1.

Among the following options, which one does not lie in the given range :
1/6 < X<17/12
(a) 2/7 (b) 1/2 (c) 4/3 (d) 13/1 1 (e) 20/13

2. The correct relationship after eliminating x, y and z from x + y = a, y + z = b, z

+ x = c and x + y + z = m, is
(a) m = x + y +z (b) 2m = a + b + c (c) m = x –y –z (d)
2m = x –y –z (e) None of these

3. Atul bought a machine for Rs.4,50,000 and sold it to Irrfan who later sold the
machine to Danish at a loss of 10% for Rs.4,95,000. The profit earned by Atul is
(a) 23% (b) 21% (c) 25% (d) 22.22%

4. An air conditioner can cool the hall in 40 minutes while another takes 45
minutes to cool under similar conditions. If both air conditioners are
switched on at same instance, then how long will it take
to cool the room? (a) About 22 minutes (b) About 30 minutes
(c) About 20 minutes (d) About 25 minutes
5. If the price of rice increases by 30%, then by what percent should its
consumption be decreased so that the total expenditure remains same?
(a) 76.92% (b) 25% (c) 23.07%
(d) 30% (e) 42.8
6.If 22n–1 = (1/8n–3) then the value of n is
(a) 3 (b) 2 (c) 0 (d) –2

7.Ram is five years elder to his youngest sibling Shreya. Shreya is two years
younger than her brother Ritesh. Ritesh is 13 years old and is Ram's brother. How
old will Ram be in two years from now?
(a) 16 (b) 17 (c) 20 (d) 15 (e) 18

8.What is unit digit of the following sum: 1 + 22 + 33 + 44 + 55 + 66?

(a) 0 (b) 4 (c) 7 (d) 9
9. What is the value of (a3)5/(a2)4 ?
(a) 7^a (b) a^7
(c) a^–7 (d) None of the above

10.Which of the following numbers is divisible by 11?

(a) 1042 (b) 1045 (c) 1047 (d) 1048

11.The total combinations of picking 3 balloons from a packet of 25 balloons are

(a) 2100 (b) 2200 (c) 2300 (d) 2400
12. A book store offers a 10% discount on all the books sold plus an additional
discount of 5% on the total bill, if the total bill after the initial discount is more
than or equal to Rs.1000. Dilshan bought 3 books worth Rs.450, Rs.520 and
Rs.250 respectively. How much money was Dilshan able to save as a result of
the various discounts
offered by the store?
(a) Rs.102
(d) Rs.183
(b) Rs.176.90
(c) Rs.61
(e) None of
the above
13. Simplify (144–3/2)–1/6.
(a) 2√3 (b) 6 (c) 3√2 (d) 4

14. What is the value of (5–2 x 10–4)/(2–5 x5–6)?

(a) 0 (b) 20 (c) 50 (d) 10

15. Jagdish can build a wall in 10 days. Narender can build the same wall in 12
days while Sumit takes 15 days to do the same job. Which two of them should be
employed to finish the job in 6 days?
(a) Jagdish and Narender
(b) Sumit and Narender
(b) Jagdish and Sumit
(d) None of these
16. Express the fraction 26/17 as a number upto 3 decimal points.
(a) 1.429 (b) 1.535 (c) 1.321 (d) 1.529

17. In an election, the winning candidate won by 15% votes. If a total of 5,000
votes were cast of which only 86% were eligible, then how many votes did the
winning candidate get?
(a) 2,000
(b) 4,300
(c)
1,800

(d) 4,000
(e)
2,300
18. The largest measuring cylinder that can accurately fill 3 tanks of capacity 98,
182 and 266 litres each, is of capacity
(a) 2 litres (b) 7 litres (c) 14 litres (d) 98 litres

19. A manufacturing plant produces a batch of 10 containers out of which 4 are

defective. In a quality inspection test, 3 containers are chosen at random. What
is the probability that at least one would be defective?
(a) 1/4 (b) 3/10 (c) 5/6 (d) 3/4

20. Eight teams are playing in a cricket match. If a team loses, it is out of the
tournament. How many games are needed to determine the winner?
(a) 7 (b) 6 (c) 8 (d) 9
21. Find the smallest three digit number that divides 229 and 568 leaving
remainder 3 in each case.
(a) 1 1 1 (b) 113 (c) 1 1 7 (d) 119

