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1 How many times in a day, are the hands of a clock in a straight line but opposite in direction?
✅ Correct Answer: 2
2Q is as much younger than R as he is older than T. If the sum of the ages of R and T is 50 years, what is definitely the difference between R and Q’s age?
✅ Correct Answer: 4
3David started a software business by investing Rs. 50,000. After six months, Julia joined her with a capital of Rs. 80,000. After 3 years, they earned a profit of Rs. 24,500. What was David’s share in the profit?
✅ Correct Answer: 4
4 A bag contains 2 red, 3 green, and 2 blue balls. Two balls are drawn at random. What is the probability that none of the balls drawn is blue?
✅ Correct Answer: 1
5A boatman goes 2 km against the current of the stream in 1 hour and goes 1 km along with the current in 10 minutes. How long will it take to go 5 km in stationary water?
✅ Correct Answer: 3
68 liters are drawn from a cask full of wine and is then filled with water. This operation is performed three more times. The ratio of the quantity of wine now left in cask to that of water is 16: 65. How much wine did the cask hold originally?
✅ Correct Answer: 2
7A jogger running at 9 kmph alongside a railway track in 240 meters ahead of the engine of a 120 meters long train running at 45 kmph in the same direction. In how much time will the train pass the jogger?
✅ Correct Answer: 3
8Two goods train each 500 m long, are running in opposite directions on parallel tracks. Their speeds are 45 km/hr and 30 km/hr respectively. Find the time taken by the slower train to pass the driver of the faster one.
✅ Correct Answer: 2
9Two pipes can fill a tank in 20 and 24 minutes respectively and a waste pipe can empty 3 gallons per minute. All three pipes working together can fill the tank in 15 minutes. The capacity of the tank is:
✅ Correct Answer: 3
10A train 240 m long passes a pole in 24 seconds. How long will it take to pass a platform 650 m long?
✅ Correct Answer: 2
11A wheel that has 6 cogs has meshed with a larger wheel or 14 cogs. When the smaller wheel has made 21 revolutions, then the number of revolutions made by the larger wheel is:
✅ Correct Answer: 2
12Three partners shared the profit in a business in the ratio 5: 7: 8. They had partnered for 14 months, 8 months and 7 months respectively. What was the ratio of their investments?
✅ Correct Answer: 2
13A starts a business with Rs. 3500 and after 5 months, B joins with A as his partner. After a year, the profit is divided in the ratio 2 : 3. What is B’s contribution to the capital?
✅ Correct Answer: 4
14 The captain of a cricket team of 11 members is 26 years old and the wicketkeeper is 3 years older. If the ages of these two are excluded, the average age of the remaining players is one year less than the average age of the whole team. What is the average age of the team?
✅ Correct Answer: 1
15 The present ages of three persons in proportions 4: 7: 9. Eight years ago, the sum of their ages was 56. Find their present ages (in years).
✅ Correct Answer: 2
16The least number which when divided by 5, 6, 7 and 8 leaves a remainder 3, but when divided by 9 leaves no remainder, is:
✅ Correct Answer: 2
17617 + 6.017 + 0.617 + 6.0017 = ?
✅ Correct Answer: 3
18 The true discount on a bill due 9 months hence at 16% per annum is Rs. 189. The amount of the bill is:
✅ Correct Answer: 2
19Find the odd man out.
41, 43, 47, 53, 61, 71, 73, 81
✅ Correct Answer: 4
20From a group of 7 men and 6 women, five persons are to be selected to form a committee so that at least 3 men are there on the committee. In how many ways can it be done?
✅ Correct Answer: 4
2166 cubic centimeters of silver is drawn into a wire 1 mm in diameter. The length of the wire in meters will be:
✅ Correct Answer: 1
22The cost price of an Rs. 100 stock at 4 discount, when brokerage is 1:4% is:
A. Rs. 95.75
B. Rs. 96
C. Rs. 96.25
D. The cost price of an Rs. 100 stock at 4 discount, when brokerage is 1:4% is:
✅ Correct Answer: 3
23Mr. Thomas invested an amount of Rs. 13,900 divided into two different schemes A and B at the simple interest rate of 14% p.a. and 11% p.a. respectively. If the total amount of simple interest earned in 2 years be Rs. 3508, what was the amount invested in Scheme B?
