LEVEL 2

1. The sequences x1,x2 ... and y1,y2 … are in arithmetic

progressions such that x1+y1=100 and x22−x21=y99−y100.
Find the sum of the first 100 terms of the progression,
(x1+y1),(x2+y2) …
a. 0 b. 9900
c. 10,000 d. 11,000

3. Common Data Question 2/2

Find the share of the third son.
a. Rs 80,000 b. Rs 1,00,000
c. Rs 120,000 d. Rs 1,50,000
Common information for questions numbered 2 and 3

P divides his property among his four sons A, B,C and D after
donating Rs 20,000 and 10% of his remaining property. The
amounts received by the last three sons are in A.P and the amount
received by the fourth son is equal to the total amount donated. The
first son receives as his share Rs 20,000 more than the share of
second son. The last son received Rs 1 lakh less than the eldest son.

2. Common Data Question 1 / 2

What is the total donation made by P?
a. Rs 55,000 b. Rs 65,000
c. Rs 75,000 d. Rs 80,000

4. In an A.P, the 12th term is 7 times the 2nd term and the 8th
term is 3 more than 10 times the first term. What is
the 5th term of the G.P whose first term is the first term of
A.P and whose common ratio is equal to the common
difference of the A.P.
a. 162 b. 144
c. 156 d. 136

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 Common information for questions numbered 7 and 8

The cost of fuel for running the engine of an army tank is

proportional to the square of the speed and Rs. 64 hour for a
speed of 16 kmph. Other costs amount to Rs. 400 hour. The
tank has to make a journey of 400 km at a constant speed.

7. Common Data Question 1 / 2

The most economical speed for this January is:
5. The total age of some 7 years old and some 5 years old
a. 20 kmph b. 320 kmph
children is 60 years. If I have to select a team from these
c. 35 kmph d. 40 kmph
children such that their total age is 48 years, In how many
ways can it be done?
a. 3 b. 2
c. 1 d. 4

8. Common Data Question 2/2

The total cost for the journey at this most economical speed
6. The digits of a three number are in AP. If the number is
is:
subtracted from the number formed by reversing its digits,
a. Rs 6,000 b. Rs 8,000
the result is 396. What could be the original number?
c. Rs 10,000 d. Rs 11,000
a. 654 b. 135
c. 852 d. 753

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 same number of members on July 2, 2004. If b = 10.5n,
what is the value of r?
a. 2 b. 1.9
c. 1.8 d. 1.7

11.Abhishek had a certain number of Re1 coins, Rs 2 coins and

9. A and B throws one dice for a stake of Rs 11, which is to be Rs 10 coins. If the number of Re 1 coins he had is six times
won by the player who first throws a six. The game ends the number of Rs 2 coins Abhishek had, and the total worth
when the stake is won by A or B. If A has the first throw, of his coins is Rs 160, find the maximum number of Rs 10
then what are their respective expectations? coins Abhishek could have had.
a. 5 and 6 b. 6 and 5 a. 12 b. 10
c. 11 and 10 d. 10 and 11 c. 8 d. 6

12.In a family of husband, wife and a daughter, the sum of the

husband’s age, twice the wife’s age, and thrice the daughter’s
10.On January 1, 2004 two new societies s1 and s2 are formed, age is 85; while the sum of twice the husband’s age, four
each n numbers. On the first day of each subsequent times the wife’s age, and six times the daughter’s age is 170.
month, s1 adds b members while s2 multiples its current It is also given that the sum of five times the husband’s age,
numbers by a constant factor r. Both the societies have the ten times the wife’s age and fifteen times the daughter’s age
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 equals 450. The number of possible solutions, in terms of the
ages of the husband, wife and the daughter, to this problem 14.The currencies in countries X and Y are denoted by Xs. and
is: Ys. respectively. The exchange rate in 1990 was 1 Xs. = 0.6
a. 0 b. 1 Ys. The price level in 2006 in X and Y are 150 and 400
c. 2 d. infinitely many respectively with 1990 as a base of 100. The exchange rate
in 2006, based solely on this purchasing power parity
consideration, is 1 Xs.=
a. 0.225 Ys. b. 0.625 Ys.
c. 1.6 Ys. d. 3.6 Ys.

13.There are 2 mean, 3 women and 1 child in Pradeep’s family

and 1 man, 1 woman and 2 children in Prabhat’s family. The
recommended calorie requirement is- Men: 240, Women: 15.A group of 630 children is arranged in rows for a group
1990, Children: 1800 and for proteins is: Men: 55 gm, photograph session. Each row contains three fewer children
Woman: 45 gm, children: 33 gm. Calculate the total than the row in front of it. What number of rows is not
requirement of calories and proteins for each of the two possible?
families. a. 3 b. 4
a. A: 12300, 278; B: 7900 ,166 b. A: 12400, 300; B: 8000, 167 c. 5 d. 6
c. A: 12300, 278; B: 6600, 200 d. A: 8000, 278; B: 7900, 166

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 c. 72 d. 75

17.Common Data Question 2/3

The minimum number of insects that he kills on any of the
last three days is:
a. 8 b. 7
c. 0 d. 1

Common information for questions numbered 16 to 18

A boy is roaming on the roof of his house observes that the

insects are there in bunches. He found 'p' insects on day 1. On
day two, the number of insects doubled and he takes out 'q'
insects and kills them. On the third day again, the insects left is
doubled and he again takes out 'q' insects and kill them. On the
fourth day also he found the same, insects left is doubled and he
takes out 'q' insects again. He is surprised to find that there are
no insects left on his roof.

16.Common Data Question 1/3 18.Common Data Question 3/3

If the number of insects on the roof, on day 1 is 63, then the The minimum number of insects that he left on day 1 is?
number of insects that they kill on the fourth day is: a. 8 b. 7
a. 63 b. 90 c. 0 d. 6

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 a. 7 b. 6
c. 5 d. 8

19.In a certain water body, 50 fish were caught, tagged and

released to the same water body. A few days later, 50 fish
were caught again, of which 2 were found to have been
21.A number of three digits in base 7, when expressed in base
tagged on previous occasion. If the percent of tagged fish in
9, has its digits reversed in the order. What is the sum of the
the second catch approximates the percent of tagged fish in
digits of the number?
water body, what is the approximate number of fish in the
a. 5 b. 6
water body:
c. 7 d. 8
a. 10,000 b. 625
c. 1250 d. 2500

20.A transport agency has 5 carriers, each of capacity 15

tonnes. The carriers are scheduled such that the first carrier 22.When the index of an exponential expression with a positive
makes a trip every day; the second carrier makes a trip base is doubled, then the expression increases by 700%. If
every second. The third makes a trip every third day and so one of the values that the base cannot have is X which of the
on. Find the maximum number of times in a year that it is following is not a possible value of P?
possible to dispatch a total shipment of 75 tonnes in a single a. 4 b. 8
day. The operation starts on the 7th January 2010 and c. 5 d. 1
continue till the end of the year (31st December 2010)
without any holiday.
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23.If x3−6x2+px+q is exactly divisible by x2−3x+2, then:
a. p+q > 0 and pq > 0 b. p+q > 0 and pq <
0
c. p+q < 0 and pq < 0 d. p+q < 0 and pq >
0 25.Three persons Suresh, Devesh and Prashant were born on
different days in the same year. If the date and month of
birth of Suresh, Devesh and Prashant are numerically equal,
then what could be the minimum difference in the ages of
youngest and oldest in days?
a. 56 b. 60
c. 61 d. 62

24.The mean salary in ICM ltd. was Rs 1500, and the standard
deviation was Rs 400. A year later each employee got a Rs
100 raise. After another year each employee's salary
(including the above mentioned raise) was increased by 20%.
26.N persons stand on the circumference of a circle at distinct
The standard deviation of the current salary is:
points. Each possible pair of persons, not standing next to
a. 460 b. 480
each other, sings a two-minute song one pair after the other.
c. 560 d. None of these
If the total time taken for singing is 28 minutes, what is N?
a. 5 b. 7
c. 9 d. 4

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 29.A saint has a magic pot. He puts one gold ball of radius 1mm
daily inside it for 10 days. If the weight of the first ball is 1 g
and if the radius of a ball inside the pot doubles every day,
how much gold has the saint made due to his magic pot?
27.A small confectioner bought a certain number of pastries a. (230-697)gm b. (230-697)gm
flavoured pineapple, mango and black-forest from the c. (230-717)gm d. (230-717)gm
bakery, giving for each pastry as many rupees as there were
pastry of that kind; altogether he bought 23 pastries and
spent Rs 211; find the number of each kind of pastry that he
bought, if mango pastry are cheaper than pineapple pastry
and dearer than black-forest pastry.
a. {10, 9, 4} b. {11, 9, 3}
c. {10, 8, 5} d. {11, 8, 4}

30.The sum of the reciprocals of the ages of two colleagues is

five times the difference of the reciprocals of their ages. If
28.How many subsets of {1, 2, 3, ... , 11} contains at least one
the ratio of the products of their ages to the sum of their
even integer?
ages is 14.4 : 1, the age (in years) of one of the colleagues
a. 1900 b. 1964
must be between (both inclusive).
c. 1984 d. 2048
a. 20 and 23 b. 23 and 26
c. 26 and 30 d. 30 and 35

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 people per trip. How many people per trip will make the
marginal revenue equal to zero?
1. 1728 b. 576
c. 484 d. 364

31.In a green view apartment, the houses of a row are

numbered consecutively from 1 to 49. Assuming that there is
a value of 'x' such that the sum of the numbers of the houses
preceding the house numbered 'x' is equal to the sum of the
numbers of the houses following it. Then, what will be the
value of 'x'?
33.A man buys Bank's cash certificates every year for a value
a. 21 b. 30
exceeding the last year's purchase by Rs 400. After 24 years,
c. 35 d. 42
he finds that the total value of the certificate purchased by
him is Rs 144,000. What is the value of the certificates
purchased by him in the 13th year?
a. Rs 3820 b. Rs 5400
c. Rs 6200 d. Rs 4530

32.A Metro train from Mumbai to Gurgaon has capacity to board

900 people. The fare charged (in Rs) is defined by the
function: f= (54−X 32)2, where 'x' is the number of the

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34.Ramesh has two examinations on Wednesday - Engineering 35.On May 1, 2007, two organisations (A and B) were formed
Mathematics in the morning Engineering drawing in the with n members each. On the first day of each subsequent
afternoon. He has a fixed amount of time to read the month, m members join A while the number of members in B
textbooks of both these subjects on Tuesday. During this gets multiplied by p. On October 2, 2007, both organisations
time he can read 80 pages of Engineering Mathematics and have the same number of members. If m = 20n, find p?
100 pages of Engineering Drawing. Alternatively, he can also a. 2 b. 3
read 50 pages of Engineering Mathematics and 250 pages of c. 4 d. 5
Engineering Drawing. Assume that the amount of time it
takes to read one page of the textbook of either subject is
constant. Ramesh is confident about Engineering Drawing
and wants to devote full time in reading Engineering
Mathematics. The number of Engineering Mathematics text
book pages he can read on Tuesday is:
a. 500 b. 300
c. 100 d. 60

LEVEL 3
1. F(x) is a fourth order polynomial with integer coefficients and
with no common factor. The roots of F(x) are –2, –1, 1, 2. If
p is a prime number greater than 97, then the largest integer
that divides F(p) for all values of p is:
a. 72 b. 120
c. 240 d. 360

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2. Fortuner, the latest SUV by Toyota Motors, consumes diesel
at the rate of 1400x [(1000X) +x] litres per km, when driven 3. In a cricket match, Team A scored 232 runs without losing a
at the speed of x km per hour. If the cost of diesel is Rs 35 wicket. The score consisted of byes, wides and runs scored
per litre and the driver is paid at the rate of Rs 125 per hour by two opening batsmen: Ram and Shyam. The runs scored
then find the approximate optimal speed (in km per hour) of by the two batsmen are 26 times wides. There are 8 more
Fortuner that will minimize the total cost of the round trip of byes than wides. If the ratio of the runs scored by Ram and
800kms? Shyam is 6:7, then the runs scored by Ram is:
a. 49 b. 55 a. 88 b. 96
c. 50 d. 53 c. 102 d. 112

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4. Three business entities X Ltd, Y Ltd. and Z Ltd, with 4, 3 and
5 employees respectively, merged into XYZ Ltd in order to
jointly raise the capital for setting up a new modern
production plant in Jaipur. After two years, on the question of
management decisions on the new venture at Jaipur, the
employees started adopting differing viewpoints and began to
quarrel among themselves. Given the fact that there is no
quarrel among the employees of the erstwhile (i.e. former) X
Ltd, Y Ltd and Z Ltd, what could be the maximum number of
quarrels that can take place within XYZ Ltd?
a. 31 b. 53 5. PQRSTU is a regular hexagon drawn on the ground. Prashant
c. 47 d. 41 stands at P and he starts jumping from vertex to vertex
beginning from P. From any vertex of the hexagon except S,
which is opposite to A, he may jump to any adjacent vertices.
When he reaches S, he stops. Let Sn be the number of
distinct paths of exactly n jumps ending at S. What is the
value of S2k, where k is an integer?
a. 0 b. 4
c. 2k d. Depends on the
value of k

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 c. 40 d. 42

6. Firoz has a certain amount of money in only Re 1 and Rs 10

notes. The number of Re 1 notes multiplied by the number of
Rs 10 notes is equal to the total money (in Rs) that he has.
The number of Rs 10 notes is less than ten. Which of the
following is a possible figure for the total number of notes he
can have?
a. 18 b. 14
c. 16 d. 20

8. A lock has a code consisting of five distinct letters, from

among the first eleven words of English alphabet. The lock
opens, if any three letters of the code match occurring not in
the same position. What is the least number of five-letter
7. A shop sells two kinds of rolls- egg roll and mutton roll. codes, one should try to be sure that the lock is opened?
Onion, tomato, carrot, chili sauce and tomato sauce are the a. 7 b. 4
additional ingredients. You can have any combination of
c. 6 d. 5
additional ingredients, or have standard rolls without any
additional ingredients subject to the following constraints:
(a) You can have tomato sauce if you have an egg roll, but
not if you have a mutton roll.
(b) If you have onion or tomato or both you can have chilli
sauce, but not otherwise.
How many different rolls can be ordered according to these
rules?
a. 21 b. 33

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9. A total of 15 teams participated in a tournament. Each team get exhausted, Rashid would start borrowing from his friends.
plays with every other team exactly once. A team gets 3 How soon will he start borrowing?
points for a win, 2 points for a draw and 1 point for a loss. a. 10thmonth b. 11thmonth
The team which scored the least got 21 points. The scores of c. 12thmonth d. 13thmonth
all the teams were distinct and at least one match played by
winning team was drawn. Which of the following is always
true for the winning team?
a. It had at least two draws b. It had
maximum of four loss
c. It had a maximum of 9 wins d. All of the above

11.The number of gift pack bought by Dexter is one more than

the price, in rupees, of each gift pack. The amount of Rs 380
which Dexter had, fell short of the required amount. What is
the amount by which he might have fallen short.
a. 20 b. 40
10.Because of the economic slowdown, a multinational company c. 21 d. 10
curtailed some of the allowances of its employees. Rashid,
the marketing manager of the company whose monthly
salary has been reduced to Rs 42,000 is unable to cut more
on his expenditure. He finds that there is a deficit of Rs 2,000
between his earning and expenses in the first month. This
deficit, because of inflationary pressure, will keep on
increasing by Rs 500 every month. Rashid has a saving of Rs
60,000 which will be used to fill the deficit. After his savings
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 original number. If the number of 1 rupee coins now is 50,
the number of 1 rupee and 5 rupee coins originally were:
a. 10, 60 b. 10, 70
c. 10,80 d. None of these

12.In a group, each person has at most two A. No person has

less than three C. Considering all the persons in the group
there are more A than G, more G than B and more B than
persons. Find the minimum number of persons in the groups?
a. 4 b. 5
c. 3 d. 2
PROBABILITY
LEVEL 1
1. A number X is chosen at random from the numbers -3, -2, -
1, 0, 1, 2, 3. What is the probability that |X|<2
a. 5/7 b. 3/7
c. 3/5 d. 1/3

13.Kartik's mother asked him to get the vegetables, milk and

butter from the market and gave him the money in the
denominator of 1 Rupee, 2 Rupee and 5 Rupee coins. Kartik
2. Two brother X and Y appeared for an exam. The probability of
first goes to the grocery shop to buy vegetables. At the
selection of X is 1/7 and that of B is 2/9. Find the probability
grocery shop he gives half of his 5 Rupee coins in return that both of them are selected.
receives the same number of 1 Rupee coins. Next he goes to a. 1/63 b. 2/35
the dairy shop to buy milk and butter and gives all 2 Rupee c. 2/63 d. 9/14
coins and in return get thirty 5 Rupee coins, which increase
the number of five rupee coins by 75% more than the

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3. An urn contains 6red, 5 blue and 2 green marbles. If 2
marbles are picked at random, what is the probability that
5. A bag contains 12 white and 18 black balls. Two balls are
both are red?
drawn in succession without replacement. What is the
a. 6/13 b. 5/26
probability that first is white and second is black?
c. 5/13 d. 7/26
a. 18/145 b. 18/29
c. 36/135 d. 36/145

4. Four dice are thrown simultaneously. Find the probability that

all of them show the same face.
a. 1/216 b. 1/36
c. 4/216 d. 3/216

6. What is the probability that a number selected from numbers

1,2,3,...,30, is prime number, when each of the given
numbers is equally likely to be selected?
a. 9/30 b. 8/30
c. 10/30 d. 11/30

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7. A bag contains 21 toys numbered 1 to 21. A toy is drawn and
then another toy is drawn without replacement. Find the
probability that both toys will show even numbers.
a. 5/21 b. 9/42
c. 11/42 d. 4/21 9. A bag contains 5 red and 3 green balls. Another bag contains
4 red and 6 green balls. If one ball is drawn from each bag.
Find the probability that one ball is red and one is green.
a. 19/20 b. 17/20
c. 8/10 d. 21/40

8. A five-digit number is formed by using digits 1,2,3,4 and 5

without repetition. What is the probability that the number is
divisible by 4?
a. 1/5 b. 5/6
c. 4/5 d. None of these

10. A speaks truth in 75% of cases and B in 80% of cases. In

what percent of cases are they likely to contradict each other
in narrating the same event?
a. 35% b. 5%
c. 45% d. 22.5%

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11. Two cards are drawn from a pack of well shuffled cards. Find
the probability that one is a club and other in King.
a. 1/13 b. 4/13
c. 1/52 d. 1/26

13. A special lottery is to be held to select a student who will live

in the only deluxe room in a hostel. There are 100 Year-III,
150 Year-II and 200 Year-I students who applied. Each Year-
III's name is placed in the lottery 3 times; each Year-II's
name, 2 times and Year-I's name, 1 time. What is the
probability that a Year-III's name will be chosen?
a. 1/8 b. 2/9
c. 2/7 d. 3/8

12. The odds against an event are 5:3 and the odds in favour of
another independent event are 7:5. Find the probability that
at least one of the two events will occur.
a. 52/96 b. 69/96
c. 71/96 d. 13/96
14. If the chance that a vessel arrives safely at a port is 9/10
then what is the chance that out of 5 vessels expected at
least 4 will arrive safely?
a. 14×94 105 b. 15×95 104
c. 14×93 104 d. 14×96 105

