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Q1. Kavya purchased an item of Rs.46000 and sold it at loss of 12%. With that amount she purchased another item and sold it at a gain of 12%. What was her overall gain/loss?
Correct answer : 1
Q2. Two cyclists start from the same place in opposite direction. One goes towards north at 18 Kmph and other goes south at 20 Kmph. What time will they take to be 47.5 km apart?
Correct answer : 1
Q3. Perimeter of a circular sector is 25 cm and the radius is 7 cm. The length of the arc is ........
Correct answer : 2
Q4. The price of cooking oil has increased by 25%. The percentage of reduction that a family should effect in the use of cooking oil so as not to increase the expenditure on his account is .....
Correct answer : 2
Q5. A began a business with Rs.4500/- and was joined afterwards by B with Rs.3000/-. When did B join if the profit at the end of the year was divided in the ratio of 2:1?
Correct answer : 2
Q6. In a 5 litre mixture of water and alcohol, the percentage of alcohol is 60%. How much water should be added to it so that the percentage of alcohol becomes 25%?
Correct answer : 3
Q7. A woman travels 1 mile due East, then 5 miles due south, then 2 miles due East and finally 9 miles due north. How far is she in miles from the starting point?
Correct answer : 2
Q8. Sneha invests 15% of her monthly salary in insurance and spends 55% of her monthly salary in shopping and on household expenses. She saves the remaining amount of Rs.12,750. What is Sneha's monthly income?
Correct answer : 1
Q9. The sum, at which the compound interest at 5% per annum for 2 years be Rs.410, is
Correct answer : 2
Q10. If the difference between the present age of A and B is 20 years, and 16 years ago the ratio of their ages was 2:1 respectively then after 12 years what will be the age of B?
Correct answer : 4
Q11. Two places A and B are 100 Km apart on a highway. One car starts from A and another from B at the same time. If the cars travel in the same direction at a constant speed, they meet in 5 hrs. If the cars travel towards each other, they meet in 1 Hr. What is the speed of the car running faster?
Correct answer : 1
Q12. 8 men and 4 women work together can complete a piece of work in 6 days.Work done by a man in one day is double the work done by a woman in one day. If 8 men and 4 women started working and after 2 days, 4 men left and 4 new women joined, in how many more days will the work be completed?
Correct answer : 2
Q13. What is the greater of two numbers whose product is 1092 and the sum of the two numbers exceeds their difference by 42?
Correct answer : 3
Q14. A sum of money placed at compound interest doubles itself in 4 years. In how many years will it amount to four times itself>
Correct answer : 4
Q15. Rahul sold a book at a profit of 12%. Had he sold it for Rs.18 more he would have gained 18%. Find the cost price?
Correct answer : 1
Q16. 21 binders can bind 1400 books in 15 days. How many binders will be required to bind 800 books in 20 days?
Correct answer : 2
Q17. The sum of the two digits of a two digit number is 12 and the difference between the two digits of the two digits number is 6. What is the two digit number?
Correct answer : 4
Q18. The ages of Punitha, Anitha and Kavitha are in the ratio of 7:10:4 respectively. If the sum of their ages is 42 years, what is Kavitha's age?
Correct answer : 4
Q19. In a store there are 1880 pens. Twenty five percent of the pens are blue, fifteen per cent are red, twenty percent are green and remaining are black. What is the total number of black and green pens?
Correct answer : 3
Q20. Express 0.3% as a decimal
Correct answer : 2
Q21. A train crossed a platform in 43 seconds. The length of the train is 170 mtrs. What is the speed of the train?
Correct answer : 4
Q22. The total number of students studying in a school is 6754. The ratio of the total number of girls to the total number of boys studying in the school is 5:6. What is the total number of boys studying in the school?
Correct answer : 1
Q23. Three machines P, Q and R working together can do a job in X hours. When working alone, P needs an additional 6 hours to do the job. Q, one additional hour and R, x additional hours. The value of x is.....
Correct answer : 1
Q24. Find the simple interest on Rs.625 at 6.5% per annum for 2.5 years?
Correct answer : 3
Q25. By how much is 4/5th of 1150 is less than 5/6th of 1248?