22. A box contains 5 red, 4 white and 3 green balls. In how many ways can 3
balls be drawn from the box, without replacement, so that at least 2 of them
are green?
(a) 18 (b) 28 (c) 27 (d) 9 (e) 30

23. The largest 6-digit number which is exactly divisible by 29 is

(a) 9,99,972 (b) 9,99,974 (c) 9,99,976 (d) 9,99,978

24. If abc4d is divisible by 4, what cannot be the value of d?

(a) 0 (b) 4 (c) 8 (d) 2

25. If log10 3 = 0.477, then the value of log10 9 is

(a) 1 (b) 0.477 (c) 0.954 (d) 0.523
26. Which of the following is the least number exactly divisible by 15, 25, 30
and 45?
(a) 425 (b) 450 (c) 475 (d) 490

27. If LCM of two prime numbers p and q (where p<q) is 323, then the value of
2p –q is
(a) 1 1 (b) 13 (c) 15 (d) 17

28. The average of 7 numbers is 50. The average of first three of them is 40,
while the average of the last three is 60. What must be the remaining
number?
(a) 65 (b) 55 (c) 50 (d) 45

29. A train runs at a speed of 42 m/s and takes 35 seconds to pass a tunnel.
After travelling some distance, it takes 15 seconds to pass a pole. What is the
length of the tunnel?
(a) 162 m (b) 630 m (c) 840 m (d) 240 m
30. What is the smallest number, which when divided by 7, 18, 56 and 36,
leaves a remainder zero?
(a) 504 (b) 392 (c) 390 (d) 1012

31. How many 4-digit numbers can be formed from the digits 2, 3, 5, 6 and 8,
which are divisible by 2 if none of the digits is repeated?
(a) 24 (b) 60 (c) 72 (d) 120

32. If mn = 2401, then m/n=

(a) 4/7 (b) 7/4 (c) 11/3 (d) 4/11

33. The number 98181*6 is completely divisible by 9. Smallest whole digit

number in place of * can be
(a) 0 (b) 1 (c) 2 (d) 3
34. Parul is one-fifth the age her mother was 15 years ago and Parul's brother is
three-fifth the age his mother was 10 years ago. If the sum of Parul and her
brother's ages is 31, then how old is Parul's mother? (in years)
(a) 50 (b) 40 (c) 35 (d) 60

35. A vendor purchases binder clips at 12 for Rs.60. How many clips should
he sell for Rs.60 to earn a profit of 20%?
(a) 5 (b) 8 (c) 6 (d) 10

36. What is the unit digit in 2720?

(a) 1 (b) 5 (c) 12 (d) 20

37. Recycling 900 kg of paper saves 1 7 trees. How many trees are saved when
1200 kg of paper are recycled?
(a) 19 (b) 25 (c) 20 (d) 22

38. Out of every 100 people in police department, 10 are women. Out of every
100 people in military forces, 3 are women. In a batch of 180 police personnel
and 200 army personnel, how many of them would be women?
(a) 24 (b) 30 (c) 18 (d) 6

39. The reciprocal of the HCF and LCM of two numbers are 1/12 and 1/312
respectively. If one of the numbers is 24, find the other number.
(a) 126 (b) 136 (c) 146 (d) 156

40. What is the difference between the LCM and HCF of the numbers
20, 30, and 40?
(a) 100 (b) 110 (c) 120 (d) 130

41. If the price of rice increases by 30%, then by what percent should its
consumption be decreased so that the total expenditure
remains same?
(a) 76.92%
(b) 25%
(c) 23.07%
(d) 30%
(e) 42.85%
42. (2/7)–8 x (7/2)–2 = (2/7)2x. Find x.
(a) 3 (b) – 3 (c) –6 (d) 2

43. In how many ways can the letters of the word 'HARDWARE' be
arranged such that the vowels always come together?
(a) 120 (b) 4320 (b) 1080 (c) 1440
(e) 720