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 17. Derek throws three dice in a special game. If it knows that he
needs 15 or higher in this throw to win, then find the chance
of his winning the game.
a. 5/54 b. 17/216
c. 13/216 d. 15/216

15. In a charity show tickets numbered consecutively from 101

through 350 are placed in a box. What is the probability that
a ticket selected at random (blindly) will have a number with
a hundredth digit of 2?
a. 0.285 b. 0.40 18. An urn contains 6red, 5 blue and 2 green marbles. If three
c. 100/249 d. 99/250 marbles are picked at random, what is the probability that at
least one is blue?
a. 28/143 b. 115/197
c. 28/197 d. 115/143

16. You toss a coin AND roll a die. What is the probability of
getting a tail and a 4 on the die?
a. 1/2 b. 1/6
c. 1/8 d. 1/12

19. The probability of success of three students X, Y and Z in the

one examination are 1/5, 1/4 and 1/3 respectively. Find the
probability of success of at least two.
a. 1/6 b. 2/5
c. 3/4 d. 3/5

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 22. There are four hotels in a town. If 3 men check into the
hotels in a day then what is the probability that each checks
into a different hotel?
a. 6/7 b. 1/8
20. Four cards are drawn at random from a pack of 52 plating
c. 6/13 d. 5/9
cards. Find the probability of getting all the four cards of the
same suit.
a. 13/270725 b. 91/190
c. 178/20825 d. 198/20825

23. Two teams Arrogant and Overconfident are participating in a

cricket tournament. The odds that team Arrogant will be
champion is 5 to 3, and the odds that team Overconfident will
be the champion is 1 to 4. What are the odds that either
Arrogant or team Overconfident will become the champion?
a. 3 to 2 b. 5 to 2
21. A card is drawn from a pack of 52 cards. The card is drawn at c. 6 to 1 d. 33 to 7
random. What is the probability that it is neither a spade nor
a Jack?
a. 4/13 b. 2/13
c. 6/13 d. 9/13

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24. If x is chosen at random from the set {1,2,3,4} and y is to be
chosen at random from the set {5,6,7}, what is the
probability that xy will be even?
a. 5/6 b. 1/6
c. 1/2 d. 2/3

26. In a race, the odd favour of cars P,Q,R,S are 1:3, 1:4, 1:5
and 1:6 respectively. Find the probability that one of them
wins the race.
a. 9/17 b. 114/121
c. 319/420 d. 27/111

25. A box contains 100 balls, numbered from 1 to 100. If three

balls are selected at random and with replacement from the
box, what is the probability that the sum of the three
numbers on the balls selected from the box will be odd?
a. 1/2 b. 13/4
c. 3/8 d. 1/8

27. Set A = {2,3,4,5},

Set B = {4,5,6,7,8}

Two integers will be randomly selected from the sets above,

one integer from Set A and one integer from Set B. What is
the probability that the sum of the two integers will equal 9?

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 a. 0.20 b. 0.25
c. 0.30 d. 0.33

28. From a pack of 52 cards, 3 cards are drawn. What is the

probability that one is ace, one is queen and one is jack?
a. 19/5525 b. 21/5525 30. A bag contains 7 green and 5 black balls. Three balls are
c. 17/5525 d. 16/5525 drawn one after the other. The probability of all three balls
being green, if the balls drawn are not replaced will be:
a. 343/1728 b. 21/36
c. 12/35 d. 7/44

29. Out of 17 applicants 8 boys and 9 girls. Two persons are to

be selected for the job. Find the probability that at least one
of the selected persons will be a girl. 31. P and Q in a ring with 10 persons. What is the probability
a. 27/34 b. 25/34 that X and Y will sit together?
c. 19/34 d. 21/34 a. 2/11 b. 3/11
c. 2/9 d. 4/9

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 34. Two dice are thrown simultaneously. Find the probability of
getting a multiple of 2 on one dice and multiple of 3 on the
32. Find the probability that in a random arrangement of the other dice.
letters of the word 'UNIVERSITY' the two I's come together. a. 5/12 b. 11/36
a. 1/7 b. 3/5 c. 5/36 d. 13/36
c. 5/11 d. 1/5

35. In a race where 12 cars are running, the chance that car X
will win is 1/6, that Y will win is 1/10 and that Z will win is
1/8. Assuming that a dead heat is impossible. Find the
chance that one of them will win.
a. 47/120 b. 1/480
c. 1/160 d. 1/240

33. From a bag containing 4 white and 5 black balls a man drawn
3 balls at random. What are the odds against these balls
being black?
a. 5/37 b. 37/5
c. 11/13 d. 13/37

LEVEL 2

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1. What is the probability of getting at least one six in a single
throw of three unbiased dice?
a. 1/6 b. 125/216
c. 1/36
d. 81/216 e. 91/216

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2. A bag contains 3 white balls and 2 black balls. Another bag a. 16; 22 : 14 b. 12; 72 : 1
contains 2 white and 4 black balls. A bag and a ball are c. 12; 7 : 1 d. Either; 35 : 1
picked random. The probability that the ball will be white is:
a. 7/11 b. 7/30
c. 5/11 d. 7/15

5. I forgot the last digit of a 7-digit telephone number. If 1

randomly dial the final 3 digits after correctly dialling the first
four, then what is the chance of dialling the correct number?
a. 1/1001 b. 1/1000
c. 1/999 d. 1/990

3. The probability that a student is not a swimmer is 1/5. Then

the probability that one of the five students, four are
swimmers is: 5C4(45
6. One hundred identical coins each with probability 'p' showing
a. )2(15)(45 b. )4(15) 5C4(15
up heads and tossed.
c. )(45)4 d. None of these
If 0<p<1 and the probability of heads showing on 50 coins is
equal to that of heads on 51 coins, then the value of p is:
a. 1/2 b. 49/101
c. 50/101 d. 51/101

4. A man bets on number 16 on a roulette wheel 14 times and

losses each time. On the 15th span he does a quick
calculation and finds out that the number 12 had appeared
twice in the 14 spans and is therefore, unable to decide
whether to bet on 16 or 12 in the 15th span. Which will give 7. What is the probability that a two digit number selected at
him the best chance and what are the odds of winning on the random will be a multiple of '3' and not a multiple of '5'?
bet that he takes? (Roulette has numbers 1 to 36). a. 2/15 b. 4/15

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 c. 1/15 d. 4/90

8. In his wardrobe, Dexter has three trousers. One of them is

black the second is blue, and the third brown. In his 10. The letters B,G,I,N and R are rearranged to form the word
wardrobe, he also has four shirts. One of them is black and 'Bring'. Find its probability:
the other 3 are white. He opens his wardrobe in the dark and a. 1120 b. 1 54
picks out one shirt and one trouser pair without examining c. 1124 d. 176
the colour. What is the likelihood that neither the shirt nor
the trouser is black?
a. 1/12 b. 1/6
c. 1/4 d. ½

9. A man can hit a target once in 4 shots. If he fires 4 shots in

succession, what is the probability that he will hit his target?
11. An anti- aircraft gun can take a maximum of four shots at an
a. 1 b. 1/256
enemy plane moving away from it. The probability of hitting
c. 81/256 d. 175/256
the plane at the first, second, third and fourth shots are 0.4,
0.3, 0.2 and 0.1 respectively. What is the probability that the
plane is hit when all the four shots are fired?

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 a. 0.6872 b. 0.4379 c. 20% d. 15%
c. 0.6976 d. None of these

14. When 3 fair coins are tossed together, what is the probability
12. An experiment succeeds twice as often as it fails. What is the of getting 2 tails?
probability that in the next 5 trials there will be four a. 1/4 b. 2/3
successes? c. 1/3 d. 1/2
a. 0 b. (23)4
c. 5x(23)4x(13) d. (23)4x(13)

15. x1,x2,x3,…,x50are are fifty real numbers such

that xr<xr+1 for r = 1, 2, 3... 49. Five numbers out of these
are picked up at random. The probability that the five
numbers have x20 as the middle is:
a. 20C2×30C250C3 b. 19C2×30C250C5
c. 19C2×31C250C5 d. None of these

13. Dinesh speaks truth in 3/4 cases and Abhishek lies in 1/5
cases. What is the percentage of cases in which both Dinesh
and Abhishek contradict each other in stating a fact?
a. 60% b. 35%
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16. A set of cards bearing the number 200-299 is used in a
game. if card is drawn at random, what is the probability that
it is divisible by:
18. A dice is rolled three times and the sum of the numbers
a. 0.66 b. 0.33
appearing on the uppermost face is 15. The chance that the
c. 0.44 d. 0.55
first roll was a four is:
a. 2/5 b. 1/5
c. 1/6 d. None of these

17. When two dice are thrown simultaneously, what is the

probability that the sum of the two numbers that turn up is
less than 11?
a. 5/6 b. 11/12
c. 1/6 d. 1/12

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 c. 1/2 d. 5/8

21. There are 2 positive integers x and y. What is the probability

that x+y is odd?
a. 1/4 b. 1/3
c. 1/2 d. 1/5

19. An anti-aircraft gun can fire four shots at a time. If the

probabilities of the first, second, third and the last shot
hitting the enemy aircraft are 0.7, 0.6, 0.5 and 0.4, what is
the probability that four shots aimed at an enemy aircraft will
bring the aircraft down?
a. 0.084 b. 0.916
c. 0.036 d. 0.964

22. Abhishek has 9 pairs of dark blue socks and 9 pairs of black
socks. He keeps them all in the same bag. If he picks out
three socks at random, then what is the probability that he
will get a matching pair?
a. 1 b. 2×9C2×9C118C3
c. 9C3×9C118C3 d. None of these

20. Four different objects 1,2,3,4 are distributed at random in

23. The probability that a arrow fired from a point will hit the
four places marked 1,2,3,4. What is the probability that none
target is 1/4. Three such arrows are fired simultaneously
of the objects occupy the place corresponding to its number?
a. 17/24 b. 3/8
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 towards the target from that very point. What is the
probability that the target will be hit?
a. 19/64 b. 23/64
c. 23/67 d. 37/64

26. A box contains 9 red toys, 7 green toys and 9 blue toys. Each
ball is of a different size. The probability that the red ball
being selected is the smallest red toy, is:
a. 1/9 b. 2/21
c. 1/25 d. 6/25
24. A and B play a game where each is asked to select a number
from 1 to 5. If the two numbers match, both of them win a
prize. The probability that they will not win a prize in a single
trial is:
a. 1/25 b. 24/25
27. If five dice are thrown simultaneously, what is the probability
c. 2/25 d. 23/25
of getting the sum as seven?
a. 1565 b. 1165
c. 1065 d. 565

25. A 5-digit number is formed by the digits 1,2,3,4, and 5

without repetition. What is the probability that the number 28. There are three events A, B and C, one of which must and
formed is a multiple of 4? only can happen. If the odds are 8:3 against A, 5:2 against
a. 1/2 b. 1/3 B, the odds against C must be:
c. 1/4 d. 1/5 a. 13:7 b. 3:2
c. 43:34 d. 43:77

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 31. There are 6 positive and 8 negative numbers. Four numbers
are chosen at random and multiplied. The probability that the
product is a positive number is:
a. 500/1001 b. 503/1001
c. 505/1001 d. 101/1001

29. If the probability that X will live 15 year is 7/8 and that Y will
live 15 years is 9/10, then what is the probability that both
will live after 15 years?
a. 1/20 b. 63/80
c. 1/5 d. None of these

30. Four boys and three girls stand in queue for an interview. The
probability that they stand in alternate positions is:
a. 1/35 b. 1/34
c. 1/17 d. 1/68

32. A bag contains 2 red, 3 green and 2 blue balls are to be

drawn randomly. What is the probability that the balls drawn
contain no blue ball?
a. 5/7 b. 10/21

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 c. 2/7 d. 11/21

33. A number is selected at random from first thirty natural

numbers. What is the chance that it is a multiple of either 3
or 13?
a. 17/30 b. 2/5
c. 11/30 d. 4/15

TIME, SPEED AND DISTANCE

LEVEL 1
1. Walking at the rate of 4kmph a man cover certain distance in
2hr 45 min. Running at a speed of 16.5 kmph the man will
cover the same distance in.
a. 12 min b. 25 min
c. 40 min d. 60 min

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2. Excluding stoppages, the speed of a bus is 54 kmph and
including stoppages, it is 45 kmph. For how many minutes 5. Sachin can cover a distance in 1hr 24min by covering 2/3 of
does the bus stop per hour? the distance at 4 kmph
a. 4 b. 6 and the rest at 5kmph.the total distance is?
c. 8 d. None of these a. 5 km b. 6 km
c. 7 km d. 8 km

3. 2 trains starting at the same time from 2 stations 200km

apart and going in opposite direction cross each other at a
distance of 110km from one of the stations. What is the ratio
of their speeds?
a. 11 : 9 b. 7 : 3
c. 18 : 4 d. None of these

4. A train covers a distance in 50 min, if it runs at a speed of

48kmph on an average. The speed at which the train must
run to reduce the time of journey to 40min will be.
a. 45 kmph b. 60 kmph
c. 75 kmph d. None of these 6. Vikas can cover a distance in 1 hr 24 min by covering 23rd of
the distance at 4 kmph and the rest at 5kmph. The total
distance is?

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 a. 4 km b. 6 km 8. A train covers a distance in 100 min, if it runs at a speed of
c. 8 km d. 10 km 48kmph on an average. The speed at which the train must
run to reduce the time of journey to 40min will be:
a. 30 kmph b. 50 kmph
c. 80 kmph d. 40 kmph

9. A good train and a passenger train are running on parallel

tracks in the same direction. The driver of the goods train
observes that the passenger train coming from behind
overtakes and crosses his train completely in 60 sec.
Whereas a passenger on the passenger train marks that he
crosses the goods train in 40 sec. If the speeds of the trains
be in the ratio 1:2. Find the ratio of their lengths.
a. 3 : 1 b. 2 : 1
c. 3 : 2 d. 4 : 3

7. A passenger train takes two hours less for a journey of

300km if its speed is increased by 5km/hr from its normal
speed. The normal speed is:
a. 35 km/hr b. 50 km/hr
c. 25 km/hr d. 30 km/hr

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10. A race course is 400 m long. A and B run a race and A wins a. 8:46 am b. 8:30 am
by 5m. B and C run over the same course and B win by 4m. c. 8:56 am d. 8:50 am
C and D run over it and D wins by 16m. If A and D run over
it, then who would win and by how much?
a. D by 7.2 m b. A by 7.2 m
c. A by 8.4 m d. D by 8.4 m

11. The jogging track in a sports complex is 726 m in

circumference. Suresh and his wife start from the same point 13. Two stations A and B are 110 km apart on a straight line.
and walk in opposite direction at 4.5 km/hr and 3.75 km/hr One train starts from A at 7 am and travel towards B at 20
respectively. They will meet for the first time in: km/hr speed. Another train starts from B at 8 am and travel
a. 5.5 minutes b. 6 minutes towards A at 25 km/hr speed. At what time will they meet?
c. 4.9 minutes d. 5.28 a. 9 am b. 10 am
minutes c. 11 am d. None of these

12. A train starts from Delhi at 6:00 am and reaches Ambala

cantt. at 10am. The other train starts from Ambala cantt. at
8am and reached Delhi at 11:30 am, If the distance between 14. A man can row 4.5 km/hr in still water and he finds that it
Delhi and Ambala cantt is 200 km, then at what time did the takes him twice as long to row up as to row down the river.
two trains meet each other? Find the rate of the stream.
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 a. 2 km/hr b. 2.5 km/hr
c. 1.5 km/hr d. 1.75 km/hr

15. The circumference of the front wheel of a cart is 40 ft long

and that of the back wheel is 48 ft long. What is the distance
travelled by the cart, when the front wheel has done five
more revolutions than the rear wheel? 17. A thief steals a car and drives it at 15 km/hr. The theft has
a. 950 ft b. 1450 ft been discovered after one hour and the owner of the car sets
c. 1200 ft d. 800 ft off in another car at 25 km/hr. When will the owner overtake
the thief from the starting point?
a. 1 hr b. 1.5 hr
c. 2 hr d.2.5 hr

16. A train 120m in length passes a pole in 12sec and another

train of length 100m travelling in opposite direction in 10sec.
Find the speed of the second train in km per hour.
a. 43.2 km/hr b. 43 km/hr 18. A tower is 61.25m high. A rigid body is dropped from its top
c. 44 km/hr d. 43.5 km/hr and at the same instant another body is thrown up-wards
from the bottom of the tower with such a velocity that they
meet in the middle of the tower. The velocity of projection of
the second body is:
a. 24.5 m/s b. 20 m/s
c. 25 m/s d. 22 m/s

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19. A car travels first half distance between two places with a
speed of 40 km/hr and rest of the half distance with a speed
of 60 km/hr. The average speed of the car is: 21. A ship 77 km from the shore, springs a leak which admits to
a. 48 km/hr b. 37 km/hr 9/2 tonnes of water in 11/2 minutes. 92 tonnes of water
c. 44 km/hr d. 45 km/hr would sink it. But the pumps can throw out 12 tonnes of
water per hour. Find the average rate of sailing so that the
ship may just reach the shore as it begins to sink.
a. 10.5 km/hr b. 11 km/hr
c. 10 km/hr d. 12.5 km/hr

20. A cyclist drove one kilometre, with the wind in his back, in
three minutes and drove the same way back, against the
wind in four minutes. If we assume that the cyclist always
puts constant force on the pedals, how much time would it
take him to drive one kilometre without wind?
a. 73 min b. 247 min
c. 177 min d. 4312 min

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 23. Two identical trains A and B running in opposite direction at
same speed tale 2 min to cross each other completely. The
number of bogies of A are increased from 12 to 16. How
much more time would they now require to cross each other?
a. 40 sec b. 50 sec
c. 60 sec d. 20 sec

22. A train covered a certain distance at a uniform speed. If the

train had been 6 km/hr faster, it would have taken 4 hour
less than the scheduled time. And, if the train were slower by
6 km/hr, the train would have taken 6hr more than the
scheduled time. The length of the journey is:
a. 700 km b. 740 km
c. 720 km d. 760 km
24. A boatman rows to a place 45 km distant and back in 20
hour. He finds that he can row 12 km with the stream in the
same time as 4km against the stream. Find the speed of the
stream.
a. 3 km/hr b. 2.5 km/hr
c. 4 km/hr d. 3.5 km/hr

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25. A motorboat whose speed is 15 km/hr in still water goes
30km downstream and comes back in four and a half hours.
The speed of the stream is:
a. 4.5 km/hr b. 6 km/hr
c. 7 km/hr d. 5 km/hr

27. P and Q start running in opposite directions (towards each

other) on a circular track starting at diametrically opposite
points. They first meet after P has run for 75m and then they
next meet after Q has run 100 m after their first meeting.
Assume that both of them are running a constant speed. The
length of the track (in metre) is:
26. A hare, pursued by a grey-hound is 20 of her own leaps a. 70 b. 175
ahead of him. While the hare takes 4 leaps, the grey-hound c. 250 d. 350
takes 3 leaps. 3 leaps of grey-hound is equal to 2 leaps of
hare. In how many leaps will the grey-hound overtake the
hare?
a. 180 leaps b. 270 leaps
c. 360 leaps d. 90 leaps

