Lecture - 02

Fractions, Exponents,
Roots, Decimals
By Wasee Ahmed, BUP BBA General
Math & Analytical Instructor

IBA+BUP FBS Preparation

1) Rakib, Raja, and Rajib paid a total of 369 taka for their dinner at a restaurant. If Rakib
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paid of the total amount, Raja paid 82 taka, and Rajib paid the rest, what fraction of the
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total amount did Rajib pay? (BBA 09-10)
1 1 39 82 2
A B C D E
9 3 82 369 11
2) If a man's weekly salary is Tk. P and he saves Tk. M, what fraction of his weekly salary
does he spend? (BBA 93-94)
M P−M M−P M−P P−M
A B C D E
P P P M M
3) In one classroom exactly two third of the seats are occupied. In another classroom with
double the seating capacity of the first, exactly three quarters of the seats are occupied. If
the students from both rooms are transferred into a third empty classroom that has a
seating capacity exactly equal to the first two combined, what fraction of the seats in the
third class room is occupied? (BBA 04-05)
3 2 6 13 12
A B C D E
4 3 11 18 17
4) Rate of call is Tk. 4.5 per minute for all outgoing and Tk. 2.5 for all incoming from and
to my mobile telephone. Find the charge if I made 13 calls-7 for 3 minutes and 6 for 2
minutes and received 12 calls-5 for 5 minutes and 7 for 4 minutes? (MBA 97-98)
(A) 396 (B) 322 (C) 281 (D) 224 (E) 175
5) Which of the following fractions is the largest? (BBA 03-04)
12 5 17 11
A B C D E None of these
15 6 21 14
6) Mr Jamil, a renowned engineer, designed a ball so that when it was dropped, it rose with
each bounce exactly one-half as high as it had fallen. The engineer dropped the ball from a
24-foot platform and caught it after it had traveled 23.25 yards. How many times did the
ball bounce? (BBA 10-11)
(A) 7 (B) 11 (C) 6 (D) 5 (E) None of these
7) In a nationwide poll, p people were asked 2 questions. If 2/5 of them answered "yes" to
question 1, and of those 1/3 also answered "yes" to question 2, which of the following
represents the number of people polled who did not answer "yes" to both questions?
(BBA 10-11)
11 3 13 2
𝐴 B C D E None of these
13 13 15 15
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8) A certain football team that has played of its games has a record of 17 wins and 3
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losses. What is the greatest number of the remaining games that the team can lose and still
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win at least of all of its games? (MBA 05-06)
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(A) 7 (B) 6 (C) 5 (D) 4 (E) 3
9) Two containers, x and y of the same capacity, are each 4/5 full of water. If 4 litres of
water from container x is added to container y, the ratio of water in the two containers
becomes 2:3. What is the capacity of container x? (BBA 14-15)
(A) 16 (B) 20 (C) 25 (D) 32 (E) None of these
10) A certain test consists of 8 sections with 25 questions numbered from 1 to 25, in each
section. If a student answered all of the even-numbered questions correctly and 3/4th of the
odd numbered questions correctly, what was the total number of questions he answered
correctly? (BBA 17-18)
(A) 150 (B) 172 (C) 174 (D) 175 (E) None of these
11) If y is between 0 and 1, which of the following increases as y increases? (BBA 09-10)
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i. (1-y²) ii. (y-1) iii. 2
𝑦
(A) I and II (B) II and III (C) II only (D) I, II, and III (E) None of these
12) If x and y are integers and -9 < x < 9 and 0 < y < 14 what is the greatest possible value
of (y-x)? (MBA 2013)
(A) 23 (B) 21 (C) 19 (D) 17 (E) None of these
13) The quantity 26 57 37 will end in how many zeroes? (BBA 14-15)
(A) 4 (B) 5 (C) 6 (D) 7 (E) None of these
14) If |x+3| < 5, then which of the following cannot be true? (BBA 19-20)
(A) X > 1 (B) X = 0 (C) X< -6 (D) X < -9 (E) None of these
15) At room temperature, bacterium doubles in every 20 minutes. In two hours what will be
the total number of bacteria from an initial number of 3? (BBA 94)
(A) 18 (B) 192 (C) 144 (D) 96 (E) 729
16) 𝑅𝐶 × 𝑅𝐷 × 𝑅𝐸 = 𝑅−12 . If R > 0 and C, D and E are each different negative integers,
what is the possible smallest value of C? (MBA 07-08)
(A) -10 (B) – 9 (C) – 6 (D) – 1 (E) none of these
17) What is the last digit of 4218 ? (BBA 04-05)
(A) 2 (B) 4 (C) 6 (D) 8 (E) None of these
18) If 2𝑛 = 𝑛2 , then which of the following must be true? (BBA 07-08)
(A) n > 1 (B) n = 2 (C) n can be any even number
(D) n should be a multiple of 2 (E) none of these
19) If x is a positive integer, what is the units digit of 24 5+2𝑥 36 6 17 3 ? (BBA 15−16)
(A) 2 (B) 3 (E) 4 (D) 6 (E) None of these
20) If 𝑎𝑥 16 𝑏𝑦 12 𝑐𝑥𝑦 17 𝑑𝑥𝑦 11 > 0, and all the variables are non zero numbers,
which of the following must be true? (BBA 16-17)
(A) ab > 0 (B) ab < 0 (C) cd > 0 (D) cd < 0 (E) None of these