44. Which of the following is greatest among the four given values of
x?
(a) x = √15
(b) x
=∜125
(c) x
= ∛25
(d) x
=12√625)
45. A cistern has three taps in all. Two taps are used for filling the cistern and
the third one is used to empty the cistern. The first two taps fill the cistern in 13
minutes and 1 1 minutes respectively. When all the three taps are open, the empty
cistern is filled in 30 minutes. How long will the third tap (waste pipe) take to
empty the cistern completely?
(a) 6.28 minutes
(b)
7.63 minutes
(c)
6.43 minutes (d)
7.43 minutes
46. The value of (8–25 –8–26) is
(a) 7 *8–25 (b) 7 *8–26
(c) 8 * 8–26 (d) None of the above

47. If 2x +y = 2 * (2)1/2 and 2x –y = 21/2, then the value of x is

(a) 1 (b) 2 (c) 3
(d) 4 (e)
None of these

48. In a town of 2,00,000 citizens, if the population increases at the rate of 4%

per annum, then what will be the population of the town in
2 years from now? (c) 3,55,555 (d) 1,84,320 (e)
(a) 2,10,000 2,16,320
(b) 2,16,000

49. In how of the word 'ELEPHANT' be arranged?

many ways (a) 5,760 (b) 6,720
can the letters (c) 20,160
 51. The (c) 19
(d) 40,320 number of (d) 21
ways in
50.When a local which the 53.Which of the following numbers
train travels at a letters of
speed of 60 kmph, the word is divisible by 3 X4?
it reaches the
'RESULT' (a) 946 (b) 947 (c
destination on time.
When the same can be (d) 949
train travels at a arranged
speed of 50 kmph, without
it reaches its repetition 54.Find the number to be multiplied
destination 15 is by (–6)–1, so as to get (–8)–1 as the
minutes late. What (a) 720 product?
is the length of the
journey? (a) 3/4 (b) – (3/4)
(a) 75 km (b) 50 (c) 4/3
km (c) 60 km (d) –(4/3)
(d) 85 km 52. 4522 is not
divisible by 55.In a miniature wonderland,
(a) 7 three countries Austria, America
(b) 1 7 and Germany are on display. If
Austria and small cars. If many containers of wheat will be
America occupied Tavera makes required to fill the same tank if the
3/7 and 4/9 of the one fourth of the capacity of containers is reduced
display area total fleet, how the two-fifth of the present
respectively, what many small cars capacity?
is the display area are there in
occupied by the company?
Germany? (a) 12
(a) 3/21
(b) 7
(b) 5/63
(c) 6
(c) 8/63
(d) 10
(d) 1/21

56. .Abu company

57 To fill a
storage tank of
provides taxi for call
wheat, 20
center employees.
containers full
The company has 7
of wheat are
Taveras, 5 Qualis, 6
required. How
Innovas and few
(a) 30 (b) 25 (c) 50 (d) 60

58. What is the value of the expression?

423 * 520 * 6–2 * 32 * 5–5 * 2–46 * 5–10 * 11 0 * 5–5?

(a) 510/4 (b) 1/4 (c) 4 (d) 510

59. What are the number of ways of selecting 7 files out of 14 distinct files if
one is always selected?

(a) 14C7 (b) 14 P7 (c) 13C6 (d) 1 (e)

13P6

60. A seller buys 10 phone chargers for Rs.800 and sells them at the rate of
Rs.100 per charger. His gain percent is
(a) 0.25 (b) 0.2( (c) 0.3 (d) 4.3
61. An aeroplane flies along the sides of an equilateral triangle with speed of
300 km/hr, 200 km/hr, 240 km/hr. The average speed of the plane while flying
around the triangle is
a) 250 km/hr (b) 200 km/hr (c)
275 km/hr (d) 240 km/hr

62. 6 interns and 2 managers working together can do five times the work that
an intern and a manager can do. Calculate the ratio of the working capacities of
an intern and a manger?
(a) 3:1 (b) 1:3 (c) 2:3 (d) 3:2 (e) 2:5

63. A home security system provides a security code for the door, which
consists of five buttons. Code may be generated by pressing any one button, any
two, any three, any four, or all five buttons. How many such codes are
possible?
(a) 32 (b) 5 (c) 31 (d) 10
64. The number of 6-digit numbers that can be formed from 0, 1, 5, 6, 7 and 8
in which the first digit is not 0 are
(a) 120 (b) 600 (c) 720 (d) 800

65. A box contains 10 balls numbered 1 through 10. Anuj, Anisha and Amit pick a
ball each, one after the other, each time replacing the ball. What is the probability
that Anuj picks a ball numbered less than that picked by Anisha, who in
turn picks a lesser numbered ball than Amit?
(a) 3/25 (b) 1/6 (c) 4/25 (d) 81/400

66. There are two pipes, an inlet pipe which completely fills a tank at 6
litre/min and an outlet pipe which empties the tank at 4 litre/min. The pipes
function alternately for 1 minute and the inlet pipe is the first to function.
Considering the capacity of the tank as 50 litres, how much time (in minutes)
will it take to completely fill the tank?
(a) 45 (b) 50 (c) 49 (d) 10

67. (8m4n5)/(2m3n2) =
(a) 4mn3 (b) 4m3n (c) 3mn4 (d) 3m4n
68.Which of the following numbers is divisible by 6?
(a) 4322 (b) 3142 (c) 2256 (d) 1640

69.Pulse rate of a teenager is 12 beats in 10 sec. At this rate, would his pulse
rate be more than, equal to, or less than 100 beats per minute?
(a) Less than (b) Equal to (c) Greater than (d) Data insufficient

70. If the sum of squares of two numbers is 164 and their HCF and LCM are
2 and 40 respectively, then the numbers are
(a) 4, 8 (b) 4, 10 (c) 8, 10 (d) 10, 12

71. On dividing a number by 999, the quotient is 366 and the remainder is
103. The number is
(a) 364724 (b) 365387 (c) 365737 (d) 366757

72. In a mall, 20% area is occupied by eateries, 60% area is open. In the
remaining area of 1600 sq meter, there are different showrooms. What is
the total area occupied by the mall?
(a) 10,000 sq m
(b) 8,000
sq.m (c)
5,000 sq m
(d) 4,800
sq m
74. A car engine is half filled and holds 15 litres of petrol. What fraction of
the engine is full if it contains 18 litres of petrol?
(a) ¼ (b) 2/3 (c) 2/5 (d) 3/5

75. In a quiz competition, the host asked a question and provided three possible
answers. What is the probability that the answer choice which Rohit selects
for a question is wrong?
(a) 1/3 (b) 1/2 (c) 3C1 x 3/2 (d) 2/3

76. Ram buys 7 novels from a book fair. Shyam buys 8 novels from another book
fair, none of which is common with those bought by Ram. They decide to
exchange their books one for one. In how many ways can they exchange their
books for the first time?
(a) 7! * 8! (b) 7 * 8! (c) 7! * 8 (d) 56

77.What is the loss percentage incurred by a company when it buys an asset

for Rs.1,50,000 and sells it for Rs.75,500?
(a) 49.67% (b) 49.34% (c) 98.68% (d) 98.34%

78. Probability of one of the power plants over heating is 0.15 per day and the
probability of failure of back cooling system is 0.11. If these events are
independent, what is the probability of ‘big trouble’ (i.e. both events taking
place)?
(a) 0.35 (b) 0.0185 (c) 0.0165 (d) 0.26

79.A dividend of Rs.504 lakhs for shares was announced by a company. 100
employees cum share holders get Rs.3.60 lakhs each and the share holder who
is not the employee gets Rs.2.40 lakhs each. How many shareholders are there
who are not employees?
(a) 80 (b) 60 (c) 70 (d) 50

80.A bag contains 10-paisa, 20-paisa and 25-paisa coins in the ratio 7:4:3. If
the total value is Rs.90, then what is the number of 25 - paisa coins in the bag?
(a) 120 (b) 160 (c) 280 (d) 300
81. What is the least number by which 16,800 must be divided to get a number
which is a perfect square?
(a) 42 (b) 24 (c) 21 (d) 40

82. A teacher was trying to form the groups of students in such a way that every
group has equal number of students and that number should be a prime
number. She tried for first 5 prime numbers, but on each occasion exactly one
student was left behind. If the number of students is in 4 digits, then how many
different values can the total no. of students take?
(a) 0 (b) 2 (c) 3 (d) 4

83. ABCD is a square. PQRS is a rhombus lying inside the square such that P, Q,
R and S are the mid-points of AB, BC, CD and DA respectively. A point is
selected at random in the square. Find the probability that it lies in the
rhombus.
(a) 1/3 (b) 2/3 (c) 1/2 (d) 1/4

84. If (x1/2 )/(441 1/2 ) = 0.02, then the value of x is

(a) 0.1764 (b) 1.764 (c) 1.64 (d) 2.64

85.What number should be divided by (0.81)1/2 to give the result as 81?