28. A man sitting in train travelling at the rate of 50 km/hr

observes that it takes 9 sec for a goods train travelling in the
opposite direction to pass him. If the goods train is 187.5m
long. Find its speed.
a. 40 km/hr b. 30 km/hr
c. 24 km/hr d. 25 km/hr

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 31. A car driver driving in fog, passes a pedestrian who was
walking at the rate of 2km/h in the same direction. The
pedestrian could see the car for 6 min and it was visible to
him up to a distance of 0.6 km. The speed of the car would
be :
a. 8 km/h b. 800 m/h
c. 200 m/h d. 15 km/h
29. Two places A and B are separated by a distance of 200 m.
Ajay and Jay have to start simultaneously from A, go to B
and return to A. In 10 s they meet at a place 10m from B. If
Ajay is faster than Jay, in how much time, after they start,
will Ajay return to A?
a. 19 sec b. 20021 sec
c. 40021 sec d. 19021 sec

32. Rahul can row a certain distance downstream in 6 hour and

return the same distance in 9 hour. If the speed of Rahul in
still water is 12 km/hr, Find the speed of the stream.
a. 2 km/hr b. 2.4 km/hr
c. 3 km/hr d. 1.5 km/hr

30. X and Y start walking towards each other at 10am at speeds

of 3km/hr and 4km/hr respectively. They were initially 17.5
km apart. At what time do they meet?
a. 2:30 pm b. 11 :30 pm
c. 1:30 pm d. 12 :30 pm
33. In a race, the speeds of A and B are in the ratio 3:4. A takes
30 minutes more than B to reach the destination. The time
taken by A to reach the destination is:
a. 1 hr b. 1.5 hr
c. 2 hr d. 2.5 hr

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 36. A monkey tries to ascend a greased pole 14 m high. He ascends 2 m in first
two minutes and slips 1 m in alternate minute. If he continues to ascend in
this fashion, how long does he take to reach the top?
a. 26 min b. 24 min
c. 22 min d. 25 min

34. Jay started cycling along the boundaries of a square field

from corner point A. After half an hour he reached the corner
point C, diagonally opposite to A. If his speed was 8km/hr,
the area of the filed in square km is:
a. 64 b. 16
c. 9 d. 4 37. A train leaves station X at 5am and reaches station Y at 9am. Another train
leaves station Y at 7am and reaches station X at 10:30 am. At what time do
the two trains cross each other?
a. 7:36 am b. 7:56 am
c. 8:36 am d. 8:56 am

35. Wheel of diameter 7cm and 14 cm start rolling

simultaneously from X and Y which are 1980cm apart
towards each other in opposite directions. Both of them make
same number of revolutions per second. If both of them meet
after 10s, the speed of the smaller wheel is:
a. 22 cm/s b. 44 cm/s
c. 66 cm/s d. 88 cm/s

38. A skating champion moves along the circumference of a circle of radius 28m
in 44 sec. How many seconds will it take her to move along the perimeter of
a hexagon of side 48 m?
a. 90 b. 84
c. 68 d. 72

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 41. A and B start running simultaneously. A runs from point P to point Q and B
39. A hare sees a dog 200m away from her and scuds off in opposite direction at
from point Q to point P. A's speed is 6/5 of B's speed. After crossing B, if A
a speed of 24 km/hr. Two minutes later the dog perceives her and gives
takes 5/2 hr to reach Q, how much time does B take to reach P after crossing
chase at a speed of 32km/hr. How soon will the dog overtake the hare, and
A?
what distance from the spot from where the hare took flight?
a. 3 hr 6 min b. 3 hr 16 min
a. 8 min, 2 km b. 7.5 min, 2 km
c. 3 hr 26 min d. 3 hr 36 min
c. 7.5 min, 3km d. 7.5 min, 2.5km

42. Walking at 3/4 of his usual place, a man reaches his office 20 minute late.
40. A boat covers a distance of 30km downstream in 2 hour while it takes 6 hour Find his usual time?
to cover the same distance upstream. What is the speed of the boat in a. 2 hr b. 1 hr
km/hr c. 3 hr d. 1.5 hr
a. 5 b. 7.5
c. 10 d. 12

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43. A jet plane is rising vertically with a velocity of 10m/s. It has reached a
certain height when the pilot drops a coin, which takes 4sec to hit the
ground. Assuming that there is no resistance to the motion of the coin, the
height of the place and the velocity of the coin on impact with the ground
are: LEVEL 2
a. 38.4 m, 28.7 m/s b. 38.4 m, 29.2 m/s 1. If the wheel of a bicycle makes 560 revolutions in travelling 1.1 km, what is
c. 26.5 m, 13.5 m/s d. 26.5 m, 28.7 m/s its radius?
a. 31.25 cm b. 37.75 cm
c. 35.15 cm d. 11.25 cm

Common information for questions numbered 2 and 3

A and B go by Bus from X to Z which is on the way to Y. C goes from Y to Z by
Auto. A and B's Bus goes at 75km/hr and C's auto moves at 15km/hr. All the
three start at 6:00am. After travelling some distance, B sees another friend D
44. A train running at the speed of 20m/s crosses a pole in 24 sec less than the
going by Cycle at 25km/hr to Z. B and A go ahead, meet C and pick him up. They
time it requires to cross a platform thrice its length at the same speed. What
return immediately to Z at the same time. The distance between X and Y is
is the length of the train?
600km and XZ is 400km.
a. 150 m b. 200 m
c. 180 m d. 160 m
2. Common data question: 1/2
What is the total distance travelled by A?

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 a. 480 km b. 450 km
c. 550 km d. 600 km

5. When an object is dropped, the number of feet N that it falls is given by the
formula N=12gt2 where t is the time in seconds from the time it was
3. Common data question: 2/2
dropped and g is 32.2. If it takes 5 seconds for the object to reach the
What is the time for the entire journey?
ground, how many feet does it fall during the last 2 seconds?
a. 10 hour b. 6 hour
a. 64.4 b. 96.6
c. 8 hour d. 9 hour
c. 161.0 d. 257.6

6. Rajesh travelled from city A to city B covering as much distance in the second
part as he did in the first part of this journey. His speed during the second
4. A ship develops a leak 12 km from the shore. Despite the leak, the ship is part was twice as that of the speed during the first part of the journey. What
able to move towards the shore at a speed of 8 km/hr. However, the ship is his average speed of journey during the entire travel?
can stay afloat only for 20 minutes. If a rescue vessel were to leave from the a. His average speed is the harmonic mean of the individual speeds for the
shore towards the ship and it takes 4 minutes to evacuate the crew and two parts.
passengers of the ship, what should be the minimum speed of the rescue b. His average speed is the arithmetic mean of the individual speeds for the
vessel in order to be able to successfully rescue the people aboard the ship? two parts.
a. 53 km/hr b. 37 km/hr c. His average speed is the geometric mean of the individual speeds for the
c. 28 km/hr d. 44 km/hr two parts.

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 d. Cannot be determined.

7. A train traveling at 100 kmph overtakes a motorbike traveling at 64 kmph in

40 seconds. What is the length of the train in meters?
a. 1777 meters b. 1822 meters
c. 400 meters d. 800 meters

8. By walking at 34th of his usual speed, a man reaches office 20 minutes later
than usual. What is his usual time?
a. 30 min b. 60 min
c. 70 min d. 50 min

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9. In a 500m race Dishu beats Abhishek by 100m or 5 seconds. In another race
on the same track at the same speeds. Abhishek and Prashant start at one 11. Ram covers a part of the journey at 20 kmph and the balance at 70 kmph
end while Dishu starts at the opposite end. How many metres would taking total of 8 hours to cover the distance of 400 km. How many hours has
Abhishek have covered, by the time Dishu meets Prashant given that Dishu's he been driving at 20 kmph?
speed is 10 m/sec more than that of Prashant. a. 2 hours b. 3 hours 20 minutes
a. 200 m b. 225 m c. 4 hours 40 minutes d. 3 hours 12 minutes
c. 250 m d. 275 m

12. I travel the first part of my journey at 40 kmph and the second part at 60
10. The speed of a motor boat itself is 20 km/h and the rate of flow of the river kmph and cover the total distance of 240 km to my destination in 5 hours.
is 4 km/h. Moving with the stream the boat went 120 km. What distance will How long did the first part of my journey last?
the boat cover during the same time going against the stream? a. 4 hours b. 2 hours
a. 80 km b. 180 km c. 3 hours d. 2 hours 24 minutes
c. 60 km d. 100 km
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 c. 90.3 minutes d. Cannot be determined

Common information for questions numbered 13 and 14

Two men are walking towards each other alongside a railway track. A freight
train overtakes one of them in 20 seconds and exactly 10 minutes later
meets the other man coming from the opposite direction. The train passes
this man is 18 seconds. Assume the velocities are constant throughout.

13. Common Data Question 1/2 15. P and Q walk from A to B, a distance of 27 km at 5 km/hr and 7 km/hr
How long after the train has passed the second man will the two men meet? respectively. Q reaches B and immediately turns back meeting P at T. What is
a. 89.7 minutes b. 90 minutes the distance from A to T?
c. 90.3 seconds d. 91 seconds a. 25 km b. 22.5 km
c. 24 km d. 20 km

16. Rajesh walks to and fro to a shopping mall. He spends 30 minutes shopping.
14. Common Data Question 2/2 If he walks at speed of 10 km an hour, he returns to home at 19.00 hours. If
The ratio of the velocities of the first man to the second man is:
a. 89.7 minutes b. 90 minutes
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 he walks at 15 km an hour, he returns to home at 18.30 hours. How fast
must he walk in order to return at 18.15 hours?
a. 17 km/hr b. 18 km/hr
c. 19 km/hr d. 20 km/hr

19. Distance between the points is P. A man with the speed of s and reaches the
17. P beats Q by 5 seconds in a race of 1000m and Q beats R by 5 metres in a other point late by 2 hours. Calculated the speed with which the man has to
race of 100m. By how many seconds does P beats R in a race of 1000 m? travel to reach in time, where t is the actual time.
a. 5 sec b. 7 sec a. S×(t+1)(t+2) b. s×t(t+2)
c. 10 sec d. Cannot be determined c. s×(t+2) d. s×T(t+1)

20. The speed of a bus during the second hour of its journey is twice that in the
first hour. Also, its speed during the third hour is two-third the sum of its
18. A bus without stopping travels at an average speed of 60 km/hr and with speeds in the first two hours. Had the bus travelled for three hours at the
stoppages at an average speed of 40 km/hr. What is the total time taken by speed of the first hour, it would have travelled 120 km less. Find the average
the bus for stoppages on a route of length 300km? speed of the bus for the first three hours.
a. 4 hr b. 3 hr a. 60 kmph b. 70 kmph
c. 2.5 hr d. 3.5 hr c. 80 kmph d. 100 kmph

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 second 100 metre race. They both run at their earlier speeds. Which of the
following is true in connection with the second race?
a. Karan and Arjun reach the finishing line simultaneously
b. Arjun beats Karan by 1 metre
c. Arjun beats Karan by 11 metres
d. Karan beats Arjun by 1 metre

21. Arun, Barun and Kiranmala start from the same place and travel in the same
direction at speeds of 30, 40 and 60 km per hour respectively. Barun starts
two hours after Arun. If Barun and Kiranmala overtake Arun at the same
instant, how many hours after Arun did Kiranmala start?
a. 3 b. 3.5
c. 4 d. 4.5
23. Starting from my office, I reach the house 20 min late if I walk at 3kmph.
Instead, if I walk at 4kmph, I reach the house 15 min early. How far is my
house from my office?
a. 4 km b. 5 km
c. 7 km d. 6 km

22. Karan and Arjun run a 100-meter race, where Karan beats Arjun 10 metres.
To do a favour to Arjun, Karan starts 10 metres behind the starting line in a
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24. Two boats, traveling at 5 and 10 kms per hour, head directly towards each
other. They begin at a distance of 20 kms from each other. How far apart are
they (in kms) one minute before they collide?
a. 112 b. 16
c. 14 d. 13

26. In a kilometer race, If Abhishek gives Bharti a 40m start, Abhishek wins by
19sec. But if Abhishek gives Bharti a 30 sec start, Bharti wins by 40 m. Find
the time taken by Bharti to run 5,000m?
a. 150 sec b. 450 sec
c. 750 sec d. 825 sec

25. A bus overtakes two boys who are walking in the direction of the bus at 2
km/hr and 4 km/hr in 9 sec and 10sec respectively. The length of the bus and
its speed are:
a. 50m and 559 m/s b. 80m and 889 m/s
c. 70m and 779 m/s d. 60m and 669 m/s
27. A ball is projected vertically up-wards reaches, at the end of 't' seconds, an
elevation of 's' feet where s=160t−16t2. The highest elevation is
a. 800 b. 640
c. 400 d. 320
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28. A man jogging inside a railway tunnel at a constant speed hears a train
approaching the tunnel from behind at a speed of 30km/h, when he is one
third of the way inside the tunnel. Whether he keeps running forward or
turns back, he will reach the end of the tunnel at the same time the train
reaches that end. The speed at which the man is running is:
a. 6 km/hr b. 8 km/hr
c. 12 km/hr d. 10 km/hr

29. A boat goes 30 km. upstream and 44 km. downstream in 10 hours. In 13

hours, it can go 40 km upstream and 55 km down-stream. The speed of the
boat in still water is:
a. 3 km/hr b. 4 km/hr
c. 8 km/hr d. 6 km/hr

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 c. 2 d. 3

32. Two cities, A and B, at a distance of 50 km, are connected by two separate
roads. The speed of any vehicle traveling between the two cities on road 1 is
30. A passenger train covers the distance between stations X and Y, 50 minutes 50 km/hr, while the speed on road 2 is (80/n) km/hr, where n is the number
faster than a goods train. Find this distance if the average speed of the of vehicles (including the concerned vehicle). If you travel in a vehicle from A
passenger train is 60 kmph and that of goods train is 20 kmph to B on road 1 and come back from B to A on road 2 (where there are
a. 20 kms b. 25 kms already three vehicles plying), your approximate average speed is:
c. 45 kms d. 40 kms a. 26 km/hr b. 29 km/hr
c. 32 km/hr d. 35 km/hr

33. Jim travels the first 3 hours of his journey at 60 mph speed and the
remaining 5 hours at 24 mph speed. What is the average speed of Jim's
travel in mph?
a. 42 mph b. 36 mph
31. A train left station X at A hour B minutes. It reached station Y at B hour C c. 37.5 mph d. 42.5 mph
minutes on the same day, after travelling C hours A minutes (clock shows
time from 0 hours to 24 hours). Number of possible value(s) of A is:
a. 0 b. 1
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 each other at 16 km/hr and 21 km/hr respectively. When they meet, it is
found that one train has travelled 60 km more than the other. The distance
between two stations is:
a. 445 km b. 444 km
c. 440 km d. 450 km

36. Dexter and Prexter are competing with each other in a friendly community
34. If a man cycles at 10 km/hr, then he arrives at a certain place at 1 p.m. If he competition in a pool of 50m length and the race is for 1000m. Dexter
cycles at 15 km/hr, he will arrive at the same place at 11 a.m. At what speed crosses 50m in 2 min and Prexter in 3 min 15 sec. Each time they meet/cross
must he cycle to get there at noon? each other, they do handshake's. How many such handshake's will happen if
a. 11 km/hr b. 12 km/hr they start from the same end at the same time?
c. 13 km/hr d. 14 km/hr a. 18 b. 19
c. 20 d. 17

37. A ball is thrown twice from a place with the gap of 34 minutes between the
two shots. A person approaching this point in a bus heard the second shot
33 minutes after he heard the first shot. What is the speed of bus (in kmph)
if sound travels at 330 m/s?
a. 30 b. 33
35. The Ghaziabad-Hapur-Meerut EMU and the Meerut-Hapur-Ghaziabad EMU c. 36 d. 42
start at the same time from Ghaziabad and Meerut and proceed towards

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38. A man and a woman 81 miles apart from each other, start travelling towards
each other at the same time. If the man covers 5 miles per hour to the
women's 4 miles per hour, how far will the woman have travelled when they
meet?
a. 27 b. 36
c. 45 d. None of these

40. A man can row 50 km upstream and 72 km downstream in 9 hours. He can

also row 70 km upstream and 90 km downstream in 12 hours. Find the rate
of current.
39. Three friends A, B and C run around a circular track of length 120 metres at a. 3 km/hr b. 8 km/hr
speeds of 5 m/s, 7 m/sec and 15 m/sec, starting simultaneously from the c. 4 km/hr d. None of these
same point and in the same direction. How often will the three of them
meet?
a. Every 60 seconds b. Every 120 seconds
c. Every 30 seconds d. None of these

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41. Two boys begin together to write out a booklet containing 535 lines. The
first boy starts with the first line, writing at the rate of 100 lines an hour; and
the second starts with the last line then writes line 534 and so on, backward
proceeding at the rate of 50 lines an hour. At what line will they meet?
a. 356 b. 277
c. 357 d. 267

NUMBER SYSTEM
LEVEL 1
1. Which of the following has most number of divisors?
a. 99 b. 101
c. 176 d. 182

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2. A girl wrote all the numbers from 100 to 200. Then she started counting the 5. If we write down all the natural numbers from 259 to 492 side by side get a
number of one's that has been used while writing all these numbers. What is very large natural number 259260261....491492. How many 8's will be used
the number that she got? to write this large natural number?
a. 111 b. 119 a. 32 b. 43
c. 120 d. 121 c. 52 d. 53

6. How many five digit multiples of 11 are there, if the five digits are 3,4,5,6
3. If each of the three nonzero numbers a , b , and c is divisible by 3, then and 7 in the same order?
abc must be divisible by which one of the following the numbers? a. 10 b. 11
a. 8 b. 27 c. 12 d. 13
c. 81 d. 121

7. What is the remainder when 7187 is divided by 800?

4. The LCM of two numbers is 280 and their ratio is 7:8. The two numbers are a. 143 b. 243
a. 70,80 b. 35,40 c. 343 d. 443
c. 42,48 d. 28,32

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 10. If n is a positive integer, which one of the following numbers must have a
remainder of 3 when divided by any of the numbers 4, 5, and 6?
a. 12n + 3 b. 24n + 3
c. 90n + 2 d. 120n + 3

8. What is the value of M and N respectively if M39048458N is divisible by 8

and 11, where M and N are single digit integers?
a. 7,8 b. 8,6
c. 6,4 d. 5,4

11. A certain number when divided by 222 leaves a remainder 35, another
number when divided by 407 leaves a remainder 47. What is the remainder
when the sum of these two numbers is divided by 37?
a. 8 b. 9
c. 12 d. 17
9. IBM-Daksh observes that it gets a call at an interval of very 10 minutes from
Seattle, at every 12 minutes from Arizonia, at the interval of 20 minutes from
New York and after every 25 minutes it gets the call from Newark. If in the
early morning at 5:00 a.m. it has received the calls simultaneously from all
the four destinations, then at which time it will receive the calls at a time
from all places on the same day?
a. 10:00 am b. 3:00 am
c. 5:00 am d. Both (A) and (B)