✅ Correct Answer: 1
24The product of two numbers is 9375 and the quotient, when the larger one is divided by the smaller, is 15. The sum of the numbers is:
✅ Correct Answer: 3
25ome articles were bought at 6 articles for Rs. 5 and sold at 5 articles for Rs. 6. The gain percent is:
✅ Correct Answer: 3
26 The greatest number of four digits which is divisible by 15, 25, 40 and 75 are:
✅ Correct Answer: 3
27Present ages of John and Dina are in the ratio of 5: 4 respectively. Three years hence, the ratio of their ages will become 11: 9 respectively. What is Dina’s present age in years?
✅ Correct Answer: 1
28 If 6th March 2005 is Monday, what was the day of the week on 6th March 2004?
✅ Correct Answer: 1
29Find out the wrong number in the given sequence of numbers.
22, 33, 66, 99, 121, 279, 594
✅ Correct Answer: 3
30 In what ratio must a grocer mix two varieties of pulses costing Rs. 15 and Rs. 20 per kg respectively so as to get a mixture worth Rs. 16.50 kg?
✅ Correct Answer: 3
31Market value of a 10.5% stock, in which an income of Rs. 756 is derived by investing Rs. 9000, brokerage being 1:4%, is:
✅ Correct Answer: 3
32AB and C can do a piece of work in 20, 30 and 60 days respectively. In how many days can A do the work if he is assisted by B and C on every third day?
✅ Correct Answer: 2
33In a race of 200 m, A can beat B by 31 m and C by 18 m. In a race of 350 m, C will beat B by:
✅ Correct Answer: 2
34Robert is traveling on his cycle and has calculated to reach point A at 2 P.M. if he travels at 10 kmph, he will reach there at 12 noon if he travels at 15 kmph. At what speed must he travel to reach A at 1 P.M.?
✅ Correct Answer: 3
35A man rows to a place 48 km distant and comes back in 14 hours. He finds that he can row 4 km with the stream at the same time as 3 km against the stream. The rate of the stream is:
✅ Correct Answer: 1
36Six years ago, the ratio of the ages of David and John was 6: 5. Four years hence, the ratio of their ages will be 11: 10. What is John’s age at present?
✅ Correct Answer: 4
37A fires 5 shots to B’s 3 but A kills only once in 3 shots while B kills once in 2 shots. When B has missed 27 times, A has killed:
✅ Correct Answer: 4
38What was the day of the week on 28th May 2006?
✅ Correct Answer: 4
39 Find out the wrong number in the given sequence of numbers.
41The sum of two number is 25 and their difference is 13. Find the product.
✅ Correct Answer: 2
42 A sum fetched a total simple interest of Rs. 4016.25 at the rate of 9 p.c.p.a. in 5 years. What is the sum?
✅ Correct Answer: 4
43A person takes a loan of Rs. 200 at 5% simple interest. He returns Rs. 100 at the end of 1 year. In order to clear his dues at the end of 2 years, he would pay:
✅ Correct Answer: 3
44 Find out the wrong number in the given sequence of numbers.
56, 72, 90, 110, 132, 150
46 In a two-digit, if it is known that it’s unit’s digit exceeds its ten’s digit by 2 and that the product of the given number and the sum of its digits is equal to 144, then the number is:
✅ Correct Answer: 1
47A man standing at a point P is watching the top of a tower, which makes an angle of elevation of 30 Degree with the man’s eye. The man walks some distance towards the tower to watch its top and the angle of the elevation becomes 60 Degree. What is the distance between the base of the tower and the point P?
✅ Correct Answer: 4
48The average monthly income of P and Q is Rs. 5050. The average monthly income of Q and R is Rs. 6250 and the average monthly income of P and R is Rs. 5200. The monthly income of P is: