road intersection along two roads that make an angle of 60 degree with each other. What will be the (shortest) distance separating them at the end of 20 minutes?
Q47. Which one of the following figures will generate a cone when rotated about one of its straight edges?
Q48. Ram and Shyam work on a job together for four days and complete 60% of it. Ram takes leave then and Shyam works for eight more days to complete the job. How long would Ram take to complete the entire job alone?
Q49. The square root of the cube of this number is the cube of its square root. It is not 1 and it is less than 6. What is it?
Q50. Ten per cent of twenty plus twenty per cent of ten equals .....