12. Find the remainder when 231 is divided by 5.

a. 4 b. 5
c. 3 d. 7

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13. The sum of three digit number is subtracted from the number. The resulting
number is always
a. divisible by 6 b. not divisible by 6
c. divisible by 9 d. not divisible by 9

14. If N=23×34 , M= 22×3×5, then find the number of factors of N that are
common with the factors of M.
a. 8 b. 6
c. 18 d. 20

16. (AA)2=DCBA, where A,B,C and D are distinct digits with B being odd. Find the
value of D.
a. 4 b. 6
c. 1 d. 1 or 4

15. The remainder when the positive integer m is divided by 7 is x. The

remainder when m is divided by 14 is x+7. Which one of the following could
m equal?
a. 45 b. 53
c. 72 d. 85

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 a. 3, 37 and 119 b. 3, 37 and 111
c. 9, 37 and 111 d. 3, 9 and 37

20. Two prime numbers A,B(A<B) are called twin primes if they differ by 2 (e.g.
17. What is the last digit of the number 3579+ 1? 11,13,or 41,43....)If A and B are twin primes with B>23, then which of the
a. 1 b. 4 following numbers would always divide A+B?
c. 7 d. 3 a. 12 b. 8
c. 24 d. None of these

18. If x and y are any natural numbers, then which of the following is an odd
number ?
a. xy+yx+(x−y)(xy+x) b. xy(x+y)(xy+x) 21. What is the remainder let after dividing 1!+2!+3!.....+10! by 7?
c. yx(xy–y)(xy−x) d. None of these a. 0 b. 5
c. 14 d. 21

22. The highest power of 9 dividing 99! completely is

a. 12 b. 14
c. 22 d. 24
19. A and B are playing mathematical puzzles. A asks B "which whole numbers,
greater than one, can divide all the nine three digit
numbers111,222,333,444,555,666, 777,888 and 999?" B immediately gave
the desired answer. It was

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 25. It is given that 232+1 is exactly divisible by a certain number. Which one of
the following is also divisible by the same number?
a. 296+1 b. 216+1
23. The number 3 divides ‘a’ with a result of ‘b’ and a remainder of 2. The c. 216+1 d. 264+1
number 3 divides ‘b’ with a result of 2 and a remainder of 1. What is the
value of a?
a. 13 b. 17
c. 21 d. 23

26. The number obtained by interchanging the two digits of a two digit number
is less than the original number by 27. If the difference between the two
digits of the number is 3, what is the original number?
a. 74 b. 63
c. 85 d. Cannot be determined
24. When a particular positive number is divided by 5, the remainder is 2. If the
same number is divided by 6, the remainder is 1. If the difference between
the quotients of division is 3, then find the number.
a. 37 b. 97
c. 67 d. 87

27. How many 3-digit numbers do not have an even digit or a zero?
a. 60 b. 80
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 c. 125 d. 150

31. The numbers 1 to 29 are written side by side as follows

1234567891011......2829. If the number is divided by 9, then what is the
remainder?
a. 0 b. 1
c. 2 d. 3

28. The number 3072 is divisible by both 6 and 8. Which one of the following is
the first integer larger than 3072 that is also divisible by both 6 and 8?
a. 3084 b. 3086
c. 3090 d. 3096

32. When 75% of a two-digit number is added to it, the digits of the number are
reversed. Find the ratio of the unit's digit to the ten's digit in the original
number.
a. 1:2 b. 1:4
c. 2:1 d. 3:2
29. The remainder when 784 is divided by 342 is
a. 0 b. 1
c. 49 d. 341

33. How many zeroes will be there in the expansion of the expression
11×22×33×44……..×100100
a. 1200 b. 1232
30. The LCM of two number is 4800 and their HCF is 160. If one number is 480, c. 1300 d. 1296
then the second number is
a. 1200 b.1500
c. 1600 d. 1800
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 c. 864 d. 384

3. What is the minimum number of square marbles required to tile a floor of

length 5 metres 78 cm and width 3 metres 74 cm?
a. 176 b. 187
c. 540 d. 748
LEVEL 2
1. A number when divided by a divisor leaves a remainder of 24. When twice
the original number is divided by the same divisor, the remainder is 11.
What is the value of the divisor?
a. 13 b. 59
c. 35 d. 37

4. What number should be subtracted from x3+4x2−7x+12 if it is to be

perfectly divisible by x + 3?
a. 42 b. 39
c. 13 d. None of these

2. The product of 4 consecutive even numbers is always divisible by:

a. 600 b. 768
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5. Find the remainder when 289 is divided by 89?
a. 1 b. 2
c. 87 d. 88

7. A boy writes all the numbers from 100 to 999. The number of zeroes that he
uses is 'a', the number of 5's that he uses is 'b' and the number of 8's he uses
is 'c'. What is the value of b+c-a?
a. 280 b. 380
c. 180 d. 80
6. What is the remainder when 37 is divided by 8?
a. 1 b. 2
c. 3 d. 5

8. Find the unit's digit in 264102+264103

a. 0 b. 2
c. 4 d. 6

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9. In a meet, persons from five different places have assembled in Bangalore
High School. From the five places the persons come to represent are
42,60,210,90 and84. What is the minimum number of rooms that would be
required to accommodate so that each room has the same number of
occupants and occupants are all from the same places?
a. 44 b. 62 11. When writing numbers from 1 to 10,000, how many times is the digit 9
c. 81 d. 96 written?
a. 3200 b. 3600
c. 4000 d. 4200

12. Which digits should come in place of @ and # if the number 62684@# is
divisible by both 8 and 5?
a. 4, 0 b. 0, 4
10. A set has exactly five consecutive positive integers starting with 1. What is c. 4, 4 d. 0, 0
the percentage decrease in the average of the numbers when the greatest
one of the numbers is removed from the set?
a. 8.5 b. 12.5
c. 15.2 d. 16.66

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13. How many keystrokes are needed to type numbers from 1 to 1000 on a
standard keyboard?
a. 3001 b. 2893
c. 2704 d. 2890

15. What is the maximum value of m such that 7m divides into 14! evenly?
a. 1 b. 2
c. 3 d. 4

14. How many natural numbers below 660 are divisible by 5 and 11 but not by
3?
a. 8 b. 9 16. Find the remainder when 3164 is divided by 162?
c. 10 d. 11 a. 0 b. 9
c. 11 d. 81

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17. The two positive integers 'p' and 'q' satisfy (p+q)=HCF(p,q). Which of the
following two numbers sum up to 't'?
a. 13 and 52 b. 132 and 96
c. 18 and 126 d. 56 and 45

19. What is the remainder when 91+92+93+....+98 is divided by 6?

a. 3 b. 2
c. 0 d. 5

18. Which one of the following is the minimum value of the sum of two integers
whose product is 36?
a. 37 b. 20
c. 15 d. 12

20. What is the unit's digit of the number 6256–4256

a. 0 b. 1
c. 4 d. 7

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21. What is the correct arrangement of the fractions 58,712,1316,1629 and 34 in 23. A number when divided by 342 gives a remainder 47. When the same
ascending order of magnitude. number is
a. 1629<712<58<34<1316 b. 1629<712<58<1316<34 divided by 19, what would be the remainder?
c. 712<1629<58<1316<34 d. 1629<58<712<34<1316 a. 5 b. 9
c. 4 d. 0

22. If a and b are positive integers, and x=2×3×7×a , and y=2×2×8×b , and the 24. A bank issued credit card numbers and the corresponding PIN (Personal
values of both x and y lie between 120 and 130 (not including the two), then Identification Number). Both are 3-digit numbers up to 996. Pinaki was the
a–b= last to get the credit card and so he had the last possible credit card number.
a. -2 b. -1 He was afraid of forgetting his PIN. He wrote down the number 123 in his
c. 1 d. 2 diary to remember his PIN. He also wrote out the way to calculate 123 :
"Multiply the card number by PIN. Divide the product by 997. The remainder
is 123". Once, Prafull saw his diary in which Pinaki wrote this number 123.
Prafull did a lot of purchasing, as he now knows Pinaki's PIN. What is Pinaki's
PIN?
a. 874 b. 875
c. 876 d. 877

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25. The least common multiple of two natural numbers a and b, is 399. What is
the minimum possible sum of the digits of the number a(given a > b)?
a. 1 b. 3
c. 5 d. 7

26. When 242 is divided by a certain divisor the remainder obtained is 8. When
698 is divided by the same divisor the remainder obtained is 9. However,
when the sum of the two numbers 242 and 698 is divided by the divisor, the 27. Suppose n is an integer such that the sum of digits on n is 2, and
remainder obtained is 4. What is the value of the divisor? 1010<n×10n. The number of different values of n is:
a. 11 b. 17 a. 8 b. 9
c. 13 d. 23 c. 10 d. 11

28. What is the remainder when 72×82 is divided by 6?

a. 2 b. 4
c. 6 d. 8

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29. Four digits of the number 29138576 are omitted so that the result is as large
as possible. The largest omitted digit is
a. 5 b. 6
c. 7 d. 8

30. If a person makes a row of toys of 20 each, there would be 15 toys left. If
32. pqr is a three digit natural number so that pqr=p!+q!+r!. What is the value
they made to stand in rows of 25 each, there would be 20 toys left, if they
of(q+r)p?
made to stand in rows of 38 each, there would be 33 toys left and if they are
a. 1296 b. 3125
made to stand in rows of 40 each, there would be 35 toys left. What is the
c. 19683 d. 9
minimum number of toys the person have?
a. 12,55 b. 3,805
c. 7,595 d. 3,795

31. For what value of 'n' will the remainder of 351n and 352n be the same when
divided by 7?
a. 2 b. 3
c. 6 d. 4
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 34. A chain smoker had spent all the money he had. He had no money to buy his
cigarettes. Hence, he resorted to join the stubs and to smoke them. He
needed 4 stubs to make a single cigarette. If he got a pack of 10 cigarettes as
a gift, then how many cigarettes could he smoke in all?
33. a, b, c, d, and e are five consecutive numbers in increasing order of size. a. 10 b. 11
Deleting one of the five numbers from the set decreased the sum of the c. 12 d. 13
remaining numbers in the set by 20%. Which one of the following numbers
was deleted?
a. a b. b
c. c
d. d e. e

35. 2ab5 is a four-digit number divisible by 25. If the number formed from the
two digits ab is a multiple of 13, then ab =
a. 10 b. 25
c. 52 d. 65

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36. The positive integers m and n leave remainders of 2 and 3, respectively,
when divided by 6. m>n. What is the remainder when m–n is divided by 6?
a. 2 b. 3 Common information for questions numbered 2 and 3 P
c. 5 d. 6 =1234567891011.............9989991000
2. Common data question: 1/2
Find the remainder when first 1000 digits of the number P are divided by 16?
a. 7 b. 9
c. 11 d. 13

LEVEL 3
1. The largest number amongst the following that will perfectly divide 101100–
1 is:
a. 100 b. 10,000
c. 100100 d. 100,000

3. Common data question: 2/2

Find the remainder when P is divided by 9?
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 a. 8 b. 7 possible. If one such piece is shared by two persons, then how many persons
c. 1 d. 6 are needed to give all the pieces of gold coins?
a. 86 b. 70
c. 43 d. 35

4. Let n be the number of different 5 digit numbers, divisible by 4 with the

digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6, no digit being repeated in the numbers. What is the
6. Each of X alarm tolls at regular intervals. All of them tolls together twelve
value of n?
times a day. No two alarm at equal intervals of time. If each alarm tolls after
a. 144 b. 168
a whole number of minutes, what is the maximum possible value of X?
c. 192 d. None of these
a. 14 b. 16
c. 18 d. 20

7. A person uses the base x for his number system, where x ≤ 10. A student
had to add two-digit numbers. None of the digits was 0. By oversight, he
reversed the digits of both the numbers and added them. He later found
that the difference between his answer and the correct answer was
$(84)_¬¬10. If this value is the maximum possible for x, then what is the
value of x.
a. 6 b. 7
c. 8 d. 9

5. Three gold coins of weight 780gm, 840gm and 960gm are cut into small
pieces, all of which have the equal weight. Each piece must be heavy as

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8. N is the smallest number that has 5 factors. How many factors does (N - 1)
have??
a. 2 b. 3
c. 4 d. 5

10. A set of S consists of i). All odd numbers from 1 to 55.

ii). All even numbers from 56 to 150. What is the index of the highest power
of 3 in the product of all the elements of the set S?
9. Ram and Shyam take a vacation at their grandparents' house. During the a. 35 b. 48
vacation, they do any activity together. They either played tennis in the c. 6 d. 36
evening or practiced Yoga in the morning, ensuring that they do not
undertake both the activities on any single day. There were some days when
they did nothing. Out of the days that they stayed at their grandparents'
house, they involved in one of the two activities on 22 days. However, their
grandmother while sending an end of vacation report to their parents stated
that they did not do anything on 24 mornings and they did nothing on 12
evenings. How long was their vacation?
a. 36 days b. 14 days
c. 29 days d. Cannot be determined

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 a. 12 b. 16
c. 19 d. 20

11. The three words "TATA Assets Rock" are flashed such that the words
individually are switched on at regular intervals of 4,7 and 9 seconds
respectively and after they are switched on, the words are switched off after
2 sec, 4 sec and 5 sec respectively. If at time 't' all the words happened to
switch off simultaneously, find the least time 't' which all three words will
13. The remainder when m + n is divided by 12 is 8, and the remainder when m
switch on simultaneously.
– n is divided by 12 is 6. If m > n, then what is the remainder when mn
a. 252 sec b. 126 sec
divided by 6?
c. 94 sec d. 38 sec
a. 1 b. 2
c. 3 d. 4

12. Let X be a four-digit number with exactly three consecutive digits being same
and is a multiple of 9. How many such X’s are possible?

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14. How many ordered pairs of integer (x,y) are there such that their product is a
positive integer less than 100.
a. 546 b. 636
c. 1090 d. 946

15. a, b, c, d, and e are five consecutive integers in increasing order of size.

Which one of the following expressions is not odd?
a. ab + c b. ab + d
c. ac + d d. ac + e

16. How many three digit numbers can be formed using the digits 1,2,3,4,5,6,7
and 8without repeating the digits and such that the tens digit is greater than
the hundreds digit and less than the units digit?
a. 48 b. 56
c. 64 d. 72

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17. Find the sun of the digits of the least natural number P, such that the sum of
the cubes of the four smallest distinct divisors of P equals 2P.
a. 7 b. 8
c. 9 d. 10

RATIOS AND PROPORTION

LEVEL 1
1. A sum of money is to be distributed among A, B, C, D in the proportion
of5:2:4:3. If C gets Rs. 1000 more than D, what is B's share?
a. Rs. 500 b. Rs. 1500
c. Rs. 2000 d. None of these

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2. A and B together have Rs. 1210. If 415 of A's amount is equal to 25 of B's
amount, how much amount does B have?
a. Rs. 460 b. Rs. 484
c. Rs. 550 d. Rs. 664

4. In a mixture 60 litres, the ratio of milk and water 2:1. If the this ratio is to
be1:2, then the quantity of water to be further added is:
a. 20 litres b. 30 litres
c. 40 litres d. 60 litres

3. A sum of Rs.312 was divided among 100 boys and girls in such a way that the
boy gets Rs.3.60 and each girl Rs.2.40 the number of girls is
a. 35 b. 40
c. 45 d. 50

5. Two numbers are respectively 20% and 50% more than a third number. The
ratio of the two numbers is:
a. 2:5 b. 3:5
c. 4:5 d. 5:4

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6. Seats for Mathematics, Physics and Biology in a school are in the ratio 5:7:8.
There is a proposal to increase these seats by 40%, 50% and 75%
respectively. What will be the ratio of increased seats?
a. 2:3:4 b. 6:7:8
c. 6:8:9 d. None of these

8. The salaries A, B, C are in the ratio 2:3:5. If the increments of 15%, 10% and
20% are allowed respectively in their salaries, then what will be new ratio of
their salaries?
a. 3:3:10 b. 10:11:20
c. 23:33:60 d. Cannot be determined

7. A sum of Rs. 36.90 is made up of 180 coins which are either 10 paise coins or
25 p coins. The number of 10 p coins is:
a. 48 b. 54
c. 56 d. 60

9. The ratio of the number of boys and girls in a college is 7:8. If the percentage
increase in the number of boys and girls be 20% and 10% respectively, what
will be the new ratio?
a. 8:9 b. 17:18
c. 21:22 d. Cannot be determined

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 c. 1.25 d. 1.30

13. The sum of three numbers is 98. If the ratio of the first to second is 2:3 and
that of the second to the third is 5:8, then the second number is:
a. 20 b. 30
c. 48 d. 58

10. If 40% of a number is equal to two-third of another number, what is the ratio
of first number to the second number?
a. 2:5 b. 3:7
c. 5:3 d. 7:3

14. If Rs. 782 be divided into three parts, proportional to 12:23:34, then the first
part is:
a. Rs. 182 b. Rs. 190
c. Rs. 196 d. Rs. 204

11. Salaries of Ravi and Sumit are in the ratio 2:3. If the salary of each is
increased by Rs. 4000, the new ratio becomes 40:57. What is Sumit's salary?
a. Rs. 17,000 b. Rs. 20,000
c. Rs. 34,000 d. Rs. 38,000

LEVEL 2
1. Rs.432 is divided amongst three workers A, B and C such that 8 times A’s
share is equal to 12 times B’s share which is equal to 6 times C’s share. How
much did A get?
a. Rs.192 b. Rs.133
c. Rs.144 d. Rs.128

12. If 0.75:x::5:8, then x is equal to:

a. 1.12 b. 1.20
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 business and R continues till the end of the year. If R takes 10% of the profit
for managing the business, then what part of the profit does R get?
a. 37% b. 36%
c. 27% d. 30%

4. An outgoing batch of students wants to gift a PA system worth Rs 4,200 to

their school. If the teachers, offer to pay 50% more than the students and an
2. If 20 men or 24 women or 40 boys can do a job in 12 days working for 8 external benefactor gives three times the teacher's contribution, then how
hours a day, how many men working with 6 women and 2 boys take to do a much should the teachers donate?
job four times as big working for 5 hours a day for 12 days? a. Rs 600 b. Rs 840
a. 8 men b. 12 men c. Rs 900 d. Rs 1,200
c. 2 men d. 24 men

5. Two cogged wheels of which one has 32 cogs and other 54 cogs, work into
each other. If the latter turns 80 times in three quarters of a minute, how
often does the other turn in 8 seconds?
a. 48 b. 24
c. 38 d. None of these

3. P,Q and R enter into a partnership with capitals in the ratio 3:2:1. After 4
months, P leaves the business and after 4 more months Q also leaves the

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6. The monthly incomes of A and B are in the ratio 4 : 5, their expenses are in
the ratio 5 : 6. If 'A' saves Rs.25 per month and 'B' saves Rs.50 per month,
what are their respective incomes?
a. Rs.400 and Rs.500 b. Rs.240 and Rs.300
c. Rs.320 and Rs.400 d. Rs.440 and Rs.550

9. The proportion of milk and water in 3 samples is 2:1, 3:2 and 5:3. A mixture
comprising of equal quantities of all 3 samples is made. The proportion of
milk and water in the mixture is :
a. 2:1 b. 5:1
7. IBM and KTC quote for a tender. On the tender opening day, IBM realizes c. 99:61 d. 227:133
that their quotations are in the ratio 7:4 and hence decreases its price during
negotiations to make it Rs 1Lakh lower than KTC's quoted price. KTC realizes
that the final quotes of the two were in the ratio 3:4. What was the price at
which IBM won the bid?
a. Rs 7 Lakh b. Rs 4 Lakh
c. Rs 3 Lakh d. Rs 1.5 Lakh

10. Rs 4830 is divided among Abhishek, Dishant and Prashant such that if
Abhishek's share diminishes by Rs 5, Dishant's share diminishes by Rs 10 and
8. There is certain numbers of toys in the box. They are divided into such a way Prashant's share diminishes by Rs 15, their shares will be in the ratio 5:4:3.
that the person who gets 14 of the whole gets thrice of what the others get Find the Dishant's original share?
on an average. Find the number of people amongst whom the toys are a. 1610 b. 2010
distributed? c. 2410 d. 1590
a. 8 b. 10
c. 12 d. 9

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 13. A, B and C play cricket. A's runs are to B's runs and B's runs are to C's as 3:2.
They get altogether 342 runs. How many runs did A make?
a. 162 b. 108
c. 72 d. None of these

11. The ratio of squares of first n natural numbers to square of sum of first n
natural numbers is 17:325. The value of n is:
a. 15 b. 25 Common information for questions numbered 14 and 15
c. 35 d. 30 The cost of fuming the engine of an army tank is proportional to the square of
the speed and Rs 64 per hour for a speed of 16km/hr. Other costs amount to Rs
400 per hour. The tank has to make a journey of 400km at a constant speed.