(a) 9 (b) 81 (c) 72.9 (d) 0.9

86. Five students have not been absent for the entire first semester. They are
asked to draw one pass each from a bag that has 5 movie
passes and 5 meal passes. Parul and Mini are the first two to draw
the pass simultaneously. What is the probability both draw movie
passes?
(a) 5/6 (b) 1/2 (c) 2/9 (d) 4/5

87. A single letter is drawn at random from the word,

"ASPIRATION", the probability that it is a vowel is?
(a) 1/2 (b) 1/3 (c) 3/5 (d) 2/5

88. Riya sold her car for Rs.50,000 less than what she bought it for and lost 8%.
At what price should she have sold the car, if she wanted to gain as much as
she lost in the first transaction?
(a) Rs.6,25,000
(b) Rs.6,37,500
(c)
Rs.6,50,000 (d)
Rs.6,75,000
(e)
Rs.7,00,000
89. Ritu has 3 shirts in shades of red, 4 in yellow shades and 5 in green shades.
Three shirts are picked at random. The probability that all of these are in red
shades is
(a) (1/12) (b) (1/220) (c) (1/66) (d) (1/4)

90. Mehak was in a whimsical mood and to reach her home from her office she
took the following steps- 4 steps towards North, 3 steps towards East, 8 steps
towards South, 6 steps towards West, 7 steps towards North, 5 steps towards
East, 6 steps towards South, 4 steps towards West and finally reached her
home taking 3 steps towards North. The location of Mehak's home with respect
to her
office is
(a) 3 steps to the East
(b) 0 steps (c)
2 steps to the West
(d) 3 steps to
the West (e) 2 steps
towards the East
91. Three successive discounts of 6%, 10%, 15 % are equal to a single discount of
(a) 25% (b) 28.90% (c) 30% (d) 31%
(e)
28.09%

92. A certain sum of money amounts to Rs.2,500 in a span of 5 years and

further to Rs.3000 in a span of 7 years at simple interest. The sum is
(a) Rs.1,000 (b) Rs.1,200 (c) Rs.1,050 (d) Rs.1,250
(b)

93.If a coin with both heads is tossed, then the probability of obtaining a tail is
(a) 0 (b) ½ (c) 1/3 (d) 1

94. A water pump takes 6 hours to fill an over head tank. Standby pump takes
10 hours to fill the same over head tank. If the first pump fails after 2 hours of
running, then how long will the standby pump take to fill the overhead tank?
(a) 6 hours (b) 8 hours (c) 82/3 hours
(d) 62/3 hours
95. Mumbai Rajdhani express takes 16 hours to reach Mumbai from Delhi while
Swaraj express takes 20 hours. The ratio of the speeds of both the trains is
(a) 1:4 (b) 4:5 (c) 5:4 (d) 3:2

96. The printed price on a book is Rs.400, a bookseller offers a 10% discount on
it. If he still earns a profit of 20%, then the cost price of the book is
(a) Rs.280 (b) Rs.352 (c) Rs.360 (d) Rs.300

97. A show room offers a 10% discount on a microwave, whose marked price
is Rs.8,000 and also gives a blender worth Rs.1,200 as a complimentary gift with
it. Even then, the showroom earns a profit of 20%. The cost price per microwave
is
(a) Rs.7,200 (b) Rs.6,000 (c) Rs.5,000 (d) Rs.4,000

98. A baby crawls 12 feet towards East and then 4 feet towards South. He then
crawls 9 feet towards West. Ho far is he from his initial position?
(a) 2 feet (b) 9 feet (c) 5 feet (d) 16 feet

99. X walks 6 km towards East from a point A and from the same point A, Y
walks 8 km towards South. How far are the two friends from each other now?
(a) 14 km (b) 2 km (c) 10 km (d) 5 km

100. Find the chance of throwing more than 9 in one throw with 2 dice.
(a) 2/3 (b) 5/36 (c) 5/18
(d) 1/6
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