Correct answer : 2
Q26. Ram purchased a bike for Rs.54000/-. He sold it at a loss of 8%. With that money he again purchased another bike and sold it at a profit of 10%. What is his over all loss/profit?
Correct answer : 4
Q27. A book contains 50 leaves. On Each page there are 20 lines and in each line there are 10 words. Find the total number of words in the book?
Correct answer : 4
Q28. If the height of a cone is increased by 100% then its volume increases by..
Correct answer : 1
Q29. 9 trucks are required to transport 10,800 kg of goods. How many trucks will be required to transport 8,400 kg of goods?
Correct answer : 3
Q30. P:4 = 12:21 implies that P equals ......
Correct answer : 3
Q31. A certain sum of money at simple interest amounts to Rs.1260 in 2 years and to Rs.1350 in 5 years. The rate per cent per annum is,,,,,
Correct answer : 1
Q32. The length of a rectangular room is 16 feet and the breadth is 3/4 of the length. The total cost of putting a wall to wall carpet in the room was Rs.10560, what was the per square feet cost of carpetting?
Correct answer : 4
Q33. A trader marks his goods at such a price that after allowing a discount of 15% he makes a profit of 20%. Find the marked price of an article which cost him Rs.850.
Correct answer : 3
Q34. Kandan scored a total of 455 marks out of 800 marks in an examination. What was his approximate percentage in the examination?
Correct answer : 4
Q35. A train X speeding with 110 Km/Hr crosses another train Y running in the same direction in 1 minute and 30 seconds. If the lengths of the trains X and Y are of 140 m and of 160 m respectively, what is the speed of the train Y?
Correct answer : 2
Q36. A train of 106 m long, moving at a speed of 60 Km/Hr crosses a train of 114 m long coming from the opposite direction in 6 seconds. Find out the speed of the train.
Correct answer : 3
Q37. Two trains, one of 185 m long and the other of 165 m long are running on parallel rails at the rate of 60 Km/Hr and 65 Km/Hr respectively. How much time will they take to cross each other, if they running in the same direction?
Correct answer : 4
Q38. Kamala has 60 one rupee currency notes which bear numbers in order. If the number of the first note is 7575, what will be the number of the last note?
Correct answer : 2
Q39. The ratio of the length and the breadth of a rectangular plot is 7:6. The perimeter of the plot is 208 metres. What is the area of the rectangular plot?
Correct answer : 1
Q40. If the numerator of a fraction is increased by 200% and the denominator of the fraction is increased by 150%, the resultant fraction is 9/35. What is the original fraction?
Correct answer : 4
Q41. A train of 200 m long takes 25 seconds to cross a platform of length 350 m. Compute the speed of the train in m/sec.
Correct answer : 2
Q42. A man sold 60 chairs and had a gain equal to that of the selling price of 20 chairs. Find out the profit percentage.
Correct answer : 3
Q43. 33% marks are required to pass an examination. A candidate who gets 210 marks fails by 21 marks. What is the total mark in the examination?
Correct answer : 3
Q44. A train of 400 m long crossed a platform of 500 m long in 1 minute and 30 seconds. Calculate the speed of the train in Km/Hr.
Correct answer : 3
Q45. A train running at 7/11 of its own speed reached a place in 22 hours. How much time could be saved if the train would run at its own speed?
Correct answer : 1
Q46. A man gets a simple interest of Rs.1000 on a certain principal at the rate of 5% p.a. in 4 years. What compound interest will the man get on twice the principal in two years at the same rate?
Correct answer : 3
Q47. The mean of 50 numbers is 30. Later it was discovered that two entries were wrongly entered as 82 and 13 instead of 28 and 31. Find the correct mean?
Correct answer : 3
Q48. A train of 75 m long passes a platform of 85 m long in 10 seconds. Calculate the speed of the train.
Correct answer : 2
Q49. 16 cylindrical cans, each with a radius of 1 unit, and placed inside a card board box four in a row. If the cans touch the adjacent cans and/or the walls of the box, then which of the following could be the interior area of the bottom of the box in square units?
Correct answer : 3
Q50. The simple interest accrued in four years on a principal of Rs.20000 is one tenth of the principal. What is the rate of simple interest p.a?