14. Common data question ½

The most economical speed for this journey is :
a. 20 km/hr b. 30 km/hr
c. 35 km/hr d. 40 km/hr

12. Two man, sitting on the dining table. One man has 7 eggs and other had 5
eggs. A third man passing by requested them to share their food in return
for money. The three of them shared the eggs equally and the third traveller
paid the other two a total of Rs 24. Find the difference between the amounts
received by first two men?
a. Rs 18 b. Rs 12
c. Rs 16 d. Rs 15

15. Common data question 2/2

The total cost for the journey at this most economical speed is :
a. Rs 6,000 b. Rs 8,000
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 c. Rs 10,000 d. Rs 11,000 a. 415 ml b. 403 ml
c. 400 ml d. 424 ml

18. The total surface area of a solid iron cube and a solid aluminium cuboid are
the same. The length, breadth and height of the cuboid are in the ratio 1:2:4.
Both are melted together in a vessel. What is the ratio of iron and aluminium
in the resultant mixture?
a. (143)32:8 b. 8:(143)32
c. (314)32:8 d. 8:(314)32

16. Points A and B are both in the line segment PQ and on the same side of its
midpoint. A divides PQ in the ratio 2:3, and B divides PQ in the ratio 3:4.
IfAB=2, then the length of PQ is:
a. 70 b. 75
c. 80 d. 85

19. The monthly salaries of two persons are in the ratio of 4:7. If each receives
an increase of Rs.25 in the salary, the ratio is altered to 3:5. Find their
respective salaries.
a. 120 & 210 b. 80 & 140
c. 180 & 300 d. 200 & 350

17. Three beakers have capacity of 250ml, 650ml and 200ml. 682 ml of Juice is
poured into them so that the same fraction of each is filled. The volume
filled in the largest beaker will be:

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20. Shyam, Gopal and Madhur are three partners in a business. Their capitals are
respectively Rs 4,000, Rs 8,000 and Rs 6,000. Shyam gets 20% of total profit 22. By mistake, instead of dividing Rs 177 among three persons P, Q and R in the
for managing the business. The remaining profit is divided among the three ratio 12:13:14, it was divided in the ratio 2:3:4. Who gains the most and how
in the ratio of their capitals. At the end of the year, the profit of Shyam is Rs much?
2200 less than the sum of the profit of Gopal and Madhur. How much profit, a. P, Rs 28 b. Q, Rs 35
Madhur will get? c. R, Rs 25 d. R, Rs 27
a. Rs 1600 b. Rs 2400
c. Rs 3000 d. Rs 5000

23. 20% of the students in a class failed in an examination. Out of the students
who failed, 75% were males. Male students who failed constitute 90% of the
economically poor students in the class. What is the ratio of the number of
economically poor students to the number of students in the class?
21. On a certain day, the ratio of the passenger in the 1st class and the second
a. 1:4 b. 1:5
class travelling by train is 1:3. the ratio of the fares collected from each first
c. 5:6 d. 1:6
class and second class passengers is 30:1. If the total amount collected from
all the passengers is Rs 1,320. Find the amount in Rs, collected from the
second class passengers.
a. 240 b. 360
c. 480 d. 120

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 26. One year ago, the ratio between A's and B's salary was 4:5. The ratio of their
24. The present ages of A and B are as 6:4. Five years ago their ages were in the individual salaries of last year and present year are 3:5 and 2:3 respectively.
ratio 5:3. Find their present ages. If their total salaries for the present year is Rs 6800, the present salary of A is
a. 42, 28 b. 36, 24 a. Rs 4080 b. Rs 3200
c. 30, 20 d. 25, 15 c. Rs 4533.40 d. Rs 2720

25. A, B and C enter into a partnership by investing Rs.3600, Rs.4400 and

Rs.2800. A is a working partner and gets a fourth of the profit for his services
and the remaining profit is divided amongst the three in the rate of their 27. A noodles merchant buys two varieties of noodles the price of the first being
investments. What is the amount of profit that B gets if A gets a total of Rs. twice that of the second. He sells the mixture at Rs 17.50 per kilogram
8000? thereby making a profit of 25%. If the ratio of the amounts of the first
a. 4888.88 b. 9333.33 noodles and the second noodles in the mixture is 2:3, then the respective
c. 4000 d. 3666.66 costs of each noodles are
a. Rs 20, Rs 10 b. Rs 24, Rs 12
c. Rs 16, Rs 8 d. Rs 26, Rs 13

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28. A, B and C, each of them working alone can complete a job in 6, 8 and 12
days respectively. If all three of them work together to complete a job and
earn Rs.2340, what will be C’s share of the earnings?
a. Rs.520 b. Rs.1080
c. Rs.1170 d. Rs.630

29. The ratio of incomes of Pankaj and Gauri is 3:5 and the ratio of their
expenditures is 2:3. Who does save more? (You have to assume that no one
takes any loan from anywhere)
a. Pankaj b. Gauri
c. Both save equally d. Depends upon the
incomes of Pankaj and Gauri

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30. A,B and C enter into a partnership by investing Rs 28000, Rs 32000 and Rs
18000. A is working partner and gets a fourth of the profit for this services
and the remaining profit is divided amongst the three in the ratio of their
investments. What is the amount of profit that B gets if A gets a total of Rs
4995?
a. Rs 1665 b. Rs 2960
c. Rs 2590 d. None of these

LEVEL 3
1. A fort has provisions for 60 days. If after 15 days 500 men strengthen them
and the food lasts 40 days longer, how many men are there in the fort?
a. 3500 b. 4000
c. 6000 d. None of these

31. In a house, there are dogs, cats and parrot in the ratio 3:7:5. If the number of
cats was more than the number of dogs by a multiple of both 9 and 7, what
is the minimum of pets in the house?
a. 945 b. 630 Common information for questions number 2 to 4
c. 252 d. 238 There are N numbers of gold biscuits in the house, in which four people are lived.
If the first men woke up and divided the biscuits into 5 equal piles and found one
extra biscuit. He took one of those piles along with the extra biscuit and hid
them. He then gathered the 4 remaining piles into a big pile, woke up the second
person and went to sleep. Each of the other 3 persons did the same one by one
i.e. divided the big pile into 5 equal piles and found one extra biscuit. Each hid
one of the piles along with the extra biscuit and gathered the remaining 4 piles
into a big pile.

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2. Common data question 1/3
If N > 1000, what could be the least value of N?
a. 1249 b. 1023
c. 1202 d. 1246

3. Common data question 2/3

If N<1000, how many biscuits were left after the fourth man took his share? 4. Common data question 3/3
a. 624 b. 621 In the previous question, what is the sum of the number of biscuits hidden
c. 252 d. 257 by the last 2 men?
a. 142 b. 144
c. 180 d. 178

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 6. The ratio of marks obtained by Vinod and Basu is 6:5. If the combined
5. Two alloys A and B are composed of two basic elements. The ratios of the average of their percentage is 68.75 and their sum of the marks is 275, find
compositions of the two basic elements in the two alloys are 5:3 and 1:2, the total marks for which exam was conducted.
respectively. A new alloy X is formed by mixing the two alloys A and B in the a. 150 b. 200
ratio4:3. What is the ratio of the composition of the two basic elements in c. 400 d. None of these.
alloy X?
a. 1 : 1 b. 2 : 3
c. 5 : 2 d. 4 : 3

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 a. 1 : 10 b. 1 : 5
c. 2 : 7 d. 3 : 8

7. In a pocket of A, the ratio of Rs.1 coins, 50p coins and 25p coins can be
expressed by three consecutive odd prime numbers that are in ascending
order. The total value of coins in the bag is Rs 58. If the number of Rs.1, 50p,
25p coins are reversed, find the new total value of coins in the pocket of A?
a. Rs 68 b. Rs 43
c. Rs 75 d. Rs 82

9. A bus and a truck are available to cross a jungle. The speed of the truck is
thrice that of the bus. The capacity of the truck is 50 persons and that of bus
is 30 persons. The average occupancy of the bus is twice that of the truck.
The tickets for the bus and the truck cost Re 1 and Re 1.50 respectively.
What is the ratio of the average rupee collection of the truck to that of the
bus in a day? Assume there is no wastage time between trips and the
occupancy of the bus/truck is defined as the ratio of the actual number of
persons boarding it and its capacity.
a. 15 : 4 b. 15 : 2
8. Joseph bought two varieties of rice, costing 5 cents per ounce and 6 cents
c. 15 : 8 d. 15 : 7
per ounce each, and mixed them in some ratio. Then he sold the mixture at 7
cents per ounce, making a profit of 20 percent. What was the ratio of the
mixture?

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10. Manish, Rahul and Bharti have some stones with each of the. Five times the
number of stones with Rahul equals seven times the number of stones with
Manish while five times the number of stones with Manish equals seven
times the number of stones with Bharti. What is the minimum number of
stones that can be there with all three of them put together?
a. 113 b. 109
c. 93 d. 97

PERMUTATION AND COMBINATION

LEVEL 1
Common information for questions numbered 1 to 4
There are 5 freshmen, 8 sophomores, and 7 juniors in a chess club. A group of 6
students will be chosen to compete in a competition.
1. Common Data Question 1/4
How many combinations of students are possible if the group is to consist of
exactly 3 freshmen?
a. 5000 b. 4550
c. 4000 d. 3550

2. Common Data Question 2/4

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 How many combinations of students are possible if the group is to consist of
exactly 3 freshmen and 3 sophomores?
a. 360 b. 460
c. 560 d. 660

3. Common Data Question ¾

How many combinations of students are possible if the group is to consist of 5. How many ways can 4 prizes be given away to 3 boys, if each boy is eligible
an equal number of freshmen, sophomores, and juniors? for all the prizes?
a. 5880 b. 6880 a. 256 b. 24
c. 7880 d. 8880 c. 12 d. None of these

4. Common Data Question 4/4

How many combinations of students are possible if the group is to consist of
all members of the same class?
a. 20 b. 25
c. 30 d. 35

Common information for questions numbered 6 to 9

There are 5 freshmen, 8 sophomores, and 7 juniors in a chess club. Find the
number of orders in which the 6 students from this club can win the first six
prizes:
6. Common Data Question ¼
If all students attend the competition and the winners are exactly 3
freshmen.
a. 3!×5C3×15C3 b. 3!×5P3×15P3
c. 6!×5C3×15C3 d. 6!×5P3×15P3

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 7. Common Data Question 2/4
If all students attend the competition and the winners are exactly 3 8. Common Data Question ¾
freshmen and 3 sophomores. If all students attend the competition and the winners are an equal number
a. 3!×5C3×15C3 b. 3!×5C3×8C3 of freshmen, sophomores, and juniors.
c. 6!×5P3×15P3 d. 6!×5C3×8C3 a. 6!×5C2×8C2×7C2 b. 3!×5C2×8C2×7C2
c. 6!×5P2×8P2×7P2 d. 3!×5P2×8P2×7P2

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 a. 22 b. 24
c. 21 d. 20

11. The letter of the word LABOUR are permuted in all possible ways and the
words thus formed are arranged as in a dictionary. What is the rank of the
word LABOUR?
a. 275 b. 251
c. 240 d. 242

9. Common Data Question 4/4

If all students attend the competition and the winners are all members of
the same class.
a. 21,200 b. 23,200
c. 25,200 d. 27,200
12. There are fourteen juniors and twenty-three seniors in the Service Club. The
club is to send four representatives to the State Conference.
(i)- How many different ways are there to select a group of four students to
attend the conference?
(ii)- If the members of the club decide to send two juniors and two seniors,
how many different groupings are possible?
a. (i): 37C4 , (ii): 14C2×23C2 b. (i): 37P4 , (ii):
14P2×23P2
c. (i): 37P4 , (ii): 14C2×23C2 d. (i): 37C4 , (ii):
14P2×23P2

10. Find the number of ways in which 8064 can be resolved as the product of
two factors?

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 15. Ten different letters of alphabet are given, words with 5 letters are formed
from these given letters. Then, the number of words which have at least one
letter repeated is:
a. 69760 b. 30240
c. 99748 d. 42386

13. A class photograph has to be taken. The front row consists of 6 girls who are
sitting. 20 boys are standing behind. The two corner positions are reserved
for the 2 tallest boys. In how many ways can the students be arranged? 16. 12 chairs are arranged in a row and are numbered 1 to 12. 4 men have to be
a. 6! × 1440 b. 18! × 1440 seated in these chairs so that the chairs numbered 1 to 8 should be occupied
c. 18! ×2! × 1440 d. None of these and no two men occupy adjacent chairs. Find the number of ways the task
can be done.
a. 360 b. 384
c. 432 d. 470

14. If 5×nP3=4×n+1P3 find n?

a. 10 b. 12
c. 11 d. 14

17. How many words can be formed by re-arranging the letters of the word
ASCENT such that A and T occupy the first and last position respectively?
a. 5! b. 4!
c. 6!–2! d. 6!2!

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 21. There are 7 non-collinear points. How many triangles can be drawn by
joining these points?
a. 35 b. 10
c. 8 d. 7

18. If 6Pr=360 and 6Cr=15 find r ?

a. 4 b. 3
c. 6 d. 5

22. From 6 men and 4 ladies, a committee of 5 is to be formed. In how many

ways can this be done, if the committee is to include at least one lady?
a. 246 b. 340
c. 290 d. 315

19. In how many ways can six different rings be worn on four fingers of one
hand?
a. 10 b. 12
c. 15 d. 16

23. A question paper consists of three sections 4,5 and 6 questions respectively.
Attempting one question from each section is compulsory but a candidate
need not attempt all the questions. In how many ways can a candidate
attempt the questions?
20. There are 12 yes or no questions. How many ways can these be answered? a. 209 b. (4!-1)(5!-1)(6!-1)
a. 4096 b. 2048 c. 119 d. 29295
c. 1024 d. 144

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 26. A box contains 10 balls out of which 3 are red and rest are blue. In how many
ways can a random sample of 6 balls be drawn from the bag so that at the
most 2 red balls are included in the sample and no sample has all the 6 balls
of the same colour?
a. 105 b. 168
c. 189 d. 120

24. In how many ways a President, VP and Waterboy can be selected from a
group of 10 people.
a. 10C3 b. 10P3
c. 240 d. 360

27. Out of eight crew members three particular members can sit only on the left
side. Another two particular members can sit only on the right side. Find the
number of ways in which the crew can be arranged so that four men can sit
on each side.
a. 864 b. 863
c. 865 d. 1728
25. In a hockey championship, there are 153 matches played. Every two team
played one match with each other. The number of teams participating in the
championship is:
a. 18 b. 19
c. 17 d. 16
28. A man positioned at the origin of the coordinate system. the man can take
steps of unit measure in the direction North, East, West or South. Find the
number of ways of he can reach the point (5,6), covering the shortest
possible distance.
a. 252 b. 432
c. 462 d. 504

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 32. How many diagonals can be drawn in a pentagon?
a. 5 b. 10
29. There are 6 equally spaced points A,B,C,D,E and F marked on a circle with c. 8 d. 7
radius R. How many convex pentagons of distinctly different areas can be
drawn using these points as vertices?
a. 6P5 b. 1
c. 5 d. None of these

30. In an examination paper, there are two groups each containing 4 questions.
A candidate is required to attempt 5 questions but not more than 3
questions from any group. In how many ways can 5 questions be selected?
a. 24 b. 48 33. There are five women and six men in a group. From this group a committee
c. 96 d. 64 of 4 is to be chosen. How many different ways can a committee be formed
that contain three women and one man?
a. 55 b. 60
c. 25 d. 192

31. After every get-together every person present shakes the hand of every
other person. If there were 105 handshakes in all, how many persons were
present in the party?
a. 14 b. 13
c. 15 d. 16

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34. Find the total number of distinct vehicle numbers that can be formed 37. A teacher of 6 students takes 2 of his students at a time to a zoo as often as
using two letters followed by two numbers. Letters need to be distinct. he can, without taking the same pair of children together more than once.
a. 60000 b. 65000 How many times does the teacher go to the zoo?
c. 70000 d. 75000 a. 10 b. 12
c. 15 d. 20

38. A family consist of a grandfather, 5 sons and daughter and 8 grandchildren.

They are to be seated in a row for dinner. The grandchildren wish to occupy
the 4 seats at each end and the grandfather refuses to have a grandchild on
either side of him. The number of ways in which the family can be made to
35. In a railway compartment, there are 2 rows of seats facing each other with sit is:
accommodation for 5 in each, 4 wish to sit facing forward and 3 facing a. 21530 b. 8! × 480
towards the rear while 3 others are indifferent. In how many ways can the c. 8! × 360 d. 8! × 240
10 passengers be seated?
a. 172000 b. 12600
c. 45920 d. 43200

36. There are three prizes to be distributed among five students. If no students
gets more than one prize, then this can be done in:
a. 10 ways b. 30 ways LEVEL 2
c. 60 ways d. 80 ways 1. If the letters of the word CHASM are rearranged to form 5 letter words such
that none of the word repeat and the results arranged in ascending order as
in a dictionary what is the rank of the word CHASM?
a. 24 b. 31
c. 32 d. 30

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2. In how many ways can 5 different toys be packed in 3 identical boxes such
that no box is empty, if any of the boxes may hold all of the toys?
a. 20 b. 30
c. 25
d. 600 e. 480

3. What is the value of 1×1!+2×2!+3!×3!+............n×n!; where n! means n

factorial or n(n−1)(n−2)...1
a. n(n−1)(n−1)! b. (n+1)!n(n−1)
c. (n+1)!−n! d. (n+1)!−1!

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4. When six fair coins are tossed simultaneously, in how many of the outcomes
will at most three of the coins turn up as heads?
a. 25 b. 41
c. 22
d. 42 e. 31 6. A 6x6 grid is cut from an 8x8 chessboard. In how many ways can we put two
identical coins, one on the black square and one on a white square on the
grid, such that they are not placed in the same row or in the same column?
a. 216 b. 324
c. 144 d. 108

5. A college has 10 basketball players. A 5-member team and a captain will be

selected out of these 10 players. How many different selections can be
made?
a. 1260 b. 210
c. 10C6×6! d. 10C5×6
7. How many four letter distinct initials can be formed using the alphabets of
English language such that the last of the four words is always a consonant?
a. 263×21 b. 26×25×24×21
c. 25×24×23×21 d. None of these

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8. What is the total number of ways in which Dishu can distribute 9 distinct
gifts among his 8 distinct girlfriends such that each of them gets at least one
gift?
a. 72 × 8! b. 144 × 8!
c. 36 × 8! d. 9!

9. How many numbers of times will the digit ‘7' be written when listing the
integers from 1 to 1000? 10. In how many ways can 15 people be seated around two round tables with
a. 271 b. 300 seating capacities of 7 and 8 people?
c. 252 d. 304 a. 15!8! b. 7!×8!
c. 15C8×6!×7! d. 2×15C7×6!×7!
e. 15C8×8!

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 12. A committee is to be formed comprising 7 members such that there is a
simple majority of men and at least 1 woman. The shortlist consists of 9 men
11. In how many ways can the letters of the word EDUCATION be rearranged so and 6 women. In how many ways can this committee be formed?
that the relative position of the vowels and consonants remain the same as a. 3724 b. 3630
in the word EDUCATION? c. 4914 d. 3824
a. 9!4 b. 9!4!×5!
c. 4!×5! d. None of these

13. A team of 8 students goes on an excursion, in two cars, of which one can
seat 5 and the other only 4. In how many ways can they travel?
a. 9 b. 26
c. 126 d. 392

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14. A tea expert claims that he can easily find out whether milk or tea leaves
were added first to water just by tasting the cup of tea. In order to check this
claims 10 cups of tea are prepared, 5 in one way and 5 in other. Find the
different possible ways of presenting these 10 cups to the expert. 16. How many arrangements of four 0's (zeroes), two 1's and two 2's are there
a. 252 b. 240 in which the first 1 occur before the first 2?
c. 300 d. 340 a. 420 b. 360
c. 320 d. 210

15. How many alphabets need to be there in a language if one were to make 1
million distinct 3 digit initials using the alphabets of the language?
a. 100 b. 50
c. 26 d. 1000 17. How many different five-letter words can be formed using the letter from
the world APPLE?
a. 120 b. 60
c. 240 d. 24

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 20. How many 5-digit positive integers exist the sum of whose digits are odd?
a. 36000 b. 38000
c. 45000 d. 90000

18. I have an amount of Rs 10 lakh, which I went to invest in stocks of some

companies. I always invest only amounts that are multiples of Rs 1 lakh in
the stock of any company. If I can choose from among the stocks of five
different companies, In how many ways can I invest the entire amount that I
have?
a. 252 b. 250
c. 1001 d. 1089 21. There are eight boxes of chocolates, each box containing distinct number of
chocolates from 1 to 8. In how many ways four of these boxes can be given
to four persons (one boxes to each) such that the first person gets more
chocolates than each of the three, the second person gets more chocolates
than the third as well as the fourth persons and the third person gets more
chocolates than fourth person?
a. 35 b. 70
c. 105 d. 210

19. For a Lofoya Assets, a selection committee is to be chosen consisting of 5 ex-

technicians. Now there are 12 representatives from four zones. It has further
been decided that if Mr. Lofs is selected, Relk and Lemini will not be
selected and vice-versa. In how many ways it can be done?
a. 572 b. 672
c. 472 d. 372

22. In how many ways can seven friends be seated in a row having 35 seats,
such that no two friends occupy adjacent seats?
a. 29P7 b. 29C7
c. 28P7 d. 29C7

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23. How many ways can 10 letters be posted in 5 post boxes, if each of the post
boxes can take more than 10 letters?
a. 510 b. 105
c. 10P5 d. 10C5

24. There are 2 brothers among a group of 20 persons. In how many ways can
the group be arranged around a circle so that there is exactly one person
between the two brothers?
a. 2 × 17! b. 18! × 18 25. a,b,c,d and e are five natural numbers. Find the number of ordered sets
c. 19! × 18 (a,b,c,d,e) possible such that a+b+c+d+e=64.
d. 2 × 18! e. 2 × 17! × 17! a. 64C5 b. 63C4
c. 65C4 d. 63C5

26. There are five cards lying on the table in one row. Five numbers from among
1 to 100 have to be written on them, one number per card, such that the
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 difference between the numbers on any two adjacent cards is not divisible
by 4. The remainder when each of the 5 numbers is divided by 4 is written
down on another card (the 6th card) in order. How many sequences can be
written down on the 6th card?
a. 210 b. 210×33
c. 4×34 d. 4233

27. From a total of six men and four ladies a committee of three is to be formed.
If Mrs. X is not willing to join the committee in which Mr. Y is a member,
whereas Mr.Y is willing to join the committee only if Mrs Z is included, how
many such committee are possible?
29. Jay wants to buy a total of 100 plants using exactly a sum of Rs 1000. He can
a. 138 b. 128
buy Rose plants at Rs 20 per plant or marigold or Sun flower plants at Rs 5
c. 112 d. 91
and Re 1 per plant respectively. If he has to buy at least one of each plant
and cannot buy any other type of plants, then in how many distinct ways can
Jay make his purchase?
a. 2 b. 3
c. 4 d. 5

28. Goldenrod and No Hope are in a horse race with 6 contestants. How many
different arrangements of finishes are there if No Hope always finishes
before Goldenrod and if all of the horses finish the race?
a. 700 b. 360
c. 120
d. 24 e. 21

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 31. A local delivery company has three packages to deliver to three different
homes. if the packages are delivered at random to the three houses, how
many ways are there for at least one house to get the wrong package?
a. 3 b. 5
c. 3! d. 5!

30. How many words of 4 consonants and 3 vowels can be made from 12
consonants and 4 vowels, if all the letters are different?
a. 16C7×7! b. 12C4×4C3×7!
c. 12C3×4C4 d. 12C4×4C3

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 together and raising them to the chest level). What is the total number of
handshakes and namaskar's in the party?
a. 760 b. 1140
c. 780 d. 720

34. In how many ways can a leap year have 53 Sundays?

a. 365C7 b. 7
c. 4 d. 2

32. How many natural numbers less than a lakh can be formed with the digits
0,6 and 9?
a. 242 b. 243
c. 728 d. 729
35. In a certain laboratory, chemicals are identified by a colour-coding system.
There are 20 different chemicals. Each one is coded with either a single
colour or a unique two-colour pair. If the order of colours in the pairs does
not matter, what is the minimum number of different colours needed to
code all 20 chemicals with either a single colour or a unique pair of colours?
a. 7 b. 6
c. 5 d. 8

33. There are 20 couples in a party. Every person greets every person except his
or her spouse. People of the same sex shake hands and those of opposite sex
greet each other with a namaskar (It means bringing one's own palms

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36. Six boxes are numbered 1,2,34,5 and 6. Each box must contain either a white
ball or a black ball. At least one box must contain a black ball and boxes 39. The number of ways which a mixed double tennis game can be arranged
containing black balls must be consecutively numbered. find the total amongst 9 married couples if no husband and wife play in the same is:
number of ways of placing the balls. a. 1514 b. 1512
a. 15 b. 20 c. 3024 d. 3028
c. 21 d. 36

37. In how many ways can 6 green toys and 6 red toys be arranged, such that 2
particular red toys are never together whereas 2 particular green toys are
always together?
a. 11! × 2! b. 9! × 90
c. 4 × 10! d. 18 × 10! 40. Ten coins are tossed simultaneously. In how many of the outcomes will the
third coin turn up a head?
a. 210 b. 29
c. 3×28 d. None of these

38. There are five comics numbered from 1 to 5. In how many ways can they be
arranged, so that part-1 and part-3 are never together?
a. 48 b. 72
c. 120 d. 210

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 can the book shelf be filled such that book on the same languages are not
put adjacently.
a. 40P66! b. 10×95
c. 6P42! d. 4×35

43. In how many ways can the letters of the word ABACUS be rearranged such
that the vowels always appear together?
41. There are 5 Rock songs, 6 Carnatic songs and 3 Indi pop songs. How many
a. 6!2 b. 3!×3!
different albums can be formed using the above repertoire if the albums
c. 4!2
should contain at least 1 Rock song and 1 Carnatic song?
d. 4!×3!2! e. 5!2
a. 15624 b. 16384
c. 6144 d. 240

44. If the letters of the word SACHIN are arranged in all possible ways and these
words are written out as in dictionary, then the word ‘SACHIN’ appears at
serial number:
a. 601 b. 600
c. 603 d. 602
42. A book-shelf can accommodate 6 books from left to right. If 10 identical
books on each of the languages A,B,C and D are available, In how many ways
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45. In how many ways can 3 men and their wives be made stand in a line such 47. In how many ways can the letters of the word MANAGEMENT be rearranged
that none of the 3 men stand in a position that is ahead of his wife? so that the two As do not appear together?
a. 6!3!×3!×3! b. 6!2!×2! a. 10! - 2! b. 9! - 2!
c. 6!2!×2!×2! d. 6!2!×3! c. 10! - 9! d. None of these

46. In a cricket match if a batsman score 0,1,2,34,or 6 runs of a ball, then find
the number or different sequences in which he can score exactly 30 runs of
an over. Assume that an over consists of only 6 balls and there were no extra
and no run outs.
a. 86 b. 71
c. 56 d. 65

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 49. A student is required to answer 6 out of 10 questions divided into two
groups each containing 5 questions. He is not permitted to attempt more
than 4 from each group. In how many ways can he make the choice?
a. 210 b. 150
c. 100 d. 200

48. How many numbers are there between 100 and 1000 such that at least one 50. While packing for a business trip Mr. Debashis has packed 3 pairs of shoes, 4
of their digits is 6? pants, 3 half-pants,6 shirts, 3 sweater and 2 jackets. The outfit is defined as
a. 200 b. 225 consisting of a pair of shoes, a choice of "lower wear" (either a pant or a
c. 252 d. 120 half-pant), a choice of "upper wear" (it could be a shirt or a sweater or both)
and finally he may or may not choose to wear a jacket. How many different
outfits are possible?
a. 567 b. 1821
c. 743 d. 1701

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51. How many positive integers 'n' can be form using the digits 3,4,4,5,6,6,7, if
we want 'n' to exceed 60,00,000?
a. 320 b. 360
c. 540 d. 720

2. How many integers, greater than 999 but not greater than 4000, can be
formed with the digits 0, 1, 2, 3 and 4, if repetition of digits is allowed?
a. 499 b. 500
c. 375
d. 376 e. 501

LEVEL 3
1. The number of ways of arranging n students in a row such that no two boys
sit together and no two girls sit together is m(m > 100). If one more student
is added, then number of ways of arranging as above increases by 200%. The
value of n is
a. 12 b. 8
c. 9 d. 10

3. How many five digit positive integers that are divisible by 3 can be formed
using the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, without any of the digits getting repeating
a. 15 b. 96
c. 216
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 d. 120 e. 625

5. How many factors of 25×36×52 are perfect squares?

a. 20 b. 24
c. 30 d. 36

6. In how many rearrangements of the word AMAZED, is the letter 'E'

4. There are 10 seats around a circular table. If 8 men and 2 women have to
positioned in between the 2 'A's (Not necessarily flanked)?
seated around a circular table, such that no two women have to be
a. 24 b. 72
separated by at least one man. If P and Q denote the respective number of
c. 120 d. 240
ways of seating these people around a table when seats are numbered and
unnumbered, then P : Q equals
a. 9 : 1 b. 72 : 1
c. 10 : 1 d. 8 : 1

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7. a, b, c are three distinct integers from 2 to 10 (both inclusive). Exactly one of
ab, bc and ca is odd. abc is a multiple of 4. The arithmetic mean of a and b is
an integer and so is the arithmetic mean of a, b and c. How many such
triplets are possible (unordered triplets) .
a. 4 b. 5
c. 6 d. 7

8. Bob is about to hang his 8 shirts in the wardrobe. He has four different styles
of shirt, two identical ones of each particular style. How many different
arrangements are possible if no two identical shirts are next to one another?
a. 764 b. 864
c. 964 d. 1064

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 the boxes containing green balls are consecutively numbered. The total
number of ways in which this can be done is:
a. 5 b. 21
c. 33
d. 60 e. 27

9. If F(x, n) be the number of ways of distributing "x" toys to "n" children so

that each child receives at the most 2 toys then F(4, 3) = _______?
a. 3 b. 6
c. 5 d. 4 11. Company BELIANCE hosted a party for 8 members of Company AXIAL. In the
party no member of AXIAL had interacted with more than three members of
BELIANCE. Out of all the members of BELIANCE, three members – each
interacted with four members of AXIAL and the remaining members – each
interacted with two members of AXIAL. The greatest possible number of
members of company BELIANCE in the party is:
a. 9 b. 10
c. 11 d. 12

10. There are 6 boxes numbered 1,2,...6. Each box is to be filled up either with a
red or a green ball in such a way that at least 1 box contains a green ball and

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12. Each of the 11 letters A, H, I, M, O, T, U, V, W, X and Z appears same when
looked at in a mirror. They are called symmetric letters. Other letters in the
alphabet are asymmetric letters. How many three letter computer
passwords can be formed (no repetition allowed) with at least one
symmetric letter?
a. 12000 b. 12870
c. 13000 d. None of these

14. When four fair dice are rolled simultaneously, in how many outcomes will at
least one of the dice show 3?
a. 155 b. 620
c. 671 d. 625

13. A seven-digit number comprises of only 2's and 3's. How many of these are
multiples of 12?
a. 1 b. 11
c. 21 d. 47 15. Some boys are standing on a circle at distinct points. Each possible pair of
persons, who are not adjacent, sing a 3 minute song, one pair after another.
The total time taken by all the pairs to sing is 1 hour. Find the number of
boys?
a. 6 b. 7

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 c. 8 d. 9

18. In how many ways can a selection of 5 letters be made out of 5 A's, 4B's,
3C's, 2D's and 1E's?
16. Suppose you have a currency, named Miso, in three denominations: 1 Miso, a. 70 b. 71
10 Misos and 50 Misos. In how many ways can you pay a bill of 107 Misos? c. 15C5 d. 15P5
a. 17 b. 16
c. 18 d. 19

17. How many factors of 24×53×74 are odd numbers?

a. 20 b. 24
c. 30 d. 36

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 TIME AND WORK
LEVEL 1
1. A can do piece of work in 30 days while B alone can do it in 40 days. In how
many days can A and B working together do it?
a. 1617 b. 1717
c. 1817 d. 1917

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2. To complete a piece of work A and B take 8 days, B and C 12 days. A, B and C
take 6 days. A and C will take :
a. 7 Days b. 7.5 Days
c. 8 Days d. 8.5 Days

5. A and B together can complete a piece of work in 35 days while A alone can
complete the same work in 60 days. B alone will be able to complete the
same working in:
a. 74 Days b. 80 Days
c. 84 Days d. 90 Days

3. Two pipes can fill the cistern in 10hr and 12 hr respectively, while the third
empty it in 20hr. If all pipes are opened simultaneously, then the cistern will
be filled in
a. .5 hr b. 8 hr
c. 8.5 hr d. 10 hr

6. Four men and three women can do a job in 6 days. When five men and six
4. Mr. Ram is on tour and he has Rs 360 for his expenses. If he exceeds his tour women work on the same job, the work gets completed in 4 days. How
by 4 days he must cut down daily expenses by Rs 3. The number of days of many days will a woman take to do the job, if she works alone on it?
Mr. Ram's tour programme is a. 18 b. 36
a. 28 Days b. 24 Days c. 54 d. None of these
c. 22 Days d. 20 Days

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 Common information for questions numbered 8 and 9
Working together, A and B can do a job in 6 days. B and C can do the same job in
7. A pump can be used either to fill or to empty a tank. The capacity of the tank 10 days, while C and A can do it in 7.5 days.
is3600m3. The emptying capacity of the pump is 10m3/min higher than its
filling capacity. What is the emptying capacity of the pump if the pump 8. Common data question ½
needs 12 more minutes to fill the tank than to empty it? How many days will it take if all A, B and C work together to complete the
a. 10m3min b. 6m3min job?
c. 45m3min d. 90m3min a. 8 b. 5
c. 3 d. 7

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9. Common data question 2/2
How many days will it take for A alone to complete the job?
a. 8 b. 6
c. 10 d. 20 10. Anil does a work in 90 days, Bittu in 40 days and Chintu in 12 days. They
work one after another for a day each, starting with Anil followed by Bittu
and then by Chintu. If the total wages received are Rs 360 and Anil, Bittu,
Chintu share them in the ratio of the work done, find their respective
individual wages.
a. Rs 40, Rs 60 and Rs 260 b. Rs 36, Rs 81 and Rs 243
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 c. Rs 42, Rs 86 and Rs 232 d. Rs 38, Rs 88 and Rs 234

11. There are 12 pipes attached to a tank. Some of them are fill pipes and some
are drain pipes. Each of the fill pipes can fill the tank in 12 hours, while each
of the drain pipes will take 24 hours to drain a full tank completely. If all the
pipes are kept open when the tank was empty, it takes 2 hours for the tank
to overflow. How many of these pipes are drain pipes?
a. 6 b. 11
c. 4 d. 7

12. A bath can be filled by the cold water pipe in 10 min and by hot water pipe in
15 min (independently each). A person leaves the bathroom after turning on
both pipes simultaneously and returns at the moments when the bath
should be full. Finding, however, that the waste pipe has been open he now
closes it. In 4 min more, bath is full. In what time would be the waste pipe
empty it?
a. 9 min b. 12 min
c. 15 min d. 14 min

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 14. When Abhinav and Bipul are working alone, they can complete a piece of
work in 25 days and 30 days respectively. On day 1, Bipul started the work
and Abhinav joined B from day 3 on-wards. Find after how many days will
the work be completed?
a. 13 b. 11
c. 15 d. 16

13. The digging work of the DMRC on the Adohini-Andheriamore stretch

requires Twenty-four men to complete the work in sixteen days. As a part of
the task if DMRC were to hire Thirty-two women, they can complete the
same work in twenty-four days. Sixteen men and sixteen women started
working and worked for twelve days. Due to time bound schedule the work
had to be completed in remaining 2 days, for which how many more men
are to be employed? 15. In Nuts And Bolts factory, one machine produces only nuts at the rate of 100
a. 48 b. 24 nuts per minute and needs to be cleaned for 5 minutes after production of
c. 36 d. 16 every 1000 nuts. Another machine produces only bolts at the rate of 75 bolts
per minute and needs to cleaned for10 minutes after production of every
1500 bolts. If both the machines start production at the same time, what is
the minimum duration required for producing 9000 pairs of nuts and bolts?
a. 130 minutes b. 135 minutes
c. 170 minutes d. 180 minutes

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 17. Two workers A and B manufactured a batch of identical parts. A worked for
2 hours and B worked for 5 hours and they completed half the job. Then
16. A can build up a structure in 8 days and B can break it is 3 days. A has
they worked together for another 3 hours and they had to do (1/20)th of the
worked for 4 days and then B joined to work with A for another 2 days only.
job. How many hours’ time does B take to complete the job, if he worked
In how many days will A alone build up the remaining part of the structure?
alone?
a. 10 b. 9
a. 24 b. 12
c. 12 d. None of these
c. 15 d. 30

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 4 days before the completion of the work respectively. In how many days
was the work completed?
a. 101315 b. 12
c. 15 d. 10215

20. Pipes A and B can fill a tank in 12 min and 16 min respectively. Both are kept
open for 'n' min and then B is closed and A fills the rest of the tank in 5 min.
The time 'n' after which B was closed is:
a. 3 min b. 2 min
c. 5 min d. 4 min

18. A and B borrowed a tractor for 23 days. A ploughed 12 acres per day for a
certain number of days and then Bused it to plough 15 acres per day for the
remaining days. If they paid Rs 3,000 and Rs 2,000 respectively, for how
many days did A use the tractor?
a. 12 b. 15
c. 16 d. 18

21. A man can do a piece of work in 60 hours. If he takes his son with him and
both work together then the work is finished in 40 hours. How many hours
will the son take to do the same job, if he worked alone on the job?
a. 20 b. 60
c. 100 d. 120

19. A, B and C, can complete a piece of work individually in 15, 30 and 40 days
respectively. They started the work together and the A and B let 2 days and

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 filled completely with water gets emptied in 4 minutes. In how much time
can the tap fill the tank, if there was no hole at the bottom at the tank?
a. 8 min b. 2 min
c. 4 min d. 6 min

24. A can complete a project in 20 days and B can complete the same project in
30 days. If A and B start working on the project together and A quits 10 days
22. Aditya, Vedus and Yuvraj alone can do a job for 6 weeks, 9 weeks and 12 before the project is completed, in how many days will the project be
weeks respectively. They work together for 2 weeks. Then, Aditya leaves the completed?
job. Vedus leaves the job a week earlier to the completion of the work. The a. 18 b. 27
job would be completed in: c. 26.67 d. 16
a. 4 weeks b. 5 weeks
c. 7 weeks d. None of these

25. A red light flashes 3 times per minute and a green light flashes 5 times in two
minutes at regular intervals. If both lights start flashing at the same time,
how many times do they flash together in each hour?
23. Due to hole at the bottom of the tank, a tap takes 2 more minutes to a. 30 b. 29
completely fill the tank. Due to leakage of water through this hole, a bucket c. 31 d. 32

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26. A, B and C can do a work in 5 days, 10 days and 15 days respectively. They
started together to do the work but after 2 days A and B left. C did the
remaining work (in days)
a. 1 b. 3
c. 5 d. 4 28. Pipe A can fill a tank in 'a' hours. On account of a leak at the bottom of the
tank it takes thrice as long to fill the tank. How long will the leaks at the
bottom of the tank take to empty a full tank, when pipe A is kept closed?
a. 32a hours b. 23a hours
c. 43a hours d. 34a hours

27. Jay and Anup can do a job, each working alone in 30 and 15 days
respectively. Jay started the work and after a few days, Anup joined him.
They completed the work in 18 days from the start. After how many days did
Anup join A?
a. 6 b. 10
c. 12 d. 14

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29. Pavan builds an overhead tank in his house, which has three taps attached to
it. While the first tap can fill the tank in 12 hours, the second one takes one
and a half times more than the first one to fill it completely. A third tap is
attached to the tank which empties it in 36 hours. Now one day, in order to
fill the tank, Pavan opens the first tap and after two hours opens the second
tap as well. However, at the end of the sixth hour, he realizes that the third
tap has been kept open right from the beginning and promptly closes it.
What will be the total time required to fill the tank?
a. 8 hours 48 minutes b. 9 hours 12 minutes
c. 9 hours 36 minutes d. 8 hours 30 minutes

31. Ram starts working on a job and works on it for 12 days and completes 40%
of the work. To help him complete the work, he employs Ravi and together
they work for another 12 days and the work gets completed. How much
more efficient is Ram than Ravi?
a. 50% b. 200%
c. 125% d. 100%

30. Ram, who is half as efficient as Krish, will take 24 days to complete a work if
he worked alone. If Ram and Krish worked together, how many days will
they take to complete the work?
a. 16 b. 12
c. 8 d. 18

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 33. Suppose q is the number of workers employed by Simplex Ltd. for one of its
projects. The average cost of production c is given by c=q23+5q2−150+75Q.
In the interest of the company, it should employ __________ workers.
a. 5 b. 4
c. 7 d. 10

34. Pipe A usually fills a tank in 2 hours. On account of a leak at the bottom of
the tank, it takes pipe A 30 more minutes to fill the tank. How long will the
leak take to empty a full tank if pipe A is shut?
a. 2 hours 30 minutes b. 5 hours
c. 4 hours d. 10 hours

32. Two taps can fill a tank in 12 min and 18 min respectively. Both the taps are
kept open for 2 min and then the tap that fills the tank in 12 min is turned
off. In how many more minutes will the tank be filled?
a. 9 b. 12
c. 13 d. 10

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 36. Shyam can do a job in 20 days, Ram in 30 days and Singhal in 60 days. If
Shyam is helped by Ram and Singhal every 3rd day, how many days will it
take for them to complete the job?
a. 12 b. 16
c. 15 d. 10

37. 12 men cam complete a piece of work in 36 days, 18 women can complete
the same piece of work in 60 days. 8 men and 20 women work together for
20 days. If only women were to complete the remaining piece of work in 4
day, how many women would be required?
35. Pankaj can produce one unit in 15 days, while Bharti can do the same in 12 a. 70 b. 28
days. After producing one unit, working together, they received Rs. 90, c. 66 d. 40
which they distributed amongst themselves in proportional to their
efficiency. If they work for 20 days, and sell the produce, then Bharti should
receive
a. Rs. 120 b. Rs. 140
c. Rs. 150 d. Rs. 160

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 2. If A and B work together, they will complete a job in 7.5 days. However, if A
works alone and completes half the job and then B takes over and completes
the remaining half alone, they will be able to complete the job in 20 days.
How long will B alone take to do the job if A is more efficient than B?
LEVEL 3
a. 20 days b. 40 days
1. Three pipes A,B and C are connected to a tank. These pipes can fill the tank
c. 36 days d. 30 days
separately in 5hr, 10 hr and 15hr respectively. When all the three pipes were
opened simultaneously, it was observed that pipes A and B were supplying
water at (34)th of their normal rates for the 1st hour after which they
supplied water at normal rate. Pipe C supplied water at (23)rd of its normal
rate for 1st 2 hour, after which it supplied at its normal rate. In how much
time, tank would be filled?
a. 1.05 hr b. 2.05 hr
c. 3.05 hr d. None of these

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 3. Abhishek starts to paint a fence on one day. On the second day, two more
friend of Abhishek join him. On the third day 3 more friends of him join him
and so on. If the fence is completely painted this way in exactly 20 days, then
find the number of days in which 10 girls painting together can paint the
fence completely, given that every girl can paint twice as fast as Abhishek
and his friends(Boys)?(Assume that the friends of Abhishek are all boys).
a. 20 b. 40
c. 45 d. 77

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4. A and B undertake to do a piece of work for Rs 600. A alone can do it in 6
days while B alone can do it in 8 days. With the help of C, they can finish it in
3 days, Find the share of C?
a. 70 b. 75
c. 80 d. 85

6. Among four persons Prince, Queen, Raj and Sashi. Prince takes thrice as
5. There are 12 pipes that are connected to a tank. Some of them are fill pipes much time as Queen to complete a piece of work. Queen takes thrice as
and the others are drain pipes. Each of the fill pipes can fill the tank in 8 much time as Raj and Raj takes thrice as much time as Sashi to complete the
hours and each of the drain pipes can drain the tank completely in 6 hours. If same work. One group of three of the four men can complete the work in 13
all the fill pipes and drain pipes are kept open, an empty tank gets filled in 24 days while another group of three can do so in 31 days. Which is the group
hours. How many of the 12 pipes are fill pipes? that takes 13 days?
a. 6 b. 8 a. Prince, Queen, Raj b. Prince, Queen, Sashi
c. 7 d. 5 c. Queen, Raj, Sashi d. Prince, Raj, Sashi

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7. Pipe A fills a tank of 700 litres capacity at the rate of 40 litres a minute.
Another pipe B fills the same tank at the rate of 30 litres a minute. A pipe at
the bottom of the tank drains the tank at the rate of 20 litres a minute. If
pipe A is kept open for a minute and then closed and pipe B is kept open for
a minute and then closed and then pipe C is kept open for a minute and then
closed and the cycle repeated, how long will it take for the empty tank to
overflow?
a. 42 minutes b. 14 minutes
c. 39 minutes d. None of these

8. A man takes 20 days to reach the point B under normal circumstances. But,
due to the increasingly hostile weather conditions the distance they travel
every day reduces by 20%. In how many days would the man reach the point
B, taking into consideration weather conditions?
a. 25 b. 50
c. 100 d. None of these

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9. A tank is fitted with 8 pipes, some of them that fill the tank and others that
are waste pipe meant to empty the tank. Each of the pipes that fill the tank
can fill it in 8 hours, while each of those that empty the tank can empty it in
6 hours. If all the pipes are kept open when the tank is full, it will take exactly
6 hours for the tank to empty. How many of these are fill pipes?
a. 2 b. 4
c. 6 d. 5
10. There are four varieties of pipes Pipe A, Pipe B, Pipe C and Pipe D. Each pipe
can be either an inlet pipe or an outlet pipe but cannot be both. there are 5
tanks of equal volume.
Tank P is filled by Pipe A and Pipe B
Tank Q is filled by Pipe A and Pipe C
Tank R is filled by Pipe A and Pipe D
Tank S is filled by Pipe B and Pipe C
Tank T is filled by Pipe C and Pipe D
Time taken for the first 3 tanks (P, Q and R) to get filled are in the ratio
1:2:4and the time taken for the S and T tanks to be filled are in the ratio
7:10. Find the outlet pipes among the 4 varieties.
a. Pipes C and D b. Pipe D
c. Pipes A and B d. Pipe A
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 12. A and B working together can finish a job in T days. If A works alone and
completes the job, he will take T+5 days. If B works alone and completes the
same job, he will take T+45 days. What is T?
a. 25 Days b. 60 Days
c. 15 Days d. None of these

11. A cylindrical overhead tank is filled by two pumps P1 and P2. P1 can fill the
tank in 8 hr while P2 can fill the tank in 12 hr. There is a pipe P3 which can
empty the tank in 8 hr. Both the pumps are opened simultaneously. The
supervisor of the tank, before going out on a work, sets a timer to open P3
when the tank is half filled so that the tank is exactly filled up by the time he
is back. Due to technical fault P3 opens when the tank is one-third filled. If
the supervisor comes back as per the plan what percent of the tank is till 13. Three professors Dr. Gupta, Dr. Sharma, Dr. Singh are evaluating answer
empty? script of a subject. Dr. Gupta is 40% more efficient than Dr. Sharma, who is
a. 15% b. 12% 20% more efficient than Dr. Singh. Dr. Gupta takes 10 days less than Dr.
c. 10% d. None of these Sharma to complete the evaluation work. Dr. Gupta starts the evaluation
work and works for 10 days and then Dr. Sharma takes over. Dr. Sharma
evaluates for next 15 days and then stops. In how many days, Dr. Singh can
complete the remaining evaluation work?
a. 7.2 days b. 9.5 days
c. 11.5 days d. None of these
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14. X alone can do a piece of work in 15 days and Y alone can do it in 10 days. X
and Y undertook to do it for Rs. 720. With the help of Z they finished it in 5
days. How much is paid to Z?
a. Rs. 360 b. Rs. 120
c. Rs. 240 d. Rs. 300

15. A work is done by 30 workers not all of them have the same capacity to
work. Every day exactly 2 workers, do the work with no pair of workers
working together twice. Even after all possible pairs have worked once, all
the workers together works for two more days to finish the work. Find the
number of days in which all the workers together will finish the whole work?
a. 31 b. 29
c. 41 d. 48

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 17. Ramesh has two examinations on Wednesday - Engineering mathematics in
the morning and Engineering Drawing in the afternoon. He has a fixed
amount of time to read the textbooks of both these subjects on Tuesday.
During this time he can read 80 pages of Engineering Mathematics and 100
pages of Engineering drawing. Alternatively, he can also read 50 pages of
Engineering Mathematics and 250 pages of Engineering drawing. Assume
that the amount of time it takes to read one page of the textbook of either
subject is constant. Ramesh is confident about Engineering Drawing and
wants to devote full time to reading Engineering Mathematics. The number
of Engineering Mathematics text book pages he can read on Tuesday is :
a. 500 b. 300
c. 100 d. 60

16. A factory produces nuts and bolts. A machine in it produces only nuts while
another produces only bolts. The machine producing only nuts produces 400
nuts per minute and need to be cleared for 15 minutes after production of
2000 nuts. The machine producing only bolts produces 300 bolts per minute
and needs to be cleared for 15 minutes after production of 3000 bolts. Find
the minimum time required to produce 12000 pairs of bolts and nuts if both
machines are operated simultaneously.
a. 85 minutes b. 105 minutes
c. 100 minutes d. 115 minutes

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PERCENTAGES
LEVEL 1
1. In an acoustics class, 120 students are male and 100 students are female.
25% of the male students and 20% of the female students are engineering
students. 20% of the male engineering students and 25% of the female
engineering students passed the final exam. What percentage of engineering
students passed the exam?
a. 5% b. 10%
c. 16% d. 22%

2. A batsman scored 110 runs which included 3 boundaries and 8 sixes. What
percent of his total score did he make by running between the wickets?
a. 45% b. 45511%
c. 54611% d. 55%

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 5. Two students appeared at an examination. One of them secured 9 marks
more than the other and his marks was 56% of the sum of their marks. The
marks obtained by them are:
a. 39, 30 b. 41, 32
c. 42, 33 d. 43, 34

3. If b equals 10% of a and c equals 20% of b, then which one of the following
equals 30% of c?
a. 0% b. 5%
c. 10% d. 40%

6. If A = x% of y and B = y% of x, then which of the following is true?

a. A is smaller than B.
b. A is greater than B.
c. Relationship between A and B cannot be determined.
d. If x is smaller than y, then A is greater than B.
e. None of these

4. 8 is 4% of a, and 4 is 8% of b. c equals b/a. What is the value of c?

a. 132 b. 14
c. 1 d. 4

7. Two numbers A and B are such that the sum of 5% of A and 4% of B is two-
third of the sum of 6% of A and 8% of B. Find the ratio of A : B.
a. 2 : 3 b. 1 : 1
c. 3 : 4 d. 4 : 3

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 10. The price of an item changed from Rs. 120 to Rs. 100. Then later the price
decreased again from Rs. 100 to Rs. 80. Which can be said about the two
decreases in percentage term?
a. 1st decrease is larger b. 2nd decrease is larger
c. both are equal d. nothing can be said

8. In an election between two candidates, one got 55% of the total valid votes,
20% of the votes were invalid. If the total number of votes was 7500, the
number of valid votes that the other candidate got, was:
a. 2700 b. 2900
c. 3000 d. 3100 LEVEL 2
1. In an election contested by two parties, Party D secured 12% of the total
votes more than Party R. If party R got 132,000 votes, by how many votes
did it lose the election?
a. 300,000 b. 168,000
c. 36,000 d. 24,000

9. If 50% of x equals the sum of y and 20, then what is the value of x – 2y?
a. 20 b. 40
c. 60 d. 80

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 4. When processing flower-nectar into honeybees' extract, a considerable
amount of water gets reduced. How much flower-nectar must be processed
to yield 1kg of honey, if nectar contains 50% water, and the honey obtained
from this nectar contains 15% water?
a. 1.5 kgs b. 1.7 kgs
c. 3.33 kgs d. None of these

2. A vendor sells 60 percent of apples he had and throws away 15 percent of

the remainder. Next day he sells 50 percent of the remainder and throws
away the rest. What percent of his apples does the vendor throw?
a. 17 b. 23
c. 77 d. None of these

5. 30% of the men are more than 25 years old and 80% of the men are less
than or equal to 50 years old. 20% of all men play football. If 20% of the men
above the age of 50 play football, what percentage of the football players
are less than or equal to 50 years?
a. 15% b. 20%
c. 80% d. 70%

3. If the cost price of 20 articles is equal to the selling price of 16 articles, What
is the percentage of profit or loss that the merchant makes?
a. 20% Profit b. 25% Loss
c. 25% Profit d. 33.33% Loss

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6. If the price of petrol increases by 25%, by how much must a user cut down
his consumption so that his expenditure on petrol remains constant?
a. 25% b. 16.67%
c. 20% d. 33.33%

7. A student multiplied a number by 3/5instead of 5/3. What is the percentage

error in the calculation?
a. 34% b. 44%
c. 54% d. 64%

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8. Ritesh & Co. generated revenue of Rs. 1,250 in 2006. This was 12.5% of its
gross revenue. In 2007, the gross revenue grew by Rs. 2,500. What is the
percentage increase in the revenue in 2007?
a. 12.5% b. 20%
c. 25% d. 50%

9. Gauri went to the stationers and bought things worth Rs. 25, out of which 30
paise went on sales tax on taxable purchases. If the tax rate was 6%, then
what was the cost of the tax free items?
a. Rs. 15 b. Rs. 15.70
c. Rs. 19.70 d. Rs. 20

LEVEL 3
1. B as a percentage of A is equal to A as a percentage of (A + B). Find B as a
percentage of A.
a. 62% b. 73%
c. 41% d. 57%

10. If (x+yx−y)=43 and x ≠ 0, then what percentage (to the nearest integer) of x
+ 3y isx – 3y ?
a. 20% b. 25%
c. 30% d. 40%

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 3. A shepherd has 1 million sheep at the beginning of Year 2000. The numbers
2. If the price of petrol increases by 25% and Raj intends to spend only an grow by x% (x > 0) during the year. A famine hits his village in the next year
additional 15% on petrol, by how much % will he reduce the quantity of and many of his sheep die. The sheep population decreases by y% during
petrol purchased? 2001 and at the beginning of 2002 the shepherd finds that he is left with 1
a. 10% b. 12% million sheep. Which of the following is correct?
c. 8% d. 6.67% a. x > y b. y > x
c. x = y d. Cannot be determined

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4. A candidate who gets 20% marks fails by 10 marks but another candidate
Common information for questions numbered 6 and 7
who gets 42% marks gets 12% more than the passing marks. Find the
KK, an aspiring entrepreneur wanted to set up a pen drive manufacturing unit.
maximum marks.
Since technology was changing very fast, he wanted to carefully the demand and
a. 50 b. 100
the likely profits before investing. Market survey indicated that he would be able
c. 150 d. 200
to sell 1 lac units before customers shifted to different gadgets. KK realized that
he had no incur two kinds of costs – fixed costs (the costs which do not change,
irrespective of number of units of pen drives produced) and variable costs (=
variable cost per unit multiplied by number of units). KK expected fixed cost to be
Rs. 40 lac and variable cost to be Rs. 100 per unit. He expected each pen drive to
be sold at Rs. 200
6. Common Data Question 1/2
What would be the break-even point (defined as no profit, no loss situation)
5. Peter got 30% of the maximum marks in an examination and failed by 10 for KK’s factory in term of sales?
marks. However, Paul who took the same examination got 40% of the total a. Rs 80 lac b. Rs 100 lac
marks and got 15 marks more than the passing marks. What were the c. Rs 120 lac d. Rs 140 lac
passing marks in the examination?
a. 35 b. 250
c. 75 d. 85

7. Common Data Question 2/2

KK was skeptical that per unit variable cost might increase by 10% though
the demand might remain same. What will be the expected changes in profit
in such a case?
a. Profit will increase by 16.67% b. Profit will increase will
by 15.75%
c. Profit would decrease by 15.75% d. Profit will decrease by
16.67%

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8. A shopkeeper gives a discount of 12%, whereas a customer makes cash
payment. Let 'p' denotes the percentage, above the cost price, that the
shopkeeper must mark up the price of the articles ['p' is an integer] in order
to make a profit of x% (x < 100). Which of the following is the possible
value(s) of x?
a. 54 b. 76
10. The volume of the sphere Q is 3764% less than the volume of sphere P and
c. 96 d. 32
the volume of sphere R is 1927% less than that of sphere Q. By what % is the
surface area of sphere R less than the surface area of sphere P?
a. 77.77 % b. 87.5 %
c. 75 % d. 67.5 %

9. Two persons Raj and Ramu started working for a company in similar jobs on
January 1, 1991. Raj's initial monthly salary was Rs 400, which increases by
Rs 40 after every year. Ramu's initial monthly salary was Rs 500 which
increases by Rs 20 after every six months. If these arrangements continue till
December 31, 200. Find the total salary they received during that period.
a. Rs 1,08,000 b. Rs 1,44,000
c. Rs 1,32,000 d. Rs 1,52,400

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11. Each person in a group of 110 investors has investments in either equities or
securities or both. Exactly 25% of the investors in equities have
investments in securities, and exactly 40% of the investors in securities
have investments in equities. How many have investments in equities?
a. 65 b. 80
c. 120 d. 135

12. A Techno company has 14 machines of equal efficiency in its factory. The
annual manufacturing costs are Rs 42,000 and establishment charges are Rs
12,000. The annual output of the company is Rs 70,000. The annual output
and manufacturing costs are directly proportional to the number of
machines. The shareholders get 12.5% profit, which is directly proportional

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 to the annual output of the company. If 7.14% machines remain closed
throughout the year, then the percentage decrease in the amount of profit
of the shareholders would be:
a. 12% b. 12.5%
c. 13% d. None of these

13. A shopkeeper sells three items P,Q and R and incurs a loss of 21%, 11% and
10% respectively. The overall loss percentage on selling P and Q items is
14.33% and that of Q and R items is 10.4%. Find the overall loss percentage
on selling the three items?
a. 15% b. 12.16%
c. 13.4% d. 12.5%

14. A salesman sells two kinds of trousers: cotton and woollen. A pair of cotton
trousers is sold at 30% profit and a pair of woollen trousers is sold at 50%
profit. The salesman has calculated that if he sells 100% more woollen
trousers than cotton trousers, his overall profit will be 45%. However he
ends up selling 50% more cotton trousers than woollen trousers. What will
be his overall profit?
a. 37.5% b. 40%
c. 41% d. 42.33%

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 tripled, it will be possible to exactly make up for the shortfall. If the stock of
provisions left is doubled instead of being tripled, and simultaneously the
strength of the Mantu is decreased by 25%, then the provisions will fall short
by
a. 2 days b. 1 days
c. 3 days d. 4 days

15. A textile manufacturing firm employees 50 looms. It makes fabrics for a

branded company. The aggregate sales value of the output of the 50 looms
is Rs 5,00,000 and the monthly manufacturing expenses is Rs 1,50,000. 17. A small and medium enterprise imports two components A and B from
Assume that each loom contributes equally to the sales and manufacturing Taiwan and China respectively and assembles them with other components
expenses are evenly spread over the number of looms. Monthly to form a toy. Component A contributes to 10% of production cost.
establishment charges are Rs 75000. If one loom breaks down and remains Component B contributes to 20% of the production cost. Usually, the
idle for one month, the decrease in profit is: company sells this toy at 20% above the production cost. Due to increase in
a. Rs 13,000 b. Rs 10,000 the raw material and labour cost in both the countries, Component A
c. Rs 7,000 d. Rs 5,500 became 20% costlier and component B became 40% costlier. Owing to these
reasons the company increased its selling price by 15%. Considering that cost
of other components does not change, what will be the profit percentage, if
the toy is sold at the new price?
a. 15.5% b. 25.5%
c. 35.5% d. 40%

16. Mantu starts a month with provisions expected to last for the entire month.
After few days, it is discovered that the provisions will, in fact short by 12
days and it is calculated that if the stock of provisions left is immediately

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18. The cost of raw material of a product increases by 30%, the manufacturing
cost increases by 20% and the selling price of the product increases by 60%.
The raw material and the manufacturing cost, originally, formed 40% and
60% of the total cost respectively. If the original profit % was one-fourth the
original manufacturing cost, find the approximation new profit percentage.
a. 48.39% b. 54.68%
c. 62.48% d. 42.36%

20. In a period from January to March, Jamshedpur Electronics sold 3150 units
of Television, having started with a beginning inventory of 2520 units and
ending with an inventory of 2880. What was the value of order placed
(Rupees in thousands) by Jamshedpur Electronics during the three months
period? [Profits are 25% of cost price, uniformly.]
a. 26325 b. 22320
c. 25200 d. 28080

19. The marks scored in History by P,Q,R and S form a geometric progression in
that order. If the marks scored by R were 2759% less than the sum of the
marks scored by P and Q, then marks scored by S were what percent more
than the marks scored by Q? (Assume that everyone scored positive marks).
a. 56.25 % b. 55.55 %
c. 64 % d. 67.75 %

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21. After offering a discount of 37.5%, Pankaj sold the rice at a profit of 25%. ALIGATIONS OR MIXTURE
Had he offered a discount of 41.67%, his profit or loss percent would have LEVEL 1
been: 1. In what ratio must rice at Rs 9.30 per Kg be mixed with rice at Rs 10.80 per
a. 16.66% profit b. 12% loss Kg so that the mixture be worth Rs 10 per Kg?
c. 29.17% loss d. 8.33% profit a. 6:5 b. 8:7
c. 3:7 d. 6:1

2. How much water must be added to 60 litres of milk at 1.5 litres for Rs. 20 So
as to have a mixture worth Rs.10 2/3 a litre?
a. 10 litres b. 12 litres
c. 15 litres d. 18 litres

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 4. In what proportion must rice at Rs. 3.10 per kg be mixed with rice at Rs. 3.60
per kg so that the mixture be worth Rs. 3.25 per kg?
a. 3 : 7 b. 5 : 3
c. 3 : 5 d. 7 : 3

3. In what ratio must wheat at Rs.3.20 per kg be mixed with wheat at Rs.2.90
per kg so that the mixture be worth Rs.3.08 per kg?
a. 3 : 4 b. 2 : 3
c. 3 : 2 d. 4 : 3

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5. In what ratio must tea at Rs. 62 per Kg be mixed with tea at Rs. 72 per Kg so
that the mixture must be worth Rs. 64.50 per Kg?
a. 1 : 3 b. 2 : 3
c. 3 : 1 d. 3 : 2

2. Two vessels A and B contain spirit and water mixed in the ratio 5:2 and 7:6
respectively. Find the ratio in which these mixture be mixed to obtain a new
mixture in vessel c containing spirit and water in the ratio 8:5?
a. 1 : 7 b. 2 : 9
c. 7 : 9 d. 3 : 8

LEVEL 2
1. The milk and water in two vessels A and B are in the ratio 4:3 and 2:3
respectively. In what ratio the liquids in both the vessels be mixed to obtain
a new mixture in vessel c consisting half milk and half water?
a. 8 : 3 b. 7 : 5
c. 4 : 3 d. 2 : 3

3. How many kilograms of sugar costing Rs. 9 per kg must be mixed with 27kg
of sugar costing Rs.7 per kg so that there may be gain of 10% by selling the
mixture at Rs.9.24 per kg?
a. 60 kg b. 63 kg
c. 50 kg d. 77 kg

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 5. A can contains a mixture of two liquids A and B in the ratio 7:5 when 9 litres
of mixture are drawn off and the can is filled with B, the ratio of A and B
becomes 7:9. How many litres of liquid A was contained by the can initially?
a. 28 litres b. 21 litres
c. 45 litres d. 36 litres

4. One quantity of wheat at Rs 9.30 per Kg is mixed with another quality at a

certain rate in the ratio 8:7. If the mixture so formed be worth Rs 10 per Kg,
what is the rate per Kg of the second quality of wheat?
a. Rs. 12.47 b. Rs. 10.80
c. Rs. 15.17 d. Rs. 47.66

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LEVEL 3
1. A 20 litre mixture of milk and water contains milk and water in the ratio 3: 2.
10 litres of the mixture is removed and replaced with pure milk and the
operation is repeated once more. At the end of the two removals and
replacement, what is the ratio of milk and water in the resultant mixture?
a. 17 : 3 b. 9 : 1
c. 3 : 17 d. 5 : 3

2. How many kgs of Basmati rice costing Rs.42/kg should a shopkeeper mix
with 25 kgs of ordinary rice costing Rs.24 per kg so that he makes a profit of
25% on selling the mixture at Rs.40/kg?
a. 20 kgs b. 12.5 kgs
c. 16 kgs d. 200 kgs

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3. In what ratio must a person mix three kinds of wheat costing him Rs 1.20,Rs
1.44 and Rs 1.74 per Kg so that the mixture may be worth Rs 1.41 per Kg?
a. 11:77:7 b. 25:45:8
c. 27:23:6 d. 11:45:7

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 5. A sample of x litres from a container having a 60 litre mixture of milk and
water containing milk and water in the ratio of 2 : 3 is replaced with pure
milk so that the container will have milk and water in equal proportions.
What is the value of x?
a. 6 litres b. 10 litres
c. 30 litres d. None of these

4. How many litres of water should be added to a 30 litre mixture of milk and
water containing milk and water in the ratio of 7 : 3 such that the resultant
mixture has 40% water in it?
a. 7 litres b. 10 litres
c. 5 litres d. None of these

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6. From a cask of milk containing 30 litres, 6 litres are drawn out and the cask is
filled up with water. If the same process is repeated a second, then a third
time, what will be the number of litres of milk left in the cask?
a. 0.512 litres b. 12 litres
c. 14.38 litres d. 15.36 litres

9. A merchant mixes three varieties of rice costing Rs.20/kg, Rs.24/kg and

Rs.30/kg and sells the mixture at a profit of 20% at Rs.30 / kg. How many kgs
of the second variety will be in the mixture if 2 kgs of the third variety is
there in the mixture?
a. 1 kg b. 5 kgs
c. 3 kgs d. 6 kgs

7. A zookeeper counted the heads of the animals in a zoo and found it to be 80.
When he counted the legs of the animals he found it to be 260. If the zoo
had either pigeons or horses, how many horses were there in the zoo?
a. 40 b. 30
c. 50 d. 60

8. How many litres of a 12 litre mixture containing milk and water in the ratio
of 2 : 3 be replaced with pure milk so that the resultant mixture contains
milk and water in equal proportion?
a. 4 litres b. 2 litres
c. 1 litres d. 1.5 litres

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 10. In what ratio must a person mix three kinds of tea costing Rs.60/kg, Rs.75/kg
and
Rs.100 /kg so that the resultant mixture when sold at Rs.96/kg yields a profit
of 20%?
a. 1 : 2 : 4 b. 3 : 7 : 6
c. 1 : 4 : 2 d. None of these

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 3. Distance between two stations A and B is 778km. A train covers the journey
from A to B at 84km per hour and returns back to A with a uniform speed of
56km per hour. Find the average speed of train during the whole journey.
a. 60 km/hr b. 30.5 km/hr
c. 57 km/hr d. 67.2 km/hr

AVERAGES
LEVEL 1
1. The average of first five multiples of 3 is :
a. 9 b. 10
c. 8 d. 11

4. The average of 50 numbers is 30. If two numbers, 35 and 40 are discarded,

then the average of the remaining numbers is nearly:
a. 28.32 b. 29.68
c. 28.78 d. 29.27

2. There are two sections A and B of a class, consisting of 36 and 44 students’

respectively. If the average weight of section A is 40kg and that of section B
is 35kg, find the average weight of the whole class.
a. 30 kg b. 35 kg 5. The average score of a cricketer for ten matches is 38.9 runs. If the average
c. 42.5 kg d. 37.25 kg for the first six matches is 42, then find the average for the last four
matches.
a. 33.25 b. 33.5
c. 34.25 d. 35

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6. A Batsman makes a score of 87 runs in the 17th inning and thus increases his 9. David obtained 76, 65, 82, 67 and 85 marks (out of 100) in English,
average by 3. Find his average after 17th inning. mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology. What are his average marks?
a. 40 b. 39 a. 65 b. 69
c. 52 d. 55 c. 75 d. None of above

10. The average of runs of a cricket player of 10 innings was 32. How many runes
must be made in his next innings so as to increase his average of runs by 4?
7. There were 35 students in a hostel. Due to the admission of 7 new students a. 72 b. 74
the expenses of the mess were increased by Rs.42 per day while the c. 70 d. 76
average expenditure per head diminished by Re 1. What was the original
expenditure of the mess?
a. Rs. 450 b. Rs. 320
c. Rs. 550 d. Rs. 420

LEVEL 2
1. The average wages of a worker during a fortnight comprising 15 consecutive
working days was Rs.90 per day. During the first 7 days, his average wages
8. Nine persons went to a hotel for taking their meals. Eight of them spent was Rs.87/day and the average wages during the last 7 days was Rs.92 /day.
Rs.12 each on their meals and the ninth spent Rs.8 more than the average What was his wage on the 8th day?
expenditure of all the nine. What was the total money spent by them. a. 83 b. 92
a. Rs. 115 b. Rs. 116 c. 90 d. 97
c. Rs. 117 d. Rs. 118

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2. The average temperature on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday was 25o. The 4. The difference between two angles of a triangle is 24o. The average of the
average temperature on Thursday, Friday and Saturday was 24o. If the same two angles is 54o.Which one of the following is the value of the
temperature on Saturday was 27o, what was the temperature on greatest angle of the triangle?
Wednesday?
a. 45o b. 60o
a. 24o b. 21o c. 66o d. 72o
c. 27o d. 30o

3. When a student weighing 45 kgs left a class, the average weight of the
remaining 59 students increased by 200g. What is the average weight of the
remaining 59 students?
a. 57 b. 56.8
c. 58.2 d. 52.2

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 6. Which one of the following numbers can be removed from the set S = {0, 2,
4, 5, 9} without changing the average of set S?
a. 0 b. 2
c. 4 d. 5

7. Average cost of 5 apples and 4 mangoes is Rs. 36. The average cost of 7
apples and 8 mangoes is Rs. 48. Find the total cost of 24 apples and 24
mangoes.
a. 1044 b. 2088
c. 720 d. 324

5. The average age of a family of 5 members is 20 years. If the age of the

youngest member be 10 years then what was the average age of the family
at the time of the birth of the youngest member?
a. 13.5 b. 14
c. 15 d. 12.5

8. Average of ten positive numbers is x. If each number by 10%, then x :

a. remains unchanged b.may decrease
c.may increase d. is increased by 10%

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 9. The average weight of three boys A, B and C is 5413
kg, while the average weight of three boys B, D and E is 53 kg. What is the
average weight of A, B, C, D and E?
a. 52.4 kg b. 53.2 kg
LEVEL 3
c. 53.8 kg d. Data inadequate
1. 40% of the employees in a factory are workers. All the remaining employees
are executives. The annual income of each worker is Rs. 390. The annual
income of each executive is Rs. 420. What is the average annual income of
all the employees in the factory together?
a. 390 b. 405
c. 408 d. 415

10. The average salary of all the workers in a workshop is Rs.8000. The average
salary of 7 technicians is Rs.12000 and the average salary of the rest is
Rs.6000. The total number of workers in the workshop is:
a. 20 b. 21
c. 22 d. 23

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 3. In a set of three numbers, the average of first two numbers is 2, the average
of the last two numbers is 3, and the average of the first and the last
numbers is 4. What is the average of three numbers?
2. The average price of 10 books is Rs.12 while the average price of 8 of these a. 2 b. 2.5
books is Rs.11.75. Of the remaining two books, if the price of one book is c. 3 d. 3.5
60% more than the price of the other, what is the price of each of these two
books?
a. Rs. 5, Rs.7.50 b. Rs. 8, Rs. 12
c. Rs. 10, Rs. 16 d. Rs. 12, Rs. 14

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4. Of the three numbers, the first is twice the second and the second is twice
the third. The average of the reciprocal of the numbers is 772. The numbers
are:
a. 16, 8, 4 b. 20, 10, 5 5. The average monthly salary of 12 workers and 3 managers in a factory was
c. 24, 12, 6 d. 36, 18, 9 Rs. 600. When one of the manager whose salary was Rs. 720, was replaced
with a new manager, then the average salary of the team went down to 580.
What is the salary of the new manager?
a. 570 b. 420
c. 690 d. 640

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6. The average of five different positive numbers is 25. x is the decrease in the
average when the smallest number among them is replaced by 0. What can
be said about x?
a. x is less than 5 b. x is greater than 5
c. x is equal to 5 d. Nothing can be said

7. Three math classes: X, Y, and Z, take an algebra test.

The average score in class X is 83.
The average score in class Y is 76.
The average score in class Z is 85.
The average score of all students in classes X and Y together is 79.
The average score of all students in classes Y and Z together is 81.

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 What is the average for all the three classes?
a. 81 b. 81.5
c. 82 d. 84.5

9. In Arun's opinion, his weight is greater than 65 kg but less than 72 kg. His
brother does not agree with Arun and he thinks that Arun's weight is greater
than 60 kg but less than 70 kg. His mother's view is that his weight cannot be
8. In 2011, the arithmetic mean of the annual incomes of Ramesh and Suresh
greater than 68 kg. If all are them are correct in their estimation, what is the
was Rs. 3800. The arithmetic mean of the annual incomes of Suresh and
average of different probable weights of Arun?
Pratap was Rs. 4800, and the arithmetic mean of the annual incomes of
a. 67 kg. b. 68 kg.
Pratap and Ramesh was Rs. 5800. What is the arithmetic mean of the
c. 69 kg. d. Data inadequate
incomes of the three?
a. Rs. 4000 b. Rs. 4200
c. Rs. 4400 d. Rs. 480

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10. A student finds the average of 10 positive integers. Each integer contains
two digits. By mistake, the boy interchanges the digits of one number say ba
for ab. Due to this, the average becomes 1.8 less than the previous one.
What was the difference of the two digits a and b?
a. 8 b. 6
c. 2 d. 4

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